For me (right here, right now), the point of art has become to make people forget that we are different (in that sentence when I say “people” I mainly mean what you would recognize as meaning “me” but because of the nature of these things, the wording is all very tentative). But the only way it seems that you can quite do that is by highlighting the differences so much that you eventually crack through them to the core of sameness underneath it all. Or something along those lines. This podcast features about 16 minutes of rambling thought which (sort of) expands on that as I continue to hunt my most elusive prey: my own experience of myself, and through tearing that down and seeing it for what it is, then hopefully arrive at a more authentic experience of life unmediated by all the bullshit baggage that we carry around and muck things up with. Right now I have two mottos: use your illusion. Turn perception on itself. And: you can’t win the lotto if you haven’t bought a ticket. Okay, so that’s one more motto than I promised. But hey, that’s life. Deal with it. Lucky for all of us, we have no other choice.
Oh, also, one other feature I’m interested in pursuing a little on my site is doing per-post divination and also some spoken word to accompany longer written pieces. I want to hit it from a few different media so the experience of it all clashes someplace in the middle. Anyway, here’s a relevant throw I just did of the I Ching electronically - if that even counts, I don’t know. I do see some useful parallels here in what I’m been talking about lately.
The present is embodied in Hexagram 17 - Sui (Following): There will be great progress and success, but one must be firm and correct. There will then be no error.
The first (bottommost) line, undivided, shows one changing the object of his pursuit. If he be firm and correct, there will be good fortune. Going beyond his own gate to find associates, he will achieve merit.
The fifth line, undivided, shows us the ruler sincere in fostering all that is excellent. There will be good fortune.
The situation is shifting, and Yin (the passive feminine force) is gaining ground.
The future is embodied in Hexagram 16 - Yu (Enthusiasm): In this state, feudal princes and other delegates may be set up, and the hosts put in motion, with advantage.
Enthusiasm, I think, is a very good future. And in fact, this sums up the content of my podcast perhaps as well as anything I wrote myself above…
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