you need to practice until meditation is your day job, and life is everything else that is just noise, that happens in the gaps 

this is the meditation inversion

to begin with, one can aim for a physical/exercise inversion as a pre-step

 how about .. "we are but mechanisms to accumulate layers of matter so that a brain emerges. each brain tries to make sense of the universe, and this is a terribly attenuating thing,  so the brain wears out, rather, the material accumulation is not enough to keep the brain 'playing the latest version of the game', so the already accumulated material layers sanction a branch-off operation with lesser/different 'sense' so that the new brain can start where the old one left off ..,  parallely dialing down resource allocation to the existing piles of material"

 

 P.o.I first seasson is a peach. the ulrich kohl episode is gigantic. the man is a mirror of our man, slight differences. can't help love the suit/pinstripes/surgical technique ...

how do you know I would pull the trigger

you're a soldier like me ....

words which are red hot iron poured down the spine ...

quality falls to the level of  gas station tacos in later seasons ... and i hate the whole samaritan runaround ...

 people keep saying there is this consciousness that consciousness etc ... time is the only real organism in this universe, going through everywhere, carrying everything 

think of the speed of light, and how things change when one travels at speeds close to it- it's because light can't see beyond what time has not created yet ...

corollary : time travel is only possible to 'scenes' or realities you have been in already, the rest are not real for you, but within your timeline, time can remake things for you...

 one of these things is not like the other

I was reading Osborne  when I came upon Nietsche... ( how did the shift occur ? I remember Lisa Lisa in the bombardiers reading nietsche to help with the job, ( weird book - contrarian/non-standard perspective for that world but not really touching bedrock I felt ) , I have been using Power as my first Wordle attempt, maybe I googled 'will to power' or something... ) 

turns out, nietsche's philosophy is the wind right underneath Adler, Jung, Frankl, Sartre, Camus, Focault, Kafka, Hesse, Shaw, and also ....  Batman .... and of course, the life is difficult theme in our recent resort - Scott Peck....

Gemini has given a four book reading list, will to power not on it.

Will to power starts with an observation that .....the distinguishing feature of our nineteenth century is not the triumph of science, but the triumph of the scientific method over science.

btw, Sherlock Holmes was a 'scientific-method'-ist first,  a detective later , the method amplified his talents and if you remember , if he weren't to be a detective, he'd have been a thief ( the tv series say pirate) , and while Doyle's stories are more pulp , The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes identifies Victorian thought as the ground which gives rise to the bloom that resides at 221b... the squarest of the squares (hence the sener at women). A similar model was put forth by Jules Verne in Around the world in 80 days , a man who can plan a project so big ( a trip around the world) in precise steps and times ..... 

 cartesian abstraction as the source of square-ism, wholism was lost/ignored ( his-story/leviathan), deleuze - the latest knight of the method ?

 religion and alcohol , descartes and god, afterlife as opium, Deida's superior man advise about naked unadorned life (no scrolling on the pot) .... eastern religions help you go into the pain, western religions avoid

there is the thread of suffering tht runs through all the works of men

Puff the fractal dragon caught the error and Grew from naught again. Can you turn shit to sugar ? Or will you brood and get depressed at the unfairness of life, can turn your sorrows into wind of your sails ..

 There is only one treasure, and that is the self, from/to which all joys flow 

Saturn -  discipline, persistence, blue-collar-y

 Person Of Interest is Matrix meets Enemy of the State

And jn 2026,  it hasn't aged at all ... 

 was reading osborne's book on the maharishi's teachings. there's a dialogue with  a jesuit , who asks questions like 'i am finite, god is infinite.... how can i know god' , and then it hit where I had heard this before... 

 DAVID
		What was your idea Elijah?

Beat.

				 ELIJAH(soft)
		If there is someone like me
		in the world, and I'm at one
		end of the spectrum...
		Couldn't there be someone
		the opposite of me, at the
		other end?
			(beat)
		A person who can't be hurt
		like the rest of us. A kind
		of person they were talking
		about in those stories.

Elijah points at the framed comic sketches.

				 ELIJAH(soft)
		A person they believed was
		put here to protect the rest
		of us. Guard us.

and then I remembered what this sounded like ... this is actually just a rehash of Descartes' argument for the existence of God ...

so it looks like armies have been , since forever, carrying these arguments in their arsenal, persuading millions into membership by the simple device of looking decent, claiming to be holy, and presenting logical arguments ....

can you spot the fallacy in this ? would you be immune ?