Picture: Anonmoos (PD)
“As sunlight obscures the stars by day so too does wakefullness blind us to the fact that we are still dreaming.”
- Liber Kaos, Peter J Carroll.
Part 1, Essays for the Discordian occultist: introducing the lucid dream.
Everything you experience of the outside world has to pass via your senses into your brain. Your body acts as an instrument through which reality is filtered. Ignorance allows you to focus. You always exclude more than you are taking in. If this article has your full attention it will necessarily be at the expense of other things. If you’re reading it on your mobile in a pub some people will see your focus as ignorant, for example.
It is with your memory and imagination that you decode meaning from the chaos of the external world. You’ve been around in some form or other since the dawn of time. In my experience it’s only recently that any of it has made any sort of “sense” thanks in the main to my memory and imagination.… Read the rest
