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Written by Justin   
Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:57
    Ours is an emergent universe, so shall I emerge. Without perceptions or inspiration my mind wanders through the days.  Each an elliptical incantation of characters and parallel interactions, seemly mundane but all to realistic.  All to very reminiscent. As if the memory of it was already in existence, long before the moment ever arose.

    Some simple bike rides can stop time, a moment in a special place can be enveloped in the warmth of carnal intuition.  I stop and look through the city on Pico and Santa Monica, from the West Side you can see the sun setting through the buildings, almost all the way to the horizon.  It's warm, its light and awe inspiring, realizing even I am a mystery to myself. 

    An interesting book, on an interesting topic is this The Alphabet vs. The Goddess.  The author Leonard Shlain spent a great deal of his time imagining the distant inhabitants of our mysterious earth.  His ideas offer an alternative to many peoples notions of history and life, but not all people will agree. 

    We know that Aristotle recorded his learning from Egyptian nobility, writers, authors and keepers of records in his lifetime (323 BC).  And he tells us that it was known by the ancients, even in his time, that along with the written word came the loss of the ability to remember.  Not remember as in, don't forget your keys; but real memory, like the ability to recall the story of the journey of Odysseus. Verbatim.

    I am so enthralled with the fact that when we take into consideration, the words of our most brilliant scientists and authors, we can't help but hear the constant echo, throughout the entire written record, of a foreboding uncertainty about what exactly is going on around us.  We all are still mysteries to ourselves, and that is awesome and inspiring. 

    What if our senses are much higher than we allow?  I feel as though I can sympathetically imagine the spark of intelligence that would be the great cycle of the ages, through us, as a transformation of communal thought. I imagine myself on the bank of a river, unsuppressed by civilization and hypothetically preserved in nature.  On that bank, with perhaps the aid of a nearby wood or natural shelter, I could be here now at the age of 29.  I could have survived up to this point in my life on that land, fishing and farming for small crops of grains and fruit.

    There are two moments in my life where the communal understanding of the human body preserved my lifespan; I survived to relatively small medical incidents, one being the removal of my appendix, and the other a small infection due to an abscess.  Both of which are relatively minor in today's standards, though historically both could have killed me without the understanding of antibiotics. 

    Assuming the understanding of human health and antibiotics was available for me, but without the city and technology as we know it. Merely the understanding, and maybe a natural antibiotic tonic; technology and materialism are merely by products of the learning process.  Soon they will be completely unnecessary. 

    I imagine it is the technology of today, the material energies and systems which we devise, that will teach our minds to understand the elements.  For some time now we must re-learn all that we once knew, through a network of situations forming cities, and states, governments societies and languages; our minds are growing again.  As opposed to the darkest of times, through the Iron Age of the Kali Yuga, through the bottom of the wheel; our present time shows progress of development, though that shouldn't remove the power of the human mind from the equation.

    Instead, all this metal, plastic and silicon will prove less magically powerful than our very own minds, we just need to use the tools of nature to progress our thought, until the day those plastic devices won't be needed once more.  A long time from now, when these things are long gone, the function for storing and accessing information in our own minds could be so refined that we literally create a new dynamic in society in the way we interact, move and speak.
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