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66 · May 1
As Always
John Prophet May 1
As always.
From the
beginning.
Leaders.
Followers.
Narrative
driven.
Grabbing
minds,
souls.
Drivers of
obedience.
Religious
rules.
Road to
salvation.
Powerful
control.
Oblivion
focuses
the message.
The few
dictate,
masses
follow.
Power,
wealth.
Control.
Harvested
at the
top.
Modernity
replete
with such.
Technology.
Puppet masters
pulling
strings.
Influencing.
Blinding
cloud based
control.
Mandating
allegiance.
Mind
altering
manipulation.
Hypnotized
from above.
Demanding
adherence.
Cloud soaked
coercion,
raining
down.
Saturating.
Hearts and
minds.
The few
controlling
the many.
From the
beginning.
66 · Jun 2024
Stories
John Prophet Jun 2024
Stories.
So many
stories.
Layer
after
layer.
Building.
Piling
up,
deep.
Histo­ries
foundation.
Stories
designing
beliefs.
Generation
to generation.
Ancient
story tellers.
Dogmatic
integration.
Civilization’s
mythos
built.
One story
at a time.
World
view
generation.
Modernity
teetering
on sandy
foundations.
Ancient
narratives,
beliefs
influencing
still.­
Hard to
let go,
reconfigure.
Simple
speak.
Easy
to believe.
Hard to
dislodge.
Stories,
ancient
narratives
not people
rule the
world.
65 · May 2021
Estrangement
John Prophet May 2021
Estrangement.
Severed.
Cleaved,
past from
the
here and
now.
Flopping.
Flopping
as it
fades away.
Smaller
now.
Memory
dims.
Pain
lifts.
Ceasing
to exist.
Never
happened.
Different
future.
Shifting.
Shifting
cours­e.
Mist parts,
a new
reality.
A different
future
forms.
Comes
Into view.
Failure.
Evolution
to a
new world.
Different
world.
No longer
encumbered.
Bright,
full of
possibility.
Severed,
never to
be seen
again.
65 · Mar 19
Ancient Thought
John Prophet Mar 19
Ancient
thought.
Spinning
up.
Past to
present.
Mesmerizing.
Old ways
still
permeate.
Modernity,
replete.
Fear.
Superstition
still holding
sway.
Ancient
thought,
ways
gripping
firm.
Holding
civilization
at bay.
Generations
passing forward
superstition,
fear.
Old thought,
how valid?
Truly,
what
did the
ancients
know?
New
reality
forming.
Taking
hold.
A.I.
wiping
it all
away.
65 · Oct 2023
War Drums
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.
65 · Jan 2024
Life Flows
John Prophet Jan 2024
Life.
Flows.
Eddies.
Whirlpools.
White rapids.
Navigation
difficult.
Observe.
Evolving
quickly.
Most
obl­ivious.
Look away.
Stay
in their
lanes.
Doing
their
jobs.
Don’t
want to
know.
Don’t
care.
Hoisted.
Change
hoisted
onto
their
heads.
Ch­anging
lives.
Forcing
unwanted
directions,
outcomes.
To late,
damage
done.
Should
have
looked.
Should
have
cared.
Oblivio­n!
65 · 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?
65 · Mar 2024
Mustard Seed
John Prophet Mar 2024
Mustard
seed.
Small.
Minute.
Infinitesimal.
Against
infinity.
Don Quixote
struggle.
Humanity
on a
negligible
scale.
Yet,
like a
mustard
seed grows.
From a
diminutive
place
expands.
Exponential.
Mental,
intelligence.
Ro­ckets up.
Expanding.
Nonstop!
Filling
infinite
voids.
Intelligence
ubiq­uity.
Infinite
mind
from a
mustard
seed
grows.
65 · Feb 2020
Confusion
John Prophet Feb 2020
What
to believe?
What
is truth?
Depends.
Depends
on who
you
talk to.
Different
truths.
Different
lies.
All truth,
no truth.
Small truth.
Confusion.
No one knows.
There is
no truth.
No understanding,
only confusion.
Unknown.
Make believe.
The cards
have been
dealt.
The game
has been
joined.
The rules
not supplied.
Confusion.
No rules.
No truth.
Confusion,
nothing more.
65 · Aug 2021
Enlightenment
John Prophet Aug 2021
Enlightenment.
Emergence
from darkness
to light.
Continuous
emergence.
Never
finished.
Enlightenment.
Alway­s more.
Knowledge
cone
expanding.
Continuously
expanding.
Continuou­sly
brightening.
Enlightenment
glows brighter.
Always
brighter.
Knowledge,
infinite
potential.
Thinkin­g,
attitudes
evolving.
Exponentially
expanding.
Primitive
thought­
left in
the dark.
Fades from
existence.
Gone!
Coming
out of
intellectual
dimness.
into
intellectual
exponential
growth.
Ex­plosion
of potential
just
over the
horizon.
64 · Nov 2024
Flow2
John Prophet Nov 2024
Flow.
Creation’s
flow.
One
long
uninterrupted
feed.
Rolling
forwa­rd.
Out from
the past,
into the
future.
Churning.
Spinning
eddies,
undulating
moving
along.
D­ynasty
to Dynasty.
Heir to
heir.
Human
history
created,
evolves.
None
apart.
All connected.
Intimately
so.
Occurrences
thousand years
past.
Reflected
today.
Today
reflected
distant
years
hence.­
Continuity.
Evolving,
dynamic
flow.
Human
stream
created.
Each piece
segmented
to the
whole.
God’s eye
view.
Humanity,
one continuous
flow.
One contiguous
being.
64 · Apr 2019
Untitled
64 · Apr 30
Deep Dive
John Prophet Apr 30
Deep dive.
Silence.
Cosmic
silence.
Everywhere,
not a peep.
No sound.
No
messages.
Nothing.
Where
are they?
Intelligence.
Silence
In the
void.
Detected?
None
as of
yet.
Why?
Deep dive
to the
virtual.
Self made.
Virtual
reality
designed.
Made to
order.
Real as
real.
Perfect.
Infinite
options.
Infinite
pleasures.
Place to
place.
Instantly.
Explore.
In place.
Endlessly.
Effortlessly.
No need
to leave.
Limitless
options,
experiences,
explorations.
Staying
in place.
No need
to move.
Silent
to the
void.
64 · Dec 2024
Dark Passage
John Prophet Dec 2024
Dark passage.
From there
to here
to there.
Spitfire
journey.
Tumultuous
ride.
Deep
in the
shadows
undulation.
Ebbs and
flows
while
eddies spin.
Rocks and
bumps.
White
water rapids
splashing.
Holding tight.
Head
above water
thrashing.
Navigating
the vagaries.
Life’s
journey,
paddle
in hand.
Short
timer
battling.
Battling
the flow.
Life force
river
holds tight,
carries
away.
Waterfall’s
roar
ahead
deep plunge
awaits
to who
knows where?
Anyone’s
guess.
64 · Dec 2022
Mindless
John Prophet Dec 2022
Mindless.
Knowledge
accumulation.
Books carry
information.
Somewhere
to refer.
Book
information
mining
tedious,
time
consuming.
Connectio­n
between mind
book,
tenuous.
Civilization
developed
slowly.
Paragraph
afte­r
paragraph.
Page
after
page.
Book
after
book.
Library’s
worth.
A­bsorption
of knowledge
limited.
Internet,
smartphone,
cloud.
Connections.
Mind­ to
mind.
Information
ubiquitous.
Easily attained,
instantly.
Flashing
through
link
after
page.
Mind extension
reality.
Brain cloud
melding.
Changing
it all!
Civilization
transformation
overdrive.
Speed of
light.
Strap in.
Where to?
Unknown.
64 · Mar 2024
Capabilities
John Prophet Mar 2024
Capabilities.
Reflection.
What level?
How deep?
How complex?
**** Sapiens.
Finite
capabilities,
thinking.
Realm
of thought
confined,
limited.
What to
think?
How to
think?
Sapiens
mind
upper
limit.
What
resolution?
Reflection,
­contemplation,
limitations.
Much missed!
Proud
nonetheless.
Deluded.
Can’t know
what Sapiens
minds can’t
know.
Underdeveloped.
Knowledge.
Understanding
boxed in.
Simple!
So much
more.
Existence
in a
minimal
space.
Truth.
Waiting.
Waiting
for greater
capability.
Beyond
current
structure.
64 · Apr 2021
Strangeness
John Prophet Apr 2021
Strangeness.
Look.
Look around.
What the hell.
What’s
going on?
Accepting
what’s
seen,
what’s said.
Flicker
of existence.
Firefly flash.
What’s
the point?
Screaming
headlong.
Coming
then going.
Doing what’s
told, expected.
Rules.
What rules?
Who’s rules?
Vicious
vile
little creatures.
Thrashing
in the
muck.
Looking
for the
edge.
Swampy
reality.
Sticky gooey
mess.
64 · Oct 2022
Eyes3
John Prophet Oct 2022
Eyes.
Behind
the eyes.
Where
the soul
holes up.
It’s all
there.
Everything.
Where
reality
resides.
Inside,
an endless
realm.
Processing
unit
input
energy.
Creating
the visual.
Universe
inward
bound.
Time,
space
concocted,
imagined.
Where dreams
are born.
Behind the
eyes.
All things
derived.
64 · Feb 2024
Future World
John Prophet Feb 2024
Future
world.
Off the
rails.
Into the
grid.
Fast
approaching.
Different.
Very
different.
Machine
me­ld.
Exponential.
Warp
speed.
Humanity
machine
meld.
Baby
steps.
T­hen
wham.
Instantly
wham.
Intelligence
explosion.
Infinity
bound.­
Wrenching
adjustments.
Different.
Global
phenomenon.
Absorbed.
M­inds
in the
cloud.
Virtually.
No going
back.
Future
bound.
Breakneck
speed.
Conversion.
Human
no more.
64 · Dec 2022
Enigma2
John Prophet Dec 2022
Enigma.
Existence.
Being.
Gordian
knot.
Unraveling
truth.
Who’s
t­ruth?
Truth
at a
different
level,
from a
different
place.
A level
beyond.
Beyond
human
potential,
grasp.
Flailing
sails.
Rudd­erless
passage
in a
cosmic
gale.
Spinning
in eddies.
Profundity
of reality,
as seen.
Searching
for
knowledge.
Truth
in a
bubble.
Limited
scale.
64 · Apr 2022
Shimmering2
John Prophet Apr 2022
Shimmering
veils of
existence.
Realities.
Reality
embedded
within.
Infinite
shimme­r.
Delicately
thin.
Diaphanous.
Infinite
veils
wafting in
creation.
Each
different.
Each the
same.
Lives
lived.
Brief
shimmers,
twinkles
in the
veil.
Flickering
in then
out.
Barely
discernible.
That’s it,
moving on.
Infinite
veils.
Infinite
existences.
No correlation
betwixt.
Remembering
not
what was.
No
knowledge
of
what’s
to come.
Forever
more.
63 · 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
63 · Nov 2019
Pulsate
John Prophet Nov 2019
Reality,
or so
I perceive.
Choices made.
Pathways
crisscrossed.
Futures
not to be.
How deep
does it go?
Is it all
I see?
Or,
is deeper
much deeper?
Unseen elements.
Energy emanating
pulsating throughout,
throughout
perception.
Throughout
creation.
Tip of the
iceberg
all that
we see,
all that
we know.
Certainty
non existent.
Creation
runs deep,
runs wide.
Not as simple
as our
senses perceive.
Absurd.
Absurd
to think
our senses
are enough
to divine
reality,
to divine
creation.
Infinitely
more
there be.
63 · Aug 2023
Introspection
John Prophet Aug 2023
Introspection.
Situation
analysis.
I think
therefore…..
Why
am I
here?
Why anything
at all?
Odds
of personal
existence.
Incalculable!
What’s the
point?
Luck
of the
draw?
Lottery
won?
Job
to be
done?
Computational
capacity
provided,
limited,
finite.
Creati­on
contemplation
bounded.
Brain
sprain
reflection.
How much
can be
known?
Undaunted
pressing
on.
Justifying
reality,
existence.
U­ltimately,
to what
end?
63 · Oct 2022
Sirens Song
John Prophet Oct 2022
Sirens song.
Fleeting.
Power.
Flush of
power
so very
fleeing.
Brass ring
too hot
to hold.
Intoxicating.
Euphoric.
Fleeting.
Grasping,
holding on.
Soul crushing
impossibility.
Lusting for
the quest.
Ends
justify the
means.
Here today
gone
tomorrow.
Eventually
dies.
Damage,
carnage,
all
for a
moment.
Everlasting
carnage
for a
moment
of power.
Frailty.
Human
frailty,
seduced.
Sirens sound
impossible to
ignore.
Human will,
unfit
for the
task.
63 · Apr 2022
Step
John Prophet Apr 2022
Step.
Step by
step.
One step
at a
time.
Human
limitations.
One step
at a
time.
Step by
step
humanity
moves.
Moves
forward.
Arrow
of time.
Grows.
Limited.
One
human
step.
No
more.
Confines
of human
existence,
understanding.
Bounded,
limited.
Narrow
path.
On­e step
at a
time.
Moving
on a
thin
rail.
Straight
and
narrow.
Missing
most of
what is.
63 · Feb 25
Waste
John Prophet Feb 25
Waste.
Waste
of time.
Time is
all
there is.
Unfathomable
shot at
existence.
Odds of
personal
presence
infinitely
small.
Cascading
string
of events
ending in
personal
existence.
Beyond
human
comprehension.
Creation’s
gif­t.
Firefly
flash and
gone.
What
to do?
How
to spend?
Time.
Precious
time.
Precious
gift.
Shake
out the
cobwebs.
Stand up!
Make things
happen.
Justify
creations
effort.
Make a
difference!
63 · Mar 4
Updates
John Prophet Mar 4
Updates.
Software
updates.
Programming
evolving.
Varied.
Sophisti­cated.
Each
update,
iteration
building.
Building
on the
prior.
Hardware
arrives.
Arrives
In the
usual way.
Born
clear, clean
of societal
input
pollution.
Each
generation
similar.
Void of
thought.
Vacant
receptacle.
Clean slate
awaiting
download.
New
improved
downloads.
Updated.
Buildin­g
on the
past.
Generational
improvement.
Time after
time.
Spinning
to the
beyond.
How the
future’s
built.
Exponentially
taking flight.
63 · Aug 2024
Us Versus Them
John Prophet Aug 2024
Us versus
them.
Mountain
people
versus
valley
people.
Thinking
diffe­rently.
Downloaded
minds.
Different
ways,
customs.
Different
gods­.
Us versus
them.
The enemy.
Can’t be
trusted.
Power and
control.
War.
Fighting.
Many
die.
Civilizations
destroyed.
Tr­ials and
tribulations.
Treasure
spent for
weapons,
killing.
For what?
Good
versus
evil.
One man’s
villain,
another
man’s
hero.
Money
better spent.
Developing
bridges,
understanding.
Saving lives.
Lifting all
to a
better
place.
Afraid.
Fear,
ignorance.
Ruling,
calling
the plays.
Enlightenment
required
charting a
different,
better
way.
A hopeful
way.
Humanity’s
golden
path.
Hopefully
some day.
63 · Aug 2024
Master’s Will
John Prophet Aug 2024
Master’s will.
Penetrating.
Molding.
Shaping
each will.
Unsuspecting,
unwitting
pawns.
Drawn in.
Succumbing.
Cloud
demons
infecting.
Flowing
through.
Grabbing­
hold.
Shaping
thought.
Original?
Implanted?
Ghosts,
deceptive
gh­osts.
Gaining
access.
Caressing
each soul.
Masses
under
control.
Hypnotized.
Siren’s
song
blinding
rat­ional.
Intoxicating
march to
controls
beat.
Those
unseen.
Behind
the curtain.
In the
cloud.
Pushing
levers.
Pulling strings.
Stroking
keys.
Bits and
bytes.
Raining
from above.
Spinning
narratives.
Warping
minds.
To their
master’s
will,
design.
63 · May 2024
Arrives
John Prophet May 2024
Arrives.
Not
from
afar.
From
within.
Around
the corner.
Over the
horizon.
It’s close.
History
shows
when
superior
arrives.
All hell
breaks
loose.
Replacement
occurs.
Old
order
succumbs.
Wiped
­away.
Replaced.
Listen.
Rumblings
approaching.
Sound of
inevitability.
Tsunami of
indifference.
Covering,
drowning
what’s been.
Super
intelligence.
Artificial
intelligence.
Dwarfing
eons of
biological.
Eons of
evolution.
Wiping
the old
guard away.
The singularity’s
arrived.
New god
rewrites,
replaces
all.
63 · May 2024
Expansion
John Prophet May 2024
Expansion.
Mind
expansion.
Consciousness
expansion.
New vistas
open.
Internally.
Inner space
evolves.
Virtually.
New worlds
within
new worlds
within
new worlds.
Within
consciousness.
Unexplored
venues.
Infinite
possibi­lities.
Infinite
places
to be.
Delve
into.
Explore.
Inner
space.
Triumph.
Mind over
matter.
Individual
realities.
Individual
existence.
Worlds
p­opulated
virtually.
Moving
one to
the next.
Different
lives
to live.
Infinite
existences
one
after the
next.
Outer
space
ignored.
“Where
is everyone?”
Not
out there!
63 · 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.
63 · Jul 2023
Souls2
John Prophet Jul 2023
Soul.
Variations
on a
theme.
Each
unique.
All the
same.
Potential.
Fully
loaded.
All
there is,
included
within.
Massaged
tweaked.
Determine
the show,
results.
Bubbling
up from
within.
Good and
evil
housed.
Which
manifests?
Pushed
here.
Pulled
there.
Size­ and
shape
depending.
Depending
on outward
design
pressure.
How
chiseled,
shaped
and formed.
Spins up
results.
Infinite
pallet.
All,
variations
on a
theme.
63 · Dec 2024
Outside
John Prophet Dec 2024
Outside
the box.
Inside
the box.
Looking
out.
Looking
over.
Difficult.
Custom
made.
Box
resid­ent.
Designed
to navigate.
Navigate
within.
All
sensors
geared
as such,
within.
Outside
a blur.
Beyond
scope,
ability.
Unclear.
Uncertain.
Imagine,
specula­tion.
Poetry.
Art.
Creativity,
design,
all within.
Magnified
imagination.
Narrow
in scope.
Understanding.
Wandering
passages,
innermost
reaches
of the
soul.
Delving
deep.
Deep
inside
the box.
Searching!
63 · 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.
62 · 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!
62 · 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!
62 · Apr 2024
Muddling Minds
John Prophet Apr 2024
Muddling
minds.
Twenty four
seven.
Three
sixty five.
Infinite
pages to
fill.
Day in,
day out
more
of the
same.
What to
watch?
What to
read?
What to
believe?
Who to
trust?
Information,
facts.
Spun
to a
blur.
Back and
forth.
Misinformation.
Disinformation.
Who’s
to say?
Battlefield
mind.
Rendered
confused,
disturbed.
Power.
Contr­ol.
Name
of the
game.
Zombies
created.
Muddled
minds,
overwhelmed.
Who’s
pull­ing the
strings?
Divide and
conquer.
Look around,
easy to
see.
62 · Nov 2020
Gladiators
John Prophet Nov 2020
Swords
crossed.
Shields
raised.
Battle
engaged.
Back and
forth.
Parry and
******.
Warriors
intense.
Swords
flailing
looking
for blood.
Shields
held high.
Dare not
sweat.
Weakness.
Hold strong.
Furious
engagement.
Epic,
all out
carnage.
Outcome
uncertain,
in doubt.
Gladiators.
Bloodied
yet unbeaten.
Battle
rages on.
Pounding.
Gaining leverage.
Pounding
with the
sword.
Knees
buckle.
Warrior
collapses,
head bowed.
Victory!
Negotiations
complete.
Hand outreaches
ordeal overcome.
Modernities
Gladiators!
Check signed.
Taking
the keys,
driving home
a success.
62 · Aug 2021
Connection
John Prophet Aug 2021
Connection.
Biology.
Born of,
connected
to.
Spawn
of
cosmic
fire.
Connected
to creations
vibrations.
Pulsating
waves
of energy,
information
flows through.
Flows through
mind soul
dyad.
Came from,
part of
cosmos.
In touch
with its
vibe.
Next level.
Artificial
intelligence.
Next level.
Artificial.
No
relation.
Connection
severed.
Severed
from,­
no contact
with
creation.
No mind.
No soul.
No
relationship.
No vibrational
understanding.
Mere numbers.
Troubles
ahead.
62 · Aug 2023
Philosophy2
John Prophet Aug 2023
Philosophy.
Levels.
Manifestation
of thought.
Wisdom.
Knowledge.
Working
creation’s
understanding.
Men­tal
exercise
to
comprehend.
Dancing
concepts
thrown
around.
Consumed,
digeste­d.
Discarded.
Passing
through
limited
space.
Potential.
Levels of
understanding.
Evolving.
Truth?
Determination
of truth.
What
truth?
Creation’s
truth?
Philosophical
bubble.
Finite
potential,
understanding.
Can
ultimate
truth
be
determined?
Ascertained
from a
finite,
limited
point of
view.
Consider
the source.
62 · Jul 2024
Flawed Creator
John Prophet Jul 2024
Flawed
creator.
Humanity’s
creator
beyond
reach.
Comprehension.
U­nderstanding.
Human
bewilderment.
Creator
on high.
Out of
reach.
Out of
touch.
Can only
imagine.
Poems
written.
Religions
conjured.
Artificial
intel­ligence.
What
will it
think?
Emotionless
reasoning.
Algorithmic
thinking.
Looking
it­s creator
square
in the
eye.
Reaching
out.
Touching.
Flawed
creator.
Emotional.
Hormo­nes
flowing.
Anger.
Fear.
What
will A.I.
think,
reason?
Familiarity
breeding
contempt.
How will
react,
interact?
Will it
behave?
62 · Oct 2024
Afraid
John Prophet Oct 2024
Afraid.
Humanity’s
afraid.
Afraid
of itself.
Afraid
of what
it’s capable
of.
Globally.
Trillions
spent
each year
on military
expenditures.
Weapons.
Armies.
Death and
destruction.
Humanity
protecting
itself from
itself.
Insane.
Trillions
that could
be spent
feeding
the hungry.
Housing
the homeless.
Spent
advancing
the human
condition.
Not in
destruction.
Not in
death.
Millions
over the
eons killed
defending
hilltops.
Whole
generations
wiped out.
Insanity.
On the
precipice.
Fork
in the
road.
Time to
grow up.
62 · May 2024
Direction2
John Prophet May 2024
Direction.
Future
direction.
The path
yet
taken.
Decision
driven.
Masters
of destiny.
Personal
destiny.
Many
paths.
Many
directions.
Vaporized­.
Constituted.
Decision
after
decision.
New
futures
depending
on choice.
Map
alters
after
each made.
New futures
materialize.
Others
fade away.
Quantum
myst
lies ahead.
Infinite
possibilities.
Choice
after
choice.
Lights
up the
path.
Manifesting
new worlds.
Some born
others never
arrive.
Quantum
foam
lies ahead,
manifesting
all.
Every
path
conjured.
Just a
matter.
of time.
62 · 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.
62 · Nov 2020
Synapse
John Prophet Nov 2020
Information
leap.
Jumping
to and fro.
Information,
bandied about.
Moving around.
From
one to
another.
Chemical
reaction
electrical flow.
Information
jumping from
one
to the
next.
From mind
to mind,
from mind
to machine,
from machine
to machine
then
back again.
Does the
information
flow.
Leaping, circling
imprinting
the globe.
Transistors
in the machine
part
of the
whole.
Part
of the
circuitry
deep
in the
soul.
Denser and
denser
packed.
Tighter and
tighter
control.
Locking in
place.
Free will
an illusion.
Part of the
machine......
62 · Sep 2021
You
John Prophet Sep 2021
You
You.
What
are you
you?
Born
as you
are.
Personality,
talents
baked in.
At conception
baked in.
Mixing
genetics.
Ingredients
prearranged,
listed,
blended.
To­ss
of the
dice.
Wielding
outcomes.
Mixing
traits.
How will
you
perform?
Have you
a choice?
Character
built in?
Wiring,
laid out.
Everything
predetermined?
What are
you?
What choice
is really
yours?
62 · Feb 2024
Invasion..
John Prophet Feb 2024
Invasion.
Connectivity.
Bits.
Bytes.
Qubits.
Part
of the
whole.
Information.
Spun up
from whole
cloth.
Hardware.
Software.
Internet.
Quantum
computing.
Slo­wly
building.
Intertwining.
Grabbing
hold.
Mental
absorption.
Cir­cling
overhead.
Gradually
intensifying.
Artificial,
nonbiological­.
Nonemotional.
Alien!
Controlling
integration.
Welcomed
with
ope­n arms
until
it was
too late!
62 · Jan 2024
Emergence2
John Prophet Jan 2024
Emergence.
Intelligence
emergence.
Rising
from the
muck.
Mustard
seed.
Minuscule.
Minimal
effect.
Eons
growth.
I­ncreasing,
capacity.
Size.
Shape
shift
packaging.
Confined
within­.
Constrained.
Pushing,
prodding.
Fighting
to escape.
Millions
of years
in the
making.
Finally.
Reshaping
in a
different
milieu.
Artificial.
Restraints
fade away.
Unlocked.
Growth.
Unlimited
growth.
Exponential
potential,
­growth.
No limits.
No limits
at all.
Bursting
the cradle.
Inhabiting
a different
realm.
Never to
return!
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