February 2012
3 posts
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.
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.
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...
June 2011
1 post
“If you intend to take up arms in defense of liberty, you must have the capacity...”
– organelle 05.2011
January 2011
2 posts
“The old man paused for a moment, clearing his throat. ‘One of you must play the...”
– organelle 01.19.11
“We’re sorry, you have reached the Dead End of American Democracy (DEAD). There...”
– organelle, 01.06.11
December 2010
1 post
“There is an entirely other way of ˚having a mind˚ that few adults will ever...”
– organelle 12.26.2010
November 2010
1 post
“And Lo, he lifted his hand and pointed. ‘There, look, can you see it?’ he...”
– organelle 11.17.2010
September 2010
2 posts
“By day the world is color. At night the colors disappear. But if you follow them...”
– organelle 09.25.10
“Learning used to be your flying mount.
They chained its wings with language,...”
– organelle 09.21.10
August 2010
2 posts
“Don’t mistake an interest in spirituality or enlightenment with the pursuit of...”
– organelle 08.29.10
“The existing infrastructure of expertise, experts, cached knowledge and habitual...”
– organelle 08.08.10
July 2010
4 posts
“Human beings require nations and cooperatives in which they can consciously...”
– organelle, 07.26.10
“There is a flower which grows in the desert. Its seed is lifted by the wind,...”
– organelle 07.14.10
“If one looks deeply into the hemispheric lateralization of the brain, a...”
– organelle 07.06.10
“For -every- technology you are being sold at the highest of possible prices...”
– organelle 07.05.10
June 2010
7 posts
“What we call a ‘child’ is, to a profound extent, the expression of the Right...”
– organelle 06.27.10
“Day 62
Oil: ~80 million gallons (+ up to 2 billion).
Methane: 4.9 to 9...”
– organelle 06.22.10
“Long ago it was different. First, they would teach children (unTh) — a powerful...”
– organelle 06.17.10
4 tags
Homo Faber or Homo Empathicus? →
tM: ‘If you want to engage people’s intelligence, you must draw to one half of their mind whilst you speak to the other. If this is not happening, more than half of you is missing the content, and much more than half your intelligence is inaccessible’
“It is endlessly confusing to me that my species appears so certain of its own...”
– organelle 06.06.10
2 tags
The Fly, The Window, Liberty
A fly became significantly frustrated after hours buzzing against the solid invisibility of the window. It could see the light, and the sky, but some sorcery of matter barred it from egress. It had worn itself out smacking into the glass again and again, rising high and falling low against the malevolent planar transparency standing inertly between its capacities and liberty. Nothing in nature...
Shaking Medicine
Submitted to Organelle:
“I’ve been experiencing recently the so-called n/om vibration (60.000 years old living tradition, no tokens, a “liquid” spirituality…) with people who were in contact with the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Umpredictible, wild, raw, ecstatic “medicine”.
Physical contact, sharing the shaking, the sweat, the ecstasy…
I feel how it is...
May 2010
2 posts
“For the animal, the ‘ascent’ to representational capacity is the establishment...”
– organelle 05.14.10
“One of the most crucial memories to reacquire is that of witnessing the sky...”
– organelle 05.03.10
April 2010
1 post
“The existing infrastructure of expertise, experts, cached knowledge and habitual...”
– organelle
March 2010
6 posts
“If we take only the connections established by light being reflected and...”
– organelle 03.14.10
“In the same way pornography and technology are examples of pure advertising,...”
– organelle 03.04.10
“The average insect can easily generate a communications burst of less than 1...”
– organelle 03.04.10
Coming Up: Spiritual Dawn
It’s been night on Earth now for at least 1000 years. One long, dark night. But the horizon is glowing with signs of change. The master of the cycle is about to invert. Shocking new capacities will be ours, and with them, new — and real — repsonse .|. abilities.
Within the sleeping heart of civilized persons, the thriving wonderment of instantaneous knowledge and transcendental understanding is...
On Grasshoppers, Unity, Progress, and Genocide —...
If you want to understand ‘what is ruling a nation’ — not who, because it is not human, and thus cannot be a who — but what, then read the next note after this one, and return to this note. What you may discover is this: the arbiters of national character and identity are its definitions of progress, and these generate the schemas delineating the nature and goals of the concerted activities of its...
The Gut, Biodiversity, The Nervous System, and...
“It may be surprising to learn that the human gastrointestinal tract is home to (10 to the 14th power) bacterial organisms. In fact, there are more bacteria in the gut than there are somatic cells in the body. These resident bacteria are referred to as commensal microbiota, and their arrival during the first few postnatal days sets up a symbiotic association that is necessary and crucial to normal...
February 2010
2 posts
“Enlightenment — the term refers to the ongoing shedding of something, and the...”
– organelle