This is the foolish truth: Man's noble pursuit of knowledge, his quest for God, ultimately gets entangled in man's quest for language with which to describe his quest. Man finds himself a prisoner of the dark tower - a great library full of words and concepts that prevents him from experiencing any pure nonconceptual experience. Man becomes literate, and falls from heaven.
...and so it goes, thought Bastante as he crossed a great desert. he passed a Man in Black.
"Dude, you move fast," said the Man in Black. he was impressed.
Bastante took advantage of the situation and bummed a smoke.
"I'm looking for DakiniTown," said Bastante.
The man in black nodded wearily.
"Yeah, i figured it was something like that," he said. "You're gonna have to learn to sail, kid."
He yawned and rubbed his eyes. "DakiniTown is across half the ocean."
Bastante took that one in. They watched the desert change colors.
"What's all the way across?" Bastante figured it was worth a shot.
"The Other Side, of course," said the Man in Black. He didn't play games.
Bastante nodded. It was just as he'd thought. The way to the Other Side ran right through DakiniTown...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
krishna
Perhaps the truly deep masculine ambitiously pursues compassion to such a radical degree he becomes acquiescent. Sheep do not want a shepherd who acts like a sheep - they want a shepherd who acts like a good shepherd. And yet a good shepherd may, at some point, fear the inequality of his own uniqueness. - who is he, that he loves so much that which he cannot be?
True greatness prays for compassion so much as to aspire to meekness. True greatness may, perhaps, go through a phase of renouncing greatness in order to better serve others. The immature shepherd may perhaps offer the role to all other sheep, even renouncing the role out of shame-
we think that perhaps we can serve others by elevating them and by humbling ourselves. We choose to follow rather than lead, a lion believing he can serve sheep by acting like the least of the sheep. This does not work - it is not dharma for a lion to act like the least of sheep. True greatness cannot remain subservient, yet it must necessarily experiment with subservience and answer the question: by what authority do I exercise dominion? By what authority do I stand taller than my peers, and how can I ably do so without feeling the shame of inequality?
True greatness suffers deeply the shame of inequality.
Arjuna puts down his bow, willingly surrendering, rather than competing, and winning. Where is the joy in overcoming those we are stronger than? Where is the sense of victory in vanquishing those weaker than ourselves?
Krishna says: do not be selfish. Do not be a self. be dharma. Be necessity. You are as you are; be as you are.
True greatness prays for compassion so much as to aspire to meekness. True greatness may, perhaps, go through a phase of renouncing greatness in order to better serve others. The immature shepherd may perhaps offer the role to all other sheep, even renouncing the role out of shame-
we think that perhaps we can serve others by elevating them and by humbling ourselves. We choose to follow rather than lead, a lion believing he can serve sheep by acting like the least of the sheep. This does not work - it is not dharma for a lion to act like the least of sheep. True greatness cannot remain subservient, yet it must necessarily experiment with subservience and answer the question: by what authority do I exercise dominion? By what authority do I stand taller than my peers, and how can I ably do so without feeling the shame of inequality?
True greatness suffers deeply the shame of inequality.
Arjuna puts down his bow, willingly surrendering, rather than competing, and winning. Where is the joy in overcoming those we are stronger than? Where is the sense of victory in vanquishing those weaker than ourselves?
Krishna says: do not be selfish. Do not be a self. be dharma. Be necessity. You are as you are; be as you are.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Judas Iscariot
Jesus walks into a bar.
The women are so excited they get up on the bar and dance.
The men are so jealous they crucify him.
History is the story of crucifying the King. History is his story, the story of the crucifixion as the scheme of some jealous cockblockers.
patriarchal government: is it just a way of keeping the fertility king from his rightful place in the sexual heirarchy? Sexuality carries with it the potential for heirarchy - some men get lots and lots of men get some. The lots-of-men-who-get-some are jealous of those few-who-get-lots, and they organize together to redistribute the wealth, so to speak - almost a form of sexual socialism.
resulting in marriage? what a preposterous concept.
This is the competition between father and son, actually. Intergenerational competition for the harem is his story - the story of history. Sons band together to overthrow a father who populates the world. why? To populate the world, of course. the heirarchy of the deep masculine is a strange beast...
the king isn't crucified as long as he does his job. As a breeder, that is. A stud bull. The women dance because the King is the Fertility King, and they worship him as long as he delivers. The men adore him, too, with jealousy. They constantly test themselves against him to see if they have what it takes to be king, or more accurately to make sure that the King is the right King. Jesus didn't fight and Alexander didn't fuck. So we've been without a king for most of the last few thousand years, which is a damned shame.
This is the lion. Blessed I, Jah Rastafari
(*Blessed is he who does not take offense with me)..
Friday, September 25, 2009
shanti shakti tantra
there is only one woman, and her name is Everything.
Everything mocks the man who believes himself to be alone
Everything laughs and ruins the man who believes himself to be alone-
she is with him always, forevermore.
In learning to love her, he discovers that he is in love with Everything
in loving everything, he discovers that he is in love with Her
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
yoga tantra
Life is sex, and great sex is all about loving what you fear most.
The spiritual war being waged is a sexual war, the great conflict between opposites. Men and women need each other, yet codependence is deemed a bad word.
a bad word?
How can mutually interdependent opposites, completely dependent upon one another, cultivate trust when it has been lost? How does the bright space between opposites get crossed; how do men and women accomplish yoga?
Life is sex, and great sex is all about loving what you fear most.
And every moment is life, and every moment is love, and every moment is fear, and every moment is sex. Mother Earth awakens, feel her kundalini shakti
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Gollum Christ
Gollum Christ am I, Irie,
first and last am I, Irie,
the darkest of insecure company
in the bottle of the genie's neck
first and last am I, Irie,
the darkest of insecure company
in the bottle of the genie's neck
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Mythos Logos
Oss, the High Knoss of Mossmoosunlund, pondered deeply and thinkingly upon the linguistic geometry of his own mythological mind. The geometry of consciousness was archetypical, he knew, and learning from these mythological archetypes ultimately revealed the story of man's descent from dreaming to thinking. This is the story of myth, including the myth of history, and even including the myth of chronology, for is not chronology the Logos of Chronos? The Logos of Chronos tells us that Time is a number. Or, as the Pythagoreans taught, God is Geometry, and Geometry God. This is the chronic of logic; we're always running out of time.
Before Chronos, time was not numerical, but eternally present. Chronos, in giving the universe a numerical value and calling it time, invented both past and future, and in so doing separated time from space. Before there was chronological time, it all happened now, and here: with the creation of a perceived then, so was created the perception of there. All experience once transcended interpretation, yet through the geometry of mind, interpretation ultimately learned to transcend, and thus imprison, experience. Through the geometry of thought, space and time became words, numbers, digits, values, integers, geometric symbols, written language, words on a blogsite, and linguistically patterned thoughts- livable experiences no longer. Word separated from sound.
The numerical valuation of time segmented the infinite wave of the eternal now just as calculus approximates finite values on a sine wave. Yet time isn't a number, but cyclical, seasonal, mythological, embodied, experienced, and ultimately maya. Chronos, in his pursuit of the geometry of God, gave the universe a numerical value, calling it time. Do you see the chronic of logic? Without chronology - the Logos of Chronos - there would be no numerical time, and instead we would live within the eternal present. It is within the framework of numerical time that myth has become separate from history, that the Logos of the thinking mind has transcended the Logos of the feeling body. This is a relatively recent event, soon to be remedied via the galactic realignment taking place 12/21/2012, a linguistic, geometric pattern that refers to the beginning of the embodied Logos, the eternal calendar, the cosmic clock of the very long now, the beginning of Chronos' Peace.
Myth itself tells the story of the mythmakers, the storytellers, the empire builders, rulers of galaxies and descendants of the architects of the archetypes, the story of the planets inhabited, planets conquered, and planets destroyed, the story of Empire's fall and the rise of Dark Age, the story of the Seraphim, the Annunaki, the story of history and chronology and language, and thought and personality and ego, the beginning of the Fourth Age and the rise of Man. Power and conflict, confusion and dissonance, these are all part of the ancient story told within the framework of the mythological mind, which cannot be revealed using the rational logos of linguistic thought and must be revealed through symbol and archetype - we must live the experience, without taking it personally. The truth - the eternity of time and the infinity of space - can only be revealed through the irrational logos of breath and posture. Chronos weeps, confined to the dungeon of the subconscious by his own children.
Chronos' grandson, Posidon's Son, the High Knoss Oss of Mossmoosunlund understood that how our thoughts sound matters far more than what our thoughts mean. What we say never conveys the truth, but how we sound always conveys the truth. Very curious. The body, after all, is a sonic temple, a dynamically vibrating cavity that both creates and receives sound, giving and receiving, within and without, 360 degrees along three axes. The body was an oscillator, and the study of the body's oscillations was the science of sound, the science of breath and posture.
Oss was a yogi, like his father before him, and his father before him. They studied the science of the oscillating body cavity, the living, embodied, experiential geometry of sound. They wryly observed themselves as their own living geometry of sound evolved into the living geometry of speech, which in turn evolved into the abstract, disembodied, theoretical geometry of linguistics, or cognitive thought. With mind manifesting matter at velocities approaching the speed of light, the geometry of patterns within the mind was starting to matter. Or materialize, for that matter. The geometry of linguistics was the first law - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God.
The geometric laws of written language- these fixed, unbendable (and therefore destined to break) rules, gave us the linguistic geometry of writing, which of course evolved into the logical geometry of thinking, which ultimately evolved into the chronic geometry of the personality. Thus was the ego born, and thus did the Golden Age fade away, replaced by the Age of Man, the Age of Time, the Age of Machines.
Kali Yuga. Blood drinker. The Age of Death.
Imprisoned within the Logos, the cognitive geometry of our own making, immortals became finite, burdened with the probability of impossibility, which began to look a lot like the impossibility of the improbable. Because they could not satisfactorily prove to themselves how they lived, they began to die. The chose the measurable approximation of calculus over the immeasurable truth of the sine wave, they chose law over the truth - they chose the Word of God over the living Sound of God's Word. This was a thoroughly illogical leap, yet a thoroughly probable one all the same. Indoctrinated into the law of linguistic geometry and cognitive thought, the immortals began to accept their own finite-ness; indeed, the prison of the Logos compelled them to see that only the finite could be named and labeled: the infinite, being unknowable, must be - according to the written Logos - unlivable.
We only think because we already are, Oss of Mossmoosunlund knew. The infinite is unknowable, and yet livable, for it is truth. Yet within this Dark Age a whole Empire grew out of the backwards assumption that we think, therefore we are - only that which could be explained in words or thoughts could have any reality, and within this prison, that which could not be named could not be lived. When we are stuck in our head, we crave knowledge more than life - we have the bad habit of preferring to think rather than breathe. Let us breathe without needing to understand, for within the peace of easy breathing lies the true understanding...
This is the story: Life itself precedes valuation. There was a Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, yet Adam and Eve ate from the tree of Good and Evil against the wishes of YHWH, a linguistic, geometrical symbol representing the infinite divine masculine. This was the fall of man: rather than choosing the geometry of life, man chose the geometry of law. Man chose the Word of God over the Sound of God's Word. Can you see the difference? Can you hear the difference?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. There were two trees in the Garden of Eden: The tree of Life represents the living God, and the Tree of Good and Evil represents the Word of God. Does God come from the Word, or does the Word come from God? Does Good and Evil come from Life, or does Life come from Good and Evil? Adam and Eve chose the Word, honoring the Word of God more than they honored the living God! Just like that poor fool Descartes, Adam and Eve had this thought: "we think, therefore we are!" Of course, the opposite was true: Because they were, they thought that "we think therefore we are"... No wonder they got confused; they were thinking with linguistic geometry, otherwise known as words. They chose Logos, understanding, judgment, morality, the prison of the good and evil thoughts, and as soon as they descended into the confusion about the right way to live, they could no longer focus their energy on living. Logos does not and cannot create truth - Logos reveals truth.
It was a dark time, and Oss brooded appropriately. He did it mainly for show, however, since the Dark Age was almost gone, and the world had almost run out of History. The long dissonance was over - space and time were reuniting within the breath and posture of the living truth, and the chronic of logic was finally, at long last, coming full circle to embody the Logos of Chronos - Mythos Logos. Truth is, he was ready to party...
Before Chronos, time was not numerical, but eternally present. Chronos, in giving the universe a numerical value and calling it time, invented both past and future, and in so doing separated time from space. Before there was chronological time, it all happened now, and here: with the creation of a perceived then, so was created the perception of there. All experience once transcended interpretation, yet through the geometry of mind, interpretation ultimately learned to transcend, and thus imprison, experience. Through the geometry of thought, space and time became words, numbers, digits, values, integers, geometric symbols, written language, words on a blogsite, and linguistically patterned thoughts- livable experiences no longer. Word separated from sound.
The numerical valuation of time segmented the infinite wave of the eternal now just as calculus approximates finite values on a sine wave. Yet time isn't a number, but cyclical, seasonal, mythological, embodied, experienced, and ultimately maya. Chronos, in his pursuit of the geometry of God, gave the universe a numerical value, calling it time. Do you see the chronic of logic? Without chronology - the Logos of Chronos - there would be no numerical time, and instead we would live within the eternal present. It is within the framework of numerical time that myth has become separate from history, that the Logos of the thinking mind has transcended the Logos of the feeling body. This is a relatively recent event, soon to be remedied via the galactic realignment taking place 12/21/2012, a linguistic, geometric pattern that refers to the beginning of the embodied Logos, the eternal calendar, the cosmic clock of the very long now, the beginning of Chronos' Peace.
Myth itself tells the story of the mythmakers, the storytellers, the empire builders, rulers of galaxies and descendants of the architects of the archetypes, the story of the planets inhabited, planets conquered, and planets destroyed, the story of Empire's fall and the rise of Dark Age, the story of the Seraphim, the Annunaki, the story of history and chronology and language, and thought and personality and ego, the beginning of the Fourth Age and the rise of Man. Power and conflict, confusion and dissonance, these are all part of the ancient story told within the framework of the mythological mind, which cannot be revealed using the rational logos of linguistic thought and must be revealed through symbol and archetype - we must live the experience, without taking it personally. The truth - the eternity of time and the infinity of space - can only be revealed through the irrational logos of breath and posture. Chronos weeps, confined to the dungeon of the subconscious by his own children.
Chronos' grandson, Posidon's Son, the High Knoss Oss of Mossmoosunlund understood that how our thoughts sound matters far more than what our thoughts mean. What we say never conveys the truth, but how we sound always conveys the truth. Very curious. The body, after all, is a sonic temple, a dynamically vibrating cavity that both creates and receives sound, giving and receiving, within and without, 360 degrees along three axes. The body was an oscillator, and the study of the body's oscillations was the science of sound, the science of breath and posture.
Oss was a yogi, like his father before him, and his father before him. They studied the science of the oscillating body cavity, the living, embodied, experiential geometry of sound. They wryly observed themselves as their own living geometry of sound evolved into the living geometry of speech, which in turn evolved into the abstract, disembodied, theoretical geometry of linguistics, or cognitive thought. With mind manifesting matter at velocities approaching the speed of light, the geometry of patterns within the mind was starting to matter. Or materialize, for that matter. The geometry of linguistics was the first law - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God.
The geometric laws of written language- these fixed, unbendable (and therefore destined to break) rules, gave us the linguistic geometry of writing, which of course evolved into the logical geometry of thinking, which ultimately evolved into the chronic geometry of the personality. Thus was the ego born, and thus did the Golden Age fade away, replaced by the Age of Man, the Age of Time, the Age of Machines.
Kali Yuga. Blood drinker. The Age of Death.
Imprisoned within the Logos, the cognitive geometry of our own making, immortals became finite, burdened with the probability of impossibility, which began to look a lot like the impossibility of the improbable. Because they could not satisfactorily prove to themselves how they lived, they began to die. The chose the measurable approximation of calculus over the immeasurable truth of the sine wave, they chose law over the truth - they chose the Word of God over the living Sound of God's Word. This was a thoroughly illogical leap, yet a thoroughly probable one all the same. Indoctrinated into the law of linguistic geometry and cognitive thought, the immortals began to accept their own finite-ness; indeed, the prison of the Logos compelled them to see that only the finite could be named and labeled: the infinite, being unknowable, must be - according to the written Logos - unlivable.
We only think because we already are, Oss of Mossmoosunlund knew. The infinite is unknowable, and yet livable, for it is truth. Yet within this Dark Age a whole Empire grew out of the backwards assumption that we think, therefore we are - only that which could be explained in words or thoughts could have any reality, and within this prison, that which could not be named could not be lived. When we are stuck in our head, we crave knowledge more than life - we have the bad habit of preferring to think rather than breathe. Let us breathe without needing to understand, for within the peace of easy breathing lies the true understanding...
This is the story: Life itself precedes valuation. There was a Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, yet Adam and Eve ate from the tree of Good and Evil against the wishes of YHWH, a linguistic, geometrical symbol representing the infinite divine masculine. This was the fall of man: rather than choosing the geometry of life, man chose the geometry of law. Man chose the Word of God over the Sound of God's Word. Can you see the difference? Can you hear the difference?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. There were two trees in the Garden of Eden: The tree of Life represents the living God, and the Tree of Good and Evil represents the Word of God. Does God come from the Word, or does the Word come from God? Does Good and Evil come from Life, or does Life come from Good and Evil? Adam and Eve chose the Word, honoring the Word of God more than they honored the living God! Just like that poor fool Descartes, Adam and Eve had this thought: "we think, therefore we are!" Of course, the opposite was true: Because they were, they thought that "we think therefore we are"... No wonder they got confused; they were thinking with linguistic geometry, otherwise known as words. They chose Logos, understanding, judgment, morality, the prison of the good and evil thoughts, and as soon as they descended into the confusion about the right way to live, they could no longer focus their energy on living. Logos does not and cannot create truth - Logos reveals truth.
It was a dark time, and Oss brooded appropriately. He did it mainly for show, however, since the Dark Age was almost gone, and the world had almost run out of History. The long dissonance was over - space and time were reuniting within the breath and posture of the living truth, and the chronic of logic was finally, at long last, coming full circle to embody the Logos of Chronos - Mythos Logos. Truth is, he was ready to party...
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