Point-i | Blog / 20201226

.01

Pneuma is the primal nonsense sense or cancer.
Even the buffalo dance is its symptom.

.03

Pneuma is the idea that word is something, which is dualism and contradiction. That word is something is the agent and its strawman, re. Eliot, The Hollow Men.

The Hollow Men
T.S.Eliot

Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Origins of the Sacred, The Ecstasies of Love and War. — Dudley Young. That word is pneuma is the cancer that life-and-death is.

.04

The Thad Roberts story of courageously animate (animistic) discovery (supposedly going beyond the cave of enslavement that mere word is) that creates the ever mystical conditions of a referent reality, always somewhere & someplace else (entended) and here, incomplete, is pneuma, which is what slavery is. That the grass is greener, more real, as the unreal (fantasy) of somewhere else rather than that it is word, is not only the pathetic self-deception projection, it is the litany of self-as-other deception (zombism)... with junkie mind entanglement. The Tango. https://youtu.be/aV7jS4PzZ9c

04 what's the most
05 valuable thing a sentient being
09 can be in possession of
13 as we go through our lives claiming
16 new knowledge and more understanding
20 what is the most valuable thing we can
22 gain
27 the most valuable thing possible would
30 be a story
32 of reality that then generates
35 the conditions of reality

Origins of the Sacred, On the Dancing Ground, 11- p.153-

.05

Origins of the Sacred, On the Dancing Ground, 11- p.153-

Page	Quotes & explanation	Comments
153	The disturbing adoption of the animistic metaphysic leads us to combat its potential tyranny with what the ethnologists call "sympathetic magic." [Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence.] [primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.]	The key reference to sympathetic magic is on p.399, page one of The Appendix! The bridge over the sacred chasm between pneuma and the buffalo dance?

.06

Brian J. McVeigh

I've often wondered about how when we speak to others, we are simultaneously, in a sense, also speaking to ourselves and what this means cognitively. Also, writing itself is another way to clarify our thoughts.

The other-as-self is the nonsense sense the self-as-other that is the integral confusion of being sentient, i.e., the contradiction sacralized as paradox extending even to infinite ocean enlightenment, mind-and-consciousness that the point is the non-point existing, by which we 1) have thoughts 2) that must be clarified.

.07