A Disturbing Experiment

I’m going to present the items of an experiment, here in reference to the Seven-to-Ten of Swords. These factors have no direct relation to the other ‘higher’ Sword-Numbers, which portray matters ‘above-and-beyond’ these simple points. The experiment and its results are “disturbing”, but the outline of events are very salient to comprehending the ‘lower’ Sword-Numbers.

   The 7 Swords
a) A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage and, in the middle, a ladder with bananas on the top.
b) Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water.
c) After a while, every time a monkey went up the ladder, the others beat up the one on the ladder.

       The 8 & 9 Swords
d) After some time, no monkey dare to go up the ladder regardless of the temptation.
e) Scientists then decided to substitute one of the monkeys. The 1st thing this new monkey did was to go up the ladder. Immediately the other monkeys beat him up.
f) After several beatings, the new member learned not to climb the ladder even though it never knew why.
g) A 2nd monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The 1st monkey participated on the beating of the 2nd monkey. A 3rd monkey was changed and the same was repeated (beating). The 4th was substituted and the beating was repeated and finally the 5th monkey was replaced.

    The 10 Swords
h) What was left was a group of 5 monkeys that even though never received a cold shower, continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.
x) Then the speculation:
If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they would beat up all those who attempted to go up the ladder….. I bet you the answer would be…. “I don’t know – that’s how things are done around here”
Does that sound familiar?
Why do we continue to do what we are doing if there is a different way out there.
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If it appears that I have ‘robbed’ these ‘lower’ Number Cards of any “spirituality”, then I was successful. In dealing with the Seven-to-Ten of any Suite, any so-called “spiritual” considerations must remain very auxiliary to the primary implication of the card’s appearance in a reading.

O-A-Hum
OPD

Desperate Planning

   

We humans (animals) tend to perceive structure (eye, ear, etc.), and from those, many tend to project from that a desire for some fantasy of “pattern”, and even further, the fantasy of “design”. Some passively accept this “design” model; but many others go further to then fantasize that there MUST BE A “DESIGNER”.

This Search-Desire for “A Designer” takes on many fascinating models, which unfortunately for many humans has produced the Fantasy of “A God”. Even my legacy-organization The Freemasons attempted a ‘renaming’ of that method by the term “The Grand Architect” — a desperate attempt to separate the “Great Designer” metaphor from the stupid ‘Control Freak’ monster they saw destroying the idea. But even they made a miss by clinging on to some ‘Grand Planner-Coordinator’ metaphor mixed in with some idea of centralized ‘control’.

Return to the ‘simplified’ method of ‘the’ YIN-YANG process: Enfolding & Unfolding. Sub-Atomic Processes enfold into Atomic Structure, and thereby unfold unto some ‘endurance’. Atomic Structure enfolds-combines into Molecular Structure, and thereby unfolds unto some further ‘endurance’ for those otherwise virtual sub-atomic ‘particles’. Molecules enfold into Cellular Structures, which even further unfold the ‘endurance’ of those very virtual sub-atomic ‘particles’ so deeply resident in the now growing complex structure. This “ladder” continues to cascade unto more complex structuring by serial enfoldings-combinations of the scale elements, and thus further unfolding of ‘endurance’.

Does this process describe “pattern”? Yes, according to our perception. Does this process describe “order” and/or “design”? Not necessarily ! The above described processes do not require any imaginary “Grand Planner”. Just because some “sentient being” perceives pattern and then projects a preconceived notion that such pattern MUST involve so-called “intelligent design”, is no proof of such a “Grand Planner”. It is simply proof of The Prover’s Obsession with their Model of Control. This all must, must, must make sense, yea?

This is where many make a miss in interpreting Atu III: The Empress. “She” is the Pure Happenings, which precede all considerations of the desperate attempts of all so-called ‘cognizant entities’ to make sense of the perceived patterns; and precedes the phase of Atu IV: The Emperor, who then attempts to configure his world as “Ruler” — ironically, “ruler” = “measurer”, “interpreter”. This newly-enthroned Emperor-of-one’s-own-empire MUST evaluate, coordinate, consolidate the vast array of otherwise non-sensical data into some semblance of order. The poor fool is now entirely dependant upon the ‘instructions-from-above’, to properly construct the empire.

This is here the danger of Atu V: The Hierophant. This figure has the awesome responsibility to properly instruct the Young Emperor on how to construct and conduct His Empire. If this figure-head has been poisoned with some Dæmon of Deception, the Young Emperor is now summarily cursed with the same poison, and the Empire is summarily distorted into that configuration. And this Hierophant does not get simple pass for ‘misunderstanding’. To achieve the Role of An Hierophant is not a light matter, and to bring poison to all the Young Emperors is HIGH CRIME. The simple Emperion of one’s own Empire is the business of that Emperor. Manipulation by the Hierophant deviant to the success of an Individual Empire, in favor of some Trans-Empire Poisonous Imagination is, again, High Crime in the Hierophantic Art.

All the “Priests of Plan” are Criminals, in the opinion of this ‘humble’ Mad Wizard. To promote the deception of any necessity for some “Grand Designer” to the Young Emperor desperately constructing one’s empire, is a direct violation of the time-honored Hierophantic Art. The tools of some ‘basic coordination’, and some hints at self-acceleration are the principal instruments — and then watchful instructions as the youngling stumbles.
And by the way, I would go so far to say that the Genuine Hierophants might be watchful of the Abberants who would poison the Young Emperors, and maybe take a blade to the necks of those Pretend Hierophants who would so joyously corrupt the Young Emperors into some Blind Allegiance with Their Dæmon. To be very clear — the “false path” is any ‘belief’ in some ‘Controlling Deity’.

O-A-Hum
OPD
originally published Sept. 4, 2010

A Revisit to The Book of TARO

[This was my second attempt to ‘objectify’ my comprehension of “the Tarot”. It appears as if I “dropped the ball” after Atu XIV; but rather, I was attempting to hone a presentation that dealt more immediately with the Adventure of A Developing Adept.]

Summer Solstice 2010

The Initial Partition
00 The Fool has taken the plunge into the previous Unknown — all previous programming does not quite synchronize with the “New Notions” suspected by the altered cognisance.
— there are some initial stages the poor fool must stumble through —

01 The Integral Part
The first genuine wonderings of “Why I AM Here-Now”.
Once you have given up the previous expectations, whether based only on your own as-developed substantial imaginations, or in combination with the substantial imaginations of those surrounding your initial psyche-somatic development, you are faced with a very-compromising impasse of deciding if you might want to ‘see-&-hear’ an indication that you ‘have’ a ‘unique path’, that is truly ‘all-your-own’.

02 The Integrated Wholistic System
The “warm hug” of ‘feeling’ some sense that “All Belong Together”.
If you actually achieve that sense of ‘unique path all-your-own’, then you risk sensing also the ‘all-your-not-own’. The fish sensing the water-current beyond its local position. That trans-local sensation does not yet ‘determine’ the following specifier factors — this is simply the “shock” of ‘wholism’.

03 Life
The Realm of Happening, of mere Re-Action.
Nature Happens. Many of us are taught to view these Happenings as somehow “magically, mysteriously planned” by some ‘controlling factor’ (a “magic hand” or some other non-sense). There is no need for a “God-Model” for all this Happening to occur. From the very ‘essential’ arisings of ‘may-be’ sub-atomic particles, they happen to exist long enough to combine into atomic structure; then those combine into meta-atomic structure; then those combine into molecular structure; then those combine into cellular structure … ! This comprehensive ‘ladder’ of constructive combinations apparently conduces to the ‘extension-of-existence’ of what ‘begins’ as Virtual Particles of Mass.”The Empress” represents that “invisible hand” ‘behind’ the construction of that ‘ladder’, for those who still imagine the “invisible hand” metaphor.For those who have truly ‘stepped off the cliff’, the “invisible hand” eventually disappears.

04 Effort
The First Realm of Make-Happen — the First Sense of Action.
Here is the first sense that something Different Must Happen. There is no ‘certainty’ associated with this stage, except that you must plant yourself firmly into the Focus of some Intended Action. You take the Throne of some Empire that you May Construct.

05 Aim
The Second Realm of Make-Happen — the First Sense of Construction.
There are those who have walked the path you look toward. Once you set into the Throne of Power, there are plenty of others who can provide many clues as to How You Might Accomplish. They are qualified, if you have ‘open eyes-and-ears’, to provide the rudiments for you to build your empire. They bring the ‘tools’ and some basic ‘instruction’. Then they leave the wanna-be Emperor to build the Empire. As the Emperor developes, the Teacher(s) of that Emperor are always available for consultation.

06 Orientation
The Third Realm of Make-Happen — the First Sense of Direction.
The Emperor has the ‘tools’ and ‘instructions’ by the Teacher(s) — they have given the Emperor the Arrow.
But they cannot instruct What Direction that Arrow must Go. Here is a horizon between the pre-construct and the post-construct of the developing Adept — the first necessity of the ‘student’ to take some ‘initial self-making’. The ceremonial tradition is to Bind and Hoodwink the Candidate walking fresh into “The Process”.
Only the ‘Individual’ can figure the Direction of the Aim.

The Second Partition of the TARO (07-14) is entirely involved with the Orientation of the Arrow-Aim.

07 Somatic Orientation
The Somatic Vehicle (The Body) ‘contains’ an ‘orienter’ which, because we stand ‘perpendicular’ to the ‘gravity well’, aims with the ‘parallels’ of the Planetary Matrix, and thus square to the Bio-Neural Column. ‘It’ behaves as a ‘torrent’ expanding bi-laterally from the “belly”-‘visceral center’ of the Body Structure, aligning this bio-physical Vehicle with its home-planet.

08 Psychetic Orientation
The Psychetic Vehicle (The Mind) ‘contains’ an ‘orienter’ which, because we stand ‘perpendicular’ to the ‘gravity well’, aims with any ‘perpendicular’ to the Planetary Matrix, and thus square to our Visceral Orientation. ‘It’ behaves as a ‘vortex’ contracting bi-longitudinally into the Bio-Neural Column of the Body Structure; contracting ‘from’ the vast Local Environment, unto contracting ‘further’ to ‘point’ to the focus of the immediate gravity well.

09 Focal Orientation
Once you become consonant with the Basic Planetary Navigation Dynamics, you might ‘feel’ that you are a Vortex of Purpose. This Personal Vortex is omnidirectional.

10 Local Orientation
As you ‘feel’ the Vortex of Purpose, you will ‘feel’ concurrently the Torrent of Context, also omnidirectional. Here occurs the personal awareness of One’s Participation in the Realm of Accident: to actually perceive how you re-actively participate in the Accidental Happenings of Nature-Dynamics. This is probably the hardest ‘slap-in-the-face’ to the evolving Adept. We like to imagine that we are ‘purposely acting’ in all our movements.

11 Desire Orientation
Here is the moment of transition from Just Happening to Actual Doing. Genuine Change is always born of some sense-of-frustration, catalyzing a ‘violent’ re-orientation. Here the Different Must Happen transforms into the Different Must Intentionally Occur.

12 Work Orientation
Now the genuine teachings of the genuine teachers take solid hold upon the ‘new’ Desire Orientation. The Adept generates the Conviction to Do Genuine Work. Here is Self-Generated Discipline: taking the instructed techniques and enfolding them into necessary exercises, for personal benefit. Here you become your own teacher — for now, thinking that personal teaching is the ‘be-all-end-all’ method — unsuspecting of the Path you have chosen.

Orientation is basically complete, and now follows the post-orientation traumas.

13 The Strip-Down
The techniques given to the evolving Adept, genuinely exercised, produce a ‘surprising’ result: That Which You Thought You Were is Utterly Destroyed ! Now you are entirely naked and exposed, and your sense is exposed to finding any-some recover.

14 The Re-Dressing
From some ‘mysterious avenue’, you are provided a New Suit. This is probably the most ‘dangerous’ period in the adventure. There are many ‘tailors’ waiting in the periphery to provide New Suits to the naked-and-exposed. Here is the danger in finding One’s “Holy Guardian Angel”. The Adept must be very watchful of the offering ‘tailors’. You must have “given yourself to the Beloved” to find the genuine “Re-Tailor”, or you will ‘re-dress’ into the suit of a trans-personal “usury entity”.

The Third Partition of the TARO (15-21) is involved with the Assimilation of That Arrow-Aim with the Concourse of All.

O-A-Hum
OPD
originally published June 19, 2010