Guided Meditation for Transcendental Nihilism: Om Mani Padme Hum
Channel: nicola morton
Date: 2016-02-11

Turning Westfield Centrepoint into a beacon of compassion in 7.5 minutes. Feel free to close your eyes. Listen with speakers for a different experience.

Conceptual Discussion for Transcendental Nihilist Video Series
“The true nihilists are the ones who oppose nihilism with their more and more faded positivities, the ones who are thus conspiring with all extant malice, and eventually with the destructive principle itself.” Theodor W. Adorno in Negative Dialectics[1]
If Adorno could meditate would he become a Transcendental Nihilist? Meditation atop a mountain or meditation atop a 6-lane highway? Stillness in Chaos becomes Extinction in Chaos. I empty my mind and meditate in scenes of our extinction, in an attempt to be a Transcendental Nihilist. Traditionally the three sounds of AUM represent form and shape; formless and shapelessness and neither form nor shapelessness.[2] Nihilism refuses any religious or spiritual transcendence. However, the three forms of AUM can also represent the negation, affirmation and something taking away from all of it, from Adorno’s negative dialectic form of reasoning. In addition Ray Brassier introduces transcendence to nihilism by coding our thoughts as thoughts of extinction. So, my thoughts are not one with the universe but without (ie. extinction). I pursue Adorno’s true nihilism, the silent mantras fade in positivity over stasis and duration. The video series so far includes settings of a 6 lane highway, a dirty squat kitchen, cleared forest/pastures, a Laundromat and a water soaked lens on the river.