Jun 18 24
Knight of Cups (reversed)
31. Influence (Wooing)
45. Gathering Together [Massing]
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
From “M.S.”: Though, like many people in our environs (coastal cities, etc.) we have no truck with formalized religion (mainly due to the fairly standard hypocrisy of both leaders and their followers, blah, blah, etc., etc.) — we do feel that the impulse to have religious-type-conceptions (like awe/love/poetic-awareness of forces and mysteries greater than ourselves) is somewhat unavoidable/necessary for a relatively healthy system of human psychology. As well, not having a social, shared awe/love/poetic-awareness of forces and mysteries greater than ourselves, with other humans, makes us all vulnerable to having such important unfilled psychological needs fall into the hands of that class of profoundly selfish, corporate mythmakers (who only worship one deity, the God of Power and Profit — whether Apple, Facebook/Instagram, ALL of the various news outlets, Dem leaders, GOP leaders, fixed socialists, fixed capitalists, or what have you). It is worth mentioning, in this light, that these people (the selfish corporate myth makers) are kind of the opposite of all beautiful metaphysics and dignified social relations — being perfectly ready to exploit the human need of constancy and fear of a lack thereof — perpetually pitting human against human, exacerbating, creating, and manipulating differences for untold affluence.
So, since formalized religion will not be our (and many others’) answer to the psychological need for engaging the transcendental peripheries/mysteries, and we despise the unprincipled corporate class who are constantly ready to exploit/fill this absence with their shameful nonsense, we are inclined to say that our “religion” is “the arts” (poetry, literature, painting, dance, music, sculpture, etc.) — as well as a serious bit of psychedelicism. What is the oracle’s feedback on such ideas? Is there a way to bind us all in secular, poetic, psychedelic, metaphysics? Or is it all just the nature of evolution?
Piety and deep sympathy and mass/unified morality are necessary for uniting people — it sounds like you are intellectual and aesthetic in your leanings; these are not necessarily the mode of most people — intellectuality and aestheticism is not a privilege per se, but they are not standards. You are likely an outlier.
All is change and all people are different. So you must be open and strive to be without any superiority and eschew any tendencies of know-it-all-ness, when dealing with others. But do persist in your love of “the arts.” Through gentleness and visible dedication one can have significant influence — if it ends up working for transcendental collective utility.
However, the minute you think you are smarter than others or know the proper response to the world — you are lost.
Know this, and make efforts not to make such quasi-egotistical errors in the future.
- Be careful of people/environments where imaginative/creative powers have turned from poetry to fraud and scheming.
- Nutritive relations cannot be formed by being a know-it-all, being closed minded and/or being full of guile.
- Neither immediately yield to your own impulses or those of others — take the appropriate time needed for proper decision making.
- Large groups of humans come with the result of large problems (mass sickness, mass violence, mass paranoia, etc.). A shared moral code is absolutely necessary.
From “M.S.”: Though, like many people in our environs (coastal cities, etc.) we have no truck with formalized religion (mainly due to the fairly standard hypocrisy of both leaders and their followers, blah, blah, etc., etc.) — we do feel that the impulse to have religious-type-conceptions (like awe/love/poetic-awareness of forces and mysteries greater than ourselves) is somewhat unavoidable/necessary for a relatively healthy system of human psychology. As well, not having a social, shared awe/love/poetic-awareness of forces and mysteries greater than ourselves, with other humans, makes us all vulnerable to having such important unfilled psychological needs fall into the hands of that class of profoundly selfish, corporate mythmakers (who only worship one deity, the God of Power and Profit — whether Apple, Facebook/Instagram, ALL of the various news outlets, Dem leaders, GOP leaders, fixed socialists, fixed capitalists, or what have you). It is worth mentioning, in this light, that these people (the selfish corporate myth makers) are kind of the opposite of all beautiful metaphysics and dignified social relations — being perfectly ready to exploit the human need of constancy and fear of a lack thereof — perpetually pitting human against human, exacerbating, creating, and manipulating differences for untold affluence.
So, since formalized religion will not be our (and many others’) answer to the psychological need for engaging the transcendental peripheries/mysteries, and we despise the unprincipled corporate class who are constantly ready to exploit/fill this absence with their shameful nonsense, we are inclined to say that our “religion” is “the arts” (poetry, literature, painting, dance, music, sculpture, etc.) — as well as a serious bit of psychedelicism. What is the oracle’s feedback on such ideas? Is there a way to bind us all in secular, poetic, psychedelic, metaphysics? Or is it all just the nature of evolution?
Piety and deep sympathy and mass/unified morality are necessary for uniting people — it sounds like you are intellectual and aesthetic in your leanings; these are not necessarily the mode of most people — intellectuality and aestheticism is not a privilege per se, but they are not standards. You are likely an outlier.
All is change and all people are different. So you must be open and strive to be without any superiority and eschew any tendencies of know-it-all-ness, when dealing with others. But do persist in your love of “the arts.” Through gentleness and visible dedication one can have significant influence — if it ends up working for transcendental collective utility.
However, the minute you think you are smarter than others or know the proper response to the world — you are lost.
Know this, and make efforts not to make such quasi-egotistical errors in the future.