Ecstasy, to be thrust out of the corporeal, has long been associated with mystical states of consciousness and beyond. Yukio Mishima, among the most important post-war Japanese writers, would argue near the end of his life that the desire for out-of-body ecstatic experience is profoundly misguided. For him, the Absolute could only truly be experienced in radical embodiment, developing muscle into a classically beautiful physique only to plunge it, at its aesthetic height, into complete destruction through Heroic Death. Mishima would lay out his mysticism of muscle and annihilation, in his 1968 essay Sun and Steel, a work that would explain and pre-figure his own public, ritual death by Seppuku only two years later. A mystical text like virtually no other, Mishima’s Sun and Steel remains as controversial as it does challenging now over 50 years since it first appeared.
Consider Supporting Esoterica!
Patreon -
Paypal Donation -
1 view
23
10
3 months ago 00:12:31 1
Georges Bataille - The Black Sun
3 months ago 00:02:00 1
mishima 1970
4 months ago 00:09:22 1
三島 由紀夫 - Yukio Mishima on WWII and Death - Full NHK Interview (1966)
4 months ago 00:23:06 1
My favourite author
4 months ago 00:02:52 1
Mishima speech (with English Subs)
5 months ago 00:03:36 1
Paris Violence - Adieu Camarade
5 months ago 00:00:38 2
destroy beauty - jaibo; litchi hikari club
6 months ago 00:01:00 4
𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚
6 months ago 00:05:39 3
Laibach - Le Privileges des morts (KAPITAL), Unofficial video, 2014
7 months ago 00:00:42 1
NieR:Automata | Promotion File 010
7 months ago 02:01:28 1
Mishima: Uma Vida em Quatro Tempos (1985) - Legendado
8 months ago 00:03:15 1
MASSA Feat. THE BAKH - Ertayu-Kecha (Official Music Video)
8 months ago 00:03:34 1
Bring Me the Head of Yukio Mishima
8 months ago 00:46:07 1
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (Original Soundtrack by Philip Glass)
9 months ago 00:00:29 1
Yukio Mishima Tribute
9 months ago 00:23:23 2
Livre audio - Yukio Mishima - Trois millions de yens
9 months ago 00:02:31 1
𝕐𝕌𝕂𝕀𝕆 𝕄𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀𝕄𝔸 𝔼𝔻𝕀𝕋 - 𝕎𝔸𝕊𝕋𝔼𝔻
10 months ago 00:06:56 1
Юкио Мисима - ПОСЛЕДНИЙ САМУРАЙ \ Мульт обзор
11 months ago 00:10:26 1
Hommage aux stars qui se sont suicidées
12 months ago 00:02:11 5
Tradition
12 months ago 00:01:25 1
NieR:Automata English Dub Trailer
1 year ago 00:01:00 1
El Último Samurai: La Vida y Muerte de Yukio Mishima #shorts
1 year ago 00:20:38 1
ЮКИО МИСИМА «ХАГАКУРЭ НЮМОН». Аудиокнига. Читает Сергей Чонишвили
1 year ago 00:06:12 1
Yukio Mishima’s Forbidden Colors (1951) BOOK REVIEW