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28 May 2012

The Rage of the Soul


Those times, when the rage comes around,
so great, it's near impossible to control,
don't let the despair overcome you; know
it's the god within your soul;

It's the force of creation awakening
there, trapped in the shell of the human --
it's the sustaining spirit in
despair, for the bondage it suffers,
the blindness of flesh,
the myth of happy-ever-after,
the rope of time,
the windowless buildings
of society's rights
and wrongs.


Like all caged beasts, it is prone to rebellion.
Ride the wave of its energy, channel
it through the inlets and byways
of art and society.  Put it to use,
so it doesn't use you, and it will
be 
the beauty that you leave
on the face of the earth.


 (also from extremeinstability -- a fascinating website!)


08 February 2012

excerpt one: "The Sole Origin is Sound" by Hazrat Inayat Khan




"The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived,
and into which all again merges in time,
is a silent, motionless, and eternal life . . . .
Ever motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations.
As motion causes motion, so the silent life becomes active in a certain part
and creates every moment more and more activity,
losing thereby the peace of the original silent life.
It is the grade of activity of these vibrations that accounts for the various planes of existence.
These planes are imagined to differ from one another,
but in reality they cannot be entirely detached and made separate from one another.
The activity of vibrations makes them grosser,
and thus the earth is born of the heavens. . . . "

(from: The Music of Life by Inayat Khan)


02 February 2012



We create . . . we destroy. . . . we
create we . . . . destroy we. . . . . .
. . .recreate. . . . . to . . . . . . . . . .re
destroy to . . . . . . . . . . . .  recreate
to destroy . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . we re 
create to . . . . . .  . . . . . .destroy we
recreate to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  de
cimate to . . . . . . . . . . . .recreate . . .
we de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .cimate to
evolve






16 January 2012

Fluidity


When creators
                               begin
                                                   exploring
                                                                            how the most expressive medium


is fluidity itself,




                                       then


we are truly entering a time (non/time)

                                     when the mediums of human creation and godly creation

merge






"And the earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was upon
the  face of the deep.  And
the Spirit of God 
moved upon
the face of the waters."
(Genesis: 1:2)

22 May 2011

Two Parts (a channelling)

(well, about a week ago,
or less,
Makropoulos said she was done
with channelling,
and crazy convoluted entries.
Well, she lied.)
( noaa )

The sun and the material world (earth, moon, etc.)
are two parts of a whole
                  a hole whole
two parts have we
                       a yes and a no
two parts, equally:

the burning and the devouring,

the exploding and the imploding

the male and the female

are two parts of a whole,
                    a hole whole.
like
The sun and the material world.
The sun that we see
is the shimmering burning edges
of immortality;

it is the tearing tearing exit from
the void 
out of which we were produced;
the sun is the last thing
we saw when we
aborted, when we were propelled forth
from the womb of the
eternal,
when the 

whole
produced a hole
in which we were born --
we, being the substantial essence
of the whole that is both nothing
and all.

The sun and the material world
(earth, moon, etc.)
are two parts of a whole
a hole whole,
two parts have we
a yes and a no:

two parts, equally.

08 May 2011

Channelling: When Divided Time Meets No Time

(Preface: I don't know where this message came from.  If you can get through it,
and understand it, well,
I'll give you a piece of chocolate)

weber.edu

You see, in the New Age,
we will have to recognize and accept,
and forgive
the fact we are not one and never will be one --
we are parts, equal parts of a Whole, for sure,
but not One,

for God is the One.

It's impossible for us
to be one,
because we are all separate yet equal,
                                   different
parts of the whole that The One
produced
for the sole intent 
of being able to see                           
itself    . .  .  . . 

you see
this is what 2012 is:
it is                    
the year of the palindrome:

it is the year when

the Divided Self perceives the United Self, wholly, finally.
And Vise Versa.


As I said last week, how long can it take
for the Singular God (aka: the United Self)  to perceive 
its own Creation (aka: the Divided Self)
in all its parts?

Well, if you're on God's side 
of the mirror,
it takes an
unmeasurable instant
for the One to perceive 
its mirror image,
in all its disparate,
hopefully beautiful
parts.

But that instant
in Timeless Time
is an eternity on our side of the mirror --


So anyway,
in the year of the palindrome,
God  (which is the linguistic placeholder
in our language used
to represent The Nothing Out of Which We All Came)
will have formed a conclusion
on what s/he thinks about the state
of her/his creation. 
                             (I hope you can follow what I'm saying)
I'm saying that by
12212012, D.T. (Divided, human time)
we, dear humans, will reach
the juncture at which 
the amount of time it takes the Creator to perceive It's Creation
intersects
with the numerical system we use to count the time.

That juncture, by the way,
can be best represented like this:


and that symbol,
dear friends,
is as much representational
as it is abstract.

Abstractly,
it is a number to indicate
no number:
the double zero,
so
to
speak.  And it is also representational 
(graphic):
it performs on the page
the intersection we
are about to experience.



The best way to describe it is an eclipse.

Now, we know about
Lunar Eclipses


which occur when we, the earth that guides the moon
on its whirling, twirling path
stand directly in the way
of the moon's view of the sun.

It's an alignment that occurs because of a series of revolves
within revolves.


And then there are Solar Eclipses:


nationalgeographic


. and then there's something else,
that many people have speculated about:


infinitelymystical

 The eclipse we will encounter in a year or two
is much greater than the others,
it is the eclipse of one celestial habitation
as it comes in direct
alginment
with the larger force that it encircles,
and that keeps the celestial habitation
in motion,
just like the earth keeps the moon
in motion.

If you can foollow this,
then perhaps you'll be able to see
what I'm trying to say:

at this fabulous intersection,
all of creation (all of which exists
within the realm of Divided Time)
will be eclipsed by the force
that we call god,
and we
here on earth
will be in a position
where we will be gazing in
to God's eye,
as if gazing lengthwise along through the expanse
of the palindrome
of infinity.



And as with any eclipse
of the small
with the larger,
the smaller (we) will be able to see
the outline of the larger
around the the edges of the celestial bodies
between us.


~ ~ ~

The thing is:

the Unknown and Unknowable contains
the very force that produced
US,
and, well, we're about to have a good look at each other.

~ ~ ~ ~

And since we are, in essence,
a product of It, well,
the Unknown, the Unknowable, the Vast Emptyness
That is Everything Other Than Us
(let's just call that God, for the lack
of a better word),
so when God encounters us,
it will look upon us a bit
like a father looks at a son.  And if
S/He is not pleased
with what it sees,
well,
we may be screwed.

We are, after all,
just a product of division.

Yes.

For the One to Produce Many,
it must Divide.

Because one
cannot produce another one,
and remain the Only One.  No;
at that point when One becomes Two
it inevitably also become Three and Four and
on to Eternity

which is
12212012
or thereabouts.

Now,
the actual period of time
in our time
which summarizes
and translates the amount of time
that it takes NoTime to react to its perception of
All Time
is approxiamately four days,
give or take an hour or two,
and that four day juncture
that includes 12212012
will be kind of rough,
because for a brief
period of time,
when No Time meets All Time
we'll be in a state of,
well,
Frozen Time,
and there won't be much
we'll be able to do  about it,
except wait,
and it will seem like an eternity,
but it will really only be
four days,
give or take a minute or two,
and when
the big that after The Four Days occurs,
well,
we'll know the outcome
of the encounter of the All and Its Reproduction (aka US),
and those of us who survive
the intense interrogation
of Self against Self,

 will be in a time beyond eternity,
and in that time,
we'll finally realize
how insignificant
                   significance
really is.


20 January 2011

contemplating the universe with Carl Sagan:


a contemplation:


there isn't too much else to say about that, except
for what I've said before
about reproduction,
representation,
creation
and the palindrome --


more to come soon!











10 December 2010

12/10/2010: Channelling from 12/2/2010

please note:
I originally received this
on December 2,
or 3rd,
but didn't have time to post it.

So here goes:
hold onto your hats.
This one's a wild one:

1.
NPR just explained,
very neatly
how language evolves.

Think of this word,
and pronounce it to
yourself:

QATAR.

Can you say it?

Here is how our beloved
Wikipedia
tells us to pronounce it:

/ˈkɑːtɑr/  or kə-TAR

 But the truth of the matter is:
we're saying it wrong.
Because no one who
only speaks English
can say this word
properly;
instead
they say it like
"guitar."
        That's
what the Announcer on NPR said:
"when they told us
how to say it, they said
'say simply:


guitar.'"

So that's how anyone who spoke
both English and Arabic told people
to say
QATER.


In other words:
"guitar"
is what some old stinky English dude
whose parents had the cash
to put him through years of Arabic lessons
thought he heard
when he heard the word:
"Qatar."

Well, anyone who really
looks at that word
can see:
you don't say it like "guitar."
You say
Katar.


How do you say "Qatar"? from Northwestern News on Vimeo.

2.
Now, this
is where this all gets
kind of strange:

The problem with guitar,
is that it's based on a representation
of a sound,
but the sound
is only
a representation
of a code.

The written word is the first representation
that we ever had
of what
Originally occured

because

the written word
is like a camera;
it is the apparatus through which
we see
the first utterance
ever made

which was a sound.

The first utterance
which was also
the first representation
was a sound,
the sound
came through our being,
this tiny shell
of our being, our bodies --
the sound came --

This is really strange:
as you read this, think
in a line like this:

 So,
the first representation
produced by the Creative Being
when it sought to produce
Something Other Than Itself
was a sound,
a sound,
that,
in order to be heard
had to move
through an apparatus.

And that apparatus
aka: the material world
was produced as a
byproduct of
the first action of
production ==the reproduction
of the immaterial, and
that first reproduction
of the material world
went like this:


details right 'chere
below:

I know this sounds
absolutely insane,
but try to imagine a scenario
in which
there was nothing,
and nothing sought to produce
something;
but in order to be able to
produce something,
nothing
needed an apparatus of communication
aka: the material world.

The impetus of that
initial production
went
this way:

The physical
world,
then,
is like a
pair of glasses
through which
we perceive
the initial production,
which is
sound.

So,
likewise,
that which has been produced
(aka: the represented)
has to use the Material World

 ( Moore'sLore )

to present itself back
to the force that produced it,
in the first place,
so that force
might see
itself;
yes the represented
has to project back through
the apparatus
an impression of
what the perfect 
looks like
so the perfect can see it.

Try To Think Like This:


This is an image of
the represented
in its quest to show
the unrepresented
what it
sought to see.)

* ! *

Notably, there's a problem
if the apparatus
(read: The Material World,
aka: Life, the Earth, the Universe & Everything)
is new.
A new apparatus doesn't
understand how to represent
the represented,
because the represented
is so abstract.

Generally, in the case of new apparati,
when asked to represent the initially represented,
it gets all hung up on
the representation
of itself (ie: the Material World)
that is all
it can talk about,
when in fact
the realm of the unrepresented
wants to learn more:
wants to learn all
that is conceivable.

It is the job
of the representable
 to give it to them:
the representable has to render
into the language of the
unrepresented
exactly what it sees.
That's right:
exactly what it sees.

  
But the problem is:
the first thing we saw
occurred exactly at
the same time
as 
the first sound we heard,
and notably 
the first representation
was not
of a visible;
rahter;
it was of
an audible.




The visible came second
because we needed
the visible
to see
the representation we produced
so
the first representation
was a representation
of the audible:


But actually,
we hadn't conceived of any
of those symbols
at the beginning;
the best we could do
was

:


or something like this:
or this:


That was the first
representation
by
the apparatus through which
the represented needed
to travel
in order to communicate what it perceived
back to its origin.

That, only that,
the fragile
written word, or
the subtle, sung
note,
or the trembling, absolute
scream,
or
the drawing or
the painting or
the photograph

all serve to show us
every absolute dimension
of both the created,
material world,
(and its creator),
but
this is where it gets hard:
it has to be heard,
because the first representation
was the word.


There was only one word,
only one language
for a long time:

the real problem for us today
occurred at the moment
of Babel --
when the world broke in half,
and new words and pronunciations
happened,
the further away we got
from the soure,
and we reached a point where we
couldn't understand each other, anymore.

For awhile, we (our different nations) were
adrift,
alone,
talking only
to each other
and pronunciations changed
so radically
over time
that when one of us
on this side of the word
met those of another place,
and heard them say:
"I'm from Qatar"
we wrote down,
the best we could
what we thought we heard,
and told others to just
pronounce it
"guitar."

But
Qatar
is pronounced



and
M - I - S - S - I - P - P - I
is pronounced




That's just all there is to it.

In the realm of all that is represented,
the written word
comes first,
representing
the sound
of 
Knowledge.
And Knowledge
is the embodiment
of the ineffible.

So, repeat
after me:

Q - A - T - A - R,

or, 

better yet,

K'Tur.

04 December 2010

12/4/2010: Channelling from 11/21/2010

Oh,
sometimes
I imagine my entries
are aggravating,
as I sit and write
the visions I have
as my energies channel through me.
For instance:
the following, 
which I actually wrote on 11/21/2010,
but I thought it was way out there,
and then I went to write again
last night
and liked what I wrote
but realized
I have to post this one first,
because,
(if you dare believe I'm receiving 
some special insights as I channel,
and if you dare believe
I'm 425 years old)
it appears 
the messages are coming
in some kind of order.
And so it begins:

Oh, sometimes
I imagine my entries
are aggravating, as I sit here
channelling my energies;
sometimes they're just
channeling, and there's
nothing coming through.
Just pure energy.
It pulls sideways on my
                       body,
the energy I channel,
like one of those long heavenly beams of sunlight,

(fatjohnnysfrontporch  - scrumptuous blog!)

That's kind of what the channel
I'm connected to looks
like.
We're all connected to channels,
wide open impulses
from our source; they
tell us how to move,
how to act;
they are like rainbows;
mine is shaped like this:

They generally say good things,
but sometimes a spot of blue,
or that which we interpret as blue,
passes our spectrum, and
our spectrum dulls,
and so too
does our spirit.

The beam pulls down;
it pulls, in my case,
from the upper right,
and down my side,
              and sometimes,
                                   it seems to be pulling me up,
pulling me toward it.



What I'm feeling when that happens
is the compulsion
that pulls us from life until death;
it shoots us
      out,
and we
and we
and we
                        start trying to get back,
but it says
             NO,
you can't come back yet,
you're not perfect yet.
You can't come back until
you feel you're perfect,
can't come back until
you perform at your very
highest level,
in the skill in which
you're required to perform.

You can come back when you're perfect.

It just so happens that
this particular draw
is getting harder right now for everyone,
                        saying:
I demand you
I require you
to be good -----
             if you cannot be good,
well, either you're going
         to carry on
       here on earth
in pretty grim conditions,
or not at all.


So learn to live on this earth properly,
in collaboration with her,
if you intend to stay on her.


That is the word I receive right now ---
profoundly and clearly:

Learn to live on this earth,
with these intended earthmates
properly
if you intend to stay here.

If you're fighting; if you're
arguing; if you're
not talking; if you're
raping; if you're lying; if
you're stealing;
if you're doing any such thing,
this is the time
to stop.
I tell you right now:
this is the time to stop.



The consequences of stopping:
an effortless transport to the
next realm of humanity.  And you don't
have to do anything more
than be fucking good.
You don't have to put
a dove in your front yard,
or a bumper sticker on your car;
you don't have to vote democrat or republican,
labor or conservative,
you don't even have to blog;
you don't have to picket;
no
you just have to be good,
and absolutely honest
with yourself and the rest of the world.

You don't have to wear
tennis shoes and drink
Kool Aid,
just keep being good;
the transport is
prepared, just
 keepbeinggood

be the best you can be,

and your journey to the next level will be easy,
more or less,
like Space Travel.



However,
however,
if we're being awful
at the end of time,
we'll feel it like a searing
hot --
poker isn't a strong enough word --
but it'll hurt like hell.

For those of us who
haven't been good at all,
the searing hot pain will last
 a very long time,
but
if we're lucky
we'll come out the other
end of it
kind of unscathed.
Kind of.

We're going to look like
shit
but there we'll be,
embodied,
yet again.

If the earth survives
the end of this cycle of time as we know it,
we'll live on earth.
                               If
the earth survives
at all.

That's really up to us.  The earth
is our only vessel.
There may be other vessles
like ours
with other creatures
on them,
all waiting
to return to
our shared source
and all doing it
in their own special way.


~ ~ ~



Now, there is another concept
I've talked about before:
the idea that we are all already occupying
avatars
right now.
Each avatar is designed to protect
and preserve
the aspect of the eternal
it is its duty to house.
Humans are, by nature,
beings of spirit;
the spirit
is one of our essences.
We enter the physical plane
in a most peculiar way, through
these lovely
extraordinary
physical beings;
we're all really sort of like
plants
on our earth's core,
feeding
off of her.  If we
feed her well in return, she will live,
maybe
could live
forever--


That was the magic
of the Garden of Eden:
Adam, Eve and the Gang
all knew that they were
just part of
the organization;
they were
the intellectual part
of the organism,
but they knew
their place
and their duty, and
they kept to it,
and
did it.


Since one of their essences
was/is
knowledge,
and part of knowledge
was/is
confidence,
this particular group of avatars
- Adam, Eve & the Gang -
had a tendency to occasionally decide
they were the only extra-special avatar,
and when humans decided
we were the only ones,
we ushered in the reign
of the material world.


As long as humans believed
that the material world
was made FOR them,
to SERVE them,
and
as long as humans believed
they were the greatest
creature on the earth,
well
the material has reigned,
and humans
have reveled in it,
like a pig in shit.


(atomblog)



Anyway, so we live
in the Material World
as we feel we possess it,
and as long as we feel
we possess it,
we will continue to live
in time
(and we'll continue to experience
the cycle
of birth, life and death)


However, the second
we realize
we are required to live
in harmony and cooperation
with every other sentient being
on this planet,
when we accept the fact
we're not the only ones,
and instead,
we're all in this together
(and when I say
we,
I mean:
humans,
animals,
plants,
fish,
rocks,
rivers,
sand,
sun,
sky,
fire,
planets,
etc.)
well,
when we realize we're all meant to work
together
equally,
we'll move out of the realm of the
United States of Materiality
and into a true
America.


19 November 2010

Whole (an edited channelling)

1.


I had a dream
several months ago;
in it,
I was singing
with a multitude of people.

It was the end of time,
and we knew it.


Everyone was walking down streets
long and dark, like an alley,
a huge bowling alley;
so many people, 
so many voices.


And then a group broke off,
male and female, and I
was among them,
and we were singing
to a beautiful musical phrase:
we had no children
over and over again.
we had no children
we had no children
we had no children.
And we were exquisite;
every voice around me
was full and realized,
and every voice was
content with where it sat
in the face
of the singer,
and the singers each
were content
with their faces
that contained
their voices.

It was a joy to sing with them,
and I realized
most of my companions
were gay
or were single and childless,
like me,
and I was happy to be singing
with the choir of the childless
because
we each understood
the sources of our pain and
our voices sounded so good
together,
so we sang, as we marched 
down our narrow street;
we sang
we had no children
we had no children
we had no children
into the depth
of the endless
night.


2.


Some people wonder
why it seems
we have so many gay people
around,
so many
who have not reproduced.

?

Those who reproduce
are those
who are still evolving,
who do not yet recognize
the element of the opposite sex
we each contain,
or perhaps
they haven't developed 
their other halves
so well;
they're still predominantly 
just half.

either
male
or
female

(remember:
god broke in half
in order to be able to see
himherself,
but when they broke in 1/2
he actually had to double
themselves
because
god
was whole
and in order for whole
to see whole
it has to see
half & half

because
if whole
tries to see another whole
well,
it would just continuously
be disappearing
into the 
hole in the middle of whole
that appears
when whole tries
to double itself
; ; ; ;
so whole reproduces itself
by creating
two halves
to represent
the halves
that constitute the whole.

I've said this before.

We -- every part of creation --
are representatives
and representations
of the different aspects
of the whole;
and within each of our species
we continually represent the doubling of the
whole, of the 
entity
that is god.

just think of what happens in nature:
the halves
seperate,
but then become wholes
by doubling --

a continual repetition,
a continual reproduction,
of the act of reproduction
that the creative force
we choose to call God
initiated
when it felt the compulsion
to reproduce
itself.


As the 1/2s evolve,
the aspects in us that
are the essential aspects
of a whole god
emerge, 
and we begin containing
a little bit of each half
of the whole:

Thus, more and more
we are prone to see
people who contain
this doubleness,
and
those of us
who have been evolving
for awhile
from age to age
now occupy
avatars
that indicate
our wholeness

--

we contain a duality

--

a man in a female body;
a female in a male body,
and sometimes
we are attracted to another
just like us.

What else can I say?

I don't know for sure
why
a message like this is emerging;
it just is--
and I'm writing it.

(Actually, I'm editing it, too, 
because the original channelling
was quite a challenge.
But the message
was clear.)


Anyway,
so I'm singing with all these
gorgeous-voiced people
many gay,
many lesbian,
some like me,
all of us who
never reproduced,
not in this lifetime, at least;
we never really needed to reproduce
though we may have wanted to,
because,
some of us,
like me
contained a weeping memory
of reproduction
deep in our wombs.

We are the ones whose
spirits have evolved
to a point
maybe 
shy of wholeness.

And so we contain two in one.



For some of us,
on first sight,
we're way shy of normal,
but the more you get to know us
you see
we're not that bad,
and we're even appealling,
even
beautiful,
and we sure can sing.
And don't forget:
we can't help it==
we were born into these
avatars
that mark the stage we're at
in our spiritual development;
they are
bifacial,
biracial,
bisexual,
bicameral,
and we need them
to learn the lesson
we're here to learn
this time around,
and to help humankind
move
to the next stage it is meant
to arrive at.
soon.

07 November 2010

Duet: Czeslaw Milosz & Hazrat Inayat Khan (I do believe both are tenors)


Dependence belongs to matter
and independence to spirit.
The independent spirit becomes dependent through manifestation.
When the One becomes many, then each part of the One,
being limited, strives to be helped
by the other part,
for each part finds itself
imperfect.

Therefore we human beings,
however rich
with the treasures of heaven and earth,
are poor in reality because
of our dependence upon others. 
The spiritual view makes one conscious
of this fact, but the material view
blinds man, who then show independence
and indifference to his fellow man.

Pride, conceit and vanity
are the outcome of this ignorance.

There are moments when even the king has to depend
upon a most insignificant person.

. . . . .

As individuals depend upon other individuals,
so nations and races depend upon
one another.  
No individual can say that he can geet on without anyone else,
and no nation can be really happy
while another nation is unhappy.

But both individuals and communities depend most
upon God, in whom we all unite.

(Hazrat Inayat Kahn The Unity of Religious Ideals)


05 November 2010

a pinch of the imperfect (an imperfect channelling)

*


"If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad. The insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldn't lie in the transcendent goodness of that mind—one so sublime, we fold it into a larger "soul." The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant."  (Jeffrey Kugler, "What Makes Us Moral?" Time Magazine 3 March 2007)

This is a difficult concept to grasp,
that we are two in one,
we, the human occupying the human 
body
are two in one --
we each contain the 
ability
to be good
to be bad
all at the same time,
we 
all
are 
two, and the two we contain
are the imitation 
of the part of God
that became manifest
as the moment of the splitting,
the splitting being
the physical act God
had to produce
             in order
to be able to reproduce
Himself.

God had to split
in half, into
the negative and the positive,
in order to see:
                 the positive
                       is what She saw,
the glorious, succulent
material present


that is what God saw:
the visual, the 
aural, the
tactile,
the
sensual, the
aromatic,
all that IS
is what God saw:

all that IS
is good is bad
is what God saw






So . . . . .  .
 
if God saw the all that he created,
and it was good,
what in heaven's name was doing the seeing?
WHAT saw it all,
and WHAT was glad?
 
What did the seeing was always that
which could not be seen,
the negative,
the negative -
the negative !
the other side of the 
dichotomy,
in Derridean terms:

MALE                     FEMALE
positive                  negative
light                    dark
day                       night
spoken                           silent
visible                        invisible
 
 We live in the realm of the visible,
of the male,
but it was our opposite -
that was there
but not there
to view the creation
and to be amazed by it.



Ever since the onset of the Renaissance
(when Makropoulos was 
born,
by the way)
that glorious time
when the mind had evolved to a more mature
level of being able to reproduce
itself,
ever since then, 
the trend 
has been to focus
on the male:
the physical manifestion
that god produced in order to be able
to see Herself --
and hey
wouldn't you want to fixate
on that for awhile?
wouldn't you want to fixate on that
fabulous something
that you created
in order to see
yourself?
Imagine it:
here you are, 
you are invisible and
undivisable,
and you just created
something visibly 
you,
you gave yourself 
the opportunity to see
yourself
in the mirror
wouldn't you want
to look at it
for a thousand years
or so?

Wouldn't you want to see it,
just turn it over and over
in your hands
and adore it?



It would be
your perfect opposite,
your mythic soulmate:
there you'd be
and you would be so amazed
at the beauty of it,
you would gaze into it,
get lost in it.

(Mirrors have been the replacement for
the absence of the Others;
they've been here to keep us
company, and to let us know
what we look like, so
when we see our other halves,
we'll recognize them.)

So that was the moment
of splitting,
the moment
of making visible
ourselves,

that was it - the first act that all 
creation has been doomed
ever since
to repeat and represent.

Every physical entity on earth
contains within it an imitation
of that moment of splitting
 
The sperm (the physical
projectile born
of the desire to
see and be with the 
Other
                (so completely),
yes the sperm is
the physical imitation of the desire
to enter into
the engulfing presence
of the engenderer.

(if you can figure that one out,
you get a gold star---)
 
* * *
 
because the Other to the physical creation
is so Beautiful
that the physical creation
wants, immediately
to penetrate and become
part of it again.

Something like that.
)




Every physical entity on earth
contains within it an imitation
of that moment of splitting

Indeed, that includes
the human,
the creature doomed
to strut and fret
our time upon this stage,

we, our body-avatars,
and the trinity 
of liquidity
we each contain
are all the imitation
of what god produced and saw
at that moment of dividing
in half,
              but the problem,
              as Isaac Luria helps us see,
was that the creation
of the duplication
of God produced
such a force
[the power of God]
made manifest
         at the moment
              of this production,
there was such an explosion,

( baylor )

like fireworks,

 That
 
is the manifestation
of the power
of 

GOD
 
 
 
I'm serious.




 . . . . and at the moment of the bang,
everything
became visible
physical,
ie:
it was created.

(It's that simple!)
 
 
 So, anyway,
at that mment of explosion and 
production,

the negative,              the positive
the unseen,                     the seen,
the unheard                        the heard
the unfelt,                 the felt
came to be.

it's that simple, 
those concepts
and all they signify
came to be
be 
cause
of creation
and the creative urge.


So we live in the physical realm, because that's the
half of God we
occupy,
but 
that doesn't preclude
the existence of the
non existent.

It's just there,

and all that it (the non-existent) contains
is the negative
of the totality
that is the manifest
in
the physical.
(That's a hard concept to grasp
when you live in the physical.)

But as I said,
the problem
                        and the beauty
                 of it all
is that each of us
contains
an imitation
of that doubling
to one extent or the other.


So Luria helps me say: god created
the imitation of
god, male and female
so they could see
themselves,
but the energy produced at that 
moment
was too great
for the illusion,
the representation
to remain while,
so it exploded and shattered
into pieces
and the pieces 
got the unenviable job
of picking up the pieces
and having to put them back
together 
again.


And that's what we've been doing
for millenia,
and god
in Her distant place, delighted
at the delightful games
of Her children BUT
got disturbed if the Boys
got too rough


*

please think semiotically

*

ANYWAY,
all species also imitate
the duality and the moment
of creation
and the Desire
to Reproduce,
over and over because
that desire
and compulsion
has maintained
our existence

giving us
time
to evolve
our minds,
our souls,
our spirits
our goods and our evils,
all the intangible
invisible
entities that
the frail human body
was appointed
to contain and sustain in
the delicate cases
we encase:
our brains,
our hearts,
our solar plexus,
our stomachs, which provide
the protective shield for containing
the unprotectable.


Our fingers,
our ears,
our eyes 
represent
the fingers,
ears,
eyes
of God
 made manifest
at the moment when We
confronted
our eact opposites, 
those which contains
our good and our bad,
we,
who contain
God's essences
     imitate
that moment of looking, too,
which also includes the moment
of being disappointed
because our Other
our Creation
isn't perfect,
wasn't perfect,
won't be perfect,
won't be Us
completely
because if God's
Other Half
was perfect,
God wouldn't be able to see it,
because He would be it.
 
that's right :

we wouldn't have to divide ourselves
in an attempt to see
ourselves
if we didn't contain 
a pinch

of the imperfect.


Oh, now you,
dear reader who dared
to make it this far,
you wonder:
where the hell is this going?

As I sit and read this,
I know what it says.
It says:
I even I
with my changeable moods,
my unchartable soul,
my angry temper
my fits of elation
and tearful, lonely evenings
I contain 
an imitation
of God at the moemnt
tHEy
(male and female)
let the pinch of imperfection
influence itself and deicde
to divide 
so it could see itself


I imitate that moment
of god's self-consciousness,
and imitate
the entity he saw,
the entity that was 
too great
to be whole,
so it exploded
and became 
the scattered remnants
of the visible
             reproduction of God--

and the shattering, glimmering parts of the fractured god 
regrouped
 - so to speak -
and became
planets and stars
and plants and animals
all 
species,
all with our different task,
as we have worked together over the ages,
striving to reproduce the whole,

and humans had the job
of building the connections ,
and over time we have evolved
and we have reached
a
near perfect
connection


I can sit in my living room and see and talk to 
in real time
a friend of mine
in Singapore.

We're so close to being the complete unity
we're supposed to be
but we have 
one problem:
 
we each still feel we're different from each other.



We are at a cusp.


We each have to recognize
that in our individual selves
though we reproduce both parts of god,
still,
within our individual selves
we can really only contain 
half,
and somewhere there
is the Other 
half of us
with whom,
when we're together
we produce a melting
into One, just One
 
 
this applies equally to 
individuals,
families,
states,
nations,
worlds. . . .

*

And you see we each
have to recognize
and admit
that in containing 
the parts of god, we must
also contain god's opposite,
which is 
evil
because evil is something 
God created, 
so we would all know good.

God is all,
and so are we,
but we
just happen to be
fractured all,
the physical part of God
that God produced
when God felt the desire
to see
the self.


Do we want to See God
in our time?
Well, you know,
the only way we can do that
is to act like the gods
we were born to be,
which means
we need to recognize
that the man and the woman
the most opposite
of ourselves
is one essential piece
in the visible puzzle
of the perfect picture
of the product of god.

We need
to forgive ourselves
our faults
and forgive our
brothers their faults
and forgive the Others:
the dark,
the female,
the strange,
the silent,
as they must do
unto us.

It's that flippin' easy.

Jesus said it too,

but he was rendered a sound bite.

Still,
his message 
never changed.


The most essential part
of this simple task is
that we must be honest
with ourselves
first,
and see our flaws,
and once we honestly
acknowledge
the wrong we ourselves
have committed or contemplated,
we can also look past
what we view
as the wrongs in others.

I'm not saying we should get rid 
of our negative impulses.

We can't.

But we should acknowledge
them,
live with them,
find 
an arena in which we can
act on them 
so no one gets hurt
and get on with the task
of saving our earth,

that is,
if we do indeed enjoy this joy ride we've been on
enough
to want to see it survive beyond
the next step
in our evolution.