Zohar
This is a good chunk of the Zohar separated by portions or complete (warning: 140 mb file), whichever you prefer. It has the Aramaic and the English translation side by side which I particularly like.
UPDATE: It has come to my attention that this may be the infamous Kabbalah Centre’s translation of the Zohar. Please study with caution and by all means look at the Pritzker Edition for reference as it is a critical edition.
In/Ex Mismatch
When people tell me that they sense something big is going to happen, it usually means they’re about to hit a nice little growth spurt.
Also, working on the idea that the religion of America is Apocalypse. I’ve been thinking about this in both senses of the word.
They’re actually the same equation. Aikeena once wrote, “We are made and unmade at each moment, each transitory instant of self-awareness reconstituted as we progress. However some hiccups in the process are automatically smoothed over and some cause us to fly apart and fragment forever. The character of humanity is that it has a permanent soul, a homeomorphic transformation from moment to moment.†The big hiccups that we can’t bridge naturally force us to reconstitute manually. These major events are life changing epiphanies where the normally safe walls of our carefully constructed realities fall apart and the light – spiritually illuminating and at the same time terrifyingly abject – floods in and fills us. The person that emerges is not necessarily the same person that went in – so the continuity of consciousness is broken. At the level of intuition, one senses a major shift, but not as occurring to one’s self, because someone else is involved – the person you are after the “hiccupâ€. So the event is externalized as happening to the world – a group shift – when it’s actually a premonition of an individual paradigm shift.
The second part ties in here, but I need to sort my thoughts out on the matter further before writing about it.
Distributed Events
We passed another milestone today. The signs were all the same. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is the fact that many people assume that distributed events have to occur at the same time. Reality often doesn’t work out that way, and people take it as a refutation of the validity of their experiences. First, I’d like to state that I don’t think experiences require validity. Take them as they are, and don’t worry about what’s real and what’s not. It makes life a lot easier.
Secondly, I think there’s another factor to consider. Different arils have different temporal “viscosities” that alters the temporal reference point of the event. When an event is distributed, it maintains a different copy in each aril in which it is occuring. When changes are made based on the event, they have to be synchronized across the various arils. So there is a lag there that is based on the aggregate temporal viscosity of all the arils in between.
By “between” I mean to imply a gradation, not physical proximity and perhaps not even sympathetic proximity. Sympathetic connection need not play a role here, and indeed perhaps should not, lest we construct some unified tellurian theory that blinds us to ontological reality. If these networks – gradation of existential similarity and symbolic chains – appear to be similar, then we can perhaps find a larger pattern, but it might be best to keep them separate for the purposes of this exploration.
Indeed, coincidental occurrences, in my experience, have an extremely odd relationship with time – sometimes occurring well before or after the event they seem to be linked with symbolically. It is this discrepancy that leads me to question the determining factor in temporal synchronization, and which leaves me here, still questing and questioning.
