There are aspects of my stack that feel like they’re just now beginning to perceivably come online.
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First, clear the land, then build your house.
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For me, the magickal mindset entails something like this: Everyday, waking consciousness is a generated agglomeration of orientations (sets), reference points, and perceptions/sensations. This agglomeration is a generated, contrivance of mind (albeit a crucially important contrivance).
There is an Ocean: Mind. Within that ocean, in order to establish a sense of location, place, and center, nodes of ice are formed within that vast expanse of flow and current. Standing on the iceberg creates an artificial sense of center; but that sense of Center and Location is so compelling, and so conveniently and easily attached to, that its contrivance is subverted, elided, and inverted.
The Ocean now seems, from this vantage point, to be the encroaching chaotic threat to the ‘orderly’ iceberg that has ‘always’ been the true center and fundamental reference point of existence. It’s an understandable illusion. Specificity, no matter how contrived, is easier to focus on and to regard as ‘real’ or ‘legitimate’.
When awareness stands on the solidity of the iceberg, benefiting from its apparently solid and stable ‘this-ness’, and yet, remembering the actual state of affairs, connects to the shifting inchoate flowing space around it as the actual source and foundation, a balance between the solid and the mutable, the ‘orderly’ and the ‘chaotic’, now becomes possible. Flexibility has been attained, and the possibility of intentional transformation has been opened.
This, for me, is the magickal mindset—an ontological reformation; a ‘remembrance’ of the genuine state of affairs.
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If someone wants to break up with you, and you have absolutely no idea why; that means they are probably right. (and vice versa).
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This man is one of my musical role models. It’s fun to hear how transparent and straight-forward his descriptions of his work and his life are.
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Noticing more from The Revelation of Spirit these days.
I just want to make a note for future me.
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Finally feeling Book Blitz effects again.
Almost a Limitless kind of effect. Not that I’m reading super-quickly, but I am feeling a much better ‘frame’ around words/information/ideas. Words, for me, need to feel somewhat grounded in physicality to feel very useful. Somehow that’s happening more today.
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Another monthly 9-day washout ended today.
Looking forward to starting another play period tomorrow.
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Had a 10 AM Zoom meeting scheduled. Went down and rowed (for only 7 minutes). Respiratory function is not great. It’s limiting what I can do right now. But some is still better than none.
Came back upstairs and showered. Then meditated with subliminals today. PHENOMENAUT Genesis and BUILD (collectively known as The MALKUTH Catharsis).
Cooked myself a late breakfast and then caught a cab to the office.
The subliminals are processing inside of my mind right now.
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First there’s Everyday Waking Consciousness.
Which is actually,
Your Version of Normal Everyday Waking Consciousness.
It’s slightly (or dramatically) different for everyone.
A jet plane flying
A pterodactyl flying
A pigeon flying
are all ‘Flying’.
But the details differ significantly.
So, first there’s normal, everyday waking consciousness/conscious experience.
Then sitting with a facilitator (or by yourself), you can explore and shift how awareness connects to and relates to that so-called everyday consciousness.
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What is a person?
Observe.
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“Is this Recon or am I really in trouble?”
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Memes. Stories. Beliefs. Ideas. Concepts.
Perceptions. Sensations.
Learn to see them and see through them.
Dharma
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God is the Consciousness of the Cosmos
Commune
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Got to the gym at 8:10 this morning. Got in a 15 minute row. A few sets of leg press. Keeping the weight low. Just 180 pounds. And for the first time in ever (I mean a long time) I did a few dumbbell curls. Then came back home, showered, meditated, and had my morning meeting on Zoom.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, begins my 2nd week of subliminal listening, with PHENOMENAUT Genesis and BUILD.
Amazingly, I think I’ve been experiencing movement and recon. As I think I’ve mentioned above somewhere, I’ve been with PHENOMENAUT since August 2023, and I’ve been with BUILD since end of April 2024. I think.
From January 2024 to July 2024, I was dealing with serious financial and home stress. Things got intense. They’d been intense and they got more intense.
But thank goodness, I’m still here.
When it comes to reconciliation, it got hard to tell the difference between internal upheaval and external challenge. Sometimes that happens. Happened in the last few days. Was worried about some problems, then just now it occurred to me that some of that worry was reconciliation.
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A person’s capacity and ability to humbly, vulnerably, courageously, and honestly face themself, not only intellectually and through words, but through emotions and actions.
This will be what ultimately determines the butcher’s bill in your relationship with that person.
Cultivate this in yourself and be clear about it with regard to other people.
Putting it off makes things seem easier at first;
but in the end, the bill will be paid.
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Ask again:
What is the meaning of a human life?
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On Tuesdays, I have meetings for most of the day, ending at 10 pm. So, it’s a day when I really try to meditate in the early morning. Otherwise, I could potentially end up meditating at 11:30 pm. Cool sometimes, to be sure; but not my first preference.
Having said that, I did not meditate this morning. Circumstances just conspired to make that not happen. Ended up texting with my child’s teacher to handle things.
Meditated in my office today from 3:05 pm to 4:05 pm.
That was cool. And unusual. Fortunately, no one came to my door.
Another thing: I’m feeling a little bit more pulled to engage with the visual field as a phenomenon.
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Also, I finished my second reread of The Wheel of Time yesterday last night.
Loved it even more the second time.
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