Flames of Purification - Many Polarities

Two aspects, a never-ending cycle, cycles within cycles, aeons and aeons of time with Creator aspect in power, in majority, then, when the predestined limit of the exhalation of the universe, the consuming destrucction with the inhalation of the great dreamer, the creator of our universe known by many names: Shiva, Allah, Brahman, Vishnu, Yehowah, Azathoth; even the constant harmony of the universe has been prophesised to halt, everflowing as it is, and our dream existence shall be naught but memory.

 

 

What new dream shall our Creator place us in? Or shall we merely observe and influence, as mitochondria in a deity's body?

Perhaps the next universe shall again be created according to the image(s) and data the Grand Intelligence manifested, or perhaps a new, hitherto undreamt universe shall arise into existence, bringing with it previously unknown marvels and horrors that have yet to be dreamt into reality by our mind.

 

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I wrote these words after observing a ceremony. Billowing smoke plumed out of a building in front of me to the left as I walked. Peering into the building, various fires were lit on six inch stone...pagodas? While a main one, fuellled by leaves released most of the smoke.

Only men could be seen in the temple, and while my eyes stung from watching them, they fanned the smoke with a sash as they stood nearby, barefoot and robed. It occured to me, as I was no longer distracted by the sweat dripping off my face, that the ash and smoke would seal the pores somewhat from the humidity. I shall, as thousands of generations of people in India have done, and smear ash over my body, both for the above reason and as a reminder of keeping within one's body, whatever spirit still lingers in my depleting self, meditating on how to adjust the personal mistake of letting unwanted people and their suggestions into one side of one's being, and the seemingly unavoidable consequences of over-reliance on friends and family in the mind.

I let words affect both body and mind, before, and the physical and mental highs shall be countered with lows, as I understand it, once again in a cycle of a waveform, shouts and screams of agony and ecstasy, sobs and sighs, shocks and sleeps, strains and snugs, all experienced combinations of ingredients stored in Akashic Records to be reused, refined as chosen by one another's choosers with/against one.

As far as choosers have choice, everything emanating and absorbing? Introculating? In a cosmic, nay, universal breath of life...and death.

If Eliade, Nietzsche, et al. are correct, then the above current belief I have means that when we finitely (mote it be) relive this life again, there is potential for it to be both better and worse, to have different causes; to have many different effects to the current life's recieved ones. For if it were otherwise, be it good or evil, what possible things could an old soul learn as it revolves with the wheel, between states of the multpile polarities and associations formed like wires between nodes? If a life can not be perfected according to one's satisfaction, then what use are mistakes whose lessons are to be forgotten and repeated ceaselessly?

We must imagine Sisyphus as we imagine each other: Happy, sad, and in various other states. I speak from regret that I have not thought of my loved ones enough, that I have a great and terrible twilight ahead of me. My friends and family, toiled Sisyphus-like, more than I have, and I would wish them to be happier, while toiling and while not. Yet then the double edge of the blade of wishful prayer shows it's sharpness: If they become happier, it would seem that I am cursing them to be evetually brought sadder, or lower. It is tempting to conclude that through wishing my loved ones despair, trials, anguish, then they are granted eventual equal, if not greater awe and fascination, comfort and relaxation, and a joyful pleasure that would riva that which those who joined the Hashshashin 'endured'.

I believe everything that has happened to me is due to differing types of contributions from others, and I believe that this is true for everyone else as well. Even believing I and they are repaid in kind, I sit hesitant to perform the mental, physical and spiritual work to make that wish come true. I hasten to add, that I have not yet the courage to wish those negatives on my family and friends, certainly consciously, for if I am wrong the consequences would be untenable for continuation.

Worse still, I sit paralysed from uncertainty, yet while I am still on the path of learning, Lam and Lama both, I am worried my very words written down are those of dissolution, I will continue to try and do good for others, while my negativity should be limited to that which my ideal self would do, not that of peers, or the mob mentality.

I must put my physical form to more use, as of late my arms and back have ached while sat. Shooting, stabbing pains through my feet, and both my hands have been cramping,  like I have a case of the deadly boneitis. Looking for a manual project could be worthwhile.

Mentally I should be saying and doing what is Right, having been more of a Sinister persuasion then is good for others in the short term, and myself in the long term. Though it seems those I have wronged would be thanking me during my later suffering for such...mistakes.

Spiritually I will continue to learn and attain my perfect self - be it as it has struck me, how my dream dream-self is, compatibly with the true self Atman, simultaneously the no-self of all, the Anatman.

May 2023, Kochi, Kerala, India

Edit: Perhaps an end to toil for all would be a safer wish to bring for All of us.

Philip K. Dick On Predicting Selective Emotion and a Cautionary Warning of Ignoring Negativity

 In one of Philip K. Dick's most popular novellas, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", people dialled a number on an electronic device, a "mood organ", and would feel whatever they wanted: Erotic love, crippling depression, contentment, severe argument with spouse for two hours, any emotional state was immediately granted them once the correct code was entered.

Whether it was good for the person who was with the dialler was a different thing.

'So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair… So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything...' How much time do you set aside each month for specific moods?" - Philip K. Dick

It isn't a huge leap of the imagination to see how by selecting a social media group(s) on Facebook, reddit et al. that people are immediately directed to a screen showing a Web page where people have posted content full of whatever anyone could choose, sorted by an AI algorithm  according to their likes and dislikes, judged by time spent viewing and no doubt other factors, shaped by society yet some content is more beneficial to some than others.

From cute animals, to footage of executions, with in-betweens such as road rage videos, pranks, cosplays of anyone and/or anything and so on, the explosion of memes and memetics is shaping society faster than ever before, thanks to the volume of data transferred worldwide on a daily basis.

As PKD noted, people would choose both positivity and negativity for themselves. After an hour of anime, someone may want to watch a documentary, then watch insects feasting upon a corpse, then cars crashing while people bungee jump between them.

The point is, that people choose what they want and the chemical response in the body and brain, combined with the emotional and informational stimuli received to mind and body is fed at a faster and faster pace on a newsfeed or equivalent. A social media user finding themselves with some free time, if they aren't careful (as I haven't been), scrolling through post after post, thoughts and stimuli become short-circuited by contrasting and conflicting inputs to the senses.

The number of times I've been reading a post and feeling empathic with the content of someone's eulogy, or the sweet nostalgia from a childhood item, only to be disrupted by a video of an obnoxious influencer selling stock market information with loud attention-grabbing music and my thoughts and feelings are disturbed. To watch a video of a kitten playing with a puppy, then switching to the latest Redband video trailer can cause unexpected results upon a person.

Worse yet, there is only the option to hide content, which would mean missing out on the topic altogether. Yes, I can keep scrolling or turn my phone off and contemplate what I have just received.

If not deliberately thought to do so, the mind would start to become conditioned to expect disturbance from another video or post, and in a dystopian Pavolovian response, cease to respond for more than a few seconds after receiving compatible appropriate responses to positive or negative information, both online and IRL.

People require an amount of time to fulfill their desires of various types and contrary to the above, if someone receives too much of a repeated  stimuli (Desire-response? Thoughtform? Answers on a postcard) the sense become bloated and deafened, or an addiction is formed via repeated feeling and chemical reaction. 

This could be ingrained into software the same as gambling software does: "You've watched this cat paw it's owner for five hours now, are you sure you don't want to watch/do something else?"

Facebook is worse than several other sites as it tries to remove negativity as a legitimate response.

When it was first released to the public after a brief stint in University, the only available reaction was a "like". A symbolic thumbs up. People posting their family had been murdered by rabid mongoose would receive 800+ thumbs-up 👍 responses from everyone else they knew. The effect on those in mourning was unprecedented. "My best friend said to me it's good and positive that happened! So did 799 other people! I can't be right for feeling 'like' this, I'm subconsciously changing....waaagĝhhh...." could be a viable thought process in the past, to varying degrees, despite the adaption of ironic likes that perpetuate still I.T.Y.O.O.Like. 2023.

After large public rebuttal, Facebook added love ❤️,  care, sad 😔, haha 😄 and angry 😡 to their list of acceptable reactions - hardly the gamut of human emotion and years behind the likes of WhatsApp, despite being owned by the same company and yet used by many millions (including me at the moment).

Still, it remains unacceptable to give a thumbs down to your mate who was mugged for a choc ice to feed a crack-addicted toddler.

In writing this, I hope we are soon at the time once more before corporate censorship, or government firewalls (as is in place in India, to a business extent the U.K., Morocco, and many other countries as reported by other users) where every type of conceivable data is accessible and integrated, rather than the failed approach of banning, country or Internet wide, data deemed unhealthy or in breach of ideals, leading to an underground of gore and rape fantasies for curious adolescents. 

Not that any of that damaged the 90's kids I write, pocketing the bloodstained lock of her hair, the only thing that still gives feeling to the blackened husk that is my soul as I prepare the next runaway child to be sacrificed to Moloch.

I mean, wasn't the free Internet of the 90's cooler, jaded and scarred as we may be now?

Immanentise the eschaton! Release full reality VR full haptic body sensors to respond authentically to every perceivable situation!

 Let the death waivers be signed and may the next Aeon be more glorious and terrible as is desired by the All!

The Mystery of Talos or Probing the Reality of the Aboriginal Dreamtime

The Mystery of Talos

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Probing the Reality of the Aboriginal Dreamtime

There is a belief that dreams change our waking life. It has been reflected upon, that these dreams not only a/effect the self, but everyone else in this state of shared consciousness. Many have claimed to have mastered the art of lucid dreaming, that is, the ability to shape one's dreams according to one's true will, and that this shapes our future.

The aborigines took this one step further, and saw their dreams while on walkabout, accepting what they termed sprits guiding their actions in a variety of animals and the natural and 'supernatural' (marks to delinify that more natural than natural would still be natural), and this was accepted by their tribe as being no more unusual than walking past trees on a country road.

Western thought has long since moved away from their collection of beliefs, that anyone who sees visions, or hears voices is labelled as psychotic and the current (as of 2019) belief is to medicate away the voices or visions, as some of these can be (with reason) negative.

Eastern thought, particularly the Buddhist perspective, is to let all external stimuli that a/effects the internal is reacted to for what it is, and then moved on from, like a stone in a river causing the water to flow around it, while feeling the force of the water, while every droplet would be a part of a thought that changes the internal state of the rock.

Back to the dreamtime. It has been labelled different things by different people of various professions, be it the Ideosphere, the subconcious, the Id, and no doubt others, yet it still holds to the belief that there are forms of everything that ever was, is, and will be yet to be discovered and passed on to man.

The title of this work refers to the Greek mythological Talos, a creature made from bronze with blood of ichor, that could move and act as a flesh and blood human. This concept was created over a thousand years ago, and yet now we are ever more closer to developing a automaton which would behave in the exact same manner as it's creators, as our Abrahamic God created us in his image, to be like us.

How would the ancient Greeks have formulated the concept of a automaton, specifically to the point of using a metal and oil for blood, which would resound throughout the ages in various science fiction novels be resounding around our consciousness (sub or not) without some alternate sphere of reality? Where these...thoughts (an arguable word, often taken glibly) are passed on to the people in the correct frame of mind to be able to make sense of such things, in a time when (to continue with the Talos example) people were still using stone and winches to create their buildings.

Take for example, the invention of the telephone. It was simultaneously invented by people who had no overt communication with each other, on different continents of the planet and released to the public within a very short space of time of each other – there seems to be an area where these people are studying and reflecting upon possibilities for the future, with the future seemingly pre-determined, with things taken from this mind space becoming the 'real'.

I believe that we think with others in what can only be described as a telepathic manner, and we each respond to the others thoughts and actions according to our own stored experiential information that is learned and stored in our Mindspace, so that we may cause emotion and action in others and vis a vis, ourselves, then we can take that further, when two people are thinking toget certain information in various states of emotion, then they can be greater than their individual selves, and come to mindful solutions to whatever may be hindering their mind and body at any given time, with the correct actions and reactions.

To extrapolate from this, every condition that is physical is caused by other mind stimuli. The body is reacting to inputs that cause vast differences in bodily actions. I supposit that people with various syndromes, alzheimer's, parkinson's and the like are only being partially cured by Western standards due to the typical Western methods only causing a partial response in the patient – as the medications effects cause an increase in certain chemicals which is only a temporary solution.

To look at someone with restless leg syndrome, for example, if they were trying to nullify and/or ignore their emotions of anger, then this is typically shown with the right leg ascending and descending rapidly, while the sufferer focuses elsewhere, or does not think while the body and thoughts in the Mindspace suggest violence or aggressive action, while the sufferer could be a pacifist, or merely believe that such a response would be incorrect, hence the gap between the individual, the individual's brain then mind, and the wider Mindspace.

One possible solution to the above syndrome, which has not been tested is to encourage someone to start doing aggressive, harmless actions, like punching and kicking a punching bag when the leg starts it's erratic movements, even if the sufferer has no urge to do such thing, and see if the leg jittering goes away.

From a similar viewpoint, every condition should be treated with a combination of retraining the mind to react to something causing negativity in the correct way, even if that negativity is required due to circumstances such as bereavement, in which case in should be embraced, and touched upon when felt to be appropriate by an individual.

On a more personal note, beliefs like these have labelled myself and others as delusional under Western psychiatric diagnoses (as above) and stygmies the acceptance of any of these beliefs in an attempt to define sane within very strict boundaries and keep the general population at a set level of understanding of reality, and that nothing beyond the immediate sensory is real.

It is time for the Western world to reconcile with the Eastern, and the Tribal, and the Realm of the Mythological, and believe that even those things that seem impossible, can be possible, and at some point, be it in the distant future or the distant past, will come to be, if they have not already in some form or other, no matter how miraculous it may seem.