The Great Work Continues...
As an addendum to the emanations of the Monad, I am back from making choices....
DuriAs discussed in the morning writings, the act of making choices spawns new possibilities. Whenever we have chosen, consciously, with awareness, we set off other worlds in which we chose differently. This is a mind-bending concept proposed in 1957 by Hugh Everett, III as discussed earlier.
At present, I’m listening to Robert Anton Wilson as he discusses the work of James Joyce:
During the interview, Wilson credits Joyce with influencing both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. He also suggests that the work of Joyce presages Everett’s many worlds theory in quantam mechanics. It is interesting that Mark Everett (AKA E) is about my age - having celebrated his 63rd birthday yesterday. The film in the post from this morning seems to have emerged straight up out of the Pleroma for some synchronistic reason:
I don’t know anything for certain but I have many suspicions, as Robert Anton Wilson would say. It seems to me we are all intimately linked and, should we wish to tune our consciousnesses to the channel of one person, we’ll find that this sort of connection emerges.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/ contains many resources related to Mark Everett and his work as a living legacy of his own father. We have many similarities although I had my own father in my life much longer that Mark had his. It’s a strange feeling to have this awareness of the presence of our ancestors. That’s how it feels. There’s a certain amount of internal pressure one feels to be a good descendant when we look back at the work of those who came before; to do our own “Great Work” - and so it goes.
The “Great Work” of alchemical transformation involves that quest for wholeness - but it is already done always and forever. We are one. Of course, we are all iterations of the pattern “Homo Sapiens” with all that entails. I’m fond of the way that Wavy Gravy puts it in describing himself as a “Temple of Accumulated Error.” We can choose to accept ourselves as we are, here and now. We can then extend that to others.
Now is the only time that actually exists anyway. Everything we perceive is simply our perception and our vision comes clearer once we realize this. I see a peaceful world unfolding around me here - and some might call that privilege - I call it luck. I believe that I’m lucky because I believe that I am lucky.
How about you? Are you feeling lucky?
Onward!
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