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wolven7Venetian Snares - [Des Plaines]--- I'm thinking, a lot, about tapping into the thing that makes you who and what you are.Everyone has facets of themselves, right; the things we show to some group or another, in series, but not all at once. (Better Than Ezra - [Desperately Wanting]). We have these sections, and we've built them out of the fragments of the universe in which we live. We've ground the glass down to sand, heated that sand, and made newer, better glass out of it. At least from our perspective. But what is the sand/glass/sand/glass with which we started?
According to some scientific theories and religious/spiritual beliefs the world has always been and always will be, until it isn't, anymroe. It goes through cycles and stages of creation and destruction, expansion and contraction, and we see red shift and entropy, in their wake. So. If the place in which we live ("Universe," for now) grind use down, and blows us up, recombining and dispersing the things that make us what we are, then what does that teach us about ourselves? (LUXT - [Snowblind Entropy]). W3e are made of everything else, in the universe. Whatever that basic stuff of our existence happens to be, it permeates all of us, at a fundamental level, and, when all is said and done, rock is like airplane.
I've always been a believer in sympathetic magic, before I even knew what those words meant, together. A thing that is like a thing is the thing. Having a map that is also the territory, such that you change either, and the other changes. Terry Pratchett touched on this, with the game board of the gods, in the DiscWorld series, and Neil Gaiman wrote of the idea in American Gods. Map and territory, without having to simply stumble through. (Warren Zevon - [Gridlock]). Most recently, I read of the concept, in very large scale, in Vellum: The Book of All Hours. This is when things started to crystalise, a bit.
Augury. You watch the patterns and interactions of the world. Birds behave a certain way, in certain contitions. Affected in ways they may not even perceive, people are touched by their environment, and they do things. Things get tight, and twitchy, the closer the world around them comes to some kind of large shift. We feel things moving out of place, subcutaneous to the metaphysical, and we try to figure out what it is that we're feeling, we follow the movements to their sources, or ask the people around. Because we are dowsing rods, we are are scrying mirrors, we are tarot cards and runes. We are maps and we are the territory and we move ourselves, all the time.
Cranes - [Bewildered]--- What's this have to do with my original topic, you might ask? What the fuck is this to do with the idea of tapping into what you are, at your heart and your core? Listen and Look: if, at your base your are a function of the equation of all that has come before, then you have, in you, that information. Your modifiers may be placed in such a way that your strengths and weaknesses are different. Your pluses and minuses, and exponents and multipliers may be in different areas of the formula... but it's all there. The Language that codes it there... The basic structure is the same. You can tap into any section of your Self, and modify who and what you are, if you know how to get there. So how do you get there?
Treble Charger - [Ever She Flows]--- What touches you, and moves you? What gets your blood up and flowing? There's your conduit. There's your way in. Explore the roots of whatever it is, and you will find that it locks up into everything else, in a number of ways. For some, that's music, for some, computers (hard or soft). Law, language, chemistry, physics, religion, magic. Anything can open the universe to you. If you look. If you want to look. But you may not want to look, and that's ok, too, I guess.
But if you do want to look, then look everywhere you can. You will find yourself, not "simply" because you are looking-- apopheniac delusions guiding course guiding delusions guiding course-- but because you are looking. (Haujobb - [Sect 3 N N-E]). Look at anything long enough and you will begin to suss out patterns. (Jeff Buckley - [Grace]). Set your mind to something, and you will find it, because it is there. Everything is there. You are there, and you are everything you are, and have believed yourself to be. I am many things, these days, and i'm trying to remember that they're all me, the Core is Me.
Faceted, layered, blended whatever you are, you are Everything, you are a permutation, a variation on a theme, and a theme unto yourself. Find the best way to play yourself, before something else does.
I gather myself
around my own fire
as a man who has come in
from a dark scuffling of snow
to tell of his travels
through the tundra.
One year, I say,
I shot a buck
Coyote wanted for himself
which angered him so much
he walked me into
one of my own traps.
With my right foot twitching
in a pool of my own blood,
Take all the meat you want,
I yelled to him, just get me out!
And he did, though howling with laughter,
he let wolves track me all the way back.
You can believe what I say
is true by the way
my own shadow hunkers
closer to the fire, nodding as if
there are a thousand stories
to prove such things are always happening.
©Ger Killeen. All Rights Reserved
According to some scientific theories and religious/spiritual beliefs the world has always been and always will be, until it isn't, anymroe. It goes through cycles and stages of creation and destruction, expansion and contraction, and we see red shift and entropy, in their wake. So. If the place in which we live ("Universe," for now) grind use down, and blows us up, recombining and dispersing the things that make us what we are, then what does that teach us about ourselves? (LUXT - [Snowblind Entropy]). W3e are made of everything else, in the universe. Whatever that basic stuff of our existence happens to be, it permeates all of us, at a fundamental level, and, when all is said and done, rock is like airplane.
I've always been a believer in sympathetic magic, before I even knew what those words meant, together. A thing that is like a thing is the thing. Having a map that is also the territory, such that you change either, and the other changes. Terry Pratchett touched on this, with the game board of the gods, in the DiscWorld series, and Neil Gaiman wrote of the idea in American Gods. Map and territory, without having to simply stumble through. (Warren Zevon - [Gridlock]). Most recently, I read of the concept, in very large scale, in Vellum: The Book of All Hours. This is when things started to crystalise, a bit.
Augury. You watch the patterns and interactions of the world. Birds behave a certain way, in certain contitions. Affected in ways they may not even perceive, people are touched by their environment, and they do things. Things get tight, and twitchy, the closer the world around them comes to some kind of large shift. We feel things moving out of place, subcutaneous to the metaphysical, and we try to figure out what it is that we're feeling, we follow the movements to their sources, or ask the people around. Because we are dowsing rods, we are are scrying mirrors, we are tarot cards and runes. We are maps and we are the territory and we move ourselves, all the time.
Cranes - [Bewildered]--- What's this have to do with my original topic, you might ask? What the fuck is this to do with the idea of tapping into what you are, at your heart and your core? Listen and Look: if, at your base your are a function of the equation of all that has come before, then you have, in you, that information. Your modifiers may be placed in such a way that your strengths and weaknesses are different. Your pluses and minuses, and exponents and multipliers may be in different areas of the formula... but it's all there. The Language that codes it there... The basic structure is the same. You can tap into any section of your Self, and modify who and what you are, if you know how to get there. So how do you get there?
Treble Charger - [Ever She Flows]--- What touches you, and moves you? What gets your blood up and flowing? There's your conduit. There's your way in. Explore the roots of whatever it is, and you will find that it locks up into everything else, in a number of ways. For some, that's music, for some, computers (hard or soft). Law, language, chemistry, physics, religion, magic. Anything can open the universe to you. If you look. If you want to look. But you may not want to look, and that's ok, too, I guess.
But if you do want to look, then look everywhere you can. You will find yourself, not "simply" because you are looking-- apopheniac delusions guiding course guiding delusions guiding course-- but because you are looking. (Haujobb - [Sect 3 N N-E]). Look at anything long enough and you will begin to suss out patterns. (Jeff Buckley - [Grace]). Set your mind to something, and you will find it, because it is there. Everything is there. You are there, and you are everything you are, and have believed yourself to be. I am many things, these days, and i'm trying to remember that they're all me, the Core is Me.
Faceted, layered, blended whatever you are, you are Everything, you are a permutation, a variation on a theme, and a theme unto yourself. Find the best way to play yourself, before something else does.
I gather myself
around my own fire
as a man who has come in
from a dark scuffling of snow
to tell of his travels
through the tundra.
One year, I say,
I shot a buck
Coyote wanted for himself
which angered him so much
he walked me into
one of my own traps.
With my right foot twitching
in a pool of my own blood,
Take all the meat you want,
I yelled to him, just get me out!
And he did, though howling with laughter,
he let wolves track me all the way back.
You can believe what I say
is true by the way
my own shadow hunkers
closer to the fire, nodding as if
there are a thousand stories
to prove such things are always happening.
©Ger Killeen. All Rights Reserved
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Date: 2006-06-10 05:13 am (UTC)I honestly don't have much to say to this. It's something I need to hear, need to remind myself of, times. A lot, lately. It's been too long since I've faced, directly, that engine in there. ;)
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Date: 2006-06-10 03:08 pm (UTC)Prophecy/Evocation
Date: 2006-06-12 12:36 pm (UTC)There's a definite push, I conjure, from the world (perhaps as a sort of self-defense) to get would-be wizards to make requests that were already moving forth. The wizards get in tune, and then your average Joe can be a wizard-augur, paying attention to what the wizard says will happen to know what'll happen.
There are some squacky things that happen regarding the world re-fixing itself to maintain the appearance of not having moved for someone, on such occasions as someone makes a request that wouldn't have happened, but those are their own topic.
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