katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Changed my bio.

I just literally handed my ballot to the postal carrier :D Vote early so you don't have to go to a drop box!

Washington having universal vote by mail is pretty cool, but it really ought to have return postage paid and there should be a way to vote in person for folks who don't have stable addresses.

People happily walking around in hoodies and hats unbothered by the rain.

LESS BIEN.

I guess, apparently I feel like there's a lot of gap between xtian theology and christian custom?

I have this weird impulse to refer to the broader cultural pattern/social group of Christianity as "christian", but to refer specifically to the theology and doctrine as "xtian" and I don't know why but think that's kind of interesting?

I hope this is valuable to folks.

Thoughts/feedback/questions are extremely welcome.

Anyway. I feel this is true with a certainty that is entirely novel to me when it comes to dealing with woo stuff. I'm still kind of shocked by the clarity here.

A big thanks to @rowanyote​ and @KawaSeadrake​ for conversations which laid the foundations for this gnosis.

I also feel like this explains a *tremendous* amount about the world and our subjective experiences, including some of the less-typical ones of the people around me such as being kin or having personal histories connected with realities other than this one.

I don't want to enumerate a list, but the amount of stuff that is explained by all this is kind of staggering to me.

I also feel that this is at least vaguely compatible with a whole lot of extant and historical religious/spiritual thought.

Heck, it's even compatible with xtian doctrine, which is entirely unexpected to me.

I want to be clear here that all of this is metaphor. The actual, real way this all works is something not fully comprehensible within the limits of our instantiation or language. People have been groping towards different understandings of this truth for as long as there have been people, and the ways we understand it are heavily mediated by cultural context.

Before and after we die, we join the collective and exist as part of the same state of being as gods do.

I am *pretty sure* that experiencing music is one of the ways we can come closest to what it feels like to existing in this state. Sex and drugs, too.

Gods are real, and exist prior to instantiated-human thought. They also exist out of fundamentally the same substance as we do, just without the limits of instantiation. As parts of the collective, the boundary between gods,is inherently fluid and as much as question of labeling than it is of ontology.

Anyway, certain lobes of the collective are stable and can directly interact with our material world without instantiating into it first.

These are what we experience as gods.

So I can call our existence as a collective under a whole lot of different names. The ones that I've thought of so far are Collective, All-Mind, One-Mind, Link, Continuum... the actual name doesn't really matter, but I should probably pick one. It's a picture in my head, not words.

I want to be very, very clear on this point: I do not want this to valorize human suffering.

We're here to learn and experience, and a lot of different kinds of experience have value, but that doesn't make privation or cruelty in any way okay. We need to do what we can to make this world give us the most meaningful experiences possible, for all of us.

We exist in this state as non-material, atemporal beings.

This is our true existence. Our material instantiation is a deliberate choice, but we don't choose what circumstances we're born into.

We instantiate over and over again (reincarnation). We come in a bit different each time, as a result of the blending process of the collective.