Where are the internal ears, to hear the voice, that does not speak? From a throat that has no vocal chords.
Oh….
“God is the voice that says, I am not here.. “
Don DeLillo
“Falling Man”
But seriously, how is it, we can hear this voice? The one you are listening to right now, as you read this. Certainly, while it is in my voice. (the words that found their way on to this screen, through my fingertips, that voice.)
Yet, not the voice that emanates from my throat and mouth, which has a certain kind of squeaky, Kermit the frog’s pitch and tone to it.
Great, now you/I know what this originally sounded like.
Which you are trying to audibly picture through your recollection what Kermit sounds like and are desperately attempting to emulate with your voice, listening to with the ears, you don’t have either. Try it on this.
“Do I talk to myself, I don’t think I talk to myself.”
– Jack Canfield
Holy s#!&, I am talking to my self. Which, when you repeat the above in a James Earl Jones / Darth Vader voice, or sing it back in a Stephen Tyler voice will realize, you are talking and singing to your self.
Before considering whether or not to ask the question of the psychotherapist, of the different sounds the voices in your head is making, while talking and singing to yourself as to “where the ears are ?”
To which they will say, that question, up until now has been unheard of.
“Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on, ah
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow,
The good Lord will take you away”
– Aerosmith
“It’s just another day in paradise
As you stumble to your bed
You’d give anything to silence
Those voices ringing in your head
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
Learn to be still”
– The Eagles
Try this instead
But like a moment
It will not last because
It is freaky still
One does not even have to close their eyes, a quick contemplation will suffice. (Also helps, so you can read further.)
The cool part is, you can do this wherever you are, regardless of what you are doing. Only takes a fraction of a second.
Realize, your surroundings, yet from a distance. Say a visable, yet internal perspective in the outer band of stars of the Milky Way. Particularly the “local” star, with its 3rd rock in tow, with you on it.
Scooting along at 67,000 miles per hour, (87 x the speed of sound, rockets only go 9x) while spinning approximately 1,000 miles per hour.
Not very still, now are you.
Unsure what your reaction will be, but it makes my heart skip a beat to grasp the magnitude of what is going on.
Which can instantly transform the next or last thought, that you consider/ed “SO” important.
Either of, a needing to be right, narcissistic, self-effacing, happy or sad. When your very existence is dependent on an ozone layer only 3mm thick (2 pennies stacked). Protecting you from being cooked to a crisp while allowing you to breathe.
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“We are like sheep without a shepherd
We don’t know how to be alone
So we wander ’round this desert
And wind up following the wrong gods home
But the flock cries out for another
And they keep answering that bell
And one more starry-eyed messiah
Meets a violent farewell-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still”
– The Eagles
How?
At that speed, under such fragile conditions, could one possibly, learn to be still?
The economy and your wallet, your vehicle and how much energy it has to get you around. (That avoids, all the “how it is powered BS. Whaaah, electric vehicles are more harmful to the planet, NO. People are. Those keep getting produced.) The food and water, their levels of toxicity, vs. dwindling nutrition and availability.
Wondering who is allegedly leading, this country or any other. Look around…..no one. Save the corporations playing with people pawns, for greed and amusement. A little skirmish here, some starvation over there. A disaster around the corner, chasing one that just passed. Plus a whole lot of daily distractions to keep one from being still.
“Now the flowers in your garden
They don’t smell so sweet
Maybe you’ve forgotten
The heaven lying at your feet
There are so many contridictions
In all these messages we send
(We keep asking)
How do I get out of here
Where do I fit in?
Though the world is torn and shaken
Even if your heart is breakin’
It’s waiting for you to awaken
And someday you will-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still
You just keep on runnin’
Keep on runnin'”
“The Eagles”
Good luck with that…….
“Maybe you’ve forgotten
The heaven lying at your feet”
– The Eagles
“Hell Freezes Over”
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Of freedom
Is confined to its
Inheritant limitations
By its given definitions
Words caging
Its very meaning
By specific description
Chained to each
Mysterious meaning
Chasing them backwards
Freedom
“1: The quality or state of being free”
* – M-W.com
Quality
“1 a : Peculiar and essential nature”*
State
“1 a : Mode or condition of being”*
“It’s not a free country. You’re born free…
I mean, you are born absolutely free, except for the laws of nature. If you drink, you get drunk. That’s a law. If you get old, you die. That’s a law too. If you sit on a tack, you will bleed from the ass.
These are the only laws they that you’re born with. And any kind of government just #ucks you out that type of freedom.”
– Doug Stanhope
Freedom ought to have the same definition behind it as meaningless. Nothing.
Not as in freedom is meaningless, rather unconfined by rational or irrational attachment to defining words.
Freedom by its very essence, without definition, is whatever the perceiver interprets it as.
Locking it down to a singular understanding incarcerates it more than a prison.
“It’s all about money, not freedom, y’all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin’ freedom. If you think you’re free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?”
Bill Hicks
People peddle their freedom for security, like it is a currency on the exchange market. Trading it when the tide rolls in, or when the wind blows.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Alex : A clever name for an online retailer of burial plots.
Contestant : What is “A Grave Site”
Have not done a Jeopardy post for a while. Probably because no one is dying to read them.
Methinks the pursuit of wonder
Is much more evolutionary
Therefore revolutionary than
The pursuit of happiness
Even just linguistically because
You might be the happiest
You have ever been, yet
Due to the pseudo pursuit
Ingrained in people’s psyche
One is hitherto inclined to
Always and all ways
Search to trying to be
Even more happy
Than is sanely realistic
Whereas the pursuit of wonder
Will only make you more
(You guessed it) and more
WONDERFUL / WONDER FULL
“More Than Happy
You hear this alot — “Oh, I’d be more than happy to do that for ya’!”
How can you be “more than happy?”
This sounds like a dangerous medical condition!
We had to put Dave away in the home today….he was…well….MORE THAN HAPPY”
– George Carlin
Oddly and ironically enough, putting theory to practice, the pursuit of wonder, auto-generates the exercise of being in a state of happiness. With no further pressure of being a being, needing to be more happy. Only more wonderful.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Revolution plus constitution
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
If truth was actually the goal of accuracy, this would read.
We hold these perceptions, of a collective consciousness that all bi-pedal oxygen breathing earthling artists are manifestations of eons of evolution.
To which a lot of evidence suggests, enanated from a primordial ooze of the host planet, third in line to a light and heat source of such incredible scientific understanding is in what is known as the Goldilocks zone.
Cycling in a natural process of energy transformations of life, entropy, decay, re-purposing, towards an ever expanding awareness of itself in relationship to an unknown cosmos.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”
Phewwt, out the window with that paragraph.
That to proactively preserve this host and inhabitants, so awareness might continue to evolve. Systems of communication and resource sharing, established intercontinentally are in place to ensure all are fed, housed and healthy.
Having abolished systems of governments as suggested in a previous constitution that at its best intention did the best it could while it could. Till corruption greed and power became its primary focus. Shown below.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–“
Such has been the misunderstanding ignorance of these states; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government, to a balancing act of communication and technology. That all may be served as if each individual was the last remaining artist.
Think that will get ratified or voted on?
The treasured words in this hallowed/ hollowed document are ignored at our own peril. Trying to cling to it, so it remains the oldest government, to stay on a page of a World’s record book. When instead its only purpose is to clarify and strengthen the definition of insanity.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein
Mars*, seems to be the carrot on a stick presentation of a future home, where everything, like this planet could be “better planned and executed.” Key word being executed. Oh look, a new planet, we can destroy.
Outer Space, while waiting for that option, one could hang their hat on the shovel used to dig their grave.
Because unless a wormhole is discovered and we can get there in an hour. The current technology and human embryonic gestation (9 month) time frame it takes to get there. Without going into details here, (you can figure those out yourself) kills the consideration of being a viable choice.
* Going to Mars
“NASA-Holes”
And just to wind up this little group of complaints finally this is a group of social criminals. These people in the space program. Nassholes. I call them.
In case you haven’t heard. The latest disaster for the rest of the universe is that the United States is going to go to Mars.
Okay, aw yeah. We’re going to go to Mars. And then of course. We’re going to colonize deep space with our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss and lemon scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels and all these other impressive things we’ve done down here.
Let me ask you this, let me ask you this. What are we going to tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws her newborn baby into a dumpster huh?
How we going to explain that to the space people? How we going to let them know that our Ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around in the kitchen.
What are they going to think when they find out – it’s just a local custom – that over 80 million women in the third world have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won’t cheat on their husbands.
Can’t you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up? Can’t you see them out there?”
– George Carlin
Which may be maybe
Difficult to fathom
Yet without reason/ing
One life makes about
As much sense as
Many lifetimes
Knowing
There is no reason
For anything whatsoever
Save rationalizing comfort
To our chaotic consciousness
Held particularly to a
Subjective awareness that
One could / would only hope
To ever ever forever have
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
H.P. Lovecraft
Methinks we may
Already be there
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Instead of atoms
As the building blocks
Of existence and life
Invisibly spinning around
In a closed cranium
Thoughts as protons
Ideas as neutrons
Bright ones photons
Revolving the nucleus
Which is you
Holding things together
With no end in sight or
Beginning to start with
Just infinite adaptability
In the frame of a lifetime
Hung in a dimension
That is picture perfect
If you choose to
See it that way
Brushing off mistakes
As necessary and
Intricate parts of
The whole painting
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Nevermind. My glasses are fine.
Is happening so fast
Because, everything
Is happening so fast
Just does not
Seem like it because
Velocity is constant
Earth is spinning approximately
One thousand miles per hour
Through space at 67k mph
Acceleration and
Deceleration do not happen
On a large scale
Which if it did……
You would freak the F out
If it did so, either by
Geocentric spin deceleration
(You would float above the earth
Or at least instantly lose weight
Either by gravity or fecal matter)
Heliocentric acceleration
(Have no clue what would happen)
If you were to freeze
A time slice
Which I suppose
Would be like
Capturing a Gideon*
Placing Bibles in
Hotel rooms
That time slice would show
What happened in one moment
In a Planckian nanosecond
Recognizing that what occured
Occured “back” there
During the “spin” of its
Last known trajectory
Still
Which is not happening
Because, everything
Is happening all at once
There is no thing / nothing
Not happening right now
It just happened
“Back” there
Which may be different
“Up” ahead
Inspired by Brian Greene’s audio book “The Fabric Of The Cosmos” Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
* comedic reference stored in my brain along with all the other space debris floating in there. None of which seem to be, functioning communication satellites.
“Who are the fucking Gideons?
Ever met one?
No!
Ever seen one?
No!
But they’re all over the fucking world, putting Bibles in hotel rooms.
Every hotel room:
‘This Bible was placed here by a Gideon.’
When?
I’ve been here all day. I ain’t seen shit. I saw the housekeeper come and go, I saw the minibar guy come and go, I’ve never laid eyes on a fucking Gideon.
What are they – Ninjas? Where are they? Where’re they from – Gidea? What the fuck are these people? I’m gonna capture a Gideon. I’m gonna make that my hobby. I am. I’m gonna call the front desk one day: ‘Yeah, I don’t seem to have a Bible in my room.”
– Bill Hicks
Same goes for “time slices”
Meanwhile, we are all just Angels,
Dancing on the head of a pin.
Or…..all me……or
Narcissism explained
Just another thought experiment
Placed in pixilated print
Since, in general, no two physical things, can occupy the same “space” at the same “time”.
Consider for a moment, your vantage point of the cosmos, puts you directly into the center of everything. Feeling narcissistic yet?
Everything emanates from you and returns to you. Try not to get to caught up with your self too much though, the same happens for all of us, five feet away or five thousand miles away. All eight billion of us.
Even those people in Low Earth Orbit researching the cosmos on the International Space Station. Scooting around the globe at 17,500 miles per hour just 260 miles above the earth are each at the center of their own universe.
As close as you may stand or sit next to someone, looking at the same thing. Even though you may be “on the same page” of understanding what it is. (Say this post for example). You can read the same words.
That is where the similarity ends.
(Even if places were “exactly” switched, the perspective would “still” have changed, as the planet has rotated, while speeding along its path, the air in the room moved, energy has been exerted and rested.)
While the words are the same, “concrete” as they allegedly are. Each are interpreted differently. Based on education, content, context, Capitalization, punctuation, understanding and get this…..personal beliefs.
For example, if I mention GOD, my intention comes from my long sought out, investigated researched, examined, balanced, questioning, perspective and is usually in an infinite energy context ( “An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi ) and is also interchangeable with the word, WORD.
Because nothing exists without W/words.
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
– John 1:1
“Word
7 a: the expressed or manifested mind and will of God”
– M-W.com
Two different people reading this, will put God in their own belief / perceived reality context. Typically, an invisible man living in the sky, or HOLY COW!!, there are sooo many other different daily interpretations, an immediate second one, is hard to manifest.
Save using the invisible man’s alleged son Jesus. Which, these days in America, is presented to the public as a white, blond, blue eyed, hippie, red hat wearing, gun toting immigrant scapegoating, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic republican.
When instead, of maybe / actually being born Jewish in Bethlehem, Palestine in the middle east over 2000 thousand years ago.
Which would have made him a brown skinned Master of Wisdom who taught people how to forgive, while making sure everyone was fed and healed.
Oopsie, got sidetracked.
Anyway, back to the notion that each individual is at the center of their own universe. Whatever you see, is interpreted through your brain or being.
For example, If you think/believe that someone is your enemy, who you have never even met. Primarily because you have been quickly or quantitatively “told” you have an enemy. Usually at the financial gain, of the party “informing” you, you have an “enemy”.
It boils down to your passive or active acceptance of that information. Satiating the need to have an external enemy instead of recognizing the worst one in the mirror.
But the activity surrounding those thoughts are going on in your brain. Seen with your eyes, heard by your ears, controlled within your cranium, pumping your heart, expanding your lungs, digesting your waste, moving your extremities. Again, it is all you, about you.
Without microscope or telescope, you can theoretically prove this is “true”.
Outwardly, everything in “front” of you, goes on infinitely. Regardless of which way you turn or face. Therefore everything behind you is at the edge of infinity.
(Nevermind the immediate following suggestion, otherwise you will have to stop reading without a prompt to start reading again.)
Close your eyes, (see) picture yourself on this planet, in its heliocentric orbit. Or as Casey Casem, used to say, “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”
Admire all the stars, planets, black holes, super novas, amongst the invisible space. It goes on forever, behind you then, is the edge of infinity.
I hope I am doing this justice, knowing my communication skills are fuzzy. Now look inside yourself as if under a microscope.
There is still a you, inside the fleshy skeleton supported casing. Is it in the heart or mind? I’m still looking, could be the heart or my big toe.
The freeing acknowledgement and revelation is accepting that “It is possible to live, and not know.”
– Richard Feynman
Infinity goes on forever, why wouldn’t infinite questioning go on infinitely?
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
