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"You are here. Your mind is in the middle, and the reality is portrayed to the walls around you. The time flows upwards and the other nodes are other minds, who each live in the same world as you. We are separated by the things that make us different. We might be at an odd angle to each other, but when the same space is shared or when the differences of thinking have melted away we can share the same existence. There are no distances, and the constraints of time and space are illusions.
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The Sharpening Curve
no context, no subtext, no pretext. just the wave. cresting...
...cascading overhead, from behind and beneath...
Freespace
...where everything happens all at once. like TV snow, television static. from every channel altogether. when there is one channel of all channels, the walls become forgotten as they drift back into antiquity as quaint artifacts. all boundaries, separations, insulations, distances fade, yield nothing but soft chuckles, looking low, slow, sadly insipid, but happening still just not here, or seemingly elsewhere, not 'here', where all is rather, um, uncorked...
completely. ...what's *usual* seems *natural*...
once we realize the boundaries of the statebounded consensual convention of conventional reality limit us, dispossessed, what escapes that, remains such we are left to? our aesthetic patterns, elegance of thought... we are condemned to live out the consequence of our tastes, the run code of our language, our grace -and that which we receive, and then our continuation henceforth of our self-astonishing dreams...
Art becomes an obligation.
art? receptivity. the acts of thinking beside our consciousness by viewing, listening, experiencing it. ...then acting accordingly with love, grace, and the absolute cessation of consent...
Perelandra wrote:...and there's a bumper sticker that says, "Get a taste of religion, lick a witch". Too bad I didn't have my camera.
Fat Freddy's Cat is a fictional orange tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. He first appeared in 1969 in underground newspapers as a character in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip, and later had his own small topper strip, in imitation of the early Krazy Kat strips below The Family Upstairs by George Herriman. Many of these strips have been collected in comic book form, in Rip Off Comix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Comics and Stories (one shot, 1983), and The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat, which ran for four small size issues in the 1970s which were reprinted and expanded (starting over from #1) in six comic book size issues in the 1980s. This title included new longer stories about the Cat. A seventh edition was released (in the US only) in 1993. After the demise of the underground newspaper, the Cat continued to appear in various comic books. His last appearance to date was in a 1990 strip reprinted in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #12.
The Cat is much smarter than Freddy, and is a sort of hippie Garfield (whom he predates). He tends to regard the Freak Brothers with amused contempt.
While the Cat is usually featured in a small strip below a Freak Brothers strip, he has had independent appearances and storylines of his own. Like Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, he has a fertile imagination, and one of his storylines featured him playing the role of "F. Frederick Skitty", an undercover agent sworn to stop the distribution of "Tee Hee Hee", a drug that turned people into homosexuals. In another story, one of Fat Freddy's schemes involved trying to replicate Dick Whittington's success by selling the Cat to the (fictional) small, oil-rich nation of Pootweet to deal with mice.
Ahead of us lies the future, where we can expect the ingression of the alternative dimension to intensify. It is therefore important for us to have a sense of the powers in that Other world and their shifting agencies. In a traditional society, our exploration of these matters would be firmly imbedded in the extant shamanic mythos concerning these forces. Techniques tried and true would be available to fortify our psychic constitution. Since we are members of a profane society whose relation to the unconscious is one of estrangement, we have no such consolation. No dispelling ritual or words of proven self-empowerment. By reason and intuition we must attempt to conquer the fears that attend journeys into the unknown. But reason and intuition need data with which to construct maps of reality. If we outdistance the inflow of fact we move beyond the safety zone of the conjuring rod of intuition and reason. For these reasons we move slowly and steadily. We are human factors in a multi-variable equation where the shift of unseen parameters can trigger large perturbations and resonances of unexpected types. Knowing this, and knowing how little we do know, we should be excused for this defense of caution when taking to ourselves the visions which the Stropharia brings.
Carl Jung's 'Mysterium Coniunctionis' reminds us of the reality of the situation that insues once the psyche is hooked into making the transference to the alchemical or saucerian goal. Jung, citing Gerhart Dorn, stresses that the materialization of the stone is only a prologue to the experience of the perfected self in a state of illumination. Jung wrote, 'Though we know from experience that psychic processes are related to material ones, we are not in a position to say in what this relationship consists, or how it is possible at all. Precisely because the psyche and the physical are mutually dependent it has often been conjectured that they may be identical somewhere beyond our present experience.' Of what does this relationship consist? My own hunch, and it is only a hunch, is that an explicitly spatial dimension - of a co-dimension inclusive of our continuum - allows a hologram of other realized forms of organization, far distant, to become visible at certain levels of quantum resonance in the synaptic field. These levels have been damped by selection in favor of more directly relevant lines of information relating to animal survival. Evolution does not reinforce selectively the ability of an organism to perceive at a distance since such an ability has no selective advantage, unless the information it conveys falls upon the receptors of an organism already sophisicated enough in its use of symbols to abstract concepts for later application in different contexts.
OP ED wrote:also frogs. i salivate for the taste of frogs.
OP ED wrote:Psalm 93
3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
4The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
5Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
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