THE MISADVENTURES OF AN ESOTERIC INVESTIGATOR

    Though tempting to approach this poetically or scientifically or even astrologically, I think today, I'll run at this from some other angle.  Metaphoric maybe?  I don't know. 
    Anyhow, I was just thinking of light from stars which are of course suns that are some insane brazillions of miles away.  I was also thinking of how when a fast-moving vehicle passes us, it is but a wonky blur we can't see clearly.  However, if you're traveling the same speed as that vehicle it is perfectly clear.  Thus, if one were to travel at the speed of light, light would then become clear to us.
    Perhaps the world we see, the ephemeral world, is light blurring past us.  What then, would the world and even ourselves look like if we could see it clearly for just a moment.  As we know from physics and the wonderful Einstein, as we approach the speed of light, time slows and at the speed of light, time would stop.  So, if seeing the world clearly coincides with time stopping, time vanishing, wouldn't that then mean that true reality, the universe and ourselves seen clearly, is the universe and ourselves without the effects of time.  Time is the world blurring past us.
    As Mircea Eliade, Philip K. Dick, and many many mystery schools and initiation traditions tell us, "Time can be overcome."  Certain rituals and experiences result in a transcendence of time, showing the initiate their true selves, their selves outside of the constraints of time.  Is this consciousness at the speed of light?  A human soul moving like a star through space?  Indeed, indeed.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it.

01)  "Should time allow us to describe our prowess..." For We Are the King of the Boudoir - The Magnetic Fields by urte
02)  "She took me off my guard with disappointment..."  Nitemare Hippy Girl - Beck by enamour
03)  "Sunbeam shine, mousy girl on the end pew..." Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie - Belle & Sebastian by antarcticlust
04)  "Do you not hear me anymore?" Battle Of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five by antarcticlust
05)  "She don't like her eggs all runny..." In Spite of Ourselves - John Prine by antarcticlust
06)  "Tuna, rubber..." Marianne - Tori Amos by decemberthirty
07)  "She said you'd given up..."
08)  "I don't know just where I'm going, but I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can..." Heroin - Velvet Underground by atomic_goo
09)  "Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth." New Slang - The Shins by antarcticlust
10)  "I can't help my feelings, I'll go out of my mind..." Hash Pipe - Weezer by punkybrister69
11)  "Tell your boyfriend next time he around, to buy his own weed and don't wear my shit down..." Addicted - Amy Winehouse by maeghanne
12)  "Neither the flowers on the hill or the moonlight on the sea have ever looked so blue..." 12 Old Familiar Way - Of Montreal by urte
13)  "When you climb to the top of the mountain, look out over the sea, think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be..." It Ain't Easy - David Bowie by tekelili
14)  "I'm gonna fight 'em off..." Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes by matadin
15)  "Lately I've been wishing i had one desire..." 15 A Perfect Sonnet - Bright Eyes by emilyreplied
16)  "Do I need? Destiny."
17)  "This is the definition of my life..." Dry the Rain - The Beta Band by antarcticlust
18)  "I call ye cabin neighbors, I call you once my friends..." The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens by antarcticlust
19)  "The rain it started tappin' on the window near my bed..." Bowl of Oranges - Bright Eyes by protodisco
20)  "We sit and we sigh and nothing gets done..." Compliments - Bloc Party by urte
21)  "I've been in and out of every honky tonk in town..." Mrs. Leroy Brown - Loretta Lynn by decemberthirty
22)  "A heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal..." No Surprises - Radiohead by protodisco
23)  "New realities are conditions much to little for us to suffer..."

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0 = 2:  is a mathematical statement of metaphysical belief that though things appear divided (yin/yang), they are actually one (Tao), or rather Nothing. Often expressed with this little ditty: 0⁰ = 0^n-n = 0ⁿ ÷ 0ⁿ = (0ⁿ ÷ 1) × (1 ÷ 0ⁿ). 0ⁿ ÷ 1 = 0; but 1 ÷ 0{n} = ∞. The clash of the infinitely big with the infinitely small.  It is a super simple expression of one of the ways I view the structure of the universe. And thus it is cool.

Complex Psyche: is the title of a book I wrote with my friend John Hood.  Actually the full title is Complex Psyche -or- The Omegaphelion of Mustafa Shibui.  We wrote it in February and March of 2002, in exactly sixty days.  We used the exquisite corpse method in the writing.  I am doing a final edit at the moment, converting it all to a single font, double spaced for publication.  The story follows a troubled writer, Mustafa Shibui, and his farcical entanglements with some strange, strange characters.

Converging Cosmologies:  is a phrase I use for my approach to religious studies.  I take the "model agnostic" view in that any cosmology, philosophy, religion, etc, is but a map that one civilization, person, group, etc, has made and that map should not be confused with the actual territory, or another way to put it, the menu is not the meal.  If all cosmologies are maps that have been made of human experience and our place in the universe, then on one level or another they are at least partially true, partially valid, and if one were to take all the maps that have been made throughout history and piece them together, see where they overlap, where they differ, one might begin to see a clearer picture of what is really going on, like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, or like a photomosaic - a large picture made up on lots of little pictures, hence, converging cosmologies.

Enochian:  is an "angelic" language, recorded way back in the 16th century by Dr. John Dee (mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I) and Edward Kelley (convicted criminal, spiritual medium, and alchemist.)  According to Dee's journals, Enochian was supposed to have been the language God used to create the world, and which was later used by Adam to speak with God and the angels, and to name all things in existence. Adam then lost the language upon his Fall.  It was "recovered" by Dee, using Kelley as a scryer, though only partial English translations existed in Dee's notes.  I'm a huge fan of all things esoteric and occult (in the literal sense - occult means "hidden") and especially the history thereof.

Fnord:  is a deeply frightening word.  It was coined in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy.  In the book, unenlightened people cannot see the word 'fnord' and it has hypnotic power over them.  This "programming" is done to children while in grade school.  "Fnord" is scattered liberally in the text of newspapers and magazines, causing fear and anxiety in those following current events. Every appearance of the word subconsciously generates a feeling of uneasiness and confusion, and prevents rational consideration of the subject.  However, there are no fnords in the advertisements, encouraging a consumerist society.  Wilson is one of my favorite authors of all time and the Illuminatus! trilogy is an amazing book, hugely profound and funny and written, I would say, holographically and had an immense influence on my thinking and writing.

Kundalini: is the subtle energy of the body, coiled at the base of the spine, radiating through the chakras.  Any raver or hippie or New Ager worth their salt can tell you all about it.  In certain cosmologies, mental illness and neurosis and whatnot are caused by blockages of kundalini.  These blockages are caused by unconscious or subconscious trauma and therefore tie in nicely with and focus on many types of integral and transpersonal psychologies which I am interested in.

Orangutans:  are great apes known for their intelligence and their long arms and reddish-brown hair.  I love monkeys and all their kin.  I don't care if I'm being politically incorrect or scientifically invalid, I like monkeys.  But mostly, it's because it's just fun to say. Come on, say it... "ORANGUTAN!"  One more time, out loud.... OAR - ANNNN - GOOOO - TAAAN!

1)  Sufjan Stevens - Joy! Joy! Joy!
2)  The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
3)  Bright Eyes - Four Winds
4)  Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
5)  Regina Spektor - Consequence of Sound
6)  NIrvana - Lounge Act
7)  Of Montreal - My British Tour Diary

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