OQQ PROTOCOL
The OQQ Protocol
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SOCIAL DISTANCING
"Every man And woman is a Star. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease––that of thinking." Aleister Crowley
- As if we couldn't be more 'socially' distanced from each other already. Personally, besides being highly susceptible to self-quarantine sensibilities of an Aesthetic (noun choice replacing 'Artist' which I was never truly found of) I was raised in a self-isolating/loathing, snake handling, fundamentalist cult – all very monkey see, monkey do. Yet, however hard I bucked that trend many years ago, Crowley's quote (above) from his Diary of A Drug Fiend, today seems to me, at least, just as on poignant as ever.
- So how does this shit work really? Wash your hands, Ok. I got that. But....
MAKING AMENDS WITH THE PAST
"I don't think anyone has any rights. If we all got what we deserved we would starve." Quentin Crisp
- Without question within whatever zone one must be quarantined to, ones past, if one needs to make amends, will always be there, too. Further, to question the past is everything––and the absolute acceptance of personal responsibility for all of it––and I mean the whole goddam thing, is liberation. If you are ready for such, this is great freedom. If not, one surely can find as many reasons as necessary to stay-off any sense of well being (read the fine print).
- Routine and regiment are key ingredients in keeping the lessons of the past here in the 'eternal' moment––until these too must be broken for whatever duration insight finds necessary to call us on our bs. A pause in the action, is well deserved, especially when not ALL agree why.
- The truths or secrets we find ourselves most distressed or increasingly reluctant to share––are likely the same truths or secrets now imperative for you to do just that––especially, if there is little question in ones mind as to whom these things should be shared. Otherwise, take that shit to the grave. But don't get this one wrong, because as dear Uncle Bill was often found of saying, "Cheat your Landlord if you can and you must, but never short change the muse. It cannot be done."

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