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The other day I wrapped my palm around one of the trunks of some laurel trees in a place where I practice. Immediately, I felt… strong, rhythmic strikes that permeated the wood. One of the stellar’s jays that knows me there, was talking into my hand. With its whole body. And not just the body that was there, with me… somehow, all of its ancestors and relations where included. His »time-body was talking into my hand through the wood we were both grasping.

And when I reflect upon this I am astonished.

But what do you suppose it was saying?

∞

In lucky years, there’s a specific species of small garden spider that would make a web outside my door. I have never seen a male make a web.

I became extremely intimate with a few of these spiders. Sometimes, they are missing a leg. This is usually due to either having repelled a web-stealing kind of spider (very dangerous) or a wasp (extremely dangerous).

I watched them often enough to see males approach the web. The ensuing communications were profoundly complex. Something far subtler than the jay’s wood-strikes. Of course, wood is not web…

But there was something else.

Young male spiders would sometimes select an anchor strand, and just live along with the female as a satellite-spider. They might occasionally feed on extremely tiny prey that the female overlooked. But they would study her. Through the strands of the web. As they developed. Sometimes for more than a week.

I strongly suspect that males who do this… probably enjoy special advantages later, when they mature, and it is the time when they embody the origin.

Maybe of everything, everywhen.

What is a gun that goes off every time you pick it up?

∞Operative

I am not an airplane.
A man purchased some grasses.
You’d think they’d link the evidence, he said.
Over where I was born, there’s a room there.
I am that lake in the woods.
One man broke glass, and he saw light.

Right where they exchanged the cash.
Some sprays of blood are images.
A girl was recording the sky.
But there wasn’t any actual device.
I am the grasses, said the camera.
Over where that room was made.
I am a lake in the sky.

∞ To know such love as would destroy all fear, and make all worlds anew. But further, to become its body and voice; against all odds, and for all beings.

∞ “The opportunity we face is the flip side of a problem that has become endemic; the transports across which we communicate, perhaps especially this one, are owned. And the interests that own them are, by being corporate, nonhuman.

Whoever ‘controls’ the transports with which we communicate can derive from our activities… our concerns… and can thus use highly sophisticated means to effectively engineer aspects of our minds and social behavior. So those who control ‘the wires’ will become the effective analog of gods. Because they can record and analyze all that is transmitted ‘across’ the interfaces, as well as directly deciding what appears … where… and to whom.

What empowers this process is intention and purpose. The intentions are commercial and protomilitary, the purposes relate to observation of and control over the development of mind-like states in vast populations. I speak then, of psygenics: the intentional generation of psychologically charged communications environments driven by analytic data acquires from those who participate in them.

A primary asset in these processes is contagion, and it is relatively simple to study the nature and character of how (and why) we exchange communications activity… mathematically. Our activities have become something more valuable than money, when taken collectively… because they produce something money cannot ordinarily buy: population intelligence. Given the wealth of data available for analysis and testing… we have nearly achieved a situation where the data related to our existence is in many domains more valuable than our existence. Each of us is actually in a direct competition, an evolutionary competition, with the data we generate by existing in our national and electronic societies.

This is the world we live in now.

The opportunity we face is to invert this model; to collect, analyze, share and transform our relationships with each other, the data we produce and interact with, and the analytic results. In simple terms: we take control of the wires we use, ourselves, and build even better analytic resources with our own data… while reaping the benefits of them in our social and learning activity. If we are to build pyramids of analytic assets for vast corporations, why not build them together, for each other… and have them directly available to us… as our activites compose them?

We could invert the whole concept of surveillance by inventing systems that use the analytic assets we create together to alert us to threats and opportunities that matter in our own lives, interests and social situations. And we can establish ways to assemble teams of people interested in producing advanced socio-cultural situations in which we can recover the capacity to intellligently engineer social contexts in our modern situations.

So the opportunity that faces us is to establish a mutual learning-synthesis engine. Ways of gathering and relating with analytic data that open up new vistas of possibility for our physical, social, intellectual and creative discovery. And, perhaps, a way of ‘playing’ at the invention of intelligent contexts… that could transform what it is to live and participate in human culture, by giving us new models and roles in a context we, ourselves, assemble and explore together.

It’s not a bold vision; it seems that something similar may happen… eventually. But in our current situation it’s a radical idea; that by taking control of the information we ourselves generate, and assembling a collaborate environment where we share and magnify the specific usefulness of the resulting analytics… we can invent new ways of assembling human society together… and form intelligent teams capable of actively and effectively addressing many of the seemingly intractable ‘problems’ that our general failure to form intelligent cultures produces endlessly as symptoms.

We can invent a way to magnify the powers of our curiosity and learning activity … that will revolutionize human relations with language, information, media and knowledge. And place the results in the hands of the common people. Or we can continue to live in the world we do now, where surveillance produces cash and control assets in unimaginable quantity, for corporations… speculators, criminals, and governments.

Long ago there were pirate radio stations that broadcasted without licenses. This was one way of taking back the wires. In our situation, we need to take not only the wires… but the analytics and their interpretation. This requires engines capable of producing the desired benefits from the recording and analysis of our interactions with devices and data. In our hands, these will not be mere commodities — we will use them to learn how to engineer better minds, lives, relationships… purposes.. work… and culture. And we can use them to solve problems that are otherwise unapproachable.”

— an intelligence agent

∞ Nature’s intelligence is vastly beyond anything we can model or even speak about, in part, because the roots of our languages are damaged (by abstraction-compression artifacting) and in part because our languages lack higher-order perspectival roots, keys and metaphors (which we would ordinarily acquire from other intelligences, including those in nature from which our concepts and habits divorce us, and those in which our minds naturally and constantly participate but are hidden from us by the same problems we have with nature as well as the fact that we use our minds to ‘see’ meaning and identity with). One way we can begin to remedy this is by using nature »as an extension of our own mind, and using our own mind as an extension of nature.

∞ What they do not see and understand is that each of the anciently preserved ecologies, the relational webs of beings older than time, the tiny creatures, and plants… the forest, the animal peoples…

… those are the organs that produce our minds. Moment to moment. Not in history. Right now. We do not possess minds. Our minds are a gift that must be renewed each moment. They are the moment-to-moment gifts… of the beings our activities and species are burning down. For paper money and lies. For false collectives and fictions. For poison and rape. For violation as ‘entertainment’. Those people and true collectives who are demanding that we stop this are not preserving ‘a precious resource’. Those are our own sources. Right now. And what is done in and to them? Is done in and to us. Immediately, not ‘later’.

We are »their extended body. And we are wiping them out as if they were not even alive. It is our own minds and souls that die of this. Not later. Now.

Our minds are »their extensions. Do you understand? Those are «the bodies from which our intelligence gains it source, momentum, character and purpose! Without them, our intelligence goes into freefall, and with each iteration of that fall, the velocity and impact increase geometrically… and we become both more blind to this and more prone to repeat the behavior. With each second that passes, we are passing into lethally self-aggrandizing stupidity. The entire species. And we are burning down a history we have not yet even glimpsed the barest traces of…

∞ Knowledge may be thought of as the standing cognitive projection of relation under perspective. Knowledge then, should be understood as provisional in accordance with the frameworks and purposes whereby it is generated.

Intelligent modulation of perspective is indicative of acute metaphoric thought. If perspective can be turned upon itself so as to produce intelligent variance across many possible metaphors at once… an uncommon form of prodigy may result in which the underpinnings of language, metaphor and thought become available to consciousness and manipulation both while engaged with them and in analysis.

Young children are already equipped with these faculties. The ways that we introduce language and emphasize the authority of knowledge actively silences or inhibits them, and they are but rarely re-awakened or developed beyond that crisis. But they can be in any who are so inclined and committed to the process.

To say that my esteem for you, dear heart, is undiminished is untrue in both basis and in fact, for your mere existence in the world lights my heart more brightly than the sunlit dawn, and the mere prospect of your departure from the triumphant unity we naturally comprise is as unbearable as it is inconceivable…

– the Fragment