Everything has a face. It’s just easier to pretend like you don’t know it’s that way so you don’t have to be responsible.
Because when you know everything has a face and you admit it to yourself you suddenly have to start acting like that and treating everything that has a face (and I mean everything) the way you would treat something that has a face or someone. Everything deserves a response. [Everything also has a heart]
But then everything tries to get your attention. And this is where you go crazy when you can’t sort out what’s coming from where.
And what’s worth responding to. [and who too]
Do you see how they did that? They turned D&D (AD&D(Advanced)Dungeons & Dragons) gamer kids into todays ADD kids. All they did was take out the &ersand& and give them little pills to swallow instead of elaborate arcane instructional manuals with drawings of eldritch creatures which awakein Jungian archetypes within them and teach then to manipulate language according to complex interpretatolive games. I mean that’s much more dangerous than a pill that chemically neuters part of the inborn creative abilities of your mind your image of god man created god in his image in his imagination in his inner god image engine for imagining mages… and shit.
Am I right?
I have my rule books and my fifth level mage spells to protect me. I am shielded in my +5 Dragon Mail.
No one ever seems to believe me (or be that interested^frankly) when I tell them I’m a writer. I never offer the information up front. But when pressed reveal my dark obsession with diamonds descending lines of words. What I am is seeking the Philosopher’s Stone. I would say that I should start telling people that I’m an alchemist. But I should just start saying I’m Harry Fucking Potter instead. I mean, look at me, I spent the past two days literally engrossed within symbols. To the excising of all other things in life. I mean it’s gone on longer than that but these past couple days have been really nuts. And tonight I just started seeing these patterns. The internet of a few years from now will just be these ticker tape machines which print out little fortunes which are keyword cluster digests of information which, if you like the fortune can then smoke and trip on psychedeliceutically as you navigate it like the spice to a member of the Spacing Guild. This must be the drug *PKD talks about Scanner Darkly and in Palmer Eldritch.
Do you like that? Do you like how I am seeding words here? You saw me use eldritch already right? Why does that keep coming up? I don’t know. It’s encoded information. That’s why they call it the goddamned DA VINCI CODE, alright?
When you make up passwords on your computer you should make typing it like a prayer.
Because that’s what it is.
It allows you to access certain parts of yourself and of reality. (This candle smells weird - thrift store candles are a mixed bag).
This diamond reading thing though, I gotta get you onto this. I’m gonna do some mock-ups. Some easy visual examples. I would do it right here but I can’t tell in this text-entry box where the middle of the printed column will lie. I can do a simple approximation with just a couple words though. Let’s see. Okay it’s in that sentence. Now imagineer that into a diamond with your eyes as you scan down the center only of this page of text. Word clusters will just jump out at you naturally.
What I want to know is how different are the words each person picks? Certain words are just power words and will always get invited to the party. But which ones? Pick out all the center of the column power words in this that jump out at you and tell me what my secret message is here. I will do my interpretation first in the comments. I know some of the subtextual strings already but it will be fun to see what lies I am telling myself.
Here’s your daily dose of moments of zen telling an interactive jungian psychoanalytic taco mailman type of tale:
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For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Secret message
Face pretend responsible
Everything acting treating
Start response
Attention crazy coming
Turned swallow instructional
Manipulate inborn god abilities
Fifth level spell shield
Diamond information descending
Engrossed excising
patterns machines digest
Spacing Guild Darkly
Seeding encoded alright
Passwords prayers
Middle diamond clusters
Different words center power
Secret message
Zen lies
Expanded Interpetation
Face [it you've been] pretend[ing to be] responsible [for something you're not].
Everything [has been] acting [and] treating [you weirdly? (something like that)].
Start response [here's how to respond]:
[Announcement:] Attention! Crazy coming!
Turned swallow instructional [You'll be transformed if you follow these instructions?]
[Learn how to] Manipulate inborn god abilities
[such as] Fifth level [psychic] spell shield
Diamond [precious] information descending [is being transmitted to you]
[Become] Engrossed [in] excising
patterns [hidden in that info before the] machines [of your subconscious] digest [it?]
Spacing Guild Darkly [Doing so will allow you to navigate the depths of time and space]
Seeding encoded, alright? [Information must be transmitted in code, sorry!]
Passwords [are] prayers [and vice versa]
[Study the] Middle diamond clusters.
[Look at how] Different words [and symbols activate and] center power [within you]
[There is a] Secret message
[It is there that] Zen lies [or lays, rests]
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Anyway, that’s just one way to slice it. I necessarily see what I need/want to see in an exercise like this. But you get the idea. Your mind *will* always pick out power words like this out of text and string them into a narrative which is layered into the actual stated meaning of the text. Be aware that you do this with EVERYTHING in your life!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2042:1-7&version=31;
6 “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness;
I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people
and a light for the Gentiles,
7 to open eyes that are blind,
to free captives from prison
and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s...arch=Isaiah%2049:1-6;&version=31;
Before I was born the LORD called me;
from my birth he has made mention of my name.
2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow
and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s...arch=Isaiah%2050:4-9;&version=31;
4 The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s...Isaiah%2052:13-53:12;&version=31;
and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.
…
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Better than watchin’ old Seinfeld episodes.
I tried it with the two paragraphs that had the instructions. I held my fingers up in a diamond pattern. I got this. I think it’s a comment on the exercise itself.
visual middle couple
word words secret comments
Fremen rodeo clowns. Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.
So speaking of my mind writing things into narrative, I didn’t have a lot of results with the words. But I tried to weave a story in my mind from that list of pictures as I went down them. My mind totally rejected it, and kept inserting the word “meanwhile” between each one, like it was a comic book or movie and it was switching scenes. So I just let this happen, let the word meanwhile” repeat and saw each picture as another event happening simultaneously as the thing happening before. Oddly, my mind rejected this too as I kept doing it, and pretty soon, I could see several “story lines” begin to form, as it “returned” back to the same scenes we had flashed away from. One was about a cow, one about a changing object in space, all spawned by the guy in the first picture, who had no idea of the quantum trans-universal chaos he was causing with that finger pointing gesture.
Anyway, so the weird thing is, by attempting to see a narrative, I failed to see one. By not attempting to see a narrative and accepting a string of non-related things, I saw a narrative. Sweet.