Your Mind is Windsurfing on the Sea of Time, But the Wind is No One's

Sometimes it easy to dismiss my ravings as erroneous hunches with little concrete evidence. But to be honest I write only what I know to be true for myself and speculate openly with little attachment to one idea or another. One of the ideas that I have enjoyed entertaining is that the information age is a hippie brain-child and that the technological singularity would bring it full circle to a fulfillment of a mythic destiny for earth. That went along with how I was always sure Steve Jobs has to have done acid, perhaps while he was at Reed here in Portland. It just made sense to me. The geometry of popular culture is usually either very rigid or very organic and I never thought Steve Jobs was some sort of genius as much as he was simply good at listening to the world around him and being open to curved edges through the curves of his own mind. Well now I have been vindicated. This is a 1996 quote by Steve Jobs about Bill Gates from Pingdom:

• I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
  

What is an Open-Source Reality?

A computer is a machine which uses the most basic juxtaposition in existence in order to express a potentially infinite variety of perturbations. Perturbations of what juxtaposition? Opposites, naturally. This makes it perfect as an analogy for causality, especially when critically analyzing society. The open-source software issue is perhaps the most concrete example of a far larger, more abstract, and inherent issue to our world.

Here are the dimensions of computer code:

• Binary
• Machine language
• Programming language
• User language

Binary is wrapped up in machine language, which is wrapped up in programming language, which is wrapped up in user language.

Binary can be interpreted by any number of machine languages, which can be interpreted by any number of programming languages, which can be interpreted by any number of user languages, which can in turn be read and edited by an infinite variety of individuals.

Keep this in mind as you consider that any individual's reality is the juxtaposition between their internal reality and their external reality. In other words, our choices are both the result of the momentum of our thoughts and the momentum of our society, which are interdependent.

A user language is an upbringing, a programming language is a nationality, a machine language is a belief system, and binary is the awareness of universal opposites.

If a woman wants to marry another woman, for example, she may have to transcend the limits of her upbringing, nationality, belief system, and awareness of opposites in order to do so. To her advantage, though, is the inherent transcendence of opposites expressed through the way her homosexuality contrasts with the society around her. If she were to become open about it she would be a force of transcendence for other homosexuals because she would be showing them how to read the source code of their reality, thereby enabling them to edit it with their own choices.

If a woman wants to be able to free her schizophrenic brother from his difficulty in distinguishing between the opposites of reality and fantasy, she must discover how to read the source code of the illness through neuroanatomy and then perhaps edit it, thereby curing it on his behalf. To her advantage would be her close familiarity with the dysfunction. Jill Bolte Taylor is one such woman who, on her lifelong quest to better understand the brain, suffered a massive stroke directly in the heart of her language and logic center and lived to describe it in exquisite scientific detail as a glimpse of nirvana.

An open-source reality is the equality of opportunity for all individuals to know the source codes of causality and unify their internal and external realities, thereby knowing true freedom.

No One Really Dies if We All Share The Same Soul

The belief in God is not the belief in God if God does not exist.

It is merely, then, the adherence of a truly limitless consciousness channeled from within the right brain to a structure of false limitations within the left brain.

This consciousness is not dependent on the body for survival and therefore carries with it an individual's sense of the eternal. It is characterized by its undefinable presence and its stewardship of subjective input.

An atheist may call this their humanity, ability to appreciate art, or a roaring success for natural selection's foray into complexity, which are all true.

If the left brain is possessed by an ego, as almost all are, its momentum of definition may necessitate that this limitless consciousness be split into the diametrical limitations of 'God' and 'self,' followed by a reconciliation of their respective transcendent characteristics:

• The 'self' label would assume the characteristics of the 'steward of input' and become synonymous with the 'soul' label.

• The 'God' label would assume the characteristics of the undefinable presence and be expected to judge the 'soul' according to its stewardship of input upon the body's final deterioration.

Ironically, the mind then attributes mysterious phenomena to acts of 'God' while they are in fact just distant extensions of the very consciousness observing them.

The mind's ability to ask questions it is not capable of answering naturally submits it to manipulation from authoritative figures which become analogous to 'God' and effortlessly turn an individual's fear of death and the unknown into a method of control. The authorities are equally as possessed by their egos, however, and reflect this disproportion in their manipulation of reality beyond their familiarity with the consequences.

One alternative to letting mystery be distilled by authority is to become comfortable with it first hand. An individual's 'personal God' can be derived directly from the natural environment as I have exemplified in my previous post, The Boddhi Tree is a Schedule One Controlled Substance.

This paradoxical era of illusory separateness is analogous to Christ's three days in 'hell' and will probably end once the human brain is reverse engineered.

The Boddhi Tree is a Schedule One Controlled Substance

Every now and then I hear people in power speak their minds. Most of the time it's seems to be rather erroneous and maddening no matter their side of the isle, especially when it comes to the drug war. See here:

"People don't use drugs accidentally. They use them for self medication and for coping with life...I don't see a lot of recreational marijuana users any longer."
- William Janes, Florida’s director of the Office of Drug Control

Janes cited more faith-based involvement as well as more extensive measures in the Drug Free Workplace initiatives as solutions to the nation's drug problem.

It's hard to know where to begin with this.
Let's start with the meaning of "recreation" and how it can be used to replace "faith."

"Refreshment of one's mind or body after work through activity that amuses or stimulates; play."
- American Heritage

"Literally, to create again something that once existed or is believed to have existed but which no longer survives."
- Oxford

"Sometimes its use implies that the activities have positive value in terms of mental and physical therapy."
- Oxford

I will use these references later, as now I must touch on the idea that faith-based initiatives are a solution.

Faith is a contrived abstraction of what is concretely available in psychedelics, which are usually derived form either either fungi or flora that have been in existence longer than humanity. I was personally freed from organized religion by Sam Harris' The End of Faith and was freed from the subsequent debilitating nihilism by psychedelics.

Now to the supposed difference between "recreation" and "coping."

It is well known with many Beatles aficionados that John Lennon took LSD to escape the trials of fame and stress and thereby reconnect with the part of himself that produced the most authentic art.

Have you noticed the way some artists get out of touch with that part of themselves that is most authentic and creative once they have become rich and famous? This is not a coincidence. Nor is it a coincidence that Lennon's songwriting improved as the Beatles got older. The difference between Love Me Do and Tomorrow Never Knows is almost the difference between two completely different bands.

Allow me to describe what, exactly, takes place in this particular process. My ability to describe this is made possible by the inherent similarities in how all individuals experience and integrate altered states of consciousness.

When I recreationally use mind-altering compounds I am simultaneously doing two interrelated things; coping and recreation. Here I describe them in their true, singular context using the dictionary definitions above:

I am refreshing my mind by stimulating it beyond its ability to maintain a sense of self, which is where emotional baggage is anchored.

I am creating again the knowledge which no longer survives that All are One and One is All.

I am therapeutically exercising my sense and understanding of the unknown and undefinable.

There is no difference between "coping" and "recreation" in a world built of lies.

I shall not ask the establishment which forms of recreation are permitted because the establishment itself is the embodiment of an exile from true recreation.

As far as drug-free workplaces go, it is a no-brainer that wage slavery requires mental slavery.

Part Two of Today's Joseph Campbell Inspirations

Dear Robert Mugabe:

"The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today."
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

To clarify, Mugabe has always been a polarizing and divisive figure, but his power-intoxication has pushed it to epic proportions.

Evolution Is A Chemical Reaction In Four Dimensions

What do fatal human difficulties and ecstatic joy have in common?

They are both expressions of a schism in the consistency between environmental complexity and the complexity of natural selection in humans. In other words, the Darwinian rules have changed since before addiction and suicide, for example; when society, culture and language did not yet exist.

This change was simply the initiation of natural selection's causality into a more abstract and powerful realm. An individual is not physically attached to what they are addicted to or to their suicidal stimulus; people follow the momentum of their thoughts, most of which are older than them and outlive them as well, like religion or genetic predisposition for schizophrenia.

It is not as if lesser animals cannot become addicted to a substance, the addiction merely manifests itself as a co-evolution like bees to pollen. When co-evolution does not occur, as in the case of addiction, it is because the environmental context, such as an institutional drug war, is operating inconsistently relative to the default, structureless context of any individual who would otherwise be free to utilize a novel compound instead of be enslaved to it like much of the natural world and numerous indigenous populations.

Researchers are increasingly realizing, as another example, that cancer is the result of aberrant environmental influences. There is nothing evolutionary about a tumor - it is an unconscious genetic rebellion that directly results from its limited resilience to our wildly overconfident industrial tampering. Or as Caitlin astutely noted, "why do they want me to mail in the tops of my yogurt for cancer research when the yogurt comes in cancerous, non-recyclable plastic?"

Now picture a double-helix of causality:

An abstract cause to a concrete effect is the feeling of romance to a wedding day, though the feeling of romance does not always result in a wedding.
A concrete cause to an abstract effect to pair with this is dopamine surges to the feeling of joy at the altar, though years of dopamine surges do not always culminate in the ecstatic joy made possible at the altar.

So when we ask "why," we are really asking an abstract form of "how," and when we are asking "how," we are really asking a concrete form of "why." The threshold rests in whether or not the causalities come directly or indirectly in contact.

"Where formerly causal bodies were visible, now only their secondary effects come to focus in the little hard-fact pupil of the human eye. The cosmogonic cycle is now to be carried forward, therefore, not by the gods, who have become invisible, but by the heroes, more or less human in character, through whom the world destiny is realized."
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

You Don't Need Water to Take These Soul Vitamins

Part 1: "The Fountain of Youth is Not for Pouring Into Your Ice Tray"

Browse by artist, browse by album, but for the love of God, please don't browse by genre. Genre's utility is limited to academic genealogy at most.
Music is supposed to be a strange tapestry that weaves in and out of our lives, not a cordoned-off amusement that is prohibited from mystery unless granted at the appropriate scene/act/play. It is to interrupt you and define itself by organic and human means. When it permeates the mundane and gives life a cinematic quality is when it has achieved its true purpose as an art form.
The only way to get around genre while being comfortable with its hap-hazard nature is to stay in good company.

Part 2: "We Chopped the Shade Trees Down to Build a Sunblock Factory"

There is friction between individuals who know how to live presently and emptily and the institutions that individuals comprise. The institutions and constructs behave as if there is a goal to be reached, but are unable to name one that is both complete and consistent.
There is a paradigm filled to the brim with "action items" and "spreadsheets" but they exist only because the people who do not know how to live presently and emptily cannot find the bottom of their bellies.
There is a greater debt being created than by those who do not wish to "contribute" or "fit in". It is created by those who perpetuate the illusion that there is anything to contribute or anything to fit into.
Absolutely no comfort taken for granted by a society either helps the individuals therein live presently and emptily nor does it exist outside the purpose of creating individual wealth for those who have nothing to believe in or learn about.
The world is controlled by those who love control, not by those who know what they are doing.
It is time for individuals to exempt themselves from the wearing of masks sold in bulk at the outlets of ideology and retain their true, empty, eternal identities as mere barnacles on a planet bobbing selflessly through a universe too beautiful to pollute with blind intention and arbitrary definition."

The One-Dimensional Man Is Alive and Well

The following is a pile-up of comments from the "Richard Dawkins proving Bill O'Reilly's stupidity" video on YouTube which involved an exchange I had with a social-Darwinist who hates Darwin, also known as a fine specimen.

[not edited for content or clarity]

Test Group:

• "Liberals are the Fools...look at the word Homophobic....homo..derived from homo sapien...meaning man or man kind...and phobic meaning irrational fear of....together liberals of pavlov dog syndrome define it as fear of homosexuality....by all rights it would mean fear of man....so it may have meaning to a lesbian!...off subject yes but true!"

Control Group:

• "Actually "homo" means "man" in "homo sapiens," which means "thinking man," while "homo" in "homosexual," relates to the scientific term "homogeneous," which means "invariance," and relates to the fact that there is no sexual variance between partners. Stay in school."

TG:

• "Ok Gene...now that was explained...explain this...why is a non bia's term not used like homosexual? Why is street slang terms like "gay" used, which seems to promote homosexuality. And why can't people accept the street slang term "fag" which rejects homosexuality...Does a society have to accept homosexuality....why not bestiality or incestual sex between to adults...why stop at homosexuality...why not have a total cesspool society...maybe crap isn't a turn on to them..and adult incestual sex is"

CG:

• "The connotations of words like "gay" and "fag" are determined by how people use them. No one has absolute control over them. As far as the difference between homosexuals and other sexual minorities go, it is mostly an issue of marriage. People always have and always will do whatever they choose. The only reason homosexuality has become such an issue is because they have been asking for marital recognition form the government, which has galvanized conservatives to ostracize them further."

TG:

• "Gene in the homosexual city of San Francisco...capital of liberalism ..totalitarians of guns...98 murders took place there...and 51 murders so far this year. Do you think the mayor Gavin Newsom is so engrossed with homosexuals aberrant behaviors he is neglecting is duty as Mayor. And do you think it is safer to be in Iraq then in the atheist, Aids infested, murderous city of San Francisco?"

• "98 in 2007"

CG:

• "No. Have you been there?"

TG:

• "Yes I have been there...San Francisco is a City stuck in what the pschological community would call the anal stage. Where adult liberals are stuck playing and experimenting with DOO DOO!.."

CG:

• "Well the reason I ask is because most of San Francisco's violent crime is perpetrated by gang members and related to drugs, which are the result of racial hatred and ignorant social policies. So I find it rather ironic you blame the gays."

TG:

• "Wow Gene you are really a homo militant...easy on the skin pipe....so what is the racial hated..explain..and what is the ignorant social policies...the poor doesn't get enough hand out...welfare..childcare..free medical..free education...or is it the acceptance of social pollution in SF...the genetic footprints of aberrant behaviors..."

CG:

• "As I said, stay in school."

It is entirely likely that I could be dragged into this until Terence McKenna reincarnates as the Tenth Avatar of Vishnu but I will resist in the interest of sanity.