I'm not scared so much as speechless. If I try to put it into words I get very upset. But if I don't I can go about my day and keep working on my latest web job and not be too paralyzed by what is happening. So I guess that's what I'm going to do.
My hands? What blood?
Still, I won't forget. The bad, but also the good. And I know there are good people out there. New York City is full of them. I saw it. Most people want to help. Yet bad things keep happening. So where I used to suspect we might be under the control of a small cabal bent on evil, I now think it's more likely that we are under the sway of an emergent meta organism which is not exactly human. A sort of human group mind, minus the humanity. I think it emerges through our hierarchical and bureaucratic organizational structures (be they political, military, corporate, religious, or whatever.) It's our worst side and it's fueled by greed and it is devouring lives at this very moment. And the more it feeds the bigger it's appetite grows.
But it is us. And we can turn it. We can make it our best side. I don't know how, but we all do. Keep moving, keep trying, keep being human. Touch someone today. You are love.
thanks
The emergent meta organism you
sense is of course a language where
all the words with meaning connected
to the earth have been replaced by
terms connected to the big lie making
the claim we can understand a universe
we clearly were meant only to descibe as
the mystery. Hi.
The father of a dear friend of mine
died a few days ago in a jail cell
in Miami. I will not desecrate his
silence by naming him. The last time
I saw my friend he was on the way
to Cuba to research an article he was
writing for a well known men's magazine.
I explained to him the putative origen
of the word Cuba from Cohiba; the name
of the aboriginal inhabitants & the tree
they revered for snuff. He told me how
fortunate my son was to have such a great
dad. I told him that all dads do about the
best they can & his dad must have been
pretty great too. He said, "yer wrong Frank,
my dad's a woman & he still gives me shit
for being gay!" Winter in upon us in Montana. I want
my own page on the tree: Frank's Bad Self (with thanks to
Jim Louis).
in Grof's last (and fantastic IMHO) book "The Cosmic Game" he speaks about how evil will all ways exist, its as if evil and good archetypes have thier grip on this world and want thier part in the action..."Final understanding and philosophical acceptance of evil always seems to involve the recognition that it has an important or even necessary role in the cosmic process. For example, deep experiential insights into ultimate realities that become available in holotropic states might reveal that evil is an essential element in the universial drama.' pg 114 from the chapter called "the Problem of Good and Evil" and on page 123 "Any attempt to applyethical valuesto the process of cosmic creation has to take into consideration an important fact. According to the insights presented in this book, all boundries arearbitary and ultimately illusory. The entire cosmos is in its deepest nature a single entity of unimaginable demention, Absolute Consciousness." "....all the roles in the cosmic drama have, in the last analysis, only one protagonist. In all the situations that involve the element of evil, such as hatred, cruelty, violence, misery, and suffering, the creative principle is playiny a complicated game with itself. The aggressor is identical to the attacked, the dictator with the oppresed, the rapist and the raped...."
You have a page at http://www.digitalmediatree.com/frank/.
Let me know if there are any problems. I'll list it on the front page if you decide to use it.
I think we'd all like to hear more.
Praise be to Jim.
PBJ
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My hands? What blood?
Still, I won't forget. The bad, but also the good. And I know there are good people out there. New York City is full of them. I saw it. Most people want to help. Yet bad things keep happening. So where I used to suspect we might be under the control of a small cabal bent on evil, I now think it's more likely that we are under the sway of an emergent meta organism which is not exactly human. A sort of human group mind, minus the humanity. I think it emerges through our hierarchical and bureaucratic organizational structures (be they political, military, corporate, religious, or whatever.) It's our worst side and it's fueled by greed and it is devouring lives at this very moment. And the more it feeds the bigger it's appetite grows.
But it is us. And we can turn it. We can make it our best side. I don't know how, but we all do. Keep moving, keep trying, keep being human. Touch someone today. You are love.
- jim 10-08-2001 4:02 pm
thanks
- Skinny 10-09-2001 12:44 am
The emergent meta organism you
sense is of course a language where
all the words with meaning connected
to the earth have been replaced by
terms connected to the big lie making
the claim we can understand a universe
we clearly were meant only to descibe as
the mystery. Hi.
- frank 10-09-2001 5:33 am
The father of a dear friend of mine
died a few days ago in a jail cell
in Miami. I will not desecrate his
silence by naming him. The last time
I saw my friend he was on the way
to Cuba to research an article he was
writing for a well known men's magazine.
I explained to him the putative origen
of the word Cuba from Cohiba; the name
of the aboriginal inhabitants & the tree
they revered for snuff. He told me how
fortunate my son was to have such a great
dad. I told him that all dads do about the
best they can & his dad must have been
pretty great too. He said, "yer wrong Frank,
my dad's a woman & he still gives me shit
for being gay!" Winter in upon us in Montana. I want my own page on the tree: Frank's Bad Self (with thanks to Jim Louis).
- frank 10-09-2001 11:24 pm
in Grof's last (and fantastic IMHO) book "The Cosmic Game" he speaks about how evil will all ways exist, its as if evil and good archetypes have thier grip on this world and want thier part in the action..."Final understanding and philosophical acceptance of evil always seems to involve the recognition that it has an important or even necessary role in the cosmic process. For example, deep experiential insights into ultimate realities that become available in holotropic states might reveal that evil is an essential element in the universial drama.' pg 114 from the chapter called "the Problem of Good and Evil" and on page 123 "Any attempt to applyethical valuesto the process of cosmic creation has to take into consideration an important fact. According to the insights presented in this book, all boundries arearbitary and ultimately illusory. The entire cosmos is in its deepest nature a single entity of unimaginable demention, Absolute Consciousness." "....all the roles in the cosmic drama have, in the last analysis, only one protagonist. In all the situations that involve the element of evil, such as hatred, cruelty, violence, misery, and suffering, the creative principle is playiny a complicated game with itself. The aggressor is identical to the attacked, the dictator with the oppresed, the rapist and the raped...."
- Skinny 10-10-2001 2:40 pm
You have a page at http://www.digitalmediatree.com/frank/.
Let me know if there are any problems. I'll list it on the front page if you decide to use it.
I think we'd all like to hear more.
- jim 10-10-2001 10:38 pm
Praise be to Jim.
- frank 10-11-2001 6:24 am
PBJ
- frank 10-11-2001 7:50 am