PLASTIC SHAMAN

The more money society has, the less Rich it is. Tell me, why could that be? And not only that, but inflation is steadily increasing with no hint that it will ever slow down (?!)... And enlightenment, as the measure of all things, would surely only ask "how can I help you?" I told my support worker this, and while I waited to hear his response, wondering whether he'd say "oh, it's the guys who make armerments, obviously!" or "Sunny-Jim, although I don't know, and I know how hard it is to accept... and as sure as I heard it when I were about your age... it truly makes no sense, but...", he just said "No, I don't know why." What are we f**king doing? Do I read anything more than COMPLETE APATHY in that? This wouldn't be a problem if this evil regime of enslavement, derision and exploitation was for some grand cause. But no, not as far as I can tell. I'd rather live in a cult than this. At least with a cult it would be by choice! This isn't insanity, because what is sanity? I don't think I've met anybody who I would actually call "sane"! In truth, this is mostly anger, but a little sincerity... a little authenticity, (such are feelings) goes down like gold dust. Give us more, please! Soma used to be the hallucinogenic drink used by sages. Now it is sincerity and authenticity. Never mind seeing beyond reality - we just want to see reality. This is not unusual, we could literally be being taken over by aliens and the people, hypnotised by their flashing pulsating screens, would ignore each other into complete planetary annihilation. It reminds me of when I told my physics teacher, Tony, that it is not FOR us to decide if some light was waves or particles... I wrote him this long essay about it and took it to him. "...Tom, it sounds like you're a really angry guy." he said. I give up! Life is shit and you know it, you know it because you make it that way!

Me: When do I start to die? The Voices in My Head (TVIMH): Do you have to be lying down on the bed on which your neurons will cease to fire to have started? Me: I see what you mean... it's an arbitrary kind of criteria to use, isn't it?! And I guess any criteria that could be given would be a bit arbitrary? ...we could assume that this moment is the start of death. That this is the beginning of the end. In other words, that all of the time we've been living, we have been dying. TVIMH: This is what I believe... what else can we conclude? But is death an end? -That is a different question. Me: I can believe that. Tell me more (please)! TVIMH: Well, will you ever know how your life will end? Doesn't it always take a little bit of time to organise your situation into a conception of that situation? In other words to put reality into words, to make sense of it... Me: Okay... so, I'll die just not knowing that that's what's happening, is that what you're trying to say? TVIMH: This is a state we can experience in mediation. Non-dual? Dhyana? You know? Me: Yeah, actually in my experience, in such a state, it is not only that you don't *know* that there is a moment you have yet to experience, but that there actually isn't. It's one of those things you have to experience to understand, but I guess luckily for us, absolutely anyone can experience what I am talking about. Also, in the moment you enter dhyana, or "absorption", all concepts become empty. It makes no sense, but after experiencing it (a few times), you realise it's nothing to fear. Okay... so my perception doesn't stop at death because it never existed.... You reminded me of something important... But what about my personality?! TVIMH: It is true, we as people change, life is the process becoming. So when you die will you still be becoming? Or do you think that, perhaps, you will revert to an earlier instance of yourself? Would there be any options besides these two? If not, then there needs to be a subsequent instance of you to the you at the moment of your death to fill the previously mentioned condition/s. Me: Okay, well, there's no way any of the living (you know, in the normal sense of the term) are going to be able to receive a text from me after I die... you know what I'm trying to say! TVIMH: Sure. But, on the subject of texting, what is a person who texts you *to YOU*? If your mum thought she was texting your auntie, but sent the message to you, before she sent you a subsequent message explaining what had happened, it would not be the case that you had received a motherly message, if you get me. You see, a personality is not as simple as a rock... really. It isn't correct to say that the body is a sack with the rock of your personality sitting in the bottom of it. Personal interactions are not merely physical in nature, I call them spiritual. Is doesn't matter if someone has no body, they still have volition/will and emotions. Me: So, why do people stop talking after a number of years? Why do people over 130 years in age refuse to cook meals for you? TVIMH: My answer is that they don't. If you ask your great-great-great-great grandfather to cook a meal, he would consider it. We very strongly associate verbal expression with moving lips or tapping fingers (etc.)... We are too attached to this idea to begin to consider that anything else could be the case. But once we open our eyes, we can begin to dismiss our dismissal of what we subconsciously term "hallucinatory" and thus perceptually ignore. In other words, we can "awaken", or as I prefer to term it, "expand our minds". Society tells us, basically, that a voice that does not come from a physical pair of lips is not real, so if you have a hard time with this, go easy on yourself. Just remember, nothing goes away forever, but nothing stays forever... Me: Okay, so to sum up this conversation, you're saying that people don't need a body to exist or alter our lives by acting out their will... okay, so... let me put this to you straight (I hope you don't mind!)... Why do people stop interacting with me in the same way as they did before when they die? TVIMH: Circumstances. The body is a convenient circumstance for a spirit who wishes to talk, learn.... etcetera. But bodies are subject to decomposition. Perhaps, what you're thinking about is "what governs personal interactions"... Me: You're right, I think... and if not, you have me curious. What governs our interactions? TVIMH: Rituals Me: So rituals are, really, the be all and end all? The laws of the universe, so to speak? TVIMH: You speak more truth than you realise. Me: Well that's comforting to hear. TVIMH: Never doubt your own strength. You just need to trust yourself. Instead of asking about death, a moment, maybe try asking about life. You can find rituals in books, but you can find real gems in places far away from words too. Me: I guess it's just about looking for patterns. Words, are like only a bit of the landscape of existence, right? TVIMH: You say that...

1. There can be unconceived ideas... sometimes people know things I don't, but I learn the idea from them. Nothing seems to stay in one form eternally, so, probably ideas have to be mentally articulated by an individual in the first place. It's kind of like the belief that a bicycle was a two wheeled transportation device even before the date of its invention. It might sound like I'm arguing against the realness of things like mathematics, but it's actually quite the opposite, I'm saying that ideas are what they are, independent of the comprehension of them. They surely do take different forms, even if our comprehension solidifies them into one form that persists for our whole lives. But this does not mean that their identities are not absolute. Maybe who we are is the structure of our brains, or maybe a consequence of the structure of our brains. If these structures exist in relation to mathematical formulas, or are expressible in a particular mathematical description, then our present personalities are eternal as ideas, and we would theoretically be incarnated periodically. To clarify, I am saying each of us is an idea. 2. The following could be considered to be an argument against the reality of ideas, but that was not my intention when i came up with it: Things (including ideas) are not valuable because of the truth (or any amount of it) that they embody. They are valuable for their effect, and that is all.

Any experience you want to have that you have in mind, can be had just by making the time and space/setting for it. Once you know you have time and a suitable space available, for which ritual can help you to enter, let the experience know you are ready for him/her/it. Once any form of the experience shows up, so that could be in your imagination for example, honour it and focus your mind on it. You may want to Express your gratitude to the experience, somehow.

Ever wonder why you can only see the images from YOUR retinas and no one else's? What is it about the nature of reality that encourages - or rather enforces - this scenario? Here's an idea: maybe since all specified times come to pass (from our perspective at least), then we can say that all times that are specifiable WILL come to pass. I feel like this is an equivalent statement: ALL TIME WILL COME TO PASS. Even if you believe that death is a memory-erasing time-machine, your PERSONAL timeline is ordered - past, present, future - so the problem still applies. Basically all time passes, so even though it's virtually incomprehensible, ALL TIME WILL PASS. So, maybe, whatever it is that time exists in, still exists in the place where time has run out. And maybe this place is where consciousness emanates from. Maybe it permeates everything in the time-line.   We could call this thing “Time’s Home”. Maybe, the best way to conceive of existence is from the point of view that Time’s Home is where consciousness comes from...  Time’s Home is the fundamental of consciousness.  Not perspective, though, the question of why consciousness seems to appear in different forms remains.  So why is this the case? Perhaps, Time’s Home comes into contact with each thing that we see (obviously, these things are inside time) and gives these things the form of consciousness that each thing experiences. So, in some sense, there is a being that sees what is on everybody's retinas, but maybe the “dividing factor” is that for example our brains are not equipped for extra-bodily information and it is this limited viewpoint that we are given because we're a brain-structure. PS This is tantamount to saying that we are eternal because structures can be recreated, and they can be mathematically defined and mathematics comes from the Great Mother, meaning that our mathematical analysis (that could in theory - and possibly not in practice - mathematically specify your brain and hence what you call "you") is an eternal form. That is all.

Why could it be correct to say that when you are (emotionally) over something, that you have put it in front of you? Clue: it has to do with the nature of time.

1) Moments in day to day life that inspire a dream or vice versa. The vice versa scenario is not completely out of the question because your memory of the dream could (by way of your subconscious) influence your actions and guide you towards certain experiences. 2) Immortality in ideas rather than biology: if all ideas are related in a certain way that would create a sort of network of notions then perhaps we, as beings, are actually, at any given moment in time, a particular number of these concepts which are all connected together. Ideas, to me, seem different to material things, verbalisations/vocalisations, visions, feelings, smells and temperatures. I should think I could add to that list! It seems to me that the listed phenomena are all dependent on other phenomena for their arising, unlike ideas which just seem to evolve. Transitory existence is their existential category, I could say. Ideas on the other hand, appear to be more like the "possibility of a certain ordering of a deck of cards", a piece of music or a piece of maths that has been discovered. They seem to have a life of their own, in that they are more likely to arise in certain scenarios. They seem to have their own immortal existence. The only back up argument I have for this being the case is that the network of concepts already described could never be seen to cease in its existence. The notion of an ellipses will always be related to separate bodies of mass via the notion of "equal and opposite reaction by way of physical force" (an orbit)... and it will never be the case that criticism will be linked to "separate bodies of mass" by "equal and opposite reaction by way of physical force". That's my conjecture anyway. If we are made of collections of linked ideas instead of tissue and bone, then... Maybe we are immortal! 3) Realms (I don't know if that's the right word for this but...): Beings that exist in the universe are of the universal "realm" so are things that exist. Beings and things that don't exist are of the nothing realm - there is the absence of a question (thing) in a moment of silence. Beings - or perhaps it only makes sense to talk about things here - and things that are impossible belong to another realm and absurd things another realm. I will do some more work on this in the future I think. Peace

She realises [wrongly] that she must return there [and so she does!] and finds herself all alone.  [I can feel you, I know you, just as I would know a friend, a lover...] - - - - [The games the raven’s played, at last perhaps, this is The Raven Hotel after all.  They hear me, just as I hear you.]  ]As the living Earth gets divided with scars of tarmac and forced to be this way, extruded steel, the gate and me[ [it seems you’re becoming unbalance to me... but to you 100%. Yes. You’re cetainly not doing badly] We need to work out a forward plan, so that you can always come with me, so we can always walk side by side, no problems. x

You know you’re not my parents ... You live on forever in my heart, you share my awareness.  We are one two free for five and sex, My connection to mother, your connection to dad.  We move forever in a dance.  Where have you gone?  Pray for a kind.... chance.    x x

Divination is a word that is sometimes used to convey that someone who was never told something (for example how to do long division) understood the way it was or was done.  Prediction is in one way an example of divination, as you never seem to get people contacting you from the future to tell you about it. I think it’s an interesting coincidence that divination is spelled so similarly to divine... Perhaps this is because we imagine that a divine being would have a lot of divinatory abilities...  If not be omnidivinational (all-divining/all-knowing)!  Just like my conception of the source of all awareness. PS. I reckon the key to advancement in divination skills comes from tuning in to your intuition.

Recommended by the man of infinite wisdoms himself - Alan Watts

I think it’s very important to be lazy sometimes.  I don’t mean physically either, necessarily...  When an idea presents it’s possibility of formation in my mind, if I am too worn out, I’ll say, “No, thank you!”.

Life has loads of endings in it.  When you walk under a bridge, there is a time when “being under it” comes to an end!  When you die (and by “you” I don’t mean “you” as in awareness, I mean “you” as in what your name represents), life as *“you” know it* ceases. I feel you must go back to the void to come back at all.