/lit/ - Literature

If the ego is not sovereign, and if collective egos are not oligarchies (each condemns the rest to Hell!), then who runs the show? If one decides to project God into spacetime and form, science will only find nature's generative, enfolded fractal feedback. Sensitives may find synchronicities and discarnate spirits. Both will find infinite multiplicity instead of singularity. But that does not mean that there is no God, or no unifying consciousness. As Plato and others have hinted for millennia, the shadows projected on the walls of our senses are just intimations of a grander, unified consciousness. Kubrick projects an image of astronaut Dave Bowman on the cinema screen, Bowman sees the Monolith (an image of the cinema screen itself rotated 90 degrees), realizes, like Hamlet, Gautama and Christ before him, that he is an actor in a film, stares wildly at the camera, is reborn as a child and returns to Earth to share his message. Such characters - Prometheus, Dionysos, Actaeon, the Cave escapee, Jesus the man, Ziggy Stardust - are usually torn apart by their audiences. This is a survivalistic reaction the group egos clinging to their imagined identity. "They know not what they do." "Give me your hands!"