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. | To build up Dismantle first To expand Contract first To attain clarity Allow confusion To become civilized First live in the wild. The balance of all things Is in their opposites; The truth points in both directions. Thus the clenched fist holds weakness within And the open hand offers the hidden powers of suns. Deny one-half yourself, Stand precariously on one foot -The Tao of Healing adapted by Haven Trevino |
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bottom up. When everything is connected to everything in a distributed network, everything happens at once. When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command. A mob can steer itself, and in the territory of rapid, massive, and heterogeneous change, only a mob can steer. To get something from nothing, control must rest at the bottom within simplicity. Excepts from Kevin Kelly''s The Nine Laws of God from the book Out of Control wich he has now made avalailable online for free . |
. | PRONOIA the sneaking suspicion others are conspiring to help you. Symptoms include: sudden attacks of optimism and outbreaks of goodwill. WARNING: Pronoia, like paranoia, can cause dangerous irrationality if taken in massive doses... grounding and skill at surfing are key to making the most of an onslought of pronoia The opposite of "paranoia," PRONOIA suggests that the whole world is conspiring to shower one with blessings. An antidote to the apocalyptic fascination with sex and death that the media has held for the last 40 years, pronoia wonders why standard mental health texts list over 300 symptoms for mental ILL health but nary a one for GOOD mental health. We take health and happiness as boring granteds while focusing our attentions obsessively on nihilism. -Waldo the Wunderkind |
. | by Rob Brezsny: THE PRONOIA TABOO "I must confess that early in my career, I was proud of my well-crafted cynicism. Like most novelists, poets, journalists, filmmakers, and critics, I subscribed to the dogma that evil is interesting and good is boring. You can imagine my dismay, then, when my muses began to nudge me in the direction of sly optimism. "It will ruin my image!" I complained to them from the depth of my worried meditations. "I refuse to write shiny happy propaganda! I will not turn into a dopey Pollyanna bereft of all critical thinking skills!" |
by Rob Brezsny: THE SORCERY OF PRONOIA excerpts: THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO PLAY. Pity the educated cynics who refuse to enjoy the fun, choosing instead to remain faithful to their numb anguish. Pronoiac sorcery is
the daily cultivation of playfully altered states of awareness for the
purpose of accomplishing practical miracles. it
begins with your hunger for ingenious beauty and ever-fresh truth. It
thrives and ripens as you discover that everything you behold is bursting
with conscious intelligence. |
About the Year 2012 Approaching Timewave Zero. by Terence McKenna Space Time Continuum with Terence McKenna Archaic Revival Alien Love Speaking in Tongues Timewave Zero |
Rudolf
Steiner's Theory of Evil From the book Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science, by William Irwin Thompson: "The traditional mythological system of the battle of Christ and Satan in history must be seen in a new way. Rudolf Steiner articulated a Christology in which Christ is the human mediation between the demonic Ahriman and the satanic Lucifer. Ahriman is the unit crushed into the uniform, the destruction of individuality in sameness. Ahriman is the spirit behind Stalin, or Orwell's nightmares of Big Brother. Lucifer is the opposite, the individual raised, in the unbounded pride of the sin of superbia, to a cosmic egotism where there can be no other one, not even God. The Ahrimanic evil is the state that crushes all diversity; it is the war-time economy. . . . in which all life, all art, all science, and all sensuous happiness must be sacrificed to the Moloch of battle. The Luciferic evil is the overweening pride of the scientist who believes he can do better by taking over the control of evolution through the genetic engineering of life in his laboratory. The Christ, however, is neither the unit and the uniform, nor the alone, but expresses the crossing of the unique and the universal."
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the essay "The Spiritual Psychology of Rudolf
Steiner," by Fraser N. Watts in Beyond
Therapy: The Impact of Eastern Religions on Psychological Theory and
Practice, edited by Guy Claxton: "Rudolf Steiner believed that there were two different forces for evil, forces which were opposed to each other in many ways, though with a tendency to form an alliance. One, which he associated with Lucifer, represents grandiosity, arrogance, and self-indulgence. The other, associated with Ahriman, is manipulative and acquisitive, but ultimately sterile. They are associated with different forms of thinking: Lucifer with a tendency to hazy mysticism, and Ahriman with analytic definitions and formulae. Steiner characteristically asserts that even these evil forces have a necessary and constructive role. We owe art to Lucifer, and technology to Ahriman. They have both played a crucial role at different stages of the evolution of consciousness in enabling human beings to find a path of development towards love, wisdom, and freedom. Thus, for Steiner, "the task of evil is to promote the ascent of man." Because in this scheme there are two forces of evil, not just one, good is not seen as being opposed to evil. The forces of good, associated with Christ, are seen as balancing, redeeming and healing the two evil forces. |
"There is no stronger army in all the world than an idea whose time has come." -Victor Hugo, 1870
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