Every time desire is betrayed, cursed, uprooted from its field of immanence, a priest is behind it. The priest cast the triple curse on desire: the negative law, the extrinsic rule, and the transcendent ideal. Facing north, the priest said, Desire is lack (how could it not lack what it desires?). The priest carried out the first sacrifice, named castration, and all the men and women of the north lined up behind him, crying in cadence, “Lack, lack, it’s the common law.” Then, facing south, the priest linked desire to pleasure. For there are hedonistic, even orgiastic, priests. Desire will be assuaged by pleasure; and not only will the pleasure obtained silence desire for a moment but the process of obtaining it is already a way of interrupting it, of instantly discharging it and unburdening oneself of it. Pleasure as discharge: the priest
carries out the second sacrifice, named masturbation. Then, facing east, he exclaimed: Jouissance is impossible, but impossible jouissance is inscribed in desire. For that, in its very impossibility, is the Ideal, the “manque-a-jouir that is life.” The priest carried out the third sacrifice, phantasy or the thousand and one nights, the one hundred twenty days, while the men of the East chanted: Yes, we will be your phantasy, your ideal and impossibility, yours and also our own. The priest did not turn to the west. He knew that in the west lay a plane of consistency, but he thought that the way was blocked by the columns of Hercules, that it led nowhere and was uninhabited by people. But that is where desire was lurking, west was the shortest route east, as well as to the other directions, rediscovered or deterritorialized.

“November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?”, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

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working hypothesis

that life as we understand it is a construction of the processes of the human mind as it interprets inputs of a higher dimensional order than the 3D projection we experience phenomena in–as in the mind is a reduction valve (Blake) for an infinite expanse of information enlivened by interactions with a vivifying or enlightening principle every point a collapsed compression of the All holographically distributed Time’s moments all occurring simultaneously and the illusion of before after cause effect a byproduct of the reduction made necessary by the shearing off of spectra by the human sensorium which can expand beyond its typical capabilities as dictated by external demands for consensus and maybe that UFO whistleblower is right maybe anomalous phenomena paranormal occurrences perturbations in the field of Reality are shadows cast from a higher dimension as a light shadow is a 2D trace of a 3D object

dusting musty cobwebs from the hands

not mind mind only intervenes with censors of don’t can’t shouldn’t not good enough eternal cop stopping proper longing and unwinding of unconscious which knows more than the ego could ever fathom so far deep is it beyond rational measure of hows and whys–lies that deny the flux and admixture of reality substance which oscillates in waves trapped into particles by surveilling agencies eager to arrest or at the very least exploit pin down and KILL as specimens for study not acts of grace granted God’s light–each Thing is multiple and indistinct when the limits of perception are widened beyond mundane demands–therefore Rimbaud knows better than most the value of letting things get a little “out of hand”–what enlivens flows outside encoded meaning seeing as it’s all up for grabs as Burroughs has it misquoting that novel about the Assassins “NOTHING IS TRUE ALL IS PERMITTED” in the mountains of Persia mystical origin of language tongues singing songs direct and beautiful as the trilling of birds drunk on the air

the Pentagram of Venus

“The tips of the five loops at the center of the figure have the same geometric relationship to one another as the five vertices, or points, of a pentagram, and each group of five intersections equidistant from the figure’s center have the same geometric relationship.” (source)

“The motif of a heavenly being striving for the highest seat of heaven only to be cast down to the underworld has its origins in the motions of the planet Venus, known as the morning star. The Sumerian goddess Inanna (Babylonian Ishtar) is associated with the planet Venus, and Inanna’s actions in several of her myths, including Inanna and Shukaletuda and Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld appear to parallel the motion of Venus as it progresses through its synodic cycle. (source)

“In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, the king of Babylon is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and is called הֵילֵל בֶּן-שָׁחַר (Helel ben Shachar, Hebrew for “shining one, son of the morning”), who is addressed as הילל בן שחר (Hêlêl ben Šāḥar). The title “Hêlêl ben Šāḥar” refers to the planet Venus as the morning star, and that is how the Hebrew word is usually interpreted. The Hebrew word transliterated as Hêlêl or Heylel, occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as Ἑωσφόρος (heōsphoros), “bringer of dawn”, the Ancient Greek name for the morning star. Similarly the Vulgate renders הֵילֵל in Latin as Lucifer, the name in that language for the morning star. According to the King James Bible-based Strong’s Concordance, the original Hebrew word means “shining one, light-bearer”, and the English translation given in the King James text is the Latin name for the planet Venus, “Lucifer”, as it was already in the Wycliffe Bible.” (source)

#10

Antarctica feigns innocence way down at the bottom of the globe, so designated “bottom” by lords of the realm wholly unworthy of their power, begotten as it was in treachery. Beneath the ice teem secrets that would threaten the pretense of their little game, the Real Story, not that hack production spun to keep the unwitting ensnared in a subtle system. Yet even among the asleep, those hylic unknowers, there is an unstillable something that chafes at being so tightly bound. One holds out hope. The signs await discerning eyes; they do not hide. The helical fall of a star forewarns inundation, the transit of Mars square Venus suggests heartbreak, and I cannot figure what the waning of the coming days will mean. But perhaps you will join me, an imperial friend, ever on the hunt for cracks to slip through and finally make contact with what is actual. A sighing string section moans out a drone, held a touch longer than is bearable, to the point where its end, ringing just outside the ear, becomes a cause for fear. Yet we continue on, past the breaks in the crumbling ice, unconvinced the world won’t continue on to, ebbing and flowing to rhythms only perceived beneath, above, even around, but not according to, “mundane awareness.” If only it were mundane! A voice whispers something exists only in esotericism. What? Who’s there? A cosmic sneer, and the scent of tequila.

From the glories of the Tang Dynasty
I recall only one date: the year
the usurper An Lushan
drove both Wang Wei and Du Fu

far from the corrupt court
into the mountains
where for the first time they were free
to write the only poems we remember.
Peter Dale Scott, “The Tao of 9/11”

palm trees on fire syllabi: DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

friend of the blog Ken shared a curated list of art objects he recommends, which gave me the idea to craft syllabi for my various areas of aesthetic interest, so here’s the first one

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

If anyone asks who told you about this stuff, it wasn’t me. I don’t need the puppet-masters hunting me down.

BOOKS

Nonfiction

  • The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals, Jonathan Vankin & John Whalen
    • There are updated editions of this book, but this is the one I have. A surprisingly good starter kit on a variety of so-called “conspiracy theories,” with even handed analysis on the basics of each, presented in easy-to-digest articles that open a doorway for the curious.
  • The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall
    • The best entry-level primer on all things occultist. Find a chapter that piques your interest and follow the thread wherever it takes you; just don’t let avowed Freemason Manly P. Hall be the final word on any of these subjects.
  • Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock
    • Do you know how precisely the faces of the Pyramids at Giza point in the cardinal directions? Why? How’d they do that? What if at some point Antarctica was way further north than it is now and suddenly it shifted into position at the South Pole, causing a world-wide, civilization-ending cataclysm that’s been documented in many world mythologies in the form of Deluge stories? If it’s not that exactly, then why are there so many Deluge stories in the world’s mythologies?

Fiction

  • Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
    • Templars, hoodoo, Moses-as-sellout, secret societies, an international conspiracy, a black Woodrow Wilson—rarely is paranoia this much fun.
  • VALIS, Philip K. Dick
    • Because usually paranoia is as debilitating as Horselover Fat’s nervous breakdown. Remember: the Empire never ended.
  • “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” Jorge Luis Borges
    • The ur-text on what it feels like to overdose on information. Beware the machinations of Orbis Tertius.
  • The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs
    • A brilliant meditation on the nature of control and the weaponization of desire that also serves as a valiant rebellion against the Powers that Be.
  • Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
    • I was gonna not include this but that would be disingenuous of me. Almost everything on this list so far can be found in some form here.

VISUAL ART

Film (Narrative)

  • The Matrix
    • Based and Neo-pilled. No, that doesn’t seem right. Based and Matrix-pilled? Hmm. There’s something about a pill from this movie.
  • Eyes Wide Shut
    • You think it’s just a coincidence that Kubrick died before he could finish this movie and they released a version he didn’t give final approval of?
  • Mulholland Dr.
    • Because the deeper into the mystery you go, the weirder things get. As a bonus, lesbian doppelgängers!
  • They Live
    • You may not be so fortunate to find a pair of sunglasses that immediately reveal the true nature of Reality, but this list will get you close.

Film (Documentary)

  • The New Pearl Harbor
    • Guaranteed to make you an insufferable dinner party guest.
  • Evidence of Revision
    • The best introduction to the JFK assassination, almost entirely made up of actual news broadcasts. Pretty remarkable They never thought someone would be able compile all this archival footage and collate the inconsistencies. Or did They foresee that….

Drawing/Painting

  • “Oliver North, Lake Resources of Panama, and the Iran-Contra Operation, ca. 1984–86 (fourth version), 1999″ Mark Lombardi
    • Lombardi managed to make the conspiracy theorist’s corkboard into high art. An information virtuoso.

  • “Untitled (Caballero and Pattern), 1952,” Martín Ramírez
    • Wheeeeee! Down he goes. Ramírez captures better than anyone the feeling of being overwhelmed by barely comprehensible power structures.
  • “Pyramid Mysteries,” Daniel Martin Diaz
    • Ascend with me, amigo.