09-21-2016, 08:26 AM
Using my language and perspective, here is what the Man Machine Poem album is alluding to:
The Ascendant is the source of everything. Nothing lies outside it; nothing is built of anything other than it; nothing can exist for the smallest fraction of a moment outside of it. It is the conscious part of consciousness; it is the part of existence that exists. It is all that ever was, all that will ever be; you with your human nervous system have by your birth been given the ultimate gift—a machine that cannot only experience the Ascendant but direct it in any way you choose.
You are actually already directing the Ascendant all the time. But if your mind is not continually focused on one desire at a time, your mutually contradictory thoughts and desires cancel each other out. Not entirely, of course, or else you would be a catatonic schizophrenic—you would do nothing but sit and stare off into space. Since you are reading this, it is safe to assume you are not so self-contradictory that you are sailing in entirely useless circles in the boat of your mind.
On any sandy beach, the kind and quality of the waves very much determine the shape of the sand. The kind and quality of our thought waves very much determine the overall shape of our minds.
So often we look at the problems in our world complaining and moan about everything we see that is wrong. We may even become so enraged with the things we see that we invest ourselves deeply in changing or fixing the world. The challenging thing is that each one of us attempting to change or fix the world runs headlong into others attempting to do the same thing. Our ideas clash on the way the world should look and the battle begins to discover whose way is the RIGHT way.
All of this effort to fix the world and find the ideal solution takes us far away from the most powerful solution. How impossible a task, saving the world. How possible a task, saving yourself. Cleanse your own heart and the world’s heart will be cleansed.
The waking state perception of the Universe is completely reversed, upside-down. In the waking state, we commonly think that our effect is greater when we act outwardly; we think that our actions are stronger than our words and our words are stronger than our thoughts. Therefore, for example, we do not speak our resentment but hold it inside, festering, until it erupts in attacks far greater than the original action we did not take, or until it kills us. This way of living is backwards, it is destructive, it cures nothing and complicates everything. :nooooo
One human’s thoughts can change a world. To be healed, the world does need one Ideal Person. This person has already been born, this person has a name and a personal history. The birth date of this person is yours, the personal history is yours, this person’s name is yours. This Ideal Person is you.
We affect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our Universe."
The Ascendant is the source of everything. Nothing lies outside it; nothing is built of anything other than it; nothing can exist for the smallest fraction of a moment outside of it. It is the conscious part of consciousness; it is the part of existence that exists. It is all that ever was, all that will ever be; you with your human nervous system have by your birth been given the ultimate gift—a machine that cannot only experience the Ascendant but direct it in any way you choose.
You are actually already directing the Ascendant all the time. But if your mind is not continually focused on one desire at a time, your mutually contradictory thoughts and desires cancel each other out. Not entirely, of course, or else you would be a catatonic schizophrenic—you would do nothing but sit and stare off into space. Since you are reading this, it is safe to assume you are not so self-contradictory that you are sailing in entirely useless circles in the boat of your mind.
On any sandy beach, the kind and quality of the waves very much determine the shape of the sand. The kind and quality of our thought waves very much determine the overall shape of our minds.
So often we look at the problems in our world complaining and moan about everything we see that is wrong. We may even become so enraged with the things we see that we invest ourselves deeply in changing or fixing the world. The challenging thing is that each one of us attempting to change or fix the world runs headlong into others attempting to do the same thing. Our ideas clash on the way the world should look and the battle begins to discover whose way is the RIGHT way.
All of this effort to fix the world and find the ideal solution takes us far away from the most powerful solution. How impossible a task, saving the world. How possible a task, saving yourself. Cleanse your own heart and the world’s heart will be cleansed.
The waking state perception of the Universe is completely reversed, upside-down. In the waking state, we commonly think that our effect is greater when we act outwardly; we think that our actions are stronger than our words and our words are stronger than our thoughts. Therefore, for example, we do not speak our resentment but hold it inside, festering, until it erupts in attacks far greater than the original action we did not take, or until it kills us. This way of living is backwards, it is destructive, it cures nothing and complicates everything. :nooooo
One human’s thoughts can change a world. To be healed, the world does need one Ideal Person. This person has already been born, this person has a name and a personal history. The birth date of this person is yours, the personal history is yours, this person’s name is yours. This Ideal Person is you.
We affect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our Universe."