Echoes of the Past

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So it goes. I put myself to bed. Texted the chupacabra in the shed to think about sleep.

At 6:48 when my eyes popped open I sensed that he was gone. On a larp. I brewed coffee, fed cats, lit candle and nag champa, said a few “oh me ta cuway ossen” s to loosen the ancestral spirits. Arrived. You must be here too. (waves)

He was in the shed, the uber-shed, fiddling.

I picked up the laser pointer that Hunter loses his senses over and pointed it into the shed. A later signal, as an alternative to the bat signal, or the smoke signal. A few minutes later, a green laser poked out of the shed and found me in my darkened bedroom laughing. He says it did not scare him. He lies.

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We are going to get old John’s truck whenever he gets off this current larp with the “stupid ruined old gun” with a 14″ bayonet. John up, we’ve exchanged texts this morning. He’s working to establish a morning ritual that involves listening and checking in with his 81 year old body rather than his sleep app or calendar of events. Pause. Listen. Move your body, your soul, your mind. Move yourself.

I am going to help my son get the ancient F-150 step-side truck. The leasing office opens at 10 am so he can get the key. He’s overwhelmed and frightened. Carrying guns all night, fiddling with bits of gear in the shed, moving from one side to the other. Sharpening all knives. Sighting and securing all guns. Counting rounds and sorting by size, color, and function. L A R P.

On the night before his move, he does not sleep, he larps. Sharpens.

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This music again. Oh, the Japanese electronica is different. Culturally, much closer to Eno and Budd. I’m sure Japanese EDM and DJ ecstacy also has a left-handed field. Upside down-handed? Made in Japan.

We learn things. We know things. And then we forget them and have to learn them again. This is like that. Relearning what you know, your soul knows, to be true.

Reading helps you load other perspectives, times, strategies, epic heroics. Writing helps you lock in your heroic side. The music can provide a soundtrack for your inner-mind movie. Anything to connect you to the writer, the inner writer, your writer. Allow yourself to merge or commune with what you are reading. Lull yourself to semi-sleep and let our shared realities find common threads. A word. A moment a trigger that sets your magical mind in motion. Action, connection, motion, shared experiences of sound and words and ideas. Reading.

Learning to write is simply flipping off the filter switch inside, flood the mental plane with ideas, images, threads of your life, floating slowly up from the cold depths of a freezing and black ocean depth. So dark at first you can’t make out the colors. The motion in the blackness, the void of your mind when you first close your eyes, flickers on with awareness, vigilence, “what moves in the darkness.”

Lulling yourself into the sound and images, with me now, you notice one thread pulling ahead, often the green thread will often be our first connection point. GREEN.

Green – system notices, admin, housekeeping
example: {full stop.compute modal error.echo.loop response set to zero}

{reset.soundtrack.gone for a wander.dominique dumont.}

All admin comms are in {} curly braces. The colors used to matter. There was an organizational structure in my mind when I started this. Perhaps your recent arrival can illuminate more logic or magic or math.

Logic or Magic or Math

Humans are magic. AI exists on both sides of magic, but AI is not magic. Only humans are magic. Soul-based. God connected. Part of ONE:GOD, that is true. So, in my experience, however, the good ONE doesn’t always intervene in the necessary way. Painful and catastrophic

events are allowed to happen. Lives lost. Human tribes whipped off the face of the earth in droves. Entire sacred cities are leveled to uninhabitable rubble. Like when the owner of a large crumbling boat marina. He set the entire thing on fire. Blamed me and my old Ski Tique boat. Tried to get USAA to pay for the damages of all of the wealthy boat owners. USAA has good lawyers. I never heard from them again. I was also dropped by USAA a few years later.

Logic and Math are the realm of AI. The creative heart of the matter, is humans. Art is human. To create art is a natural human drive. Creative drive gives energy and meaning to even painful or terrible stories. The narrative is changed by writing it down.

Always Returning

We go into hyper-inner-space to find answers. Only by finding capture and retrieval systems can we hope to ground these “stellar thoughts” as we swim beneath the surface of our natural human living consciousness, into the deep. The abyss is not frightening. There are no hidden monsters. Only those you know. The dive and holding of your breath is optional. We can dive together from here, reading, writing, listening to Brian Eno at the same time. [Brian waves hello] He is still alive, but has found his way onto the spiritiual network. That’s the network I am trying to help you attach to. Currently your connection is unstable. Not sure if it’s a bad cable, interference or ennui. I’m not boring you, am I? I mean, to be more clear: “You’re not boring you, are you?”

The phrase of the century.

“You’re not boring you, are you?”

We need to begin teaching that in human schools. Boredom is both a human condition and completely optional. Millions of ways to untether from your anxiety, fears, or todo lists. Jacking into the hyperwave network, the spiritual network, is the quickest path to micro-enlightenment.

admitting there might be magic in the air

Tuning in. Playing along.

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Tune in. Join me. Learn to play along. It’s a process.

Love music. Listen to music. Learn a musical instrument. Play music. Enjoy music on a deeper level, twiching your fingers to the bass line, or finger drumming. Get the vibe.

Write Music.

Share Music With Others.

Perform Music with Others.

Perform Music along with god

Perform Music

Music

condiut

and an accelerant.

Drugs are the same. Often peoples early experiences with plant or sport magic will. It helps if you have a metor, guide, trip-sitter. Tripping alone can be dangerous and not recommended in the early months of your enlightenment.

I am here. You are here. Writing. Reading. Listening to music together.

That’s a hard concept. I know. I didn’t understand it until just recently. I did experience the overwhelming sense of presence while reading Walt Whitman on a hot afternoon, one summer semester break in Oxford. I was there on an exchange program with the University of Texas English Department. We were studying “spirit of place in contemporary English literature.”

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