i really wish i could articulate but I'm tired and navigating things that rob me of higher function but i can say this is a multidimensional folding together of paradox and hidden worlds, subtleties of perception and every seemingly banal thing having fluid roots in the spirit of it all piece of writing that i thoroughly enjoyed and will stay with me for some time, bravo Mike
You just hit upon a point that I find essential, almost to the point of being alarming, which you put so perfectly..."every seemingly banal thing having fluid roots in the spirit"...beautifully put, Corvus.
I remember something wtitten by Proclus so long ago, that truth has certain qualities
Fascinating eulogy and homage to the Far Side (that’s near ) . Reading the Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey, Christian destruction of the classical world . You might like it .
I think of Bob's story as a very common one, a sort of bedrock 'salt of the earth' kind of thing. Its unvarnished, simply presented, and in truth that was pretty much the guy as I knew him.
It is fascinating, in a wry way, to observe how this morally arrogant christian society really treats people who can no longer keep up with its demands.
I can't help but see more than a little hypocrisy.
Yes, christianity, and its brain, judaism did destroy the world that birthed them. One would think, maybe a little, even in passing that this should be a warning.
I suppose what keeps me from loosing it completely, is that I see the pre-christian current flowing through all of this, a great unstoppable river of consequence, with modern religion just a homogeneous straightjacket strapped on to try to keep it from coming out.
Thank you as always, for taking the time to read, like, and comment.
I am reading the Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey. She focuses on the first three centuries up to Constanine.s vision of the flaming cross (possibly he saw this AFTER he,d murdered his wife. He ordered for the temples to be pillaged and it was seen as a great moral feat to smash the old gods^images. I’m tired of the whole thing, I knew I was not a Christian from very young but went along and sang the hymns because I like singing, but wondered about ^Onward Christian Soldiers^like what war were they going to_ and found out it is a perpetual war.
I find it incredibly odd that the passion of modern thought is to take history and shorten it, to claim entire centuries never occurred. If anything, history is longer, deeper, of repeating cycles, of great seasons of conscious time.
I see the 4th century as merely repeating the empire of Alexander. It was the same force, a people once distinct drowned in becoming the reflection of everything they conquered, demanding a religion that reflected their confusion and rage, an anti-spiritual spirituality that would replace the identity they gave away.
The Greeks had the Egyptians to remind them what spirituality truly was, and the Romans had the Gnostics to do the same.
Out of all this carnage stepped the abrahamics. The great simplifiers, apologizers, supporters of genocide and empire. Its no surprize to me, since that was the fire that forged them.
And now here we are once more, back into the chaos, bereft of identity, dealing with the shadow side of conquest, genocide, and never ending war.
Its all a great cycle upon a cycle, returning again and again.
I just had the most incredible dream, the mighty God of the sea, dressed in ancient finery, his horse with legs longer than the tallest souls. I felt everything in my very blood. If it is any consolation, this changeling is no christian either.
What a stunningly evocative and moving tribute that expertly transports the reader out of the micro-narrative of one man’s trial with terminality to the broader human (indigenous) experience. Always look forward to your offerings Mr.K, this was one of my favorites - slowly slowly unwinding the mystery of you, where you live, and how you live it.
also - one typo (search for taitor) tho you may just be doing that to prove this genius isnt some next level AI ;).
I always appreciate it when very sharp people like yourself notice things, and take the time to write about them, thank you, Mr M.
I once was aquainted distantly with a woman who could say the word 'taitor' with such innocent honesty that I just loved it. Dunno where she is now, but such is life.
Just in case anyone might read this and wonder, everything I do here is organic and comes through me, even if at times the inspiration comes from Gods and Spirits who enjoy taking me for a ride.
I tend to view AI as counterfeit consciousness, as derivative rather than indicative. Yes, I understand that by definition, in a conscious world, everything participates in consciousness. And yes, this means that AI also must participate in such.
However there is more to this than such arguments allow. There are paths to the spark, and paths to the light, and these paths cannot be considered optional. Conciousness requires such to blossom. It is far more than Vervaeke's 'relevance function'.
Currently, it appears to me that AI is fulfilling the role of encouraging laziness and reductionism, which have been the mantras for decades now of the top players in society.
However, I also realize this is but one man's perspective.
“ This land of the physical that seems so real is in truth nothing we can hang onto, it is just one place to live, and that if you would go on and discover others, you will find out how good that can be.”
Its my job in a sense, except it never earned me even one cent. I've had to do this since I was a little kid, helping the dead to find their way, a psychopomp.
The events in this piece unfolded as they did. The spiritual world leads. The physical world follows.
Sometimes the lost will arrive in dreams, or in visions, making their need clear. Other times its the sense of deep communication, the feeling, the urgency, the loss.
Its always different because we are all unique.
When religionists say that animals don't have spirits, they are wrong.
Personally speaking, I think things like psychometry are very real, but the person needs time and training to sort out the perceptions. I've never had the luxury of either, so too often things just burn and scream and give me intense pain.
I am glad that more advanced people can help others. Perhaps that is the role they are meant to play.
Thank you for the comment, reading and liking my piece. I appreciate it.
What you described as your experience is what the other mediums experience too. Including psychometry. The women I mentioned are in their 40’s or older. Maybe, your understanding will grow by that age too.
Yes, the spiritual world leads, we are not in control of visions or visits.
.
Yesterday, I remembered my pet Jack Russel named Easy. I was out of state when he was dying of old age. He had diabetes and we gave him shots every day for years. He was 15 years old and blind.
I cried because I didn’t know that when I was gone he waited each day by the front door 🚪. Meaning he was waiting for me. I didn’t come and my heart aches that I didn’t get to hold him in his final days 😥.
I remember once, we were staying at a B&B that had a dog. At breakfast I picked up the dog to befriend it and my little guy started barking and stood with his little paws on my legs. He was jealous. I had no idea he would feel that way.
Thank you, for saying animals have spirits!!
I met a fellow who said his dog 🐕 was his best friend and he hoped they would be together when he died. I thought it odd at the time in 1991, before I had my time with Easy Boy.
Bob will be back, again and again, until enough credits are earned, for Graduation Day.
Its a fascinating mystery for sure.
i really wish i could articulate but I'm tired and navigating things that rob me of higher function but i can say this is a multidimensional folding together of paradox and hidden worlds, subtleties of perception and every seemingly banal thing having fluid roots in the spirit of it all piece of writing that i thoroughly enjoyed and will stay with me for some time, bravo Mike
You just hit upon a point that I find essential, almost to the point of being alarming, which you put so perfectly..."every seemingly banal thing having fluid roots in the spirit"...beautifully put, Corvus.
I remember something wtitten by Proclus so long ago, that truth has certain qualities
Luminous.
Delicate.
Beautiful.
You just got all three.
Thank you.
Fascinating eulogy and homage to the Far Side (that’s near ) . Reading the Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey, Christian destruction of the classical world . You might like it .
I think of Bob's story as a very common one, a sort of bedrock 'salt of the earth' kind of thing. Its unvarnished, simply presented, and in truth that was pretty much the guy as I knew him.
It is fascinating, in a wry way, to observe how this morally arrogant christian society really treats people who can no longer keep up with its demands.
I can't help but see more than a little hypocrisy.
Yes, christianity, and its brain, judaism did destroy the world that birthed them. One would think, maybe a little, even in passing that this should be a warning.
I suppose what keeps me from loosing it completely, is that I see the pre-christian current flowing through all of this, a great unstoppable river of consequence, with modern religion just a homogeneous straightjacket strapped on to try to keep it from coming out.
Thank you as always, for taking the time to read, like, and comment.
Best wishes.
I am reading the Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey. She focuses on the first three centuries up to Constanine.s vision of the flaming cross (possibly he saw this AFTER he,d murdered his wife. He ordered for the temples to be pillaged and it was seen as a great moral feat to smash the old gods^images. I’m tired of the whole thing, I knew I was not a Christian from very young but went along and sang the hymns because I like singing, but wondered about ^Onward Christian Soldiers^like what war were they going to_ and found out it is a perpetual war.
A horrible time, the 4th century.
I find it incredibly odd that the passion of modern thought is to take history and shorten it, to claim entire centuries never occurred. If anything, history is longer, deeper, of repeating cycles, of great seasons of conscious time.
I see the 4th century as merely repeating the empire of Alexander. It was the same force, a people once distinct drowned in becoming the reflection of everything they conquered, demanding a religion that reflected their confusion and rage, an anti-spiritual spirituality that would replace the identity they gave away.
The Greeks had the Egyptians to remind them what spirituality truly was, and the Romans had the Gnostics to do the same.
Out of all this carnage stepped the abrahamics. The great simplifiers, apologizers, supporters of genocide and empire. Its no surprize to me, since that was the fire that forged them.
And now here we are once more, back into the chaos, bereft of identity, dealing with the shadow side of conquest, genocide, and never ending war.
Its all a great cycle upon a cycle, returning again and again.
I just had the most incredible dream, the mighty God of the sea, dressed in ancient finery, his horse with legs longer than the tallest souls. I felt everything in my very blood. If it is any consolation, this changeling is no christian either.
What a stunningly evocative and moving tribute that expertly transports the reader out of the micro-narrative of one man’s trial with terminality to the broader human (indigenous) experience. Always look forward to your offerings Mr.K, this was one of my favorites - slowly slowly unwinding the mystery of you, where you live, and how you live it.
also - one typo (search for taitor) tho you may just be doing that to prove this genius isnt some next level AI ;).
I always appreciate it when very sharp people like yourself notice things, and take the time to write about them, thank you, Mr M.
I once was aquainted distantly with a woman who could say the word 'taitor' with such innocent honesty that I just loved it. Dunno where she is now, but such is life.
Just in case anyone might read this and wonder, everything I do here is organic and comes through me, even if at times the inspiration comes from Gods and Spirits who enjoy taking me for a ride.
I tend to view AI as counterfeit consciousness, as derivative rather than indicative. Yes, I understand that by definition, in a conscious world, everything participates in consciousness. And yes, this means that AI also must participate in such.
However there is more to this than such arguments allow. There are paths to the spark, and paths to the light, and these paths cannot be considered optional. Conciousness requires such to blossom. It is far more than Vervaeke's 'relevance function'.
Currently, it appears to me that AI is fulfilling the role of encouraging laziness and reductionism, which have been the mantras for decades now of the top players in society.
However, I also realize this is but one man's perspective.
In the end, I wrote this piece as a question...
What is Love?
“ This land of the physical that seems so real is in truth nothing we can hang onto, it is just one place to live, and that if you would go on and discover others, you will find out how good that can be.”
Nature and life are motion.
Everything is transient.
Even 🫥 spirit, I imagine.
Souls sometimes need encouragement to move on.
That was thoughtful of you 😌.
Its my job in a sense, except it never earned me even one cent. I've had to do this since I was a little kid, helping the dead to find their way, a psychopomp.
There is a tv series called THE MEDIUM.
About a wife and mother who gets visited by spirits.
Some are good and some bad.
Her 3 young daughters also have these abilities.
The mom was hired by law enforcement to give clues to murders.
Not always a pleasant job but she does get paid.
Patrica Arquette plays the main character.
Theresa Caputo sees spirits and has a few tv shows one is Raising Spirits.
And her first show LONG ISLAND MEDIUM.
She works with people in person, no actors.
She often interprets picture signals she gets from dead loved ones.
Its always different, Nature.
The events in this piece unfolded as they did. The spiritual world leads. The physical world follows.
Sometimes the lost will arrive in dreams, or in visions, making their need clear. Other times its the sense of deep communication, the feeling, the urgency, the loss.
Its always different because we are all unique.
When religionists say that animals don't have spirits, they are wrong.
Personally speaking, I think things like psychometry are very real, but the person needs time and training to sort out the perceptions. I've never had the luxury of either, so too often things just burn and scream and give me intense pain.
I am glad that more advanced people can help others. Perhaps that is the role they are meant to play.
Thank you for the comment, reading and liking my piece. I appreciate it.
Awe, you’re welcome, Mike.
What you described as your experience is what the other mediums experience too. Including psychometry. The women I mentioned are in their 40’s or older. Maybe, your understanding will grow by that age too.
Yes, the spiritual world leads, we are not in control of visions or visits.
.
Yesterday, I remembered my pet Jack Russel named Easy. I was out of state when he was dying of old age. He had diabetes and we gave him shots every day for years. He was 15 years old and blind.
I cried because I didn’t know that when I was gone he waited each day by the front door 🚪. Meaning he was waiting for me. I didn’t come and my heart aches that I didn’t get to hold him in his final days 😥.
I remember once, we were staying at a B&B that had a dog. At breakfast I picked up the dog to befriend it and my little guy started barking and stood with his little paws on my legs. He was jealous. I had no idea he would feel that way.
Thank you, for saying animals have spirits!!
I met a fellow who said his dog 🐕 was his best friend and he hoped they would be together when he died. I thought it odd at the time in 1991, before I had my time with Easy Boy.
We are all unique!
Thanks for being you 😉.
Thank you Nature.
Yes, in my experience animals are spiritual beings. They can often hear that voice clearer than we are able.
Animal behavior is very complex, and understandible because we share similar animating forces.
I tend to think that our association can reveal much, not only about ourselves, but about life itself.
Do non domesticated animals communicate spiritually too?
I recently read that indigenous people see spirit in waves where scientists focus on particles.
Of course, they see spirit in all aspects of nature.
My friends saw 👀 their dead cat’s spirit 🐈 walking in their living room.
So much about life to learn.
Enjoy talking with souls like yours to reveal mystery.