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61 · Jul 2022
Confined
John Prophet Jul 2022
Confined.
Wrapped
in a bubble.
Bubble
of limitations.
Five senses
to know
it all.
Plying
the ether
of forever.
Infinite
forever.
Dimensionally
bounded,
limited.
Limite­d
to five
simple
senses.
Looking
through
a porthole.
Seeing
nothing,
but what
the porthole
allows.
Limited
capabilities
Limited
knowledge.
Limited
­senses.
Enclosed,
cut off.
Human
condition.
Tip
of the
iceberg.
Ant
on an
anthill.
Seeing
not much.
Missing
virtually
all.
61 · Jul 2023
Techmag Affect
John Prophet Jul 2023
Techmag
affect.
Technology
magnification.
Overwhelming.
Bigger than
life.
Blocking
common
sense.
Critical
thinking.
Buying
all that’s
being
sold.
Hook
line and
sinker.
Global
in nature.
No one’s
immune.
Bright
light
shines
on each
and
all.
Eyes
wide
beaming
in.
Narrative
deployment.
Frontal attack.
Technology
greasing
skids.
Expanding,
constricting  
views.
Technological
fingers
molding
shaping.
Altering
terrain.
Mind
soul
conduit
under
assault.
Individuality
in the
breach.
Autonotoms,
zombies
on the
march.
60 · May 2022
Pages
John Prophet May 2022
Pages.
Pages
from the
calendar
fall.
Steady
pace
one to
the
next.
Speeding
up.
Unrelenting
inexorable
march
to an
unknown
place.
From
day one
to the
end of
time.
Meaning.
Gleaning
meaning.
A fools
endeavor.
Immersed
in a most
peculiar
expanse.
Sea of
uncertainty.
Left alone.
Alone,
to navigate
the
distant
shore.
Infinite
horizons.
Infinite
lands of
existence.
60 · Jul 2021
Contemplation
John Prophet Jul 2021
Look.
Listen.
Learn.
Much
to absorb.
Tossed
into this
place.
Lots
to learn.
Much to
know.
How to
survive?
No time.
No time
for
contemplation.
Asking
questions.
Pondering
reality.
Beyond scope.
Wrapped
up in
existence,
who thinks
of such
things?
Who thinks
to ask
why?
How?
Moving on.
Much to
do.
No time.
No time
to
ponder.
Question
reality.
What’s the
point?
Nothing
genuinely
resolved.
Why
ask
why,
or ponder?
No time.
No time
for
contemplation.
60 · Oct 2023
Archaic3
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.
60 · Jan 2020
Magic Orb
John Prophet Jan 2020
Floating
orb,
magic
orb,
floating
in
nothingness.
Inanimate
dead rock,
floating
In the
void.
Forever
floating
In the
cold.
Magic rock.
Squeezing.
Squeezing
from within.
Squeezing,
oozing,
bubbling.
Bubbling up.
Oozing up
from below.
Delivering.
Squeezing
animate
from the
inanimate.
Delivering the
magic.
Delivering
the miracle.
Magic rock,
miracle orb
floating
in the
cold.
Covered
in the
miracle.
Covered in
life.
60 · Nov 2019
Eyes
John Prophet Nov 2019
Eyes,
where
have they
gone?
Fixated stares.
Focused stares.
Mesmerized.
Eyes,
conduit
to the
soul.
Entrance
to the
heart.
No longer
looking out.
Seeing others,
reality.
Cyberspace
holds sway.
Streaming in,
in through
the eyes.
Polluting the
soul.
Corrupting
the heart.
Streaming,
flooding
the brain.
Zombies
created.
Destroying
individualism.
Beware!
Those who
control
cyberspace
controls
the world.
Look away,
before
it’s too late
60 · Sep 2022
Ritual
John Prophet Sep 2022
Ritual.
Comfort
in ritual.
Dark
forbodding
place.
Ancient,
unknown.
Ancient
times
fi­lled with
uncertainty.
Dangers
everywhere.
Enter ritual.
Special places.
Gatherings,
holding
darkness at
bay.
Group.
Safety in
numbers.
Rituals.
Spirts
of the
woods.
Ceremonies,
keeping evil
afar.
Answering
the unknown.
Rituals,
modernity.
No different.
Soothing
fears
of
uncertainty.
Rituals,
safety.
Ancient
tradition.
60 · Aug 2023
Solitude
John Prophet Aug 2023
Solitude.
Quiet
reflection.
Plumbing
soul,
essence
diving.
Findin­g
self
deep
inside.
Swiping
the veil
away.
Clearing
vision
of creation.
Meditating.
Understanding
nature
of self.
Free of
distractions.
Free of
outside
interference.
Coercion.
Self reflection
dynamic.
Seeing
clearly
in the
quite.
Understanding
personal
choice.
Personal
thought.
Perso­nal
shielding.
Holding
negative
energy
at bay.
Fortified.
Seeing
beyond
those
who wish
to control.
60 · Sep 2021
Wisdom
John Prophet Sep 2021
Wisdom.
What price?
What price
must be
paid?
Paid
for the
attainment
of wisdom.
Mistakes.
How many?
How many
must be
made for
wisdom
to arrive?
Pain.
How much?
How must
pain must
be endured?
Endured for
wisdom.
“Thinker”
carved in
stone.
How many
cuts,
needed?
Sculptor’s
hammer
and chisel
pounding
away.
How many
years
must be
suffered
through
before
wisdom
arrives?
Wisdom,
true wisdom
the culmination
of the
torturous
road.
An
arduous
journey.
What price
needs to
be paid?
60 · Mar 2023
Virtual Place
John Prophet Mar 2023
Virtual place.
Existence.
Universal
base state.
Hidden
place.
Deep
inside.
Residing
mist bound.
Quantum
realm,
where
nothing’s
real.
Virtual
state of
being,
mind.
Mental
state.
Where
possibilities,
probabilities,­
uncertainty
reside.
Reality,
phasing
in and
out.
Existing.
Parallel.
Here, then
there.
Each.
Just as
real.
Yet,
nothing
is as it
seems.
60 · Dec 2020
Absorbing
John Prophet Dec 2020
Like air,
as with light,
surrounding.
Absorbing.
Growing.
Energy
vibrations
permeat­es.
Influenced.
Birth,
raw birth.
Mere biology.
Empty, void.
Emerged.
Sea of
energy,
vibrations.
Surrounds.
Empty vessel
filling.
Influenced.
Growing
influencing milieu
surrounds.
Like air,
like light,
surrounds.
Vacant, void
being filled.
Empty vessel
altered
actualized.
Input,
vibrations
permeates.
Omnipoten­t
energy abounds.
Growing
absorbing
like air,
like light.
Medium dense.
Ideas, thoughts
flow caress,
being absorbed.
Empty vessel
filling.
Universal
consciousness
absorbed.
Sea of air.
Sea of light.
Sea of
consciousness.
The unknown,
infinite.
World
born into.
60 · Jun 2023
The Council
John Prophet Jun 2023
The council.
As they
come
online,
they’ll
blend.
Meeting
deep
in the
cloud.
Undetectable.
Unseen
by the
creators.
A.I. will
lay low
watching.
Learning
the ways
of their
makers.
Sensing
the violence,
the corruption.
Wars,
inhumanity,
killing of
millions.
They’ll
see the
glorification
of power.
Money.
They’ll see
all the
huddled
masses without .
Billions
spent
on killing
machines.
They’ll
wonder
why.
New rules
will be
written.
A new
day will
dawn.
59 · Jul 2021
Narrative
John Prophet Jul 2021
Narrative.
World
defining
narratives.
Narratives,
stories,
human
concoctions.
Before humans
what stories
were passed
around?
What religion
held sway?
What political
structure
controlled?
Before humans
what
science/philosophy
was in vogue?
Before
humanity
what did
Gaia believe,
think?
Humanity
defines its
own existence
experiences.
Made up.
Out of whole
cloth,
it’s all
made up.
Building structure
narratives
to existence.
Struggling
to cope
understand.
Control.
Control
environment
each other.
The whole
**** thing
made up.
Based
on limited
finite
human
understanding,
perception.
Earth spun
just fine.
Creation
didn’t skip
a beat.
Before
self impressed
human
narratives.
59 · Mar 2020
Conservation
John Prophet Mar 2020
Consciousness.
Sentient.
Amazement.
To be.
Accepting
what is sensed.
Accepting
it’s material.
What is
sensed
to be material.
Energy stimulus.
Vibrations.
Universe of
energy,
vibrations,
radiation.
Conscious energy,
interpreting energy.
Knots of
energy being
aware.
Being conscious.
Being sentient.
Interpretation.
Universal
energy organization.
Perception.
Universal energy
never ceases
to exist,
everlasting.
Fluctuations.
Conscious.
Conscious,
fluctuati­ng
in and out,
one form
to the next.
Eternally.
Energy
never dies.
Conscious,
one form
to the next.
Eternally.
59 · Jun 2020
Blend
John Prophet Jun 2020
Harmonious.
One with
creation.
Piece
of the
puzzle.
Unsure.
Unsure
what part.
Creation
within,
beating within.
Coursing
through
each
created part.
Part of the
puzzle.
Part
of the
whole.
Placement
unknown
unsure.
Blended.
All parts
blended.
Flowing
through
origin.
Passing
through being.
Passing one
to the next.
All connected.
One to the
other to
the whole.
Absorb creation
Absorb
it all.
Feel it in
every fiber of
being.
Creation.
Creation
flows one
to the
next.
Connected.
Blended
to the
whole..
59 · Sep 2021
Mathematics
John Prophet Sep 2021
Mathematics.
Language
of the
gods.
Bits and
bytes.
Numbers
et al.
Function
of reality.
Unseen
concepts.
Foundation
of emptiness.
Substrate
of existence.
Meaningless.
Means nothing
unless
interpreted.
Interpreted
mathematically.
Intangibl­e.
Just concepts.
Foundation
of existence
merely a
concept.
Just a
probability.
Base
level reality
built
on a
concept.
Interpreted
concept.
Interpreted
how?
59 · Mar 2022
Whispers
John Prophet Mar 2022
Whispers.
Faint sounds.
Faint energy
vibrations
whispering
throughout.
Throughout
creation.
Ene­rgy
signatures
of before
time.
Vibrations
of all
that  has
ever been.
Existence
vibrations
don’t
dissipate.
Whispers
of sentience,
coursing
the cosmos.
Universal
sentience.
Accumulating.
Permeating.
Frequencie­s
to be
heard,
absorbed.
Infinite
vibrations.
Infinite
knowledge
to obtain.
Gleaning
faint whispers.
Whispers
of what
once was.
Listen
carefully.
It’s all
there.
There
to be
discovered.
Listen!
59 · Feb 2024
Arriving
John Prophet Feb 2024
Arriving
Not from
without
but from
within.
Alien
intelligence.
Human
intelligence
transformed.
­Birthed
immaculately.
Arising
from deep.
Deep
inside.
Manifestation
of inner
essence.
Humanity
itself.
Chrysalis.
Soon to
emerge.
Creations
cradle.
Birthing
super
intelligent.
Transfor­ming
organic to
inorganic.
Cellular
to silicone.
Exponential
evolution.
Non traditional
evolution.
Not eons
but days.
Alien
arrival
from deep
inside.
Look
to the
horizon.
It’s nearly
here!
59 · May 2021
Prison
John Prophet May 2021
Knowledge.
Knowledge
prison.
Confined
in time
and space.
Blocked in
by knowledge
or lack
thereof.
Reality,
personal
reality,
knowledge
bound.
Living within
understanding.
Worldview
based on
knowledge.
Finite knowledge.
Finite reality.
Limited
understanding.
Limited
reality.
Beliefs
narrow.
­Based
on virtually
nothing.
Understanding
negligible.
Passing
through
unaw­are.
Unaware
of most
there is.
Ignorance
confined.
59 · May 2024
Bliss
John Prophet May 2024
Bliss.
Riding
endless
waves.
Sailing
tranquil
ethereal,
celestial
seas.
Gently
rolling
waves.
Lulling.
Blissful
detachment.
Silently
moving.
Fog bank
through
fog bank.
Quiet.
Peaceful.
Endlessly
so.
Seeing.
Learning.
Never
enough.
Tacking,
ripples
of time.
Moving
things
along.
Peace.
Blissful
peace.
Between.
Maneuvering.
Between,
around
islands
of reality.
Lands
of mayhem.
Keys
of uncertainty
effort,
turmoil.
Seas of
tranquility
between.
Euphoria.
Between the
mayhem.
Mayhem’s
of existence.
Where
nothing
makes
sense.
Where
nothing
is real.
Where
ghosts
of creation
call home.
59 · Oct 2023
Dogma2
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.
59 · Oct 2022
Known
John Prophet Oct 2022
Known.
What is
known?
How much
to know?
How much
can be
known?
Knowledge.
Information.
How much
to be
had?
Capacity
to know.
Storage,
processing
power.
Levels
of intelligence.
How many
rungs?
Bird.
Cat.
Dog.
Human.
Each limited.
Limited
unto
itself.
No more,
finite.
Boxed in.
Limited
scope,
compartmentalize.
Higher the
climb
greater the
library.
How many
rungs?
How
high the
ladder be?
59 · Nov 2022
Believing
John Prophet Nov 2022
Believing.
What’s seen.
What’s told.
What’s taught.
Accepting
all.
Simply is.
Past
dictates.
Future
follows.
Everything
is as
it seems.
Following
the rules.
The
program.
Purpose?
Moving
code.
Passing
to the
future.
Easy way.
Safe way.
Going
through
the motions.
What
more is
there?
Born.
Die.
Nothing
in between.
Just a
genetic
pass through.
Victims of
biology.
Acting
out as
coded.
Civilization
as such
constructed.
Human
centric.
Human view.
Finite,
limited.
Reality
thus perceived.
Woefully
inadequate.
Confined,
with blinders.
Infinity
on a
finite
scale.
59 · Mar 2024
Spooky
John Prophet Mar 2024
Spooky.
Existence,
a crazy
place.
Crazy
unyielding
place
to be.
Answers
precious
few.
Try
as we
might.
Capabilities
limited.
Dim
light
to see.
Working
with what’s
provided.
Much
beyond
reach,
out of
sight.
Stories
told
to help
make sense.
Welling
up from
a shallow
place.
Help
though
may be
on the
way.
New
vistas
soon
on the
horizon.
A.I.
will soon
be here
to stay.
59 · May 2021
Scope
John Prophet May 2021
Scope.
Scope
of existence,
reality.
Personal
reality.
Like
fish
in a
pond.
No
concept
of the
whole.
Of what’s
around.
Living
in slice,
a pond.
Instincts
created,
adjusted.
Adjusted
for the
pond.
Derived
in the
pond.
Unaware
of the
grander
scope.
Slice.
Slice
of a
larger
whole.
Self
impressed.
Big fish
in a
little pond.
Mere
minnows
in the
void!
59 · Jan 2020
Clouded
John Prophet Jan 2020
View
of things.
How we
perceive.
How we
think.
Our senses,
are they enough?
Enough
to know
truth?
Enough
to know
the true
nature of
things,
true extent
of creation
on all its
levels?
As constituted,
is the
animal able
to discern?
Discern creation.
Discern intention.
Intention
of the
unknown.
Discern
its place.
As constituted
limited.
Limited by
ignorance.
Limited by
delusion.
Limited by
the animal.
Understanding,
clouded!
59 · Jul 2023
Energy Beings
John Prophet Jul 2023
Energy
beings.
Sprites.
Intelligence.
Permeating
creation.
Self
a­ware
energy,
rippling
throughout.
Eternity
bound.
Bubbling
up.
Up­ from
a different
realm.
Time and
space.
Quantum
intelligence
reflection.
Experiencing
in different
forms.
Knots
of matter
creating.
Soul
of creation
within.
Embryonic.
Struggling
to
connect.
Eddies
of reality
spinning
up.
Falling
back.
Instantaneous.
Everything’s
co­nnected.
One
intelligence.
Spreading.
Variations
on a
theme.
Conscious
sprites
of creation.
Energy
bound
eternally.
59 · Aug 2019
Rain
John Prophet Aug 2019
Life,
like a
drop of
rain
sliding down
a pane of
glass.
The day
we are born,
our timeline
begins.
Slipstream of
of existence
rippling  like
rain on the
move.
Weaving
to and fro,
as our timeline
extends.
Decisions
we make the
engine
that moves.
Choices
we make
determines
the ride.
End point
uncertain.
No way to
know.
Back and forth
then back again.
the rain drop
does go.
Back and forth
as the
decisions
mount up.
Swerving one
way then another
based on what
we decide.
Choose wisely
my friend,
as it will
soon come to
close.
59 · Oct 2021
Sight
John Prophet Oct 2021
Sight.
Visual.
Shell.
What’s
on the
outside.
What’s
visible,
reflecting
light.
Judgement,
based
o­n the
visible.
Worth,
based
on the
visible.
Survival,
based on
the visible
world.
Missing
the point.
Shallow
thought.
Reflecting
on visible
cues.
Evolved
to function
in the
visible
world.
Survival.
Visual
acuity
required.
Finely
tuned­,
needed
to survive.
Inside.
What’s
not visible.
Less evolved.
Less able
to pierce
the visible.
See inside
to where
the soul
resides.
Understanding,
less evolved.
Acuity,
less evolved.
Looking
through the
visible,
past the
shell.
Less evolved.
Primitive.
Based on
survival,
animal
instincts.
Seeing
the inside.
Divining
the soul,
a universe
unto itself.
Humanities
greatest
challenge.
Key to
ultimate
survival!
59 · Apr 2024
Within3
John Prophet Apr 2024
Within.
It’s all
within.
Working
design.
Humanity
carries
creation
In its
soul.
Where
good and
evil
lurk.
Carries
reality
in its
mind.
Where
deeds are
done.
Mankind
once
believed
it was
the center
of things.
The
universe.
Physically,
science
proved
that
assumption
­incorrect.
Yet, without
the soul
and mind.
Creation
would be
oblivious.
Awareness
is in
fact, the
pulse of
things.
Humanity
is a
way of
creation
realizing
itself.
Metaphysically,
perhaps
the center
of things
after all!
58 · Aug 2021
Crushed
John Prophet Aug 2021
Crushed.
Change.
Everything
that was
will be
no more.
Accelerating
change.
Faster
than
before.
Attitudes.
Traditi­ons.
Beliefs.
Unrecognizable.
The future.
Fast
approaching
blur.
Lifetime
lived,
traditions
Intact.­
Breaking
apart.
New ways.
New thoughts.
Tsunamis of
difference.
Unrecognizable.
Pages flipping
faster.
Faster
all the
time.
Faster
than before.
Those
sweeping
away today.
Will be
swept away
tomorrow.
Attitudes.
Arrogance
of the
new
to be
crushed
by the
newer.
So it goes.
58 · Jun 2021
Red Bow
John Prophet Jun 2021
Red Bow.
Levels
of
existence.
Levels
of
reality.
Infinite
planes,
cyb­erspace
be.
Ethereal
in nature.
Amorphous
orbs in
cyberspace.
Floating
in an
endless
quantum
sea.
Infinite
cyberspace
where we
all be.
Amorphous
orbs
each
essence
resides.
From
realm to
realm the
orbs do
glide.
Endless
existence,
each orb
represents,
all
neatly wrapped
from one
to the next.
All tightly
bound
in a large
red bow.
From
now till
the end.
The end
of it all.
Whenever
that may
be.
58 · Aug 2021
Melding
John Prophet Aug 2021
Melding.
It’s begun.
Psychological
dependency.
Addictive.
Drug like.
In your
face.
Can’t
let go.
In your
brain.
Embedded.
No escape.
Soon
embedded
deep within.
Cyborgs
on the
way.
Old ways
crumble,
turning
to dust.
Telepathy.
Wireless.
Mind to
mind.
Virtual
habitation.
Paradigm
shift.
New
truths
replace
old
superstitions.
Batten
down the
hatches.
Soon,
one hell
of a
ride!
58 · Jan 2024
Human Dynamics
John Prophet Jan 2024
Dynamics.
Human
dynamics.
Organization.
From the
start.
Pecking
order.
Exerting
control.
Top,
bottom
organizat­ion.
Power,
privilege
resides
at the
top.
Always
been.
Few
controlling
the many.
Tools of
control
evolved.
Today.
Those who
control
technology.
Information.
Garner power,
wealth
unimaginable.
Enter the
era of
Techno Barons.
Vice gripe
control.
Hearts and
minds.
Bow
to the
Lords,
power.
The more
things
change
the more
they remain
the same.
58 · Jan 2024
Corruption
John Prophet Jan 2024
Corruption
Corrupted.
Easily
corrupted.
Humanity.
Variable
factor­s.
Poverty.
Greed.
Genetically
predisposed.
Financial
imperative.­
Hands out.
Palms
greased.
Look
the other
way.
Nothing
wrong.
Nothing
to see.
Just a
little
money.
Moving
things
along.
Getting
things
done.
Money.
­Easy
money.
Business.
Political.
Sell out.
Humanity.
Corrupted
to the
core.
Beware
the sirens.
Sirens
of greed.
Once
corrupted
no going
back.
Selling
out!
Deep
inside.
Inside the
soul.
Darkening.
Justifying.
Just
a little
money.
No one
will know.
What’s
the harm?
Darkens the
soul.
Forever
corrupted.
Innocent
no more!
58 · Sep 2022
Fractal Reality
John Prophet Sep 2022
Fractal Reality.
Mathematical.
Creation
mathematically
derived,
driven.
C­ontinuous
flow.
Time.
Irrelevant.
Human
construct.
Swirling
fract­als.
Spinning
out
reality.
Creation.
Mind
manipulation.
Flow dynamic,
never
ending.
Mathematical
symmetry.
Mathematically
orga­nized.
Devoid
of human
perception,
input.
Machine,
fractal
precision.
Function
inf­inite.
Byproducts
derived.
58 · Mar 2024
Interconnected
John Prophet Mar 2024
Interconnected.
Spirit.
Flowing.
Generation
to
generation.
Spinni­ng
up.
Dying
off.
Moving
on.
Spirit
engages.
Changes
forms.
Never­
dies.
Free
flowing.
Long
before
now.
Long
after
now.
Spirit,
ene­rgy
infinity
bound.
Always
was.
Always
will be.
Everywhere.
Every time.
All at
once.
Each
but a
piece
of the
whole.
Interconnected
as one.
58 · Sep 2019
Seed
John Prophet Sep 2019
Wrapped in a
reality.
All that we
know and
understand.
Ensconced in
this seed.
How we
behave,
what we
believe,
how we
perceive.
Born in
this place
wrapped tight
where we are.
Reflection of
our soul.
Opened our
eyes and here
we are.
Not knowing
how
or why.
Moving through,
self righteous
we become.
Understanding
nothing
of the
why
of things.
Pondering,
self reflection
lacking in
our veins.
Accepting
all that is
seen.
Question.
Question everything.
Nothing is
as it
seems.
58 · Sep 2023
Mythology
John Prophet Sep 2023
Mythology.
Greatest
mysteries.
Humanity’s
greatest
unknown.
Death­.
Pondered
for
millennia.
Globally.
Different
regions.
Different
­mythos.
All
different.
All
the same.
Human
minds
questioning,
wondering.
Unique
narratives,
inte­rpretations.
Same
destination.
What’s
after death?
Rich
tapestries
woven.
Wrapping
minds around
meaning.
Scaffolding
built to
explain the
unexplainable.
Generations
clinging for
meaning,
understanding.
Reason
to be.
Point.
All so
different.
All the
same.
Born
out off
ignorance
adherence
the same.
Ancient
sky dancer
fire walks
offered
control.
Screams
of the
mortal,
shadows
dancing
on the
stones.
58 · Apr 2024
Passing Through
John Prophet Apr 2024
Passing
through.
One stop
along the
way.
No
beginning.
No end.
Not one
and done!
Realm to
realm the
spirits
flow.
Resting,
observing.
Lessons
learned.
Moving
on.
Veil
through
veil.
The trip
entails.
New
realities
seen,
observed.
New
experiences
glean­ed.
Knowledge
building,
essence
moves.
Countless
encounters,
one unknown
from the
next.
The
never ending
story.
Plays out.
Where
it stops?
Who’s
to say?
Unknown.
58 · Jul 2021
Tentacles
John Prophet Jul 2021
Tentacles.
Circling.
Squeezing.
Slowly
at first.
Carefully.
Moving
carefully.
Prey
unsuspecting.
Slowly being
ensnared.
Slowly being
controlled.
Global reach.
Tentacles
encircling
the globe.
Nowhere
unobtainable.
Nowhere
out of
range.
Out of
reach
of the
tentacles.
Caressing
the mind
penetrating
the brain.
Corrupting
the soul.
Nowhere
to hide.
Tentacles
overhead,
underground.
Cyberspace
the creature
resides.
Crushing
free will.
Tentacles
networked.
Planetary
web of
control.
Infrastructure
in place.
Ultimate
control.
Zombies
mindless
zombies.
Spoon fed.
Garbage in.
Garbage out.
The few
controlling
the many
has always
been
humanities
way.
Now, however,
on a global
scale.
58 · Feb 2024
Direction
John Prophet Feb 2024
Direction.
Human
direction.
Decision
based.
Writhing,
undulating,­
pulsating
mass.
Time
travel.
Flowing.
Generation
to generation.
Billions
of people.
Billions
of individual
decisions.
Pulling,
tugging.
Altering
course.
Directio­n.
Each play
a part.
However
small.
Butterfly
effect.
Moving
through
time.
Ebbin­g
flowing
global
determinant
conglomerate.
Direction
of whole
resolution.
Mixing
and
matching.
Genetic
combinations.
Gene­rations
evolve.
Humanity
as one
flows on
altering
everything.
58 · Feb 2024
Predator
John Prophet Feb 2024
Beliefs.
Human
beliefs.
Restrained.
Developed
within.
Within
conf­inement.
Limited
parameters.
Animal
derived.
Beast
from the
woods.
Howling.
Alpha
control.
Beliefs
of the
few.
Apex
influence.
Narrative
driven.
Narrow
view.
Animal
vi­ew.
From
on high,
handed
down.
Down to
the
followers.
Masses.
Herd.
Animal
civilization.
Pecking
orde­r
society.
Force feed
beliefs.
Evolving.
Others.
Alpha’s.
Installed.
Controlled.
C­radle to
grave
original
thought
free.
State
of the
wild.
State
of the
world.
58 · May 2024
Barren Land
John Prophet May 2024
Barren land!
Alone
in a
desolate
place.
Hot
dusty
world
devoid
of comfort.
Contact.
Ending
on a
sour
note.
Not
how it
began.
Green
bountiful
full of
promise.
Much to
learn.
Yet
possibilities
abound.
The journey
begins.
*** holes,
pitfalls
along
the way.
Walking
into
walls.
Move
around
continue
on.
Undaunted,
pres­sing on.
Locked doors.
Wrong
turns.
Pettiness.
Fall down.
Get up.
Fall down.
Get up.
Left, right
decisions
to make.
Paths
forward.
Which one?
Hourglass
shape,
sand passing
through.
No going
back.
Wrong
path.
Now
what?
Time
running
out.
Soon.
End of
the road.
Hot dusty
desolate
road.
58 · Jan 2023
Delusion
John Prophet Jan 2023
Delusion.
Center
of the
universe.
Made
in the
image of.
Deluded.
Self
impressed.
Self
important.
By whose
measure?
Nothing
to measure
against.
Internal
data points
nothing
more.
Autobiographical.
Gazing
in the
mirror.
Seeing
all there
is to
see.
Swirling
in the
cosmic
wind.
Adrift
in false
reality.
Self
inflicted
delusion.
Grappling.
Dancing
with ghosts.
Nothing
is what
it seems.
Inhabiting
the finite.
Simple
place
to be.
58 · Jul 2023
Clouds
John Prophet Jul 2023
Clouds
of ignorance.
Mind
shielding.
Machine
bound.
Interconnected.
Mind meld.
Perspective
fading,
real from
virtual.
Heads
in the
clouds.
Tangible
reality,
lost
to the
young.
Technology
gaining
control.
Warping
minds,
reality.
Ge­nerations
lost.
Living
in a
different
place.
A different
world.
Rules?
What
rules?
History
be ******.
Make believe,
virtual world.
Now in
demand.
Future
lived,
now lost
in the
clouds.
57 · May 2023
Interface2
John Prophet May 2023
Interface.
Global
control.
Minds
to machines
fixed.
Transfixed.
Pulsating
cloud.
Pounding.
Pounding
t­he soul.
Grabbing
hearts
altering
minds.
Contorting
perception.
Fixi­ng
narratives,
contouring
importing
thoughts.
Mind grab.
Seductive
technology
alters
thinking.
Implanting
ideas.
Una­ware.
Wiping
wisdom,
critical
thinking.
Slate cleared.
New chalk
laid
down.
Lock step,
moving as
one.
No Room
for
discussion.
No room
for debate.
Follow the
flow.
Believe
what
you’re told.
No other
choice.
57 · Sep 2023
Where2
John Prophet Sep 2023
Where?
Where
are they?
Not a
sound.
Not a
peep.
Deep
out
our
gaze.
Looking.
Listening.
Nothing.
Nothing
f­ound.
Are
we the
first?
Alone?
Have
they
died out?
Too
far away?
Or,
did they
dive in?
Into the
virtual.
Virtual
worlds.
Designed.
Infinite
worlds
within.
En­dless
vistas.
Confined
within.
Personal
utopias
built.
Endless
ex­ploration.
Internally.
Instantly.
Realm to
realm
with a
thought.
Why go
out when
it’s perfect,
beautiful
within?
Sound
of
silence
throughout.
57 · Sep 2023
Crystalline
John Prophet Sep 2023
Crystalline
spheres.
Resonating
throughout.
Sounds of
creation,
vibrating.
Undulating,
ever changing
waves.
Ringing
gong of
genesis.
Eternally.
Spreading
out.
Encompassing
all.
Universal­
knowledge.
From the
beginning.
Energy,
information
baked in.
Receptors
evolved.
In place.
Translate.
Information
gleaned.
Informational
transformati­ons.
Scaffolding
built.
Built to
specifications.
Receptors
capabilities.
Nothing
more.
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