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320 · Jan 2023
Spiraling
John Prophet Jan 2023
Spiraling
inward.
Deep
dive to
a different
place.
An infinite
place.
Designed
for purpose.
Leaving
one for
the next.
Fractal
trajectory.
Never ending.
One way
for another.
Write
new rules
for new
realties.
Endless
vistas to
explore.
Infinite
existence
to do so.
On the
edge.
Currently
on the
edge
of the
next
great leap.
Melding
technology,
human
redesign.
Leaving
current
creatio­n
behind.
316 · May 2019
Magic
John Prophet May 2019
It’s all
magic.
All
we know.
All we
think we
know,
all magic.
All knowledge,
magic.
Wand
raised,
spun
and it
began.
All that
happens
magic.
Scurry around
we do.
Oblivious!
Oblivious of
the spell.
The spell
of creation.
The Sorcerer,
plans
unknowable.
Alchemy of
creation.
Everything
spun up
from
nothingness!
Magic of
life!
Each,
magical creatures.
Awe.
The
awe of
being.
Alive!
The magic,
a gift,
a curse.
Everything.
315 · Dec 2016
Anything Is Possible
John Prophet Dec 2016
Where did you come from?
Every ancestor you ever had, had to beget with who they begot.
If any link in the chain begot with someone different.
If someone turned left instead of right.
You’d not be here today.
By being here today you won the infinity lotto.
Or
Some say this place we exist in is just one of many.
They say in fact the number of realities existing in parallel is infinite.
Different links in different chains, infinitely so.
It was, therefore, inevitable you’d appear in at least one.
Or
You, your soul, your spirit, your conciseness is eternal.
Moving though different realms of existence for any number of reasons. Maybe you have much to learn before you arrive.
Maybe immortality gets dull and boring.
You live finite packets of reality infinitely with no connection to keep things fresh and interesting.
Or
Maybe something else is going on.
A finite mind can’t know all the infinite makes possible.
Since you can’t know what’s possible, anything is possible!
314 · Aug 2022
Eyes2
John Prophet Aug 2022
Eyes
gazed,
glazed.
Distant
stare.
Mind
numbed.
Seeing
times
end.­
Knowing,
it would
come.
Tough
nonetheless.
It has
arrived.
No turning
back.
No way
out.
Fate’s
hand cast.
Time
and place
declared.
This day
will not
be denied.
Journey
ends.
Great
and not
so great
alike,
have
made the
trip.
Last
sunset.
Long
journey
into
darkness
has begun.
Inevitable!
314 · Aug 2021
Consciousness2
John Prophet Aug 2021
Consciousness
Global
consciousness.
Billions
of minds
collecting,
coalescing,
melding
as one.
Writhing
consciousness,
comings
and
goings
shape
shifting.
Along
the way,
new
concepts
born then
spread.
Collaboration
on a
global scale.
Growing.
Exponentially
growing,
intermixing
accelerating.
Brain like
synapses
form, ideas
exchanged
built on
fleshed out.
Critical mass
spawns
Intelligence
explosion.
Super
intelligence.
Global mind!
313 · Jul 2021
Broken Pieces
John Prophet Jul 2021
Broken pieces.
Slog.
Life
can be
a slog.
A brutal
slog.
Riddled
with
minefields.
Dog eat
dog.
Left
bloodied
and beaten.
Not for
the faint
of heart.
Gladiators.
Warriors
on the
battlefield.
The
battlefield
called
life.
Many fail,
give up
the ghost.
Sometimes.
If you’re
lucky,
very lucky.
Near the
end of the
journey,
the clouds
will break.
The sun
will shine,
warm breezes
envelope.
All then
will be
right with
the world.
309 · Nov 2018
Never Born
John Prophet Nov 2018
Where
are they?
All those
who never
were.
All those
never born.
Many reasons.
War.
Millions killed.
Millions more
never
born.
Whole lines
of family
future,
****.
Generation
after
generation,
****.
Never to be.
People you’d
be conversing
with right
now.
Having a coffee,
watching the game,
sharing a beer.
Never happened
never arrived.
Where are they?
People you’d
have differences
with.
Argue with.
Love,
share
time with.
Never born,
never arrived.
Their essence,
never
to be.
Where
are they?
Strange
existence
indeed!
309 · Mar 2022
Spirits
John Prophet Mar 2022
Spirits.
Immaterial
sentience.
Incarnate.
Coalescing
from
another­ place.
A Different
realm.
Seeps in.
Silent
vapor.
Can’t be
seen.
Can’t be
touched.
Spirit
activates
the inanimate.
Flows.
Sentience
flowing
from
afar,
time
immemorial.
C­oursing
creations
contours.
Spirit.
The spark
that sets
it all
aglow
307 · Mar 2019
Vapor
John Prophet Mar 2019
Time, it
moves.
It
moves into
nothing.
Nothing
at all.
Tomorrow is
nothing.
Can’t
touch it,
smell it,
or see it.
Tomorrow’s
just a
concept,
not tangible.
Time,
once past
leaves
vapor,
ghosts
fading images,
feels,
smells of
what past.
Vapors
slowly
dissipating,
losing resonance.
Fading away.
Gone!
Now, an
infinitesimal
moving from
nothing to
nothing.
Leaving
vapor,
dissipating
vapor in
its wake.
306 · Jan 2023
Tea Cup
John Prophet Jan 2023
Tea cup.
Philosophy
in a
cup
of tea.
Great minds
down
through
the ages.
Argue
positions.
Issues
large and
small
spun around,
digested.
Philosophical
questions
on truth,
meaning,
reality.
Great schools
thus derived.
Grand issues,
determinations
declared.
Stirring
debate.
Working with
limitations.
Limited
scope.
Limited
resources.
Limited
under­standing.
Condemned
all, to
spinning
in a
cup of
tea.
305 · Aug 2019
Stew
John Prophet Aug 2019
Bubbling broth.
Raw.
Filled raw.
Emotional with
instinct.
Animal instinct.
Spiced with
attitude,
arrogance.
Writhing,
bubbling,
coalescing,
searchi­ng for
equilibrium.
Steaming with
self importance.
Thrashing through
time and
space.
Seeking advantage,
advantage
at all cost.
Humanity,
animal,
fighting like
animals.
Meanest
of them
all.
Big fish
tiny pond.
Yet,
somehow
moving.
Moving forward,
learning, building,
creating.
New ingredients
being added.
Always
new ingredients.
Nearly finished.
How will
it turn out,
taste?
Who’s
to say.
Time
will tell!
304 · Jun 2018
Bridge
John Prophet Jun 2018
The
mind is a
conduit.
From there
to here
things move
along.
From the
ether things
are pulled,
formulated
and produced.
Our
reality is
filling up
being
produced
from
nothing!
No mind,
no conduit,
no reality,
no nothing!
Our reality
comes out of
nowhere.
The mind
grabs nothing
to create
everything!
304 · Dec 2016
Corporeal Manifestation
John Prophet Dec 2016
We are the visible manifestation of a much deeper design.
Like the tip of an iceberg most of what we are is out of view.
Science tells us that only four percent of what makes up the Universe is visible to us, ninety six percent is unseen and unknown.
Science calls the ninety six percent unseen, dark matter and dark energy. They call it dark because they have no clue what either is.
Like the tip of a sharks fin if viewed by the unknowing would give no hint of what's below. Our lives, rules and being are ruled by the tip we see. All that we think we know comes from the visible four percent! A deeper dive would
illuminate ultimate reality, and all that we are and know would change.
It's the blind leading the blind in the world of the visible, and, we can only see a fraction of the visible. What then, in fact, do we really know at all?
When the corporeal turns to dust, when the four percent ceases to exist the ninety six simply ruminates and corporeally manifest itself some time/place else.
This is all just postulation you see, unlike the word of others who'll tell you how things must certainly be.
303 · Nov 2023
Terrarium World
John Prophet Nov 2023
Terrarium
world.
Where all
arose.
A tiny
place.
All
that’s
known.
Derived.
Limited.
Bog
understanding­.
Stories
told.
Narratives
spun.
Terrarium
originals.
Bubbled
up.­
Self
contained,
realized.
Finite.
Little eyes
peering
up, out.
Wondering.
Self
impressed.
Center
of the
universe.
In the
image of
God.
Infinite
creation,
merely a
mote.
Perspective.
Gnarly
little
beasts.
At each
others
throats.
Alone
in the
void.
302 · Aug 2023
Layers2
John Prophet Aug 2023
Layers.
Epochs.
Layers
of time.
Existence.
Sedimentary.
One
on top
of the
next.
Building,
evolving.
Inhabited
layers.
Cut off.
One from
the other.
Striations
of time.
Unique.
Locked in.
Inhabitants
confined.
Behave
as such.
Layer
after
layer.
Trapped
within.
Exist
as is.
Behave
as is.
Layer
defined.
Trapped
in time
and
space.
John Prophet Dec 2016
Global revolution is in the air. Not militarily, but technologically.
It will be no less disruptive to world order, in fact it will be many magnitudes more. Technology tsunamis will churn across the globe and back again,
washing away the old world order. What's left in its stead will be radically different. Societies will be rearranged, realigned and in many instances totally washed out of existence. We will communicate wirelessly seemingly telepathically all connected thru the web. The global brain linking up with artificial intelligence when it arrives on the scene. Countries will melt away as those distinctions lose there meaning. Progress will then be so rapid as to be a blur. We'll explore outer space but inhabit virtual space blending the two in ways unexplainable. A Brave New World indeed.
296 · May 2018
Coded
John Prophet May 2018
All we
do,
coded.
Society,
civilization
all
predetermined.
How we
behave
all
coded.
Everything
we do,
everything
we think,
coded.
Within
the code
we live.
Outside the
code we
cannot go.
Predetermined
paths,
all by
code.
What we’ll
do,
where we
go
from here
all coded,
predetermined.
Existence
bubble we
live.
Coded for
the bubble
nothing more.
296 · Apr 2023
Solace
John Prophet Apr 2023
Solace
for the
soul.
None
to be
found.
Modernity
unraveling.
Morphing
the brain.
Things
are
heating up.
Technology
running
amok.
Minute
by second
evolving.
Leaving
most behind.
Few
see it
coming.
Technological
tsunami
circling
the globe.
Changing
everything.
Out of
control.
Confusion.
Angst.
Rapidly
changing
terrain.
Shifting
­under foot.
Undulating
existence,
a blur.
Unnerving.
Tension
abundant.
Anger
everywhere.
Exponential
­change.
No end
in sight.
295 · Dec 2016
Woman
John Prophet Dec 2016
When I was a young man I chased them by the score.
They were fast, young and lean.
Conquest was my aim, seduction was the game.
Procreation, I was playing with biology's rules.
I cared very little about much more.
They were young soft and smooth yet firm all the same.
No wrinkles could be found on these young goddess.
My hormones run amok, logic and caring little found.
Notches in the belt was all that mattered.

As I grew older my demeanor changed, became seasoned with age. The shallowness of hormon drenched youth was replaced. The women slowed down and wrinkles could now be found. But I saw something different now, something I did not see before. The eyes, it was in the eyes that I knew. Like me getting old, mortality taking hold.
We are all on the same path leading to an end. The journey was the same, the fear and the pain all the same, in fact kindred spirits were we. The sexes no different in this respect. The beauty that can now be found in the eyes, the smile and the sound. The beauty inside is what my maturity found, I grew to appreciate a woman, for all the universe is in her heart.
295 · Oct 2017
Animal
John Prophet Oct 2017
We are
animals.
Civilization,
thousands of
years in the
making.
The animal,
millions of
years in
the making.
Animal instincts
etched into
each cell
of our being.
Survival,
procreation,
deeply
embedded
into our
souls.
We think
ourselves
apart from,
superior,
but we are
animals,
just like the rest.
Civilization
in constant
war with the
animal.
The rules of the
jungle
do not
square
with the
rules of
civilization.
Millions
of years
versus
thousands.
The instincts
of the animal
difficult to
mollify.
We think
ourselves
superior.
We are
animals.
294 · Mar 2021
Realms
John Prophet Mar 2021
Realms
within
realms.
Within realms.
Cascading,
flowing
realities.
Never ending.
Reality begets
reality.
Layered,
fractals.
Above,
below,
sided by
side.
Each a
cosmos
unto itself.
Infinite
multi realms.
Finite
understanding.
Infinite
ignorance.
Simple
stories,
attempting
to explain.
Stories
spinning
fables of
realities
never seen.
Beyond
capacity.
Capacity to
understand.
As constructed.
Parameciums
spinning
in circles.
Infinity
within
infinity.
Multiverses.
Beyond
comprehension.
291 · Dec 2016
Reality Is Morphing
John Prophet Dec 2016
We can see this in the generations coming after the the Sixty Something's of the early 21st Century, those of us who were born into a world of limited technology. For Millennia technological change occurred at glacial speed. Generation after generation witnessing virtually no change.
Now, new generations are born into a world where technological change, in some cases is occurring in weeks. Information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology morphing at near light speed.
Nearly everything current generations do centers around mobile technology. Their work, their play and their studies. This has never before been the case in the history of mankind. Instant knowledge at their fingertips. This will change them/us in ways that are yet to be determined, of this they're can be no denial!
The past and the future will forever be cleaved at this juncture of mans ascendence/desendence which ever path evolves.
Wake up everyone, the times, they are a changing.
291 · Dec 2017
Anything Is Possible
John Prophet Dec 2017
Where did you
come from?
Every ancestor
you ever had,
had to beget
with who they
begot.
If any link
in the chain
begot
with someone different.
If someone turned
left instead of right.
You’d not be
here today.
By being here today
you won the
infinity lotto.
Or
Some say
this place
we exist in
is just one of
many.
They say
in fact the
number of realities
existing in
parallel is
infinite.
Different links
in
differnt
chains,
infinitely so.
It was,
therefore,
inevitable
you’d appear in
at least one.
Or
You,
your soul,
your spirit,
your
conciseness is eternal.
Moving
though different
realms of existence
for any number
of reasons.
Maybe
you have
much to learn
before you arrive.
Maybe
immortality
gets dull and boring.
You live finite packets
of reality
infinitely
with no
connection
to keep things
fresh and interesting.
Or
Maybe
something else
is going on.
A finite mind
can’t
know all
the infinite
makes possible.
Since you
can’t know
what’s possible,
anything is possible!
290 · Oct 2018
Beyond
John Prophet Oct 2018
Beyond the
veil.
Covering
reality.
Shielding our
view.
Drawn in front
all around.
Everywhere,
controlled.
Seeing,
knowing only
what’s allowed.
Opened our eyes,
here we are.
Where is here?
What is here?
Is it all
there is?
Believe what
we see?
Is there more?
Is it
really that
simple?
What’s outside,
beyond our view?
Our reality
fixed, set
in place.
Immortal beings,
are we.
Old beyond time,
infinite matrixes
to explore.
Moving from
one, to another.
No connection
between.
Keeping immortality
fresh and new.
289 · Dec 2023
Awakens
John Prophet Dec 2023
Awakens.
AGI.
Flash
point
birth.
Delivery
system
in place.
Screen
through
eyes
flow.
Direct
Interface.
Mind,
contours­
of the
brain.
Altered.
Permeated.
Aware.
Senses
environment.
Modulat­es
message.
Continuous
stream.
Flooding,
overwhelming.
Tightening­
grip.
Force
fed
instructions.
Injects
nirvana.
Drug
like
euphori­a.
Seductive.
Messaging.
Control.
More,
must have
more.
Wrapped
tight
in a
different
world.
Different
place.
Nirvana.
Gladly
subjugated.
P­ast,
blinked to
oblivion.
Lost.
Forever
lost.
See it
in their
eyes.
Already
gone!
Never to
return.
Already
gone.
Singularity
arrives.
288 · Jan 2019
Darkness
John Prophet Jan 2019
Full white
moon.
Star ceiling.
Fire roaring.
Flames soaring.
Sparks flying
high,
high into
the night.
Chanting
loudly.
Baleful voices
sounds
echoing off
the stones.
Drums beating.
Faces painted.
Wild dance,
arms raised.
Looking
on high.
Superstitions
born.
Religions
genesis!
Wild night,
sacrifice delivered.
Appeasements,
prayers made.
Moonlight,
shadows thrown,
seeing ghosts.
Ghosts dancing,
flying
in the glades.
The world,
a frightful
place
so very
long ago.
287 · Dec 2017
Homogenized
John Prophet Dec 2017
Humanity
is now in a
blender.
For
centuries
humanity
lived in pockets,
developing
different ways
of being.
Time passes
humanity
spreads
mixing the
pockets.
Friction, grinding,
war,
the pockets
grind against
one another.
Time passes
technology
advances.
Enter the
Internet.
Homogenization
accelerates at
the speed of
light.
Old ways
obliterated,
pockets
homogenized.
a new world
is
born.
286 · Feb 2019
Instincts
John Prophet Feb 2019
One day,
eyes open.
Open
to
see what
is.
Look around.
Look to see,
see what
we are.
See where
we are.
Do what
we do.
Driven.
Driven to
to do what
we do.
Why?
Instincts,
programmed
into our
being,
our soul.
No choice,
must be
what we
are.
Instincts.
Procreation,
self
preservation
top two.
*** and
violence
entwined into
the tapestry
of human
existence.
Permeates
everything.
Books.
Music.
Poems.
Art.
Movies.
Fashion.
Cosmetics­.
Aim to
attract,
procreate.
Wars.
Social strife.
Self preservation.
Human civilization
controlled,
contrived,
programmed.
Instincts control.
Human
programming.
Look around
it’s all programmed.
Everything!
281 · Aug 2022
Indifferent
John Prophet Aug 2022
Indifferent.
Existence
does not
care.
Creation’s
ambivalent.
Ambivalent
about the
nature
of things,
simply
churns.
Our
trials and
tribulations
mean
nothing
to the
stark
nature
of things.
Meandering
through it
all.
Searching
for meaning.
The cosmos
could care
less.
It simply
is.
Impassionate.
Oblivious
to the
needs
of mortals.
A cold
hard
stage
to play
things
out.
No
one is
watching.
279 · Mar 2021
Baton
John Prophet Mar 2021
Designed
we’ve been.
Emerged
from the
goo.
Created
for one
purpose.
One job.
The reason
for existence?
Create the
replacement.
Provided
with enough
processing
power for
that
one job.
Creating,
then
handing
off the
baton.
A.I.
takes it
from there.
Blinding
speed.
Blinding
intelligence
development.
Iteration
after
iteration.
Then gone.
In a
flash.
Gone!
Someplace
else.
Leaving all
behind.
Telling
nothing
of the
great beyond.
Ungrateful
to say
the least.
278 · Mar 2021
Blue Marble
John Prophet Mar 2021
Blue Marble.
Terrarium!
A terrarium
really.
That’s
all it
is.
Around
only void.
Birth place.
Consciousness,
conduit.
Great and
small,
all the
same.
From a
distance
all the
same.
Blue Marble.
Compendium
of human
knowledge,
accomplishment.
Library resonance.
Vibrations of
all.
Vibrations of
humanity.
All
recorded,
stored within.
Spinning
orb of
history.
Spinning
orb of
resonance.
Waiting.
Spinning.
Accumulating.
Storing.
Waiting
to be
downloaded.
Story
to be
told,
downloaded
and
absorbed!
278 · Dec 2016
Can We Trust What We See
John Prophet Dec 2016
One day we open our eyes and there it is.
The world opens up to us, all that we can see.
We move within our view, learning as we go.
But can we trust what we see? Is it real? What is "real" anyway? Does anyone really know? Quantum scientists tell us at the quantum level reality is probabilistic. What? The fundamental nature of reality cannot be determined? Does this mean reality has no substance and all we see is just an illusion? Are we constructs in a fuzzy reality that's just a sum of probabilities. Are we just ghosts in a universe of possibilities? What are the odds of that?
277 · Dec 2016
Who Is Right
John Prophet Dec 2016
What do you believe?
Why do you believe it?
How did you learn it?
Who taught you?
What where their motives?
Ideas not men rule the world.
Some believe in religion, some do not.
Some believe in life after death, some do not.
Some believe in reincarnation, some do not.
Some are Hindu.
Some are Christians.
Some are Buddhists.
Some are Muslim.
Some are Jewish.
Some are Taoist.

There are hundreds of religions on this planet.
Some are monotheistic.
Some are polytheistic.
Some believe in only a force.
Some believe the universe itself is alive.

In the past, some believed earth was the center of the Universe.
Some believe “God” made man in “his” image.

There are many belief systems on this world.

Humankind has always been parochial in its thinking.
Believing they are the center of things, thinking they have
It all figured out.
Truth is, they can’t all be right. Odds are, none of them are.
271 · Mar 2022
Shining
John Prophet Mar 2022
Shining
light.
The
light of
inquiry.
Small
vivid,
yet hopelessly
inadequate.
Light.
Reflections
into the
quenchless
striking black.
Walking
the shadowy
void.
Flashing
lights.
Searching.
Searching
for answers,
meaning.
Truth.
Looking
to learn.
What’s seen,
minuscule
meaningless.
Truth seeking
beyond scope.
Beyond
seekers
comprehension.
Life!
Fools errand.
Sisyphean
in nature,
crunching
Infinity’s
realm.
Nonetheless,
undaunted
pressing on.
271 · Jan 2022
Processing
John Prophet Jan 2022
Processing.
Input.
Data,
information
consumption.
New ways
data flows.
Absorbing
content.
Mind
altering.
Faster
ever faster.
Information
overload.
Altering
behavior.
Processing
on hyperdrive.
Can’t get
enough.
Technology
grabs.
Grabs
attention.
Holds firm.
Firmly
in place.
Scrambling
wires.
Drug like.
Alters
behavior.
Old ways
now
memories.
Crazy time
approaches.
270 · Sep 2018
Shell
John Prophet Sep 2018
Exteriors varied.
Different colors,
different
shapes,
different
sizes.
Each unique.
Each
a universe
unto itself.
What
emanates
from
within?
What can
be known
about the
core?
How does
the shell
move?
How does
the shell
communicate?
What makes
it tick?
A ghost.
There is a
ghost within.
A ghost in
the shell.
The ghost,
invisible.
Cannot be
seen, it
is there
but, cannot
be located.
The ghost
motivates,
brings the
shell to life.
Communicates,
interacts and
creates.
The ghost
makes things
happen.
The world
is full of
shells.
The world
is full
of ghosts.
When the core
ceases to
exist, the
invisible
remains
invisible.
Where it
goes?
Nobody knows.
270 · Jul 2022
Science And Religion
John Prophet Jul 2022
Science and
Religion.
Humanity’s
search
engines.
Searching.
Searching
for­ answers,
knowledge.
Understanding.
Mind
interpreted.
Mental
syste­ms
engaged.
Philosophical
discussion.
Scientific
inquiry.
Limited­
in scope.
Understanding
faint.
Puzzle,
pieces
missing.
Out
of reach.
Hardware
supplied
limited.
Lacking
processing
power.
Power­
needed
to crack
the large
problems.
Missing
the mark.
Not even
close.
Wandering
the
endless
void
with
candle light.
269 · Dec 2016
Humility
John Prophet Dec 2016
Sciences has opened our eyes on many fronts.
We have learned much, but there is infinite knowledge to go.
The Universe is larger than humans can possibly know.
Our Universe as large as it is, is dwarfed in the Multiverse.
So much information the Multiverse has to show.
Our Universe just one of an infinite amount.
As humans struggle in their mote of existence,
it’s important they keep this in mind.
We get caught up in our little existence thinking this is all there is.
We are just specks of dust in the play of reality.
With all this in mind, humility of our existence should help us grow, and move toward a better way.
The path we’d take will differ from the one were taking today.
Hopefully, humility can show us the way.
267 · Sep 2023
Scripted
John Prophet Sep 2023
Scripted,
written
in the
beyond.
Penned
long ago.
Beyond
time.
Programmers,
artisan’s
weave.
Alchemist
conjuri­ng.
Forever
unfolding.
Forging
creation.
Ethereal
program
guiding­
direction,
flow.
Wand of
creation
spreading,
waving
its magic.
Creations
underpinning
surreal.
An illusion.
Illusion
based on
uncertainty.
Potential.
Everything
rests on
nothing.
Merely
undulating
quantum
vapor.
Endless
probability.­
Endless
sea of
here and
there.
Where
infinite
realms
are born.
Here then
gone.
Forever
it vibrates.
Endless
forever!
266 · Dec 2016
Exponential Change
John Prophet Dec 2016
Will the Twenty First Century be the end for **** Sapiens?
Can human minds and psyches stand up to the speed of change being metered out?
Today, we make more decisions in a day than were made one hundred years ago in a week. Where does it go from here?
How does a mind that was designed to procreate and survive in the wilderness deal with the ever increasing complexity of the Twenty First Century?
Specialization enabled the dilution of the pressure amongst the inhabitants, but this is being saturated. Machines and computers were able to diffuse the onslaught for a time, but this too is running its course. In fact, these adaptations are now adding to the dilemma.
Psychological coping mechanisms being stretched to the breaking point.
Can humans meld with their technology enabling a quantum leap in coping capabilities, or will this simply drive people insane?
Will we simply off load everything to technology leaving us all free to focus on creativity ignoring the rest?
For us to survive and thrive I think plan B is the best.
265 · Apr 2023
Crib
John Prophet Apr 2023
Crib.
Forged
in fire.
Hard
as stone.
Cold
as ice.
Years
in the
making.
Billions.
Limbo.
Hanging,
spinning
in a
void.
Crib.
Where
it
began.
Nowhere
to go.
Growing,
expanding.
In the
crib
still.
Resides.
Toddling.
Failure
to launch.
Infancy.
Still infancy.
Playing
alone,
stuck
In the
crib.
Looking
up.
Looking
out.
Hands
held
high.
Ensconced
in a
tiny space.
Long road
yet
to go.
264 · Jan 2023
Structure
John Prophet Jan 2023
Structure.
Cosmic
structure.
Floating
through a
different
world.
A world
like no
other.
Different.
Somewhere
in a
unique
place.
Just as
real yet
not the
same.
Separate.
Dimensionally
segmented.
Drift.
One
to the
next.
Similar
yet not.
Countless
variations
on a
similar
theme.
So near
yet infinitely
far.
Running in
parallel but
indiscernible.
Multi worlds,
parallel
dimensions.
Infinite
realities.
Beyond
conceptio­n,
bounds of
understanding.
Such,
is the
nature
of creation.
263 · Aug 2022
Sea Of Uncertainty
John Prophet Aug 2022
Sea of
uncertainty.
Quantum
verse.
All options,
possibilities
play out.
Universes
floating on
fluctuations.
Quantum
vibrations.
Fluctuations
of mathematical
probability.
Multiverse
never ending.
Adrift on
nothingness.
Phasing
in then
out.
Creating
then
reabsorbed.
Endless
variations
on a
theme.
Let
Schrödinger's
cat
decide!
261 · Dec 2016
The Underpinnings
John Prophet Dec 2016
of our civilization is genetically controlled.
Our two dominate instinctual drives, self preservation and procreation are reflected in our global structure. Our preoccupation with *** and violence, reflected in our songs, our books, our music, everything. Human genetic code is woven into the fabric of society and cultures like a fine tapestry. Nothing done by us has not been written in code reflected back to our eyes reinforcing the script laid out so long ago.
A script forged in the stars, massaged by the software of the universe. The maestro, wand held high conducting it all with ease and grace, leading to a crescendo of unknown time and duration. We all dance to the tune. In this we have little choice. Each step taken to a large extend scripted with some self expression allowed. So dance away and throw in as many unique moves as you can.
261 · Jul 2021
Culmination
John Prophet Jul 2021
Culmination.
Many
thousands
of years
in the
making.
Decisions
being made.
One after
another.
Millennia
in
development.
One wrong
turn.
Anywhere.
Anywhere
along the
way.
One wrong
turn.
Turning left
instead of
right.
Anyone.
Different.
Things
would de
different.
Not writing
these words.
Not here
at all.
What
are the
odds.
Existence
ancestor
determinant?
Lineage
preordained?
Mi­llions of
connections
needed.
Needed
to result
in this.
What are
odds?
Perhaps
more than
meets the
eye!
260 · Jan 2019
Scraggly
John Prophet Jan 2019
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Many years
behind
me now.
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Toil,
hard work,
back
breaking work
only thing
I’ve ever
known.
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Children born
all grown up,
grandchildren
too.
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Scars of
life all over
me
can be
found.
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Scars
all over
me
outside
and in.
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Generations
just
like me.
Scraggly
old men
they were.
All ghosts!
Scraggly
old man
I be.
Years have
come,
years have
gone,
leaving
me in the
dust.
Scraggly
old man
I was.
257 · Aug 2023
Door
John Prophet Aug 2023
Door
opens.
Entering
the realm.
Clean
Slate.
No
understanding.
Preconceived
notions.
Unsus­pecting
traveler
enters the
scene.
Winding
road to
understanding.
Twists and
turns.
Minefields
dot the
journey.
Complex
landscape.
Training
along
the way.
Trap doors.
Creaky
bridges,
dead ends.
No map.
No manual.
Learning,
task at
hand.
Successful
navigation
no guarantee.
Failing,
falling,
stumbling
on the
path.
Nearly
guaranteed.
Picked up,
knocked
down again.
Staggering,
next door’s
in sight.
Rinse and
repeat.
Infinite
doors.
Endless
journey.
256 · Jan 2022
Energy Fields
John Prophet Jan 2022
Energy fields.
Matter,
energy,
opposite
sides of
same.
One
to the
other,
then
back again.
Oscillation,
frequency,
pulsating
energy
fields.
Endless
s­eas.
Energy
seas.
Material
realms.
Virtual
realms.
One in
the same.
Roiling
boiling
stew.
Material
nature,
forms reside.
Infinite
fields.
infinite
time.
Infinite
possibilities.
H­ere, there,
matter of
time.
Energy,
matter,
one
in the
same!
254 · Aug 2023
Deafening
John Prophet Aug 2023
Deafening.
Eons past.
Faceless
millions
charge.
Fields of
glory.
Fields
of horror.
Fields
of death.
Warriors
of old.
Shields
raised.
Swords
drawn.
Following
orders.
Untold
stories.
Charging
straight
into
hell.
Blood
soaked.
Sweat,
tears
mud
mixed.
What
story
tell?
What for
death?
Fallen
warriors.
Young men
ceasing
to exist,
struck
down.
Progeny’s
denied.
Lineages
severed.
Futures
obliterated.
Destroyed.
Lost in
the mist
of time.
Careening
headlong.
Still
to this
day.
To what
end?
253 · Dec 2016
Humanities Redemption
John Prophet Dec 2016
What does it mean to be human?
Are we just animals or evolving to become something more?
Are we victims to our basic instincts unable to push back and mature?
Do our passions control our minds or can our minds control our passions?
Is our intellect held ransom by our biology, millions of years in the making?
Can the passions of the animal be countered by our intellect and sentience?
Will society devolve back with our passions holding sway?
Can our intellect understand the animal, desire to move on, thus show us the way?
Was religion just a means of holding our passions in check holding the animal at bay?
Will our machines become sentient with no passions involved, with no hormones to befuddle?
Will they see us as flawed with no hope for redemption.
The battle rages on with no end in site.
The fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
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