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The Cybersteppe – Or the unconscious revival of an ancient rite of passage
Dedicated to those who know.
More below.
Dedicated to those who know.
More below.
The Wheel turns and moves the ages. In this chaotic yet orderly progression we have seen a pattern, or perhaps a non-pattern, of Universal Paradoxicality. As such the only thing that is constant is inconstancy; the only absolute consistency is absolute inconsistency.
By this, when an age comes to an end and another comes about, we see a lot of changes in the structure of our universe, or perhaps it is merely our perception that changes, or even still what and how we project onto the universe is what changes. Regardless, things change.
As the the ages change, the barriers between worlds weaken and a sort of exchange happens. As there are no one way streets, things slip in and out of different worlds. Things are forgotten, and others remembered, some are lost utterly, and some new and unknown are found.
As such many things that we have taken for granted, things that were firmly entrenched in our beliefs and understandings disappear, are lost, or are simply no longer true. Similarly many things that did not apply to our universe, or were false, become fact.
This process happens, as all such things do, both on a macro and micro scale. That is, simultaneously echoing in every sphere. A good example would be the revival of long forgotten traditions, or perhaps the revival of their spirit and purpose. The aforementioned echo.
Since we are at the turning of an age, there is certainly much evidence of these changes happening. Truly the echoes of ancient practices from past ages have been cropping up everywhere, and in the most peculiar, but no less potent, forms. Adapted to our conditions.
Let us consider briefly the Proto-Indo-European rite of passage for young men. They would be stripped of all belongings, other than a weapon and sent out into the wild as a group, to live as outlaws for a time. Refer to the image in this post for more information.
It is coincidentally a good example of biomysticism – the natural relation between biology and spirituality. We see here the biological need of young men to “flange”, a theory @VEDIC_CYBERGOD has explored in great detail, and one I am a great supporter and believer of.
It combines then with the spiritual need of self-realisation to form a social rite which allows for the participants to truly face the world, find themselves, and find their place in that world. To put it more simply, it allows them to find their Dharma, or at least a path to it.
For there is no easier way to find yourself than through experience. Both positive and negative. As outlaws they were given the opportunity to act as if they wore a mask. Without societal consequence they were free to explore everything life had to offer.
They could experience different situations in a variety of roles, whether as the hero, the villain, the victim, or the witness. They were free to try on personas, and to act purely out of instinct, or curiosity. It was an opportunity for them to discover morality.
To experience and explore the taboos of their society, not in the form of a guilty perverse pleasure, but rather as a way to understand such taboos and their status, and to rid themselves of a curiosity that would be harmful within the boundaries of their society.
All of this came together to form a training regimen for them, to practice their social, physical, moral, and spiritual capacities and responses in relation to the world around them. So that when they finally returned home, they were whole and aware of themselves and their place.
While there was no such practice or place for us as we were bound strongly to the rules that govern a global civilization, the universe bent and offered us such a place and opportunity in an alternative form.
It gave us the internet – the Cybersteppe.
It gave us the internet – the Cybersteppe.
Similar in many ways and echoing a similar purpose it managed, in accordance with the requirements and conditions of our age, to adjust itself enough to fit us. Ultimately it provided us with the same training ground that our PIE ancestors had to explore and find themselves.
Just as they had, we too wore many skins that were not our own. Theirs were animal skins and ours were perhaps more abstract, but the effect was not lessened, for we too were able to embrace personas that were not our own and use them as a vessel to experience.
We changed names more times than we can count, and so have those around us. For out there, on the Cybersteppe, we were not that same person as we were in the flesh. Through this is were able to tackle the same questions as our ancestors, and to find answers.
To us, standing on the brink of the next age, born to see darkness, was given a gift unimaginable to our ancestors. A situation like ours is so ancient that it may as well have never been, and one that will not be achieved again for such a long time that it may as well never be.
In our steppe time and space work differently. We are able to be many places at once, to experience many scenarios simultaneously, in any order of events that we want, and to easily conjure up the exact situations that we wish to experience.
We can do this all in an accelerated form, for the limits of the flesh are naught in our steppe. Unlike our ancestors, who had to experience the steppe one life at a time, we are able to live many lives in a short span of time. Our training is dangerously accelerated.
We experience both entire chains of events and singular links of said chains, interdependently and independently. Socializing, oversocialiazing, undersocializing, all melded together into a greater experience and understanding of the nuances of interaction.
This is the reason for what I often say: It is in the darkest of days that some will find the way to achieve heights never-before seen. To bring forth the light from darkness, and to take it with them as the Wheel turns, laying the foundations of the Golden Age.
As @AryanCowboy once said to me : “A shaman would climb the tallest hill he could find and everything he could see would be his domain and responsibility, but now the tallest hill a shaman can find is the internet, and from there he sees the whole world. What does that imply?”
In the same way that the shaman's cyberhill is infinitely tall, so too is our cybersteppe infinitely vast.
Consider the implications of such a thing.
Few will understand this fully.
Consider the implications of such a thing.
Few will understand this fully.
