Intra-realms study can strand you in twilight elfin grottos if you aren’t alert and grounded and re-grounded in K1. Just like the slippery delusion of Romance, the archetypal worlds can be damned seductive and dangerous.

                       flat earth woodcut unknown artist

Cleave to common sense and Keep your discernment. Then you can be enriched and enlivened. Huge quaffs of Irony-laced Humortinis are required. It is my belief and experience that conscious travel in Otro, in other realms, from Fantasy to Dream to Poesie is healthier and heartier than sly or slimy forays half-known. If you find yourself feeling off-balance or your physical vision blurring (a sign of too much trance work), back out into as much fascination with K1 AllElse as you can imbibe. There are reasons these matters have been kept occult for centuries. They aren’t without considerable danger. I am convinced that in the long run people are healthier dealing out loud with whispered matters and can take the elixirs of honey and of venom if trusted to Keep their darn feet – and head! -- on the ground. If, however, you go lurching off into LoonLand, you’ll just get all the nambypambys tuttutting and breathing fire about pagans and witches. Which is piffle of course, but stay smart as we begin our travels further afield.   more »

“The study of meaning is more pertinent and poignant than the study of reality. The Eskimos, for instance, discriminate twenty-six words worth of snow variations or escapades of crystalline water. The Eskimo dialogue with snow is more complex in hues and shapes of meaning than ours, though the presenting reality through which you and I also scrunch is doubtless the same.”

                     alice munman

Bunga Low was the favorite daughter of the famous fin-de-siècle low-cost housing architects Pavi Lion and Ken Nel. In the new century Bunga was being interviewed for the cover story of Galactic Gazette, a fiercely progressive rag. Bunga was transfixed by the architecture of consciousness -- How do you get people to fling open their doors and windows to the zephyrs of awe?"   more »

What part does art play in solving the quantum equations of the next human leap into a kinder destiny? .. Art is as important as air in this glory of attentions, your life. Art is the brandy of attentions, distilled, golden, intoxicating. Among Dr. Druid’s subversive and blatant goals is the inoculation of your heart with art, with the haunting, daunting necessity of art.

                anthony mccall

Art ain’t a luxury, for other people. I’m not saying artists cannot be belligerent morons who monger war and gigagreed, but 99% of art is a start away from being willing to do killing. Art can soak up & transmogrify the energies people otherwise insanely use to hate and to obliterate. .. As Lord Byron would have it, “We thus dilate our spirits to the size of what we contemplate.”    more »

Hmmm, I thought, Why not in some random periodicity, nimbly (imagine an sure-footed mountain goat on a steep hillside) improvise some commentarying on these 77 qualities of mischievous swift gladness, a non-creed, anti-creed, post-creed commentary? How droll and perhaps even glittering, sequined for all we know.

                                    paul klee

Since our babbling-brook stream of consciousness sometimes has the attention span of a firefly, relishes small delightful illuminations, this forty-day gig on a single quality ain’t on per se, but I thought I’d leave the timing in the legerdemains of the Greatest Deity Drolloa.    more »

So what do you want in a photonic scientist, psyentist, or knower? I would say that an affection for the abzurd is handy.

                                                       harry tjutuna

And especially useful is dear Keats’ Negative Capability: “ . . . which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason -- Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge . . . .”    more »

Itshehimwe doesn’t have a sexual orientation per se. Itshehimwe has an inclusive lust, an encompassing tenderness. Itshehimwe covets the stark vast beauty and ache of the distance between the stars.

                                                             craig allan charles

The stoicism, the chaste patience of the desert rock outcroppings. The gorgeous violence of coupling horses. The strut, the rut. The sheer celebration and might of the oak tree’s offering its vast leafiness to the sapphire sky. The oak tree, master conjurer, turns dirt and water into bark, magnificence, elixir sap, and all those leaves.    more »

When I first found out, I didn’t want to be from another planet. It’s like finding out you’re adopted. It’s disorienting. Like after your first major earthquake, you never feel the same simple sureness again.

                                              miro

Obviously when people ask you where you’re from, you say, "The Eastern Shore of Maryland." Saying "I’m from Bylar, a planet of intricate beauty where all sentience is irrevocably lost" is not an ice-breaker in the earth-based social swirl.   more »

We've been practicing the scales of attentions and eclectics. We want to give you both techniques & tricks and the demonstrations of attentions being discovered.

                                        songlines prince of wales

I plan to share my experiences of the blossoming of the eclectic for me so you can get a sense of how these extraordinary experiences mysteriously and magically appear within the ‘ordinary’ day. I honor folk who spend decades in a cave devoted to exquisite experience, but my job and the druid way of life is to cajole and exhort you to the constant extraordinary within the daily life.   more »

Amethyst key. Ah Dreams. The octessential grok here, the amethyst key, is that for druid shamans (as often women as men) our day life, the dayreal, is just as much a dream as our remreal -- our sleeping dreams or other lucid visions.

                                                    emily kame kngwarreye

There’s this silly myth, by the way, that the druids disappeared. Nah, we just changed our camouflage, took a shift from our darling deep-rooted oaks to being titwhistles and unicorns, invisible in plain sight. More mobile. The true observer empathetically shapeshifts into everyeachthing s/he observes.   more »

Yes, levitation is fun. The first time it happened to me, I was definitely er-uh-gulp disconcerted though.

                                                    prairienet,org

I had been asleep on a mattress on the floor of a cabin in Ripton, Vermont where Robert Frost lived late in his life. I was alone in the cabin. It was a summer afternoon about 37 years ago. I was sprawled on my stomach in a tee-shirt and shorts, barefoot. I heard a man’s voice as if deep in my head say, “Don’t worry,” as the whole darn mattress and I began to rise off the floor.    more »

One of the glories of our beloved Earth Dream is the suddenness with which a lifechanging learning can occur to you – the apple falling on your Newton head. Thus it was when I learned that attention is a thing.

                       goldsworthy, goodwood

First, a few new tidbits to pack for the jaunt to Attentionland. Frolic is my pure-essence-of-creation’s-wonders tiny, silver Burmese cat. Then we need to recall the amoeba and the pseudopod. Remember that a paramecium is the oval-shaped single-cell protozoa with many little hairs sticking out of its sides which act as oars to busily propel it through the water. It is a sensible, orderly tiny creature. The dear single-celled amoeba on the other hand looks like a small splat, a spill, a little puddle. It moves by oozing a portion of its inner gluck into a pseudopod or false foot towards which it glides. So now we have the main characters for the little drama which taught me one of the great secrets of the universe.    more »

My relationship to manypoem, the multiverse, is mostly mischievous, often sublimely, supernally silly, sometimes deeply sweet, seldom solemn.

                       mountlehmanllamas

So, most of my messages are tinct with Vitamin I (Vitamin Irony) and are what they called a few centuries ago: joaks. More than instruction or prophetic nudges, they tend to be hilarious or tender tonics. A quick swill of psychic brandy to brighten the tasks at hand. It is the intersection of the seemingly external event with your own train of thought and feeling that gives synchronicity its bullseye startling feel.    more »

Another lifelong attention & visualization tuning and honing exercise is spelling backwards.

                                           thomas hawk

Many people insist they ‘can’t visualize anything.’ This isn’t true, of course, but, gee, they are convinced. (Ask them to tell you how to get to their house or how many chairs they have in their living room.) To understand how I came up with this spelling backwards trick, let me tell you a glimpse about NLP. NLP is one of the cleverest and clearest templates of how the mind works, but it has this silly enormous rhinocerously cumbersome name: Neuro-Linguistic Programming.   more »

So what have we begun to learn so far in our introduction to the alchemy mind? We’ve begun to imagine the infinite optimism of deft attention, the treasure hunt of eclectically finding that everything is interesting.

                 spot,colorado,edu

We’ve begun to grok (drink in deeply) the understanding that we’ll be increasing the voltage of interesting to fascinating throughout our 66-Day apprentice druid adventure.   more »

It’s time to get you going on a journal. You may already keep a journal, but having kept a journal continuously for over 30 years, I’ll tell you my details and you can refine what you do or begin anew as the case may be.

                              andy goldsworthy

I have only two agreements with myself. I will write the full date and something every day. I may write, “I’m too beat to write.” In truth, with that allowed, I have almost never written that sentence. I may write a paragraph or pages, but I have kept faith with the Muse. It is the fact of keeping faith that matters to the Muse I think.    more »

Outsight will give you insight. Train your brain. The faceting and polishing of consciousness is infinitely interesting.

                            ovchamber,com palm

A principle of teaching is to chunk stuff down into pleasantly accomplishable pieces so you/I/any learner can have a lot of successes to build upon. Why then am I seemingly fiendishly going to give you a practice tomorrow at which you/I/any learner are guaranteed to spectacularly fail. How can something at which you’ll always fail be such a grail?   more »

A key, a lynchpin to the arts & sciences of fascinations is the simple grok of rem real and day real. In the modern West we are generally taught that day experience and day physics are the properly real and pretty much the possible rest of our experience is suspect. (The perfectly horrid Siggie Fraud single-Idedly ruined a century of dream study with his peculiar and pathological views of the dream realms.)

                                 orientalbirdimages, org

For the purposes of our Fascinations studies, I recommend attending to and appreciating rem real and day real seamlessly.   more »

An update on the Janie/Johnny DreamSeed Project. I outlined the idea of upping the active-ante of openly promoting lucid/active dreaming

while carrying my Dream Peace sign and otherwise being out & about. Here’s what I’ve gleaned so far. [Bringing up dreams to strangers; Prejudice against dreams; Dreams for the disabled; Ted Kennedy & training dream engineers; Your night at school; new handout card.] .. ..   more »

An Ancient DreamWays WorkShop with the wonderful Robert Moss, dream shaman. .. .. .. As the worlds get closer and the veils thin, fusion emissaries and translators will need to be trained –rather like fusion cooks – people who can use ingredients from different cultures. How to introduce ourselves to ourselves? The challenge isn’t the variety of photonic physikses, the multiplicity of physikses, but the variety of photonic ethics. Not the envelope-pushing unfamiliarity of pork sushi, not the vertigoes on the way to happy levitating and ebullient flight, but your beloved’s other cosmic mistresses and the different meanings of murder and of war, & so4th    more »

Once you have the first key which is simply beginning to remember as constantly as possible that you are immersed in a hololanguage, you can begin the deciphering and translation. The intimacy of all the dreams becomes astonishing (astonish = strike with thunder) when you increasingly realize that you are within the meaning. That extra radiance you inhabit when you are inspired or in the zone or delighted can be the floor state, the steady state – heck with peak experiences, have a peak life. .. ..   more »

Please, as you would ask your spouse, How was your day? -- in the morning, set your alarm 1/2 an hour early for a mutual muse and ask her/him How were your dreams last night? We are ineluctably involved in a larger, very multi-faceted consciousness & it's time for us learn all our capacities. .. .. Similarly you can ask your child at breakfast, How was your night at school? They are learning every night from a fabulous reservoir of cosmic experience, and if you attend to their TV & Books & Music, why aren't you attending to their Dreaming? (Tho, of course, they are unlikely to be 'kids' in their dreams!!)   more »

Why am I so nice, sensible, strategic? It’s driving me nuts. .. .. I had the dream with George Bush I told you about where OtherLand-I was so much more civil and diplomatic and, yes, wiser, than DayLand-I am about the loathsome Present Menaces. DayLand-I hate that odious-they are rapaciously aforethought stealing from pleasant dear ordinary people. (The mantra: $820,000 per minute/Military Budget; additional $200,000 per minute.) .. ..   more »

I’m interested in following my shapeshifting Perception Beast forth & back across the border from DayLand to OtherLand. I am a perception addict. The kaleidoscopic infinitude depends on being deftly intent all the time .. .. .   more »

I had a long dream in which I was being nice to George Bush. No, no, not biblically nice. We were alone in a rustic place. I was talking to him about the original simple palaver of radical Jesus before it got all hyped up with the poison of power. And most poignantly I was talking about Ho Chi Minh, the winning Vietnam general, saying, ?We live here. We would have fought you for 300 years.? Mr. Bush said, ?He said that?? .. .. ..   more »

The hope is to pry open your mind for the pearl of wisdoms and delights that you hide from yourself because you were brought up in a culture which never taught you about Dreaming in the way that it taught you about riding a bike or how to decipher these black squiggles on a page. Both worlds are actually your birthright ? an integration will make you happier, saner, and startlingly aware of your true equality in the cosmos. .. .. One of the immediate benefits of attending to your OtherLand experiences is the disappearing or radical diminishment of envy or feelings of deprivation. When you have such spectacular inner riches, you don?t fuss yourself about needing another Hummer. .. .. Another benefit is a quantum leap in humor. A pleasure in sloth and silliness. Below is a fierce confection for your Clown Mind .. .. .    more »

ISMG, the InnerSpace MindGym, was for people who found samuraiing a tad belligerent. All the disciplines and arts sought the Zone. The monk who illuminated the manuscript, the baseball player who had to concentrate but must not squeeze the bat too tight, the fencer on guard. The Zone. .. .. ISMG with a certain glee disdained 'peak experiences,' that treasure hunt of the previous century. Max had put his huge ruddy hooked nose up to the end of Sam's aquiline one and gazed owlishly at him, "Bloody hell, kid," he whispered, "I want a peak life."    more »

Lucid or elan or lively waking (& lucid or elan or lively dreaming, sooth said) is all a matter of deft attention. .. .. Attention is a substance. Attention can travel amongst the intersecting spheres of densities. Monsieur Einstein fussed about his e=mc2 which holds up pretty well in K1, the semi-standard shared steady or fairly predictable and persistent solidity. But attention -- the attention point can travel jaguar-like thru the forests of the night and of de-light. A=ec8 .. .. ..    more »

The gigantic & glorious & terrifying planetary changes of the next six years or so will be a lot more, well, fun for you if you both frantically and serenely gobble down the glamorous and nifty tricks, slick & delicate & brazen, of interweaving lucid waking & lucid dreaming, amigo, amiga. .. .. In the juggling integration of lucid waking & lucid dreaming, the leitmotif epistemological or practical trick is being deftly intent. The following tidbits give you a gist of what deft grokkedly means .. .. .    more »

Fundamentalist Christianity is an anti-jesusian, virulent sidebar. The real 8000 lb gorilla in America is the Church of Militarism. To speak out against it is a burn-at-the-stake heresy-equivalent. They do you with the gatling gun and finish you off with a flamethrower.. Dare to suggest that 99% of military spending is a colossal waste of money and in come the bunker-busting bombs, soon to be nuclear for cruds sake .. ..?    more »

In my experience, K1 science is dog-like ? predictable, obedient. You can put a leash on it. Photonic matter or e=mc∞ or photonic mattergy is like a cat ? it purrs, it likes to be stroked, but obedient? Repeatable? ?HaHa! Nada, nunca. Never. There are patterns and fields one can discern and mention ? but the sensitivity and malleability and shapeshiftiness of the photonic mattergy, the holopaint,? makes and creates so sleekly and rapidly and rampantly that you can?t bottle it. ... You can, however, teach people to keep some of their wits about them while exploring and studying it. First, we?d have, in the West, to learn to honor play as much as work. Of things useless or criminally-insane-equivalent in PhotonicVille is the Protestant Work Ethic. We?d also have to recognize the flak of a huge and often appallingly puerile, sometimes enticing amount of raunch . .. .. .    more »