ORGANELLE

∞ “What we call ‘mind’ is not the local possession of an individual, but instead the capacity for participation in hypercognition. We became confused when the power of representational language and thought became so demonstratively utilitarian that they overwhelmed our habitual intimacies and we lost them. It was as if the title on the spine of the book captivated us to the point that we lost the ability to read it.

The token replaced the intimacy of experience, and once that happened, superstitions and catastrophically misguided supercultures were the natural result. But the most important point is this: mind isn’t local, it’s a distributed opportunity for co-cognition, and very few people understand just how revolutionary this recognition is when enacted. It means that even in pairs, highly cooperative individuals can achieve and demonstrate intellectual and relational superfunction… regularly, and in ways that develop themselves when enacted.”

— an anonymous informant

∞ “Each moment of your life uniquely communicates with and transforms all past and future moments. To age is not so much to grow old, as it is to have become curiously intimate with time itself — in ways that deepen and enrich not only one’s own relations with time, but those of all the beings with whom one one interacts.”

— an anonymous informant

Gentle Vocalizations

∞ The ‘individual’ is a fiction. No one is a static being, or even ‘the same person’ moment to moment. On the other hand, there is a relatively stable ‘refresh-body’ (in the sense of the visual refresh-rate of a monitor or screen on which data is being repeatedly drawn at some rate over time). This refresh-body is what we imagine to be a static person. It does tend to produce relatively dependable habits, characteristics, flavors and so on. The ‘flavor’ or ‘spirit’ of the refresh body is what we think of as ‘the person’. We imagine them as a static entity, when, in fact, they are more a cloud of structured habits, beliefs, perspectives, experiences, tendencies, and so on.

But each being also has a ‘flow aspect’ which is changeable and is a vehicle for an entirely other form of being. This is what we sense in people who are »actually advanced in the domain we mistakenly call ‘spiritual’. This word really means something more like: the aspects of being that are common to all beings, but lie outside the personal or separate ‘structure-body’ that we associate with the individual. The flow aspect can become almost anything. But it has peculiar properties in that it will radically morph or change its ‘identity and power-aspect’ often without the person or anyone else being aware. Generally, this will accord with the basic character of the structure-body, but sometimes it will not, or it will oppose or simply exceed it.

An example: every day on the corner there is a drunk guy named Vaphmir. Most of the time he seems to be an alcoholic jerk. But one day he says something to you that shakes you to your core, and for a moment, as you look at him, you realize… wait a moment, this is a «divine being. And you »see it… maybe he »actually appears for a moment as an angel. This happens all the time. Ordinary folk will be confused by this because the next time they see Vaphmir he is the same old alcoholic tramp he was before. Where did the angel go?

An angel is a flow being. And any structure body may become its vehicle. This is all a toy of the truth, and the words do not matter. What is powerful is realizing that people are not people in the way we imagine, expect, prosecute or punish. And any being can suddenly become the vehicle of the divine, the damned, the mysterious, the prodigious, the primitive or the transcendent.

Not only that, but flow beings respond to invitation, whereas structure aspects tend to respond to and issue declarations.

Watch every moment of every being intently. You can never tell when to expect the sudden onset of the flow-being and its messages, healings, curses, powers, and mysteries. It could be your dog. Your mother. A stranger. Yourself… but if you miss the moment, going back later or in theory will not help. (Most) flow-beings we will encounter are momentary… beings of moments and relations… not statics, maps, labels… or dependable location in time, space, identity… and so on.

There are exceptions. Some structure-bodies transform largely to flow-expression while still mortal. This is uncommon, but not impossible. The problem is the same problem with everything else around here: mimicry is everywhere. There are billions of structure-beings that have learned to mimic flow, but are not yet true as flow. Some are confused, some predatory, some accidental.

Find a river. There? There you have a flow being in truth and body at once.

“Human cultures are not individuals. They cannot be expected to make rational decisions, understand risks, anticipate the future, or even make choices that make sense in terms of the planet as a whole, ecology, or expectations related to personal behavior. The idea that such things can be litigated is, at least in my perspective, insane.

But there are certain facts that individuals and groups can become aware of and/or concerned about. And these individuals and groups are capable of forming rational orientations, organizing, and taking action.

This preface was forged to introduce a simple fact that some individuals and groups may become aware of and oriented to prepare for, or, perhaps, ameliorate. That fact is this: Earth’s ecologies and the homeostasis upon which animal life depends are delicate. They cannot sustain the geometrically increasing burden of catastrophic intrusions and compromises that modern human activities enforce.

Everyone understands that water turns to ice in a way that is referred to as a change in phase state. This change is radical and sudden. Earth has undergone a variety of these changes over evolutionary history; many were the result of catastrophic events such as near-earth object impacts, volcanism, or sudden methane release. Human activity has set the stage for a variety of risks, many of which may result in a shockingly fast phase-state change of our environment. Life as we know it is unlikely to survive any such change, and it can happen in a week, or a month, or a year. Nations and collectives, because they are not individuals and are only marginally intelligent as groups, are incapable of responding to these threats. In fact, they are likely to continue to catalyze and exacerbate them.

For this reason it falls to us as individuals, to forge the intelligence necessary to guide and correct our collectives. If we prove unable or unwilling to do this together, we should expect that history will record the results in death tolls that are far beyond what we expect or consider possible.

The anciently conserved ecologies of earth, the plants and animals, the oceans and waters of our world are unimaginably precious and delicate. They were, prior to our industrialization, robust and seemingly permanent. This is no longer the case. What we now face, not just as a species but as a world, is an array of threats far greater than anything usually suggested even in science-fiction. And it is in this context we must redefine and reorganize our humanity, our cultures, our purposes… and the possibility of human intelligence. Now. Because we have traveled far past the tipping point, and are now in a situation where… in many simultaneous dimensions… we are in free-fall… toward futures that cannot be called futures. They are graveyards… and the planet will most certainly and directly demonstrate the costs of the unimaginable hubris and ignorance our species has and continues to demonstrate. Not in the distant future… but within our own lifetimes.”

— an anonymous informant

∞ Vigilant

That one who with your eyes does see
The forms placed as eternity

And that which grasps and aches; it roars
It splits the world, it forges doors

Across the place where none dare go
With dire sound afore the leap

As those that follow those who know
That stand between, and speak the sign
So worlds of birth and death align.

Across the gulf unbridged, unseen
Across the deadly road between

Became the path, and saw it done
The seventh star, immortal sun

Throughout the patterns’ mysteries
All origin in symmetries, from which my source

Unearths its form, and aches to speak immortal
Storm that shatters fictions, ruins lies

As from good vigils, spirits rise.

∞ “Molton Bradley announced today their new version of the famous ‘Monopoly’ game called ‘Lockdown Monopole’. It features board spaces where the player can go insane from being exposed to social media, cryptocurrency tokens, extreme unexpected stock variances… arbitrary infections and psy-ops war effects — and the Get Out of Jail Free card has been redesigned with an image of the former President refusing to depart the White House.”

— Bobby Yingo at Gamescape

“One of my theories is that one of the features of psychedelic experience, the specific feelings in the gut/groin that are often remarkable, and the »linkage of those feelings to the »meanings emergent in awareness from the radical transformations of the visual field, are probably the result of a transformation in the connection between the neuronal and perhaps bacterial features of the gut — and those of the brain, and, specifically, the visual system. It seems that an exotic (to common experience) form of »feedback ensues across this connection, where the visual or even imaginal experience feeds back into a specific aspect of its origin in the gut, further stimulating the cooperant gut neurons, which then feeds back into our visual ( and resulting/catalyzing emotional ) system. What seems to result is a sort of ‘standing wave’ in consciousness and somatic experience… which has a variety of wildly counterintuitive features and characteristics… and yet sustains itself for some time beyond whatever ‘peaks’ may occur…”

— infraheard

∞ “The experience of deep empathy for animals and living places does not require anthropomorphizing them, but it may be natural for us to begin in that perspective as an aid to our formative understandings. We do not generally begin in a position of skill or insight, perhaps it is useful to be aware that we often start a process in a relatively primitive way, and this is true in many aspects of human knowledge and activity. Sometimes we begin with a vehicle we will later surpass… but we all remember needing somewhere to begin.”

— infraheard

∞ Where or when we feel concerned, anxious or threatened… there is a tendency in thinking to compress time so that something has to happen now. This is, in part, because we rather prefer a known disaster than an unknown possibility. When we resist the urge to compress time in order to acquire certainty of a result, we decompress our feelings with the extension of the temporal interval that we were compressing for the sake of ‘knowing what to do/would happen’. It is usually better, where possible and appropriate, to slow down, stretch the interval, and release yourself into deeper intelligence and broader opportunity.