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FEAR
STEPHEN BACHELOR DESCRIBES ‘FEAR’ AS THE LONGING NOT TO BE HURT; THE
CRAVING NOT TO SUFFER MISFORTUNE; THE YEARNING NOT TO BE CONTINGENT. IN
TIBETAN BUDDHIST TERMINOLOGY FEAR ‘PERVADES ALL SELF CENTERED
EMOTIONS’…
‘CONFUSION’S FEAR IS COMPARED TO AN OXEN, ARROGANCE’S FEAR TO A LION,
HATRED’S FEAR TO A FIRE, JEALOUSY’S FEAR TO A SNAKE, MISCONCEPTION’S FEAR
TO A THIEF, MISERLINESS’ FEAR TO AN IRON SHACKLE, DESIRES FEAR TO A TORRENT,
DOUBT’S FEAR TO A CANNIBAL….EACH STATE BEING ANIMATED BY THE LONGING
NOT TO BE HURT.
‘ANXIETY’
THERE IS AN ONGOING ‘UNFORSEEABLE COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES’ THAT
DEMANDS ADAPTATION TO THE CURRENTS OF GLOBAL THEATER. THE ‘ELECTRONIC
HERD’ RUMBLES THROUGH THE ECONOMIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD. THE
‘BEWILDERED HERD’ COPES AND NUMBS. THE ORDINARY PEOPLE FEEL ANXIOUSNESS
AND ALIENATION AS THEY TRY TO ADJUST TO THE CONVULSIVENESS OF THE
‘ELECTRONIC HERD’. THE LOSS OF BELIEF IN THE ‘REASONABLENESS OF A SOCIETY’S
PURPOSE’ CONTRIBUTES TO AN EXPONENTIAL SPEED OF FRAGMENTATION. PEOPLE
FEEL IT IS NOT THEIR SYSTEM AS ‘MONEY’ REWARDS THE ‘INSIDERS’ WHO LIVE
MUCH BETTER THAN THOSE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT.
THE PACINGS GENERATE MORE ANXIETY AND REQUIRE MORE ADAPTATION TO ‘LESS
OF A HEARTLAND CENTER’ IN THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND ‘LESS’ OF A ‘PATH
OF THE HEART CENTERING’ IN THE INNER PERSONAL.THE SPEED OF THE
ELECTRONIC HERD IS BEYOND ‘ADAPTATION’ AND ONLY PERSONAL POWER OF
PRESENCE WILL OVERCOME THE OCEANIC ANXIETY THAT IS ALL AROUND… AN
ANXIETY BEING DISCHARGED AND DIGESTED EVERYDAY.
‘ADAPTATIONS’
AS ‘MEDIUMS’ LEARNING HOW TO BECOME GENERATIVE ARTISTS WE LEARN TO ‘ADAPT’
AND REFOCUS EVERYDAY. WE LEARN TO GROW OUT OF THE DEEP YIN RECEPTIVITY BY
‘SOUND BLINDNESS’
‘TRANSFORMATION’
‘TRANSFORMATION’ MEANS ONE MUST REFINE ONE’S OWN SPIRIT AND PHYSIOLOGY
THROUGH A PROCESS OF ‘TEMPERING AND TONING’ OF ONE’S REAL WILL. ONE MUST
FOLLOWS THE SUGGESTIONS’ AND THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ‘ELDER’. OUR CREATIVE WAY
OURSELVES FROM THE WORLD YET WE KNOW WE HAVE TO STILL LIVE IN THE
‘KATDOLOGO’.
‘COLLISIONISM’
THERE IS AN ‘INNER COLLISIONISM’ AND AN ‘OUTER COLLISIONISM’. IT IS THE
‘MICROCOSM’ AND THE ‘MACROCOSM’. DEEP WITHIN CREATIVE PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE
‘COLLISIONISM’ ADDS TO THE DARKNESS IN THE BIG FOG OF EMPTINESS YET IT IS THE
‘LIGHT’ OR ‘PIVOT’ MOMENT DEMANDING THAT WE FACE OUR OWN POTENTIAL.
IT IS LIKE THE THEME OF THE MOVIE ‘CRASH’ WHERE THE ‘NARRATOR’ DESCRIBES
PEOPLE AS ‘CRASHING INTO ONE ANOTHER OUT OF A DESIRE TO CONNECT AND
OVERCOME THEIR ‘LONELINESS’.
WE SEE THE ‘ACCEPTABILITY’ OF CREATE AND DESTROY’ AS A NORMALCY OF ‘DOING
BUSINESS’. ‘COLLISIONISM’ IS SO NORMAL THAT WE JUST KEEP ‘NUMBING OUT’ AS A
WAY OF LIFE. THE POLITICIANS PREACH ‘KINDER AND GENTLER’ AND THEN GO TO
WAR.
‘AUTHORITY/INDEPENDENCE’
THIS COMPLIANCE IS MORE OF A ‘PEAR IS’ RATHER THAN A ‘PAIR IS’ AS THE PEAR
SHAPED BOTTOMS GET WIDENED TO BEAR THE LOADS OF THE TOP DOWN FLOWS.
THE ‘P’ EAR IS THE HEARING AS A ‘FEAR’ COMPELLING A ‘FORTRESS
DEFENSIVENESS’ AND AN EXCESSIVENESS OF ‘PADDING’ IN THE ONGOING ‘HIP WARS’
OF ‘SIT SIGHT’. THE ‘PEAR ECHOING’ FOSTERS A DEEP RECEPTIVITY OR FEMININE
RECEPTIVITY TO THE SOUNDS OF THE SYSTEM.
ONE SEES THE EARLY ‘OBESITY’ AND MUFFLED REAL SEXUALITY AS A CONSEQUENCE
OF THE ONGOING ELECTRONIC PENETRATIONS INTO THE VULNERABLE…THE
WOUNDED AND THE CONFUSED. IT PLAYS UPON THE ‘HIP WOUNDEDNESS AND
INADEQUACY’ THAT SEEMS NORMAL. THE DEEP RECEPTIVITY IS THE SPACE OF
FERTILIZATION OF ‘ELECTROSEEDING’ BY THE GIANTS OF ‘KATDOLOGO’. BUYING
‘FAST FOOD’ AND ‘WATCHING ELECTRO-REALITY’ FURTHER DISTANCES THEM FROM
THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY REAL FEELINGS OF SELF ESTEEM.
DAMAGED AUTOMOBILE PARTS THAT WERE ONCE PART OF ‘BILLY JOEL’S CAR THAT
HE CRASHED IN AN ACCIDENT, BECOMES A CELEBRITY ‘COLLECTORS’ MADNESS
AUCTION.
MORE AND MORE CONCRETE HIGHWAYS ARE RAPIDLY FOCUSING THE ‘CAR’ AS
IDENTITY IN CHINA, INDIA, AFRICA AS WELL AS IN MANY THIRD/FOURTH WORLD
COUNTRIES. IT IS IMAGE AND ASSOCIATION AS ‘IDENTITY’ IS FILTERED THROUGH
‘THEMES’ AND ‘DISPLAYS’ OF MEDIA. THE ‘BULLY BIG CARS OF THE U.S.A. ARE BEING
REDUCED AS THE ‘BIG AUTOMAKERS’ GET RID OF PLANTS AND WORKERS LEVELLING
THE GLOBAL CARMAKER MARKETPLACE.
TOYOTA IS BECOMING THE NUMBER ONE CARMAKER IN THE WORLD AS MORE THAN
HALF THE CONCRETE IN THE WORLD IS BEING POURED IN CHINA. IT IS THE GLOBAL
ORDERING TRADE-OFFS AS GENERAL MOTORS AND FORD GET RID OF WORKERS AND
BIG MONEY LEVERAGES CONCRETE IN ASIA.
AS WILLIAM BLAKE SAID… ‘THE ROAD OF EXCESS LEADS TO THE PALACE OF
WISDOM’.
THERE IS A NEVERENDING STRUGGLE FOR THE ‘HEARTS AND SOULS OF THE ‘MASSES’.
THE COMPETING FORCES KNOW THE POWER OF ‘RESONANCE’ AS A ‘CONTROL’ OF
‘SECURITY’ OR AN ‘OFF-BALANCING’ AND ‘LACK’. THE ‘SOUNDS’ MAY BE THE
‘ORDINARY’ OR THE DISCONCERTING. THE LEVEL OF ‘NOISE’ HAS GONE UP
SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE LAST ‘30-40 YEARS’ AND SOME OF THE REASONS FOR THE
‘FORTRESSING/OBESITY/PADDING’IN THE ‘BEWILDERED HERD’ IS A ‘DEFENSIVENESS’
AGAINST THE ‘CONSTANT ASSAULT’ OF THE SOUNDS OF THE SYSTEM.
THE ‘TECHNOLOGY’ IS GETTING BEYOND OUR HUMANITY. LESS THAN ONE YEAR OLD
CHILDREN ARE BEING TRAINED INTO TECHNOLOGY.
THE ‘UNNATURAL’ IS TAKING OVER THE ‘NATURAL’. WE ARE LESS AND LESS
CONNECTED TO OUR FOOD SOURCES AS WELL AS OUR CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING IN
A ‘NATURAL WORLD’ THAT IS NOT MADE OF STEEL, CONCRETE AND GLASS’.
ADAPT IN OUR ‘MIDDLE OF THE ANVIL’ [MIDDLE OF THE PYRAMID] PLACE OF TAKING
ORDINARY PEOPLE.