Strap in, my strangelings. We’re going fast, far… and deep!

‘George’, ‘Cornfed’ and I traverse the impossible once more, in the progeny of the meetings that were, initially, organized by ‘Lord Hugh’, with the ostensible purpose of producing ‘a cult’, whose motivations were as revolutionary as they were enlightening. Hugh was a strange and conflicted creature, whose intelligence and charisma belied his profound vulnerability.

We begin with discussions orbiting the idea of ‘preserving the manifold’ of relational intimacy — by resisting the draw of sexual or coupling engagement, and how this peculiar awareness leads to the development of other forms of intimacy and mutuality. We discuss the psyche’s erotic structures that are developed as we undergo our personal developmental arc, and how these ‘fairy tale’ scripts (life scripts in TA) arise and become habitual.

We then speak of the tendency of our ‘culture’ (actually: anti-culture) to ‘capture, weaponize and sell back to us’ representations of all that it evacuates from our lives and experience, such that, in the resulting vacuum, we will actively seek the strange cultural and behavioral accoutrements that swarm around us instead of re-establishing healthy and humanly nourishing activities and intimacies.

We speak of the two triangles ‘Ambiguity / Vigilance / Prediction’ and the Drama Triangle — Victim / Persecutor / Rescuer, and how these will tend to capture and organize our experience and emotions due to the fact of our severance from common communal ‘sharing’ of the former, and mediation of the latter, such that each of us must effectively ‘bear the full burden’ largely alone.

From there we explore alternate ontologies of form, Origin, »time, existence and relation, drawing from George’s genius around these matters and my own ‘Dandelion’ model.