Past symbols of consciousness have come down to us, or over across to us: Jacob’s Ladder on which angels ascend and descend, the Caduceus with its intertwined snakes of healing and their chakra points, the Star of David which is a Jacob’s Ladder without the angels and the rungs, the Kabbalah: the lightning bolt of the emanations of God, the Enso or empty circle which inflates into a sphere with no surface whose center is everywhere, and so on.
What is the symbol of today? A skateboard. A flat surface of small dimension that rolls along on four wheels in a more or less straight line that one pumps with one leg and allows one-leg standing while tuning out the world through earbuds while texting. It’s also good for breaking up concrete.
You may think this does not apply to you because you are older. Well, it certainly does. It is the symbol of the world today, of the consciousness state today. You have your little piece of the action you claim as yours and you stand on it and possess it and pump furiously on a horizontal line through the day headed for your daily destination of non-pumping. You keep your ears full of the daily chit-chat: NPR, Facebook, text messages, and all the other background music that accompanies your pumping. You use one leg of your dualistic split to stand on (your conservative stance no matter how liberal you are) and its other leg (your liberal or liberated leg) to pump furiously on a horizontal line to nowhere except pump rest. This is your consciousness. This is your consciousness state.
This is the consciousness state of the world.
What is the symbol of today? A skateboard. A flat surface of small dimension that rolls along on four wheels in a more or less straight line that one pumps with one leg and allows one-leg standing while tuning out the world through earbuds while texting. It’s also good for breaking up concrete.
You may think this does not apply to you because you are older. Well, it certainly does. It is the symbol of the world today, of the consciousness state today. You have your little piece of the action you claim as yours and you stand on it and possess it and pump furiously on a horizontal line through the day headed for your daily destination of non-pumping. You keep your ears full of the daily chit-chat: NPR, Facebook, text messages, and all the other background music that accompanies your pumping. You use one leg of your dualistic split to stand on (your conservative stance no matter how liberal you are) and its other leg (your liberal or liberated leg) to pump furiously on a horizontal line to nowhere except pump rest. This is your consciousness. This is your consciousness state.
This is the consciousness state of the world.
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