.. the master has cleared their desk ..
.. nothing in the past nor the future traps their attention ..
.. thus are they sheer presence ..
.. & no(ugh)t else ..
"I don't know what a philosophical soul could want to be more than
a good dancer. For such as these, dance is the ideal; their fine art.
In the end, it's the only kind of spirituality they know; their very divine
service .. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Science
.. all of time is a pivotal moment, but who’s on top ..?
Ideas are (hyper) real and condition the real. Life is an, possibly the, active idea, which evidently gives rise to individuals such as ourselves filled with the curated content of all that has been our own life ..
.. wanted to say something about how my own experience of the alien (other) phenomena has led me to think shit’s even crazier than the furthest out wak job currently in public broadcasting ..
“It's just scary to dream small. Nobody teaches us how to do that”
- from How to Make a Killing
.. shades ( .. thus named because it's only in the shadows that the extent of the effects of the light can most clearly be seen .. ) had to con cede that he was partial to subtlety, @LL else being equal ..
.. precision is underrated .. the big flourishes, the grand(iloquent) gestures, they're sure to get the attention & the acclaim, but subtlety .. now there's a Master's game ..
.. in fact it's quite possibly the case that we can chalk this up to the quirks of con sciousness itself ..
.. con sciousness seems "designed" to pick out the exception to the rule; the mistake on the assembly line, if u will .. the 'alien", hiding in plain sight, among the plebs ..
.. that's why some have claimed that what's most memorable about a great Work of art, especially with the passage of time, are precisely its imperfections .. but that's not exactly true, is it; not as such .. not exactly in the Way they've said it ..
.. in any case, & naturally, the magician is well aware of this tendency of awareness to focus on flaws; indeed, they use it to their own benefit & advantage ..
.. we can think of our experience of our own life as moving along different 'tracks' or trajectories .. the magician simply uses their heightened ability to distinguish subtle distinctions to @tune, to dial into different tracks depending on their own preferenc(s) ..
.. to live in such a manner might perhaps seem like going thru life knowing @LL the answers, but inevitably, it presents its own chaLLenges ..
.. in fact, the real challenge in this circumstance is to maintain a 'beginner mind', to keep it fresh rather than merely sleepwalking along the trends of one's own life ..
.. & that's a full-time job in itself, is the simply stated fact ..
.. the roaring 40s ..
I seem to be stuck in the present moment of time, but nothing is ever the same ..
.. no
thing is ever the same - flat boundless expanse of time spread out
before me, arrayed in projective simplicity on towards the vanishing
point at the never coming end, where I finally pass into light and exit
this realm of darkness, smoke brooding on the waters as one set of
heavens lays war on another, raining metal from the sky, while man
circles the outer limits of the moon.
Who
actually wants disclosure? What facts do you want to shake your daily
routine, life, and habits where it strikes fundamentally at what it
means to be a human circa 2026? What brave new world do you want to see
be built? Which one destroyed?
Here are some rules, in the sense of measures, to become aware of the alien presence:
1.
What is "THE ALIEN"? - the alien is that which is other than the self,
which we will leave undefined as self-evident in our sense of daily
experience. It is an axiom: I AM THAT I AM.
2.
THE ALIEN usually refers to the living other. The living of which may
be variously considered depending on context, domain and range. For our
purposes, a standard assumption of physical biological reality is
appropriate. As a related example, distance on the tree of life, in
standard biological time, is a measure of distance and degree of
"OTHER".
3. The range of variation in apparently HUMAN models is immense, forgetting any time binding cultural productions. It is a good field for cultivating the feeling of the ALIEN and recognizing the vast difference amongst beings that are in some measure the same.
However, at the same time you
strip from your mind those points of commonality you find with JOHN DOE,
and he becomes alien and unknown to you, a strange beast of unknown
constitution and aim, you may begin to recognize that YOU have become an
ALIEN: I AM THAT I AM AND I AM NOT THAT (sort of being)
This can lead to SUBSPECIES treated as SUBHUMAN, or NOT HUMAN, or approaching ANIMAL <- this is a logic of racism, it just depends where you cut the lines. Most assuredly you'd consider yourself to be in the HUMAN bucket, but that's just the thing, what are you for the ALIEN presences? How much do you feel to be OTHER than that which lives and moves around you? Is the environment hostile or nurturing?
The measure
of the HUMAN against the ANIMAL, the value of HUMAN LIFE in balance of
death with the ANIMAL, in at least the sense of nutriment, has been
applied in equal measure of [one kind of] HUMAN against another, as
brutally evident in the annals of history. In US law there are ILLEGAL
ALIENS: generally thought of as pertaining to HUMANS.
This
humanity is bound into one primarily in terms as a being experiencing
reality somehow embedded in a particular biology, the form is
recognizably the same to the eyes. The personal self as well as the
ALIEN self is somehow tied up in those bodies. Remember, I AM THAT I AM:
whatever that happens to mean for you - the likelihood in my local
time-space being that you are either a human or a bot.
4. Uncertainty must be cultivated and it can be uncomfortable to a point of feeling or being dangerous. If you are going to intentionally approach some unknown HUM(AN)IM(AL)(IEN), KNOWING it to be in fact a set of UNKNOWNS, what would your internal state be like? Like a shy bird or bear, angry dog or buzzing hornet?
Being in the vicinity of these ANIMALS (?) will cause very visceral reactions in, well, at least MY HUMAN (?) body. The physicality of approach must be considered if you want to come into contact with a similarly intelligenced but otherly sourced being, just as with the bear. It is an entire event.
Pay
attention to your senses, and admit your ignorance, dropping as much as
possible preconceived notions, which is not so much a logical activity
in thought but a feeling of approaching an unknown being.
.. to be con tinued ..
.. a hunter & a bricoleur;
a forager ..
.. be that, & it'll be ok ..
.. be that, & no other shall say nay,
.. be that, & then con fidently say,
.. you're on ..
.. so let's play the fuckin' game ..
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