I could use a few tabs of unadulterated LSD from early 60's right now. But given the nightmare perpetually unfolding, of MAGA NAZIS and a barely checked TRUMP, EXHIBIT A of Pathological N-ARSE-WHOLENESS, and the destruction he's done in 8 months and intending to do much more...NOPE....won't do a tab of acid now as I am too. wide eyed in terror and more to come (his "divine retribution" tour, not even a tour but a terminal active occasion in time as his cypher self, a no self, cannot even be content with maximum damage and destruction while he devours himself like a demonic OUROBOROS (ponounced "your-boros").
Play this at the slower speed while watching the dog-trancing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
Dog-trancing - I'll have what they are having!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/107583468801531
I Ching Hexagrams After POTUS (S)Election 2024 - Splitting Apart
The dreadful shock of Trump "winning" ( we know he cheated) the election was confirmed to me when in despair I consulted the Taoist oracle of the I Ching and got Hexagram 23 aptly named "Spitting Apart" (I asked "What will result from Trump being president of USA again?"), so just reading the title of the Hexagram confirmed what I knew, what we all knew (the Bastard had said as much during the campaign). The first line re: the meaning of this hexagram says it directly:
"It does not further one to go anywhere" [which is what I wanted to do aka leave the country, and still very much DO want to do]. Doubt and fear cause us to split from our path...." I think the hexagram was/is speaking to the USA, the collective....and/but just the name of the hexagram said, still says, what Trump and MAGA intend and are doing, splitting the nation apart, creating division, etc. Read the entire brief commentary at this link which will open to #23:
https://archive.org/details/guidetoiching0000anth/page/55/mode/1up
The accuracy of the hexagram, though, and further hexagrams that were bleak, as well, was, while terrifying/upsetting to greater upset, strangely comforting as in "OK, the Sage of the Tao de Ching "knows" and even this bullshit mutherfucker cannot escape the Tao (which means "WAY" - which references an inherent order including chaos (Trump's entire metier) is at work. FATE, a big word in Taoism, is a word used to say, "Greater forces are at work, greater than even Trump Itself, and best, so I was counseled that night and STILL, to KEEP STILL, everything changes and this too will change. Keeping Still basically says, "Wait. You cannot impact the forces at work now but time will come when action effects the needed change. Trump thinks he is the source of force but forces, say the Tao, say Carl Jung, says W. H. Auden ARE LIVING HIM. They, too, are living each and every, and they are living groups, regions, countries. SO, better to identify what forces are living you individually, and those living in the family, the community, the state, the country, etc. Tend to those forces, make them conscious and have a conscious relationship with them so as not to be just forced along with the delusion that the ego is godalmighty and uber alles and running your show. NOPE. YES?NO. BOTH/AND.
I Ching for Today and Ahead - Hexagram 61 - Inner Truth
Today's hexagram to go with this post, counsel to one and all, at least perhaps you, for dealing with the mad nation today today or for the up and coming weeks is #61 Inner Truth, first line of the commentary is a kind of sum of it but read the entire (short) commentary at the link in the the comment section below:
"Pigs and fishes. Good fortune." This hexagram is about dealing with evil in others though the power of inner truth.
"Pigs and fishes" refers to the stubborn qualities of a person's ego. The buildup of inner power, through clinging to what is right, must be very great to penetrate through."
Enough for now. Or too much so let's go for enough and less for less is more when our house, our national house is on fire (to be Buddhist for a brief moment viz. His Fire Sermon which is easy to sum, this is my sum:
"Folks, it's as if your are living in a burning house and don't know it (or are ignoring it with magical thinking that it is not real or will go away). But I tell you:
WAKE UP!(which is what "Buddha" the word/name means)!
"Get out of the burning house!!"
What is this fire burning down the house?
Desire. What Freud helpfully for us now post postmoderns terms "DRIVES" as in instinct driven URGES. Deire (this is me, not Buddha) is what DRIVES capitalism. And drives are endless and never extinguished thus we have our acquisition/accumulation systems which now market desire every nano-second. This incessant pursuit, hunger, drive, urge can never be stationed thus the crazy fantasy of escape by turning a nation into an oligarchy. Even the oligarchs are not satisfied, are never fulfilled.
Suffer me just a bit more re: the above. For America, the problem (as I see it) is found in the Preamble to the Constitution itself viz
"the right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness."
Happiness IS the problem. The very word derives from "happen" which really is a blip, and event, changing from one second or moment to the next...instances and of course, the word "INSTANT, NOW NOW NOW, HERE HERE HERE". Happiness, the word, and the state of being "happy" is inherently BRIEF. It does not STAY. See the problem? the drives that drives us want, seek, SATIATION. SATISFACTION. Well,
FAT CHANCE.
BUT, I think the better word in the Preamble is
Contentment.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Contentment.
Contentment, too, implies a process of trial and error, of long enough to know that one's contentments, the contents that bring about this inner state of filling enough, fades, no longer works....contentments can end in discontentment. Hopefully, adulthood and aging matures our relationship to contentment and their contents wisely (hard won wisdom) that grass withers, etc. and so one gets philosophical, patient, and the pursuits can turn inward, can be sought within.
I'll spare the lecture on Freud's short by accurate (as it stands - he/it needed Carl Jung to provide ballast and balance to Freud's accurate description of humans, what drives us, the search for cessation and satisfaction of/for our "discontents". Freud's major point is that the productions of civilization, art all kinds, architecture, knowledge, science, tools, technology, religions, sports, entertainment, and all the rest are born of our hunger, our desires, which do not fully assuage, satiate permanently - thus our discontent.
Thus Freud's title to a 44 page book with massive reorientation of and for the human "project" "goal" which is, indeed, contentment —
Civilization and Its Discontents.
Book can be read online for free at archive dot org (free to join.
Oh, Carl Jung's project and calling was to point out that civilization is born not only from human discontent but also that it is born of archetypal forces that shape and reshape human "productions of time", those forces are mysterious but reveal in myths and such...so I speak of, and AMEN Freud (his view from the neurotic Wasteland) AND know that Jung did not discount Freud's view so much as he discovered that civilization arrives/derives from depth dimensions which are the Myth- and Mys- (as in Mystic, as in Mystery),
So. Not either/or but rather both/and. Freud's view from where he stood and worked. Jung's view, too, from what "drove" him to his researches and discoveries from depths that are beneath the layer of the personal unconscious, the deeper layers Jung called the archetypal, the TRANSpersonal ("beyond"personal).
One more IMPORTANT note - that the I Ching, Tarot, Runes and other oracles partake of the transpersonal, archetypal layers which is the function of SYMBOLS aka symbols are not signs - most folks don't know this but I'll snot going into this here). Here is Jungian analyst and writer Edward F. Edinger clearly stating the difference between symbol and sign. You can impress your friends at cocktail parties and brunch. This excerpt is from his book, Ego and Archetype, Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche:
