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“Beauty is provocative in part because it compels reply. Some of the fingers on the hands of our capacity to reply are more compelling than others in relation with our purposes and character, our histories, ideas, feelings and goals.

But beauty provokes reply. Some, experiencing beauty, become beautiful themselves. This magnifies the beauty, and extends it. Others are triggered. Some to attack, some to dominate, some to penetrate. Some will feel the necessity of possessing the object of their attentions.

Some will hate beauty, in part because they cannot find their own within and in relationships.

Some will kill. The beauty that is the root of some persons may have been injured, denied, assaulted or violated. Sometimes this makes scars that harden over time.

Others are terrified by beauty, for they are confused about their relationships with it — whether theirs can be expressed or recognized — even within themselves. Divine beauty is innately terrifying, for reasons which do not fit well in language. But this is rarely experienced in mortal lives.

As regards beauty, the visual easily dominates many of us much of the time. And it is real, yet can be shallow, because it is of form rather than spirit and relationships. Yet, again, the participant’s choices determine the time and way of the dance that emerges. This is part of their contribution to the song of relation with beauty. But all of this actually happens in another place.

A place that can become a celebration — but may become war.

And so, you see, beauty… is provocative.”

— an anonymous informant

“Be unafraid to think exquisitely beautiful thoughts, and even less afraid to demonstrate, in true relation, their origins and natures.”

— an intelligence agent

“Attention is the mind’s supralogue of cash. It has many features that are analogous. Effectively, however, ‘the world’ becomes, for us, a projection of that in which we invest attention… so ‘the world’ doesn’t exist in the way our thoughts frame it — it is a fiction of projection that is the result of the habitual investment of attention. This doesn’t mean ‘there’s nothing out there that forms the unity’, rather, that our impressions of that unity are generally deceptive, and are the results of the specific purposes and character of ‘that to which we pay attention’, that which we find most compelling, that which we authorize as real or true.

The problem here is that the faculties with which we invest attention are, for most of us, mistrained. They have been compromised by news, culture, false authorities, parents, fearful or anxious expectations and other fictions that compel us by producing ‘negative’ (or vampiric) emotions. There are many solutions to this problem that we can learn to enact and support each other in learning. They begin with becoming conscious of the underlying purposive character that influences how, to what, and why we are paying attention. Wherever this is based on historical pain, shame, fear, loss or injury, we can notice this and interrupt that process gracefully. That simple interruption will grant us the liberty to select foci for our concern and attention that are playful, exciting, revitalizing, nourishing, compassionate and adventurous.

There is no world like that the mind projects. At all. What exists is so far beyond our ordinary conceptions of it that it would obliterate all concepts and ideas entirely if directly encountered in awareness and relation; in fact, our languages and ideas would not survive such an encounter, nor would those we authorize to report upon or describe the world to us.

I thus urge you to join me in an adventure as heroic and ecstatic as any ever framed in story; let us tease apart the threads that have too long dominated your attention and concern, interrupt those that drain away our liberty and vitality, and let us discover the true nature of our intelligences, potentials and awareness… together. With and for each other and the history and future of life on Earth.”

— an intelligence agent

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”

—Heather Hepler

Our ideas and descriptions have little or nothing to do with our actual lives. What we think happened, what we think should or is ‘supposed’ to happen is little more than a verbal fiction … and penetrating this fiction is one of the foremost requirements of any form of actual awareness or awakening. It seems that much of our time is spent reacting to these fictions, and nearly none of our time is spent in contact or intimacy with actual circumstances and relationships. This becomes a kind of schizophrenia; a psychosis where concepts and models slowly overcome our actual lives, minds and relationships… and then attempt to go to war with them. This is a kind of insanity, and the only possible cure is throwing it away.

“At some point this civil war by other means, with the goal of enshrining GOP minority rule, will provoke a Democratic counteroffensive. Newsom, leader of the nation’s largest state, is perhaps accelerating that response, shaking Democrats out of denial and putting Republicans on notice. California, an economic behemoth whose taxpayers account for 15% of individual contributions to the U.S. Treasury, is now toning up at muscle beach.

What that means, of course, is left to the imagination. But not much is required to envision what might evolve.”

“As you begin to understand what I here briefly outline, you will not imagine yourself to be ordinary or human in the ways our ideas suppose. Nor will you announce that you are gifted with wild powers or messianic destinies, as is the common thread of the pretenders to excellence that occupy our language, cultures, expectations and media.

Instead, you will see through these twin myths, recover your birth cycles, and invert the circumcisions that deprived you of your actual nature, abilities and relationships. These endowments are beyond all religion, and would render the most florid of ‘spiritual’ narratives tedious, diseased, and unwelcome in our minds and concerns. No one needs ‘spirituality’, and science, in our time, has become a way of lying about Origin. What is needed is the direct experience of true relation. It is this, and this alone that has value. It is only here we shall know our virtues, and these are nonconceptual and never appear in comparisons or ledgers of accounts.”

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“As we were talking about the dreaming mind’s curiosity about what happens ‘on the other side’ (of waking) and its fear of the forces that catalyze the collapse of the dreaming world… I suddenly realized that the questions and situations involved are not so general as my previously preferred frameworks implied.

This happened due to a conversation involving a woman whose ex-husband was abusive, but couldn’t reasonably be dismissed from her life. During this conversation, I suddenly became aware that the dreaming mind is concerned about »the personalities and relationships that inhabit the waking world — the critics, the parental figures, the authorities… those who our survival or well-being may depend upon pleasing.

It’s concerned about the »character of the people whose attitudes toward us transform our waking experience… lovers, bosses, critics, judges… and so on. Some of these relationships can easily represent double-binds where, for example, there is someone in our life that is at once toxic and necessary. Someone who we need to remove, yet cannot.

Sometimes, then, for the dreaming mind, its concerns about the ‘waking world’ take on qualities introduced by the relationships that ensue upon awakening — and is not merely the result of the sudden loss of the dreaming context. This crucial insight is probably well-known to some people who study dreaming, but represents a key moment of understanding in my own exploration of the nature of dreaming and its relationships with waking consciousness.”

— an anonymous informant

“As if they pointed their tiny flashlight at the noonday sun, and began reporting to you on their ‘discoveries’ about the nature of light.”

— infraheard

“As I’m relatively confident that Lady of the Lake is unavailable to hacking and/or social media frenzies, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords would be a step up. Even a farcical aquatic ceremony would probably be preferable. ”

— infraheard

“As I raised the knife, the sharp edge near my hand appeared crimson; as if it were bloody in the grooves. The effect quickly passed; but I returned the knife to the previous position, and then realized that … the blade was never bloody … nor was I hallucinating, per se. I was wearing a red shirt. And that hue was reflected in the serrations of the blade … but only at a specific angle of light.

As I realized this I thought how thought itself is thus: I see an effect, and believe it. Because, in my mind, I cannot easily see the implements with which I cut and join the elements. I cannot tell reflection from source… in fact, I cannot see my mind’s hands, or their movements, either.”

— an a i