The Material World

 

The material world, depending on how we define it, is simply existence. But in colloquial parlance "The Material World" refers to a world where surface is all: rather like encountering a painted elephant and thereafter considering the painted surface to be all there is to an elephant. Living in the decorative surface of being blinds humanity to the living pulse of the prime mover. Intoxicated with appearances, they live and they die. In the best of times this is harmless, and this is certainly blameless in any simple animal.

But these are not the best of times. And it puts me in mind of a phrase I sometimes toss around having to do with what kind of catastrophe it will take before "the obvious becomes apparent to the hopelessly occluded."

The meaning saturated gestalt is a sea of potential. It is omni-present and it has no surface. Events are catalyzed into existence by behaviors, and these "behaviors" are the vestiges of previous catalyzations in the flux of inevitability. The emission of a beta particle from an unstable atom is an event. Its course on the path to collision is behavior leading to events, etc. . It is endless beginning in a cascade of inevitability where guided trajectories chart the course of humanity. Witchcraft and politics are examples of primitive efforts to nudge manifestation by manipulative behavior (of course the same could be said of getting a spoon to ones mouth).

So what we see before us is a riot of half-wit-to-lunatic-would-be-wizards running around stirring the cauldron of inevitability to achieve some superficial purpose. 

Baring the advent of some degree of Enlightenment. . . .

 this can not end well.