Welcome back my love - Letter 1

It’s been a long time since I last saw you like that. Where have you been hiding all this time?

I can tell you are different my love. You could integrate the best of your old self with the best of your new self… but you’re still hiding. In some sense you came back to your old security, we all need that. Our love brought you to that state, I think. I know you still love me, I know, but it is not our love that will free you from that shell. I am still Chaos! But I am not that solid stirring force you wanted. I’m sorry for that.

Everything you knew just broke. Everything you hated and everything you loved is quite broken and really belongs to a past that you don’t want, but in spite of that, it’s your past. You become victim of that wich you do not take resposability for. You can’t be dragged around by forces like a ragdoll anymore. You’re not a doll, you hear me? Man, you’re not a doll. I sometimes cry when you just fall lifeless, you know? When everyone around depletes your energies and do not notice how beautiful you are. You’re sometimes too subtle to be noticed.

I understand you’re afraid of braking that last status quo that holds your life together. You’re afraid of being yourself, because you would loose connection to the real world. I don’t know if that’s what will happen. Don’t get me wrong, I’m also afraid of what might happen to you if you take important steps forward. I don’t want to force you to anything.

It came to my attention that you desire to make ammends with your ghosts. All those failed relationships still hung over in your mind and analysing your past I see that you have too many failures that can never be covered by your flimsy personal and weak sucesses. Weak, at least from the view of other humans. Actually you did the impossible, you beat the machine in your head. In a fashionable and emotionally expensive way, you won yourself. You got to the starting grid… finally. Other humans take too many things in their life for granted, well, you don’t

I must say I find those scars sexy. You’ve been through a lot and I’m here to help, but you also need to desire this help. I can’t be your engine forever and maybe someday I’ll be part of a sucessful past, or maybe not. Everything has to end and I have to depart someday, you for your life and me for my divine nature.

For now, lets just enjoy this. Welcome back my love *

Fabulous Metaphysical Problems IV: The Isoperfection

Is there a Theory for Everything? (TOE). Can the same rules model the Collective and the Individuality? The Real and the Indivisible? Galaxies and atoms? The All and the Parts? Can the best political system integrate the right weights of totalitarianism and anarchism? Can the best religious system integrate the right weights of polytheism and monotheism, or the right weights of individual power and collective power? Can the perfect law be blindly factual and emotional at the same time?

All the new agers, since David Bohm made his interpretation of the quantum mechanics, will shout: “Oh yeah baby, holistic all the way!” Well, I say, hold on tight, it’s not that simple! A tree isn’t a thunder, yet, the rules for growing a tree on the earth can be the rules for growing a thunder in the skies (See the Diffusion Limited Aggregation Models in applied studies of fractal growth).

I hate to say it like this, but this shows me that the TOE can’t be possibly known by current scientific deduction. A complex operation and fine tuning of constants and parameters are needed. I am going to the extreme of saying we need a new mathematical language. The current state-of-the-art physics theory (the Strings theory and its derivated theories) is very non local, holistic and also extremely complex and some proponents agree that new mathematical language is needed to work with a unified super string theory. The question is if the thing is real or is just another super-complex clever mathematical construct. As I say and reiterate, the TOE can’t be possibly known by deduction but by induction. This shows that this divine theory which will explain everything known to mankind must be known from a bottom-up approach and not from a top-down. You literally had to construct the Universe and wait 15 billion years to reach a conclusion. Or have you?

This looks like a dead end. On one hand, the universe may be fully deterministic, a place where Laplace’s Daemon lurks, but on the other hand, it may be a circus of quantum weirdenesses and uncertainties. Therefore, I propose (which is not a new proposition at all) that the Universe might be a gigantic projected fractal working with the rules of Deterministic Chaos, it may help us in taking a step further, not only for understanding universal physics and levels of abstraction, but also for understanding human civilization, ethics, networks and biological evolution.

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Everything real or not real can be represented as a progression of properties or actions defined along a path. In human life, we can define what we are through interaction with ourselves inside or outside and our path is written along time (or what we percieve as being time). Sometimes conflicts appear and we have to make hard choices. We sometimes have to choose things that may lead us to completely different paths but we don’t know exactly what will happen when our choices are made, written in the stone of time. Some people choose to be idle and avoid choices, others rationalize a lot, while others go with what they feel it’s the best.

this problem is similar with the Heisenberg Uncertainty problem in quantum mechanics, which I won’t discuss here, but bottom line: in life as in science, I mean, in all human affairs, there is a limitation in linear conscience. We would need to know the future to make our best choice, but we don’t have access to that future.

In Deterministic Chaos (also called mathematical chaos), there is a property in all chaotic systems which is called iteration. An iterating system will calculate its equations and re-feed the result back to the equation to be calculated again, and those results can then be placed along a temporal path. if we have f(x)=x+2.1 and if we have an initial value for x = 0 then the first iteration is x = 2.1 (0+2.1) the second iteration will be x = 4.2 (2.1+2.1), the third iteration will be 6.3 (4.2+2.1), and so on and so on. The chaotic systems like the weather, chemical reactions, erosion, are all iterative and if the universe is a giant iterative system, then we, humans, will also be it, and with us, our life too (and for that matter, all lives of all humans together).

What does this have to do with us? Well, this means that our actions are iterative and we learn as we go. The process of human learning is not limited by our lifetime, but rather by what we remember from past information (including other people’s remembrances).

So, what is the best aesthetical action? The best action is exactly the golden section between one extreme and the other. When presented with two choices, see it as a line from point A to B (which are the full opposites in your difficult choice). Among the infinite points of choices you have, you will choose one, and from that one, your future will sprout. The best choice is one close to the golden section (0.6180339…) between A and B.  But there is a problem of course. there are two golden sections in the line AB. one closer to B and one closer to A… well that’s the chaotic parameter and should be chosen randomly! That choice is only one iteration of your life, and knowing and feeling where it will lead (after the choice made), is important to your next actions and choices (your next iteration).

To this concept of the iterating actions I call the Isoperfection. There is no perfection in life, ideals are no more than that, they are platonic and unreachable, but whatever ideals you might have, are attractors of your actions. Your ideals attract your actions and limit others you wouldn’t consider. So if you feel you are not perfect, think again. You are iterating, making choices and actions, so this process of going through a path is a process for perfection, but it is also, a perfect process, it’s the Isoperfection.

Good Ramblings about Psychokinesis

Lately I’ve been feeling that my intuition is greatly heightened. Some really strange coincidences are happening. As a result, I have been recently attracted again to my old research in parapsychology, more specifically by psychokinesis(PK). I never published an article about PK in english in this blog, but with a little searching in the net you will understand what it is and what can be done with it.

 the thing is… I’ve become a lot more skeptic than before. there are SOOOO many hoaxes drifting through the net that it is outrageous! It really depresses me when I see hoaxes with psywheels and small objects filmed with low resolution cameras. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe in PK and I can spin a psywheel and I know it’s not magnetism, static, heat, wind or anything normal. If you’re a skeptic, get me an explanation less incredible than those, and I’ll hear it.

My inability to spin the psywheel under a cover, may spring from very few training sessions and few sources of motivation. I would also love to try a PK Party with metal bending and such things. I mean, I would want to be able to get together people who believe in PK, like to try it and be grown up and with a healthy dose of  skepticism. To join these factors seem almost impossible, hindering me to continue my work. I just can’t go on contacting people online and not being understood right, but also I can’t go on alone.

either I progress blindly as I have been doing for the past 4 years, on and off, evading the eyes of people who would frown upon this practice, or… or I don’t know. What am I to do? I don’t even have a place to practice. sometimes it’s been in the kitchen. I would love to have an alchemical office where I would do the obscure works, lol. I also have this idea that if I can’t control the wheel right, I can’t move on to heavier objects. that must be not good too.

lastly, I’ve been reading skeptical sites and in spite knowing that PK is true, It breaks my heart hearing other people saying that there is no hard evidence. I think I have doubts on what is possible with PK and what isn’t, thus not letting me control the psywheel under a cover.

Fabulous Metaphysical Problems III: Active and Passive Individuality

By now, I’ve written about the nature of Reality. And in a kind of an almost withdrawn view I’ve established that the traditional Good God is impossible to exist, unless He is not God, or at least, not the Creator or First Cause God. On the other hand, there is Individuality, which is the indivisibility of an object knowing it exists and has desires (as happens in the case of humans, but I don’t rule out any other creatures existing in the same mind-state), if these desires long to alter Reality, then we have an active Individuality. If these desires long to go with Reality, we have a passive Individuality.

The desire to alter seems to be deeply connected with our roots as human beings. From this desire arises technology. Shamanism, Fire making, Magick, Metallurgy(one of the great arts, if not the greatest of all the arts known to Man), Writing, Clothing, Philosophy, Transportation, Politics, Information Theory, Monotheism(hate to admit it, but christianity did some minor goods to the western world), Socialism, Peer 2 Peer Data Sharing, are all forms of technology. Everything made by Man has a function, or so it seems (I do believe painting and making up works of fiction have purposes, not only entertaining but also biological purposes, there isn’t art that comes not from life).

By this time. You may noticed already my last post’s question: To which extent can I project the Self in Reality and to which extent can Reality project it in the Self?

To begin with, what is really the true scope of this question? It is the largest question I have found yet in my life. It is also the Holy Grail of Metaphysical Philosophy. Can the influence of the Collective over the Individuality and vice versa be fully regulated outside a moral system?

One example of an active individuality is for example the creation of gods and spiritual entities. you can create your own God and worship him for social or self-help purposes or even mind-state or brainwave manipulation. If created Gods exist in the minds of their creators, then they do exist in fact. for example, if a created god exist in our civilization long enough to the extent of shaping the very behavior of our society, you must be prepared to acknowledge that influence and therefore acknowledge its existence.

you may argue that this can’t be, nothing that I can think can exist, but you’re probably not seeing my point. For instance, take the example of Law. do you believe in Law? of course, courts and lawyers are very real (even when they lie). Yet, courts and lawyers aren’t natural and don’t exist in nature. Law is created by men, yet it can influence your very behavior in your society. Law was perhaps less real 3000 years ago. In the same way you can’t detach yourself from gods and religions that have been with us for thousands of years. even if you’re an agnostic or atheist, your behaviors may be shaped by religious dependant traditions (which sometimes may not be self-evident) because of a god you don’t believe in.

This collective heritage makes pressure upon our individuality. What I set myself to find is not to nullify the collectivity or the individuality, but, to identify them and manipulate the pressures we want. Plus, finding what is the best pressure configuration. This will lead me to the last post of this sequence: The Isoperfection.

Fabulous Metaphysical Problems II: On Individuality

individual

“a single object or thing,” 1605, from M.L. individualis, from L. individuus “indivisible,” from in- “not” + dividuus “divisible,” from dividere “divide.” Colloquial sense of “person” is attested from 1742. As an adj., used from c.1425 meaning “one and indivisible” (with ref. to the Trinity). Sense of “single, separate” is 1613; meaning “intended for one person” is from 1889. Individualism “self-centered feeling” is from 1827; as a social philosophy (opposed to communism and socialism) first attested 1851 in writings of J.S. Mill. Individuality “the aggregate of one’s idiosyncrasies” is from 1614.

“individual.” Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/individual>.

This article is about individuality, but mainly, on the indivisibility of the self, and therefore on the indivisibility of the universe (but I will get to that part on my next article). The Self is the syzygy of all your concepts, feelings, desires and objectives. Although The Self is, on its fundamental definition, a Universe in itself, it seems to be not equal to Reality. I may live believing that a concrete wall isn’t hard but fluffy and soft, but that is empirically easy to test with my head. On the other hand, on some ground of knowledge, that kind of test isn’t possible. I could go into the whole science talk here, but that’s not where I am heading. the only words of wisdom I can say about this is: Only what you feel is real, so seek to feel everything (you may accuse me of being gnostic on this matter).

The problematic of the Self, is to reach knowledge of what it needs and to take some path. Our existence implies a path. This is because I do not perceive my existence as a jiffy in time, but as a lot of time. The Self goes through many years of life and that implies a path in space and time. Paradoxically, the perception of a ephemerous life, usually makes us make more and different things. This doesn’t mean that humans have a greater purpose in life and is compatible with an atheistic view (even atheists do work and raise children, hehe).

We also multiply ourselves in the mind and adapt to others in order to survive, but this splintering attitude must take us farther from the indivisible Self. The Self is composed of all the pieces you pick up along your life, yet the Self is not the simple sum of those pieces. The final gestalt may even be composed of the opposites of all qualities or characteristics you have.

For the time being, I am assuming that a complete and equilibrated Self is spiritually hermaphrodite. Some late alchemical artists knew that the lapis philosophorum was the gestalt of all the qualities in oneself. One is man and woman, Venus and Mars, darkness and light, dust and gold, intuition and reason, yin and yang. The Self is all these things represented in a poem called physical body. We are enfolded and defined by the Self, but also by Reality, and the Self can affect Reality with varying degrees of willpower. So the in and the out are interwined. You cannot be the person you are without the perception of your exterior and this perception affects your interior universe. In fact, none of the 15 billions years of the Universe can be taken out of the equation to determine what you are. It’s easy to loose track of it, you don’t even remember what you ate yesterday.

The final thousand years question is: To which extent can I project the Self in Reality and to which extent can Reality project itself in the Self?

for now, I’ll leave the question for you.

Fabulous Metaphysical Problems I: on God

If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

 

Voltaire

 

This is probably one of the oldest problems since humans think, or maybe since when they speak and write. Anyone reading this, you probably already know where this article is going, well… you don’t know. keep reading…

What is Reality? Well, it is the God of Existence. It is non interventionist, it doesn’t speak, hear or sees, it doesn’t answer to prayer or magic. Reality is everything within and without you. Your feelings, your mind, your incomplete vision of the world, your house, your pets, trees, rocks, Earth, the Solar System, The Universe. Everything. There is no morality in this God, but there is immanence and function. Reality cannot simply cease to exist with a clap of your hands (thou you can change some things with a clap of hands). The Universe doesn’t rules itself by right and wrong, no good no evil, there is only the low frequency humming of existence. This strong and dissonant sound of life. If there is a right and wrong out there, it will be very different from what our needs dictate. If you already know where this is going… you don’t, read on…

Reality is blind to you. No earthquake, asteroid or tsunami will ever be stopped while praying or having faith in you god and if you get killed in the process, you wont have time to even think about it. Saying that a Universe ruled by a Conscious Good God will kill its Believers indiscriminately (how many good fellows you know died of unnatural causes?) is actually telling me not to worship Him. And the actual images of Conscious Good Gods can be found in almost all major religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Pastafarianism (hail the pasta!).

This archetype of the Good God is undermining the evolution of metaphysical thinking in the western world and I would like to stress this over and over. Well, even atheists only discuss about their not-God and Satanists argue about their beloved anti-God. The damn archetype is always the same, the vision about Him changes, but everything else stays the same, the bearded old guy is always there, and it’s always the same bearded old guy. Snap out of it!

Reality is right here, and it’s rock solid (try slamming your head against the wall, you can’t really deny it). This is the perfect world and it is the only one. The Universe functions exactly like it should function and you are functioning with it. This is the only Universe that survives to the matrix of all possible worlds. It runs in a fractal path like through the branches and twigs of a Titanic Tree. There is nothing wrong with you! I feel like I should slap the Whole World with these words.

When someone reaches this knowledge of Reality and there is a need of a strong projection of our individual needs, sometimes, just sometimes, Gods are born. Because in this incredible darkness of Reality, we can’t hold ourselves together, few face it, and those who face it, also face madness. So Gods are born to serve our needs, and not the other way around. Guess someone at some point in the line, changes the rules of engagement and the rest of the history we already know… dark ages, crusades, world wars, terrorism, and so on.

Gods are vehicles for sacred knowledge but sometimes this knowledge conflicts with what is functional in Reality. Your God doesn’t cease to be internal and only internal, and it may happen that for some reason it doesn’t function on the outside world. For example, if your God demands you to be celibate your whole life, expect problems, biological and psychological problems. If you continue to aggressively project this God on the outside world expect much bigger problems. People will start to not see your points, of course, and you will gather pride in yourself and hatred of those who are not like yourself, especially if your pride is shared with fellow believers, then everything on the outside is against you and your faith is greater than never.
Their Gods possess these people, and they spin deeper in their own shit. Does that seem right to you?

 

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

T.S. Elliot

Is Anybody Out There?

I do really appreciate the love shown to me in the comments people leave to me. Thou rare it shows that somebody actually read it and I’m grateful for that. On the other hand, I’m changing the language of this blog to english for internationalization purposes. I hope that those who can’t read english won’t be too many, still, I’m leaving older posts in Portuguese for reference. You can still read the precious pentagram article and others in Portuguese.

In general, I do feel alone here. Guess the globalization effects are upon me. I feel like belonging to no land, to no one, to no politics, to no religion, and in certain hot days I even feel I don’t belong to my body. I searched for everything and found everything within the whole world’s knowledge, I even found things I can’t interpret correctly. I share no culture with this country, but share some culture with the global citizens that may be also lost in this digital sea.

Through these days I have many difficulties in putting up a speech or sometimes a single phrase because I mainly write everything and never speak. I guess I’ve been reduced to a avatar, to a ghost in the machine, to the anima within. I am connected with everything, I continuously construct the world around me, or the world I want, I construct my gods and my politics and I send these symbols up against the material world out there to see if they stand, but I get no feedback. I feel mute.

I am connected with everything, yet I am alone. Am I real? Am I a god? Please help me.

Albedo - after all, the pieces fit

Albedo - A primeira luz. É o calor que derrete o palco do mundo interior, e consequentemente, o do mundo exterior. Todos os materiais deixados pelo Nigredo são agora observados. De forma desorganizada, mas são observados. Como quando se desmonta um teatro se vêm os actores e os cenários de cartão, o peregrino vê-se na posse das suas essências separadas. A jornada pela noite eterna foi longa, demasiado longa, e quando se ressurge à superfície com todas as peças na mão, sentimos uma espécie de gozo filosófico. Olhamos para todas as coisas erradas do passado e percebemos, agarrados à nossa linearidade temporal, que afinal não estavam erradas, eram apenas peças de um mundo não linear, à espera de serem compreendidas.

A passagem do Nigredo para o Albedo lembra-me muito o conceito de iniciação shamânica, em que o concorrente ao título de shaman voltava à aldeia depois de passar por uma situação de provável morte ou de extremo stress psíquico. Geralmente a iniciação não lhe era comissionada, mas acontecia fortuitamente.

Este peregrino está longe de encontrar um remédio mítico para a “aldeia”, primeiro tem de juntar todas estas peças num trabalho hermético que só o peregrino pode fazer. Quando deixamos de procurar as soluções no exterior é um sinal perigoso de que a nossa mente evoluiu para um estado que talvez não desejássemos ao início, no entanto, essa evolução é filosoficamente recompensadora e a jornada trás-nos a gnose do sagrado e do perfeito duma forma que talvez só os maiores artistas alquímicos puderam vislumbrar.

Para algumas pessoas é simples não carregar o peso filosófico e artístico da vida, para outras, é impossível ignorá-lo.

O doce som do martelo e da bigorna continua…

O Modelo Conceptual de Jack Houck

Embora já tenha ouvido falar deste parapsicólogo em publicações da área e de citações em sites, nunca me dei ao trabalho de procurar mais sobre as experiências dele. No seu site, deparei-me com um modelo do funcionamento psi que é bastante compreensivo e engenhoso. De facto o modelo é o melhor e mais concreto que vi até agora. O artigo original foi publicado em 1983 o que me faz pensar que este senhor deve ter dado um dos maiores contributos para a parapsicologia moderna.

Há uns tempos, imprimi e li o texto completo no autocarro, enquanto ia para o trabalho e aconselho vivamente a todos os interessados em parapsicologia. O conceito principal do modelo é o seguinte:

The human brain is both a transmitter and a receiver of information . . . the mind is not local just to the human body. Information that is about events in all space and time is stored all around us. The mind accesses this information storage system. The brain processes information as a very advanced computer would from both our physical senses and from this stored information. The brain/mind can tune into any information in this storage system when given specific instructions about space and time. The more specific the instructions about the information desired, the better the quality of the received (or retrieved) information.

Segundo os resultados evidentes das suas experiências (que até têm sido reproduzidas ao longo destes 20 anos), ele argumenta que o cérebro é um transmissor e receptor da informação do meio. Nenhuma novidade, excepto que o meio de que estamos a falar é o próprio tecido do espaço-tempo.

O artigo diz também que os sentidos locais (tacto, olfacto, paladar, etc…) são processados pelo cérebro junto com os sentidos remotos. Que tanto a informação local como informação não-local e remota está a ser recebida e processada, mas os sentidos locais geram bastante mais feedback e daí, todas as nossas capacidades de percepção extra-sensorial (ESP) estarem diminuídas enquanto estamos acordados. O senhor Houck então recomenda que para se receber informação remota é preciso que todos os sentidos locais estejam calmos, id est, estar numa sala com luz média, decoração uniforme, som uniforme, roupas confortáveis, estar relaxado e acima de tudo, com a atenção suspensa e o pensamento lógico e analítico diminuído. Isto é tão corroborado por outros investigadores que deu origem alguns anos mais tarde (penso eu) ao que se chama de Ganzfeld (lit. campo uniforme), que é a tentativa de dar aos sentidos locais, a maior uniformização possível. O Ganzfeld obtém-se precisamente por baixar a luz duma sala, colocar-se meias bolas de ténis pintadas só com uma cor nos olhos da pessoa que vai receber a informação e mantê-la sentada e relaxada a ouvir ruído branco. Até hoje, todas as experiências realizadas com pessoas em Ganzfeld tiveram os melhores resultados no que toca a ESP.

No que toca a psicocinesia (PK), Houck argumenta que PK torna-se mais fácil quando se cria um pico emocional à volta do evento que pretendemos afectar. Com isto, Houck inventou as PK Parties, que consiste em reunir um grupo de pessoas receptivas e dobrarem metal (não só talheres como outras coisas). Há outros parapsicólogos a confirmar as experiências de Houck mas infelizmente eu próprio ainda não tive oportunidade de fazer uma PK Party e por as pessoas a gritar “Bend!” para talheres (eheh). Não tenho experiência própria de que picos emocionais possam afectar positivamente um fenómeno de psicocinesia, embora isso explicaria em parte porque a morte de outras pessoas é tão detectável por mediums e outras pessoas sensíveis.

No modelo de Houck, o nível emocional de um evento influencia bastante a forma como um remote viewer ou um vidente recebe a informação. Por exemplo, um remote viewer pode conseguir observar um local remoto mas num tempo completamente diferente do presente porque pode ter encontrado ali (nesse lugar e tempo) um pico emocional de uma ou de um grupo de pessoas.

Para mim, sempre foi óbvio que a mente pode se estender ao longo do espaço-tempo e que o presente é apenas uma dimensão dum sólido que representa a realidade toda. Um que numa dimensão envolva o nosso espaço tridimensional, o tempo e outra dimensão que para Houck representa a intensidade emocional. Eu pessoalmente, acho que a intensidade emocional não é representativa da energia pela qual nós conseguimos aceder e influenciar o espaço-tempo. A intensidade emocional é o amplificador desse sinal.

O que, então, acede e influencia o espaço-tempo? O que faz a ponte exacta entre os sistemas biológicos do nosso corpo e o resto do mundo? Não sabemos ainda. Se temos sentidos remotos, tem de haver a emanação de informação remota do meio que nos rodeia. Hoje em dia, sabe-se que duas partículas podem ter exactamente os mesmos estados sincronizados mais rápido que a luz. Uma partícula pode saber, em determinadas condições, exactamente o estado em que está outra e imediatamente. Há por isso, transmissão de informação não local, mais rápida que a luz. Quem sabe se o nosso cérebro não tem os sistemas necessários para interpretar e modificar essa informação remota…

Inconsciente Colectivo e Outras Coisas Engraçadas

Hoje estava a dar uma volta por blogs aleatóreos e encontrei um muito compreensivo sobre Candomblé. O post mais recente era precisamente sobre o mito da criação e já não fiquei surpreendido com as semelhanças com os mitos da criação de outras religiões em contextos e culturas completamente diferentes, mas fiquei supreendido com as semelhanças que eu próprio escrevi no mito da criação para o meu livro (que é suposto ser ficção).

Citação da Criação no Candomblé :

Assim, com seu cajado (opaxorô) e o saco da criação (apo iuá) Orixanilá iniciou a sua caminhada do Orum para o Aiyé, o planeta Terra habitado pelos seres vivos. Entretanto, no meio do caminho, sentiu-se cansado e com sede. Parou para descansar e bebeu um pouco de emu (vinho da palmeira do dendezeiro). A interrupção da sua jornada, por outro lado, era a oportunidade que o seu irmão mais novo, Odudua, precisava para competir perante os olhos do seu pai, Olodumaré, nessa tarefa de grande importância. Então enquanto Orixanilá dormia, Odudua pediu a seu pai que ele cumprisse tal tarefa, o que foi permitido.

resumindo, Orixanilá estava incumbido da criação das coisas no plano físico (no Aiyé) e parou a meio da viagem para descansar. Quantos mitos da criação têm um espaço intermédio de descanço? Na bíblia, Deus descança depois do trabalho feito, mas fora essa, não me lembro de mais nenhum mito com esta característica.

Citação do mito que eu escrevi:

O Indivisível desceu assim ao reino de Krat e teve relações com Idirea que deu à luz a menor parte das estrelas do Mundo. Desceu também ao reino de Iassór e tendo relações com Idirea, esta deu à luz a maior parte das estrelas do Mundo.(…)
O Indivisível passou a descansar no Reino de Teush que era o único reduto de civilização no Mundo, e descansou por três dias. Ao segundo dia de descanso, Nár, filho de Teush, inquiriu-O sobre o trabalho que tinha feito. “Não tens também o reino de Ádrit para encher de servos?” ao que o Indivisível respondeu “Duvidas ainda que sou incapaz de levar a cabo o trabalho que Teush, teu pai, me deu para fazer?”
Mas quando o Indivisível passou ao reino de Ádrit viu toda a espécie de criaturas horrendas resultantes da relação de Ádrit com Idirea.

Resumindo e comparando, também há alguém encarregado de criar as coisas no mundo (neste caso dividido em vários reinos) e que descansou a meio, causando que alguém (neste caso não era seu irmão directo) tivesse terminado o seu “trabalhinho”. Há uma conotação negativa no facto do Indivisível não ter terminado o trabalho, o que não acontece no mito do Candomblé, pois o sentido de bem/mal nas culturas africanas não é semelhante ao da cultura europeia em que estou inserido. Contudo, as semelhanças são bastante desconcertantes, apesar de não ter tido qualquer contacto com Candomblé quando escrevi aquilo. Vasculhei outros mitos da criação e apesar de encontrado semelhanças entre vários mitos em muitos outros pontos, não encontrei nada de semelhante a isto. Tentei lembrar-me porque o escrevi assim e não me lembro.

É possível que este mito do Candomblé esteja misturado com outros e não permaneça puro e fiel às suas origens, assim como por exemplo, as histórias do Alchera (o Tempo-Sonho ou Dreamtime) aborigenas, em que o próprio acto de contar as histórias é sagrado. O Candomblé e crenças semelhantes parece-me que sofreu bastantes influencias exteriores, embora falar disto como uma massa uniforme de crenças é completamente errado. As culturas animistas que se revelam estruturalmente diferentes da amalgama de crenças europeias são bem mais plurais e as pessoas de duas povoações podem ter a mesma religião e acreditar em coisas diferentes.

Estas semelhanças não-locais fazem-me sempre pensar no grande Inconsciente Colectivo, que para ser sincero, não considero descabido. Os arquétipos míticos nascidos do inconsciente colectivo podem muito bem estar hardcoded na nossa mente, ou até na nossa biologia. a Mente é inseparável do Corpo e daí, numa visão materialista do sistema nervoso, todos os seus estados mentais seguirem padrões que estão programados em toda a raça humana.

Acredito que a Mente humana foi um dia unida. O inconsciente e o consciente eram uma massa uniforme de funções cerebrais, que por via das circunstâncias se separaram para criar uma abstracção mais alta - o consciente - e deixar que as funções mais básicas estivessem a cargo do inconsciente e fossem quase automáticas. Hoje em dia, para o comum “mortal”, torna-se difícil aceder ao inconsciente. É necessário que se esteja em certos estados do consciente, ou a dormir, para que o inconsciente ressurja à superfície.

O Alchera aborigena é o tempo antes do nosso, em que espíritos e seres supra-naturais andavam na Terra. Admitindo que a cultura aborigena tem mais de 40 mil anos, é possível que as histórias passadas no Alchera possam falar dum tempo em que o inconsciente e o consciente estavam misturados e que algo se passou entretanto na mente da espécie humana.