legba lodge: xenomorph zombies are coming for your lunch

“Denying yourself is an indulgence and I don’t recommend anything of the kind”

- Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality

.. & anyone who tells you not to succeed is not your friend ..

3 - the pain in passion in pain in

Money walks the fine line between good and evil, as the presses roll off bills like [a] film.

A medium of exchange -:> A:B. If money is a medium, and exchange occurs via the media, or in-between of any two things; does that mean the laws, and flaws, of money exist whenever there is an active interface. The lubricant between all those surfaces that everything is; all the way down, and all the way up.

In $ Out, an interchange, bulging, bubbling, pulsating in and out. And if money is the lubricant of motion, what is the machine to which the gears it is lubricating belong, and what does it have to do with us, sitting here, in this machine that man has built?

MACHINE INTERLOGUE: A little funny, looking up where my smoke detector should have been, but instead is the emblem of Red, and White, and Black - where it would have been. Why are the axis powers staring back at me, I ask. Hot, Neutral, Ground [Common\Return].

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Well, for awhile now, tobacco was the currency de nom in these United States. What with all the hullabaloo about inflation, here you have a national medium of exchange that was inherently deflationary. You know, back when there was a reason to burn it.

Any wonder what role that played in the rise of these United States? But that would mean the less you wanted to smoke the richer you'd get: seems to have turned pretty much the truth now with the cost of cigarettes. Poor man can't get no smoke, or smoke break. What's that about? I think probably to keep people from talking about things that aren't work safe. But then again, some people probably do get smoke breaks, but there's nowhere to smoke - you know, don't get outside and see all the passing commotion. Eh, but that's just maybe office workers in western cities.

But if between any two things, there is always another thing: How do we find the the right currency that we know must exist so that those two things can "talk"? Say between our inner self and its environment and the physical world? If all labile interfaces follow the laws of money, maybe we can just use the laws of economics, and economics has been modeled, very successfully in a hydrodynamic sense, where it's real water that you can actually drink that is moving about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine].

So we're back to water, which we kinda already knew that - you know, mucoidal lubricants and cell internals <- That kind of stuff. So if we're transmitting influences, or rather, if everything is transmitting influences, between each other by medium of money, or water, then what kinds of waters are there?

We know that each country, or currency region at this point, has its own symbolic representation held different in some way from the others... and they actually act differently, going back to that MONIAC (look at the damn link will you : ) they are collectively pulsating hydrodynamic entities. Then there's that good old thing called foreign exchange - you know, tourists and shit, but think factory-sized quantities of moolah chunkin' about in there too.

Like blowing bubbles where something real is returned in exchange, for some of that sweet sweet water [or crude oil]. Speaking of that (snake) Oil - is itself a bit like water, but they don't really get along under the hood. They don't mix, if you catch my drift back to that beginning line...

Oil is the liquid that runs the machine part of the machine: cars, planes, etc., although electricity is catching back on. Real water, H2O, and the products it generates in the form of animals, plants, etc. are the fuel that runs the organism ostensibly in charge of the machine: Physical Human Beings. Wow, we're really spinning out of control now, pulling in a lot of things that need that lubcricating action going on - - - now where's all that money going?

So we have two very real waters, H2O and petroleum, and an abstract, or spiritual, water: money. One of them directly feeds the machine, one satiates the demands of organisms, and the other directs, mainly, the machine via the intercession of actual fucking people - greases the wheels, as they say.

8 - love is dripping all over the floor

.. what is it about the fall & a fear of the other; is it the un con scious realization that there is a whole other half of the year that is so distinct & different, yet of a part with the whole ..?

.. & so, we see "leaders" warning away from "neo-mercantilist protectionist economics" & hear echoes of (far more) infamous fascists blaming the other outright for whatever misfortune benefits their own agenda ..

.. our interests here, however, are neither with legislation nor with finance, but, as they have always been & ever will be, with esoteric research, especially in its most immediate & personal sense ..

.. this isn't to say that those former are trivial con cerns; quite the con trary .. rather, it is merely to be mindful that it is only a fool who will put a band-aid over the symptom when they could perhaps even more easily address the root cause of the con cern ..

.. thus, what we are interested in here is what such expressions might tell us about the collective (un)con sciousness in particular .. there is a sense that the outer world at large can be thought of, 'seen' as a mirror reflection of the inner (world), & if so, one could well read this as almost an obsession with .. efficiency ..

.. intention & efficiency .. these are the real breeding ground for "zombies" (energies or thought forms that seem to act independently but in fact are con trolled by/from an other/elsewhere) that are indeed xenomorphs, in that they originate from outside our selves ..

.. how much of our most valuable resource, time, as well as energy & money are wasted away achieving the will of others & con tributing to their success ..? .. & how little is left over to further our own.. it's no wonder the whole world is obsessed with efficiency & intention, nor that so many don't even know it ..

.. above & beyond anything & everything else, the magician is always seeking power .. & certainly not adherence to any written law .. however, the magician is also well aware that power always comes with a price, & it is up to them to decide if it's worth the entry fee ..

.. this is also the case with money, which, as we've suggested more than once, is also a form of energy, if not a measure of power in its own way .. but if this is the case, we must always remember that there's a price ..

.. money is also *pain*.. either one's own or someone else's, but it definitely is pain, after another manner .. one could think of this particular price as the karma, or energetic "weight" attached to the sum in question ..