Monday, 2 February 2015

A Short Story - Silence has the Most Power

“Silence is the language of god, 
all else is poor translation.” 
- Rumi

Nullabor desert

  
This story starts with a very small part of myself, which made very large, contends, competes with and destroys nature. 

We shall start at the past, as the past seems to explain most things, if not to give us information we can practically use - at least we can remember and die without any unanswered questions. 

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Part 1 - 40,000 trillion, trillion, trillion thousands of earth years BC:
The Beginning of my-time - Our home, our ether, our Noren

I am a spirit. I am ether. I am both a spirit in identity from the ether and the ether itself. The ether could be called God but present notions of god are not accurate to depict what god was to me then, as myself, as the ether, both one and many. 

I was called to a council. I have been placed in charge of the rudimentary duty of punishment. When a spirit deviates from the presence of god, I simply remove and delete their essence. The ether that was them still exists but they, as who they thought they were, is no longer. This may seem like a rather draconian measure, but I assure  you, it is the simplest and most effective measure to maintain order in the Kingdom. 

Yes, we have a king, his name is Oregon and he forms new spirits, new identities from the ether and gives them their limited form of freewill to come and go as they please within our realm of ether. Oregon is king for this reason and no other, he did not achieve the position through skill or by being born into the right family, he is king because he does what any king does and that is form the populace from the ether. He is the first identity in our realm and that affords a duty and this duty affords a privelege and this privelege is limited to a revered label and this label affords a hightened level of respect.

There are other realms that are not of our realm. These are vaguely known to the king and his primary identities only. The rest of the populace remains completely unaware of possible realms that aren't made of what we are or that do not subsist on what we subsist on. These realms are impossible to the greater populace of Noren. I am one of the primary identities, thus I am entrusted with great knowledge because of my great duty which I have been ordained for which affords me the label of Head Excallar and with that, the hightened level of respect such a name deserves. 

I am the 5th Head Excallar. I must clear up any confusion, there is no death but that which the Excallar brings and this death is by no means final nor painful. It just is. The reason I am the 5th Head Excallar is because the others (whom shall not be named) were deleted by the king himself. Out of the 226 deletions that have happened in our realm I have been responsible for 56. The king himself has been responsible for only four, the previous four Excallars.

There is an exponentially growing trend in Excallar recants. The last Excallar recanted after only 24 deletions, and the 3rd after only 44. 

I am an anomaly as far as the king is concerned, he is pleased with my obedience and has rewarded me with an exonerable place next to him in his room of thrones where the primary identities meet for council. I must admit, to maintain the consistency I have maintained has not been easy and seeing essences of identities dissolve back into the ether at the whim of my staff somewhat dis-settles my thoughts. Because the king represents the ether and is the first child of the ether, he can see my thoughts, he can see all our thoughts. He has and can see the battle I go through in my thinking and the process for change that I must pull myself through on a daily basis but he has promised me my essence will not fail. I catch glances of him looking at me with a sort of awe and admiration, a look I do not understand.

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“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 2 - 60,000,000,000 cycles forward in 'time' - The big decision

In recent cycles, the identity populace of Noran has been growing exponentially into the trillions of thousands. The king has authorised and taught 60,000 heads of creation to create identities along side him in the Agatha Crysalis. 

This has resulted in automatic promotion of many heads of creation in a self-autonomous cycle of identity creation and governance. I have under my wing a modest entourage of 60. This is enough to delete the current rate of recants as this has levelled to a meager 5 per cycle. Don't get me wrong, our job as the Excallars is far from easy, we are to watch the thoughts of every individual identity 11 to 44 of each cycle's inner concentric permutation. This makes us the nearest to God, our father, our King - because only he can see every thought of every individual and keep track with his million mind-sayers. He has explained to me, his success in creating such a stable Excallar as myself has been the key reason for such abundance in a flourishing autonomous multi-governanced community. The king has even declared to his Heads of Identity in the Room of Thrones that other Kingdoms of other realms have requested advice on tending to their own individual identity production because of our success as one of the most abundant communities the multi-ether-verse has to serve the all. 

In recent times, I have been consumed in thoughts of myself, leaving my duties to my accomplices and subjects in the Excallar community. The kings special look of admiration and awe has not changed when he looks at me in all these cycles. I feel like god himself, like the king himself. Why would he look at me so if he weren't the slightest bit afraid of me? I ask myself, and as I stare into a mirrorlike device we use, I look into those commanding eyes and hallucinate in the self impregnated glory I wallow in, as I, in all my inner turmoil have created a way to veil my thoughts from God himself. Our Lord, the King knows this but has let it go unpunished because I am to him a necessary phenomena to the success of his kingdom, the key.

The King called the Head Identities to a council in the Room of Thrones. He had a plan that required complete and unconditional submission by all of his creations, especially me, being his key to such a successful and prosperous community/kingdom. His plan was to compound and compact all the trillions of identities he has created in the ether to make for each one a one cell reality and these one cell realities are to create and manifest a material world of substance. 

This idea was revolution and there were many dissenting parties among the higher ranks of the identities, especially the Dantes. The king expected this as he could see the diplacement of responsibility and power it would cause among the classes of Heads, he could see their thoughts before they happened, he could see all of them except for mine. I secretly thought of myself as the king of this material world but kept this in a special place I knew the king could not pierce with his vision. 

The King adjourned the meeting, to reconvene in a single cycle to give all head Identities a chance to see what he sees without forcing their essence.

I spent this cycle dreaming of my creations, of this material world within my grasp, within my power. I dreamed of the power of all these trillions of identities at the behest of my whim. My dreams oozed into the ether pool in my chamber and I felt a tinge of fear that this was too far, that this was too much and that the king would see. 

If I was seeing in my mind rationally I would have known that the king could see everything that manifested in the ether and that my secret was not secret, but I had convinced myself that it was secret and he could not see. My narcissism blinded my reason and restricted my abilities to veil my thoughts. 

I only received one confirmation the King might possibly know what was going through my well locked mind. I sensed a presence near me when I was dreaming into the ether pool but this could have been anyone or anything and I in my narcissistic ignorance decided it was nothing, that nothing could see me or what I had conceived and that I was safe, alone and secret.


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“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” 
- Ambrose Bierce

Chapter 3 - The King's Plan

The King reconvened the council from the previous cycle to vote on the proposal of the creation of a material reality. 

To the Head Identities surprise the king placed the material reality into the pool of Amnios. This is an inter-realm within the ether where the King is not king and we all, as identities are equal and can call the shots on any decision within the kingdom whether small, large or revolutionary. He uses this realm to test our devotion, loyalty and trust in his infinite wisdom and power; challenging the ethics and structure of our ether realm: the King and the rules that govern the way our realm is glued together.

The vote proceeded. A floating coloured counter kept track of the votes in the centre of the pool we together inhabited. All votes were simultaneous and instant, everyone had voted to the affirmative having seen the kings wisdom in the creation of the material realm.

I, in that moment was completely and utterly silent without thought and even absent, blind to all else hidden within my secret realm which not-even the king can see. 

Within - my own personal realm which I have established exists without requirement of ether, I pondered the ability and consequences of my single vote or catalystical divergence from the voting structure - and what an opportunity when the voting was being held in the pool of Amnios.

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"I cannot believe what the King has done," Phargus exclaims.

"Yes, our world can become the governor of the King of the ether's reality!" Sentry gives his advice, "How could he  have been so stupid?"

"Surely, he knows what he has done." Sintle speaks.

Little does it know but the council of my own multi-ether-verse within, convenes for its final time. The five inter-identities: Phargus, Sentry, Sintle, Sope, and Leria - give their quick minds on what is and what could become.

"Yes, he knows. He knows our realm exists. He knows he cannot delete this vessel, this Head Excallar because it has learned to subsist on something that is not him, that is not ether. But he is not afraid." Sope entreats.

A colourful spiral expands exhuberantly and flashing with each syllable, "I! Leria! Show us power! Show us control! If these two words have a definition it is within this new material realm. Care not that the King knows of our intentions! Be informed this may be our only chance to change the order of things!" Leria shouts with exhuberance. The spectacular show of energy shakes the others to their feet and all five raise their hands in the affirmative gesture to show enthusiastic agreeance, committing to the course of action.

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I emerge from my self-induced stupor. All ten thousand million eyes and forms of vision and seeing are trained on me in the pool of Amnios. Rage ingests my heart at the thought of ever having been controlled or created by such a stupid and ignorant autocrat. I stand, smile and declare without hesitation - 

"I consent but on one condition - Of this realm, this new realm, this material reality - I AM KING!"

I engineer an echo to my last words using my superior knowledge of the ether to drive my demand home, shockwaves spread throughout the pool starting in disbelief and proceeding into chaos. I have done the unthinkable, I have recanted the Kings authority, I, the Head Excallar with an impenetrable mind, have finally done what all Head Excallars have done before me. I have done what no other could possible conceive without detection, and I have done it in the pool of Amnios.

At the raising of a hand, the King commences his last and final words, "I will ALWAYS be King of the material at ether level in this realm, and now that you have declared your position as king of the material IN MY REALM, you have exposed your own mind under lock and key and you will remain chained to the material, my material, for as long as you retain the desire to control and possess it," he pauses for a break looking through every Head Identity as if they were ornaments sitting on a stone wall.. silence inhabits the pool of Amnios like a haunting glow, "MY place is silence, and you: YOU want to be King!?" He generates derisively, "you CAN be King! Here is YOUR world! " He points upwards to a spiralling light burst expanding outward rapidly, "And I, I remain, in the inbetween, deep within and as the darkest darkness of silence." The Kings eyes are stern, serious, surreal and glowing.

And then without further debacle, it happens: 

the big bang.

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“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” 
- Lou Holtz

Diary - December 22nd, 2017 - AD 

"Kien, can you pass the salt please?"

I stare into oblivion, hoping a gust of transient inter-dimensional gas will suck me out into another of the many multi-ether-verses that exist within, around and in-between.

"Sure."

I pass the salt. 

My thoughts of what is, my desire to search for meaning, my wish to make it all complete within is clouded and blocked by the mundanity of my monotonous life of procedure. 

6:00am - Awake! 
Read until
7:00am - Shower, Shave, Dress, Iron, Coffee, Shit
8:00am - Awake the remainder of house inhabitants if not already awake, dress children, feed children, kiss girlfriend
9:00am - Leave for Office
12:00pm - Lunch, call girlfriend
5:00pm - Leave Office
5:30pm - Home, kids, park, listen, play
6:30pm - dinner
7:30pm - kids shower, teeth
8:00pm - kids bed, possible free time to watch a movie, clean something or spend two hours putting kids back to bed after repeated awakenings
10:00 - sleep and/or fuck and/or fool around and/or intellectually debate with girlfriend before passing out into a sometimes child interrupted sleep.

This is five and sometimes six days per week.

My dreams of becoming a rockstar have been squashed by the reality of, reality. Woe is me. 

Sometimes my thoughts wander into space and I consult our god Google on the answers of conspiracy subjects that vaguely interest me. The kids are particularly receptive to my moments of reflection and seemingly enter or obstruct silence at opportune moments of apparently private critical realisation. I feel debased and without purpose when this happens and have resorted to simply giving up on what I think is important and react instinctively by mimicking my children's currently exhibited personality, forcefully forgetting this inkling of a deep secret I feel underlies all of my being. 

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Diary - 16 March, 2020 - Life realization 1

The world is falling apart, global warming, technology, artificial intelligence provides answers and creates more problems than we had before, people are getting more and more stupid intellectually and emotionally relying on technology to hold up the falling facade of humanity's habitual reality, but the seasons do not stop, plants still grow in the ground, flamingos still do a migration to cyprus to eat pink shrimp creatures in the salt lakes. 

My life has entered a perfect state of numbness, I see my actions as systems of behaviour that must be followed without deviation. Even my enjoyment I seem to sit back and watch myself as though watching a movie on a big screen. I have become detached, somehow I think, I always was. 

I feel there are pieces of myself scattered all the way throughout time. I look at one person doing their thing in life and for a moment I want to become them, and by the day is out, I simply shake off the desire because I have simply stated within, "This is not me."

I once became obsessed with the idea that the universe was egocentric, centred around well, me. This lasted for about 2 years and I only shook out of it because of an executive sales trip (holiday) I went on to South Africa. "It will be fun," they said, "you'll enjoy yourself and forget everything," they said... I believed them, still entwined with invisible wires to my egocentric bubble of a universe. 

A boy looked at me through the taxi window. We were stopped at some lights in the outskirts of Johannesburg driving from the airport. The main highway was blocked, so the driver took the back streets. 

His eyes pierced all veils. I sensed this. All I saw was rage. 

It wasn't the nicest district I've ever seen. Infact, a moment ago we were driving through a field of mud-hobbles. So this suburb wasn't really a highbrow existence. The boy's face, his eyes, they said one thing - "What have you done? You have created this... 'I' am in this reality and 'I' am in pain." 

My reaction - That night I started drinking again after not having had a swig of my favorite scotch for 15 years. With the alchohol came a completely washed sense of re-renewal and a feeling and knowing - "I don't want to be the centre of the universe any more." 

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“What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?” 
- Mario L Castellanos

Diary - 14th February, 2030

Finally I have some time to myself, the kids have grown up and have decided to take the wheel of their own lives in this material reality. 

After a recent Vippassana meditation Sue and I, after all these years, finally have the time for, I have been led to the realisation or at least the semi-realisation (enough to see the general framework of the truth.. (SHHH! Get to the point!)) and I have discovered the meaninglessness of understanding reality.

And after all this, I've come to the conclusion - with all that is wrong and as much as I've tried to change anything, nothing can be done. I chose to take control, I chose to acquire responsibility and duty and through this I have discovered I am as much controlled by my own creation as I have desired to control it. 

Something I've done long ago has led me to this, I don't know what, but I feel it in my essence.

There is no end, only I can be silent and this is as good as any 'end' I could ever hope to become.

This realm will go on for as long as I speak or think and the ability for self-deletion is my ability to be silent within, without and everywhere.

Unfortunately, I have too many billboards, websites, books and minds repeating words and ideas I have spoken headily throughout the ages and those words and ideas have a time limit and the process of my-time will run for as long as all that I have done, said and conceived lasts in all of its infinitesimal strains in this material reality. As long as I react with words and ideas to what is already here, I simply perpetuate time and prolong my existence and while I do not enjoy my existence this prolongation feels forced. I am forced by my own decisions, my own reasoning and reactions, on automatic running into the present - to exist.

My debt bank of reality value is well backed up, and I either accept my self-ordained servitude or pretend to be a slave to something I inevitably perpetuate with my reaction of self-inflicted oppression displacement.

"Wallow in your intellect Kien. Wallow, that's what you've always done, why will you do any different now?" 

I must train my reality to be silent before I can attain true silence. "Teach by example," bladiblah, blomdeblom libela lobella lou!

My deletion I crave.
.. and it is not as simple as death.

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