The Feelings Magic Mushrooms Bring Can Make This Work

Me personally, I dont need any psychedelics to see the world differently because seeing the world differently is my default setting. I'd say the same for you too. We don't need anything for our mind. The reason I like mushrooms is because it's all about feeling. 

It's about an uncontrollable love for humanity that starts in your belly which you can't explain but you know it's good for you, so you open yourself up to it and then it takes over your body, and then your mind, and you begin to see how the world could be transformed through love, and how you as an individual might be able to help bring about such a harmonious state. It's just that feeling which I'm keen for you to know.

The feelings and the knowledge of what you perceived stay with you! There is no crash like one gets with synthetics.

With anything so powerful, respect is needed in its administration. People who take too much and walk round all day totally loved up, expecting everyone they come into contact with to be on the same vibe as them are disrespecting nature, and themselves. 

The feelings you get when taking mushrooms, are amplified versions of feelings that already exist within you. So if you are feeling happy, you will feel beyond happy. If you are feeling hopeful and optimistic - likewise. If you are feeling creative and inspired - watch out world!!!😂😂

Against Wisdom

The biggest flaw for me about wisdom is that it can be written down. Like the saying "Take the path of least resistance" for instance. It's just a seductive sounding soundbite which sounds like it contains a solution.

But what about the opposite of what its saying? "No pain, no gain" is one way of saying resistance is a necessary part of making progress.

Or what about  "Nothing worthwhile in life is ever easy, and nothing easy in life is ever worthwhile"? Sounds so deep and spiritual, and the feeling of it chiming with us convinces us even more of its truth value.

So which one of them is true? Or if they are all true at different times, then what is it that enables you to know with confidence which one is right at the right time?

For me, wisdom never has the balls to choose. It only ever highlights the merits of the possible options in a way that sounds seductive and often times poetic. 

Knowing how to act and make decision in the present moment. That is where it's at! That shit's the real deal! That's the shit which cannot be written down. It is the unspoken, unwritten intuition that allows one to navigate through the seas of the present and never be capsized by treacherous waters because the answer is always there if you are prepared to throw away the crutch of wisdom with its wise words, sayings proverbs people brandish like holy relics to guard against the unnerving feelings the uncertainty of the present is instilling in them.

The Importance Of Choosing Nourishing Substitutes

If Chris Whitty isn't chatting shitty, and social distancing is indeed extended to the end of the year, by then each of our new normals will include all the new habits we will have developed in the meantime.

Habits that will consist of the substitutes we've had to use as replacements for the actual things that we want to do now but can't at the moment.

If we end up having to say goodbye, for the foreseeable future, to something we miss really badly, and the gradual detachment process involves a sort of withdrawal stage to pass through; then it'll be important to choose a substitute which isn't a low-nutrition quick fix, and is actually a substitute good for us in its own right.

While we wait for things that are being missed to return, choose substitutes that contain within them opportunities for growth in life-affirming directions, instead of substitutes that act like cheap drugs to get you through, which only lead to diminishing returns on each successive hit.

A Day In The Life Of Power

So, I was sitting outside in the sun, much as I am now, around this time too, sunbathing and relaxing. 

The couple who live next door were out too on their patio having breakfast. The guy is quite loud and gregarious when he speaks and his partner has one of those grating nasal Scouse accents. I try not to interact with them or get to know them at all as I want to always remain an unknown quantity to them. That way they never know what is going on in my mind so they are less likely to take liberties or push their luck with me just because we're on friendly terms.

Unknown quantities generally are treated with more respect because you don't know what it is you are dealing with exactly.

So I'm sitting there chilling and the neighbours are chatting at a respectful volume. My wifi speaker was connected in the kitchen and I was playing soulful chilling grooves that were perfect for basking in the sun to, at a volume which was loud enough for me to get mellow, but nowhere near a level which would interrupt the conversation the neighbours were having.

To my surprise, it seemed as though they began to talk at an even lower volume still in order to utilise the faint music coming from my kitchen speaker as the soundtrack to their brunch. I had accidentally become their DJ!

I had their attention and they were now altering their behaviour around the music that was playing, which I was in control of.

But there was also pressure on me to be able to maintain their pleasant ambience. I would just have to carry on finding tunes which kept the vibe going.

I managed to do this, and soon the couple had forgotten they were using me for atmosphere generation. They had come to expect that this mood could go on and on forever...

Then at some point later on when a song finished playing and had faded out, I didn't put on another one after it as I wanted to do something else. The couple sensed this end to the music was the cue for them to wrap up their conversations, take their dishes inside and do something else themselves, but I wonder just how long I could have kept them there if I had actually wanted to?🤔

The most interesting controlling aspect of it all was the fact that the music which provided their mood while they chatted together was immediately blocked out by their own voices if they didn't lower them sufficiently. I had placed a condition on the vibe I was supplying. 

"You want some of this sweet vibe?"

"Yes, we do"

"Sure, no problem. Here you go!"

"Thanks!"

*later on...*

"Excuse me, we really love the vibe you have us but it only works if we talk below a certain threshold"

"Sorry, that's just the way it's been made I'm afraid. It's nothing to do with me."

"No worries. We still enjoy the vibe anyway so I guess well just have to keep our voices down then"

"Bye!"

"Bye!"

I had unintentionally managed to quiten their voices by offering them a gift that would only work according to terms which had been set internally within the gift. Terms which unbeknownst to them, I could freely change.

Is this not a fairly good demonstration of the Power's modus operandi?

"You want this?"

"Yes"

"Stay quiet then".

The One Is The All

The one is not 'the one for me'

The one is not 'the chosen one'

The one is the embodiment of oneness

The node to which everything is attached

The place upon which everything converges

The axis around which everything revolves and hinges on

The meeting place of perspectives, all ways of being, seeing, doing, thinking

And in thus being connected to all

It understands all

As it is joined to all

The one is the all

Not the individual

Consciousness is a oneness
A oneness which is a singularity
The intersection of all forms of Being
It is the fat ball point with many inks
Which writes with one tip

Imagine Our Own Future Before Power Imagines One For Us

I feel like precisely because imagining the future which comes after this seems impossible, is the reason why we have to start imagining it. 

Otherwise the future we end up getting to live in we will have had no part in creating, and there are enough politicians and leaders of all kinds out there only too happy to design a future for everyone else to live in if it means they get to write the rules.

As difficult as it may seem, I feel like now is the perfect time for people to try and imagine what they want to happen after this, and seek out others who also share the same hopeful sentiment. Living in a future in which everyone has had a hand in making, no matter how small it may seem, is a really important thing in terms of having a sense of joint ownership about something everyone helped to build.

And that desire to seek out others who think and feel similarly to the way you are right now will be essential in order to galvanise people together into a cohesive whole, able to work as one. Because the only other option or road that springs easily to mind right now is one which leads to despair and total submission to the external forces that usher, steer and coerce us into doing what it thinks is best, if we choose not to do anything at all and remain stagnant.

That does sound proper dystopian, and even a bit hysterical when read in one go, but if you would have told me 2 months ago that very soon I would find myself staying in my house for 5 weeks straight in a bid to help save people's lives, then I would have mentioned that you didn't have to watch the entirety of Black Mirror in one sitting. 

But here we are! 

The truth of what's happening sounds just as wild as fiction right now, which is exactly why the way the story continues is so up for grabs. Everyone has writers block because the true extent of the reality we're in still remains unknown. Which is precisely why imagining a future that personally gives you hope is so necessary.

I Have No Respect For Wasps Who Do This

I have no respect for wasps that get into your bedroom through the tiniest of openings, then when you fully open the window so they can let themselves out, suddenly forget the way they came in and start buzzing about in the curtains and netting like they've been taken hostage and now is the time to enact the escape plan. So they scale the window pane multiple times but jump off each time they reach the top. Pacing around on the window sill shouting "I'm trapped! Somebody let me out!!!", even though the window can't be opened any further and they are 2 inches away from freedom. Absolutely zero respect for wasps who behave like this.