Monday, November 21, 2011

How everything arises from the formless (but ever moving towards coherent order?!) randomness. Given a span of billions of years...randomness is like creative potential. Infinitely flexible in producing forms. Limitless in that it is not confined to any form. Even apparently finite forms (such as us, tables, particles, etc.) have their being, as it were, in the limitlessness of randomness. Randomness is empty because it is not really any of its forms. But true emptiness is in the fact that randomness so conceived is just form, while in reality it is anything but that which can be conceived of. And inconceivable is indeed what the experience of crossing the abyss of randomness to NowHere (nowhere/now here) is.

Psychedelic Prayers, Timothy Leary

"...But that crucial non-game terror-reverence aweful moment comes...
There comes a time when the ecstatic cry is called for.
At that time, you must be ready to pray.
To go beyond yourself. To contact energy beyond your game.
At that time you must be ready to pray.
When you have lost the need to pray....
Your are a dead man in a world of dead symbols.
Pray for life.
Pray for life."

Happy Birthday

This is a conversational process. Only in this way will we ever get anywhere with this. 
You get what you put in.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

I embrace ordinary consciousness and everyday life.
What I loathe is normality. Normality is banality. It's a sickness of the constriction of the imaginative faculties.
Ordinary consciousness is mythic. It is the stuff of life. A life that is nothing special and just ordinary. This is magical.
But a life that is devoid of good wholesome ordinariness is a gray wasteland of for the walking dead.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Sublime Flow

Connect with God or nature.
Chapter Four and Chapter Ten of the 50th Law. Bring them together, and it's what I'm trying to tell you.
If you experience the sublime then you will not only flow with your own talents but with the flow outside you. I'm not thinking about your talents. I'm thinking about the flow of your business, your connection with everyone around, the path of your career.
Like a surfer becoming one with the ocean, it must be like.
You've mastered everything else. Watch from 2:30

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Perhaps It's Best to Put It In Religious Terms

We must accept Him as our Lord and savior. 
There can be no other way. Through the grace of God we are then lifted out of our darkness and we are changed from the inside-out.
Before the Lord we must give up our life. Not one drop shall go to waste.
If only we have the courage of our conviction, then will God bestow upon us His grace.
We must therefore submit to Him completely. For it is not our will, but His that is to be done. 
Forever and ever. Amen.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Stochasticism

Stochastic process is the process of discovering/creating order out of random chaos.
I think broadly speaking we can say that our brains are good for two things: To experience chaos, and to discover/create order.
I think this is the future of intelligence intensification. People speak of synergy, syntropy, consciousness expansion, and intelligence intensification. I think it is a call to discover/create higher and higher coherence. Self-awareness is central to this process.

The cultural conversation I'm proposing is for this purpose of realizing higher and higher coherence.

To Start With

Equilibrium is the basis of work. The Ancients spoke of four basic elements: earth, water, air, and fire.
Earth corresponds to the body. The body is the temple. It is the foundation of all work. Water is emotions. Air is the intellect. And fire, will.
The qualities of the four elements themselves can have corresponding aspects in the body. Earth is the heavy sensation, the bones, etc. Water is the fluidity. Air is the lighter aspect. Fire is body heat and energy. All of these must be balanced in the body. There are some exercises to do this. I can dig it up upon request. But it's not that important here.
First thing first. The body and its immediate environment should be purified, kept clean.

And then there's emotional foundation. To discuss virtues is essential to building an emotional foundation. The art of life is to navigate through chaos. Cybernetics literally means steersman. Life steers itself through chaos via continuous feedback. High quality conversation is therefore vitally important to survival and success.

So in chaos I say there are no guarantees. Therefore it makes sense to go for the most bounty yielding goal and that is self-becoming. No guarantees, only probabilities. Become who you really are then.
Then as Leary says, harmonize external success with internal achievements.
He also said, grow with the flow.
What flow? The flow of chaos!

Arete

So as I said, Socrates said have people around whom you can discuss virtue with everyday.
To do this you have to participate in the conversation. It can't be a passive activity like reading a book. Why is this necessary? Because we have to consciously make a decision everyday about what to be and do. It's not enough to be aware of some values.
Are there eternally valid values? Even if there are, are there any formulaic approach that allows us to understand how to apply values correctly in every situation? I argue both are not possible. We hence must examine, re-examine are values everyday.
And this is what the intellectual conversation is doing on a large scale. It's not that there is a God that oversees the affairs of men. In the pragmatist view, the best we can hope for is to continuously come up with better suggestions as to what kind of future we want. It works as a cybernetic organism. We develop ourselves through continual feedback.

We must choose wisely everyday of our lives. To build up cultures we must intensify feedback loops. Yet how many companies really invest in this process?
Virtue is the foundation of life in society. Without it we become lost, unstable, failures.
Again, it's not enough to read books. Every moment is unique. Therefore we must continually feed ourselves with feedback and actively engage with it. So then, let us discuss virtue.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Power

Don't be a turkey to complexity.

Feeling good and having fun is the greatest sin.

Balance Saturn and the death instinct with Jupiter.

We must humble our intellects before complexity. That does not mean we should suppress our appetite for life.
On the contrary, we need to become more aggressively creative problem solvers. We need to be able to identify real threats and work on them. Avoid being a turkey.

If you're curtailing your quality of life and condemn yourself for being a greedy little animal, you've already allowed yourself to be brainwashed by religions worshiping scarcity, slavery and misery.

Instead we ought to go for abundance, intelligence, pleasure, stochastic experimentation, and power.

What we should perhaps curtail is intellectual arrogance, gullibility, dogma, being quick to judge things.

Gaia Philosophy: The future of humanity upon this Earth and beyond, the Holy Trinity, and the new consciousness of Jupiter rising

Genius shall be the meaning of Gaia!

This is my magickal motto. A magickal motto is the highest expression of an aspirant's aspiration. For Aleister Crowley it was, "I shall endure unto the end". For Nietzsche it was, "The overman shall be the meaning of the earth!". The nature of the motto is as Da Vinci put it, "There is no higher mastery than self-mastery." Amen.

Let me explain the terms. Genius is what the Greeks called daemon. It is divine inspiration. I correspond this to the Christian son of the holy trinity. In my chaotopia the Lord is known as Felix. Gaia is then the holy spirit. Gaia and Felix implies the relationship between the human being and the solar system. To realize this knowledge and conversation is self-mastery. This is the purpose of the Great Work.

Then there is Chaos. In Greek cosmogony Chaos is the formless void before all creation. Gaia is the daughter of Chaos. I correspond Chaos with the ineffable and eternal Tao, and Gaia with the Tao that can be spoken and the mother of the ten-thousand things. To realize Chaos is to be the Ipsissimus. To realize the knowledge and conversation with Gaia is to attain the grade of Magus. The Magus is the one who can utter the Logos. Thus I consider Terence McKenna and Derrida to have been tapping into the insights of the Magus. In yoga this would be the Ajna chakra. Chaos would be the Sahasrara, as Jung rightly understood.

Ralph Abraham presented his Holy Trinity: Chaos, Gaia, Eros.
Eros for me corresponds to Felix. It is the fuller understanding of the sacred nature of human sexuality rather than the very limited concept of the Id.

The issue of correspondence is difficult and I can only sketch out very briefly the mythological connections.

The issue I have today is with poverty consciousness, or Saturn consciousness. In the face of environmental catastrophe many people have been advocating Saturn consciousness of contraction. Basically people are saying we should consume less, live with less, that there is something wrong with materialism and capitalism. There is something wrong indeed. But I think poverty consciousness is dangerous now. We in fact need more Jupiter consciousness. Jupiter is expansion, whereas Saturn is contraction. We have been living with excess Saturn consciousness for far too long.
Living humbly does not mean living with material impoverishment. On the other hand I think that debauchery and baby-boomer style consumerism is also a manifestation of impoverished consciousness. The only thing that expanded were options, not people's consciousness.
If humanity is to live in harmony with Gaia, and eventually perhaps out into space then what we need is more Jupiter consciousness. This I call wealth consciousness. And true wealth consciousness is not blind consumerism but intelligent mastery of co-existence with the environment. I've argued elsewhere that the human brain evolved to do  just this. Think evolution, in a general overview manner. Life proliferates on Earth. One of the principle process of evolution of course is natural selection. Natural selection says that it is not the strongest but the fittest that survives. Is it any wonder then that humans have thrived to become 7 billion strong for thousands of years thus far? The most adaptable shall inherit the Earth.
Intelligence is flexibility, adaptability. We are problem solvers. Saturn consciousness provides the necessary rigid discipline to survive. But it is Jupiter consciousness that actually solves problems.Curtailing human appetite is counter-productive and dangerous. If we don't solve problems now, there may be no future for humanity. Abundance is intelligent living with the environment. We need better technology, better trade systems, more and more solutions. Big solutions. Greater stochastic tinkering should be called for.
More intelligence, more solutions.