Like a lot of little pieces.
Month: October 2017
Neo-religion
This spiritual revolution has already happened in some sense—it is the religious revolution that began with caveman animal spirit drawings, mythology and monotheistic Judeo-Christian religions. The religious revolution demonstrates the great extents to which humans will strive in the physical world for spiritual utility. Only this revolution was based on faith and ended with the beginning of reason. The new spiritual revolution will be based on reason and science, at least to its bounds; bounds, for which reason and science will themselves argue.
Spiritual singularity
This certain point in history, when we realized our scientific success was linked to an increase in our quality of life, and so we were ordered biologically to pursue scientific success that satisfied our animal selves. There is another certain point I expect in the future when our spiritual success will be linked to an increase in our quality of life—then will begin the spiritual revolution. However, the question remains: wether our quality of life will continue to be based in our animal selves, or if it will rise up into a higher spiritual tier of needs at the peak of Maslow’s hierarchy—such a tier is likely to be up and outside our physical world and bodies.
Spiritual revolution
In the same way that man has made great scientific strides in the past few centuries to understand the order and cause and effect of the physical world, I can imagine another period of great spiritual strides in the next few centuries to understand the order and cause and effect of the spiritual world. I only wonder wether order and cause and effect are the correct nouns to describe the functioning of the spiritual world, or if there are other nouns I don’t know yet—being a product of the scientific revolution, myself.
Nervous
it's times like these i'm nervous about dying when i have so much to lose
Travel
When traveling, money is a currency for “how many more days can I travel?”
BME
after beginning what is middle without end
Consciousness
You look out at the space in front of your eyes and wonder if it’s real and three-dimensional, or if it’s all just a two-dimensional painting right on top of your eyeballs, or if your eyeballs and the rest of your body are just a projection of your brain, or if your brain itself is just a projection—so that it’s all just the manifestation of a consciousness that’s really not physical at all.
Child energy
I feel like a little kid again who doesn’t want to go to bed and wakes up early in the morning with so much energy.
Change
I grow up and move around and change too fast to make consistently accurate observations about myself.
Sense
What makes sense only does in contrast to what doesn't.
Scared
If I see it I have no choice but to be scared.
Market
No it’s not popular, but must it be, in order for you to like it? Must you be marketed to? Do you have any values and powers of evaluating on your own?
Other
It could have just as easily been any other way.
A long nap
On Saturday, usually; sometimes on Sunday—my exhaustion catches up to me, so that after I make my breakfast, but before I’ve had my coffee, when I’ve read a few pages, I’ll lay down to rest, and then not wake up until it’s dark out. I think about, if I didn’t let it catch up, and just cumulated exhaustion until I died a long nap.
Lost my mind
I really lost my mind today, and so lay up at night, not hungry or tired, but perfectly comfortable; I know I’ll be fine in the morning.
Amoral art
A solid philosophical belief in amorality is very helpful for an artist, because you never again have to take anyone seriously who says, “you are wrong,” and means anything by it other than: “I don’t like your art.”
Up and down
Once you’ve really gotten up and outside, it’s hard to get down and back in.
Conditioning
Is my attempt to resist conditioning, itself conditioned?
Breath
A softer, slower and longer breathing, moving in and out of your lungs at the same pace it moves in the open air. An opening and allowing in, and a sighing and allowing out. This kind of breath has less noise and movement—less to hear and feel, and so better for meditation.
Patience
I have patience when I must—because, when I can afford not to, I don’t have any.
Start
The only thing to do is start, and then keep on going.
Thirsty
I know I'm no longer thirsty When I've forgotten my cup And picked it up by accident To find there is still some water left
Enlightenment
The Enlightenment advocated reason as a primary value of society; only that reason is an unstable foundation for society, if it reduces to uncertainties, especially in ethics.
Pigeons
In San Francisco, the homeless people are like pigeons, eating out of the garbage and shitting everywhere.
God minds
We are god minds playing in caveman bodies; futuristic abilities satisfying primal needs.