ORGANELLE

∞ “It is the most glorious expression of the localization of the entire cosmos. Every moment, place, life, mind and dream. And burns with preternatural fires that leap across impossible gaps, connecting and transcending them.

Birth and death are married there, and their child is not vision, but »seeing.”

— he spoke about the eye

When the unknown has the ability to remain in mystery

Aappspiinii ( white cheeks ) Snow Geese

∞ The creatures form networks which support the upward developmental progress of the environmental cogniscium; that is to say, the unified field of biorelational history, intention, effort, activity and circumstances of the living beings of Earth. These networks are intended as launch paths for nonordinary developmental ‘leaps’ — sudden accelerations in growth, potential, learning, and access to opportunity.

∞ In the beginning, memory was a dimension of place. In other words, places were (at least an asepct of) the basis of memory. Like the place in a book where a certain paragraph is found, there is a place in the world where a certain moment and set of circumstances are and were found(ed).

The first abstraction of this was the Theater of Memory; a ‘technique’ employed by ancients and some few moderns whereby a vast structure of many rooms was elaborated piecemeal within, until it became real to the inner eye. This was, effectively, a sort of museum, where whole texts could be recorded or retrieved. It was a powerful and astonishingly sophisticated set of techniques.

Then, of course, came writing, which largely but incompletely laid waste to the arts of memory. Then, as if that were insufficient insult, the internet arose.

But in the beginning, and mark this for its proper value: memory was built directly upon the experience of living in and with living places. The forest, the prairie, the river, the tundra, the desert — these were ‘the library’, and it was always alive. It would literally ‘come forth to meet you’ as an aspect of your relationship.

When we abstracted memory, first to a structure within, then to books, then to the internet… we distorted its function and flattened its necessary character. Without place… or where we are displaced into an abstracted relationship with place… it is as if our souls have been circumcised. A cruel kind of cognitive surgery has removed the most vital basis of living memory herself, and left us not only thus bereft, but even without the capacity to notice our predicament.

By living and learning in such a way that we retrieve our awareness of the value of relation with place to the capacities of memory we may retrieve the art into our lives and futures, and recover it from the relentless modern abstraction of its function.

William S. Burroughs once said ‘We are Here to Go’. In this video, I accidentally stumble into some staggering insights after spending some time observing and reflecting upon the reflections of trees in the social pond at the SF Botanical Gardens.

This is a truly wild ride… in which I was lucky enough to capture insights that are usually too delicate to survive the intrusion of waking consciousness / the urge to ‘record’ things…

∞ “It’s not precisely, as Alejandro Jodorowsky (is said to have) said, that birds born in a cage think flying is an illness, but rather that humans born into the vast and multiple cages of modern culture know nothing about the 37 modes of flying that are their own inner nature … 33 of which they will live and die without hearing of.

Perhaps many of these would be thought to be illnesses, not because they resemble sickness, but because they resemble nothing with which we have become familiar. And so the vast portion of our accessible humanity, potentials, opportunities and gifts will, for most of us, remain hidden or misconstrued, misnamed, rejected, misunderstood or simply absent from our experience.

Yet, just beneath the suffocating shells our cultures imposed upon us in childhood, it is as if there lives a vast world of creatures and living places, unimaginable, profound, impassioned, curious, and hopeful of their eventual discovery (and enaction) in and as our own human nature and activity…”

— an intelligence agent

“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is … really appalling,” said GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump.”

— how Lethal Lying becomes Political Gravitas in a Dead Empire Walking

I imagine some bats somehow awake in the daytime, talking to hummingbirds about nocturnal feeding… without regard for the obvious fact that »these birds don’t have webbed wings…

It’s simply rude to suppose that one’s abject unawareness of the lifestyles of others, or one’s uniqueness … results in entitlement to »subject unwilling others to discussions they’d prefer not to participate in … possibly meaningful exceptions notwithstanding.

^ “It is not that their intelligence or enthusiasm is inequal to the tasks at hand; rather it is that their experience of the context has so demoralized them that they have forgotten a simple fact: a well formed human team of 5 people can transform a nation in month.”

— infraheard