What is trending? Xenophobia is making a resurgence amongst democratically elected neo fascists. As the ultimate self defining inclusive reference frame, patriotism almost always causes people to want to look elsewhere for the blame of their own personal problems. This would not become a problem were we humans actually capable of rational objectivity. So, I could say, what is trending is not a trend. The cutting edge is sometimes just the blade of a guillotine. In order to clear the way, TIME STOPS. It's war that persists. (When God awoke, he opened his one judgmental eye, and the world was consumed entirely by holocaust and lightning.)
Most of what of I've written so far has been essentially very positive and optimistic. What gives? Why stop now? If all we need is good news then we can read the Christian Science Monitor. They have a great editorial policy of putting good news on the front page, bad news in the back.
During my last session with my teacher at the Mercury Academy, ("What Is Inter Sensory Perception" Mon. Dec. 2nd, 2013) we discussed his particularly grim outlook about human history as it stretched out before us from that date on May 18th, 1980. We had developed a way that he could communicate to me long after he would no longer be able to speak. We knew perfectly well what was going to happen to him, to me and to the rest of the world. We used a system of storytelling, some of which I would make up or retell to him. He also would tell me many stories from literature, history and classic movies. These narratives made it possible for us to construct durable memories, each specific to elaborate detailed contexts for understanding the human dynamic. One of the movies he outlined for me was "Zorba The Greek" from the book by Nikos Kazantzakis. I had not seen that movie. The story sounded to me, like it was an indulgent trip into the destructive mania of "Zorba." I had always hated anything that seemed to glamorize mental illness or nihilism. Many people loved that movie as quality cinema, but without even having seen the flick I told Steve, "It sounds like the guy had a destructive impact on the lives of everyone he came in contact with."
He said, "It isn't necessary for you to like the story." "Your opinion is valid, what is important is that you use the film to reactivate the memories of what you learn." He went on to state, "I thought you liked reading Kazantzakis, you said you liked his "The Saviors of God." Then to finish framing the issue, Steve went on to say "Sometimes you need to destroy things to make room for what is new." There was very little real freedom for the characters of this modern existential Greek tragedy. "Zorba couldn't really help any of the people in the story anyways." "It was enough that he should exist."
This is a matter of course, it is one of the most difficult aspects of an occult world view to convey. There is an inseparable unity and coequal place of the creative with the destructive. This horrifying perspective is very much a throwback to the bronze age mythos of the cyclical continuity of life and death; sunrise, sunset, springtime, the fall, day after day, life after life. Once we decided we needed the "Creator" we needed to create a destroyer. Our belief in a personal devil was the inevitable result of believing in death as something separate from life. Please forgive my overuse of unexplained TIME STOPS.
To me the whole notion of what is "trending" is a symptom of an erroneous sense of immortality. As long as we are afraid of death, well,....., Sometimes the answers will seem very strange and even threatening. I believe this is why true innocence is always unexpected. (Will I be unforgiven for trying to tell the truth?)
