The 'First Line' Of Reality

Most people are stuck in the first line of reality - this is 'STEM' reality: Space, Time, Energy, Matter.

And in this obsessional condition, it is very easy to suppose that how one 'gains' is by continuously working on the rubric of 'getting the most X with the least Y.'


Everyone you meet, or at least nearly everyone, prides themselves that they are 'realistic' - and this is most especially so whenever you are talking with those with any interest in markets and investing, and ambition for material gain. You will get the standard, run-of-the-mill property and real estate experts, and then you will get the chartists and technical analysts in the stock market, and finally you will get the people interested in politics and of those quite a few these days will harbor conspiracy thinking of some kind or other. Why even the Democrats actually literally believe that 'the Russians, the Russians...'

All these people will very likely at some point tell you that the reason you are a failure is that you have not been realistic - like they are.

So in the last article we mentioned that Socrates expressed very strong reservations that the gods were either cruel or inconsistent. And yet even so, if we examine the Faust story perspective, we find a character drawn from the real historical Johann Faust the 16th Century alchemist, who becomes a dissatisfied intellectual and who then yearns for 'more than earthly meat and drink' in his life. So now we have two different things: an alchemist who has apparently discovered the philosopher's stone, and has material wealth, but who finds this unsatisfying; and the proposition of our friend Socrates, which is that the gods are not cruel! Well then, perhaps they might be so kind as to... You understand me. Either, we, or else they, should make up our minds! Do they want us to be satisfied? Or is there some problem with our approach to getting them to 'come across' as it were?

Psytrance gear

Now of course, especially in our present day and age, we can but hope to have 'material wealth' of this kind ourselves! We're kind of stuck with having to already offer our souls right away to even get close enough to Faust's position of genuine disillusionment. At the moment we are disillusioned because - as per the good example of Tao's recent comment - our plans for material leverage were messed around by egregiously ignorant fools running banks and governments, but yet who cling onto power because the gods give them licence...? I mean certainly, it's fair enough to say this has been one of the most amazing instances where 'karma' just plain has failed to deliver!! Where the gods who claim to support justice have gone to sleep for a good long time and forgotten their own words. Apparently.

But only though, if we insist on tarrying in the world of 'Space, Time, Energy, and Matter.'

What other things are there, than Space, Time, Energy, and Matter?

Recently, I have been engaging with a few people in a psyfamily. Do you know what that is? That is a kind of modern tribal thing, usually consisting of the kids - well I say kids but they might be forty years old(!), some of them - from horrendously wealthy parents in business and banking, French wineries and cognac chateaux, German and Dutch industrial concerns and trading houses; who spend most of their time in Costa Rica doing 'meditation' or going to California 'festivals' where they 'culturally appropriate' native tribal dress and so on, and crank up huge speaker boxes and sound systems, paint their faces with luminescent glitter paint, and raise their arms into the air pretty much all night long as far as I can tell whilst spinning in the axis of the eternal Universe, and being still at the core.

LOL

You can imagine how far I get with any Socrates and why even as lately as today, one of them somehow managed to mix up 'Euthyphro' with 'euphoria' quite easily.