25.7.9 Water Goat Moons

Yang Derangement & The End of Summer (part 3)

Yang Derangement Syndrome and the Decline/End of Summer - part 3

Introduction

Some of you listening to this still think that I'm saying something that is religious, metaphysical or mythological. This is predicated on the idea that you are the most enlightened humans in all of history. That humans are an improvement on the dinosaurs, and that 21st century humans are improvements on. for example, 10th century humans.

This premise – the post-modern, science-as-religion, western colonial paradigm – is a mythology, but a mythology that you believe is "real", and that everything you hear or think must be tested against this "real" thing that has been decided upon. Arbitrarily, egotistically, pridefully, fearfully…

You believe and are told that life and time is a linear progression fantasy. A stairway or ladder to Heaven.

You can't see that your goalposts keep moving.

You will never ascend or transcend or level up. Ever.

There has never really been any development.

Nature, and Time, is a cyclical process.

The colonized mind that grasps for an escape velocity, that craves ascension, godhood, immortality… is an amplification of a primal fear response. It seeks a permanent end to pain, fear and hunger. It believes. It hopes. Hope and belief are both placeholders for sanity, when sanity is too terrifying to embrace.

It's here we must start and start again, over and over, to re-center nature, time, equanimity and cycles. It is here we must situate ourselves as reflection itself.

Especially as, post summer solstice, we are entering into the most dangerous, pernicious time of the year physiologically, bio-chemically, emotionally and energetically.

The qi quality in the time after summer solstice is indicative and exemplary of yang derangement syndrome.

The unwillingness and inability of yang to retire – consciously, self-reflectively, peacefully.

It is here we must root into the truth, expressed in nondual animism, of our shared malignancy. Our misconduct as a culture. Our delusion as a group body whose yang-deranged hunger can never be satisfied and so, consumes without thought, without relationality, without reciprocity.

Vampiric desires. Ghoulish addictions to power, to money, to sex, to pleasure, to being "right"… which always turn to ash in our mouths.

The hedonic treadmill is a slave camp.

The wheel of samsara is turned by our own aggressive ambition. Colonization, white supremacy, narcissistic maladaptation, cognitive bias, dogmatic belief, the urge to dominate and control, the compulsion to "be better", to become immortal.

The human condition.

There is no escape and no final cure. The wheel turns. Karma perpetuates. Desire mutates.

For millennia, since at least the neolithic stone age, human beings have struggled for philosophical insights into the links between survival (need) and aspiration (want).

As a species we have traveled and traversed far outside our original forest biomes, and in doing so have eaten the megafauna, turned forests into grasslands with controlled burns for our hunting and grazing grounds, overfished the rivers and lakes, mined the soil and mountains for precious ore to create tools, increased our caloric supply with sedentary agriculture, and created nation states to exploit labor on land to feed armies and a growing sedentary populace. In every era, there have always been diviners, oracles, shaman and animistic geomancers navigating and negotiating our push-pull relationship with Earth and Ancestors, with spirits incarnate and disincarnate.

Throughout this drive for more, only some have discovered the necessity and bounty of less.

That to cease with sufficiency is the greatest wisdom.

But what then is sufficiency? And do we know how to cease?

This is the pivot on which we find ourselves at the end of summer.

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