We will come alive.

I feel within me great forces--worlds destroyed and rectified, honored and pillaged through massive waves of consciousness. Worlds within worlds, a sprawling mess of infinity: the absence of meaning, the plenty of voids and entropy--the unrelated in lost desperation.

The mere collision of the material--bombardment of the transient--the grieving widow that mourns the death of her king. Dissonance unto the lake of fire--the cackling of Death's slow rise to absolution.

Destruction is distinction. Distinction begins our relation--our exaltation, our awareness, our dismay. It begins the human intellects existence within the world--the fruition of assumed forms and their functionality to our lives.

What is alive is cohesive--distinctions working harmoniously that can engage beyond themselves in harmony and in melody. We relate the physical world to certain harmonics of consciousness that must be met in sequence from immediacy to the most abstract engagements such as purpose and framework of myth.

Before we can construct ourselves, we must establish our homeostasis. This is not a romantic reality--in order to reach higher states of consciousness, we must not only be fed but have there be no crisis of food. The individual must be empowered and rise above the crisis of needs to engage in higher consciousness and thusly higher crisis.

The higher the harmonic of consciousness is climbed, the more abstract--engaged in thinking beyond the immediate, the intellect is, until, possibly, the individual reaches the infinite harmonic, which is the ability to engage experience with a consciousness that exalts an intention, meaning that, although the individual was always a participant with the universe, the individual is aware of their participation and interacts according to their construction.

To be aware of awareness is the birth of identity that is crafted rather than dictated--of myth that is not the death of periphery but the ability to engage in higher systems of logic and make more complex assumptions and predictions.

The role of myth to our species is integral--the ability to create altars and hierarchies and protocols for human behavior has created psychological pathways for the extension of empathy and the ego. But through distinction, there is also limitation. All institutions have, at one time, been militant--but the important thing to realize is the mobilization of large groups of people.

People, understandably, tend to look at the destruction entailed in religions conviction, but not at the dramatic call for action it entailed. To salvage the great influence that myth has on people is important. People attempt to engage their world in absence of a mythology, failing to realize that the mythic mind, the one of form and narrative, is inescapable.

To be unaware of this is to be completely vulnerable to suggestion.

The connotation for 'myth' is one of falsity--something that escapes 'reality--' there is some eerie concession that reality is but a conglomerate of unrelated observations. My argument is that this is a myth and to engage your life in this type of myth is to not harness the true power of the self. People need myth in crisis. In crisis, there is but one problem that needs collective resolution.

Myth is the framing of a problem and symbolically assigning protocols that give a person the knowledge of what is needed to be a 'hero.'

To engage in mythic thinking is to harness the full potential of symbols, at every level of consciousness, to be able create a multiplicity of meanings and associations that are enthralling and catering to emotions that validate identity.

The perfect interplay of the general and the immediate is the absolute heroic measure of crisis through consciousness--to bring together our awareness, our protocols, our assumptions to a functionality is the convergence of awareness, will, and soul.

Delusion is when an individual caters to myth that only engages in awareness or will or soul. Manipulation, in that light, to me, is whether a myth is empowering to the individual or used as a means to establish a hierarchy of power.

The first is that we are but passive observers in the physical universe absolutely helpless--the exaltation of awareness suppresses our role and purpose within the world. This is a perspective of those who are not alive--the undead, the liminal, the lost.

The second is that our will dictates the world absolutely. Consciousness is a force of the universe--not the force. Our voices are involved in the universe, but we are not the only voice. We have the means to harmonize, exalt, and glorify that which is deemed worthy--but this does not mean we are gods.

The third is that the flesh is a prison for our divinity and we must preserve it and adhere to methods to preserve it. This perspective, to me, was ideal in an era where there was not a constant flux of communication. The semantic creation of one God worked when a culture was closed off from others. The resolution for justification within a social structure then turned as a malicious justification for an attempt to appoint one central belief system that would govern 'all.'

To me, this shows the proclivity of all organisms to strive for oneness and cohesion. It also shows that this impulse was engaged by structures that sought power, rather than structures that sought harmony. This proclivity--which is sacred and holy, when acted in methods of pride, is the most destructive force humanity has.

It is not the exaltation of life, but the self. And throughout our history we have seen circumstances where a culture has come upon a beauty or an other that it did not understand, and rather than attempt to engage in it, it was sought to be owned. And when the opposing culture resisted, it was destroyed.

If we do not transcend this type of consciousness--one that seeks ownership rather than participation, we will destroy ourselves. We are too powerful now for us to continue in the same manner.

The myth of the Modern World is delusional to the physical universe. The power and influence that can be esteemed through institutions is convoluted due to our collective suppression of what is necessary to sustain versus what is expected.

The individual in the Modern World is not empowered--we are offered avenues to either assume positions of power or worship those in positions of power. The Modern World has mastered functionality and has put us under the spell of literalism in order to prevent us from engaging beyond immediacy.

There are, of course, exceptions, as always--but the stages of imperialism were first of religion, then of nation, and now of economics. Greed, however, is not clever--not alone, atleast. Meaning, that in this fruition of our reality, that which was brought about by greed can be used to conqueror it. It is not self preserving.

There is ripe opportunity for every individual in the first world to construct themselves as heroes that look to empower those of less fortune, but instead most are entrained to passive ordinance to media and communication.

How many people in our society find it easier to relate on what they saw on TV rather than experience? There is an eerie synthetic ritual that has developed in industrialized nations--one that has us conditioned to relate on all things capital, rather than all things human.

Media, information, the internet, has created new methods of experience and, indirectly, a disassociation from the body. When I saw the planes crash in to the twin towers, I felt the tinge of my once enchanted surreality of what was immediate and global. The world was suddenly not mine. And in haze I went to school and joined hands and prayed for people I could not bear incorporate into my immediate sphere.

I was passive. My role in the myth of the modern world was to, as George Bush put it, continue shopping. Keep America going. This is our ritual.

Communities are conceding to power structures that marginalize them for immediacy and convenience. The myth of the modern world is the most powerful myth humanity has ever conceived--it caters to our consumption and bonds us to subordinance to possessions and to those who provide them. In its freedom, we are imprisoned.

The argument of positivism--that society is progressing--that at this current rate things will continue to get better, is insanity. We are poisoning the planet and ourselves. Our goods come at the desecration of human life. We are better than this myth. We must be in order to survive.

There are more avenues than ever before for humans to form social groups that transcend physical barriers, and although this means there is less of an intimate group immediacy, it also implies more of a immediacy of consciousness.

New technologies have decentralized everything. There is more information available than at any point in human history. There is more information about our yesterdays than our ancestors entire lives.

And yet most are not engaged. Most are left suggestible to symbolism--manipulating in fighting wars on terror, wars of liberation. Why?

The longing for validation--but such validation is coming at the cost of our souls: as we begin to cooperate through our technologies, as we are able to create an infinite amount of path ways of communication, institutions will crumble. Stronger than any psychedelic drug, the ability to communicate and share our own immediacy will allow us to, eventually, create a myth that empowers ourselves and each other.

But we must first see ourselves as alive and involved and capable--capable of mythic things, not of mere accomplishments within this semblance of ritual. Then, we must write our narratives eagerly and express them passionately.

Myth is not about belief--it is about passion. Passion, when properly oriented, can serve as catalyst to our lives--one that has us cherish each crisis in every sphere and use it as a method to empower ourselves.

We will come alive.