You’ve gone full Tyson Yunkaporta here and I love it. The writing is sincere and febrile all at once.
Also, despite it being not as good as his OG Dark Materials I’m getting a nice whiff of ‘secret commonwealth’. Especially when you quoted Rowson on his stunning intro to the imagination realm via the metacrisis.
Ah, still havent picked sand talk up from my wall o books. I should. Tho - what would be his dark materials? Or is that a title I can't seem to find online you could point me to?
His writing is janky, rambling and is less-than-(or more than)-sober. That lack of sobriety, for me, an energising experience. He’s deliberately gesturing at the power of the sacred symbols passed onto him by Elders.
That’s the link to Phillip Pullman’s Dark Materials. Pullman is drawing on Robert Kirk’s term for a faerie world that lives ever so slightly out of first glance. I take it to be an imaginal realm of intentions and possibility. Pullman in his most recent book almost directly calls it a ‘field’.
What’s wonderful is that both Yunkaporta and Pullman are trafficking in nonsense. 67, if you will. And that kind of nonsense is orthogonal to well meaning people who then recruit ‘religion’ or ‘Indigenous thinking’ to make it all make sense again. That’s how I read you: engineering for meaning is exactly arse about.
As popular writers (Pullman genuinely so) they mostly refuse to ex-plain. Which was a key part of your essay that lit an insight for me. Now, I’m at risk of over explaining! Thanks for the essay!
I feel this because my “breakdown to breakthrough” contract apparently stipulates that I crisis
as we crisis…
I know that I am trauma ‘brain rotting’ (which is the root of it all).
I am in the barrel roll of the Law of Equivalent Exchange & giving up sense in this most nonsensical of dimensions. So I can see clearly & embrace reality & enjoy how fucking good that feels to be in alignment.
I know I am appearing as more cray cray & whatever. How I appear is so irrelevant to what I am experiencing. Which is not how we do here.
I like your prose. Quite articulate, artful. I also want to emphasize that any concept that is referenced by your words can ONLY have meaning or relevance or signification or significance or legitimacy or consequence IF we have some experience to reference by it. I agree that crises are meaningful and indicative of growth / re-emergence of more coherence. I also think that 67 and divinity do signal something specific and relevant and experiential, and that we can communicate about it.
The internet has broken language so badly that it’s actually becoming a form of "speaking in tongues." Instead of worrying that nothing makes sense anymore, we should celebrate it as a new kind of global, digital religion that binds us through shared absurdity rather than shared facts.
Skrilla (in an interview about the meaning of 6/7): "it came from my brain"
Great post! Thanks for the mention…Let’s talk, or sing, or something…
You’ve gone full Tyson Yunkaporta here and I love it. The writing is sincere and febrile all at once.
Also, despite it being not as good as his OG Dark Materials I’m getting a nice whiff of ‘secret commonwealth’. Especially when you quoted Rowson on his stunning intro to the imagination realm via the metacrisis.
Ah, still havent picked sand talk up from my wall o books. I should. Tho - what would be his dark materials? Or is that a title I can't seem to find online you could point me to?
Yeah, I think Sandtalk is well worth a look.
His writing is janky, rambling and is less-than-(or more than)-sober. That lack of sobriety, for me, an energising experience. He’s deliberately gesturing at the power of the sacred symbols passed onto him by Elders.
That’s the link to Phillip Pullman’s Dark Materials. Pullman is drawing on Robert Kirk’s term for a faerie world that lives ever so slightly out of first glance. I take it to be an imaginal realm of intentions and possibility. Pullman in his most recent book almost directly calls it a ‘field’.
What’s wonderful is that both Yunkaporta and Pullman are trafficking in nonsense. 67, if you will. And that kind of nonsense is orthogonal to well meaning people who then recruit ‘religion’ or ‘Indigenous thinking’ to make it all make sense again. That’s how I read you: engineering for meaning is exactly arse about.
As popular writers (Pullman genuinely so) they mostly refuse to ex-plain. Which was a key part of your essay that lit an insight for me. Now, I’m at risk of over explaining! Thanks for the essay!
Magnificent, Alexander Ebert, I'm so glad you wrote, published, and shared this with us all.
"Just press publish"... just press publish... just press publish.
Heck yes, and indeed you did!
You describe a form of tantra appropriate to the current moment.
Online tongues decay
Sacred moves on profane streets
Brain rot as laughter
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Copy pasta chants
Semantic sensory fail
Algorithmic base
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Sixty seven hum
Five hundred twenty eight hertz
A sound dies to live
Nice summary.
You give me words to say the word-less. Like sometimes only art can say it. 🤗
This is great, thank you
I feel this because my “breakdown to breakthrough” contract apparently stipulates that I crisis
as we crisis…
I know that I am trauma ‘brain rotting’ (which is the root of it all).
I am in the barrel roll of the Law of Equivalent Exchange & giving up sense in this most nonsensical of dimensions. So I can see clearly & embrace reality & enjoy how fucking good that feels to be in alignment.
I know I am appearing as more cray cray & whatever. How I appear is so irrelevant to what I am experiencing. Which is not how we do here.
This is hard!
Please find some references which are very much about Sacred Culture Light & "Matter" too.
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds16.html The Miracle of "Matter" & Reality as Indivisible Conscious Light
http://www.kneeoflistening.com/chapter-one/6 The Incarnation of Conscious light
http://beezone.com/current/ewb_pp436-459.html The Enlightenment of the Whole Body
http://beezone.com/current/whenbodyfulllight.html When the Body Is Full of Light
http://beezone.com/current/christ_equals_emsquared.html Christ & Quantum Reality
http://beezone.com/baptism-of-immortal-happiness The Baptism of Immortal Happiness
http://beezone.com/adida/god-is-not-elsewhere.html
http://www.daplastique.com/essay/the-maze-of-ecstasy
I like your prose. Quite articulate, artful. I also want to emphasize that any concept that is referenced by your words can ONLY have meaning or relevance or signification or significance or legitimacy or consequence IF we have some experience to reference by it. I agree that crises are meaningful and indicative of growth / re-emergence of more coherence. I also think that 67 and divinity do signal something specific and relevant and experiential, and that we can communicate about it.
The internet has broken language so badly that it’s actually becoming a form of "speaking in tongues." Instead of worrying that nothing makes sense anymore, we should celebrate it as a new kind of global, digital religion that binds us through shared absurdity rather than shared facts.