Questions as Transformative experience

 The best questions are the ones in which answers are not warranted nor demanded, but instead, are posed in such a way that both the speaker and listener are able to track the transformations within themselves when presented with such a question.

The most powerful questions never have their answers uttered, it shocks the system like 1000micrograms of lsd, opening up experience, rather than demanding words.

questions, stories, koans, are all means of the known traversing or pointing to the unknown. Words can only take you a part of the way, the other part opens within you, wordless, featureless.

Little Mean Meme-machines

All I see are walking meme machines,
zombified,
decentralized
mini-factories, of group-think designs,
Regurgitating their favorite's teams slogans sigils and signs.
Proud, as if it were their own creations.

When is the last time you constructed a single unique thought?
That you left the time and space open for something new to announce itself and emerge?

The Alchemical formula for collective progression

As a civilization we have emphasized competition and individuality so intensely,
that we have forgotten that our true natures are actually sharing and community.

It is time, that we take time, to collect ourselves,
to then be able to return to the world,
as a true individual.
That is what differentiates a community from a mob.
One is comprised of individuals united, the other is united by the presence of others.

Look inside,
You will find it to be true.
It isn't about seeking or finding,
It is closer to remembering.
It is innate.
Clear away the detritus of your totality,
so that you can see it clearly, with ease. 

Discernment and Separation

 

Without discernment we are lost in a chaotic sea of overwhelming complexity.

...Too much discernment, and the mind convinces itself that its categories have their own physicality, creating the illusion and feeling of separation.

When discernment is practiced, and one remains vigilant of the tendency of the mind to confuse its own discernment with separation, then and only then can one come closer to seeing things as they are, with greater beauty, with greater awe, with greater respect.

So what was once an overwhelming sea,

then surveyed and processed by discernment,

briefly living in the illusion of separation,

is then re-imaged,

multifaceted, filled with ferocity and awe,

and yet no longer overwhelms.

For it is through discernment, that the pattern, the greater form can be known.

Pain is a Portal

 Pain is a portal of transformation,
which imparts new information,
to add to the amalgamation of self.

Frostbite

 Even the flower which fails to bloom,
falls back down to earth,
back within the soil,
a chance to start anew.

Sisyphus

 The synthesisability of Sisyphus becoming happy.

On Mass Formation Psychosis

Mass formation psychosis provides a framework for understanding how in the face of a novel situation, two political parties can have drastically different strategies and solutions, even when there is not sufficient data to say one way or another. While each screams and pressures to push the other out, limiting discussion, limiting/blocking research, thereby destroying possibilities for creative synergistic thinking.

The framework does a great job explaining the rise of Trump, and how/why so many people were fooled by him. I had recently been going over the work of Victor Frankls' Man Search For Meaning (his experiences in a nazi concentration camp), as well as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's work The Gulag Archipelago (his experiences in the forced labor camps of the soviet union) and I find Dr. Mattias's framework to do a fantastic job of explaining how both the perpetrators and victims went along with the lies, even when it meant their own demise.

Dr. Mattias Desmet is the author of the framework.

Books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19024766.Mattias_Desmet

Articles: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/F94DD30A-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mattias-Desmet-2

All information and frameworks can and will be weaponized by ill-intended social actors. Discard the noise, find the signal.

You are going to hear a lot of people from all backgrounds and motives bastardizing Mattias's work to suit their own needs and agendas, and so I would like to try to provide an objective exploration and layout of the framework.

Mass Formation Psychosis is distinct from Mass Hypnosis by means of the mechanics and implications at play. In other words, although the effects of each may observably be similar, that which causes and fuels them are distinct. So too are their results.

Mass Formation Psychosis required 4 factors:

1) large numbers of individuals who feel isolated and lacking in social meaning/engagement.

2) An excess of free floating anxiety in the community at large. Free floating anxiety can be understood as a general feeling of uneasiness, without any particular object or situation with which those feelings are tied to.

3) large numbers of individuals who are unable to make sense of, understand, or come to general consensus about the world.

4) A lack of meaning, or an excess of free floating Psychological Discontent.

According to the framework, once 30% of the population meets all four criteria they are 'primed'. Once they are in their "primed" state, if an object of great anxiety appears in the environment, either naturally or by media influence (or both), then all of that free floating anxiety, uncertainty, and unrest ties itself to the object of anxiety.

The implications of this projection leads individuals to narrow their attention so much so that they lose touch with reality.

Video of Mattias giving a brief overview of the framework:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIDh5KrLBo

Mattias's work is based upon the work of Gustav Le Bon, you can find a pdf of "The Crowd" here: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/125518/1414_LeBon.pdf

There comes a point, where you must discard the maps...

 The Greeks Proclaimed
"Mother Earth!"
"Father Sky!"

How many belief systems have been built upon these lies?

"The Sun, the father!"
"The Moon, the mother!"

Again, they seemed to get things all mixed together.

I have seen the Maiden of space.
Not from space,
OF space.

I have seen her,
Weaving her webs connecting the lights of space,
to the tops of twilight trees,
While SHE, was draped in her darkened veil of perfected velvet eternity.

Meanwhile the Earth,
truly, the Father of all,
both praises and punishes,
builds and destroys,
provides and foresakes,
yet somehow,
always pushing us,
to ever-greater heights.
In all HIS movements,
from great to small,
HE is always, completely still within.

..And then as night fades,
and the Sun rises again,
SHE replaces her sister of night.

In her stillness, she is always dancing,
always providing,
even when we are unable to perceive.
Layers and layers of magnificent dance,
Luscious light,
Pregnant with all possibility,
Abundant with life giving energy.
Bursts and Blooms,
Remember what happens at the speed of light.

The sacred masculine is always still, despite appearances of movement,
The divine feminine is always dancing, despite appearances of stillness.

She is always speaking, even in her silence.
He is always silent, even in his speaking.

Contemplate these things,
and discard them, just like all the other maps!
For this is only a draft of my own,
and the territory before me,
may not be before thee.

You must take your eyes and mind away from all the maps,
and place them once more upon the territory you find yourself.

There is a truth,
there,
just for you.

When you can remain aware
of what is both
inside and outside
of you.

Ancestors Dissolving False Dualities: Nestled in Language, The Dance of Eternity

 My understanding of the ancestors has only been enhanced by science.
To have evidence that within each person, lay an echo,
a mark upon the genetic chain,
which demarcates entirely different sets of species,
and yet, they are somehow still alive in me.
All the way back,
down past the eukaryotic line,
so far back in time,
and yet those patterns are still here,
within me.

Just as each of us are born unique,
a tendency toward,
mind, emotion, or physique,
so too,
different areas of weight and emphasis,
along our genetic ancestry.

Connect more deeply with your natural preferences and affinities.
Which animals resonate with you,
there are lessons in everything.

Persona

Awaken,
Arise,
Open your eyes.

'tis a strange thing,
to feel so clearly,
that in all authenticity,
one is but a mask,
of the collective mind.

How is it that I honor this collective,
while not heeding to the madness of the other masks?

Awaken,
Arise,
Cast off your disguise,

It is simple.
Many have forgotten themselves,
they have become so absorbed with the mask,
engulfed by appearances,
that they believe the purpose and limit of their very being,
relies upon the pristine presentation of their persona.

Awaken,
Arise,
Immolate your lies.

They can no longer hear the voice of wisdom within.
For many, that voice is screaming,
and until the voice is heeded,
the intelligence of the greater collective consciousness will continue to disrupt the dreams of the sleeping.

Awaken,
Arise,
It is time to fly.