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History, eternal, always
Tuesday, 31 January 2023 at 20:59
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
In the presence of living thinking, the appearance of nature, history, and subjectivity dies out as appearance, since it has no other purpose. It is filled anew with inner life, of whose deprivation it is a sign, which we normally mistake for reality. (Massimo Scaligero)
History, eternal, always
History for me is concrete and eternal.
Time is for me the living movement of my thinking mind.
History abstracted from the living movement of my thinking has no value to me.
All history belongs to me as I am thinking. It cannot be grasped in any thought frozen in isolation.
The choice, order and disposition of the raw facts are the living process of my thinking.
Facts and ordering are two terms in the living movement of my thinking, rather than petrified thoughts external to my thinking.
The facts of history, standing as isolated abstractions, have no being.
I think them and they can only be the living movement of my thinking, which is not in my past, nor in my present which will be past, since it is the life, the very reality of my mind, the centre from which all time radiates, whether it be past or future.
History is only concrete in the eternal movement of my thinking.
© John Dunn.
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Fallen angel
Monday, 30 January 2023 at 20:30
The fallen angel, Moushegh Karavartanian
The world wishes to be penetrated by the thinking that relives the process for which it is petrified in forms, as nature, as the past, as history. For these forms, taken up outside the process from which they have sprung, and having become sensations, images, and thoughts, are the non-truth that sickens us. (Massimo Scaligero)
Fallen angel
The unity of the multiplicity in my mind may be confronted by what has gone before, by the past, by history; but this would be to face a satanic haunting rather than a thing of concrete value.
The timeline is a process, and it is my process only; because a point in history taken as an object in itself cannot be other than static. No object, the past included, has a self-existence that allows it to live outside the process that is my thinking.
I do not bring a stage of history to life, only to drop it and then hop from this to the next stage, since a stage from which I detach myself is no longer an act of my mind, it falls outside my mind as a kind of Lucifer,a fallen angel.
© John Dunn.
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All in the mind
Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 16:59
Illustration: Sam Falconer
We are absorbed into an objectivity that we believe we have, but we do not, because we have it as it appears - the reflection of a reflection. For this reason, that of which is doubly reflected is ignored. The Logos of the world, the radical life of thinking and of each and every being,is ignored. (Massimo Scaligero)
All in the mind
The part of my loved ones which I lost is a reality which never lived.
Reality is not the simple abstraction from the thinking act which we take as real.
When I have this abstract reality in mind, in my ordinary mundane thoughts, I am unconscious of the thinking act which gives it life and makes it be.
Abstract reality simply does not exist, having no mortality or immortality.
The concrete reality which does exist lives in my mind.
My all-embracing mind gives life to everything.
This living multiplicity of everything is my living thinking.
My all-embracing mind coterminously brings destruction to everything.
The life of the object in my thinking mind is also its death, otherwise I would be abandoning it to a fallen life petrified.
The objects of my love, affection and passion live, their immortality being their eternal mortality.
© John Dunn.
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Life: my mind's reality
Saturday, 28 January 2023 at 20:52
Life: my mind's reality
Immortality belongs to my mind, which is not nature.
I was imprisoned within definite limits, birth and death, outside of which my selfhood was never present and then annihilated.
But I discovered that my selfhood, within which I appeared to haunt a ready-made world with other similarly imprisoned individuals, is rooted in a higher self, in which alone I am real.
My concrete higher self contains my lower and other abstractions, people and things.
My higher self is not unfolded in space and time.
I cannot say that my higher self is before the birth and after the death of my lower, because "before" and "after" applied to it would cause it to fall from the one to the many, and by destroying it as the one I should also be destroying the many, all people, all things, everything.
My higher selfhood is outside every “before and after”.
My higher selfhood is in the eternal, opposed to time, which it makes to be.
By eternity, I do not mean transcending time such that my selfhood stands outside time as one reality is outside another.
Time is, rather, held within me. What is indefinite from the standpoint of the many is infinite from my point of view.
Life, my mind's reality, is in the experience of consciousness.
My higher self is not in nature, nor ever becomes it; but rather keeps its own infinity, without which even nature with its multiplicity, that is,with space and time, would be dissolved into the bleak indefiniteness of Ananke’s dark realm of one nothing.
© John Dunn.
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Following the old turnpike
Friday, 27 January 2023 at 21:30
The following notes are written by way of an experiment. They will form the basis of a commentary to a motorcycle ride along an old turnpike road. The history of the road and the changes made to it over the years will be pointed out. The results, if viable will then be published on my YouTube Channel.
Notes made earlier about the start of the turnpike road in Northampton can be found in the Blog under "St Peter’s Bridge" posted Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 21:59
Following the old turnpike
Northampton and Cold Brayfield Turnpike (1827 to 1880), today's A428
Little Houghton
The old turnpike road wound its way through Little Houghton Village, and continued to do so as the A428 until 1980.
Inits 1826 application to Parliament to become a turnpike, the trust proposed to build a bypass south of Little Houghton. It never happened because of the cost. The bypass was not completed until well after the turnpike era in 1980 - that’s 154 years after it was first deemed necessary.
Shortly after the old road emerges back on to the A428, traces of the old road can be seen on the OS Map to the right of the A428. Along this stretch of old road, the 1884 Ordnance Survey Map shows Primrose cottages. Prospect Cottage is added to the 1952 version of this map. This map also shows a milestone on this trace of old road. The 1952 map does not show the milestone, nevertheless, the remnants maybe worth looking out for.
Brafield on the Green
Just before the crossroads at Brayfield on the Green, a bend in the old road was removed and a staggered junction introduced at the crossroads, sometime between 1946 and 1952 according to the Ordnance Survey Maps of those two dates.
Denton
The old turnpike road wound its way through Denton village, and continued to do so as the A428 until 1931.
In its 1826 application to Parliament to become a turnpike, the Northampton and Cold Brayfield Turnpike Trust proposed to build a bypass south of Denton. It never happened because of the cost. The bypass was not completed until well after the turnpike era in 1931, that’s 105 years after it was first deemed necessary. The concrete road bypassed 3 bends in the village. Note: concrete road.
Yardley Hastings
There was an original proposal in 1827 for the much needed bypassing of Yardley Hastings, yet it was deemed too impractical to carry out.
Bedford Road West was eventually opened on 27 November 1912 by S.G. Stopford Sackville, County Council Chairman. The 400 yard road bypassed the steep and twisty route through the village and was constructed by Council Labour.
Warrington toll bar roundabout (Warrington, just north of Olney in Buckinghamshire)
Shortly before the roundabout, the old road veers left. This is a trace of the old road before road realignment to remove bends and the construction of the roundabout at the crossroads in c.1980.
There was a plan to straighten this stretch of road in the 1826 application to Parliament to become a turnpike. That’s 154 years before it was eventually completed.
Lavendon
Road widening was completed next to the church in 1954. A plaque to commemorate the event is located on the churchyard wall.
End of the road
Just beyond Lavendon, the responsibilities of the Northampton and Cold Brayfield Turnpike Trust ended at the junction of today’s A428 Bedford Road with the B565 from Newport Pagnell, just short of the village of Cold Brayfield.
© John Dunn.
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Cosmic crime
Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 20:18
A crime is committed as the veil is drawn.
Mysticism demands the immediate opening up of the spirit, which reflected thought ingeniously demands of various meditations. Such thought does not recognise the spiritual element within itself that it goes about mystically or metaphysically representing outside itself, outside its own being. (Massimo Scaligero)
Cosmic crime
A cosmic crime has been committed, the objectivising of God, the distancing of the Originatory Principle, of Love, from man.
The Platonic mysticism of Jehovianism has been implanted in all the sub-Judaisms, Christic, Islamic and atheistic.
The absolute is worshipped in its objective aspect, leading to the negation of the subject,
In an act of self-identification with the object, an act of idolatry, an act of mysticism, the subject negates its individuality
And yet… this mysticism, which is the denial of the value of the subject, is the activity of the subject, and therefore the implicit affirmation of its value.
I commingle and integrate the eternity of God with the eternity of my mind.
It is not the objectified and distanced abstraction of God which posits the immortal soul, but the concept of God in so far as it is my concept and therefore a manifestation of the power of my mind.
© John Dunn.
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I dominate space and time
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 20:45
Eros of Centocelle
"It is the unconscious inherence of thinking within perceiving, the temporality that arises from thinking, which in itself is timeless. For this reason, we can gather, within perceiving, time as a fabric of thought. To free the thinking within perceiving is, in fact, to experience time as presence." (Massimo Scaligero)
I dominate space and time
Before the Beginning, space and time reigned supreme. It was Ananke’s realm, shared by her consort Chronos.
Ananke rests alone in a state of undifferentiated Oneness and equilibrium. Her’s the endless repeating cycle, her’s the infinite cosmos.
"I am all that has been and is and shall be; and no mortal has ever lifted my garment."
Ananke rests alone, untouched, unpenetrated, undefiled… until violated by Eros.
The cosmic creation story is metaphor for my story.
My mind is Eros.
I am opposed to the infinite cosmos, unifying it in my mind.
I dominate space and time, breaking through and thrusting beyond every limit.
I subdue, dominate and triumph over the cosmos by withdrawing myself from its laws.
What I think of is as it is thought and not otherwise.
I cannot think of anything except as being true in distinction from its contrary of being false.
And the true is the absolute, for it cannot be but what it is.
The things of the cosmos have other things surrounding them, but the true is alone.
Truth is not subject to the spatiality and temporality of natural things; it transcends them even in being what must be thought about them.
Truth posits itself as eternal.
The eternity of truth implies the eternity of my thinking in which truth is revealed.
Truth is transcendent and so too is my mind.
Feeling truth can only be feeling the eternal also, capax Dei, feeling that I participate in the eternal.
My thinking is truth. My mind is Logos.
© John Dunn.
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