82_28 wrote:Do I believe any of this shit? No. Do I buy it and appreciate it? Indeed I do out of simple friendship with people I would have never met were it not for the awesomeness of the people of RI and my appreciation of the mysteries of the universe.
My chestnut tree was dying last year and I wedged a piece of the orgonite he gave me into the branches and it's been there all winter. I even started a thread about it. It is stronger than ever and there are so many little chestnut tree babies that I don't know what to do with them. But they are all hovered around the orgonite, near mother's trunk and I'm just letting them go for now.
Secondly and most importantly was a root that Twyla "charged" and gave me a number of months ago in a little red satchel. It was explained to me that this root (forgive me as I do not remember the name of it) was very useful in getting favorable outcomes when dealing with authority. Well, whatever it was, it worked too. I got off on my DUI. Which is basically unheard of anymore, due to "mandatory sentencing". Of course it took an additional $5.5k, however, even my lawyer was shocked at how easily the state bent. It took awhile -- 4 court dates over the last few months, but I took that root with me every time. Yesterday it ended favorably for me. Everyone I've spoken to is shocked. Was it the root? I do not know, but it worked.
Well done.
You have just demonstrated the
positive, actual benefits of a practical, thoroughgoing agnosticism. That is, openness to the possibility that anything you can imagine might be true. Perhaps it is one's attention that collapses the probabilistic quantum wave function of
is or
is not. We can wonder about the unknown without getting dogmatic about it, but it is intention and will that shape our destinies. With intention and will you can try to shape events to match your desire. It causes no end of trouble, to be quite honest. Will has got a lot to answer for.
Of course, this is dangerous knowledge. Some say suppressed.
On the subject of orgonite, or rather its "inventor," I read Reich's "Listen, Little Man!" when I was about fourteen. I found it mightily impressive, and extremely thought provoking. It was only many years later, that I found out more details of the author, and his life and work.
"Cloudbusting" always makes me cry.
Descartes said cogito ergo sum. Hume said where is the "I" to be found? He said there is a stream of thoughts that we identify as "ourselves" but no "I" is there, thought is ever changing. The past, our memories, our experiences, these are what we experience as "ourselves." We can identify memory as the function of the "I" to compare the unknown with what is known. Of course, memory has this useful function but it gets a little out of hand, the accumulation of desires and fears, the creation of habits, the inability to see the new without the image of the old, the creation of a limiting centre, and so on. The creation of the centre, the "I", limits consciousness, binds it and blinds it to the reality of the world, to the experience of clarity, truth, love and beauty.
Also, because "I" am the content of my consciousness, and the content of my consciousness is also "the world," therefore, "I" am "the world." Neither truly exist, but the bifurcation is brought about in consciousness through memory, habit, desire, fear. The world is in disorder, my consciousness is in disorder. To become aware of disorder is to bring about order. Therefore we must all pay attention to bring to light the disorder in the mind of man. Which means we must pay attention to discover the roots of disorder within our consciousness.
That is what at least some of us are doing here, I sometimes like to think.
The internet will help us to work this out, to cooperate as one, when we see clearly that your interest and mine coincide because we are not others, but the same. There is no other.
Of course some folk like to divide and conquer, to set man against man. Man must become wise to these tricks in himself and others, to see with clarity so that intelligence can bring about order.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't encourage the harmless pseudo mystics, should I?
And yes, I have been reading JK again.