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John Prophet Oct 2023
Archaic.
Ancient,
evolving
beliefs.
Modernity,
structured
up from
long ago.
Primitive
understanding,
knowledge
of reality
still.
Down
the millennia
evolving
change.
Different
beliefs.
Different
gods.
Mee­ting
human
need.
Providing
comfort,
structure
in an
unstructured
existence.
Helping
make sense.
Holding
back the
dark.
The demons
that haunt
the unknown.
Lighting
candles
to brighten
the way.
From the
primitive
fire dance.
To modern
philosophy.
Nothing has
changed.
Just
something
to hold
on to.
When the
sun goes
down.
John Prophet Oct 2023
War
drums.
Minds
wound
tight.
Programming
on full
display.
Years
in the
making.
Narratives
deeply
entrenched.
Battle
lines
drawn.
Ins­anity,
hate.
Overlaid.
Years of
spinning,
results
easy to
see.
Minds
filled,
distorted.
Blinded to
reality.
Black
hole,
reasoning.
No turning
back.
New way
required.
Blow off.
Smoothing
the rhetoric.
New path
charted.
Before it’s
too
late.
John Prophet Oct 2023
Real.
What’s
real?
Beliefs.
Truth,
a fungible
thing.
Who’s
asking?
Creation
through
primate
eyes,
sens­es.
Limited
perspective.
Small
capacity.
Five senses.
Terrarium
views.
Truth
in a
narrow
slice.
Sliver
of the
whole.
Creations
scope
beyond
Sapiens
understanding.
Groping
­in the
dark.
Babbling
nonsense.
Chatting
gibberish.
Truth,
primate
t­ruth
a mere
suggestion
of greater
understanding.
Shadows.
Breaking
through.
Next
level
inte­lligence
arrives.
Greater
truths
in the
balance,
to be
known.
John Prophet Oct 2023
Dogma.
Minds
shackled.
Fixed.
Trained
to perform,
understand,
obey.
Vice
grip
hold.
Religion.
Politics.
Na­rratives
downloaded,
installed.
Shaping.
Minions
created.
Mindles­s
followers.
Locally
transfixed.
Powers
that be
mind tweaks.
Critical
thinking.
Nullified.
Not allowed.
Do what’s
told.
Master’s
fine
tuning.
Whirring,
blending.
Mixing,
me­ssing.
Mind
altering.
Moving
dial.
Controlled.
Moving
mountains.
­Everything!
Confusion
reigns.
Armies
marching.
What
is truth?
Tumultuous.
Spun to
confusion,
uncertainty.
Critical
thinking,
original
thought.
C­anceled.
John Prophet Oct 2023
Thought.
Realm
of ideas.
Infinite
realm
of thought,
forms.
Potential.
From the
beginning
created.
So near
yet
so far.
Tapping
in.
Grasping.
All there
to be
had.
Unimaginable.
Mind
created,
needed
to connect.
Absorb.
Beyond
limited
scope,
mind.
Unlimited
thoughts.
­Surreal
possibilities,
potential.
Mind
phasing.
Eureka!
Connectin­g,
realm to
realm.
Mind to
forms,
potential.
Idea!
Eureka!
Worlds
align.
Worlds
envisione­d.
Thought
to thought.
John Prophet Oct 2023
Pliable.
Gray
matter.
All else
maintenance,
mobility.
Organic
vat.
Consciousness
contained.­
Influenced
within.
Manipulated.
Narrative
downloads.
Programmabl­e.
Thinking
adjusted.
Regionally
differentiated.
Historically
evo­lved.
New
world
order.
Technological
homogenization.
Raining
from­ the
cloud.
Downloading
globally.
Intensifies.
Modernity
pivot
poi­nt.
Something
different
approaches!
John Prophet Oct 2023
Rituals.
Ancient.
Performance.
Holding
ancients
in awe.
At bay.
Structure.
Control.
Belief
systems
genesis.
Pounding,
pulsat­ing
rhythm.
Energy flow
between.
Soul
connection.
Mind
melding.
Shaping
spirits
ment­al
control.
Then
as now.
Same
technique.
Performance,
mind
control.
Modernity.
Greate­r
sophistication.
Vibrating,
beating
in humanity
from the
start.
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