ORGANELLE

“Am I the only one who’s grandma had a little Jack Russell terrier who basically thought he was Conor Mcgregor ?”

— an anonymous informant

“Although we may recognize words ‘without context’, by »definition… we cannot really understand them this way. To understand language, we use »connotation, and this derives not from definition but from relationships… and »connotations within the relational contexts in which they are used, as well as our personal linguistic history.

This is an absolutely crucial thing for language-users to apprehend and validate for themselves… because as we become ‘more modern’ we may find that what this means is that our sense of context is becoming more and more abstract. The result is that our understandings are damaged and severely limited, where they are not merely invented, by contexts that partake not of participation… but, instead, subscription to a kind of abstraction that is as uninhabitable as it is verbally fictitious.”

— an intelligence agent

“Although the eye is the ‘formation’-basis of seeing, it is not the eye that sees… it is the mind, the heart… memory… a transforming constellation of pivots and receptors, collectors and recognizing is the basis of seeing. There are many forms of seeing we are capable of that are rendered unfamiliar to us by the simple idea that ‘we see with our eyes’, but seeing is not merely visual… it is intuitive, memorial, participatory… and creative.”

— an anonymous informant

“All that I know of Nature, Time, Light and minds leads me to the perspective that what we call our minds, were, originally, organs with which we linked intimately with other orders of intelligences. These were both the ‘parents’ and purposes of our minds, long ago. Like remoras on sharks, we ‘hitchhiked’ to sentience over long periods of human developmental time.

Then, there came a time when our non-ordinary symbionts ‘suddenly disappeared’, and our species went mad, and began inventing crude counterfeits to fill the hole left by this originary and ecstatic relationship. ‘The voices in our heads’ and the seemingly bizarre narratives of our religious books are the shadows of this ancient symbiosis, and yet… it is still possible, at least for some of us, to directly contact and participate in the original relationships, just as we did when we were very small. Or sometimes… when we are dreaming.”

— an intelligence agent

“All relationships are fundamentally orbital in nature…”

— infraheard

“All of us are asked questions. Sometimes in forms or tests, sometimes by authorities. We may fill out questionaires, such as those that categorize us somehow, psychologically, emotionally, creatively… or related to our intelligences.

The problem is that actual experience — our actual humanity — is exceptionally nuanced. It is not general, and is always contexted. And for this reason, these questions are wrong, and the results they derive from our answers … are at least as wrong. Because, for human beings, context and relation are everything… and situation by itself… is nothing like our actual natures or experiences.”

— an anonymous informant

“All my spaghetti is falling out! All of it! My spaghetti!”

— infraheard

“All at once without a hint of predestination, the entire ocean merged into the tiny droplet…”

— infraheard

“Alas, there is no gate whatsoever to true insight. Indeed, it is perhaps some form of unexpectable severance. Yet, I fear my hand. For, thinking I possess one, I have the ever-present expectation of a gate! Because I think I have my eyes, I keep expecting to see something perfect!”

— an anonymous informant

“Against this backdrop of mental stress, distress, and misery, we are supposed to stand “mentally healthy,” as if life were a lark and as if sweet smiles were not only our birthright but also an obligation. Why should we be smiling? Why should we be “mentally healthy,” whatever that phrase is supposed to mean? For the whole history of our species, until very recently, your drinking water could kill you. In our age of good drinking water—which is only a reality for some percentage of our species—we have only had world wars and nuclear weapons to contend with. And what is life like for someone living under a dictator, where you can vanish for speaking? And how pleasant is your boring, taxing job? How pleasant, for that matter, is your own seething mind, packed with worries, regrets, resentments, and to-do lists?”