THE PERMEABILITY OF THE SELF IN RELATION TO A DUALISTIC TRICKSTER

INTANGIBLE MATERIALITY
By, Bruce Duensing

Now we are again at our wits' end, there where the reason of you mortals snaps from over-stretching. Why do you enter into fellowship with us if you can not carry it through?  Will you fly and are not safe from dizziness? Did we force ourselves on you or you on us?"

-Mephistopheles in "Faust" by Goethe

In the last post, which concerned the potential evolution of aerial phenomenon from its pre-technological manifestation in dragon lore to its contemporary metamorphosis as a virtual machine with organic properties which parallels our own evolution of theories regarding the nature of the universe as a macrocosm of ourselves, despite the fact there can be no basis of comparison when one of the two intertwined perspectives between subject and object is unknown onto itself, prone to influence, which makes the human zero point of self description preeminently pliable in relation to its psychological adaptation to it's environment.

This is a story of my descent, if you will into extreme illness and a metaphysical near death experience among the living, all of which began with the strange idea that if we abandoned the paranormal, it would in of itself cease to exist...and so this may be a story of retribution, of coincidence or the initiatory tale of a madman. The larger question is one that only you can answer, is our relationship with the paranormal one of a Faustian transaction with a prescription of cost, or is all of this a free lunch? More importantly, what do we receive in return? Are we capable of making a valuation of worth once we return to the daylight from the shadows or is all of what we have gathered in our quest, merely trinkets exchanged for our sincerity toward an insincere broker?

This is a journey into a form of "photism" meant and known to some as the "black light" termed "potentia", as the blackness that produces all color and form from within as it has no similarities as in it's aggregate sum it is incomparable and as a matter of causation is invisible to our sensory cognition. This is the heart of the anomalous, the "paranormal" and then we must ask a dualistic question; does the paranormal seek us or do we seek it? Or then again is it this a matter of enfoldment that is due to the dualism of our positioning between the seen and unseen? If so why does the right hand appear to be unable to read what the left is doing in relation to itself as the antitheses or mutual correlations in human perceptions of phenomena in the natural world? Or is this the manifestation of Abraxas wherein the world of the paranormal in its antitheses or mutual correlations become relativistic and of no value? To answer this perhaps is a question we must sincerely pose to ourselves in regard to the paranormal, what is it that we seek?

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