Like the final edit of a movie, a lot of what is recorded in
the making of a novel never sees the light of day. In looking over discarded
ideas, I’ve found a lot of bits and pieces that help describe ideas I think are
very important to grasp. So I’m sharing with you some rough, unfinished ideas
that I feel contain a kernel of insight. Take a look, if you dare.
“Do you wish to be in charge of your own life or do you wish
to bow to an anonymous authority, the passionless god that is science? Do you
wish to live in a breathing universe or a sterile, scientific one?”
“You don’t get to choose.”
“Don’t you?”
They scoff at me, those who have never seen what I have seen
and yet judge. They mock me when I say the Northern Lights portend something.
But if you were to see them, you would say, “how could they not?”
Man’s rational mind can create things too powerful for his
irrational mind to control. And visa versa.
Groups, governments, and corporations take on interests of
their own, become entities.
Do you know what you call a person who thinks his town has
the best food, his neighborhood the best people, his government the fairest
laws? Happy.
We’re all just human beings slogging along, ingesting
information the way a worm ingests food. But it all means nothing.
When a psychiatric patient is on the verge of discovery,
that discovery is surrounded by barriers of fear. Such is the state of mankind
now, we are on the brink of a profound discovery, but are afraid to take that
final step. Our demons arise to stop it from occurring.
Some people live in a mansion and yet never seem to leave
the room they were born in.
Look about you, this is nature, not science. Science is man’s
interpretation of nature. When you worship science, you worship man’s creation.
Science is the act of destroying the awesome with explanations.
Primitives thought misfortune was the wrath of gods. Does
science provide more comforting answers? Are we not still left desiring
justice? Is randomness a satisfactory answer?
You chase science as though you could catch it. But you are
too slow, too human.
You don’t understand how conspiracies work. It is not a
massive collusion, it is just group think kicking in. We think our congressmen
are individuals, but they are people with a similar desire who have spent their
lives making themselves cogs to fit the machine. Our mistake is believing our
leaders to be rugged individuals when in fact they have ridden the prevailing
winds to get where they are.
Pigeons can differentiate between Monet and Picasso,
although they are not cognizant of it. We are capable of many things, too, that
we are unaware of.
We adapt to our immediate environment rather than the whole.
The intellect is an evolving 6th sense, one that
is not yet fully developed. If you are not fully aware of what it is you are
sensing, you fear it, the way a deaf man would fear hearing sound for the first
time.
It’s about power. To shape the world is to own the world. To
shape your mind is to own yourself.
The collective must break down the small world, the idols,
in order to see the divine. This is the mission of our age, to demolish the
existing paradigm in order to see the larger one behind it. It is God or
another façade? Perhaps it is just a deeper understanding, a clearer perception
of God.
We have evolved to be collectively smart, yet we foolishly
cling to the belief that our individual intelligence can help us through the
universe we inhabit.
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