At
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England (the home of William
Wordsworth):
"Wow, it's crowded. All the spirits are good.
"Remember, the veil between the physical and the
spiritual is itself metaphysical–as a supposition
and an imposition of the late modern rational mind, which
did not hold sway here." (5/31/2005 - I#79)
"Let's talk about
remakes–the worst idea of Hollywood, made better
only by comparison with written remakes. I mean, like a
book is a book and don't try to rewrite it. But what
about religious crap... oops, I mean religious works.
"Do we think it really matters what the sources of
religion are? The proof is in the pudding, not the
recipe. People keep thinking 'If only we can get the
recipe we will have it made,' but they left the cake out
in the rain.
"Here's a scary thought, proven by centuries: A new,
or renewed, Christianity could develop from discoveries,
but then we would have inter-Christian warfare. When we
should be looking beyond the divisions we already have,
we instead put energy into making more divisions.
"If people believed what some radical sources now
offer, they would forget about arguing the sources and
get on with living the values. No scripture ever
converted anyone, but life lived with hope and meaning
has. And besides, who wants pudding? ‘I do, I do.'
Ok." (6/30/2005 - I#80)
"And welcome to SP 1001... or not. Yep, 10 years and
still yakking. I’ve said it all and there’s so
much more to say. But I will try to keep it simple
<wink wink>.
“Ok, here goes. Think about human physical
chronological history. When you look at any point in
time, you see a variety of connected events. For example,
just when Einstein was going out for a beer so were
several other physicists and, within the same period,
they all got drunk... but I digress. They all came to the
same theoretical discoveries. This is what we have been
talking about for a decade: the web of connection in an
infinite number of directions; butterfly in Beijing, rain
in DC; idea in Bern, idea in Oslo; parallel universes are
experiences of the same web from a different perspective.
So all of this should seem familiar by now.
“Ok, let’s look at any nexus on the web and
choose any probability you wish. Now, looking at that
nexus, you can see the web of connection... which is not
like the cloak of invisibility. But with a deeper look at
the nexus, you can see precedent and antecedent. So,
Einstein earlier in the day had a very salty wurst. Later
that night, he had to go to the wc twice. But now the
question: Did the other physicists who went for a beer
have the same precedents and antecedents. No... or yes,
but not necessarily. It ain’t necessarily so. One
might have had nothing salty but been an alcoholic.
Another might have wanted social company. And later, both
of those might not have had to get up twice because one
barfed it up, and the other’s bladder was so
familiar with the abuse it didn’t get pissed off...
ok, didn’t demand a nightly waking. So we have three
points connected by physics and beer and the web which
unites them, but we also have paths which are different.
“Picture the precedents and the antecedents as
another dimension and at another point of connection. The
connections are quite different. One was eating a wurst
in a restaurant, one was downing a beer in a gasthaus,
and another was sitting all alone in a lab with a dull
Swiss cheese sandwich. Not much to connect them. So at
that point they were more connected to their individual
strands of events than to each other, but they were very
connected to what would come about, connecting them all.
“This month we will take up the
strands–connections along the development of entity
complexity. Or, to put it simply, we each and we all are
on distinct paths but those paths lead to larger
connections.” (9/1/2005 - I#81)
“So, as we were saying,
you can string out relationships in as many dimensions as
there are–which is oodles. So why only see time as
in history, and family as in them!?!
“You are the nexus of not only DNA and spirit, but
also ideas, concepts, notions... but the notions are on
the 2nd floor.
“So many strands--and we seem to identify them with
individual spirits, but they are not spirit-bound. You
are the intersection of the many paths from less complex
to more complex everything–not just fabric
materials, but even baking powders, and things for which
you don’t even have a name or a clue but which are
gestating in you as a strand of potential right now. And
some of it is stuck in between the back molar and the
wisdom tooth... the Mill by the Floss,
which grinds exceedingly slow... but fine! Hee hee.
“The greatest products of development are never
sudden. Strands are long. And one of the
greatest disappointments is when a way station is taken
as the destination. You think you ever get to the end of
a string? I hope not... and I hope knot... otherwise, it
all unravels. But the universe coheres, so that implies
the strings are infinite.
“Did I get that right.”
LD: “You did.”
“So, enough pith.” (9/30/2005 - I#82)
“So, these strands reaching across complexities
(note I do not say across time or space, but only
meaning), these strands are the links which connect past,
less complex, entities to the present
complexity–even when the prior or less complex
appear to be independent of each other.
“And those same strands also reach as possibilities
into what is more complex–linking everything, but
not in a lateral sense of the weave of complexities at
any level of complexity. Take a movie like Sliding Doors: There are links to other elements of
the same complexity. But strands are beyond that. We
sense strands when we have intuitions which are not born
in our experience at this level–even if those
experiences are in past lives, because past lives are
still at this level of complexity. So there are weaves
and wofts of this complexity, and strands which run like
another dimension of connection.
“If it were not for strands, you could not even
perceive of differing levels of complexity. And
those strands form a kind of conic projection--starting
from a totally universal and disparate placement, and
moving to the ultimate convergence. Strands of seemingly
disconnected complexities, each with its own progression
of complexities, and all converging into one ultimate
complexity of All That Is. And the weave and the woft and
the conic projection, each and all contain All That Is
and are, by their existence, the ‘more than’
the sum of the parts.
“The vessel which holds or the formula which
describes All That Is is both part of All That Is and
more. Go figure. Ok, pith enough.” (11/21/2005
- I#83)
"We don't have
that kind of [physical] illness here, but don't believe
that all suffering is left behind. Here sometimes we
suffer from a form of spirit disconnect, in which our
entity parts don't go in sync. And then we are
miserable--just like unstable entities. We feel--if
feeling is the right word--as if we are on the verge of
disassembly... ouch. We can't get our acts together, so
to speak, and so we can't speak, so to think, and our
thoughts just don't go through. It's like being a set of
mismatched parts and being alone as each part.
"But since we spirits... oooOOOooo... don't and
can't communicate in that mode, and we'd rather not
remember it, it is not often mentioned... and I'm sick of
talking about... ! Even expressing it feels bad. Pithpit:
bigger than a tidbit and tastier, too... ARF."
(12/9/2005 - I#84)
"Ok, about channeling an unspeaking spirit. Hey,
we're all unspeaking here. If we transmit the
translations of our feelings, thoughts, and essences, it
doesn't matter if we speak--as Papa can tell us.
"When he gives them voice, he is not giving them a
voice, but the belief in their capacity to communicate.
Hey, sound waves are so yesterday--slow and
limited. You ought to know about music that is not made
up of sounds. Pondere that... yes, pondere: the London
spelling (litre, theatre, pondere). Dopner: an anagram of
ponder. To think outside the usual order: dopner. So,
dopner this." (12/13/2005 - I#85)
"Get back over
there. The pith is trying to escape. Sit. Sandy, guard
the pith... grrrr. Hi. Never trust pith until it
has proven worthy in experience... ooops, is that pith?
Hmmm....
"So, strands and strings and continuities... but
what about anomalies. When the strands appear to ravel
out, what is that? Usually a point of juncture--a strand
intersecting with another strand--which produces the
potential for two new strands. You could have just AA or
BB, but you could also have AB and BA. Now, what happens
with three strands intersecting, and 4 and 5 and 6... and
oy vey. And what if strand B is strand A
doubling back on itself. The mind boggles and I’m
glad I don’t have one. Where would I keep it with no
body. ‘In a purse.’ CT!
"So, what we like to pretend is our strand may be
only the path along an infinite number of intersecting
threads. Hey man, those are some nice threads. His life
was threadbare. So, there’s the pith.
"Strands are connections, but they do not connect
us. They express or embody or connote connections. Does
the ink on a piece of paper contain the words, and do the
words contain the thought. They are vehicles--descriptors
but not essences. Without experiences there are not empty
strands, just no strands. Go ponder more."
(12/16/2005 - I#86)
"It's that day
again over there--a focal point of energy, a node on a
series of intersecting strands... huh. Yep, strings into
strands, which intersect--not in time, but in being. And
so you have holidays, which are the expression of the
pent up intersectional energies. Can't go too long
between holidays, otherwise the intersections would be
overwhelming--just as they are for people in grief who
deny the points of intersection while they grieve, and
then something comes along and
the pent up energies overwhelm them. Just as sleep is a
time for the release of spiritual energies pent up in
hours of physical focus, so holidays are a release for
routine times when the extraordinary is kept at bay by
the ordinary and necessary... ARF. No, bay not my
pooch... f... Santa Claws... grrrr.
Ponder. It's your Christmas pith... a gift pith.
"Everything is about energy... or not. For
non-physical, we have to get our dimensions somewhere.
Can't use space or time... have to use oregano."
(12/25/2005 - I#87)
"About going and leaving in a non-physical realm.
Obviously, we don't go somewhere else, we just don't
focus our connectional energy in that way. If we couldn't
focus our thoughts both in and out, we'd be surrounded
with spiritual din–undifferentiated noise or
spiritual chatter. We have spiritual squelch controls, so
to speak... over.
"So, we can differentiate as a way of not being
present to all. Otherwise, we'd go bonkers.
"So there's a tidbit more for those who want all the
details of spirit communications." (12/28/2005 -
I#88)
"You see, other
cultures offer more opportunities for energy release.
That's why some others seem more spiritual. They bring it
to the surface rather than pent it up. Here we don't, and
those who don't the most rise in society and live in
penthouses, but removed from everyday spirituality. So
don't get pent up or bent out.
"For example, take 5 weeks vacation and add in 2
weeks strikes and various holidays--Europe and India and
Swaziland and Iceland... but hold the ice. Releases and siestas
and midi. And we work at our vacations,
too." (12/28/2005 - I#89)
“The previous complexity level
was not 2-dimensional, it was other-dimensional, because
what you call dimensions are simply aspects of this
complexity. See, where I am there are no dimensions. Hard
to have dimensions without time since distance is a
function of time, of perception. Without time, the
farthest star is right here... no, it’s over
there?... no it’s here... no it’s not. Ponder
that.” (2/1/2006 - I#90)
“Over here we have spirits who don’t believe in
bodies. Our skeptics are spiritualists. And some
try to debunk the notion of a physical world if they
don’t remember. First-timers can be adamant:
“ ‘There is no death after death. You just are
and then you aren’t. Why dress it all up
with stories of bodies and sex and animals and pleasures
and food. That’s just to placate those who cannot
cope with the idea that after spirit there might only be
spirit. If it is so true, then show me some matter.’
“So there’s some sand, and the whole universe
in each grain. Grains of sand... like the Days of Our
Deaths: ‘Today Sandy will go into the spirit world
and meet Jessica, who is a great tycoon but has
amnesia’ (sand operas).” (3/22/2006 - I#91)
"Ok, awhile back someone there--no names--said they
didn’t think I was giving as much pith. And I just
want to set the record obscure.
“Archeology: You get this stratum and
it’s all new and full. And you analyze what’s
there and, after a while, ‘I’m waiting,
I’m waiting,’ you say, ‘not much new
here.’ And then you dig a little deeper, and
suddenly: A new stratum chuck full of chuck
bones (must have been a Groundhog Day ritual.) And so it
goes: stratum on stratum, layer on
layer, crap on crap.
“So we have strings and strands and strata.
We many have different layers, various strata...
‘or, as we say, stratavarius.’ CT! Go pluck out
your guts and make a bow. What, strings? Ooops. Pluck out
your beard and make a bow. Now go. Ok, where was I.
Beard, guts, violins, violences, layers, devils food
cakes, birthdays, newness... that’s it.
“There is always another level waiting, but you
can’t go there until you’re ready. So sit back,
ponder the latest.
“And remember, all physical representations are for
the purpose of illustration and do not imply factual
physical reality. Read the fine print.” (3/31/2006 -
I#92)
"It’s Rikkity’s University, where in just
5 sessions you can become spiritually equipt... ‘and
morally depraved.’ CT!
“The moral ambiguity of anything less than the
whole: Because unless you are the All of All That Is,
anything else is just situational because you don’t
know the whole picture. So take that, you moral
absolutists. How can your teeny little brains have
conceit enough to think you know universals. And if you
don’t know universals, how dare you judge
anything, except in context.
"In context, everything makes sense. And beyond
context, nothing makes sense except as part of the
universal. Such pith.” (4/21/2006 - I#93)
"Now let’s quiz the wonder dog... ARF. Sandy...
ARF... what is the meaning of life. Woof woof snap.
O, nihilism... grrr... existentialism... grr...
realism... arf. Sit... woof. Me, too?
Sure, ok.
“It’s all an allusion. Life is just a metaphor,
but it’s never a simile... I guess... or not. Like
why? Because it’s not like anything else.
But it can be sensed through reference to other things.
So life is a bowl of cherries--delicious but it has its
pits. But it is not like a bowl of cherries
because it doesn’t have a bowl.
“If you try to expand your spiritual understanding
by thinking what something is like, you don’t
expand. But if you sense what reminds you of this
spiritual that, then you can expand because you
understand that the spiritual is infinite. Everything can
point to everything else in a system, but not everything
is like everything else in a system.
“Sunsets may connect you to sunrises and to starry
nights, but they are not the same. A starry night is not
a sunset. Ok, ponder that. Compare and contrast.”
(4/23/2006 - I#94)
"Now, have you got it all straight? Strands of
strings, woven in a matrix beyond time, connecting all
points of reality. ‘Huh?’ CT! And without time,
there is also no up or down, right or left, because the
matrix has no edges. Mobius reality: self-contained but organic. So
it sustains itself and also is energized, but who knows
how?
“Maybe God is the big independent variable which, in
the end, turns out to be interdependent. Like a star
without any system to receive the energy is not much of a
star. Unless the energy goes somewhere else, the system
explodes and poof is gone. Black holes: Former
unused sources of energy... or not... or knot.
“And how can you tell a weave from a rat’s
nest? You can’t. The universe does not depend on
beauticians... even student beauticians. In other words,
by our simple definitions of order, the universe is a
mess if we could really see it. Such a mess! We see it as
orderly because our sense of order only allows us to see
the parts which fit our sense of order. I have pithed
enough.” (5/4/2006 - I#95)
"Nothing is certain but death and faxes <grin>
. So, do you risk or play it safe. Your lives hang on the
answer (spiritual lives). If it is something you desire
and don’t go for, you shut down the house of spirit.
“Sooo many get to the fork in the road and choose
neither. Every time we opt for what our spirits tell us,
we add a new layer of depth to our spirits--a sharpening
of focus of a facet. Dull people have dull facets--the
lines of identity get blurry. When we choose, we put
things into focus. Ever notice how once a choice is made,
everything seems clearer? That’s the realization of
this. So opt, decide, choose. Don’t let things just happen.
I am the master of my fate... ‘I am the captain of
my rowboat’... CT.
“But know that you are creating the life you will
learn from. Much easier to learn from what is chosen than
from what is imposed. I think that’s enough. Pax
Nabisco.” (9/9/2006 - I#96)
"See, nothing is
uni-dimensional or even bi-dimensional. And if you
don’t know all the dimensions, you can’t see
whatever it is totally.
“So always, ask not what your object is,
ask what dimensions of it you can’t see...
or can tse tse (it’s a joke on the fly).
“So much of life is understood--or I should say
misunderstood--because a dimension is missing. Or we
don’t know it’s missing.
“Thinking outside the box means thinking without
regard to a box shape or notion.
“So, when you have anything pinned down, take
another look--so to speak--from another vantage. Think
you have the perfect liberal answer, try looking at it
with conservative eyes. Keep honing it. Test it from many
perspectives. Test what you propose by doing what you
propose.” (10/8/2006 - I#97)
"He wants to know what
a cow was doing in a car on the interstate. You see,
sometimes our spirits project an image which is very
physical, and usually based on the pre-perceptions of the
viewer. So he saw me as a Jersey cow and I said ‘No
way, man, I’m a Holstein.’ Just a little tidbit
passed off as banter.
“Pre-perceptions are what certain spiritual vibes
were true in the physical world. So, I guess when he was
near Jersey cows he experienced some energy that I then
reminded him of. I am a cow. I identify myself as a
homobovine. There are some spiritual vibes that I share
with cudsuckers. Totems are not invented. But beware the
dwarf and the albino.
“And each of us also shares some spiritual vibes
with each and all classes of physical things. But you
knew this, since each person shares spiritual vibes with
a planet! If it’s true for planets, it’s also
true for flora and fauna, and even elements. We feel most
at home when we reside with those physical things we
share spiritual vibes with. And this is true of
everything--like grains. Some folks are wheat people and
others rye.
“We live in webs of spiritual energy that is
expressed in many forms. Enough. Seek, ponder, find. You
already know. And some are more universally connected
(hi, LD).
“Let go of dimensions. See the amorphous web of all
patterns.” (10/20/2006 - I#98)
"Now, let me explicate. I said ‘vibes’
because if I used any other term you would hear it in
physical terms. It is not physical, so
don’t talk energy or substance or vibrational
frequencies or polarities. Just think of connections
without connections. Can’t see ‘em, can’t
prove ‘em with science, but they be there and here
and there... but not here. There. Is that clear?
“Ponder nonphysical connection. There will be a quiz
on Tuesday. Ponder deeper, not just hide deep... moo.”
(10/27/2006 - I#99)
"So, about this 'vibe' connection. Can’t
measure it by the tools of the physical world. But the
physical can sense it. Soulmates allude to this.
“Those connections of spirit are an untapped
resource. And if and when you get glimpses of this, poof
next level... and a free meal at KFC (Kentucky Fried
Carma). It’s all transliteration.
“Love indicates but does not contain... hmmm.
In this level, we get indicators but sense not the
essence. We are pointed in the direction of experience
and understanding, but not possession and comprehension.
Already but not yet.” (11/3/2006 - I#100)
"It’s not sunny here because we’re not
physical. Now, we have already learned that the physical
is just a vehicle for the spiritual, but I think you are
ready for something more. The spiritual is just
the reflection of something else. And that
something else is connected to strings and threads and
etc.--patterns which are experienced spiritually but
which are not spiritual.
“Yes, the spiritual transcends the physical, but
something else transcends the spiritual, and I have no
name for it because it is two steps beyond the physical
realm of language. It can’t be expressed, only
hinted at. And it grows in complexity toward wholeness,
just as does spiritual thingies, but it is more than
spiritual, yet spirit is part of it.
“Ponder that! Just when you thought that
spirituality got you out of the traps of physicality, now
I come and say you need to think beyond
spirituality. In fact, spirit is as limiting a concept as
physical in the fullness of being. And guess what, that
'something other' which transcends spirit is equally
limited, so something transcends it. Yep,
turtles all the way up and down.
“Total All. But at the same total, bits and pieces
and expressions and reflections and whatevers and CTs...
‘Hi.’
“Ok, either the existence is infinite and so an
infinite pattern of expressions, or finite and a finite
set. But the experience of more than the one physical
existence implies more than 1. And it’s either 1 or
All. Can’t say it’s 382. 1 or All. And from any
limited finite perspective, it is impossible to detect
any real finite definitions. Just because you can
describe the box you’re in doesn’t mean the box
contains All, nor that your description describes
reality. It only describes the box as y’all
experience it. Don’t mistake the box for the All.
And every box--until it is without dimensions--is only a
piece of the All. Ponder this shit. I do. And so do most
of my friends... but not him. ‘No, he
doesn’t.’ I know. He just is, but
maybe he gets it... or not.
“Guantanamera... just came to me. It is so hard
being linear so we can talk. Vegematic... pet rock...
complete set.
“It can’t be 9345. Solidarity forever,
‘cause once you admit to more than 1
dimension but you do not exist in All, you have
a problem. You don’t know the extent beyond your own
experience. Say you live in a valley. If that is all you
take to exist, then that’s it: 1. But make the
mistake of trekking up the mountain and looking out, if
you see another valley with people in it, you can no
longer say 1 but you have to say more than 1. And saying
2 is not good enough or honest because once you know it
is not 1, you can’t say 382 or 9345. You have to say
All, because from your box you can only speak about your
box. Or if you sense that your box does not contain All,
you have to speak about All. 1 or All. I hurt my spirit
to consider this. So let’s just leave it there.
‘No, here.’ No, here. Put it down, CT.
‘Where.’ Here!
“Stretch the perceiving and reflective portions of
your beings.” (11/11/2006 - I#101)
"So, how many different planes of being are there:
physical, spiritual, and ? Here’s a real stumper:
Since numbers relate to physicality, the answer is not a
number. It’s not a word, but a perception, an idea,
a notion... notions and needles, first floor.
“Just imagine what is beyond your ability to name
and know--at least at this level. But amoebas can’t
name and know banana splits. They stall out about one
scoop, since they have no experience above 1.
“So we have a ten-base math system but three-toed
sloths have a three based system and amoebas a one-based
system... and LD, any system he wants. It is about
numbers at a certain point, but not before or after that
(using ‘before’ and ‘after’ in a
totally incorrect way, but you know what I mean because
that’s where use is).
“One of the reasons that some religions grow
irrelevant is that they use symbol systems, like
language, which no longer apply. Hebrew was great
thousands of years ago, but not now. And Arabic has no
root for the idea of democracy. And Illinoisians have no
word for mountain and ‘upland’ doesn’t cut
it.
“You can only truly experience what you have tools
to name; the rest is speculative... I guess. So do you
expand your edge of experience and look for ways to
communicate it, or do you expand ways to communicate and
see what experiences arise. Ponder that. Put it in a pot
and simmer for 18 hours or until tender.
“Or to put it another way, can you force your body
to digest a totally foreign substance, or does your body
need to change so you can expand your diet. A sudden
catastrophe, all normal foods are gone, who survives:
those who adapt to what’s left or those already
ready to digest what’s left. Chicken or egg?
That’s enough.” (11/16/2006 - I#102)
"So we were walking along the strand, stringing some
tourists. And yes, we get tourists here. Spirits of other
entities are curious. ‘You’re
curious, aren’t you, Daniel. I like that in
you.’
"And I go check out other spiritual realities, too.
Can’t say, because it’s beyond language. I
would have to use something like a metaphor or a glowing
simile. But I can’t... or won’t... or
you’re not ready for it... or you can’t handle
the truth. Just let it simmer.” (11/20/2006 - I#103)
"I was thinking about
language. Ok, I wasn’t thinking because I have no
brain, but I was doing deductive exercises of
sensation... or whatever.
“Take a word. Now, that word has an identity but it
also has a context. And it has an etymology with a
provenance of other language bases. So amorous
relates to love and to amo in Latin.
And so it could be ‘I am feeling amorous now’
or it could be ‘I don’t give a damn how amorous
you feel. Get lost.’
“And it also has side relations to other languages,
such as amore... ‘When the moon hits your
eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore’...
and amour. And just as it is related to those,
they also connect to the strand of amo running
through history. But sometimes words in different
languages are not from the same root. And sometimes they
are just freaks of appropriation. Just figure how the
word internet could get into Hebrew, but it has.
Just an illustration of strands and strings and relations
and patterns and evolving entities.
“There’s a reason we speak in this way, because
language mirrors reality. We can’t see what we
don’t have language for; true, but we can’t
make reality with made-up words. Newspeak will only last a short time. Just a Moo
ramble. Ponder it... and why Pond’s soap is so good
for your complexion. Can you put Pond’s cold cream
in the microwave.
“People in different linguistic strands. So, you can
think more like someone who speaks Spanish than Chinese,
but less so than one who speaks British... and Cockney,
guv ot don’t give us no botta, mon. Language, over
entities, is more determinant than race.”
(11/23/2006 - I#104)
"Entities are not physical. The universe is just one
big idea... or not. Maybe it’s 1.37.
“We are all expressions of a concept, and that
concept is being--which implies another universe
of nonbeing. But that’s too much for now,
but hinted at by entropy.
“A hug can be an idea and still be a hug, just as a
dog can be an idea and still be a dog... ARF.”
(11/28/2006 - I#105)
"Things grab physical beings. Try dying. We can
sense a chair, but not sit on it; it is
and it’s not. Its concept we keep,
not its substance. Aha, pith without planning.
“Ever see a practice pad, no sound. I learned in my
spirit and the spirit of the piano... or the concept of
the piano. You can think of things which do not exist but
by whose concept you can experience. The idea of peanut
butter sticks to the roof of your soul.
“Do not detachment, but lack of attachment--two
different concepts. One pushes away and the other chooses
not to grab. Affirm transience and know that what
endures, what persists, is not physical... except for
junk mail (just the idea, concepts you didn’t
solicit). But letting go of what you have allowed to hold
you brings new possibilities.” (1/8/2007 - I#106)
"Why is it that the so-called Transcendentalists were still time bound and looked back at
a more genuine past, when their own philosophy should
teach that every moment is in each moment. They could
understand this about a bit of the universal in every
particular--as in, God in each of us--but they did not
extend this to time or place. Pancake Transcendentalism,
lacking dimensions.
“But it’s the same old story: Transcend the
physical versus spiritual dualism in one area,
but not in the rest.
“Now of course, at this level of complexity
you’re not going to be able to do that, but you can
prep. If you can have a training bra, why not a training
spirit. Just because it doesn’t support anything yet
doesn’t mean it won’t. Such pith. Or (in a more
acceptable form) the words we learn at 6 or 7 do not yet
open us to the works of the philosophers, but if we do
not learn them even when we cannot use them for such
lofty purpose, we will never reach those heights. By the
time you are in eighth grade you have all the words you
need to probe the universe, but it takes decades to be
ready to use them in that way.
“So this level, like all levels, is a confirmation
that you fulfilled the prior level, and it’s its own
fulfillment, and it’s also preparation. Been there,
doing this, getting ready for that. And if you don’t
or can’t balance those three... well, you’ll
get many chances.” (2/23/2007 - I#107)
"In the movie The DaVinci
Code, I liked the
last scene with the multiple matrixes... or is it
matrixi... ‘or is it mattress’... CT.
“Now, picture an infinite number of such layers and
the layers running in all dimensions, and you’ve got
a metaphor for existence. That’s all the pith. You
can’t handle the pith, because it’s not
physical, and you can’t even think it. It is beyond
thought and touch, it is non-sensical. It’s
essential, at the heart of being.” (2/28/2007 -
I#108)
"Bodies are not all
they’re cracked up to be. In fact, all physical
entities are not what they’re cracked up to be. I
keep talking... yeah yeah, I know I have no lips... about
things in physical terms: levels of complexity and grids
and matrixes, etc. But those are metaphors, not
descriptions. Long ago, I talked about how a person from
Place A would describe Place B but it would be in terms
of Place A. I give you another example... no, I
don’t, he does.
MCP: “Hi-a. You-a go-a to Burano
and you com-a home and tell people about her. You say-a
‘She’s got-a these pretty-a doors and all is
color.’ But someone from Burano tells you about the
man down the street and the fish market and the little
garden. To them, the houses are the houses. See-a?"
“So every time you understand a model I share, go
‘Aha’ but also go ‘Yes, but that’s
not really it.’ Like the many dimensional matrixes
of being, which allowed you to see intersections and
paths, but if I told you it was more like consommé, it
would baffle you. ‘Huh... wha.’ But it is!
“Take a microscope to consommé and you see
intricate patterns, but look away and see a broth that is
itself in every delicious sip. ‘And now with 20%
less salt’... C.T.!
“At your level, you see your level in very detailed
physical terms, but step back and it’s all
consommé. And which is it, details or consommé.
It’s both! And a damn fine breathmint, too!
“Structures only support more structures, but the
whole is! Get it. Probably not and
probably so. The trick is to accept that the reality is
beyond your models of it but your models embrace it.
“But be wary of those who put spirit in boxes and
make everything physical. They aren’t wrong, but
they aren’t right, either. I have decided that either
will now be pronounced urther. Either way
it’s true. Ok, I rescind my spiritual order and
I’ll have a shake and fries. Just trying to bring
some chaos to an ordered world. Bringing chaos to the
world of presumption. Dr. Doubletalk, I presume. Why yes,
I am Stanley, Mr. Stanley Steamer. Pulled the rug out
from under him. Chaos is not disorder. Disorder implies
order. Chaos does not presume. Chaos makes a good
houseguest for the adventuresome... ARF... and Sandy.
“So there’s the pith and the dog... ARF.
He’s a pith bull... grrrrr. He’s part
pith bull and part retriever and mostly setter... woof...
hooowwwlll... and a little coyote.”
(3/20/2007 - I#109)
"Well, we’re just
not sitting (no bodies), talking (no lips and mouth)
about the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Did you know we
have no storage here. Where did he put it. This is
spirit. So he arrives and says ‘Hey guys,
what’s up. I’ve got this body he made me take
with me. What do I do?’ Damned if we knew. You
can’t leave it here. ‘O.’ And so the
infinite wise one misses the boat. But wait, this is just
a lesson from beyond... ooooOOOOoooo. So he
couldn’t have brought his body. And another
manufactured myth bites the dust we don’t have here.
We also don’t have chimichangas. Damn! But we can
pretend we do. And he can pretend he has his body.
‘And he calls it Loretta.’ No no, CT!
“And now, the news from angels: They are just
spirits like you and me... but not him. Since they have
no bodies, people imagine flight, but nooooo. ‘They
are faster than a speeding bullet.’ Wait, wait, give
that man a gag... mmmmmm. What. Mmmmmm.
Ok. They can’t and don’t fly, they
flit--spiritual flitting. I’ve got a flitting
headache. Flit you!
“Much of our nonphysicality is perceived as
superhuman abilities. Not the same, not by the hair on
your chinnie-chin-chin. When I say ‘angels are light
on their feet,’ I don’t mean feet nor light.
Ok, no mass; just energy. And when the energy becomes
mass, you are physical. But the sum of spirit and physic
are 1. And you don’t ever ever ever
want to be all physical--which implies, until the
ultimate oneness, you don’t ever ever ever
want to be totally spiritual, either.
“Spiritual evolution: Becoming a small little
speck--as opposed to a big speck--of matter. Read John
1:1 to 3. It is hinted,
but then they go off on this Jesus rap. Word; word
becomes matter; matter becomes spirit. Eternal struggle
for stability of each, resolved when all becomes
spirit--which is to say word, breath, spirit, same. I do
go on and on. ‘She does... mmmmmm.’”
(4/8/2007 - I#110)
"Let’s put it all together: Strings and strands
and noodles... o, haven’t I mentioned noodles.
Noodles are dried strands which, when enriched with
meaning, swell. So, they can look quite insignificant but
then, in other conditions, they are humongous--amazons of
flowing reality.
“Some strands are bound and some are noodles, and
together they create arrays and fabrics and quilts of
possibility. And it’s like one big mishmash with a
pattern. And meaning is in there, but it’s not
anywhere but only everywhere. And the pattern is
projected on it because it can’t have a pattern
because patterns rely on points, and I made a point about
that. So it’s a mishmash of strands and strings and
noodles which appears to have a pattern but is really a
continuum of meaning--flowing in the ever-changing
intersections. And that’s the whole of it and
I’m done and I retire! ARF. He does, too.
“Noodles swell just like the LIE gets bigger about 2am without changing
size. It is functionally bigger, while a back country
lane always seems the same--even on Sunday afternoons
with the tourists. So, ponder that!” (6/8/2007 -
I#111)
"Pondering for Points.
If one proceeds along the trajectory of the known, and
never pauses for some reflection; if someone keeps on the
move constantly, the great intersections which might have
been may never happen.
“Right now there is a nexus which might include you
in a deeply meaningful way, but if you proceed toward
goals and connections already perceived, the string which
might pass through your strand may just forever remain a
parallel possibility but not a reality.
“Yes, yes, yes I know, in the fullness of being all
the nexuses... or is it nexi... will be real, but maybe
what you need now is right there if you weren’t
striving to get somewhere else. The name of the game is
connections, not motion.
“Sometimes the rushing river must become the
tranquil pool, or else it will only be an erosive entity.
“That’s worth 27 points.” (6/26/2007 -
I#112)
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