Sunday, March 3, 2024

The Prophet is a Fool

 There are no prophets, because everyone is a prophet, 24/7, there is no escape.

And we are all receiving constant messages from every blade of grass to every homeless person camping out on the street.  Everything is the teacher.

Because of this, Jesus' act of washing the leper's feet touches on a deeper reality that cannot be conveyed by the moniker of "his or her holiness the _____"     Because everyone wears than moniker.  Every thing has that moniker.  Even the word moniker has that moniker:-)   And if you think you are special, well, you are, but so is every one and every thing.  So go take whatever  title or entitlement you have, and go screw yourself, because you are God.

As such, the human condition is one of discrimination and separation from this unity.  Where the rubber hits the road is how we cut ourselves off from the divine because we do not want to feel the anguish of the homeless, or the senseless repetition of the TikTok marketplace.  And being overwhelmed with stuff hurts, and it hurts to have to say "NO."

To study the self is to forget the self.  And when you study the myriad of messages coming in you realize that you don't exist.  At least not in the way you think you do.  Then all the distinctions fade away, life, death, time, space, and you just float around all day in the cosmic blob.   


Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Sun is God. Everyone can see that

 "The Sun is God.  Everyone can see that."  Or so C.J. Jung was told on his trip to America by the Native American Elder.    Without getting into the discussion of what God is, we are literally, metaphorically, energetically one with the Sun.  We revolve around it.  It controls our destiny.  So it has that going for it.

Then old C.J. is told that without the Elders belief the Sun would not rise.  And you can just feel the recoil in our Western Minds.  "That's not how it works.  With the advent of Science (emphasis on capitalizing the "S" intended), we "know" that the sun is just one of many stars in the universe.  We are on one of many planets that orbits the sun in ways and manners that can be mathematically  calculated.  Science has "evolved" humans past ancient superstitions and Sun worship.

So Western man no longer believes in the Sun.  And it continues to Rise.   And it is no longer a God.  But what about the continuing faith of the Native American Elder.  What are they preserving?  To this I only say, whether the Sun is alive or not, like Schroedinger's Cat, depends on perspective.  We underestimate, or better yet, do not understand what the human imagination actually is and what it can do.  Not in a casually sort of way, but in a way that points at something else.  The imagination can turn a God into a lifeless ball of burning hydrogen.  And take all the life out of the universe.

Back from Tuscon.  Seeing the end of my ancestors.