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October 31, 2011

The random thought show

By Love, Art & Fear

1.  My only rule for LSD was simple:  If I suddenly believe I can fly, I have to start from the ground.  If I can make it off of the ground then I just have to learn to land and can control the test.  This is way better than dying from a 100 foot fall. 

2.  I bet Halloween would suck for people who were raped by someone wearing a pumpkin costume. 

3.  My favorite spelling rule is this; “i before e, except after c”.  The following words are reasons why I love this rule:  weird, weight, their, heist, heights and reign. 

4.  Nothing great has ever occurred by NOT breaking the rules.

5.  Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day.  Unless, he is deathly allergic to fish, goes into anaphylactic shock and dies.  Then you’ll have fed him for a lifetime. 

6.  Space.  You wouldn’t know this but I’ve been sitting here staring at the word ‘space’ on this fucking computer for 30 minutes with nothing to write.  What a waste of time. 

7.  Time.  I’ve decided to just start writing.  The key to these post has zero to do with thinking and everything to do with just moving to see what comes out.  Time doesn’t really exist so therefore it wasn’t a waste after all.  Time is just the appearance of moving parts within space. 

8.  Space again.  We often say “space travel” when talking about travelling to visit other planets but that is ridiculous because the last time I checked we were already in space travelling at an amazing speed. 

9.  Technically, the room that I perceive myself in and this body are made of the exact same substances.  Those substances are made of sub-atomic happenings that are approximately 1% of the reality.  The remaining 99% is empty space which all phenomena arises and only tends to exist.  What do I think this means?  We are space.  Einstein said “what do the fish know of the water in which they swim”.  Refer to number 7.

10.  Imagine being a fish and acting on the impulse to chomp down on a worm only to be yanked out of the water by a hook in your mouth.  I’m really happy that extraterrestrials only use electromagnetic technology to catch us.  My appearance is important and I don’t need some unsightly scar on my lip because some redneck E.T. was teaching his stupid son how to fish for humans. 

11.  I think that we should take everyone who has ever been on dancing with the stars, put them in a capsule that perpetually shakes and shoot them off into what we call “space”.  Then I might watch the show and the name “Dancing with the Stars” would be more accurate.  Stars?  Chastity Bono wasn’t a star when she had an innie, so how does giving her an outtie and transforming her into a fat trucker shoot her to stardom?

12.  Forget everything you just read, go into the world today and be kind to each other. 

13.  Nothing is random.

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August 31, 2011

The God Fear…

By Love, Art & Fear

This may sound bizarre to most but that is perfectly fine with me.  Just stick it on the “if I didn’t think he was crazy before” pile.  Life is risk.  Here we go…

What I mean by fear is respect and reverence with insight into what is possible.  I say this with love in hopes that some will at least ponder it. 

Most of us go about our day sitting in chairs, eating at tables and walking on floors, concrete or grass.  It is all an assumption we make founded on an illusion of what we are told or perceive with our sense organs.

In my twenties, I had an experience that at first, I wished I could erase but later came to appreciate.  In this experience I realized that every molecule, atom, proton and electron that comprises what we call “reality” is being held together by a force that science hasn’t really been able to explain.  There are a lot of fancy theories out there though.

I felt the presence of this force and knew without a doubt that this was the same creative force that created me, you and everything that we see and don’t see.  The dust, the air and neutrinos come from this presence.  I was in awe. 

Next I experienced what would happen if that creative presence simply let go.  Imagine every atom undoing itself instantly while we are still conscious.  The hard floor that I take for granted every day is actually energy condensed to a slow vibration, held together electromagnetically.  It isn’t real, yet I can jump up and down on it. 

This experience was awe-inspiring yet terrifying at the same time.  From this point, I didn’t become afraid and hide away.  After all, where would I hide besides inside of something made out of the material held together by this infinite presence?  There is literally nowhere to go.

So here is my next thought:  If this force is love and we are in a perpetual state of grace, what is there to fear?  Really?  From that point, I no longer feared what any human, government, height or insect could do to me.  I respected what that creative force could do.  I understood this force to be love.  It is hard to present scientific findings concluding that the universe is held together by grace and love however.  That just sounds ridiculous I know, but I feel it’s true.  Why wouldn’t I invest the rest of my life getting to know this presence better?  Why would I choose to fear anything other than the one who could collapse the entire field? 

God is not inert.  God is a verb. 

Some people may get hung up on words.  If you were paying attention in some of my previous posts you would understand that a) words are symbols we use to point to phenomena and b) I really don’t give a shit what people think.  Our individual beliefs will get their ass kicked by truth.

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August 19, 2011

NRG

By Love, Art & Fear

What happens when an unstoppable ball meets an immovable wall?

I love asking questions like this.  Questions without answers motivate our brains.  Our brains are problem solving machines and when there is no true answer, it motivates our brain into organizing itself more efficiently. 

How do I know this? 

I don’t. 

Think about it though.  If our brains are problem solving machines and we supply the brain with a healthy dose of unsolvable problems what might happen?  Increased neural activity?  Greater organization of data?

 What might turn up on the road to nowhere?  Who knows?

I love the concept of the mystery box because curiosity is the brains catalyst.  What is in the box is far less important than the question: What is in the box?

I hope your day is filled with curiosity and wonder.

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July 17, 2011

Scissors

By Love, Art & Fear

My friend Trevor and I used to discuss the infinite all of the time.  One of our many topics included light travel.  My joke was that in order to travel ‘light’ you can’t have any human baggage. 

At age 23, it was obvious to me that light has to catch up to the black holes we call our eyes in order to be perceived.  How can we accurately measure the movement of something when the measuring device is also moving at an uncalculated speed?  I think Einstein did too much Cocaine. 

Regardless of this, we would pretend to be theoretical physicists and postulate all sorts of notions.  One of these notions had a prop…  scissors. 

We close the scissors and imagine a line that extends toward infinity from the blades.  Once the imaginary line reaches a distance that is almost unfathomable, we then open and close the scissors really fast.  Here on Earth we are simply opening and closing scissor blades.  Our imaginary lines are travelling at incomprehensible speeds toward infinity however. 

To simplify this even further, imagine two lines extending toward infinity from the open blades.  The blades reach 186,000 miles apart (approximate light speed per second).  Close and open them four times per second and you have (theoretically) demonstrated a speed four times faster than light speed.

This is the first time I’ve tried to explain this with words so I thank you for your patience:)  I used to explain it with acid and a series of grunts and laughs.

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April 25, 2011

Growing pains

By Love, Art & Fear

“Ignorance is bliss, until they take your bliss away”.  – Josh Homme

We can accept our fate or choose our destiny. 

Something changed in my brain today for the better.  The oblivious became the obvious I suppose.  For years my unconscious guiding principle had been:  Observe.  Resist.  Force.  I had the awareness part down but had been lacking in right action due to a desperate attempt to save a world that does not desire to be saved.

My newest principle in life is simple:  Observe.  Adapt.  Evolve.

I know that Einstein’s definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result yet this is exactly what I had been doing… albeit unconscious, but that’s hardly an excuse. 

I call this ’default thinking’.  

Default thinking is not really thinking.  It is auto-pilot.  While this may seem to keep us safe for now, it is actually detrimental to our long-term well-being.  The reason for this is simple:  Life is not a passive event.  It is an active participation… a work in progress so to speak.  If we don’t decide for our self then someone decides for us.  Just like a muscle that isn’t used will atrophy, so is our ability to transform circumstances. 

I would ask myself; why does it seem that most people are in a race to mediocrity?  I no longer believe that they are.  I just observe that most people, despite the books they read, religion they preach or politics they practice are highly skilled at keeping in line with the status quo.  The status quo is safe and predictable but is it joyful?  This is not necessarily a bad thing.  It’s just what’s up on planet Earth. 

How might your perspective change if you found, for a fact, that the natural state of a human being is radiant joy? 

I re-iterate that we can either accept our fate or choose our destiny.  For years I was caught up in my hippie ‘go with flow’ attitude and wondered why all my dreams/goals didn’t just magically fall into place.  I know why now and it’s almost embarrasing how obvious it is.  I will continue to be kind, loving, fun, funny etc. as those are my values however my actions will change.  Life is fucking great.

OBSERVE.  ADAPT.  EVOLVE.

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