The Ceremony of the Cave
This is a little ritual that comes from, now understanding, my youthful experiences in the light of knowing more about how the universe works as I age.
The ceremony of Our Lady of Guadeloupe or The Womb of Mother Nature is held in a large room in the house so all the guests can be in the room without feeling crowded. You also need to have good control of the lighting so it is dark but they can still see all the action. It is not a dark room, then, but a darkened room. Darkening is for the ambiance and to develop the sense of being in a cave [or a womb].
If you are South American you might want to call it the Cave of Our Lady of Guadeloupe. Or some might want to call it the cave of the Oracle of Delphi. Whatever pleases the family or the family “group”[they become a temporary family]. This should fit all cultures.
Important to such meetings, there needs to be a door, that is,”The Door”. That door needs to lead to the outside - if it is a dry sunny summer day - or to a larger room that is well lighted and large enough for everyone to be together again, for a short time, and be comfortable.
Meditation
The main event of the evening is the spilling of milk; so a table that is plastic topped and holding a plastic cup; with enough milk in it to be worth the excitement [but not so much to cause real damage]. This should be on a hard floor or on a big plastic sheet [to protect a rug].
Cave - - AOM . . .
Tibetan Healing Sounds
As the meeting begins people enter and hear the sounds of monks singing the “AOM” as commonly done in oriental ceremonies. Perhaps there is a singing pot being played. There are also drummers drumming shaman drums - or pow wow drums. There are tapes of these sounds on YouTube [see above] - some are hours long so there is plenty of sound available. If you are South American you might want drumming in syncopated [change drumming] rhythms. The importance thing is to produce sounds similar to the ambience of a “cave”.
So after everyone’s in the cave room, we begin the ceremony. We choose a child to go up to the table and spill the milk [this is usually done best with a very young male child - but girl can do it well too - we all have equal talents here]. Then the child sits back down - and hides their face.
Then the leading male - the grandfather of us all [the Grampa Great] - or the lead shaman in the family - or the leader of the physical [and money] side of? the family - stands up by the table [avoiding getting spilled milk on him] and screams [the problem requires extreme screams - like this is the end of the world]: “OH! NO! . . . OH! NO! . . . “WE WILL ALL DIE! . . . WE WILL ALL DIE!”. Grampa King was really good at this.
Judi Dench Lady Macbeth [closed caption]
Then the leading aunt - the leader of the spiritual side of the family [or the Gramma Great] - stands up by the table and says vary loudly - but not screaming [women, other than Lady Macbeth, should avoid screaming in most cultures]: “WHAT HAS BEEN DONE” . . . CANNOT BE UNDONE!” - the sounds of music and the shaman are stopped at UNDONE! She should sound like the Oracle of Delphi or Lady Macbeth, shouting not screaming, in the Mad Scene. She then sits back down.
After a period of anxious silence - the Oracle of Delphi gets back up, carrying a bucket [for the napkins used to clean up the table and the floor] and places it on the table and whispers [this is a loud whisper so everyone in the room can hear what she says . . . but the whisper is so the Stasy Police cannot hear what she says [Shades of the Underground Railroad]. Whispering [loudly]: “Essence precedes Existence.”
Existence cannot be the leadership, here, as instantiating the existence first instantiates a null or unclean or flawed essence. This is referring to a completely abstract class. A null class is a class that represents nullas a class , which is not problematic. So the essence needs to be balanced with its real world place in life before instantiating.
[Notice that if essence precedes existence - then - there is room for forgiveness and recovery {a bag of napkins} - room for forgiveness and recovery so the context can be balanced with the essence making the context into the transcendental - - this is the basis of a world view.]
Then all the other aunties, and some men can join at the table, bringing their napkins, which they brought to the cave, and wipe down the table and floor and put their soiled napkins in the bucket. [Note, the floor should be solid, or a big plastic sheet {not a rug}].
Then they all sit back down; and after another silence the Oracle of Delphi whispers - “Essence precedes Existence” [again in a whisper that everyone can hear]. You can have the shaman orchestra start the background sounds - very softly - here - with this whisper - [or by the organizer choice, they can also remain silent]. I like reviving the sounds in the background, here.
Then as she [The Oracle of Delphi] leaves, carrying the bucket out, she says loudly - but not a scream - “THE CONTEXT IS THE TRANSCENDENTAL!”. Even the Stasy Police need to hear that. Everyone leaves - but slowly - one at a time; and as they leave, they each shout “THE CONTEXT IS THE TRANSCENDENTAL”. They are all then reborn from the womb of Mother Nature or is it Our Lady of Guadeloupe.
[There is room for forgiveness and recovery, as the essence and context are balanced and symmetrical; and they become the transcendental again - which is brought about here. The transcendental is the key to meaning, that it is being, the test of the real - or the true. And this is the importance of our world view. The wrong world view leaves us in shambles - Mumbo Jumbo VooDoo Shambles. The set of balanced key links demonstrate the transcendental {it has to be balanced and symmetric} which confirms our status in reality {particularly Sitz im Leben}]
And may Grampa King rest in peace!
The problem with “existence precedes essence” is that it is like the Divide by Zero error. In a computer that is the nasty "MOVE HERE"; command disaster. In any other real universe, within any real philosophy, it becomes the: Mumbo Jumbo will VooDoo You - Error [Love=Hate].
[[ I was trying to avoid an 'object oriented programing lecture', lecture here . . . We in object oriented programming 'language' say the problem is "instantiating an abstract class". I think that statement causes a divide by zero type problem in most people's further processing.
What does "instantiating an abstract class" mean. It means to instantiate a class that does not have 'all' its needed internals defined correctly. Such classes are often defined in the program definitions from the core or in the beginning of the code; to simplify later definitions that use the code of such an abstract class in that new class. The usual mistake in such definitions is the programmer forgets to clean up the partially defined entities in base class before instantiating the new class.
In Existentialism the fault is to instantiate the class without competing "any" of the needed definitions in the class. Existence "instantiation" precedes essence "definition"! You see why I call this as like divide by zero. It is really an instantiation of a [here tortally] abstract class. This means all classes [and further philosophical discussion] are completely abstract [ultimately full of meaningless ghosts].
The problem behind this rule is that internal entities that are undefined are part of the polymorph structure in the program, as compiled. These indexes must be set up for the object at instantiation [construction - existence] time. This polymorphic index is part of how the object oriented program can duplicate nature. Reality and Object Oriented programming are not just Newton Only. But undefined or poorly defined internals create ghosts - phantoms - in the polymorphic indexing. The indexing is necessary for natural relationships to be present in the program {Read the "Tao Te Ching"}.
These ghosts artificially substantiate the silly ideas - such as: "good is evil" and "evil is good" - "love is hate" and "hate is love"]. It is not logic but inadequacy in definitions {biting you from hidden object oriented rules - that you can't change} that produces "stupidity" - or is it just VooDoo.]
What seems like a? million years ago God gave me a dream that changed my life. It was a dream; but the subject was NDE. This was the first poem I wrote after that:
The Vision
I see a grave.
I see the ground above the grave, break open and a man sits up in his grave. He gets up out of his grave and walks away.
I see a river of clear sparkling water bordered by rock strewn slopes of tree covered hills. A multitude comes to the edge of the water. Some kneel down to drink while others wade into the water. But I dive headlong into the water.
I see two hands break the surface of the water to lift me, now a child upon a rock. The child sees a world never before seen. All about is a world aglow as if on fire. Trees, bushes, and rocks appear to be on fire. But the fire does not consume.
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by Jerome Heath
This was another poem I wrote, also many millions of years ago:
Concrete Jungle
Tall hard youths in darkened alleys.
Slum-raised hoods on dark street corners
Scoff the law and old forwarners.?
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Giving the cry of a rebel nation,
Sounding the cry of their new creation,
Sounding the cry of their new fixation,
Pounding the cry in an old saloon,
Pounding the cry in a dark bar room.
With a boom-de, boom-de, boom-de boom,
And a boom-de, boom-de, boom-de Boom!!
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Beat out the revelry.
Run like a refugee.
Run up the alley.
Run down the byway.
Run run, run,
Faster, faster, faster, faster, faster, faster, STOP!!!
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A night of revelry come and gone
Boys in hiding await the dawn.
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Cold hard jungle of granite and stone
Bone hard boys stand alone.
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Soon lies the city in the rising sun.
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Guilded buildings and traffic dun.
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Tired old women walk the street.
Cartoon carnivals and white concrete.
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Leering boys on littered corners
Scoff the law and old forewarners.
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by Jerome Heath
The Scherzo
Fierce and valiant were all the soldiers whose bodies lie strewn about the battlefield. Noble and strong are all the women who weep for them.
Happy are the meek: they will receive the promise.
I hear the song weep for the slain, and for the tempest of their last moments. As the gates of hell opened wide, and the quiet of death fell upon their lips.
Happy are those who work for peace among men: they will be heirs of the kingdom.
I heard the song scream in anguish and lifting of a lament for the tragedy.
The song was filled with sadness for the state of men. The song was filled with anguish for the hope of men.
Happy are those who show mercy to others: they will receive mercy.
I saw tears for those who fell into darkness. But not the tears of men. I saw the last moments of joy pass and a jaw set firm with a pledge.
Why should you expect to be rewarded if you love only the people who love you?
The road to hell was open and no other way was possible.
How terrible are the religious leaders. They put loads on men's backs which are hard to carry but will not lift a finger to help them. They hold the key that opens the door to the house of knowledge and they will not go in and they stop those who are trying to go in.
The song is lost in tedious compacts and the noise of overwhelming arguments.
So the song roars about as a child lies dying in their arms.
The roar is heard as terror strikes without warning; as hope turns to frustration.
The person who wants to save his own life will lose it; but the one who loses his life for love's sake will save it.
Yes, lost am I, in darkness, A purpose lost in magnitude. And left alone without hope. A purpose lost in magnitude.
My sin is that I pursue judgment. All my efforts were designed to prove my separation from the face of God.
Existence Precedes Essence
And men will hear only what they will hear. A thousand men of small account. For they are far, far from the mighty song of God. A thousand men of small account.
Weep song, oh weep!
And men will hear only what they will hear. A tortured lot in search of truth. For they are far, far from the mighty song of God. A tortured lot in search of truth.
Roar song, oh roar!
And men will curse the song of God. A purpose lost in magnitude. And we will curse the day the song began. A purpose lost in magnitude.
For they are no more - But a heap of rubbish, A page of meaningless symbols, A forgotten field, A plot of ground, A grave. To rest, to sleep
Forever, ?forever, ?forever.
The Coda
Essence Precedes Existence
I am a song of God. I am a song God is singing. A melody in history, A song that is part of destiny... It may be forgotten in the strains of strife. It may be lost in the symphony of life, Like a ripple on the sea.
But God will sing the song of me; For this melody is my melody: It is only for me! Not to be sung for any other
Forever,? forever,? forever !
By Jerome Heath
What is the fallacy of philosophically dividing by zero?
In philosophy "Existence Precedes Essence" is an extension of the blank slate error [along with being like the divide by zero error | divide by zero == blank slate]; as if it were possible to be born with a blank slate and go on living. Chomsky was the leading voice in saying that is entirely impossible - in fact we could not ever learn as fast as we need to in order to just survive - on a blank slate. I insist it is not 'just' about data - but more so about processing [it is not just the data itself but the 'handling' of the data].
Surely we must have some data in the 'beginning' - I am not sure how or when it is stored - but that is the realm of the powers of the DNA [the extremely small but extremely capable born-in program - which is part {but just part} of the born-in data and processing]. The processing [through archetype objects that control a linked list database] insures that our mind can find patterns in our surroundings [local issues]; and we also mature in capacity to handle more general reality. Our mind and its processing grows to handle the needs of our relationships.
[The renaissance perspective includes both science abstraction and object oriented abstraction as though they were just one kine of abstraction. They are different.]
According to Jung [and his ideas about the object oriented mind] object oriented processing does capture patterns for the mind. I see this is true or better real [the concept of truth, defined by our philosophy, requires a transcendental basis for truth - our mind seems to be satisfied with procedures that demonstrate the entities or ideas are real and understandable. The processing of our mind is extremely strong on finding patterns in whatever data we are taking in: what we see, hear, and feel. Archetypes have two “born-in” characteristics: 1. They are the basis of types [say arche-Types] and “design patterns”;? 2. They are specifically designed, as our basic strategy, for pattern recognition and confirmation as real [and polymorphism is a "key" part of this process].
But in my belief - there is a reality that western philosophy has missed altogether. It comes up in how the archetype processing works. I believe the problem here is belief that language has meaning in itself [words have meaning in themselves - or perhaps originally given by the gods]. So this assumption came from when we believed in a god, and was still kept when we did not believe in a god. So, as a result, the language then has a sacredness that must be protected even though it was made up - long ago - by illiterates [some say we had help from extraterrestrials {Where did they come from?}].
Eastern philosophy seems to retain ideas of the importance of polymorphism - I am referring to this here, in - say - language. We, in the west, developed language, ignoring polymorphism, and solidified concepts of inherent absolutes that revolved around the idea that words were atomic [containing all they needed to have meaning in themselves - existence precedes essence], and words retained their meaning values, unchanged "forever". Both are fallacies. Words, as handled in our minds, by archetypes, are dynamic, - but very meaningful [in context - Sitz im Leben]. Sitz im Leben is the basis for meaning [as an extension of reality].
The way Jung’s archetypes work [and their effectiveness] means there is more than just archetypes, that makes it work. This is Chomsky’s argument - there still needs to be something else - like a common language. So, when you examine how the archetypes must work, and the things they need to do: there is this extra information that is in the design [of the language and our processing of language]. There must be dimensions of word meanings that the archetypes are, claiming and using, to find the overall meaning [that is Sitz im Leben]. And, the mind seems to be using such dimensions [polymorphs] in the searching and sorting of thoughts in basic processing. This is where polymorphism belongs. Polymorphism is based on such categories, types, kine as dimensions, of the meanings of the words [say - as in a thesaurus], that are standardizable. To answer Chomsky, they are categorized into the design of nature which we can understand [recognize] in our mind [our mind can only function properly when language reflects reality fairly perfectly]. This is what I glean from Chomsky's common language [it must have a presence in reality - shades of the universe that was built for us {a science philosophy of our time}]. I feel the common language is built on natural categories [kine] but unnamed [the meaning {sense of meaning} of the kine is there {in the common language referenced in reality}; but it is not named]. The name is found by relative meanings. When we find a polymorph through our inner processing, we give it the name inherent in our locally developed language. The common language, then, is a skeleton of the links keys we use for our search and sort [and in our minds form of data mining {whether it is peek-a-boo or hide and seek processing}].
Then, to me, this is the reality of it. There is an object oriented program that is running ‘as’ our mind. It is capable of recognizing kine [all kinds] of patterns in the universe. This makes us in the image of God - that is - recognizing all the patterns in the universe. And there ‘are’ those patterns in the universe.
Hiding Behind Divide by Zero
But once they have set what I call, here, the divide by zero error as the basis of “all” their philosophy: they can say “Love is Hate and Hate is Love" and not flinch - the dividing by zero makes them insensitive to reality. So their "church" becomes a Mumbo Jumbo VooDoo Witch-Doctoring Hate Monger Church. And they have no sensitivity to the fact that, that is where they are at. They can say “Good is Evil and Evil is Good” - without a twitch.?
So Jesus will meet them at their judgement with a Permanent Red Card. It is deep red color with golden letters [high Hong Kong style]. And it will say: Go Directly to Hell - Do Not Pass Go - Do Not Collect $200 - Go Directly to Hell! Beautiful gold lettering.
But I think the worst Short Circuit of the Divide by Zero error is that: “Murdering Innocent Babies is Love” - I think, even Jesus, will scream at you about that.
GITA QUOTES
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts.