Friday, May 16, 2003

Recurring Complexes and Far Reaches



Beyond the monolithic, all-solid clump that makes up the average personality is an astonishing array of energy and force-of-will intricately and intimately involved with the private and public spaces of universes.

The connections between these viewpoints and interactions make a map of ebbs, nuances, flows, channels, interconnections, efforts and energies. The map reflects territories never exposed to normal human exchange. It includes layers of possible reality, actual reality, views as self, views from others’ viewpoints, layers and arrays of decayed, sub-aware life energy embedded in various dramatizations, complete packages of organization, demand, noise, reflections and copies of reflections of both own and others, etc., etc., etc.

Addressing the current life, current identity, current responsibility of a human being is a shallow step but one that cannot be left out. It pays, though, to be aware that that surface we think of as Bubba Joe is being informed at conscious and ignored levels from here to Hades and back, a chorale of impressive weight in the background.
In a similar way, a PR man will present only the tip of what really goes on in a company and will pitch a product without talking about the internal politics, the feelings of the boss’ wife, the lawsuit filed by a competitor or the tragedy of James getting canned by a curmudgeonly boss in the marketing division. Similarly, we see, in an average human’s presentation, a layer of communication and consideration which is filtered and modulated in order to create some small positive effect on those around him. This does not mean that the real weight of his choices will align with what he seems to be.

There is a positive side to this story as well. When designing by intentional postulate how one will exist in the world, one can design and build a far more effective universe for oneself if he takes the farther reaches as much into account as the local present-time-only tip of the iceberg part of his persona. In other words, if you are going to create yourself, do it deep and far, and the presentation to the world will take care of itself. Trying to re-paint the persona on the surface, with nice affirmations, thinking right thoughts, or praying to anyone other than yourself, is likely to be a skin-deep sort of job at best, with little enduring gain in it for anyone.

Dead Energies

The current communications across the different facets of life including one’s internal dialog, chats with Gramps, love-letters from a sales trip, worries about the new Alsatian or a dripping faucet, etc., are all ebbing and flowing in our ordinary days, some more vivaciously than others, but all in a relatively alive sort of way. The deeper chasms of unknowing on which some of this superstructure is built contains energies which are not shifting and flowing but are moribund, rigid, solid, cold, black, unfeeling and hard to feel, unknowing and hard to know. Within these rigid clumps, ridges, trails of dead energy and the like one can find some very bizarre thoughts, if one bothers to pour enough energy into them to wake them from their moribund condition. While they are essentially re-creatable or reactivatable, their current condition is somewhat rock-like or tar-like, psychically speaking. But it will behoove the individual encountering these phenomena to remember that their tensions, their occluded emotions, and their bizarre irrationalities do in fact impinge on the individual and inform his more current sense of choice, information, affinity and action. Dead though these energies may appear they can still create considerable force of thought, feeling, sensation or pain on the totality known as a human being.

The technology for addressing these phenomena is under development and will be effective in releasing them.

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