I’m sitting in bed, with my cat, some Diorites, Gatorade, and a small assortment of pills that I am to take…

I’m spent… really really spent. I got very little sleep last night.. so I’ve been in a surreal sleep deprived state the whole day… I worked on a post on the subject… but…

There are some posts that are difficult for me to post.. these are usually of the longer, more complex, variety… epic if you will. Posts where I deep dive into one or another subject.. and probably a subject that your average reader would come to without a whole lot of background knowledge..

It was said to me, at one point, that it was like you needed a PhD in Matt.. to really follow this stuff.

I’d like to do more posts like that actually. It might not make a lot of sense from the usual marketing perspective.. but it might.

You see there’s the really deep and rich intellectual foundation to my work.. to my way of being in the world.. I am some kind of a philosopher I guess you could say… and I think.. if you should find the subjects interesting… which at least I do.. I think this could be some very exciting stuff to go and explore publicly.

This stuff, I think, is the real reason why I was put on this earth.. this is my real passion… and… the spirits whom visit me seem to be beckoning me onward.. down these paths.

That’s a strange thing to say… but that gets at my mystic shtick

I imagine you’ve probably seen the Matrix movie(s).. In a way the movie suggests that the world we take for reality.. is really an illusion.. and the real world is this other thing.. and its about saving humanity from the illusion that enslaves us. Or that’s one way to think of it.

Well its a sorta similar idea.. I heard this said somewhere.. I think by a psychoanalyst..  some people cling to fantasy in order to escape reality, others cling to reality to escape there fantasy’s. I always liked that.

Another way of pointing to it is something Jung said in reference to psychology types:. The mysteries of the universe extend infinitely into the outer material world.. but they also extend infinitely into the interior world of the psyche.. folks more orientated to the outer world we call extroverts, people more orientated to the inner world we call introverts.

The point here.. an what people miss.. is that the inward world is just as real as outer world. You can say “it’s all in your mind” about.. whatever.. but at root.. all the problems of life are inward problems..

So this business of talking about mystical things.. spirits.. whatever.. the mystic side of religions and mythologies from the dawn of time.. have served as a road map to this inward world.. and a part of the truth they speak to is the truth of inward reality. And in large measure I’d say this is one of the big things the world is missing today…

And this is really what my art and work is all about exploring.

So when I speak of spirits beckoning me onward.. I’m personifying actual psychic, or psychological… experience.

And it’s “not just subjective.”

The surrealists, of course, thought of it as a kind of “ultimate reality” and it really is, in many ways… what Plato was trying to get to with is ultimate ideas..

Anyway… I think think this is probably a post worth posting