Reclusland

I left California at 6:15 pm, and got home to Brooklyn at just about 8:15 am, less than 12 hours if you take the time difference into account.  The fact that I can travel across a continent so quickly, from door to door, will never cease to amaze me.  Whatever happens globally in the near future, this level of interconnection will not be something that we will be able to allow ourselves to let fade into the dusk of history.   It allows for too much for it to ever be completely gone, and this makes me very happy.

The vacation was good, and much needed.  I spent a lot of time both in nature and in cars, both of which are very foreign to my existence here in New York.   And coming back really makes me notice just how dirty a place this city can be, no matter how much I love the multitude of possibilities present here.  That’s how it ever is, I suppose.

Anyway, I think things here will be picking up rather slowly.  Given how brain-dead I felt whenever I was on a computer for more than a hour, I may have overextended myself a bit prior to Christmas.  I will have to wait and see if I can build up momentum to that same pitch without gathering so much tension along the way.

But in the meantime, I do want to throw together a joyful little info cloud for you:

“Subjects in this test performed exactly as if their brains were subconsciously gathering information before reaching a confidence threshold, which was then reported to the conscious mind as a definite, sure answer. The subjects, however, were never aware of the complex computations going on, instead they simply “realized” suddenly that the dots were moving in one direction or another. The characteristics of the underlying computation fit with Pouget’s extensive earlier work that suggested the human brain is wired naturally to perform calculations of this kind.”

“During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”

“Emptiness makes everything possible. If it were not for emptiness, nothing would be possible because everything would be fixed, solid. If everything is solid and fixed, then nothing can change, nothing will happen, nothing will improve, nothing will get worse.

“For your wider understanding of this particular “psychic state”, it is necessary to tell you further that even up to now they arise with every kind of data for acquiring genuine being-Reason, and at their arising, there are not yet in their presences any “logicnestarian-growths” from which there is later localized, and from which there is acquired the isolated functioning in them of the said “false consciousness.”  But only later, during their development and their preparation to become responsible beings, either by themselves or by the intentional directing of their as they call them ‘parents’ or ‘teachers’ – that is to say, responsible beings who undertake the responsibility of the preparation of the given beings for responsible existence – they begin, as I said, to help intentionally in taking in and fixing only those impressions which later are the data for the impulses corresponding to surrounding abnormally abnormally established conditions; and only then, being gradually formed, there just begins to be predominant in their common presence this said artificially formed ‘consciousness’ of theirs.” – Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson (p. 567)

Odin took the horn in both his hands and drank and drank. And as he drank all the future became clear to him. He saw all the sorrows and troubles that would fall upon Men and Gods. But he saw, too, why the sorrows and troubles had to fall, and he saw how they might be borne so that Gods and Men, by being noble in the days of sorrow and trouble, would leave in the world a force that one day, a day that was far off indeed, would destroy the evil that brought terror and sorrow and despair into the world.

The third chamber is where the Holy Spirit and the Christ Logos guide and influence us. Here we enjoy our Holy Spiritual super-conscious awareness, a type of instinctual awareness. We all marvel at the fact that we can drive a two ton automobile for miles and miles and not recall a single detail of the drive, as all along we were lost deep in thought. Other examples include our ability to act most swiftly and wisely when emergency situations arise. Moreover, it is from this holy chamber that each one of us knows intuitively the value of goodness and has the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. And should we transgress, from here spring the stings of conscience which move us to correct our thoughts and actions. We speak here of the Holy Spiritual and Logoic influences in our higher centers, yet here too, in the subconscious we are well guided in our development.