Remember Oedipus

We are born ‘seeing’ a domain ‘similar to color’ within. With inner eyes. In this domain, ‘color’ is equivalent to ‘impossibly advanced intelligence assets’ whose form and character lie »outside all possibilities of representation or direct analysis. The fire in the eyes of infants is of this origin. The nature of the intelligence is emoto-relational. It is transpersonal, and it »sees into time.

The faculties involved are not properly finished, or even finished emerging as new potentials. They are not ‘distinct faculties’ in the way we might imagine, either. Instead they represent an entire array of accessible developmental potentials. This is why ‘children are so imaginative’, and adults, most of them, are comparatively dead in this domain. What happens as we learn representational cognition is that the new faculties dominate, inhibit, silence, and otherwise co-opt the remnants of the other mode. The process that would expose, nourish and develop the originary faculties and their potentials is overwhelmed. Usually permanently.

And we become not only blind, but habitually blind, in the domain where something like an emoto-relational intelligence … was just getting started. The legends of this intelligence are the roots of our religions, and our ‘messiahs’ were ‘little more than men or women who rediscovered, became, and pointed to this fact’. We have been blinded in the primary domains of being and intelligence, in order to ‘see very objectively’ in the simulation domains of language, concept, formal identity and knowledge. This brings me to my topic’s pivot:

As we are blind in the first and crucial domain, the place where true intelligence and perhaps divinity are accessibly alive within and around us, and we have a prosthesis that we use to see and think, name and evaluate, which is »absolutely blind and blinding, we cannot imagine that this method will be able to resolve it’s own intrusion and dominance. Simply: there are no words or language that will help us. Thinking is the wrong direction. Concepts? Wrong direction.

The »only thing that will be of any use whatsoever is the recovery of the original assets and their developmental sequelae. So when people ‘pray’, they are doing the opposite of what they think they are doing. They are actually forcing the process that shut down their intelligence (and access to the divine) to become the process with which they think they are reaching for the answer: they pray for things they »think. This is insane.

The »only possible thing to pray for is »seeing. For if you cannot see »the spirit and nature of the situation, how could you possibly know what to pray for? We ‘think’ we know what is good, right, true, preferable and so on. But we are blind people talking about color »we absolutely have no memory of and cannot see. ‘Praying’ is useless if you are completely disconnected from the whole domain of insight, profound mutuality, communion and wonder. So when I ‘pray’, I pray to be made able to see in the old and true ways. And bluntly, theses are »nothing like the suggestions of science, religion, thought or concept. They are, however, like the hearts and spirit of my own root, and in this root there lives something that is at once alike with and beyond… an immortal child.

I prithee learn to see your own blindness. Better, every time you use your eyes. And if you must pray, let your praying be thusly oriented. Not to thoughts, desires, fictions or concepts. To insight, true and unimpeachable. Of the species that exceeds its previous modes and capacities in every encounter. Pray for the return of the wings your soul was born with, and their true and communal celebration.