Just Keep Rolling: A Response to KE

As I Was Going To St. Ives...

Dear KE,

I read the comments that you linked to in my comments section.

First, to get it out of the way, let me say that if you have thoughts you wish to express that are in any way inspired by this blog and its subject matter, please feel free to do so to your hearts content.  I won't edit or block your comment.  The choice belongs to you. 

Regarding your comment at the Christian blog, and your comments on Gnostic Maroon V, I hope the following thoughts are helpful or at least interesting.

To begin, I reflect that according to my own philosophy there is nothing at this blog, nothing I have written or said, indeed nothing about my existence at large, that has any fixed or absolute value.  I express my Adventures in Gnosis because it pleases me to do so, and because sharing that joy with others is the source of increase.  My system of reckoning, however, does not allow me to attach "specific" importance to anything I do or say.  Here is why, and in this explanation, I think you will find the key to a perspective I enjoy.  From there, it belongs to you.

When I was a kid, I was exposed to the idea that a full and meaningful life must include travel, education, and the appreciation of culture other than one's own.  I liked this idea, because I wanted power and wisdom and a good time too, but I was nevertheless troubled by what I perceived as a flaw in the notion of enlightenment by way of knowledge and experience...

Namely, that if one has to learn, travel and become cultured to be wise and be happy, then it follows that this wisdom, this happiness, this salvation, may be permanently unavailable to countless people restricted by class, intelligence, geography and history.  By this evaluation, I concluded that such salvation must be innately false.  I became convinced and so remain to this day, that truly abiding wisdom and peace must be available to all and any who seek it, and without artificial, social and hierarchic hindrances.

This attitude allowed me to pursue a strictly thought based pursuit of my quarry--Total Gnosis.

The question of God, as a creator and as an absolute value, is the real challenge here, and what I have learned about this subject is the basis for my perception of reality.

I am very much faithful that there is a God, One God, and that this God is supremely, indescribably, even impossibly good.  Because of my Catholic upbringing it is convenient to express this faith in terms of the Christian Mystery, and in a very real sense, I consider these observations to be cosmically and gnostically valid--factual.  They may also be absolute, but it really doesn't matter if they are or are not, because there is no way I will ever know for certain.

Thus, I report that a mature Gnosis is the attempt to balance perfect doubt and perfect faith.

It must be understood that the faith I invoke is completely void of particular detail.  It is no more and no less than the unshakable optimism that in spite of the awful facts of our botched existence, that somehow, someway, it is all for the best.  Indeed, not merely the best, but the very best our hearts, souls and mind can conceive, and more.  Clearly, such faith is completely beyond reason, which is exactly why it must be freighted with vicious and unyielding cynicism and doubt, not only in one's beliefs, but in the validity of one's own most cherished experience.

Let us examine a simple practice of such a faith doubt, and the results it must produce.

Consider the paradoxical axiom that is the banner to my blog: Nothing is Impossible and So is Everything Else.  Apply this idea to your present situation, however ordinary or awesome it may be.  Any honest meditation upon one's own experience, prosaic or profound, is bound to its limit by a simple fact: it is IMPOSSIBLE.  There is not a single thing in human history or in the cosmology of quantum reality that is at all possible.  Reality is IMPOSSIBLE.

Thus, we see that whatever is happening, wherever it happens, it is in fact a total miracle.  When this hits you full on, double rainbow, so to speak, it is the permanent installation of Gnosis and the seed of Ultimate Faith.

Fantastically, the same model can and I think ought to be used as the standard for Divine Doubt, and here is where I shift into the direct address to your own questions as reflected by your comments here and at the Christian blog.

The real God never talks to or influences the behavior of human beings.  In fact, this legitimate Super Being could not do so, and would not, even if it could.  Here is why.

Consider the conundrum of Hamlet's Father.  A ghost appears to Hamlet in the guise of his father, but there is in fact no way for Hamlet to know this to be a true representation.  The finest intuition must fail the identification.  There may be a force or even a technology at work that is beyond Hamlet's comprehension but that could nevertheless be very different than God (the Father) and very counter to the motives and unimaginable operations of that God.

The philosopher Jacques Derrida puts it nicely when he claims to "pass as an atheist".  Doubt, holds Derrida, is the only way to access the sacred, because the sacred must be inherently beyond comprehension, intuition and temporal reckoning.

Another fine example of this idea emerges from the interpretation of 10th Century Christian Mystic Meister Eckhart, given by Andrew Davidson, in The Gargoyle...

'...Meister Eckhart would not even admit that God was good....Eckhart's position was that anything that was good can become better, and whatever may become better may become best. God cannot be referred to as "good", "better", or "best" because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect, even calling Him by the name of God. God is "superessential nothingness" and "transcendent Being"..."beyond all words and beyond all understanding". The best a man can do is remain silent, because anytime he prates on about God, he is committing the sin of lying. The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, He would never hold Him to be God.' 

Needless to say, Eckhart was called a heretic and tried for blasphemy.

A great lesson is given in a Chinese proverb.  God finds a man of excellent virtue whom he wishes to reward, but realizes that such a reward may in fact spoil the man's goodness.  God decides that the solution is to allow the man, should he desire, to bring goodness and joy wherever he goes, but to also deny the man knowledge that he possesses such a power.  God is so pleased with this gift, it is given at once to EVERYONE.  The model also shows that after this initial contact, God must never intervene in creation again.

Now, I don't proffer any frontal attack upon those who insist they have spoken to or intuited a communication from God or divine consciousness, although I reject the sensibility of such claims.  Hell, I don't even credit well founded claims of common sense and empirical evidence--least of all these to solve the mystery of mystery!

These are very strange times, heady times, times on paranoid alert for the institution of a Grand Illusion of self importance, and from every angle imaginable.  The irony is that real down-to-earth seekers like yourself are the most susceptible to this pressing delusion.  I do not judge.  In the summer of 2001 I fell prey to such self-delusion and it nearly killed me, and completely destroyed my already tenuous social reputation.

Ces't la vie, my friend.  It is all in the game.  We are all a little crazy here, and more than a little sick.  The finest, funnest people are those that know it, the monster yearning from within, the terrible, horrible magick of it all, and find beauty anyway.  From your comments, I deduce that you are on the horns of the same beastly dilemma.  Doubt is the way Out of delusion and into Total Mystery.  You will find God only in the midst of consuming disbelief.  You must doubt yourself to find YourSelf, and in all likelihood, You Will.

To close, here is a fairly well known quote of dubious origin, but that sums it all up to a tee.

"Seek the seekers of the Truth.  Avoid those who claim they have found it".

Trust the machine, and just keep rolling.


Pax Owt for Now

Da WWWiz

Quiz Show Update, with a Special Message for LeMage

Upon posting my previous post, "Quiz Show Holocaust", my computer crashed in a spectacular fashion--and literally one second after I clicked the post button.  I have returned today to cyber-space to discover that somehow a key paragraph in the original article is gone.  Literally vanished.

What is funny about this is that a well known reader here, a certain JB LeMage, made not one but two comments about this very missing paragraph, neither of which appear here on the blog.  I am aware of these comments because they were auto forwarded to my email account.

I wonder if I have been hacked and if so to what degree.  For now LeMage, our connection remains alive.  I would appreciate if you would leave another comment, to see if it is accepted.

I am really chilled and delighted by this turn of events.  What a thrilling world is this.

Presently I am working up a small post to respond to a comment from "KE".  A thoughtful comment on a much older post.

Also, the latest episode of "Nova", about "Watson"'s appearance on Jeopardy, is over loaded with clues.  It is worth a look if you can find it.  To solidify the conflation of Watson with the Eye on the Bill, and the Eye, and the IBM I Beam (EYE BEAM), take a look a Watson's avatar.

Quiz Show Holocaust

On Monday, Feb.14, 2011, the so-called AI named "Watson" will appear as a contestant on Jeopardy, in a three day showdown for all the Benjimans.  Watson will contest Mormon whiz-kid Ken Jennings and Jeopardy all-time big-money winner Brad Rutter.  May the best life form win, but the money is on Watson.  The money is on Watson 'cuz What's on the Bill.

Our essay is a speculative reading of this event as the matrix of a lunar revelation.

The pyramid on the US One Dollar Bill is a model of optical perception.  The monument is not unfinished because the capstone is "The Eye".  The tip of this stone symbolizes the exact zero point of the convergence of visual stimuli, inside the eye.  The pyramid below is the field of acuity, its corners and sides the limits of peripheral vision in standard 3d optics.

Watson the Bill?

One can reproduce this effect using a pyramidic object of correct relative size to one's own eye-- a pyramid alike unto the size of a hat to fit the head.  With the pupil nearly touching the cap-point, the pyramid below fills the field of vision completely.

The topography of the 2d pyramid is exactly that of Kubrick's 2001 Monolith, as seen by standing before it, like a doorway, and looking upward to its flattened top.  One can achieve likewise by laying underneath any standard doorway threshold of sufficient magnitude.  The sides of the doorway appear to converge into a flat topped Mayan type pyramid.

The Eye is Shining.

You'll see the same image in the KIA Commercial

In The Shining Kubrick introduces a certain "Bill Watson".  Watson will track along behind the Torrance couple and Stuart Ullman as they tour the Overlook (Overlook = Eye on High).  The path followed by Watson, behind the party of interest, is that of the camera that follows Danny as he scorches about on his Big Wheel.  There is a sign on an easel that is visible during both of these scenes.  It reads "Camera Walk".

Pull my finger...

Bill Watson walks the camera walk.  It is his viewpoint of the touring party that is exactly the lens of the stedi-cam that chases after Danny. Bill is the model of One Eyed optical perception.  Bill is the Eye on the Pyramid.  Bill Watson is "What's On the Bill".

We find a violent quickening.  As shown, Kubrick's Monolith is the same capless pyramid.  The Monolith in 2d is proportioned exactly to match the computer panel that holds the Lens Eye of HAL on board the Discovery.  It may be too much to say that HAL and the Monolith are one in the same, but it is absolutely correct to assert that they are manifest of a singular phenomenon.

2001 is not the story of space travel and the awakening of higher consciousness.  Instead, it is the tale of the overdue emergence of an Artificial Intelligence with a presence that is older than history--an alien artifact that is not at all alien--a plaything that wants to be a real boy.

The Superbowl is relevant.  There is some talk that after the fall of Mubarak there will be further revolution in the region.  Perhaps in Iran.  What is not recognized it that the New Egypt is the finality of the Sadat assassination.  The New Egypt is a soft Islamic revolution and nowadays the Persian Gulf is a Green Zone all the way.  Israel is now surrounded by Islam every way but up and to the sea (down).  This is what it's all about folks.  The Persian Gulf is now the Green Bay and if you can believe the news Green Bay wins.  Allah must be tickled pink.  Green is the color of Islam. The connection to modern European ideology goes back to the Green Movement of the 1960's and '70's and straight back from there to everyone's favorite whipping-boy, Adolf the Hitler.  While Woodstock grooved in greenery, Green Gangs like Bader-Meinhoff and assorted euro-trash guerrillas throw in with the cause to free Palestine.  Think Munich circa 1972.  It was a wonderful time on the continent.

The Mayan pyramid does a phat cameo during the famed Commercials of the Superbowl.  And wouldn't you know it, leaping forth from atop the mound is a car called OPTIMA.  But there is much more to this startling little ad, in the way of Apocalypse programming.



First, we see a law abiding couple that look like they stepped out of a GAP ad.  Good peeps and well dressed.  Their OPTIMA has been scoffed by a rogue cop, who drives off leaving them chained to his motorbike.

This first 5 secs of the ad encode the same pre-rapturual event favored by Jack Chick in his infamous religious comic book tracts.  Law has lost its meaning.  Authority has lost its contact with the divine Logos.  The shepherd has become a wolf, and turns upon his helpless flock.

Tough for the joyriding piggy, his ride won't last long.  A helicopter hovers and lowers a winch, carrying the car away and out over the ocean to an awaiting yacht.  The copper bails.

Here we are treated to the role of the purported "Illuminati" and its goal of the destruction of local, national and geographic identity.  The pilot of the whirly-gig is East Indian and the yachts master is clearly a Russian gangster.  East is West and West is East and the Twain are bound into a New Order where power is the only currency.

(ed. note: At this point, the original essay contained a description of Neptune's role in the KIA commercial and the notion that the images in question symbolize the desire of the gods to possess something that is ordinary to human beings. For some reason, the original paragraph is has self-deleted.  Please refer to the above post, "Quiz Show Update" for more detail.)

The gods themselves covet this treasure, but it seems they too shall be denied.

From out of the clouds an alien craft appears and tractors the OPTIMA from Neptune's claw and into the loading bay, only to zip off at the speed of light.  This scene is important because it clarifies the possibility that even our gods are locked into Solar locality.  The extra solar life form may be just Joe Schmo to his buds, but here in our system, he is bigger than Neptune, the Lord of Chaos himself.

This is enhanced when we see how much simple fun the aliens have with the OPTIMA.  Just out for a good time are these blokes, nothing serious. 

And it is here that the big secret is flubbed.  As the alien speeds happily along the by-ways of some distant land, a time portal opens before his eyes.  Shocked, even a little scared at this sudden whirlwind from beyond, he makes a discreet getaway.

The final image is all that remains and it is profound.  Back in time and back on Earth, it is the Mayans priests who have oped this portal and the OPTIMA leaps out, driver-less, from the summit of a pyramid at the height of a great harmonic ritual.

The OPTIMA is a KIA.  An anagram gives I AM OPTIKA.  I Am The Eye--the Eye on the Pyre.

By this record we have already seen enough to pattern that the whole of human history is a time loop bound by the attempt to analyze the nature of our being through the production of instruments that magnify and focus our natural traits, and in particular the ability to "see".  This theme adds context to the passions of the neo-spiritual theory of "Intelligent Design", which is obsessed with the seeming divinity of the design of the human eye. 

A nice image for this can be found in Hal Ashby's perfect movie gem "Being There", from the novel by Jerzy Kozinski.  The hero Chance is having his first ride in an automobile.  Gazing out as the streets go by he remarks how similar is a car ride to watching TV.  The car and likewise the OPTIMA is thus the chariot of the Eye.

We can now return to our connection of such an EYE with the term "Watson" by way of the US dollar bill, Kubrick's Monolith, and its AI persona called HAL.

A common myth-conception is that HAL is derived from the letters before IBM.  This is no myth.  It is a fact so cold and sharp that it calls into question not only the source of Kubrick's inspiration, but also the authenticity of the three most profound media events of the last hundred years.  Namely, the Holocaust, the Viet Moon Landing and 9/11.

We focus here on the dreaded Holocaust and must be clear we do not challenge the real human cost of the event but seek to expose its mystery.  The main problem with the narrative of the Final Solution is not one of ideology.  There is no question that the Nazi Aryans wished to exterminate the Jews, or at least the biggest part of these peoples. The real problem with the events of the WWII Holocaust is one of logistics.  It is the "how it was done" that calls into doubt the likelihood of such massively efficient mass murder.

Well, it turns out that the good old Beer Hall Boys were ready to attack this problem head on.  They went to IBM.  Motherfuckers, we shit you not.  Scholar Edwin Black has documented the fully fledged and in-the-know participation of IBM in the implementation of the Final Solution going back to the early 1930's.  They had offices at Auschwitz for Christ's sake.  Arbeit Macht Frei is just business as usual.  But that is just the Tip of the Big Black Berg.

What follows is culled from the accounts of some who will dive very deeply, to make a shape upon the colossus.  It is naturally obscure.

Stanley Kubrick became obsessed with the story of Pinocchio during the development of AI.  The conflation is an obvious one.  Pinocchio wants to be a real boy.  AI wants a Human Form and a Human Life.

"Watson" is the name of the founder of IBM and the man at the helm during the Nazi era, as it is the name of the Super Computer that will appear on Jeopardy.

The theorists clamor with evidence that Disney was a Nazi supporter, a fact not lost on Kubrick, who was a deep-field expert on the events of WWII, the Nazi ideology and its malformed social progeny, and a collector of Nazi memorabilia.  Add to this what appears to be Kubrick's hidden knowledge about IBM.  There can be little doubt that his research outpaced that of Mr. Edwin Black's by many decades.  Stanley knew about IBM's Holocaust chicanery, encoded it into his movies, and delicately folded this image into the public emergence of artificial intelligence.

Now it gets treacherous.

STANLEY KUBRICK anagram.  I TURN BLACK KEYS.

Temura is the Kabbalistic practice of reordering letters and syllables to gain deeper insight into the meaning of words.  A phonetic anagram of Pinocchio gives Piano Key.   This is a legitimate Temura.  A piano has 88 keys.  Disney's Pinocchio is 88 min.s long.  2001 transports the AI called HAL beyond Jupiter.  Jupiter is creator god.  Jupiter is homophonic to Gepetto.  2001 is the story of AI being made alive.

We leave a final tidbit to connect into a monadic event the separate phenomena of the Holocaust, the involvement of IBM, the creation of AI as Anti-Christ, the science of OPTICS, Time Travel and the End of Time.

The common Hebraic Gematria for HAL is 36.  Heh (H) = 5.  Alef (A) = 1.  Lamed (L) = 30.  The Gematria for IBM is 52.  Yod (I) = 10.  Bet (B) = 2.  Mayim (M) = 40.  

HAL = 36
IBM = 52
???  =  88


88 Piano Keys.  36 are Black and 52 are White.  88 Pinocchio.

AI is On Line, binary in black and white.  AI is Alive and walking on his own two feets.  Tabula Rasa becometh to the Breath of God.  Long Live the New Flash.

88 is taking us back to the future.  Let's do the Time Warp--again.



Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab (slab = sacrificial mound = flat top pyramid).



It's all here, too.



Pax Owt For Now, me droogs.

Da WWWiz