

Tales told by an Elliott
Tales told by an Elliott

I was born in 1945 in an Army hospital in the Midwest when the embers of those burned in the
gas chambers of Europe were still warm. I was told that my mother's family in Belarus and my father's family in Ukraine had all been murdered for the crime of being born Jewish. While the Second World War was raging, my 7-year-old brother had been able to escape from Nazi Germany.
I grew up determined to fight evil. Becoming a political activist in the American civil rights
movement, I found myself thrown behind bars in a Mississippi jail. While on my way to learn
about the socialistic communes of East Africa, I was charged by a hippopotamus in Uganda. As I
was sinking into an idyllic peace on a Hawaiian beach, I was engulfed by a tsunami.
The reader is invited to hitch a ride on this odyssey where my quest is to discover my true nature. After experiencing a moment of ego dissolution, I falsely proclaimed myself enlightened. Only with the shattering of this delusion did a space open up for this book to be written.
In this video, you can see Elliott Isenberg refusing his diploma that the President of Amherst College was trying to hand to him. Before Elliott walked past the President of Amherst, he took a glance at a man on the podium named Robert McNamara -- the Secretary of Defense for Lyndon Baines Johnson -- who was prosecuting the War in Vietnam. You can also see 19 graduates walk out of their graduation ceremony when Robert McNamara name is mentioned as the recipient of an honorary Master's Degree.
The Experience of Evil: A Phenomenological Approach
Lastly, a description is given of how Edmund Husserl's method of "free phantasy variation" (the "ph" being intentional) was used in an attempt to determine what are the essential elements in the experience of evil. After working with this method, this researcher arrived at the following conclusion:
The experience of evil from the viewpoint of the experiencer is a real experience of that which is radically opposed to what the experiencer considers sacred. The experiencer may later explain or interpret what happened, but accepts that in the last analysis the experience is beyond rational comprehension.
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