There are few things more powerful than a good aphorism.
God – The narcissistic portions of REALITY that are crying out to be healed. -Kevin Cann
“We can choose among our desires, but we cannot choose our desires!” -Bernardo Kastrup
Monotheism: The worship of one specific human ego template.
“We Need to Stop Worshipping Dead People” -Jeffrey J. Kripal
“Desire is a contract that we make with ourselves to be unhappy until we get what we want.” -Naval Ravikant
“Being half a step ahead of any era is genius but being a step ahead of any era is madness” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. -Salvador Dali.
As Platonic Surrealism teaches, we are fictional characters in our own stories.
When experiencing a “dark night of the soul”, just remember: “We play all the roles”.
At our core of cores, we are the storyteller, and to avoid loneliness and pain
we get caught up in our ‘movies’ ‘stories’ ‘songs’.
The purpose of religion is to keep you in a constant state of subtle pain; which forces part of your
True Self to become slightly disentangled from the body, thus being able to commiserate with
and ‘think-with’ other damaged parts of the large life, who are also in pain, including even
whole universes.
“Reality is well-organized Self-deception”.
‘Consciousness’ keeps you trapped for all eternity.
AWARENESS is what frees you FROM ‘consciousness’.
Insisting on a SINGULAR reason or purpose is mental illness (religion/scientism).
Enlightenment: when you stop sabotaging your body with your mind.
Liberation: When you stop running away from yourself.
Transcendence is the acquisition of atemporal social skills.
Pain drives the hidden into plain view, as it seeks to escape. That’s
why asceticism works, why religion works, why yoga works.
The Imaginal, “Realer than Real” effect happens
when the ‘Universe’ echo’s it’s Imagination, as a wave
back in the direction of your own initial imaginary
impulse.
If you can take a picture of a ‘UFO’, it’s not a ‘UFO’.
Kevin Cann
10/22/2024