from When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger
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from When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger
“Semantic Poetry doesn't arrange verses into bunches of flowers. It bares a poem and shows the reality behind it. There is no room for hypnosis in a semantic poem.”
—Stefan Themerson, radio talk Warsaw, 1964
“Verse was invented as an aid to memory. Later it was preserved to increase pleasure by the spectacle of difficulty overcome. That it should still survive in dramatic art is a vestige of barbarism.”
—Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822
But if (fie of such a but) you bee borne so neare the dull-making Cataract of Nilus, that you cannot heare the Planet-like Musicke of Poetrie; if you have so earth- creeping a mind that it cannot lift it selfe up to looke to the skie of Poetrie, or rather by a certaine rusticall disdaine, wil become such a mome, as to bee a Momus of Poetrie: then though I will not wish unto you the Asses eares of Midas, nor to be driven by a Poets verses as Bubonax was, to hang himselfe, nor to be rimed to death as is said to be done in Ireland, yet thus much Curse I must send you in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonet, and when you die, your memorie die from the earth for want of an Epitaphe.
Sir Philip Sidney
A Course in Miracles T-14.IX.7:1
Why wait?
Idols are quite specific. But your will is universal, being limitless. And so it has no form, nor is content for its expression in the terms of form. Idols are limits. They are the belief that there are forms that will bring happiness, and that, by limiting, is all attained. It is as if you said, ‘I have no need of everything. This little thing I want, and it will be as everything to me.’
A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.1
Seth on Love:
“Love is a biological necessity, a force operating to one degree or another in all biological life. Without love there is no physical commitment to life—no psychic hold.
“Love exists whether or not it is sexually expressed, though it is natural for love to seek expression. Love implies loyalty. It implies commitment. This applies to lesbian and homosexual relationships as well as to heterosexual ones. In your society, however, identity is so related to sexual stereotypes that few people know themselves well enough to understand the nature of love, and to make any such commitments.
“A transitory period is currently taking place, in which women seem to seek the promiscuous sexual freedom more generally granted to men. It is believed that males are naturally promiscuous, aroused by sexual stimuli almost completely divorced from any complementary ‘deeper’ response. The male, then, is thought to want sex whether or not he has any love response to the woman in question—or sometimes to desire her precisely because he does not love her. In such cases, sex becomes not an expression of love, but an expression of derision or scorn.
“So women, accepting these ideas often, seek for a situation in which they too can feel free to express their sexual desires openly, whether or not any love is involved. Yet loyalty is love’s partner, and the primates display such evidence in varying degrees. The male in particular has been taught to separate love and sex, so that a schizophrenic condition results that tears apart his psyche—in operational terms—as he lives his life.
“The expression of sexuality is considered male, while the expression of love is not considered manly. To some extent or another, then, the male feels forced to divide the expression of his love from the expression of his sexuality. It would be disastrous for women to follow the same course.
“This great division has led to your major wars. This does not mean that men were alone responsible for wars. It *does* mean that the male so divorced himself from the common fountain of love and sex that the repressed energy came forth in those aggressive acts of cultural rape and death, instead of birth.
“When you look at the animal kingdom, you suppose that the male chooses blindly, led by ‘dumb‘ instinct, so that in overall terms one female will do as well as any other. When you discover that a certain chemical or scent will attract a certain male insect, for example, you take it for granted that that element is alone responsible for drawing the male to the female. You take it for granted, in other words, that individual differences do not apply in such cases so remote from your own reality.
“You simply are not able to understand the nature of such consciousnesses, and so you interpret their behavior according to your beliefs. This would be sad enough if you did not often use such distorted data to further define the nature of male and female behavior.
“In so distorting your ideas of sex, you further limit the great capacities of human loyalty, which is always connected with love and love’s expression. Lesbian and homosexual relationships then are at best tenuous, overwrought with confused emotions, very seldom able to maintain a stability that allows for individual growth. Heterosexual relationships also break down, for the identity of each partner becomes based upon sexual roles that may or may not apply to the individuals involved.
“Since you feel that sex is the only proper method of love’s expression, and yet also believe that sex and love are divided, you are in a quandary. These sexual beliefs are also far more important in national relationships than you realize, for you attempt to take what you think of as a masculine stance as a nation. So, for example, does Russia. India takes a feminine stance—in terms of your beliefs, now.”
—from The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression, a Seth Book by Jane Roberts, 1979, Prentice-Hall, Inc. pp. 72-73 (Session 770, 4/5/76)
Seth on Our Probable Development
You take your breathing, your moving, for granted, though they are unconsciously produced. In certain terms, however, "at one time" you had to learn how to do these things that you are not now consciously concerned with. At still other levels of reality, activities that you now consciously claim as your own have—in those same terms and from another viewpoint—become unconscious, providing a psychic history from which other identities emerge, as it seems that your own identities emerge from unconscious bodily activity.
—from The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression, a Seth Book by Jane Roberts, 1979, Prentice-Hall, Inc. p. 114 (Session 780, 6/22/76)
Sigma 957
Hope was a thing trapped in a box;
she rolled around there
wearing just socks.
Like pulverized skies
they molded their stares,
those spiders with eyes
seemed to not care.
Time was a face
set on the clocks,
with the whole human race
up on the blocks.
The secret down there
was not in their stare
but in the feelings within
that had carried them there.
Terminal time
had sucked out all the rhyme,
and what harbors of joy
had kept them so primed.
Now they're looking elsewhere
to reposition their stare,
yet certain directions
they cannot yet bear.
Waiting
you can feel it in the air
reaching back from your future
tallying the probabilities
brightening your shine
enfolding you in joy
to you it feels like
waiting...
Such playful unofficial alteration of consciousness...
“Children can play so vividly that they might, for example, imagine themselves parched under the desert sun, though they are in the middle of the coolest air-conditioned living room. They are on the one hand completely involved in their activity, yet on the other hand they are quite aware of their ‘normal’ environment. Yet the adult often fears that any such playful unofficial alteration of consciousness is dangerous, and becomes worried that the imagined situation will supersede the real one.
“Through training, many adults have been taught that the imagination itself is suspicious. Such attitudes not only drastically impede any artistic creativity, but the imaginative creativity necessary to deal with the nature of physical events themselves.”
—from The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression, a Seth Book by Jane Roberts, 1979, Prentice-Hall, Inc. p. 176 (Session 793, 2/14/77)
water noodle
the last time Mr. Boofer
held a purpose in his mind
he was summarily
defined
by that purpose
and its bind
would this one
hold its spell
trapped within its wishing well
or would Mr. Boofer
turn out fine
all throughout the play of time
or do you and mind decline
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