Orgnsm Experiencer Notebook

42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.
43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest. - A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Seek constantly therefore to know what is painful and to cleave thereunto, for by Pain cometh true Pleasure.

This is the evident and final solvent of the Knot Philosophical concerning fate and free will, that it is thine own self, omniscient and omnipotent, sublime in eternity, that first didst order the course of thine orbit, so that which befalleth thee by fate is indeed the necessary effect of thine own will.

... the Universe itself is not, and cannot be, anything but an arrangement of symbolic characters!

Unless 'all you have and all you are' is identical with the Universe, its annihilation would leave a surplus.

The paramount question is: how to teach man to act in accordance with the facts of Nature? He must cease to try to ignore or deny them in the interest of prejudice, to transcend them by fantastic idealism based on falsehood or fatuity...

Man's sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.

Understanding is the apperception of pattern as such

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness—or perhaps because of this—the shadow is the seat of creativity.

Psychedelics may temporarily splinter or even obliterate the ego, but soon the ego comes roaring back, seeking to create a new cosmological framework in which it is ensconced at the center of a vast drama.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

In the beginning was the Word... And the Word became flesh

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.

I regret that my own weirdness made me a fascist about people who were not weird.

...[I]f a new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture. It is comparable to what happens when a new note is added to a melody. And when the sense ratios alter in any culture then what had appeared lucid before may suddenly become opaque, and what had been vague or opaque will become translucent.

That path of frustration through revelation leads to my conclusions that one can only minimize anxiety to a degree, and can do so by transcendent insights about the inherently problematic aspects of personal self-control.

In a completely chaotic universe such as this one, there are no accidents.

If any unnecessary or imbalanced scraps of ego become identified with the genius by mistake, then disaster awaits. The life force flows directly into these complexes and bloats them into grotesque monsters variously known as the demon Choronzon. Some magicians attempting to go too fast with this invocation* have failed to banish this demon, and have gone spectacularly insane as a result.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Nature rewards Courage

salvation is an act of understanding, of being in the moment, a rational apprehension

...the Internet will become an integrated prosthesis of the human body.

The mutation from terrestrial to interstellar life must be made, because the womb planet itself is going to blow up within a few billion years... Planet Earth is a stepping stone on our time-trip through the galaxy, Life has to get its seed-self off the planet to survive... There are also some among us who are bored with the amniotic level of mentation on this planet and look up in hopes of finding someone entertaining to talk to.

Hiddenness makes creation possible because God can become "revealed" in a diversity of limited ways, which then form the building blocks of creation.