Sounding kinda Taoist hobbit.
Consciousness wants to be guru, god, shiva.
Parabrahman.
It wants to be a true maker.
But my opinion is consciousness is a trickster.
A spoiled child.
We idolize our consciousness.
Barfield argues consciousness has evolved along with the evolution of physical phenomena.
In our time, we are still ignorant of our participation in phenomena, but we have what Barfield calls “mechanomorphic collective representations,” which have become idols.
We idolize the snake and synchronicity because we just can’t see through our mental sickness.
Entheogens somehow allow us to see beyond our idolized representations.
Idolizing anything is what the zen call sickness.
What do people do here on OMF?
They bring their idols.
Easy pickens for smelly goat.
Smash the idols.
Our collective representations were born when men began to take the models, whether geometrical or mechanical, literally.
Our literalness concealed the metaphoric nature of our representations. Barfield further explains, “a representation, which is collectively mistaken for an ultimate — ought not to be called a representation. It is an idol. Thus the phenomena themselves are idols, when they are imagined as enjoying that independence of human perception which can in fact only pertain to the unrepresented.” In creating idols, we build objects which have their own independent existence and relate to us as humans in a very particular way which is completely constrained by our representation of them as objects. In our representations as idols, we cut ourselves off from participation because we set up phenomena as other than ourselves.
There is nothing other than ourselves here.
There is no world in and of itself.
Nervous systems make the world.
The world is beginning to “hunger for iconoclasm.”
Art
itself has become an idol.
Everything is art.
I think we are learning to create fully self conscious.
But before we can do that, we have to get past our representations, our Great Sickness.
The serpent and daimon are representations that help us to overturn the order when needed.
Dragon
To me is the merging of the serpent and daimon symbolically.
The dragon guards the way.
I’m sorry, silly discussions on disclosure and religion and drugs aren’t going to help.
Participation with this, not idolizing this, is how to live.
Write the poetry.
Make the art.
Smoke the J.
Say and write the words.
Move and express.
Share yourself.
This is participation with appearances.
It isn’t more thinking.
Great art captures the changes in collective consciousness.
Barfield was saying final participation is the fully realized polarity between rationality and imagination which allows for the emergence of something new, the creative expression of humanity in words.
He thought poetry our highest expression.
One can soar participating with words, the Logos.
“consciousness is also the actual material in which she works. Consciousness is to her what their various mediums (marble, pigments, etc.) are to the other arts; for words themselves are but symbols of consciousness.”
Barfield is here prioritizing consciousness over materiality, which anticipates his phrase “interior is anterior”.
It’s easy to see when one is idolizing the representations once one has participated deeply with the symbolic and actual happenings.
What has opened me up is consciously participating, not arguing style.
Being here with this.
I will never cease to demand you smash your idols.
If you get within arms reach of me, I’ll smash them, but that doesn’t have the same impact as one being brought to this themselves within themselves and realize their own sickness.
The moment you hold your Jesus statue in your hand or Sophia or Buddha or Yahweh or the Serpent.
And you realize, this is nothing, smash that damn image and participate with these representations instead.
Do you want to call it channeling?
Of course it is.
We oscillate with this and resonate.
Hobbit is a little energizer bunny on the flow.
There is great upheaval underway, but it is only our idolization that is shifting.
The people do not need new idols, maybe in the short term, we are experiencing hyper-idolization.
It is terrifying to most because we have idolized all this and our idols are melting.
Hopefully we don’t nuke it all.
That would represent a terrible lack of imagination.
If we go that far, if consciousness chose suicide?
We were not worthy of this.
Your idol or god is not special, it’s all special.
Your full participation is pretty special.
I have fully participated with a few non-morons here.
It was a pleasure to meet you, but the idolators are boring and lost.
But I’m here for them if nothing else.
I know the terror of letting your idols go.
But what a sight to see a human being self aware, pure genius.
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