That toy animal the child carries around like its life depended on it? That’s a waking-world placeholder for a very real creature that they -=travel with=- every night. This form of travel is also a form of learning. If an adult saw one of these creatures, the roles would instantly reverse: the adult would need the diaper, and the child would be confused about why.
24 Senses: Consciousness, Identity, Place, Time, Temperature, Movement, Manipulation, Relation(ship), Memory, Comprehension, Health, Pain, Gut, Breathing, Sight, Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste, Balance, Emotion, Gender, Penis/Testes (Male sex/reproductive senses), Vagina/Womb (Female sex/reproductive senses).
You will never understand; but my heart was taken by a star from the hidden nest of the sky’s silent purpose — and at that instant, it plunged earthward from its exotic nightbed and pierced me, lodging irrevocably in my core. From that moment forward I suffered like a bird who is on fire and yet must fly; my every perception or thought fanned terrible conflagrations within my breast. When I moved my mouth, angels exploded therefrom. If I but traced a gesture with my hand, demons raised lightnings in its wake.
You will never understand. And yet, like a contagion whose cause is secret and ineffable, the rhythm in these words will, in time, draw you into the mystery they circumscribe. You will become the burning bird, and you shall come to know firsthand the ecstasies and torments of which I sing. But you will dare not speak them — as I have — and you will thus be spared the crucible in which fate slowly and fiercely rends the sacred threads that once were woven fast to shape my soul.
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Adults think that what infants do in their pants is a mess. But insightful children quickly realize that most of the adults just keep doing the same thing… in their minds.
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When, after great good fortune or long travail, you discover the likeness of your actual identity (‘what’ it is that you are)… you will be obliterated by wonder. You will see that you mistook, by analogy, the nail of your little toe… for your entire self. What we actually are would scare any monster into desperate retreat, and reduce any sage to tears of astonishment.
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A man came to me saying he had heard that I possessed divine powers. I asked what such powers might be comprised of. He said: to raise the dead, to fly through the air without wings, to predict the future.
I simply smiled at him.
Alas, he did not realize: my smile raised his dead soul from its confusions, it flew through the air without wings, and it predicted the future — for he, too, would smile in reply, even though he did not (yet) understand.
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If you intend to take up arms in defense of liberty, you must have the capacity to tell predatory mimics like the United States from an actual ally of liberty, and the willingness to radically re-make your own government when that is required to insure the sovereignty, liberty, and well-being that comprise the undelivered promises of freedom. If you take up arms in the name of a parasite, atrocity is the result.
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The old man paused for a moment, clearing his throat. ‘One of you must play the villain,’ he paused, his visage indicating they must decide. The twins looked at each other for a moment, nodded, and one hand rose high. The old man smiled. ‘Embrace!’, he commanded — and they did, giggling. There was a flash. Shortly later, we were born.
We’re sorry, you have reached the Dead End of American Democracy (DEAD). There is no funding for conservation, infrastructure, health, education, science, energy research, or space exploration. When we are done building wars, death factories and prisons with your minds, bodies and children, we will contact you. Don’t bother leaving a message, you’ll be dead by then. So will your friends, family, and planet.
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There is an entirely other way of ˚having a mind˚ that few adults will ever experience. It is neither madness, nor ecstasy — but a form of learning which involves both yet maintains its structural coherence through focus, and purposeful, ceaseless application. If what we understand as learning is analogous to crawling, this is acrobatic flight. Within each of us there is a core of unthinkable prodigy. It is locked, and awaits the ‘signal of recognition’ that breaks the seal and unleashes the Inhabitant.
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