Altogether all is loud. Stevens does extremely mathematical things and if you get confused about them you should talk to Dustin about it, as he has a very mathematical mind. Although we think of Stevens as being very ethereal and metaphysical, in reality he is a very primitive poet. The metaphysician is the man behind the curtain, the metaphysical is above and beyond the physical. Powerpoints are boring; do not use them in your presentations.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/alfred
Montevideo, the capitol of Uruguay, is actually the mountain of vision. Mrs. Alfred Uruguay is searching for vision. Reality is a woman, climbing the mountains of vision to see, and she meets this figure coming down, phosphorescent of hair. A figure of capable imagination.
The emptying out process is broken down into two very separate ways – Metaphysical (or immaterial) beyond that which we see, not physical – and Physical (or material) made of stuff.
A metaphysician wants you to get rid of material things, stuff you don't need. Even we are material; if we are truly to empty ourselves out, we must rid ourselves of our bodies and go to a better realm, an immaterial zone. To arrive out of materialism is the aim of dominant religions and hidden religions such as gnosticism. We are stuck in the muck of this place and we need to reject the material to escape this place.
A materialist (like Lucretius) wants you to get rid of doctrines and ideas and everything that floats around in your head, thinks that are difficult to get ahold of. Kenosis in this sense means getting rid of everything you thought you knew and just pressing deep into physicality, knowing not who you are but what you are (that is, you are stuff). Most scientists are materialists.
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