Creating distrust, division, confusion, and chaos, leading to massive societal dysfunction and collapse, is not a bug in the MAGA plan due to incompetence in personnel picks and policy: it’s a very deliberate design feature.
And for accelerationists, evangelicals, fundamentalists, and Christian nationalists, it’s all a part of the big plan for the End Times.
“There is the literal level of understanding sacred writings and there is also the psychological level of understanding them.” ... “The esoteric or inner—that is, the psychological—meaning is quite different. Esoteric teaching is always about [Humanity's] inner evolution. It is about Man's higher development and his relation to what is higher than he is.” ...
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, and in a land not a million miles from here, there were two hungry dervishes, who are seekers, people of the 'poor'.
One evening in their travels, they came across a small village and decided to stay for the night. There was an inn there, just by the side of the village green. But because they had no money, the two dervishes could not afford to stay there. Sometimes the pair would take out their musical instruments and play and entertain the inhabitants with jokes and news, in exchange for a few coppers for food and lodgings. But not tonight, for it had been a long haul up into the foothills of the mountains that day, and they were both too dog-tired to play, or even raise a smile.
So it was that the two dervishes set their scant belongings down by the side of the village green, right in front of the inn. While one of them set about stacking up the sticks of wood he had scavenged along the way, the other arranged the stones which he'd collected in his travels, into a small circle around the wood.
.jpg "A black-and-white photo of a man wearing sunglasses and with his hands on his head, playing the children's game, \"Simon says ...\"")
We may know it in a lesser, degenerate form, so we are told, by the name “Simon says ...”, a game now played by small children and fools.
One of the early aims of the Sufi teachings is to regain the flexibility of mind that is lost as we grow out of childhood. Almost inevitably in this abode of decay, we humans become creatures of habit. But it needn't be this way.
To quote Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine in a chapter on Habit and Improvisation:
“[Regarding] Lindauer's study of the honey-bee. Under normal conditions, there is a rigid division of labour in the hive, so that each worker is occupied on different jobs in different periods of her life.
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.jpg "Front cover of Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, and the daemonic, by H.M. Forester.")
Note that this edition contains a fictional psi-fi story of resistance only, without additional study materials.
You can preview or download it at The Internet Archive
or download it at the Sher Point Publications, UK web site (just scroll down the page).
There’s also an entry at Goodreads.
Second (corrected) draft edition, 21 August 2024, 315 pages.
Now available also at:
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Enjoy!
or "The king who divined his fortune"
A king who was also an astrologer read in his stars that on a certain day and at a particular hour a calamity would overtake him. He therefore began to stockpile all manner of raw ingredients such as flour and eggs and milk and posted numerous guardians outside, stacking the materials from floor to ceiling until he could no longer leave the warehouse he had built-up. By this time he was beginning to have second thoughts about the whole matter, but he could no longer conceive of any means of escape.
Then one day a Sufi, passing by, looked in through one of the remaining small openings, took in the situation and called to the King:
'Friend, if you wish to escape, you must first of all use some of these provisions to bake me a cake.'
