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May 24, 2004
Grant Morrison, 2012, & the Supercontext
There's a new interview with comic mage Grant Morrison, author of The Invisibles, Doom Patrol, Arkham Asylum, and the current run of The X-Men. Here's an excerpt:
CXF: Last, but certainly not least. It's December 22, 2012. As humanity takes its last wistful look at the constraints of space-time and dives headlong into the Supercontext, where is Grant Morrison?[Thanks to New World Disorder for the link.] Posted by LVX23 at May 24, 2004 12:00 AM | TrackBackGM: Shagging like bloody Shiva, I hope. I think that if anything happens at all, it's most likely to come in the form of a mass consciousness change - possibly triggered by planetary electromagnetic field alterations predicted to occur around that time - so that basically everyone will start peaking on the acid trip that never ends. 'Individuality' will dissolve and your minds will start to merge into one mass mind, which is likely to seem quite frightening and overwhelming, especially for the sheltered minds, and time will seem to disappear as we identify with the mitochondria in our cells, instead of identifying with the physical individual carrier 'bodies' we use to expedite the shuffling around of DNA.
The world's current social structures should collapse quite rapidly when that happens and chances are, only people capable of handling the immense influx of new information will be those already familiar with heavily-altered states of consciousness. For everyone else, it will seem like the Second Coming, the arrival of the Space Brothers, the Rapture, Hell on Earth, the 32nd path of the Tree of Life or whatever they decide to see - everyone will get their own personal apocalyptic transfer into this new mode of being. Some poor souls will have to be guided out of hell, others will have to be coaxed down from sci-fi Ultraspheres but we'll all be living in a state of permanent psychedelic ecstasy and will have to restructure our entire existence to cope with the new consciousness. I have a feeling that psychedelic drugs provide a flashforward glimpse of this kind of consciousness and help prepare the human mind for when that mode of consciousness is permanent.
If something like this occurs at the end of 2012, and it's also possible that nothing of note will happen - we should see a lot of people freaking out when we re-enter what some Australian aboriginals call Aljira (a word English is not up to the task of translating, so it comes out as 'Dreamtime') and I call 'the Supercontext'. When we see in a new way and become new to ourselves, we'll also see lots of stuff that will probably scare people who didn't know it was there all along. People in delirium and on the brink of death see these crawling, replicating 'wilkie-swilkie men' all over everything and soon, I think, everyone will start to see them. They are 'the spaces between things, come to life…'
As for me, I hope I'll be screaming 'Yes!' like Molly Bloom as the universe rolls up into a silver paper ball for the quantum cats of Hell to play with.
There is a flaw in his conception. As long as we remain in a body, we will continue to have an ego. The ego has it's place, just like thte body does, because the stronger and more centered our ego is, the more we are able to connect to other people. Know thyself. In this supercontext, I would define the ego as strong and therefore more transparent to this "higher" reality, thereby allowing it to be turned on to the higher circuits and lower circuits simultaneously. Being "out there" and right here, right now at the same time. Alternity as Lilly described it. And it's there that he seems to articulate it correctly, when he says we will all be living in ecstatic bliss, not caught up too far in sci-fi uber-realities (higher circuits), without being grounded here (lower circuits). All this complex rhetoric can be distilled down to "Be here now". :)
Posted by: Paul at May 24, 2004 12:22 AMHmmm, I think I tend to disagree with your assertion that the ego is bound to the body. IMHO, the ego is the evolutionary side-effect of the biosurvival circuit running in a larger forebrain. It is self-awareness through higher cortical mapping and planning, but there are many techniques for subduing the influence of the ego without destroying the body. The ego allows for relationships but also limits those relationships to I-Thou. There can be no real merging of consciousness while the ego is fully intact. The supercontext, I imagine, would be a reduction of the ego as the body is pulled out of spacetime and self-consciousness becomes aware of, and merges with, universal consciousness.
Posted by: lvx23 at May 24, 2004 08:58 AMI'm not doubting that the ego can be completely onliterated while still in the body... just look at anyone peaking on LSD. My contention is that getting rid of the ego entirely and permanently while still in a body is just plain stupid. The nut house if filled with people of that persuasion. The ego may be an evolutionary development just like the body is, and like the body it has its role to play. The question is what role is that? As you and I both know, that is part of what metaprogramming is all about. It's not about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and flushing the ego down the toilet bowl of history. It's about getting the ego in alignment with our higher purpose, true will, supercontext, or whatever you want to call it. The ego is an illusion, but a useful one, especially while still living in a body that needs a locus of control in order to function safely. Becoming transhuman is not about throwing emotions or a sense of identity away either, but of embracing an expanded space of possible emotions and identities.
As Leary, Wilson, and even Crowley said, you have to have your four lower circuits stabilized before launching into higher ones. John Lilly almost died in a bicycle accident while high on Ketamine because he hadn't learned this yet. His advice is to spend more time being human while still in a human body on the planetside trip.
Posted by: Paul at May 24, 2004 01:59 PM