1 Hi
Everybody, this is Leo Volont with a relatively short informal piece I shall
call “Idealization and the Left Hand Path”.
If this subject intrigues you, well, I elaborated the Philosophy of it more
completely in my “Creating a Better God” series, and in my longer series, “The
White Light Paramahamsa Swan Dream” I lay out how my Life had channeled me into
the Left Hand Path. I will also discuss
the Spiritual Qualities of the Cerebellum, as distinct from our Conscious Mind that
resides within the Cerebral Cortex… but there, the more complete treatment of
the subject can be found in my more recent “Ego Soul and the Two Minds”. I’ll leave the links down in the Description.
So, yes, thank you, but now let me get
started….
2 The Big
Return on the Left Hand Path is Life at its Fullest, that is, in proportion to
the extent to which we had nurtured our Ideals. We do exactly the opposite of what the
Transcendentalists do, with their spiritualized complacency towards any Quality
Distinctions. Then, even while we
certainly see them in more swimming pools than sewage pipes, they have a Doctrine
of positive disdain for any other Aesthetic Ideals other than their own Ideal
of rejecting all Ideals as baseless or illusory. Thus in their living through their Lives,
while rejecting all that Life has to offer, well, they live as though they were
dead already.
3 But for us,
well, living as though we are dead can wait until last, until we really are
Dead, when all that the Transcendentalist renounces for, and struggles against
the grain to attain, comes as the fulfillment of a Spiritually Natural Process
– that when we are finally reduced to Nothingness, when Death causes the Dissolution
of the Body, well, then we will finally be enabled to appreciate the
Undifferentiated, Unchanging and Eternal Nothingness, certainly, when that is
the only thing we have left. So, in the
Eternity of Time, what’s the hurry? Until
then, while God Given Life still animates us, we can find Bliss by living for
our Aesthetic Ideals. No, not as those
prone to Transcendentalism do, who place the Faculty of Consciousness over all
other Spiritual Attributes, for then, as would logically follow, they couldn’t
go any further than just being Passive Spectators to Life.
4 For us we see the Seats of our Soul in Will
to Action, not in mere Consciousness.
Consciousness may sometimes even just get in the way. Many of the
greatest marshal artists went through their most astounding feats in Conscious
Blackouts – their Seat of Will apparently not wishing the Word Encoding Ego
Mind to interrupt any of the Real Action, with its slow background pinging of Thoughts
that are often enough off key to the flow of the unfolding situation, you know,
being at cross purposes to our Essential Will that not only lives to Survive,
but to survive Beautifully.
5 So for us, we
focus our Will upon achieving some Ideal, honing our Aesthetic Vision down to the
Core of Psychologically appealing Archetypes.
These Archetypes had developed within our Genetic Coding over Trillions
of Generations, going all the way back to the First Organization of Life, where
a Corporation of Molecules got together to move in a chosen direction in order
to absorb what it could then use to make it bigger and healthier. All
such Archetypes are basically Quintessential, even if clothed in Elaborations
unique to time, mood and place. Now, consider what that must feel like for a
Spiritual Person, throughout the body and
mind, being able to achieve, to embody, to be some avatar of an Ideal…
any Ideal. I believe that is what the
Saints were, because of actions they had taken, proving they were more Creators
of a Providential Divine Will than only of mere Divine Consciousness.
6 The Ideals of the Saints were Noble in their
Humanitarianism, Idealizing nurturing the Needy. My
innovation here is to point our Path of Willful Idealization towards what
we hope we may enjoy. Yes, of
course, the Religious Ideals of Altruism, Service and Charity are the most
Noble of Ideals, but they are not the only category of the Ideal which we need
heed, no. Many to Most of us hear other
Callings, and are drawn down different Paths, and it’s okay that we follow them. You see, I had a Lesson in Life when I was
still quite young – young enough to still be among the Elementary School
Children in my Family’s Protestant Church’s Sunday School (though I later
converted to Catholicism, to be more in concordance to the Ideal of a High
Medieval Marian Catholicism and the Culture of a Civilization that had called
itself ‘Christendom’). But what the
Sunday School did was that they took us to the State’s Insane Asylum. That was in the days back before “One Flew
Over the Coo Coo’s Nest”, when Madness was still institutionalized rather than
being released out on the streets, for the sake of Personal Freedom, but then
having to be cycled through the jails whenever the poor lunatics would go into crisis.
7 Well, once
this Tour into this Den of Insanity commenced, I was horrified by the sights
and especially by the stench. It was as
though we’d descended into one of Dante’s Rings of Purgatory. It was then that I made a startling personal
discovery, that it seemed as though only I myself had been the only one so affected.
The other Kids had either a Stoic
Resignation to this Horror, or they were simply insensitive to it, but I
couldn’t stand it, and ran for the Exit, being desperately glad that nobody
tried to stop me.
8 When I got
outside, I joined up with some of the Church Ladies out by the bus. One of them, Mrs. Mitchel, as respectable as
any Church Lady could ever be, saw the worry in my face, that I had suspected
that I’d somehow disgraced myself by retreating out of that ghastly Hell on
Earth, and so she gave me a wry consoling smile and told me “Leo, Sweet Heart, you’re
okay. Look at all of us. We couldn’t go in there either. Being Sensitive is a Blessing from God, and
while Suffering might come into our Lives, as no Life can be totally free of
some Suffering, well, it’s okay that the Good Lord did not Call you to seek it
out, and it’s no Sin to be more comfortable with the Good and the Beautiful
than with the Stark and the Ugly”.
9 So I personally
pursue Idealizations in the Arts and Music, but that is probably only because I
wasn’t a born athlete, or I would have put much more emphasis on Sport. Oh! I
almost forgot. I used to be a
Motorhead. Yes, in my adolescence my Passion was Flying
and I got a Federal Private Pilot’s License as soon as I was old enough to
qualify for it, but as an adult my Sporting Favorite became Sport Touring
Motorcycles, on twisty canyon and mountain roads, going much faster than the
speed limit… the Ideal I was shooting for was the Optimization between Risk and
Caution with the view for Maximizing the Fun.
Yes, every time you have fun, it’s because you are touching some Ideal…
or the Ideal is touching you, like the Hand of God reaching down to pet a kitten.
10 So how can
that not be Holy? Yes, it’s perhaps ironic, that the only way
the Transcendentalists can blame us, is by first rejecting all aesthetic
criteria, except for the one where the Desiring of Positive Emotional Outcomes
is somehow considered to be a Bad Thing, you know, as per the First Principle
of Buddhism which states that “Desire is the Source of All Suffering”, probably
because the spoiled Prince Gautama, having been surfeited by unappreciated and
therefore undeserved pleasures for his entire life, somehow became blind to the
fact that Desire is also the Wellspring of every Aesthetic Ideal, that is,
everything done by voluntary action that brings emotional joy, unless one is as
dead to it as was the Buddha.
11 So, yes, the
Knowledge that the Left Hand Path offers does not come in terms of what to
Think but in what to Do. The Seat of the
Soul is in the Cerebellum, not the Cerebral Cortex, and so we are ruled by our
Impulses to Action, while the Cerebral Cortex is only up there as an
Application that fabricates what is only the Sensation of Consciousness,
becoming Spectator and Critic, thinking it’s the Core of our Spiritual Being,
only because it’s programed to think that way, that it’s watching and
referencing all events from the First Person Perspective, which doesn’t need to
be anything more solid than just being a subjective assumption, which could
certainly be programmed into any sophisticated Robot. The
Cartesian “I Think therefore I Am” should have been “I Do therefore I am.” Not that there is anything wrong with
Thinking, no, not once the Cerebellum has conditioned Thinking to its Will, for
where else could Intellectuals and Poets come from but from out of the
conjunction of Will with and a Way for Words.
12 Thank you
everybody. That’s it for this video,
that in the making of which it became more like one of my polished formal
videos. Oh, I know that I promised you
all my Book by now, but I’ve had some delays.
You can see that I recently moved, and my Cats and I love the new place,
but moving took a lot of my time and attention, and I strained my right arm,
making it painful to hold my hand up over a keyboard. But, I’ve gotten back to work, and suppose I
only need to go through one more Read Through of what is now 65 Thousand Words,
that is, in order to assure that it’s all of the highest literary quality. Yes, I won’t consider it good enough to
please You until it is first good enough to please me, but, yeah, I’m getting
more and more happy with it. So, yeah,
this Video was me just screwing around… now let me get back to Work on my Book:
“Heroic Army Super Clerks”, the Book that will Heal America.
Spirituality in Terms of the Left Hand
Path, that is, Realizing some Ideal. This Video is an elaboration of the Video
I made for its Philosophical Justification, "Creating a Better God" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67vwggdDMs&list=PLj3dZ8QP5bjFDzmAmMOEmJYpQWLpFB6Xf
) as well as for the Video I made in regards to how my Life led me to the Left
Hand Way, "The White Light Paramahamsa Swan Dream" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZaJnvgmIKI&list=PLj3dZ8QP5bjEB7mRO8OI5hgNYsUnCWche
) This Video is actually something of a first. I suppose you all know that
while I write during the day, well, in the Evenings I turn to my Dancing
Practice, that now admits to Singing Practice also, since I seemed to have been
Called to it when an injury happened to my right arm, which prevented me from
being able to dance at all vigorously without continually re-opening up the
Tear or Sprain. So I started Singing through my Playlist, and it occurred to me
that, since I have plateaued as a Dancer, it would be nice to add Singing, just
so as to keep my Evening Practices, of whatever, challenging, but with new
insights, often several times each evening. Practicing anything systematically,
at the first, is the most frustrating thing, while being the most rewarding.
BUT, be that as it may, in the evenings, to make Dancing and Sing more
appealing than it would otherwise be, I do, via the various mediums for it,
Delta 8, 9, 10, THC, HHC, and I find it always puts me into an expansively
thoughtful mode. Well, I developed the habit of keeping a WORD Doc open and if
I had any Inspiring Thoughts, I'd just click them out on the keyboard, giving
me something to do when resting between songs. Well, I've piled up months of
these Insights and Pearls of Wisdom, and swore over and over again to put them
in service of this Channel, but only today did I follow through. Yes, this
video came from a High Thought I had, of several hundred words, but when I got
to looking it over in the late morning, after having run some errands in the
morning, well, I just put it through my normal Rewrite Editing Process, and
then to Video, and it was up on Youtube before 7 in the evening. And the
Quality is good. This Idea of expanding Ideations that I had while Psychotropically
Inspired, well, it's an Idea I know now will work.
