{"id":9913,"date":"2026-04-05T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:59:06","slug":"againborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/04\/05\/againborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Againborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, according to the smart guys, the temperature dropped below freezing, and<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; It was the last time that will happen for a good while or a good long while. <\/p>\n<p>So today I offered Casey the option of stepping outside, away from the cozy domestication of the little front room, back toward his nominal wildness. <\/p>\n<p>After 45 minutes of consideration, he took that option. Resurrected, to it. <\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that is the best thing for him. That the choice wasn&#8217;t a Mistake. <\/p>\n<p>I love that cat.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Em3XplqnoF4\">David Lynch explains Transcendental Meditation <\/a> (in 17 minutes)<\/p>\n<p>Lynch starts out sketching a simplistic outline of matter as normal tenured physicists of the modern day see it. <\/p>\n<p>Then one of what mind, or consciousness is, beside it. <\/p>\n<p>I agree with his generalized takes on these things.<\/p>\n<p>And then, he hypes TM as a simple way of accessing the unified field from whence all things emerge, into things, including sapient human things and their conscious minds.<\/p>\n<p>Again, more or less, I agree with his descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Thus I shall try in some (inexpensive) fashion his methodology for transcending. <\/p>\n<p>In the last few minutes he talks about meditation by groups, and the positive social impact of that. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I care yet about these advanced techniques. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I care if I ever enjoy another donut. <\/p>\n<p>But: <\/p>\n<p>I do believe that if what I&#8217;ve called &#8216;rewilding&#8217; is even a remote possibility, that it is the same, at its core, as what Lynch means by &#8216;transcending&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>In both cases the only possible salvation in the way forward is to loop backward, to the Source. (Fuck &#8220;progress&#8221;, in the Western sense of the word.)<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly it will make me less &#8216;negative&#8217; in the meantime. <\/p>\n<p>So it might benefit you, my three devoted readers, as well, right here on this page. <\/p>\n<p>Fingers uncrossing, open to soothin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, according to the smart guys, the temperature dropped below freezing, and &#8230; It was the last time that will happen for a good while or a good long while. So today I offered Casey the option of stepping outside, away from the cozy domestication of the little front room, back toward his nominal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}