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[Glenn Scheper]

> But if it isn't the same day, ...

You are advanced to the point of pondering chronology?
I enter a section of text with some narrator, and then
leave it unsure which character is acting or narrating.


> My sense of time is pretty Oneiric in my own life...

I'll see your oneiric, and raise you onanistic.


> wheel turning (tarot)

Wheel of Fate - Tarot : Wheel of Fortune
I had forgotten tarot; I admit great ignorance of it.

The I Ching patterns (triples of whole or broken lines)
(3 bits; 8 states) also bear some transitional notions.


> fun / anhedonism

Yes, license-libery-disipation / fear-stoicism-conservation.


> the radiant hour / the moment of terror

I found diverse ideas, but especially, 9/11 WTC (which was morning).

We'll mark each aromatic flower, / Expanding to the radiant hour;
http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/HemaFDomes.htm

Dawned the day...
Measureless their fame and virtue, great their penance and their power,
And in converse deep and learned Brahmans passed the radiant hour,
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/dutt/maha03.htm

When the self is entirely given in prayer, we may experience a moment of terror as the self dissolves.
http://www.rabbishefagold.com/Vayikra.html

the traumatic suspension of the Real that accompanies the moment of terror,
http://www.echo.ucla.edu/volume5-issue2/chapman/chapman4.html


> truth / lies

I've pondered it much, indulge me quoting myself:
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/oldword.htm

Assuming one survives that, the next problem is, "What is truth?"
The direct intuitions do not correspond to everything taught to
us during our youth. Most who are not transcended, would call me
defective. When I first transcended, I was immobilized from the
importance of doing the right thing, of having the right thought,
of making the right choice at every instant. But I recognized
that there exists a double standard, creating a double bind due
to contradictory laws. That makes for an existential crisis.

Several insights into truth might reduce this existential crisis:
First, truth is not some specific content. Truth is just valuable
information. One must acknowlege that garbage information exists.
Garbage information must be ignored, otherwise one is led astray
by ideas of reference, a psychological expression for a delusion
in which information refers to oneself. I know the condition well:
the radio talks to you personally, the devil's face appears in a
carpet, every "No right turn" sign indicts your irremediable sin.
The little bit that I trust I know is laced with garbage information
and more is always bubbling up on the periphery: Tread carefully!

Second, truth is personally constructed and personally valued.
Lacan describes a "Master discourse," part of which is to deny
there is any other truth except one's own. Such a stance causes
persons having influence to abuse other persons. Such a stance
also causes an ignorant person to remain ignorant, unteachable.
One who suffers abuse eventually learns that honesty is not even
a good policy, but appearance of honesty is socially profitable.

Third, there may very well be some kind of absolute truth hidden
in sacred texts, but that would be a technical usage of the word,
truth, not to be confused with everyday facticity or accountability.
This use of truth includes direct gnosis by mental or tantric arts.
And that might have a flat structure, or might be hierarchical with
access based on intent, warrant, or ownership, as with man's data.

Currently I might add, studying Revelation & Word=Come / Word=Fuck,
wherein only coitis is whole reception; there are many de-ceptions.


> poetry /prose

Hmmm? Not anything for me. Art. Scholastic overlay on communication.


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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