Pandaemonaeon

There is no joy in the ego-mania of the singular self in the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon.
There is no honor in simply being the socially conditioned self. Power and freedom lies in our ability to create ourselves.
Simplicity is a necessary illusion. It is fragile and extremely limited in domain. In fact simplicity is always an implicit lie in that we must suppress a limitless number of information.
Complexity, disorder, and chaos are always larger, so much larger that in fact simplicity appears as an illusion in its wake. But don't be deceived here...chaos too is an illusion. Both order and disorder are illusions.
We are the blind Fool who falls blindly into the pits of Chaos. We are the illusionist who conjures forth infinite worlds.
Infinite humility and infinite exaltation are not mutually exclusive. Health and disease are not mutually exclusive. Everything is an aspect of the great stream of Chaos. Chaos, or God itself is an illusion we've conjured up. Plunge into Chaos and the illusion is dispersed. So happy Halloween!

Dale Carnegie

Your heart pumps enough blood through your body every day to fill a railway tank car. It exerts enough energy every twenty-four hours to shovel twenty tons of coal onto a platform three feet high. It does this incredible amount of work for fifty, seventy, or maybe ninety years. How can it stand it? Dr. Walter B. Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, explained it. He said “Most people have the idea that the heart is working all the time. As a matter of fact, there is a definite rest period after each contraction. When beating at a moderate rate of seventy pulses per minute, the heart is actually working only nine hours out of the twenty-four. In the aggregate its rest periods total a full fifteen hours per day.

Clean Air

People used to come into my room and complain about the moldy smell. When Aki used to visit me, her atopic condition got worse. Mold of course is dangerous to your health. Ever since I started using the air purifier no one smells the mold anymore. And the room is dust free. Dust is not good for lung health either, especially as we sleep on the floor in Japan. We breathe in a lot more dust than we do on beds. 

There are all kinds of hazardous contaminants in the air. On top of that, at the office people are smoking. 

If you go to cafes and restaurants in Japan where smoking is allowed, you'll almost always find that they have an air purifier. I sometimes check out what type they have. They usually have a more powerful type than mine, but I don't smoke in my room so it makes sense. 

We shouldn't take air quality for granted, especially in Tokyo. And once the cafe is running it'll make sense to invest in a purifier anyhow. 

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Felix's Post-Foundationalist, Pragmatist Ideas of Progress and Wealth

Many people are afraid of knowledge, power, wealth and riches, extreme experiences and behaviors. The masses of the people are generally conservative. But knowledge, power, wealth, etc. are what is necessary for mastering our environments and circumstances. We have evolved a large brain for these purposes. 

Of course we have to become more aware of the interconnected nature of our existence, the inseparability of opposites, the continuum of cause and effect, etc. This interconnected, interpenetrating, interdependent, continuous phenomenon of existence is the larger context within which we must seek and utilize greater knowledge, power, and abundance. 

In our cultural dialogues, I want to steer our conversations in these directions more. Let our futures be the intelligent living with the environment. Poverty is a stupid and outmoded way of thinking. Let us steer away from it. We have wallowed long enough in poverty. And there is no stopping to human stochastic tinkering. It is in our nature. We are homo sapiens...tool users. We have evolved to tinker. So let us do it intelligently. This is true wealth. 

Integration

Get a great PR. Integrate Y-san. Use various tactics to minimize her damage, yet keeping her happy, and helping her communicate better.

Magic - Prometheus

Jupiter

"Wealth is not to be measured in terms of assets, but rather in terms of how much control over people and material, and thus ultimately one's own experiences, one achieves by economic activities. Money is an abstract concept used to quantify economic activity, thus wealth is a measure of how well you control your experiences with money. Assuming that varied, exciting, unusual and stimulating experiences are preferable to dull ones, and that they tend to be expensive for this reason, then the main problem for most people is to find a highly efficient form of money input which has the above agreeable qualities. The aim of wealth magic is to establish a large turnover of money which allows agreeable experiences at both the input and output stages. This demands what is called Money Consciousness.
Money has acquired all the characteristics of a "spiritual" being. It is invisible and intangible, coinage, notes and electronic numbers are not money. They are merely representations or talismans of something which economists cannot coherently define. Yet although it is itself intangible and invisible it can create powerful effects on reality. Money has its own personality and idiosyncratic tastes, it avoids those who blaspheme it, and flows towards those who treat it in the way it likes. In a suitable environment it will even reproduce itself. The nature of the money spirit is movement, money likes to move. If it is hoarded and not used, it slowly dies. Money thus prefers to manifest as turnover rather than as unexploited assets. Monies surplus to immediate pleasure should be re-invested as a further evocation, but the truly money conscious find that even their pleasures make money for them. Money consciousness gets paid to enjoy itself. Those in money consciousness are by nature generous. Offer them an interesting investment and they will offer you a fortune. Just don't ask for small cash handouts.
The attainment of money consciousness and the invokation of the Wealth-self consists of the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of the predilections of the spirit of money and a thorough exploration of personal desires. When both of these have been understood, real wealth manifests effortlessly.
Such invocations must be handled with care. The blue gnosis of wealth and desire creates demons as easily as gods. Many contemporary success and sales seminars concentrate on creating an hysterical desire for money coupled with an equally hypertrophied desire for the mere symbols of wealth rather than the experiences the punters actually want. To work like a possessed maniac all day for the questionable pleasure of drinking oneself into near oblivion on vintage champagne every night, is to have missed the point entirely and to have a entered a condition of anti-wealth.
However, the majority of those who are poor in relatively free societies where others are rich, owe their poverty either to a lack of understanding of how money behaves, or to negative feelings which tend to repel it. Neither intelligence nor investment capital are required in any great degree to become wealthy. The popularity of tales about the misery and misfortunes of the rich is testimony to the ridiculous myth prevalent amongst the poor, that the rich are unhappy. Before beginning works of blue magic it is essential to seriously examine all negative thoughts and feelings about money and to exorcise them. Most of the poor people who win in lotteries, and only the poor regularly enter them, manage to have nothing to show for it a couple years later. It is as if some subconscious force somehow got rid of something they felt they did not really deserve or want. People tend to have the degree of wealth that they deeply believe they should have. Blue magic is the modification of that belief through ritual enactment of alternative beliefs."
--P.C.

Orate, don't debate.

Holy shit, yesterday I had to get off at Meidaimae. Spewed out vomit and filth.

Suffering is a curious thing. At some point too much suffering makes you humble because you just don't give a fuck about anything anymore. Life is too short and it motivates me to realize my ambitions all the more. 

On Duty

We each have a path that is unique unto us. We must respect that uniqueness. We must find our voice, and then inspire others to find their voice. But in trying to inspire others to find their voice, we must take utmost care not to interfere in their path with our own vision. Each person has an orbit that is necessary and unique unto them.

Thus to an artist arrogant enough to impose his worldview upon others a salaryman may seem immoral and disgusting. Why waste your life away with work? So what if you have a family, what is good about family anyway? But then to the salaryman an artist may seem lazy, decadent, disrespectful of family values, social values, corporate values.

This is all limiting.

A good artist is indeed lazy. He needs abundant sensuality. The libertine deliberately shunned family values and social responsibility. So do Buddhist monks and Hindu sadhus. 

A good doctor is on time, responsible, honest, ethical, clean. He must inspire trust.

A good philosopher is self-critical, self-doubting, self-reflecting. His specialty is world-weary humor and wisdom. 

A good entrepreneur is able to shut out self-doubt, yet open to criticism from time to time. He leads an active life and has a high sense of responsibility for others. 

For me, my moral sensitivity has led me from an intense individualistic ethic (I was a budding libertine when I was 20, 21yrs old) to a more relaxed morality. Intensity is good. But intensity also tends to shut out certain aspects of the chaos that I don't want to miss. Any ethical system is just an interpretation of the chaos of existence. In doing so it separates chaos from that which is moral and that which is immoral. Inside and outside. I find great value, a very humanizing value, in relaxing my morals and feel out the chaos with loose boundaries between good and evil. 

Interestingly Markus seems to be like this. He does it well. But somehow I feel safer with you. People on the long run I think trust you, Proteus, more because of your intense convictions. Your integrity will not be compromised so easily when the going gets hard. I'll be interested to see how Markus will act in times of trouble. 

Moral frameworks shift according to individual fitness.
Ethics evolve through social dialogues. 
Moral dilemmas can not be resolved. But we can gain a higher sensitivity to moral issues through conversations.
There are no moral absolutes. Life is open-ended. Chaos is amoral.
Kantian imperative and utilitarianism are just options. Faced with a moral dilemma, the best we can opt for is to meet it with moral sensitivity.
Moral dilemmas provide valuable examples for discussions. Exploring them yields higher moral sensitivity.
No moral absolutes means morality is fragile. But the fragility of the moral life makes it worthwhile to live a moral life. 

The Week

This week is about opening up vast channels of communication between all of us.
This means creating communication synergies.
So let's talk a lot this week.

Write here for me in concrete terms the objectives of this week.

Let me say some things about me. We have to talk about personal issues too. This is how we create synergies and trust, fast.
I need to be understood that I'm not out of touch with the business realities as much as I may seem. Last we talked on Skype I felt inspired to take part in the meetings for this week from the start. I saw concretely what the future may hold...with Marono, with the office, etc.
I fully understand the dire implications of this week.
When I talk about my art, it's important too. I fully intend to participate as much as I can this week. I don't even think about what might happen to me next month. Look, I've always considered that our fates are interlocked. My art, when it manifests it will be the result of all that we've done together.

Since nobody has really seen my art before it remains something only I can keep alive. Of course you keep it alive economically. I have to keep it afloat. This week it means just a few hours is enough for me to keep the flow going. It's not a problem at all. The only thing is it's in the overall interest for all of us that I insist on its integrity. So I just need you to understand how seriously I take my artistic process. It's like a delicate alchemy process...and eventually I'll produce the gold, the philosopher's stone.

So this week let's do something special. I talk to you about my life, you talk to me about your life. Personal stuff. It'll create deeper synergies and shall show up in our work this week. You, me, Dominic, Yasuko, the trend scouts...

Nature Loves Courage

scent of a woman - frank slade's final speech