RAISING MY HAND toward the MARGINALIZING of CONFORMITY ...hmmm. In this dispensation the 3rd world man is the Trees and the Cosmopolitan Suit waving his plastic finger, is destined to wander the forest alone. LIGHT plateau - dark CORRIDOR; white black white black: I watched what I saw! The last TIME we gave ourselves to the moment may have been our last reFLECTion before the veil of tears reMINDed us that IT had been a Karmic death.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Dreams in their demise--just not mine!!

A good friend embraces "nothingness from time to time"--I say what better than to see space as your final frontier. Pour yourself into the void, material or abstracted. We are energentic & substantive, so pick your vessel. I am a vessel too, and aquatic and evasive...to paraphrase Patti Smith from Radio Ethiopia. My mental apostasy, call it ascetic deliverance, was baptism by fire--the embracing of Nothingness, as Railsback says, was the norm. So, I "cut off my hair & I rode straight away, to a wild and unknown country where I could not go wrong." Imagine if you will Dylan's head wizened in its profile, face obfuscated, so the translating mask was mine to define!!
~~Made reference just over a yr ago to Louis Jorge Borges, in a dream post. How there is intermediary space, just as his character lies proximal to the forested mantel, but within an ancient ampitheatre in the middle of gradins progressing outwardly. His intent is to dream a personification of his archetypal self--himself as his own son, I think--maybe in the short story called the Circular Ruins!! I'm conjuring this all to suppose just how the psychic strife in night vision avails life's path but only at the point of convalescence--say exiting a room, across a threshold--outside into the bigger pallet. Somehow toward gaining our strain of objectivity from the loam of mind, where in fact we become limited from imagination now arguably the colorless space of marginalized sentient greed--in dream imagery. The point here is that you are still every characterization of time & place, & the beauty of it is that that negative space looses its anthropos conjecture. You've become vibrant properties of sensory reality--say "white noise"--torpidity rather than ambivalence. So, all through the mischief of three then recent conversations, I felt I owed a debt of intensity to some better creative explanate moment==thought battling!!! And then after some reading & cognitive rsources having been once jettisoned, now all in memory reflection & at the ready, I got back to full effect.
Motivation is MY game this morning, getting ready to read the rest of R K Narayan's autobio., just a few more pages. Its uncomplicated, the guy is a taciturn dude--died in the late 1980s I think. Lived in Mysore some--Brahmin decent? can't remember, but the father was an educator. Speaks to his writing agenda, path. I'd go read this along with G-d is a Verb (Rabbi David Cooper) at the coffee house (Common Grounds). Definitely in front of busy minds, I felt I recorded a life in its rich pageant... The page 181 of Cooper's book stood out as my meditation became immanent, stuttered, and had me reach for the availing moments in its symbolism. 181 seemed to indicate the 8fold path for the Hindu stages one goes thru in Yoga practice. For me I am just in the peace of my mind & just a few constituent facts about how language captures those-coming-over=social-thing mitigated, and giving them their due gets jettisoned.
Anyway it all boils down to the soft-machine trammeled from our media-driven distractions--a good thing perhaps in the end. So this is what I imagine as a bridge, me to some other image of a day unfolding. ***Train comin' 'round the bend...like 3 times a night, sometimes more. Last night, I didn't notice tho'. We both live proximal to the long distance traveler (literally), a symbol of life in all its impermanence (says Freud). Tracks running thru skin-scapes moist and with soul-force, has my thoughts revolve around Ben Kingsley flight out of character like he was on a 6 Flags ride (in Gandhi), just affably surveying India's Bharata-varna, this World as it proceedth in its ancient quality.*** Old garments are shed, new bodies are donned like new garments... Humankind's path is earth, the temporal kingdom, tho' he/she has the freedom to stop inertia, & the Celestial Bodies don't. So our path may be more dynamic, a so-called Conscious-Being. We see the Sun, but the Sun is turning out of blue, it doesn't know we call it, nor does our reason surmount. Our dialogue w/the cosmos is yet impermanent--therein do we live the ontological record.
Aleister Crowley painted in red letters--in Up-state NY upon a cliff (@ the turn of last century, thereabout)--Do what Thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. (&-granted, he is no example of humility) This would apply had someone made a solemn sacrifice: some grandiose measure of self which we could relinquish because it had become a less than humble factor. Bob Marley said, My Head is My Home. We stand tall wanting the puzzle of thought to complete the experential picture. Krishnamurti calls us out--on this--with a practical sense definition that Thought is Fear. If your rule is Thought as Reprieve, then the "valley of indecision" (somewhat derivative Marley-ism) is around you & you have no Higher Ground!! Sacrifice thought, this side of yourself, if it is a means to your security. The answer is outside of Us...there is no autonomy. A noumenon started with Zadie, as if he were a recipient of long ends of my days spilling headFilled ideas of life back at our original home. He *had* lived in Up-state Ny & as if life "is one big road w/lots of signs" (B.Marley), then the image of Crowley having put his graffiti up, had Zadie written all over it. If only to bare the sense of accumulated & drab of mind road-trip there, like at its peak, was all a granted finish to the anticipation the Native American land could wash across my epiphenomenal convalescence in the North. Crowley may have expectorated Kabbalah my way, but only in that sense we are a shapeless mass & a book of rules did I hearten to a deep aside from his immanent release of the consignment to the norm...the stolid English passport functionaries. It is a stale enough view to take Euro-ethos to the perimeter of my rebel-composure and pitch it into his nod east where I am ever ahead of his sensitivity for the low-caste. Case & point, the word Ren, in Chinese, is like co-humanity, actually just human--but in its context Kongfuzi (Confucius) shows that ritual is altruistic in its highest esteem. So, I take these varied & colored words, as from the East or my/your backyard, and see that it is a ways yawn back to its impervious beginnings as folks used words thru utility as though I can ascertain my own motive. There is its evidence, this book before me saying self-actualization is bestowed upon us from the ancients. And it is not merely desire that the word yields the glory of material language making the aspirant find equinamity with appearances...even emerging from spirit and becoming One with the Outward Fact...you or your semblance/ all the same. And my ignorance in its throes has me land on wherefore art thou expression, as answer enough found in my query. The generalities under which we live is plainly from looks back into the ubiquity of history. There in that boxed context we see of the subjective antecendent, a word in fact that solicits the mind, makes its stupor unyielding to the objective present. We have no choice but to believe a point in the loam of lives predeceased, as that things go away is ever present because reckon this: all symbols of eternity are IN this life. And LIFE all the same is my reflection on a fine detail in the singularity that is the conduit to language's root interlocuttors...the Originators of godtalk as well as easy-speak (meaning the Ancient-Ones).

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