Time is not money. Time is LIFE.
So, 'minutes' are every bit as precious as breath, blood. Bone.
And that's not putting it nearly dramatically enough!
One definition of time is "the indefinite continued progress of existence".
A DIMENSION was chopped into measurable bits. A necessary function of civil society, I 'spose.
But those measurable bits -- WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY SYNCHRONIZED WITH LIFE'S CYCLES + SEASONS -- were "reformed" by religious and state leaders who took it upon themselves to alter existential dimensions according to petty, egoic whim! Grrrr.
Civil life snapped us out of alignment with life's REAL flow, and gave us instead SLAVE SECONDS, via Roman, Julian and now the Gregorian calendar.
These updates were called "corrections" and "Reforms."
That's laughable, as it suggests there was something ever wrong with the indefinite continued progress of existence.
Humans who had shoved themselves into positions of rulership, found fault with the ancient measurements of time.
ORIGINAL timekeeping was not based on silly, arbitrarily made-up things like "Feast Days," but on actual planetary and celestial events like solstices and equinoxes.
Can you feel the underlying difference between a church decree, and a moving planet??
I sure do.
And I've fallen almost completely OUT of agreement with the false overlay -- the oh so faux tempo -- that beats to drive us to race ahead, and chase after time, usually with worry and anxiety (about the future)...
Or beats that linger behind, and entrap us with sentimentality, regret or guilt (over the past)...
Together -- these bookended obsessions with 'then/past' and 'when/future' -- make it really difficult for us to fully occupy THIS moment... which is the only one we can influence.
When our TIME got hi-jacked, everything else did, too.
Not-so-random question: Are there any parallels between the Maya hieroglyphic text pictured and described below... AND BLOCKCHAIN??
The basic unit of Maya hieroglyphic text is the glyph block, which transcribes a word or phrase. The block is composed of one or more individual glyphs attached to each other to form the glyph block, with individual glyph blocks generally being separated by a space. Glyph blocks are usually arranged in a grid pattern. For ease of reference, epigraphers refer to glyph blocks from left to right alphabetically, and top to bottom numerically. Thus, any glyph block in a piece of text can be identified: C4 would be third block counting from the left, and the fourth block counting downwards. If a monument or artefact has more than one inscription, column labels are not repeated, rather they continue in the alphabetic series; if there are more than 26 columns, the labelling continues as A', B', etc. Numeric row labels restart from 1 for each discrete unit of text
Individual glyph blocks may be composed of a number of elements. These consist of the main sign, and any affixes. Main signs represent the major element of the block, and may be a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or phonetic sign. Some main signs are abstract, some are pictures of the object they represent, and others are "head variants", personifications of the word they represent. Affixes are smaller rectangular elements, usually attached to a main sign, although a block may be composed entirely of affixes. Affixes may represent a wide variety of speech elements, including nouns, verbs, verbal suffixes, prepositions, pronouns, and more. Small sections of a main sign could be used to represent the whole main sign, and Maya scribes were highly inventive in their usage and adaptation of glyph elements.
I recently entered a competitive hiring event to become cancun.com's Cancun Experience Officer.
While researching Cancun, and Maya civilization for my submission video (which I hope you will vote for, please)...
I was stunned by several similarities it shares with Egypt, like:
- pyramids
- calendars
- mathematical systems
- writing systems (hieroglyphs)
And Maya uniquely gave us the concept of ZERO.
And they also conceived of time as circular, not linear.
Which feels a much more true depiction of indefinite continued progress of existence... an unending circle, rather than a mutantly flat and simple line.
The Mirage Effect
A MIRAGE is something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so. It is an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert, or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.
The delusion that's seen, is a FACADE of the very thing needed to sustain life.
The pattern is the same OUT of deserts, too: we thirst for real things, and often settle for lesser things that don't truly hydrate.
Atmospheric Conditions
The cradle-to-grave programming thrust upon most human minds, is made out of accepted, normalized "atmospheric conditions" that manipulate, distort and antagonize our sovereignty.
Consensus-thinking, group-mind, herd mentalities and sustained negligence of one's inner world... is all indoctrinated and reinforced with programs and practices, like:
- religion
- public education
- hyper-consumption
- social protocol, etiquette, rules of conduct
- endless distraction and entertainment, unfruitful social media
- unenlightened, authoritative, disempowering raising of children
Please look at these atmospheric conditions, and consider how deeply embedded they are into the core of our lives, and then work together -- in an organized and soulless fashion -- to CAUSE ILLUSION, and to THOROUGHLY CONFUSE + DISABLE, ** certain innate abilities that are essential for our personal sovereignty, like the ability to:
- rightly perceive, interpret and respond to reality;
- morally stand with a cause or pursuit you cannot shake;
- decidedly commit to your own wholeness.
Number 3 is the watershed event. Making that commitment ALONE starts a revelatory process, the pace of which is set by our cooperation with it.
Join me on a way of path-making, that is definitely OUTSIDE the dominant paradigms of slave-life, debt-life, sick-life and lonely-life.
When I was in Illinois -- before I learned about Ross Ulbricht's freedom-enabling creation -- I was in constant, physiological NEED of weed, while also being in panic-fear over trying to get some, or while in possession of it.
Ridiculous.
Terpenes were my gateway.
I was pitifully sniffing my empty weed jar. (Ever been there? lol)
Inhaling DEEPLY, taking in the lingering skunky-musk that's so unique to cannabis.
To my surprise, some people are actually unphased by its aroma.
And -- bigger gasp! -- there are some who even dislike its smell and taste.
Not me. Leads me home. As it did that day.
So, I was sniffing my empty weed jar, and:
caught a strong note of PINE (pine is a dominant terpene in the Jack Herer strain I'd run out of);
'saw' my bottle of pine essential oil, pop in my mind;
medicated myself, by inhaling the essence of pine.
"Proxy medicine," is what it named itself to me.
Unable to access cannabis, I drew felt benefit (more than placebo, I believe) from a single but dominant compound that's prevalent IN cannabis. My nose made out that association, and I was helped by it.
The same could be done with other strains, eg. lemon essential oil as proxy for Chemdawg or Lemon Haze...
Myrcene is the most abundant terpene in all of cannabis. So oils with a high myrcene content -- like lemongrass and basil -- would make the best general-use aromatherapeutic substitution, for when you either can't access cannabis, or are on a tolerance break.
This is the beauty of terpenoid science, and we've barely scratched its surface!
PART 2 COMING SHORTLY...
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