"One frontier begets another"
- from Outer Range
.. what does it take to get (a)head in the world today ..? .. when things seem to be accelerating at an ever more rapid pace, & there's a con stant threat of coLLapse ..
.. one should move forward &, when it's warranted, look back .. mistakes & corrections are to be expected, but so long as a forward overall trajectory is maintained, eventually we'll @LL aTTain ..
.. both the past and future are viewed dimly ..
"Dreams are messages from the deep"
- from Dune
shades & the cult of no underpants
shades (thus named because
.. you guys don't know what darkness really is, but I do ..
.. I never looked away; that's not my Way ..
.. I engaged ..
.. & I found that the dark, too, communicates ..
.. like a gateway to another
) was initiated into the ancient Cult of No Underpants, or C :. N :. U :. many years ago & far away, but he remembered it like it was yesterday ..
.. this was in the daze when he still bothered with underpants, not yet realizing that, to truly attain to the lofty heights of esoteric gnosis, knowledge & wisdom, one must shed such vain accoutrements, attachments of the inflated ego, & 'let it all hang out', as it were ..
.. for hopefully obvious reasons, initiates into the C :. N :. U :. went about their Work unknown & hidden to others, but, years later & in another far away land, shades had encountered a fellow initiate ..
.. it was then that shades understood that the esteemed initiates of the venerable C :. N :. U :. were widely spread & far apart, but that all worked to .. uplift & to .. support humanity in its age-old quest to collectively enter the new aeon, the age of aquarius; a long foretold golden era in which people would be well acquainted with Truth, Justice & Beauty ..
.. to know is not yet to gnow ..
The forces involved in making machines and making life - one is impersonal, the other is very personal (if you catch my drift).
Let's make the assumption that if you are an operator, using this word because of its super cool relation to [esp]ionage, but I prefer the word inhabitant, - in any event, if you are an operator of a human body, forget the psyche except as it relates to bodily perceptions, then there are certain geometrical structures that must find their realization in how we relate to, or operate, our body.
These may or may not be imposed:
Machine, Animal, Character [in the sense of a mark]
Competition and change | civilizational development - races
Technologies and their relation to personalities and personality types
Idiosyncrasy randomness and structure \ order
Mem(ory) vs mens [mind in mensuration, etc.]
I assume this is real, that I am alive and can die (di-graph). Diverge
But what can i buY (bi-sect), while I'm still here?
A (G)reenback, lying in the grün raspy [gr]ass on the ground.
I pick it, and eat with it.
What’s the difference between doing tricks for food, and doing tricks for money?
Sellurla automata
If you spell things wrong enough, autocorrect can’t help you.
Benefit of the doubt
Shuffled around by larger forces
The unwitting tourist of hells
Film laminated moments
"Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence"
- from The Sympathizer, after a slogan by Ho Chi Minh
.. what if the crisis which everyone seems to fear is right around the corner, is but a challenge, a prelude to the cultivation of psychic powers ..? .. perhaps the latter is in fact an inevitable con sequence of the former ..
.. one has to first encounter the gaping void of the Nothing in order to develop true freedom & independence .. to rise, one must go within, & here there be monsters ..
.. thus, this crisis can be seen as a collective initiation ..
.. especially here & now, we ought to be wary of retreating back into a tried & true that demonstrably doesn't cut it any more,
"[a]s the values of the old world, the old aeon, crumble away or undergo radical change. Furthermore, the entire mass of humanity - not a mere handful of nations, however large and powerful - is now threatened with destruction [..] That a form of survival can be ensured by magical foreknowledge, and the access which it gives to dimensions of being, outside the circles of time and space, is not entirely beyond belief [.. ] Now, more than ever before, it is evident that man must find his centre, his 'soul', or perish as a self-conscious entity .. "
- Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time
