This is the essence of understanding:
I am not a body. My body is a manifestation of my mind; my mind is a manifestation of my consciousness; and my consciousness is pure, continuous and eternal.
Your body is a manifestation of your mind; your mind is a manifestation of your consciousness; and your consciousness is that same pure, continuous and eternal consciousness.
If you can understand this,reallyunderstand and realize it, you can unlock the knowledge of anything. And it's really that simple.
What sort of thing would a Hindon't such as myself ascribe to the ranks of Scripture? Well, that's something I'd like to talk about.
The purpose of Scripture is to teach, to elevate the mind so that it can be transcended. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras describe a whole slough of methods for keeping the mind steady while in meditation- from the use of mantras, to forms, to reading scripture as a meditation, to yoga poses, to Pranayama breathing exercises, any of which if practiced faithfully will lead to Samadhi (one-pointed-concentration). And if this wasn't inclusive enough, he states in Book 1, Sutra 39:
"Or by meditation onanythingone chooses that is elevating[one can achieve one-pointed concentration]."
Banged and Blown Through:
We are broken
Instruments
Burst wide open
Smashed and bent
Not what you'd expect
From these city streets
Who serves to protect
The orchestra in me?
Conductor, conductor,
I feel electricity
Conductor, conductor,
Would you bring out the song in me?
I love the simplicity of this. It begins as a thought of oppression, as the instrument that is banged up and battered, only to elevate itself to the instrument that must be banged and blown through to make sound serve it's purpose. You're actually the conductor, and the song is in you. The next song is more like a crib sheet for how to live a meaningful life, almost exactly something you would read in Psalms of the Bible, or instructions in the Gita.
Raised to be Lowered:
To manifest your dreams before you manifest your fears
To navigate beyond the treachery of self despair
To find the balance between all you sense and all you see
To find the patience and the strength it takes to let it be
To stand amongst the crowd and have the strength to hold your own
To throw away the pen and pad and simply be the poem
To rise above hatred, to love through seeming contradiction
To seldom take a side and learn to compliment the friction
To bring about the change within that we can't live without
To shift and rearrange ideals and learn to deal with doubt
To voice the victory and unlearn ways of self-defeat
To learn the value of, "Yo', fuck the words, just ride the beat!"
To leave your comfort zones from all you know to all you feel
To step beyond the void and realize the unknown is real
To re-imagine every obstacle as just a means
Of honing craft and learn to laugh at failure's funny dreams
Really, if you have a question in your life about an appropriate action to take, of what the best decision about something, refer to this list. You're situation can fit into one of these scenarios, and there's a best course of action right next to it. The next one is long, but worth it. It's the secret of Life, The Universe and Everything.
Wine:
The new wine is dying on the vine
How much must you age before you're ageless?
Align yourself with the divine
Allow your inner sage to burn you rageless.
'Cause I find through testaments of time:
There is no space for Time within your Mind
An' if you're looking for yourself, yourself you'll find
Through the crystal of your spirit, you'll inherit the divine
'Cause you are God, you best believe
Don't waste your time on your knees
It's everybody for themselves
You are the fire, and the cross
Don't save your soul, it's our loss
Collective soul- Collective wealth
So do you know how I feel, Tonight?
Can't you see I'm surreal, Tonight?
See how I shine? I'm a star, Yeah.
Now do you know who you are, Tonight?
I'm every daughter and son
That's like a bible and gun
Pre-cocked and ready aimin' steady as a ray of the sun
My ammunition, intuition, full eclipse of my lung
Son, you could never guess what planet I'm from
My emcee name is my birth name, my first name
Aliases all of us, soul of us, the fall of us
To surely come when we deny it
Loudest nigga' gets quiet
Prison of pieces of riot
Sell your soul if you wanna, but that don't mean I'mma buy it
See I've been conscious of your nonsense
They imprints have been quiet
And I ain't gonna lie it'd
Be to hard to deny it
I ain't from your block and never had to deal with your shit
Never had a glock never kept it real with no bit
And when I saw a nigga' like you, son, I practically hid
'Cause you did what you did and I wasn't the kid
Don't give a fuck now, I be the first one to playa' hate
The eye of the needle set the record straight
And I retire late, retire late, retaliate, retaliate
And I be fishin' on that same star you be wishin' on
Make you move son, you know the mission's on
So never question who I am, God knows
And I know God personally
In fact he lets me call him me
In fact she lets me call her me
I can recite the grass on the hill and memorize the moon
I know the cloud-forms of love by heart
And have brought tears to the eye of a storm
And my memory banks vaults of Autumn forests and amazon river banks
And I've screamed them into sunsets that echo in earthquakes
Shadows have been my spotlight as I monologue the night and dialogue with days
Soliloquies of wind and breeze applauded by sun rays
We put language in zoos to observe caged thought
And tossed peanuts and p-funk at intellect
And motherfuckers think these are metaphors
I speak what I see
All words and worlds are metaphors of me
My life was authored by the moon
Footprints written in soil
The fountain pen of martian men
Novelling human toil
And yes, the soil speaks highly of me
But earth seeds root me poet-tree
Now, maybe I'm too serious
Too little here to matter
Though I'm riddled with the reason of the sun
I stand-up comet with the audience of lungs
This body of laughter is it with me or at me?
Hue-more or less, though gender's mute
And the punch line has this lifeline at it's root
I'm a star, this life's the suburbs; I commute.
Mutha' fuckin' TROOF dat is. Tell me it ain't. Tell me his words don't send a chill down your spine, or made you feel like you almost remembered something really important, but just not quite.
☼ Gesturing Infinity ☼
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I lied, here's a fourth one.
Tao For Now:
Children of the night
Only some will star the sky
Only believers in death will die
And fathers must feather the wings of women
For the unfeathered masses dangle ridiculous
Carrying crosses to violence filled tombs
The future sells silence through blood rivered wombs
That ripple with riddles of cows and spoons and
Births, Moons and Earths-
Sun-centered at noon
And here I stand
Caught gesturing Infinity
Fetal fists are for revolution
But open hands birth humility
Now what is the density of an egoless planet?
Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?
I'm slouched into sling steps and kangoled with gang reps
But my orbit rainbows Saturn's rings
Mystical elliptical
Presto Polaris
Karmic flamed future when Saturn's in Aries
And now I'm a fish called Father
With gills type dizzy
Blowing liquid lullabies through the spine of time
I'm certain of Saturn's rivers and all else is fact
So baptize me in the stars
And wrap me in nighttime
New and blue
Pupil my sight with orange balls of light
And echo my plight
Through
The corridors of metaphor
What else are we living for
If not to create Fiction
And rhyme?
My purpose is to make my soul
Rhyme with my mind
Over matter
Minds create matter
Minds create fiction as a matter of fact
As if, matter of fact,
Matter IS fact
So
Spirit must be fiction
Science fiction
Art fiction
Meta fiction
The Tao of now
Is here amongst the living
In the voice of children
Is the Tao of now
You are a divine reflection of this earth
She doesn't belong to you, Love
No there is no need for your correction
All rivers run in the same direction
If you're serving the Father,
There is no Son without Mother
Parent bodies discover
Water bodies and drown
Wade me in water 'til Atlantis is found
On the sea floors of self
I'm starfish and unbound
Heard the way of that mound is stone mountain
Underwater volcanoes erupt water fountains of youth
Test this carnal equation, cancel out wind and truth
Swirl me beyond sometimes
Drench me water proof
Let Eve drop forever rain sunsets on my roof
As I sit on the front porch of my sanity
Deciphering hand bones to Van Gogh this vanity
Oiled egos
Canvased and framed
To be reborn, unborn, unburied, unnamed
A reflection through a blood stained glass window
Of souls gone yellow round the edges
Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives
But let family bring focus
Out of swamps blossom lotus
The muddy water blue daughter of infinity
Gather water, bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity
There is a monster living
It's the voice of children
It is the Tao of now
I'm glad you asked. I mean, somebody had to, right? So why not you? Well,Hindon'thas a lot of connotations for me, because I like words. Probably more than I should. If they could be sexed up, there isn't a single word I wouldn't hit, even the ugly ones. There's another word I use sometimes, but it's a lot more personalized for me-Teutontologist.That's a funny word. ButHindon'tis me referencing my personal path with this other path that's comes mainly from India. I am not a Hindu, nor am I Indian. I'm an odd looking, working class white boy from the central valley in California. My path is somewhat different than what is spoken of in Hindu scriptures. I'm an outsider looking in, but I'm still taking what's inside.
Today, I'd like to look a little deeper into the Gardening metaphor I used last time. It's really all you need to know about Yoga and Hinduism, everything else is just articulation. The metaphor itself is an old one, but I first read of it in a book called How Yoga Works. (here) I'm going to try avoiding quotes generally, but I may quote this work, or The Living Gita, commentary by Swami Satchananda. (here)
The reason I like this metaphor, and the reason I like metaphors generally, and Hinduism specifically, is that that's all anything ever really is, is a metaphor. We are discussing something beyond the realm of discussion, so we go into it understanding that it's notactuallywhat we mean, but it's as close as we can manage to say in this moment. The way Vedic wisdom is set up, each level of understanding, of perceiving, is a metaphor for all the others. Take the Charkas and Nadis of the energetic body, for example.
All of Indian metaphysics hinges off this idea of the Energetic body. From the undifferentiated source (sure, call it "god" if you want), an energy called Prana (wind) emerges at the moment of a being's conception. (let's not get into an abortion debate, please.) This Prana congeals, so to speak, into a lattice of ultra-fine light, so to speak, that the body grows around. The thing is, you could call this all bullshit primitive superstition, or you could consider it a metaphor and understand what you are capable of understandingright now.The Nadis (channels) are the pathways of the lattice work, and the Chakras (wheels) are where all the major intersections of Nadis are. In this theoretical body, your whole nervous system matches up. So does your circulatory system. Where there are Chakras, there are major organs of the body, hormonal glands, major joints of the body... It's great. It's all one big, self-referential metaphor. There's nothing to stop you from seeing thebodyas actually being a metaphor for yourenergetic body, you just choose to see one metaphor or the other.
So the Garden. Yeah. Got a little side tracked there. Gardening is really all you need to know about Yoga. You plant a seed, something grows, you nurture it and it bears fruit. This is what Karma is, but Karma applies to anything you will ever do, or interact with, and it's all the same Karma. That last part might be hard to understand, but I'll get to it.
Let's expand the metaphor. You plant a seed. Okay, where would you plant a seed? Well, in a field probably. So you plant a bunch of seeds in this field [your mind] and plan to come back for the fruits later in the year. Harvest comes and you return to your field, but some of the fruits from your field are bitter, some even make you sick. What went wrong?
Did you till your field with a plow (asanas)? You have to do this to make sure that only the seeds you intend to plant grow to bear fruit. Yes, a garden has to be tended. Sometimes you don't have to plant a bad seed to get bad fruit, because you simply had some bad fruit from somewhere else, and when you ate it, the seed fell into your lot and grew unnoticed.
Or maybe you find that you plant seeds, and nothing happens. Is your soil fertile? If not, you may have to use manure (study), or ash (sacrifice), or maybe some other fertilizer to give your seeds a good place to grow.
Perhaps you return for your fruit to see that it has been gobbled up, and what hasn't has been infested. You need to use repellants to keep pests away (meditation). And nurture the plants.
That is all you need to know, really. Anything you want to do will be accomplished this way, starting as a seed (idea) and growing to a plant that we sustain (practice/worship) until it bears fruit (the end result). This process applies across the interdisciplinary spectrum regardless of whether you want to build an new rat trap, or want to change a behavior, or want to do magic and spells, or solve a math problem. The practices related in the Indian scriptures are there because they are known to work, whether for reasons given or not, but the essence remains the same: a fertile mind, an idea, nurturing that idea (through actions and affirmations), fruiting (the results). In this way, two people can sit side by side, one in heaven and the other in hell. Yet both, here and now.
Because: all we're given to work with here is our own little plot of land. Everyone else has their plot of land, too. All our plots of land, actually, are next to each other. We only have these thin wire fences to tell them apart, and occasionally, things from an adjacent field spill over into your field. It happens. If you leave it be, whatever spilled over will grow. Not always a bad thing. But something to keep in mind.
Also, in the almost any literature that deals with the concept of "Enlightenment" you'll come across a phrase like "Don't lust aver the results" or "Lust not for the Fruits". The reason for this is simple. If you spend all your time while gardening thinking about the fruits and how tasty they're going to be, you overlook those thistle weeds about to choke your prized plants, or carelessly mismanage your resources and malnourish your plants. If you spend all your time being angry at the weeds and bad plants your have to excavate before you begin planting, it's harder to get yourself to just get up and do it. Then you get depressed that you didn't do it, and try even less. See? Because you'replanting those seeds. So, really, it's a reminder to be patient, but vigilant.
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Let me cover a few of the finer points about performing Karma Yoga, or Selfless Action. In the Bagavad Gita, Krishna talks about this extensively. The object in this practice is to perform the act of kindness for the sake of the act itself, for the joy in and of itself. You shouldn't be wanting praise, or recognition, even from yourself. That means no pat on the back, no rewarding yourself for doing this deed.
You also don't want to think about how it's going to effect the person who benefits from it. You could, I mean- it's not wrong, it's just something that easily leads into patting yourself of the back. Instead, think about the act itself. Think, "I am causing this action to happen. I am doing this action. This action is happening." Because, that's one of the first things that Karma Yoga will teach you. You lust after the fruit of the action, you get ahead of the game and botch the crop.
I feel this is the coded essence of the Christian Trinity. In Hinduism, the equivalent would be Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Or, the qualities of Nature, the gunas, Restlessness (Rajas), Inertia (Tamas) and Balance (Sattva). As you perform the action of kindness, think about this Trinity: there is the Father, the origin or generator; there is Son, or the expression of this generation, or generosity; there is the Spirit, the act of generating. Just as in knowing something, there is the Knower, the Known and the Knowing. Separate, but one.
If you have to feel something while performing this experiment, then feel happy. Then, at least, what you generate will be happiness for someone else. But the point is that it is an experiment. Don't have an expectation. Instead, let the seed grow and witness the outcome. That doesn't mean stand around and watch the person get their kindness. You're not really helping another person by doing this experiment, just being nice. The person you're really helping by doing this is yourself.
It's a paradox, that way. The exercise is ultimately to help you, but you can't do it to make yourself feel better, or it doesn't work the same way. In fact, it doesn't work right if you even have an expectation of an outcome. Let it be.
It's not uncommon to think that karma is the following:
Cause and Effect (of actions)
The Universe's reward system
The Secretâ„¢
Cause andEffect
The literal meaning of Karma in Sanskrit is "action", or "change". In the Vedic conception of Karma this is actually what it means, so calling it 'cause and effect' isn't reallywrong. But in our habituated thinking, we have a tendency to see somethingimmediately beforeanother and assume a causal relationship for no reason whatsoever. Understanding that "Karma" is a "process of cause and effect" is useless if you don't knowwhatcause and effect really are.
The Universal Reward System
Okay, so people don'tactuallycall it that, but they treat it that way. "I've done this thing that I believe to be bad, and so now, to make up for it, I will do this good thing." That's the more accurate way to state it, but it's simpler to call it what it is: Hedonic Calculus. There is no tally system in Karma, it's not something that you can work out that way.
For the same reason as Cause and Effect, this isn't how Karma works. These ideas are based on information that hasn't processed correctly.
If I were to liken Karma to a single Western Idea, it would be Plato'stelos. His analogy for telos was an acorn- the telos of the acorn was an Oak tree. Telos is full actualization, from the creation of an acorn, to the germination, the sprouting, growing, reaching maturity and bearing more acorns. That's what Karma is. You simply canthinksomething, and it happens. Maybe not immediately, and thinking it isn't the only part of it, but in fact you plant this sort of seed every time youdothink something.
So, in that sense, Plato was thinking rather small, because his idea of Telos was just the full actualization of a single person, a unit. Really, though, your whole mind is a garden of these acorns, and thistles, and rose bulbs and a thousand other seeds with other telos, or Karma, and they will develop into something you see one day. They are nurtured by you, because you tend your own garden. You can tend a beautiful garden, or you can let it grow wild- either way, it's going to grow. Your thoughts will build into ideas. Ideas will gestate in your mind until they turn into behaviors. Behaviors, and attitudes, will effect the way you see the world, how you react to the world, and most importantly (for you) how the world interacts with you. Eventually, the thought-seed turns into life-fruit. If your fruit sucks, well- it's all there is to eat. Not much you can do about it when you're hungry.
All you can do in that sense is take it like a champ. It will pass, this is life (unless you've incurable cancer, in which case, my apologies). All you can do is make the conscious effort, now, to have a beautiful garden. That's your first seed. Then you have to consciously decide to stop nurturing the bad seeds you've planted- that means changing your behaviors, so that you can work on your ideas. Hatha Yoga (Asanas, the exercise kind) does some of this, but Karma Yoga is really the way to get to know how the real cause and effect thing works. It's much different than our typical linear thinking. Karma Yoga, literally, means "joining cause and effect"- you do this by "acting in union" with the whole of existence.
Or, more practically, you preform selfless actions, with detachment. I say "selfless"and"detachment" because a lot of the time, we do nice things for other people to feel better about ourselves, and that's not what this is about. That's not Karma. You do selfless actions because other people benefit from them, that is all. Because that is the proper action. Don't think that you have to dive in headlong if this behavior isn't typical for you. Here's a practical exercise:
Take an index card or something similar, and write a short note on it. Write "Someone did something nice for you. Pass it on." Now, carry that card with you through your day. At some point, someone might need some help- a little short in the coffee shop, flat tire, misplaced news paper, or a billion other things. It will be something that you, personally, will be able to cover- not necessarily involving money, but at some point- today, or tomorrow, this will happen. It's not that the opportunity was created, you're just looking for it now. And then you do your nice deed, as anonymously as possible, and leave the note for the recipient.
After you do that, take a moment to reflect and observe how you feel, what you were thinking. Intensely obverse all and any thoughts and feelings surrounding the experience. Write this down if possible. Recall the experience later that day, or the next day and compare the differences. It's normal to feel good about doing something nice for someone. The trouble is in doing it for the result of feeling good about yourself. That's like pissing all over your prized Gardinias.
Repeat this experiment often.
☼ Gesturing Infinity ☼
Because, well, calling me a Hindu would probably be offensive, because I'm not, really. But Indian philosophy, what I know of it, is rather interesting. Of course, by Indian philosophy, I mean things like the Bagavad Gita, the Vedas, and the various myriad of Sutras on Yoga, Kundalini, Tantra, Weird Esoteric Shit Most Hippies Only Talk About To Sound Deep And Pick Up Chicks With... that sort of thing. But one problem with a lot of it is that in our modern culture, especially here in Amurrica, these ideas are too aloof and weird to digest. So I want to make it easy to pass, like those Lunchablesâ„¢ that we all gobbled up as kids. One of the ways I'm going to do that is by taking modern, accessible ideas and relating them to these almost ancient ideas to, hopefully, provide a clearer context for most people that either aren't familiar with them, or have a hard time understanding these ideas. I'll start simply.
Let's start to get a general feel for the mentality before we Jump into source texts and start splitting hairs about context and meaning. I think the Bagavad Gita is really the essence of Indian Philosophy and their spiritual way of thinking. "Bagavad Gita" [bug-uh-vud ☼ GEE-tuh] literally means the "Song of God" in Sanskrit. This has a few meanings to it: Firstly, it is a conversation between two friends on the battlefield, before the start of a war. When Arjuna begins to falter before the battle starts, Krishna reveals himself as the source of all existence and counsels his friend Arjuna. So, it is the song of God, in that sense. But as the conversation unravels, and Krishna explains more and more to Arjuna, we find that Krishna is really just a vessel for this source. "The true essence of God creates all things, is all things and is also all things that are not," He tells Arjuna, "And so you are God just as I am." So in another sense, the book itself is the Song of God, a melody that reminds the listener that he or she is actually God, having a physical experience.
"Woah, dude. Pass the bong."
Well, that's the really heavy stuff, there. See, Hinduism is usually seen as this crazy religion that thinks there's thousands and thousands of Gods, and in many ways they do believe this, but there's also an aspect that there is only one Everything, and that's what "God" is- and more. God is quite possibly the worst name imaginable for it, though. And terms like "Source" and "Ultimate Reality" leave a grimy, New-Age taste in my mouth after saying them. An Indian saint was once asked what God is, and he replied, "Neti, neti!" (Not that, not that!)
Arjuna is quite taken aback by this, like most people would be, and shoots Krishna a quick, "Nigga' what?" Krishna goes on in length, then, about the nature of God and how to reach Union with it. Basically, he says: "It's already there, there's nothing really to add to make it come out, only stuff you've already added that needs to be taken away."
"Can you say, 'Brain Washing'?"
There's a lot of talk in the Gita about Yoga, and so it helps here to know what Yoga actually is. It's most common to be thinking of Yoga as a form of exercise and stretch routine that purportedly makes people calmer, more serene. Well, that is a yoga- Asana Yoga- but there are at least seven other types. I won't get into them all right now, but it's enough to know that "Yoga" means "Union" and is the ultimate source of our English word "Yoke" (something you put on Oxen to plow a field).
This Yoga has all kinds of connotations and applications regarding it, and to appreciate it, we need to know a bit more about how the concept of reality works in the Gita, and most Indian scriptures. We have the physical realm, created by Nature (Prakriti), which is our bodies, our planet, the Universe and the four forces of nature. Anything involving atoms is here. At a finer level, we have what pagans would call the "Astral Plane" (Akasha), where spiritual energies operate. This would be where the tinyGods (Devas) from mythology reside. The Hindus have their own Mythology, but the idea is that the gods of all cultures are present here, often called by different names in different times and places. At a level even finer than that, you have something you could call the "First Manifestation". This is the first point at which anything could be said to exist. Then, there's something beyond that- something beyond an ability to even imagine. "God" is all of these, combined. It's noteworthy to consider that only at the physical level is Time an applicable concept.
"No Ego- not a drop. No, sir-ee!"
Then, below all these ideas is the world of Illusion (Maya). What is meant by Illusion is our constructs and projections upon the world. What is the thing you are reading this on? Some kind of a computer, right? Well, it's not. What a thing is it will always be, for a thing only is what ittrulyis.
"What the shit does that mean?"
Smash your computer. Is it still a computer? No. It's a heaping pile of capacitors and transistor chips and other bits. But even those bits, once smashed, aren't even what we call them. What they really are, what we should recognize in them, is what is constant, unchanging. Maya is the illusion that this thing is a computer, simply because we use it as such.
All these levels of reality are very intimately connected. They aren't like alternate dimensions that you have to travel to, either by science or magic. In fact, you could look at them as fractal representations of each other. By practicing the Physical Yogas, Uniting yourself with the Universe, literally yoking yourself to the movements of existence, you synchronize these higher levels of existence as well. By performing Mental Yogas (meditations and study, or just intense observation), you synchronize those aspects in the higher levels. And you keep on reorganizing until there's a clear path to "God".
"Fine. Use whatever hippy term suits your agenda."
What about all those Indian Gods? Shiva? Ganesh? Kama? Etcetera? They exist in some sense. My thoughts are that Maya (our artificial conceptual world) and Akasha (our "spiritual" level of existence), while separate, interpret this Source as various aspects that are easier to contemplate, to manage, and then project them into a sort of collective-conscious space where they really do exist. This isn't much of a problem in Indian thought, since even the most unenlightened person is ultimately a manifestation of God. Of course, there are some Hindus that believe in the literal gods, but there are others, still, that only appear to believe in them. It's perfectly acceptable, according to the Gita, to accept that a limited mind can't think of the unlimited and use a representation that is itself limited. How else would you even begin to contemplate God without it? So there's some reason for the confusion of someone unfamiliar with Indian thought looking in from the outside.
"Getchyer spiritual loopholes! 3 for five, 10 a dozen!"
There's some severely technical stuff regarding further examination, especially when we start talking about the idea of the Energetic Body- through which the energy centers and pathways used in things like Acupuncture are laid out. In future installments, I intend on covering a wide array of these topics. You might think a lot of it is bullshit. You might be a True Believerâ„¢.
I can say that these systems of thought make sense to me, and that the philosophical practices I've adopted from them seem to work well. Again, I'm more of a Hindon't than a Hindu. I make no claims to being some ultra-enlightened guru whose every word you should hinge on. But if you think this stuff is bullshit, then test it. I'll include "Meat and Potato" style experiments/exercises in upcoming posts of the same name that anyone can try. But you have to earnestly leave your preconceptions at the door or you botch the experiment and misinterpret the results.
Until the next sunrise,
☼ Gesturing Infinity ☼
