Chapter 0
So you know how sometimes you decide you’re going to meditate, and you sit down and light your candles and do your thing, and then sometimes you realize you’re starting to meditate and you’re like, “shit, better get my mat out and light a candle before I become incapable of using a lighter”. Well, I discovered myself starting to write again, and I was like “shit, better get somewhere to put all this writing”.
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So hi, this is beyonder.
I’m having a weird time. You might be too. On one level there’s climate disaster, white supremacy, imperialism and neoliberalism, the gains of fascism around the world, and the utter inability of any individual to do anything meaningful about any of those. On another level there are these strange hints that distinctions like ‘god vs human’ are meaningless, which should mean that there’s nothing stopping us from just fixing everything, right? Except there obviously is, so the confusion stays.
Before I go further, let’s all just agree that words are bullshit when it comes to describing and translating experiences that happen outside of the ability to categorize. I mean, language is our current best attempt at standardized categorization of the world around us. It’s the best tool available to me in this context, but it’s also literally incapable of conveying anything I want to convey. There is some good news though. If I’m present enough when I write this, and you’re present enough when you read it, we might be able to share some meaning.
So drop your meaning in the comments. I’ll try to answer every one I get, and I’ll try to just let myself write whenever I feel like it, which is pretty often. Let’s go far together.
