This is all well and good to try and analyze what thought is, the vehicle that delivers it and we can sit here an pick it apart only to find it shattered in pieces like some Hadron Collider for consciousness. The conscious well is infinite. Remember what that arrogant quote from a "W era" senior advisor, perhaps Rove even, but it sounds way too intelligent for that ass clown:
"People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
It's in the lines from Yates 2nd Coming as well:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Aren't we called to act upon this physical world in order to deliver equality, social justice, feed the poor, liberate the enslaved, destroy the vile creature of economics? The moon is not a body for us to bogart and claim for one corporation, country or another, was the original treaty, it is a common treasury for all, but somehow not this Earth. In earlier years, in the birth pangs of the space race, it was decided amongst nations that we should not weaponize space, i.e. bring war to space. Soon voided, the Soviet's produced a gun for shooting down imperialist swine satellites, prying into their affairs. SDI, Reagan's wet dream of defensive offense, if that's not a contradiction in terms, weaponizes space. They'd charge you for the air we breathe if they could, however, this would only lead to the unraveling, for if you begin to identify, much like the FCC did when it decided no one could own the airwaves, but they were for common use, that ALL of Earth's bounties were not delivered unto one, but all who share this place...well there goes the whole ball game. Of course, they charge us for the water of this Earth as well, if you aren't one of those fortunate to be an "off gridder". Read about Nestle water, Coca-Cola, AmBev, raiding our water supplies for private gain. As I said, get yourself a price gun and place a "value" on everything you see, for it's all created for you to derive a profit from. Grave plots are expensive. Billy Bragg reverberates with the tones of The Diggers:
"This earth divided
We will make whole
So it will be
A common treasury for all"
We are pissing in the wind while the world around us gets worse and worse. Why are we like this? Constantly warring with each other? Competing with each other? Even the rock band Boston understood it, "people living in competition." Leave competition to the sports arena. I have such wanderlust in my heart. I long to see this world, different cultures, dine with them, commune, find out what's in their hearts, what world they would have if it could be rendered from their greatest of dreams. I find religion to be more and more vulgar these days. The line that divides cuts twice as deep. Divisions, you are Muslim, I'm Jewish, let's fight over who's God is superior. Who's morality is superior? Both Ibrahamic/Abrams/Abrahamic religions, though they swear allegiance to this ancient father, they draw themselves into a house divided. A disparted voice from the void calls Abrams to sacrifice his son Isaac. Believing it to be the very splendor of God, Isaac is brought upon Moriah, but before the dagger is delivered to his child, a ram appears, caught in the briars. Altars were used for sacrifice and if you have ever partaken of a Catholic mass, think of that next time the priest is preparing that transubstantional spell to transform wine to blood and bread to flesh. There are some who analyze this as a reference to the first star sign of the zodiac, the ram. The Egyptians had an astrological clock at Dindera, robbed of them by the British empire at the time, the original is now in a museum. Without light pollution, the ancient sky reveals a brilliance that is divine. It is, and will ever be our clock. For what is time but things in motion? Not being all that amused by astrology before hand, I mentioned I thought it was hocus pocus b.s. to a friend. He described it to me as the shape of the universe, the exact position of all stars and planets that drew you forth into this existence when you were brought in to this life left an imposition on your soul. The stars aligned at that moment, and you light being, were brought into creation, an energy unto itself. Egypt. The Middle East. What hell now, fifteen years embroiled in Iraq's hell. Egypt, Yates responds:
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun...
(Spiritus Mundi, by the way, translates to the collective soul of the universe)
The sphinx shows up in the poem, the second coming. Jesus was sent to Egypt as well, strange. Can't help thinking of that Great Pyramid measurement of 365.25, all the measurements there seem so perfect. The North/South/East/West alignment done quite accurately as well. I don't know what they were smoking down there, but they were on to something. Psychedelics. Blue lotus, cocaine (which is interesting, seeing as it's only known to come from south america), cannabis, probably opium too. Hashish hookahs, the middle east, before it became a persecuted. DMT trips of electronic elves? Don't know, never tried it. A magnificent shift in consciousness through all these things. Jeesh, sounding like a complete drug advocate here (I just believe I have a right to use this stuff in an exploration of consciousness, much as I believe the Native Americans did), but I still believe these uses are still to find the greater self when used properly. The first time Timothy Leary took LSD he realized people didn't have to go to war. That's a nice simple truth. Anything that helps people think like that I'm for. The CIA and a myriad of other agencies still use this substance. Microdosing has become popular as well. Strange f*ing substance. Some equate cannabis with anointing oils use in religious ceremony. Maybe the plant was that revered in that day and age. A life giver. Chickens, goats, lamb, cow, rabbits will eat the whole hemp plant. It's quite safe. Hemp oil was rather common in those ages, edible and full of enrichments. High in essential fatty acids, Omega 6 and omega 3,hemp oil can be used to increase immunity, counteract aging skin and improve cardiovascular health. Several studies show that the linoleic acid present in hemp oil can slow down the aging process and fight psoriasis. That is awesome. Seshat, their cute female deity in Egypt bore the hemp leaf over her head with a bosom to indicate the female plant was the one that carried the medicine. It's insulation, a strong fiber, a vegan source of protein, can make paper, cardboard and other forms of packaging that are eco-friendly, can be grown rather rapidly, forms strong ropes and fibers, in short, offers an amazing array of benefits. It's illegal to grow in most of the world, even as an industrial crop. Dumb. Flat out dumb. Thought...you'll never find its end...
Walked on water? Hell, I've even skated on it!