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 »

Now that we’ve fortified you by sending off your often querulous and carping Inner Perfectionist for some Fiji & grog R&R, we’ll declare that you will have enough self-humor to take on the Naming Game.

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I love this Naming Game at which I still always abysmally fail. It’s endlessly intriguing, challenging, humbling, and thrilling.   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.)

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

Amongst our premises are that we have a myriad of dreams we inhabit. For practical and beginning purposes we have rem real, the night dreams of whatever vividness, and day real, the more-or-less agreed upon masterpiece of reality engineering that we blandly call ordinary life.

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By practicing a deft, sustainable attention, a fluid ‘zone,’ we can learn to allow all our experience to become peak, fascinating.   more »

Clee Fanger was the most renowned intergalactic reporter in the InterInfinitys. A rabid and unabashable antitheist, she reported with a pietydar of unrhomboided keenness.

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Her perspicacity was sweatless, elegant, earnest, and ineluctable. She had a tantalizing gossip column with frequent breaking tids on string theory and dark matter, the 90% of stuff that has got to be there but about which they know the Big Nada.   more »

After the appalled derisions With which we watched The Decider’s decisions, At last this year we surface from the Sea of Fear Utterly playful again, like besotted otters; “Hoppy Holidays, as a frog might say,” I scribble daffily, Drunk sans liquor with glee,

                                            ask, andy goldsworthy

Ah, ahhh, we can tell stupid jokes again, verily.    more »

My dear Colin Wilson, a brilliant surveyor of human possibility, often speaks of the exhilarating ‘hawk’s eye view’ which liberates us to our purposeful strengths. For myself, I have settled upon the Lapidary View. I like to treat everything as if it were a jewel. Or rather more shockedly, sudden, surprised – everything as geode.

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The first time I saw a geode, I fainted. The idea that in that apparently dreary rock gleamed this staggering dazzle of crystals like a cave a wizard must live in goaded my heart and brain to permanent agog. I knew at once that the geode was one of these ravishing runes the multiverse loves to spring on you. “Dja get it? Did you get it?” Well, it’d be tough to miss the delectable pagan message of the burning geode. “Everything is jeweled inside, dumbbell, if you crack it open and notice.”    more »

How did I latch on to something that wasn’t there? How did it drive my days for a lifetime? Why was I so sure of the whole scene, the whole meaning? The scene isn’t there either. The meaning of dawning coal-to-diamond intensity was lurking there, but not this one sere precious leaf igniting and accompanying a lonely eternity.

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The marrow devotion, the doggéd daily optimism, were not there. The knight for light under all circumstance wasn’t there.
How much of the rest of my life didn’t happen?   more »

pogblog's Glossary amplifies pogblog's fierce & droll vocabulary -- both the coined or invented stuff & the nifty and nefarious words you may not have discovered yet; for people who love words as much as mangoes or a great forward pass or an icepick in Mr. Cheney's eye; or for the just plain baffled .. . . includes: amethyst; aleph; assonance; blogovel; blood-dimmed tide; Blue/Bleu; cf; chatoyant; clint; clive/full; crapaud; Digrif; e=mc2; eclectic; enfers sanglant; filigree; frabjous joy;

                                                                andy goldsworthy

frisson; full clive; funes; gallynipper; gateau; grb gamma ray burst; grok; gwatwareg; hasyasattva; hoi polloi; karlsputin rove; lq/lizard quotient; masochists; maw; meme; mobbal; multiverse/many-poem place; nada; obsidian humor; oneiro; passive belligerence; pinguid; pog; polyglot; reagan's law; riro/reptile in reptile out; spooner; spiteful puffadder; stynking synnes vile; sursurly; third base; toot doot; tzolkin; vouchsafe; vrai; wmd brain; wolfofwolfs & so4th; .. .. ..   more »

Dlareme is the galactic name for the Sol planet Earth, Tierra, Vuravura, Pamint, Aarde, Zeme, Toka, Ddaear, Daidig, Zemlja, Jeegoo.

.. ..In this particular Dlareme masterpiece, all these "fine isolated verisimilitudes" are notes played on your enchanted piano of material awareness with a holdable treasureness that no other degree of K (persistent kinesthetic) can invoke so sweetly or terribly or completely. .. ..   more »

If sentimentality – or as the Brits would have it with ever so slightly raised eyebrow, “How wet . . .” – if sentimentality is false feeling, derivative feeling, canned feeling, bland feeling, or even rabid feeling of herds, then there is also a slippery slope of anti-sentimentality which can become yet uglier because the dry one-who-feels should have wit and sense enough to know better: cynicism .. .. ..   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 »

We’re all intestine-casings, nada mas, nada menos – ICs, that’s we. Fancyish perhaps, but intestine-casings nonetheless. So there’s not so much to get huffed up + puffed up about. Intestine Cases, crawling, winging, galloping, strolling, hopping, slinking, finning, tangoing – it’s all a fancy dress ball for the kissable, &, for most, the not-so-kissable ends of the churning, peristalsizing digestive tract .. ..    more »

Instinct is like salt, cinnamon, or cilantro -- damned tasty and essential, but you can't live on it. Listen, sure, but consider before you heed. Most people are afraid of any instinct because it can have embarrassed them or impoverished them or made them join patriotic or religious groups and kill people in the name of America or some such ghastliness. Keep your discernment. But if it passes the reasonably harmless test, do be swayed.    more »

"Spirit, mind, heart -- this is the trinity that people seek to comprehend, to tend, to organize. Then their life will be sweet, will be serene, will be complete. .. .. " Why is this not so?" Because of what no one can bear to attend to. Because of what seems �beneath us� as civilized persons. .. .. "Viscera. We ignore or disdain viscera to our implacable, even ferocious danger .. ..    more »

Part of the point is to do as much art as you can and stay hinged. The temptation is to dali or bosch and pterodactyl into the paisley skies of a benign madness. .. .. One of the rottenest and stupidest things is that people have attached success in art to frilthy lucre. Pifffle. Start your damn art today and be awful at it in the beginning. Bloody persevere. Eventually you get better. I think everyone should have an art that no one will ever see so they can just putter happily making mudpies in it and not worry what the spouse or the neighbor or any bloody anybody will say . .. .    more »

The reason I like to use the allegorical essay rather than the strictly formal and putatively rational essay is that there is a part of the mind to which you as a reader get access if there are story elements. It engages all four quadrants of your brain and the collective unconscious. It?s a way of giving philosophy its juice and its irony back. .. .. I read linear essays with admiration, but I always feel like I need to have better posture when I read them. As if I were having tea with the Queen. .. .. I happen to have always had an inclination to the sort of Celti-sci-fi version of allegory because it makes an end-run around the reason I?ve never been so much of a devotee of post-Faulkner American Literature: neurosis. .. .. Pieces set in the semi-quasi-future obviate neurosis because they aren?t worming over one?s narcissistic melancholies with as confessional or thinly veiled confessional modes .. .. .    more »

Writers are used to being in the hand of Fate. When you get your own voice for sure at last, it�s like being knighted. You never need doubt the holy voice again. Soon tho, you realize that you are really an amanuensis for Something Which Speaks. The Ego does not write. It receives, like a pagan communion, the elixir. You are alive in the runes, the 3D of your sentences as they unfurl, the sentiments into images, around you. It is the alchemy. .. .. But to trust this impulse in your own living story with its bank accounts and rain and culverts as well as the parrots� feathers is nothing if not risky. It�s being risqu� may well not make up for how risky it really is . .. .   more »

�Well,� said Profounder, �the young on Planet Paisley have watched the middle-aged and old capitulate to gigaGreed, gigaCreed, and methed theoMilitoPatriotism. Who stands up? Who hollers? Silence of the Sheep � Obedient Americans is the longest running reality show they�ve seen. Who needs the SS? Malls, mortgages, football, and petty political bickering on cable tv quell the masses just fine .. .. ...    more »

The Burning Child .. Shifting from the Military Industrial Complex ($820,000 per minute) to the Education Instructional Complex. .. ..Child, child burning bright in the forests of delight. Every child has the civil right to a superb education. We shift the $820,000 per minute over to a Manhattan Project of funding to provide an explosion of education in our nation. .. .. .. Always look back from Y3000. Imagine where we are as our better angels in Y3000. How do we get there? That�s what pogblog wants to challenge and cajole you to think about. Not why we can�t. Because we do. So how do we get to the constructive, fruitful world? .. .. ..   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 »

Oh but Ace, I wanted to remark on the travails and trawoes of that creep Karl. If you don�t get him, we will. We just slap the Empathy SlashVolter into his brain and turn on the rerun of his life. Aw, it�s great. He feels everything the folks he villainized felt, but just slightly slowed down so the molecular drip of the shame and agony plays its full neuronic amplitude through his sullied synapses. No compartmentalizing here. Karl cannot partition off his lousehood in the full Quark Activation of the Empathy SlashVolter. The villainized get to download all their distilled dismay into his circuits. Fair is fair. He can�t run; he can�t hide. The Truth Dawg has got a perfect nose. And nothin� is hid from the Record. Every gasp of joy and wonder is recorded on the Akashic Vinyl, and every putrid moment. Ole Karl has to re-eat his own vomit .. .. .    more »

Some day this times-juggling will be routine, it will be overt, not covert. Still, few enough will be expert at it, have the psychic circus athleticism, the mastery, the danceryness to careen or dervish, pirouette through the portals as they randomly appear. It requires a deft concentration & an hilarity of mind, the new spherical empirical, skidding, skating, scudding, there is rhyme in time, and season, but no reason .. .. .    more »

Here at 2:41am early Wednesday morning we don�t know what Mr. Fitz is going to do. The fate of the Pretty Planet is in unusual flux tonight under a Taurus full moon. Has hubris dented KarlBoy, the serial rapist of reputations? Going after people�s families is Karl�s lifelong ugly m.o. �Cross me and you really pay.� .. .. .. As we can�t we hear the astonishing furnaces of photosynthesis enchantingly alchemming sunlight into apples, we can't hear what plot Fat E is sending us from the future, though like the calm before the storm, we can feel that something this way comes .. .. ..    more »

In my experience of so many schools, they are afraid to have their kids' fingers in the socket of the universe. I know that kids have a right to a radiant, mischievous, surprising life and that such a life can be more or less sensible. .. .. Just like electrical engineering can be taught so you can get your house and town wired, radiance engineering can be taught so you can get your inner mansion lit. .. .. We use at best 10% of our on-board computer. Quantum Schools will shoot for 20%. Double the capacity to seamlessly handle experi-data -- the intoxication you mention as a foundational, steady state, the base rate, drunk without slurring or hangovers .. .. .    more »

"We have spent a lifetime perfecting our pernicious habits. If we could apply a modicum of that zeal and cunning to crafting positive addictions, we�d thrive, we�d soar, we�d gambol. .. .. .. Go on. Swallow radiance, guzzle radiance, snort radiance, shoot up radiance. Air should sear your soul; that you can breathe, that your eyes blink should shock you with glory and raw joy. Once pagan reverence has gotcha, once reverence is your modus operandi, once you�re hooked, you can just get on with living your life in a lively, passionate, sensible way. .. .. Once you get the balance point, you cannot unride the bicycle. Once you get the balance point, you cannot unswim. Once the black squiggles coalesce, crystallize, you cannot unread . .. .. .   more »

NEW .. What is up on this day when I�m about to step on a metaphysical landmine? .. .. . . I was simply wide-awake, sober, unstoned, normal. .. .. What makes it so rocking and shocking is its ordinaryess .. .. . If you�re not always deftly intent, the major & minor magics will pass you by .. .. .    more »