"Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful businesses, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George the First for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King."
-The Riot Act (Effective 290 years ago to the day, July 20th, 2005)
No other enemy knows you like you know yourself. Those of us who are dumb enough to allow ourselves to be led by others most certainly deserve the kind of leadership we have. Those of us who are dumb enough to be led by our own freedom most certainly deserve the kind of freedom we have. Disbelieving in the illusion of the soul will not make consciousness go anywhere. Disbelieving in any gods doesn't do a damned thing about their hold over you. Denying demons gives them all the more power over you. Ignoring certain unmarketable hidden dimensions and valences of life doesn't do a damned thing about their reality. Using only half one's brain doesn't say anything about the half of existence that you have rejected. Regardless of what you choose to focus on or to believe in or to accept, there will always be things that slip under or through your radar undetected, because you think they should not be, and therefore insist that reality should conform to what you think. Caught in our prisons of logical mechanism and bewitching words, we deem things that are irrelevant to be the most prized. The things that are relevant are denied. Think about it. Is your life merely a run on sentence....a stream of your own consciousness without any will? Have you lapsed into that subtle and pernicious solipsism that denies its own quality of solipsism and insists that that way YOU see things is the way it is? (Instead of just accepting that the way you see things is....the way you see them?)
Are you still caught up in looking for truth or entertainment or beauty but yet see no need for you yourself to help contribute such things to other people? Are you saddened by something or other but are failing to see that the ground still supports your feet as you walk? Or are you angry and upset over something or other and yet fail to see that you have the means to do something about it and to skim across the jagged edges of that ground on the day it shatters? Chaos is about as blind and idiotic as we are because we are chaos. The multiverse is just as conscious as we are because all we know about it is the way we think and organize our perceptions about it. There are no blind forces anywhere. Quit trying to impersonate existence. You have many parts of selves and many selves through which you can truly live. The art of chaos is the balancing act of these multiple facets of selves that together make up who you are. A chaoist once said "Disorder is the chief cause of order, the opposite is also true, in as much as anything is ever true. To know something well, you must know and understand the situations when it is false."
There is no need to disperse. In fact, dong so may be impossible. But you may need to move along. This abyss of hallucinations we often find ourselves in should be played with and celebrated, but not as the be all end all. And this abyss is really a neat shiny product of our perceptions interacting with what the hell is really going on. And just what the hell is really going on? It changes moment to moment. It is always changing. That is why dogmas and ideas can never keep up. That is why people stuck in dogmas, ideologies, and static strategies/schemas can never seem to catch on to existence beyond their minds. Hope and fear are the twin fonts upon which many people build brittle defenses against the endless change.
You are already a riotous assembly of figments, thoughts, physiology, perceptions, and facets of selves (some Chaoists say many selves, in fact). And the only king or queen you need take any orders from is yourself. Both Thomas Paine of Revolutionary America and the Vajrayana adepts of Pala India came upon the startling conclusion that the Crown of Royalty was forever and always shattered with its gems scattered everywhere. We are each those gems. Why hypertrophy some one self at the expense of all the others when they are all equally just as creative and daring and silly and valid? Even Aleister Crowley, an adept in his own way, said that "Every Man and Woman is a Star." This goes for every facet of your identity, every self through which you live and breathe and hopefully express some of the "??!!!!??!!!???" that we all go through. You are sovereign. Trust no one person, whether deity or any other sort of being, which tries to tell you otherwise. By conjuring up and being shifty with your own thoughts and your own selves, you can help disperse the attempts of those who try to hijack you with their inculcated and so statistically normal hierarchic patterns of being. Saying "no" is the greatest weapon of mass destruction that would-be authoritarians will ever face. Do you want infinite life, or lives? Look to yourself and be your own lamp. (Worry not, others doing the same will show up in your life almost as if by magical fiat.)
-Irreverend Hugh, KSC
(Driving under the influence of the Gandavyuuha Sutra)
July 21st, 2005