“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
—Robert Frost
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I usually post a certain stream of my consciousness on OMF, my contemplative side.
I share what I dig up.
But I have many other aspects and thoughts, as we all do.
I am not a partisan and feel most of our politics is degraded childish drivel.
If one looks behind it all though, you can see things, see into things.
Most folks are not that intelligent and are manipulated by the greedy and clever.
We are struggling with the negative aspect of Capitalism and I for one think we need to evolve and get beyond serving just the shareholders of our corporations.
These corporations are ripping us apart, eroding our nation and personal choice.
Still, what can any one of us do?
Keep our eyes and minds open.
Share what we see and feel.
I suppose I don’t really believe OMF is a nexus of anyone of significance, but you never know
My contemplative ramblings are closer to my center than political ramblings, but sometimes I can play ball.
Heidegger to me is one of the most profound modern philosophers. I think he gives some great pointers to knowing thyself. I feel knowing thyself will lead us to the next step and beyond Capitalism and fundamentalism if we survive this time. He is worth engagement. I have really been enjoying reading him.
“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
― Martin Heidegger
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
― Martin Heidegger
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
― Martin Heidegger
“Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves. Then we would like to thank the beloved, but find nothing that would do it adequately. We can only be thankful to ourselves. Love transforms gratitude into faithfulness to ourselves and into an unconditional faith in the Other. Thus love steadily expands its most intimate secret. Closeness here is existence in the greatest distance from the other- the distance that allows nothing to dissolve - but rather presents the “thou” in the transparent, but “incomprehensible” revelation of the “just there”. That the presence of the other breaks into our own life - this is what no feeling can fully encompass. Human fate gives itself to human fate, and it is the task of pure love to keep this self-surrender as vital as on the first day.”
The left 🦶 are stupid stupid stupid dualistic muppets.
Lost like little children in Reality.
Blind as bats with no echo location.
It’s so funny, while they say and do nothing, I found the ultimate portal.
I had some help apparently.
Guess where it leads.
To everything.
God damn everything.
To Reality.
You know where they can stick their guns?
You know
Anyway, this guy Peter Kingsley is a real lover of all things Parmenides.
Parmenides is one mystical dude, let me tell ya.
Yuh think the left 🦶 look inside themselves or know the first thing about Parmenides?!
Hell no they don’t!
They don’t know shiat.
I call every last one of those dualistic pretenders out.
Dan has told me, they really really don’t like me, which means, they really really don’t know shiat.
It warms my smelly ass.
That they are so clueless brings a smile to my face.
I don’t know who they are, I wouldn’t waste time with a one of em.
Let’s dig some more into ole Parmenides.
Those left 🦶 morons won’t, so let’s eat their lunch and dinner too.
As long as one sees one's self as distinct from everyone else, and each other person as their own entity, and the earth beneath one's feet as separate from one's self and others, and animals still more different than earth or people, one will be inclined to treat all things outside of one's self as separate, foreign, leaving the individual alone to navigate the world.
Understanding the essential Oneness of reality - how all people and animals and the earth and sky are of the same basic substance and connected on the deepest level - encouraged full participation of everyone in life because every seeming individual was not a lone entity but part of everything else.
The single path of truth which Sophia calls Parmenides to pursue is the path of unity and recognition of the underlying interconnectedness of all things. Toward the end of the poem, when he writes how "men have determined in their minds to name two principles" and, in doing so, have gone wrong.
Left 🦶 are the muppets of two principles.
They are simply facing in the wrong direction.
The Path of Truth
In the following passage, Parmenides poetically relates to a reader how all is One and that there is, indeed, a way which is and a way which is not, and to believe otherwise is simply to believe wrongly about the nature of the universe. As nothing can come from nothing, and 'being' is indestructible, the assertion that we are born from some other realm or that we die must be false impressions. The senses, according to the Eleatics, are not to be trusted to reveal the truth. Truth may only be recognized through reason.
This translation of Parmenides' famous poem is by Arthur Fairbanks, 1898. Here, Parmenides relates how he is conveyed by chariot to the gates of wisdom and the citadel of the goddess Sophia (wisdom). Sophia instructs him on the true nature of existence and admonishes him to remain on the path of truth no matter how his senses try to deceive him.
Parmenides wrote:The horses which bear me conducted me as far as desire may go, when they had brought me speeding along to the far-famed road of a divinity who herself bears onward through all things the man of understanding. Along this road I was borne, along this the horses, wise indeed, bore me hastening the chariot on, and maidens guided my course. The axle in its box, enkindled by the heat, uttered the sound of a pipe (for it was driven on by the rolling wheels on either side), when the maiden daughters of Helios hastened to conduct me to the light, leaving the realms of night, pushing aside with the hand the veils from their heads.
There is the gate between the ways of day and night lintel above it, and stone threshold beneath, hold it in place, and high in air it is fitted with great doors; retributive Justice holds the keys that open and shut them. However, the maidens addressed her with mild words, and found means to persuade her to thrust back speedily for them the fastened bolt from the doors; and the gate swinging free made the opening wide, turning in their sockets the bronze hinges, well fastened with bolts and nails; then through this the maidens kept horses and chariot straight on the high-road.
The goddess received me with kindness, and, taking my right hand in hers, she addressed me with these words:—Youth joined with drivers immortal, who hast come with the horses that bear thee, to our dwelling, hail! since no evil fate has bid thee come on this road (for it lies far outside the beaten track of men), but right and justice. 'Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief. But nevertheless these things also thou shalt learn, since it is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion, passing all things carefully in review.
Come now I will tell thee-and do thou hear my word and heed it-what are the only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge. The one way, assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it. The other, that not-being is and that it necessarily is, I call a wholly incredible course, since thou canst not recognise not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.
It makes no difference to me at what point I begin, for I shall always come back again to this.
It is necessary both to say and to think that being is; for it is possible that being is, and it is impossible that not-being is ; this is what I bid thee ponder. I restrain thee from this first course of investigation; and from that course also along which mortals knowing nothing wander aimlessly, since helplessness directs the roaming thought in their bosoms, and they are borne on deaf and like-wise blind, amazed, headstrong races, they who consider being and not-being as the same and not the same; and that all things follow a back-turning course.
That things which are not are, shall never prevail, she said, but do thou restrain thy mind from this course of investigation.
And let not long-practised habit compel thee along this path, thine eye careless, thine ear and thy tongue overpowered by noise; but do thou weigh the much contested refutation of their words, which I have uttered.
There is left but this single path to tell thee of: namely, that being is. And on this path there are many proofs that being is without beginning and indestructible; it is universal, existing alone, immovable and without end; nor ever was it nor will it be, since it now is, all together, one, and continuous. For what generating of it wilt thou seek out? From what did it grow, and how? I will not permit thee to say or to think that it came from not-being; for it is impossible to think or to say that not-being is. What thine would then have stirred it into activity that it should arise from not-being later rather than earlier? So it is necessary that being either is absolutely or is not. Nor will the force of the argument permit that anything spring from being except being itself. Therefore justice does not slacken her fetters to permit generation or destruction, but holds being firm.
Either being exists or it does not exist. It has been decided in accordance with necessity to leave the unthinkable, unspeakable path, as this is not the true path, but that the other path exists and is true. How then should being suffer destruction? How come into existence? If it came into existence, it is not being, nor will it be if it ever is to come into existence. So its generation is extinguished, and its destruction is proved incredible.
Nor is it subject to division, for it is all alike; nor is anything more in it, so as to prevent its cohesion, nor anything less, but all is full of being; therefore the all is continuous, for being is contiguous to being.
Farther it is unmoved, in the hold of great chains, without beginning or end, since generation and destruction have completely disappeared and true belief has rejected them. It lies the same, abiding in the same state and by itself accordingly it abides fixed in the same spot. For powerful necessity holds it in confining bonds, which restrain it on all sides. Therefore divine right does not permit being to have any end; but it is lacking in nothing, for if it lacked anything it would lack everything.
Nevertheless, behold steadfastly all absent things as present to thy mind; for thou canst not separate being in one place from contact with being in another place; it is not scattered here and there through the universe, nor is it compounded of parts.
Therefore thinking and that by reason of which thought exists are one and the same thing, for thou wilt not find thinking without the being from which it receives its name. Nor is there nor will there be anything apart from being; for fate has linked it together, so that it is a whole and immovable. Wherefore all these things will be but a name, all these things which mortals determined in the belief that they were true, viz. that things arise and perish, that they are and are not, that they change their position and vary in colour.
But since there is a final limit, it is perfected on every side, like the mass of a rounded sphere, equally distant from the centre at every point. For it is necessary that it should neither be greater at all nor less anywhere, since there is no not-being which can prevent it from arriving at equality, nor is being such that there may ever be more than what is in one part and less in another, since the whole is inviolate. For if it is equal on all sides, it abides in equality within its limits.
At this point I cease trustworthy discourse and the thought about truth; from here on, learn the opinions of mortals, hearing of the illusive order of my verses.
Men have determined in their minds to name two principles; but one of these they ought not to name, and in so doing they have erred. They distinguish them as antithetic in character, and give them each character and attributes distinct from those of the other. On the one hand there is the aethereal flame of fire, fine, rarefied, everywhere identical with itself and not identical with its opposite; and on the other hand, opposed to the first, is the second principle, flameless darkness, dense and heavy in character. Of these two principles I declare to thee every arrangement as it appears to men, so that no knowledge among mortals may surpass thine.
But since all things are called light and darkness, and the peculiar properties of these are predicated of one thing and another, everything is at the same time full of light and of obscure darkness, of both equally, since neither has anything in common with the other.
Well, hot damn with chocolate sauce and a cherry on top.
My god are the left 🦶 stupid.
Clueless, to the last.
Smelly has beaten them back to the beginning, which is no beginning or ending, which is light and darkness.
It is funny, right, you need consciousness to have and do science.
And scientists want to keep this subjective aspect of being out of their theories.
This is changing thankfully.
One of my favorite thinking allowed episodes.
The real mystery is how does mind come from body.
This was a fascinating Lex episode.
What a fun gig to study Biology.
Matter, it seems to me, is not what we think it is.
What we sense is not what we think it is.
Most of our reactions are driven by conditioning.
Breaking this conditioning is the process of waking up.
I know for myself, one result of waking up, was an incredible curiosity.
An openness and humility.
What do we really know?
Not much.
So you sit down in the field, under a tree and just relax and watch it all go by and realize the beauty of mind and nature and how intimately they are connected.
You see your dualism, the mind-body problem, and the answer is simple.
You are not separate from what you observe.
You can’t use science to explain yourself and awareness.
We are little children.
Materialism is a metaphysical premise.
It just doesn’t explain it all, it is a powerful theory.
It is only describing structure and functions.
We are slowly expanding our view to include Consciousness.
It will take a few more generations.
Reductionism is only one way of knowing.
Take consciousness as given, don’t try to reduce it.
Yes, consciousness, as we experience it, seems to depend on bodies.
But if consciousness is always, it’s the other way around.
Imagine how we would relax to know our bodies are temporary, arising from a non-material eternal consciousness.
It seems obvious now to me, this is true.
But it certainly takes a toggle and shift.
You have to break out of a very powerful world view and conditioning.
It then shows you how upside down religion is, trying to persist the body, when body is temporary.
Biologically, our cells could go on forever.
There are a lot of interesting possibilities in biology.
It seems to me wisest to stay open and not take your experience as the final word, but just a mode of being.
It is quite incredible what is occurring.
And I would say beautiful.
This part of us that can appreciate the beauty is a mystery.
We are these emotional, physical, subjective beings.
How can this feeling of beauty arise from cells communicating through chemicals and fields of energy?
When one just flows with this, you can experience what the Greeks called Eudaimonia.
Feeling good.
I like feeling this way.
I like feeling the force.
What does ‘I like’ mean and point to?
When you stop asking and just be with and in this as you are, it seems to me the best thing in life we can experience.
That is what I feel is the best way to live.
The anxiety and fear ebb away.
The hungers and appetites are satiated.
One can have a full stomach and a full life.
This fullness is beautiful and calming.
The body is still.
The mind is calm.
Wonderful doesn’t begin to describe it.
I like that word wonderful.
When we approach the source of being, we feel this more and more.
That sense of wonder is very beautiful and precious to me.
So the concept of Transcendence is a common theme for Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and many others.
What are they speaking about?
“So Kant gives only a negative sense of transcendence. It is Heidegger who gives it a positive sense, which is human Dasein’s openness to pass from beings to being.”
Basically you have to have a clear enough picture of the ultimate good, what motivates action.
This is what motivates the activity of human thought and action.
A quest to know the definitive truth and be enraptured by the ultimate good.
If you condense the idea of transcendence too concretely, it becomes an idol in religious terms, not worth pursuing.
As the cults of modern day Evangelicals, Jehovah witnesses, and Mormons do for example.
It seems best to keep the tension inherent, you have a transcendent term where the apophatic distance never collapses.
Apophatic theology refers to what god is not.
This is how the west originally thought about divine transcendence.
Reading a really interesting chill philosopher/poet who was public enemy #1 for the Nazis. There were shoot on sight orders for him, Jean Wahl.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Wahl
I like anyone who pissed the Nazis off like that.
I struggle with Heidegger and his beloved status with them. Martin Heidegger never apologized for his support of the Nazis.
This reminds me of Jorjani’s embrace of the alt right nationalists.
Jean Wahl speaks of transascendence, a journey to the depths, note the alternate concept to transcendence.
“The philosophy of existence is a philosophy of transcendence.”
His book below on transcendence was based on a famous talk he gave where he asked…
“Can there be a secular concept of transcendence that allows the thinking of the concrete existence of human being without an extrinsic appeal to an abstract divine, that is, without theology and without even the “secularization” of theological concepts? Or would such a thinking, if it were possible, shorn of every last bit of the theological, empty of every “nostalgia,” and deaf to every “echo” of the religious, leave us merely with a “general theory” of existence, dehistoricized and dehumanized, a meaningless philosophy?”
Some books I’m reading.
Human Existence and Transcendence (Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/026810106X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#
Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0823273024/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#
Wahl’s translator is also very interesting.
Philosophy in Word and Name: Myth, Wisdom, Apocalypse - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1621385035/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#
Art is a spiritual exercise. It is an exercise for becoming conscious (sometimes an infinitesimal consciousness) of the unconscious.
ON READING THE FOUR QUARTETS
Better than praying on the tomb of the mother, Is to say yes to this world, And to seal it with our will. Not to be protected, Not to be redeemed, Not to be deceived, Not to be healed. We go in time with beginnings and ends Which are past and present and future in turn, And in times which are no more in time. May we go with much consciousness (And at times much unconsciousness ) Bearing much reality, Not knowing anything which is unmovable cause, Not knowing any lotus or lethe (Except the lethe we create in ourselves by our will and voluntary un-will), Not loving renunciation or repentance, But knowing the way of dispossession and loving it, Knowing the final adequacy of the moment and the one who lives it, Hoping, loving, waiting, Being when we are not. We taste of some moments preternatural, although in nature, We see the pattern and live it, We live our own successive deaths, And that is living our lives.
I think it’s fairly obvious, Putin is gonna drop the big bombas.
We have undermined ourselves.
Autocrats can’t be Autocrats in America…yet.
These are not patriots resisting democracy.
The UFO religion and its priests are closely aligned with these lunatics I feel.
Surely parts of American intelligence are taking advantage of the chaos and stoking it.
Putin is not a strategist, he’s an opportunist, like Trump, they create and use chaos.
Trump and Putin are kinda brilliant at exploiting weakness.
This is actually a kind of service to us all in a way, find the cracks.
I agree with Kasparov, assume the worst.
He’s gonna drop bombs.
What is sad it is simple greed at work here and that is easiest to take advantage of.
These muppets are not even close to their potential.
Democracy is not the best system, but it’s the best we have so far.
Some would say, we have a Plutocracy, not a Democracy.
This is mostly true.
They have sacrificed our environment and freedom for power and control.
So it would seem we are at the height of our stupidity, greed and ignorance.
This is a great setup for Love.
Love is reality and I feel the truth, so I don’t despair personally.
Because I know the reality of Love.
It doesn’t mean the meanies won’t cause a lot of pain and suffering.
Putin and Trump will die, that is the beauty of finiteness.
To think this is not all a portal would be ignorant.
Few on earth have real quality, are golden.
Gold is reality.
Nothing gold can stay.
Timothy Frye in his recent book, Weak Strongman, describes Russia as a personalist autocracy. He distinguishes it from other forms of autocracy such as military dictatorships or single party states.
The personalization of politics reverses the relationship of authority between institutions and individuals. Typically a position legitimizes authority. For example, a President has constitutional powers and prerogatives. But as politics becomes personalized, charismatic leaders instead legitimize institutions.
Personalist regimes rely on weak institutions. Other authoritarian regimes use institutions like a political party or the military to legitimize their authority. However, a personalist autocrat deliberately weakens institutions to centralize their authority. Moreover, weak institutions limit the sources of new elites to challenge their authority.
Chivo, referring to your post before the last one.... it's excellent!
Without a doubt, it's brought narcissism to a new level and it's important that we understand this.
Putin and Trump are two peas in a pod.
You're right about that and you did a brilliant job pointing out those parallelism's that lie between them.
Anyone who wants a reality check on who and what these people are and why they do what they do, needs to use this perspective and approach in their analysis to have a greater understanding on how things are and what's coming up in the near future.
99 wrote:Chivo, referring to your post before the last one.... it's excellent!
Without a doubt, it's brought narcissism to a new level and it's important that we understand this.
Putin and Trump are two peas in a pod.
You're right about that and you did a brilliant job pointing out those parallelism's that lie between them.
Anyone who wants a reality check on who and what these people are and why they do what they do, needs to use this perspective and approach in their analysis to have a greater understanding on how things are and what's coming up in the near future.
In spite of all our material progress, we are farthest from Being than we ever have been.
This is a Dark Age.
Many liars and frauds and cults fill the interwebs with their poison.
But there is a voice that does not lie.
And the only people I would call friends, listen to this voice and raise their own voice with authenticity, integrity, and love.
The poet is closest to the true voice.
And if you listen inside closely, you will hear it.
You will feel music rising from within you.
And it can resist and triumph over any bully.
It has no plan.
Anyone with a plan is simply an ego trying to escape their fear.
This is my view anyway.
The world is populated with muppets and they don’t want to wake up.
Because Being and facing yourself, is terrifying.
But some of us are here now doing so and I think we are just the tip of something much bigger emerging from consciousness.
Having experienced it, it is like the ultimate trump card and an evidence of things unseen.
One puts themselves into almost a schizophrenic state.
Your ego has to be eclipsed and silenced to make a space for this energy.
How do you think the pre-socratics and great philosophers and artists and scientists channeled their knowledge.
It literally came to them, out of thin air.
After great focus.
Actually it works more like a wave, you alternate and vibrate between great relaxation and focus.
Relaxed focus.
The pre-socratics were not philosophers, they were great spiritual beings.
They were healers and used meditation and incubation techniques as well as psychedelic like drugs to facilitate their gnosis.
Modern philosophers tried to stuff this gnosis into modern shapes, but it doesn’t fit with our modern boundaries, reason or logic.
It erupts after being kept under pressure.
Look at the 50s and 60s.
Then the powers that be try to contain it.
This is the real phenomena, not UAPs.
UAPs are like a pointer to the real phenomena I feel.
We have to become cave explorers, not explorers of places like skinwalker ranch.
Any of us can channel that deep stuff if we learn to.
It is an incredible process I can say after working with it over the last 10 years.
All the senses, whether physical or subtle, are degrees or gradations of knowledge as subject to various modifications, and knowledge has as its ultimate source the principle itself, in which is total knowledge. We can now consider the metaphysical principle. Guénon has declared that,
“A principle obviously possesses proportionately less universality the greater degree of relativity; to use the language of mathematics, it may be said that a determinative ‘plus’ is equivalent to a metaphysical ‘minus’.”
[P. 105 Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines].
The principle itself (Atma) is the ‘mover that is not moved’. The principle is undetermined and is not subject to any modification or change—otherwise it would not be the principial Atma. Atma cannot be determined, changed or affected in any way at all, but action and (subsequently) determination comes about as a consequence of the presence of Atma, without which, nothing could exist at all. Atma is not relative and nor is Atma subject to relativity, which is a type of determination. Thus Atma, undetermined, is the pure metaphysical reality. Below that (in a manner of speaking) in the worlds of being or of manifestation there are degrees of reality that are subject to conditions or determinations. The latter are the reflections upon the Real.
The more subject to determination are these degrees, the less metaphysical or real in any true sense they are. The determinations and relativity are the ‘plus’ factor. Thus, when the reflected seed of knowledge is unpacked, or translated into any language that can be spoken or written down, or conceptualised in any way, then from the mathematical (or quantitative) point of view there has been addition. The pure metaphysical reality is, in these terms, a subtraction, not an addition.
In that way, speech and writing, all discursive thought, is the reverse of meditation in the true sense, which is not even thought as such—thought owes particularly to the human corporeal state. But we need to travel in both directions so long as it is expedient to do so, and both directions have their use: the meditation practice is for touching the higher states of being and ultimately pure knowledge; the writing, speech or thought is to develop individual possibilities that in turn act as a support to effective initiation.
According to the Katha Upanishad, the true knowledge cannot be reached at all without the meditation practice. By ‘meditation’ here is meant dhyana, which involves first dharana, the concentration of the mind. That has to be learned over time, with prolonged practice and considerable effort put in.
The wise, realising through meditation The timeless Self, beyond all perception, Hidden in the cave of the heart, Leave pain and pleasure far behind. Those who know they are neither body nor mind But the immemorial Self, the divine Principle of existence, find the source Of all joy and live in joy abiding. I see the gates of joy are opening For you, Nachiketa.
[I.2.12—13. Translated by Eknath Easwaran.]
Quality is the content of essence, which by transposition belongs to the principle Itself. Principial unity is pure being, the non-manifest principle of all manifestation. It contains within itself all possibilities whatsoever and is not limited in any way. It is infinite and therefore not contained by anything. As it is non-manifest it is not in the world, although as universal spirit it permeates all things without being those things.
In pure quantity, ‘units’ are only distinguished one from another numerically—and this makes it clear that pure quantity is beneath manifested existence. This is so because there is always quality in manifestation, even at the lowest point of a cycle, otherwise it would cease to exist. Leibnitz refers to the ‘Principle of Indiscernibles’ and by this he means that there can be no two beings that are alike in every respect. This is because of the limitlessness of universal possibility, where there cannot be any repetition whatsoever. If two beings are said to be identical then they are not two beings, but one and the same being. In order for there to be discernible difference between beings, there must be a qualitative difference. Thus the determination of beings can never be purely quantitative. This overrides mechanistic conceptions like those of Descartes. Also, it makes atomism a false theory. If atomism is about reducing things to a conceptual ‘one’ without any quality being involved, it cannot be true.
Leibnitz goes on to say that if beings did not differ qualitatively ‘they would not even be beings’, but something like divisions exactly resembling each other of a homogenous space and time. Such divisions have no real existence, but only what the scholastics called entia rationis. Note however that Leibnitz does not have adequate ideas of space and time. He defines space as the ‘order of coexistence’ and time as the ‘order of succession’, but considers them from only a logical point of view, thereby reducing them to homogenous containers without quality and so without any effective existence. In fact, space and time have an ontological nature. They exist as conditions determining the special mode of existence distinguished as corporeal existence.
Nothing within manifestation can be infinite as it is limited and determined by the very fact of its manifestation.
Essence is the principle that forms the individuality; it is not itself part of the individuality or corporeal domain. Similarly, what is called in Sanskrit the boddhi or higher intellectual faculty is at the formless level and has no part in the ego or ahankara. The true ‘Name’ or signature of an individuality is called Nama, and from Nama comes Rupa, the form of the individuality. [See ‘Name and Form: Nama and Rupa’, The Way of Knowledge.] The True Self and therefore True Will of an individual, group or collective, can only be known via the boddhi. The Nama is quite close to what is sometimes called the Holy Guardian Angel; it has the possibility, through transposition, of entering the supra-sensible and non-individual states while yet retaining its ‘true name’. When even the ordinary senses are suppressed, the subtle or psychic senses undergo distortion. The ways to the higher states are eventually sealed off completely. Thus it can be seen how the suppression of Quality and imposition of Quantity in all things is truly an anti-spiritual force.
A wonderful discussion with his author friend Salley Vickers. about the liminal, fairy 🧚 folk, and consciousness from one of my favorite writers these days, David Bentley Hart.
He and his kind make this world more beautiful and endurable for me.
I can’t wait to get and read Salley’s new book The Gardener.
Don’t let a position of power go to your head. Respect that is given can be just as quickly withdrawn. Others may have already turned on you through jealousy and resentment.
I saw visions in the night, and behold, there was someone coming with the clouds of the heavens—someone like the Son of Humankind. He was given dominion, glory, and a kingdom. All peoples, nations, and tongues will worship him. His dominion is a dominion of an age that will not pass, and his kingdom is one that will not perish.
Revelation 21:1, 2, 5, 9, 10
I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And the angel spoke with me saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And [the angel] carried me away in the spirit to the top of a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
The One sitting on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new”; and said to me, “Write, because these words are true and trustworthy.”
Write!
Ok.
Ug.
Believe Believe Believe Believe
Come on Swedenborg, you can do better than that.
Let me jump back to David Bentley Hart’s, “You are Gods.”
He blows Swedenborg away I think.
In the Introduction, Hart lists five premises that underlie the arguments advanced in You Are Gods:
1. The sole sufficient natural end of all spiritual creatures is the supernatural, and grace is nothing but the necessary liberation of all creatures for their natural ends.
2. Nature stands in relation to supernature as (in Aristotelian terms) prime matter to form. Nature in itself has no real existence and can have none; it is entirely an ontological patiency before the formal causality of supernature, and only as grace can nature possess any actuality at all.
3. No spiritual creature could fail to achieve its naturally supernatural end unless God himself were the direct moral cause of evil in that creature, which is impossible. Conversely, God saves creatures by removing extrinsic, physical (that is, non-moral) impediments to their natural union with him.
4. God became human so that humans should become God. Only the God who is always already human can become human. Only a humanity that is always already divine can become God.
5. God is all that is. Whatever is not God exists as becoming divine, and as such is God in the mode of what is other than God. But God is not “the other” of anything.
Hmmmmmmmmm
What do I really feel about all this God talk?
Let’s relax here for min and breathe.
Breathing…
I have spent a lot of time sitting in my Spring Garden.
The wind is blowing and the petals are falling and I feel electricity all over me.
Since I was a child, I have had a very strange physical thing happen.
I could feel warm waves of energy flowing through my body.
I am just laying now in my bed writing and I can feel waves and waves of warm energy flowing on my skin and through my body.
This is very strange.
It’s not psychological.
It’s physical and it seems to happen as I come across certain texts.
Listen, whatever is here with me, be with me.
Show me.
Whoa, my whole body just shuddered with energy.
Radiating from inside me.
What in the world am I supposed to do with that?
Just keep on going.
I just can’t stand this Swedenborg book.
Let me jump to the end…
Hmmm, at the end of the book, I was given an answer to what I just wrote.
This way of learning has been the way it has been for 10 years or so.
A dance between mind and physical things.
You know, I think this is a simulation of a kind.
I have been meditating on the idea of bodies as receivers.
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by Big Bunny Love Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:32 am
ass.
️ must be used.
work.
is active imagination. 
joyful counterpart to its dark fertile matrix.
I know the hard won freedom of true love. 
for love and that is my only truth. 
have sent me a warning.
all over me. 
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