There are two polar complementary dimensions of experience: tolerance and expressiveness. When one’s tolerance has been perfected there is no urgency to modify any experience to be something else, no matter what that experience may feel like. When one’s expressiveness has been perfected, one regains the knowledge and the courage necessary to exercise intent along its full range of ultimate possibility, thus being able to manifest any experience that could be experienced even in principle. This second perfection we know as magick.
If you cultivate tolerance without expressiveness you’ll be like a patient victim, able to endure but passive and lacking creativity. And if you cultivate expressiveness without tolerance, you’ll be like a perpetually frightened maestro for whom magick is not a leisurely pleasure but a dire necessity at every turn in life.
May you all be twice perfect.
“Twice perfect.”
Originally posted by u/mindseal on 2016-05-02 09:48:54 (4hclcb).
The invention of tolerance is the metric by which all of human history is measured. “What do you want?” is the system’s question. Answer with “This” and you’ve just won the game. ALL the games. In fact you’re not even playing the games anymore. You’ve stepped outside of them into another dimension and you can now step back in just past the goalposts at your own leisure.
Stepping out of the system is tolerance. Stepping back in at your desired position is creativity. I question if someone can even perform creativity without first being tolerant of their subject. Otherwise it’s a needy urge to react to the system’s demands, which isn’t creativity.
Tolerance is an interesting binary. It is a midpoint in a spectrum between the poles of attachment and repulsion. But because it is a binary, you can utterly destroy it by placing all ideas on the same point of the spectrum.
It doesn’t matter if you decide that everything is equally desirable, repulsive, or neither. You’ll end up in the same place. This is for the same reason that you can’t have a one-sided coin. The spectrum will collapse and then there is nothing to run to or from. Once there’s nowhere to run, absolute expressiveness is in a good place to thrive. You’ve stepped outside of the 2D world, into the 3D world, and can plop back into the 2D world wherever you want.
Money isn’t desirable anymore! Shit is desirable! Literally collecting mounds of feces on your living room floor is the metric of ultimate worth!
That’s creativity.
If you have what you want already, then you can just sit there in your 3D world until your decidedly unavoidable Death once again brings ignorance, or you can have some fun with the infinite binaries of reality that you’ve discovered.
Originally commented by u/[deleted] on 2016-05-16 04:21:21 (d36jwqg)
Stepping out of the system is tolerance. Stepping back in at your desired position is creativity. I question if someone can even perform creativity without first being tolerant of their subject. Otherwise it’s a needy urge to react to the system’s demands, which isn’t creativity.
I agree that tolerance and expressiveness often work best together.
Money isn’t desirable anymore! Shit is desirable! Literally collecting mounds of feces on your living room floor is the metric of ultimate worth!
I wouldn’t go that far. Shit can be a measure of worth, just ask the dung beetles. But to say it literally is, that’s a bit too much I think. Saying “can” or “can be” is often better than saying “is” imo.
If you have what you want already, then you can just sit there in your 3D world until your decidedly unavoidable Death once again brings ignorance, or you can have some fun with the infinite binaries of reality that you’ve discovered.
I was never born and will never die. It’s only the dream body that was born, together with its dream context of a dreamed universe. I am not my experience. I am a capacity to know, to will and to experience. :)
Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2016-05-16 06:20:05 (d36o6nn)
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Originally commented by u/[deleted] on 2016-05-16 06:22:15 (d36o9ls)