Bah Humbug!

Magna anima

Unum necessarium

The Latin just keeps coming

From the bishop’s mouth

Catholics and their explanations!

Orthodox with their meditations

A bunch of folk from the Protestant Reformation
(Anglicans too, thanks to old Harry)

What are they all trying to say?

Leaders threatening implications

Demagogues with their recitations

Sponsored by the one percent’s operations

Just another brand new day

Explain away the evil in man’s heart

Free will – Adam’s sin

While announcing the amount
from the collection box

Do you really need a pipe organ

When God’s in here?

Religions have lost their essence

The message was always distorted

God made flesh, was still misunderstood

By those closest to Him

Perfect understanding is impossible

Don’t trust someone who tells you to believe
because he knows, because he has seen the Truth

He may have gotten a glimpse, but he’s now lying through his teeth

Or is just completely befuddled

Image: denial of Saint Peter by Gerard Seghers

Ban and Tam discuss Truth and Man

I eavesdrop on the twins in the Sky Womb
Clock stops its spin during their discussion
So intent are they, that they don’t notice Time’s stay
While discussing their truths in the Mind Room

Ban: Do you agree brother, when I say
That Truth is what we perceive, made sensate

Tam: I agree with what you say, dear Ban
Unseen truths can’t be grasped by mind of man

Ban: Then truth can only stem from body
Just Material physicality.

Tam: If man lacked the faculty of reason
I admit, his knowledge would be so curtailed
He would be enslaved to less complex patterns
Food, shelter, pleasure, as Darwin had detailed
Instead, man gives himself to curiosity
And so discovers his truth’s elasticity
Discovering that which transcends the physical flesh
Inferences drawn through a spiritual mesh
A fusion of the physical mind and the soul

Ban: Could this not be delusion after all,
A yearning for something Greater, a conceit?
To think that you have unseen soul and spirit
Could be born of a mind that’s very desperate
Coping mechanism to make tall the little.

Tam: in a purely mechanistic realm
Why would the mind of man be overwhelmed
By the things that do not so concern them?
Selfishness would not seem abhorrent
The mind would not come under assault
Where is the question of one coping
In a purely physical roping?
Empathy would not be possible
Short term pleasures, opioid disposables
Would rule the markets of the trade global
And bring about inevitable collapse
Survival endangered by every relapse
The mind of man would feel no need to discover
And progress would seem a futile endeavour

(To be continued… Maybe)

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The Socratic Method

Ancient dialectics, thinking things through
Sentient gymnastics, seeing things new
Until we can find a reality
Acceptable to logic’s entreaties

Examining statements from other perspectives
For example, this statement of a popular ‘guru’

“The sign of intelligence is that
you are constantly wondering.”

What does he mean by intelligence?
What does he consider as wonder?

The dog wonders if I will give it food today
When I forget to ring the Pavlovian bell
It’s probably wondering about a game to play
When it annoys me and I say, “go to hell.”

What use a sign that’s impossible to perceive
Without the use of a telepath’s mind receive

How can wonder be a constant mind state
When mortals requires restful reprieve
Sure, insomniacs can stay up in wonder late
But even they will eventually have to sleep

If the guru, by his own statement, cannot qualify as intelligent (through inconstant wonder)
Then his statement itself could only contain intelligence by accident
But I do not think that was what he was trying to convey

[Poem] Shruti and Smrti

Two Sanskrit words summarising different types of truth

That which is heard, and memory which can be misunderstood

I saw the sun rise today, that is fact

Tomorrow? Probably, if things are still intact

The rising sun is Smrti for it is not truth eternal

Easily distorted by people to produce deeds infernal

Smrti changes meaning with the ages

Shruti is impervious to words of false sages

The six pointed star holds different truths

Powerful symbol of Existence and The Absolute

A union of opposites, producing great energy

Two terminals filled with fractal synergy

All Shruti can be reduced and still produce a whole

From celestial dances to atomic dipoles