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Date: 27-Sep-02 @ 07:50 PM -
mysticism
i can't read that other thread any more, people get very precious about it. it'd be called 'knowledge' if you didn't have to believe it because you're supposed to.
anyway, while i was tending my garden, this occured to me. psyllycorn, this is for you. a description of my own path of knowledge, of various qualities..
perhaps properly termed clairaudiomancy.. imagineering.. :p
when i was a child, i was taught to look for hidden images.. not 'where's waldo,' but in natural forms.. in all forms. draw piccies of faces that are other faces upside down. old games. remember mt. st. helens cloud?
i got good at it on acid, like i reckon most people do. any random contour, a rough wall, carpet, rocks forms a mosaic of figures, interracting if i'm well into it.
well, this is my path. i do this with sound.. i can listen to a bit of dribbly noise and hear it rattling off whole coherent paragraphs. give it about an octave of variation for expressive phrasing.. ..if you're setting up a source/tap that is.
and mystically, i can do this with anything. the sound you make on the floor with your shoes.. to gather knowledge about you. keeping eyes and ears open for what i see and hear there. as opposed to looking for it.
as a mystical process, it must be considered in light of the traditions of dadaism and burroughs ('giver of winds' is his magical name) cut-ups to understand the relation between self, universe, senses. and yes, i will assert that on countless occasions i have received knowledge about real things i shouldn't have known about, but refer to above parties for authentification of this knowledge ("is it me? is it you?") cos i'm not interested in debating it. progression to pure (ie. w/o stimulus) clairaudience and clairvoyance followed.
i'd also like to mention that if you want your child to be wise, grow a garden, yes, do.. ..if they're hopelessly bookish, buy them their own copy of candide.. ..plant seeds.. and tend the garden