doubt

Doubt has no doors, no entry way for thru traffic. Doubt sits on its haunches, gnawing its own bones. The gods whisper, scuff their feet in the vestibule. Doubt cracks another bone, eats its marrow.

restoration

Throw down Occam’s razor,
which neglects to cut the hand that wields it!

You want the simplest explanation?
Then you take it! I want the richest one!
The one opening treasures of the heart,
a heart filled, overflowing with mystery
now assuming this shape, now that.
Gods, goddesses, the Muse, dragons,
alchemical furnaces making gold,
the gold of strong sound spirit.

Plunge us like a white-hot iron
into this world of pus-filled greed,
cauterizing this wound of quantity.
Restore Quality to the land!

sway

We are all swayed by images. We call that thinking.

Some images we regard as internal, as internally produced.

Some images we regard as external, as externally produced.

The first is personal thinking. The latter is societal thinking.

Both are internal. There is no external.

Imagery “out there” does not exist. All imagery is “in here.”

Everything we detest and love “out there” is “in here.”

Everything we love and detest “in here” is “out there.”

“In here” and “out there” are images we are swayed by.

We call this thinking.

consciousness structures

Consider all systems of thought as consciousness structures. I perceive that many folk tend to adopt the consciousness structure into which they are born without too much thought. Others adopt the con-struct after giving it some thought. Still others reject the consciousness structure and open to other realms. In this time of blatant materiality, this has led to a scorning of theism and an opening to a-theism. Matters not. It is still just another consciousness structure. A con-struct. Structuring one into just another con job.

A consciousness structure is a consciousness structure is a consciousness structure. One can step back, if one has the will and the nerve, from every con-struct one constructs.

Most seem to think (or not-think) that their con-struct is reality and others’ con-structs are less so. Some engage in con-struct imperialism, insisting that their con-struct is the true and real and all other con-structs are simply constructs. Others recognize that con-structs appear to be a requisite of human consciousness. The latter tend to empathize with Lao Tzu who, paraphrased, might say: The con-struct that can be con-structed is not the true con-struct.

transition

Homo Sapien fear and kill Homo Noetica. Restricted consciousness has always been fearful of wider awareness. After safely dead, Noetica are then adored or ignored. Never mind. Sapien are on the way out. Noetica are the wave of the future.

beyond the three-dimensional

Consider that human consciousness has been on a journey from the pre-rational to the rational and now to the post-rational realm. Pre-rational consciousness is a two-dimensional “flatland” realm scarce conceivable to us who live in the three-dimensional world of rationality, of ratio logic. Physics has zoomed beyond the 3-dimensional ratio world into realms of four (and more) dimensions. Human consciousness is now opening beyond, but not jettisoning, ratio-nality. We are opening into a fourth dimension of reality.

We know that our sensory apparatus only “picks up” an extremely small portion of the gigantic energy field in which we live, of which we are a part. We bop and shop and drop within this small lit match flicker of consciousness that we call reality. It is reality, but is only one small room within a huge palatial mansion on vast grounds.

The fourth dimensional realm can be considered as a realm of creative imagination, of the Imaginal (Henry Corbin’s term). Our consciousness opens beyond the perspective enforced by 3-dimensional consciousness into an aperspectival realm (Jean Gebser’s term). One moves beyond the three-dimensional Wal-Mart world into a larger, more comprehensive energetic realm which does not negate the Wal-Mart world but incorporates it.

One can open to this larger energetic realm in one of two ways. One can be “seized” by it (“for many are called but few are chosen”) and/or one can open to it through prayer and meditation. The key is the placing of attention. Whatever we attend to is energized. Whatever we attend to, we become.

References:

Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi. (Princeton, Bollingen, 1998).

Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin. (Athens, Ohio University Press, 1985).

the path of contextual awareness

A letter lives in a word. A word lives in a sentence. A sentence lives in a paragraph. A paragraph lives in a chapter. A chapter lives in a story. A story lives in an atmosphere. An atmosphere lives in a cosmos. A cosmos lives in the mystery of the unborn. A letter has meaning only within its context. This is the spiritual path, the path of contextual awareness.

Ante up!

Every species has its light of day.
It then goes extinct or transforms.
The human species is at this juncture.

We are on a fast moving train
with no one at the controls
headed toward a cliff
(some say we have already gone over).

It is Transformation Time.

The politicians will not save us.

The “news” media will not save us.

“Dancing With The Stars” will not save us.

Hard abs and a tight ass will not save us.

The latest clothing will not save us.

Neither fine eating nor fast food will save us.

In the language of the ancients, it is the end of a kalpa.

It is the end of a cosmic exhalation followed by a pause.