ORGANELLE

“It’s a lot like a walking stick that keeps yelling at the hand: ‘you’re not real, because no description can contain you! fie on your mysterious origin, fie on being and relation; anything that isn’t an instrument doesn’t exist!”

— infraheard

“It’s a constellation of ideological, legal, economic, personal and mechanical behavioral syndromes and the real or implicit agreements that perpetuate them.”

— infraheard

“It surprises me to see how very few people catch this “deceptive” aspect of language, or rather the deceptive relation between alive beings (worlds) and dead language. But then again, most people habitually carry task-based activities (which is very different from genuine participation, play, and exploration) in the world (or rather virtual “symbolic” world in this case) without paying attention.

Many of the planetary (cultural, societal, ecological…) problems have their roots in not being aware of the self-referential mirage-like nature of dualistic representational/symbolic cognition. Personal, communal, environmental, and many other kinds of disasters occur when we overlook the most simple building-blocks (or shapers) of our virtual realities and dismiss them as mundane. Disasters occur when imperfect toys or tools of representation are treated as intrinsically true realities. Many problems get solved only in the virtual realm of language, debates, Facebook posts/comments, papers, software, and models but never in the actual alive world.

We are a species who have not (as a whole) even figured out to communicate with each other (and the many alive beings on this planet, the planet itself) without falling for the mirage of language especially decontextualized strings of words, and yet we emphasize more on “physical” communication with “aliens” in “outer space.”

As Sadhguru says, “People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.” More like, people have formed an unconscious habitual obsessive relation to words without having awareness of their mirage-effects… like addicts.”

— Vidur Mishra

“It seems that to be human is to be ‘many orders of intelligence, unified and empowered to perceive as One… and we arise in a universe of similar, if superior constitution. Our own fellows and ecologies are obvious evidence of this fact, and it lies beyond conjecture or dismissal.”

“It seemed that I was having a difficult day, life, mind, situation… and so on. In reality, however, what I was having was difficulty with my approach… my way of relating with these things.

My habits, established through repetition, belief, supposition, and argument formed, over time, a sort of suction that was hard to notice or change, resist or depart. These were related to how and in what ways in invested my conscious attention.

What I was really having was a problem with my orientation. It was like falling into a gravity well, which, I suppose, is part of how I got here in the first place

Noticing this was useful, but didn’t entirely solve the problem. I am not precisely sure what the antidote is, but it has something to do with balancing between attraction and aversion, awareness and dissociation.

Moving toward the origin of my mind and being, rather than the familiar branches. Traveling away from the pull, with a sense of wonder, joy, curiosity, creativity and determination.”

— an anonymous informant

“It occurred to me that when the ‘dominant’ form of life is about to be displaced, the Earth undergoes a vast array of changes… some of which appear to be superficial, and are thus deceptive to those who focus on them.

But this doesn’t always happen on the physical level; there are other layers of life, that the physical animals are expressions of… and some of these transformations are take place where they would be invisible to physical (or conceptual) observers.”

— infraheard

“It may well turn out to be the single most dangerous time to have an abjectly stupid president… in the history of the United States…”

— infraheard

“It leaps ahead of you… to prepare a path for you to follow forward… though you may not understand this… (and then just see it as ‘having departed’ and not understand, because you were never without it), when, in fact, it is awaiting your progress toward it… and ensuring that your path is safer than… it otherwise must have been…”

— infraheard

“It is rather obvious what, precisely, it was that the Angel of Division gave them at the Tree of Knowledge: the capacity to represent categories. Good and Evil, are, you see, categories.

When the Angel explained that ‘You will not actually die…’, it was generating the first division, between figurative and literal ideas. This was the inception event — the cut that would become a billion deaths.

The ‘sin’ that would be ‘inherited’ by all children of human beings: formally representation cognition; language, knowledge, courtrooms, accounting methods, and… categories.

The other Tree was of Communion. Undivided, undividing.

Both were essential; like the hemispheres of our cerebral cortex. One, however, was domineering… also like these hemispheres.

And when the Angel divided their minds, the Tree of Life became inaccessible. Guarded by the Angel of the Antidote; ‘who spins a sword in all directions at once’.

Like the spokes of a wheel, founded upon a point, that (when spun) becomes a sphere in three(+2) dimensions. In which all angles are no angle whatsoever…”

— an anonymous informant

“It is our nature to invent, sustain and mix paracosms into our experiences and expressions of human reality; they are developmental vehicles that we employed the likenesses of in childhood play, and they have the power to revitalize minds and perspectives that must otherwise perish as they are collapsed into dead descriptions, explanations, and other thin derivatives.”