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ANARCHY & NONPROFIT | CONTENT | III
ERVIN LASZLO | TWO WAYS OF KNOWING THE WORLD | 2
MESOECONOMY
THE CLEAN CODE
AND
E D I T O R I A L
Friends and colleagues asked for a collection of themes relating to with music conspires to fashion the world.
the current issue of the Journal and I am grateful to share here Melpomene, Calliope and Euterpe are bygone
sparse thoughts and insights. Where reunification takes hold, archetypes; stone, bronze and iron Ages are over,
some experienced indications may help, for the way should be new Age is already gone: this is the mesoteric
consciously practised and not only thought about. Theorizing is
spiritual-material age, past the Palaeozoic and
looking afar, further than our own nose, as theoria and praxis
Mesozoic eons. The human archetype has always
squint on the intersected plane. A ventriloquist speaks with its
dwelt in it as a persona of the conscious I. The
belly, voicing something apart from the character on stage. In
arrogance of the capital I to stands over its
orderly gait, one step after another, we are proceeding as witness
of our times, riding the tiger on a razor blade, fully aware that minuscule peers is now lessen to a tiny i almost
either ways we may fall in disdain and be bound to renewal perishing under its own volatile weight. The shift
until our whole lot is done, free and ready for the next leap. of consciousness to this new stage of the being
rebounds on the temporal plane and affects both
* individuals and humankind alike. Time is the
* * delay accumulated by the I in gaining awareness
of being conscious of itself. The mesoteric plane is
The best ideas are common property.
where space and time collide to transmute into the
SENECA, Moral Letters to Lucilius, XII:11. fifth degree of the being, the fifth house of soul2.
C
Next to the material, the vegetal, the animal, and
IAO, IT IS A REAL PLEASURE TO GET ACQUAINTED
the human, comes the true human nature embracing
with you. My name is Big Bang, Big being
in itself all the previous ones, attentive, patient, humble
my given name, Bang my family name. I am
and sincere, discharged of time. No geological time
delighted to find out that we share common
will further the Cambrian clock, the mesoteric age is
concerns: transmutation and development, inner
chasing Maya away. Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Veda
growth and all its innervations into the mundane
and Olmec long since revised the categories of thought
world dynamically balanced in the mesoteric
still carrying some freshness of truth, occasionally
dimension1, where we are heading to lie down
accepted or rejected by many or by few. Acts led off by
before Atropos snaps the tread. In the meantime,
the true human nature do not leave debris behind, no
I am enjoying offering what I have received so
negative karma is produced by an action performed
far. I’m a good listener, and a few words I can
from this stage, these are ‘clean’ actions, no karma is
still spell, a spell in the air and a spell in a spell.
available to mayahere.
This written communication is annoying at
Kronos took account of history of and left its debris in
times, annoying in deeds.
the human self. “riverrum, past Eve and Adam’s from
The brighter the light the darker the shadow,
swerve of shore to bend of bay… to the last syllable of our
utopia is a cavatina preceding the final master
recorded time.” Memory as a support to action – does a
aria, unbound for madrigals, sonnets or rhymes,
clean action leave traces in memory? Our reptile brain is
but to unveil the benefits beyond self-interest
as yet very active, for Greed&Greed are still bullying in
whither humanity is leaping: the fresh dash (-) the courtyard. Next to having harvested our own individ-
uniting the spiritual-material experience, coupling
ual karma, we still need to amend humankind’s karma.
the esoteric to the exoteric planes by the umbilical
Slavery left a massive trace in human consciousness still
cord of a quantum entanglement. Definitely not a
in need to be cleansed. Like chrysalis, organized reli-
condition granting much friends and acquain-
gions in turn vesseled the spiritual content in the his-
tances, attracting to an unattainable perfection,
torical continuum to protect an adolescent spirituality
pulling consciousness further into its advanced
and grant it a sustainable development within well
dimensional mode, not as a by-passed station on
defined systems of practices and believes. They are
the rails of an unsolved life, but as a gifted brace.
now fading away to give the fore to a mature spiritu-
Culture, derailed by an unexpected routine is now ality as a function of consciousness – the function
back on track. Poetry [un]veils obscure allusions and still creates the organ. Indeed this is the time of
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individual revelation and prophecy outside the by the thinking mind in its proud attempt to breed
enclosures of codified creeds: the spiritual-material order in chaos. According to classical mechanics,
vibration, the spandaof creation is ongoing and can- any energetic exchange in a closed system makes
not be regimented in time. It is any longer a matter entropy to increase; clean acts are performed in
of faith, but of the evidence of a shared proof, no open systems and bear an enantiotropic5function
copyright holders are here, just a unified field of con- instead. Entropy and enantiotropy are the two
sciousness. From the simplest and undifferentiated to faces of the same coin if perceived from one of
the differentiated and complex, from absorption of its sides, but a unity when perceived in whole-
many to oneness, hyper- and meta-synchronic events ness. The circle leaps into tri-dimensionality
are taking place. Unapplied creativity is a nightmare, and becomes a sphere; the sphere leaps further
idle vision a crime, performed a-synchronically they to acquire an extra dimension, Pythagorean
produce karma, in need to be amended before any fur-
solids depict n-dimensional extents into the
ther development could ever take place. Of interest is
space-time continuum. Flattening a sphere
that in the current shifting of consciousness, the indi-
onto bi-dimensionality dispels its qualitative
vidual and collective processes of amendment, and of
flavour, as a soul leaving its body. At death, the
development are indeed synchronic, a trait to which we
dematerialized soul gravitates around its corpse
need to get accustomed promptly. We do not actually
for then – if properly mended by karma,and if
investigate the depths of the mesoteric limes, if not for
its resurrection garment of light has been suit-
a handful of details that need not to detain us here for
ably crafted – discharge and revert all its body
long, but we do take notes of the way. A way that can-
entanglements to their primeval elemental
not be said not because is a cipher carefully protected
realm, retaining only the signature of the deeds
from vulnerable eyes, but rather for the failure to voice
that made up its resurrection body. Freed from
a proto-phoneme validated before any emanation3.
any further reincarnation constraint, it moves
We are detectives for and of life, inquisitiveness never
further to its new mansion; if unmended, it will
ends – fatti non fosteaviver come bruti ma per seguir
verge at collective level to be channelled again at
virtute e canoscenza – curiositas is pulling from the
conception.
unveiled. Fulfilled. Resting. A quiver, stillness is
disquieted, the quest is ignited anew, until its next Until union, energy’s polar signature is preserved as
achieved stage, and so forth. The spiraloid func- gender. Once united, the conceiving pair vibrates in
tion of curiositas embodies the advancement of unison in the timeless conjunctio oppositorum. From
knowledge, received and implemented at once on this reunification taking place in and along the axis
the tensorium4. mundi joining haven to earth, a new life may be
engendered at once in both realms. By uniting the
Consciousness is implementing a comprehensive
complementary, the axis mundi transmutes into the
transmutation: the rhythm and cadence of its
original channel of communication to grant the ener-
incremental manifestation are inscribed in the
getic flow between the pairs. In the sexual intercourse,
evolutionary geological footprint of a past Cam-
this is the channel through and by which a soul may
brian time, and in the nonlocal consciousness
take hold of the physical plane. The unified field of con-
unchecked by the space-time continuum. Art
sciousness of the two polarities determines the nature of
at its best transmutes the density of matter into
the soul entering the space-time continuum; the field
a spark of creativity, it saturates matter with
acts as a filter to let percolate a vibrational frequency cor-
spiritual energy as a means of self-perfection.
responding to its threshold value, determining thus the
Everything is perfectible before reaching the
energetic nature of the soul, it quality. The existential
threshold attended by the two guardians – the
drive fired by the union of two true human natures in
two polarities – abutting the door of Perfection,
the mesoteric realm boosts a hyper-dimensional state
the Heaven’s gate, the báb, the door to the next
and savour (rasa). Flexibility and rigidity. A virtuoso’s
dimension. There, creativity, quivering and res-
fioritura, undisciplined as it can be. A lack of decency,
onating at the same frequency of the gate, tram- tax-free. A leak in the cosmic osmotic veal. Maya just
snutes the guardians the gate and the whole notion moved away and brought with her all quadrants6.
into its further guardeddimension. Is the Heaven’s Śūnya, afira, ifr, zephyrus, zafir, zero, empty, void.
ṣ ṣ
gate preventing entrance, or avoiding release? Having to accomplish such a function, the power of
Perfection does not abide in the split dimension, the sexual drive is indeed very subtle, finer in grada-
spirituality not imbedded in matter does not beget tion and in nature then any ancillary energy (nafs)7
reality; to perform clean actions attuned with dhar- which, if convened in the session, will participate in
ma, humility is key. Relativity ceases its grip by shaping the threshold value and imprint it with a
transmuting beyond its own limits, a conceitdevised karmic seal. Many advanced and less brilliant soul
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are on the threshold of embodiment to size the sharing, industrial innovations, nanobiomimicry, 3D
opportunity to bring forth their development on printing, microfactories, urban farming, crowd-
Earth, their unique and sole manner to experience funding, fair use economy, economics of scope,
matter and get aquatinted with it. The delay accumu- p2p economics, and profit-for-purpose are just a
lated by consciousness in becoming self-conscious- few of the tips for the now sufficient conditions
ness, transmuting from one condition to the next is an to let emerge a new economic model conforming
intolerable meiosis: hyperboles and litotes glittering in to an ethical discretionary limit of earnings con-
the air while allusion is planning afar, figures of thoughts, strained by the zero-profit condition. A system
figures of speech… a transmutation of the oxygen into in which culture, education, governance, insti-
its next octave8, certainly not the ‘last’ one, as in the tutions, organizations, and the way people work
mesoteric dimension first and last share the same plane and collaborate among themselves are guided by
of reference. Seclusion and lifelong retreat belong to the the ethical principle of the integral true human
third and fourth ways, humankind is surfing the fifth: nature able to contain in itself the whole of
the plan of an active and vigilant consciousness, in which humankind. The articulations of such a non-
action and will, a doer and a thinker, are the unifiying profit economy, which we would rather desig-
segment of a vacant position. nate here as mesoeconomy– to wit, defining it for
We name things, we categorise, devise, define, diversi- what it is, rather than for what it is not, words
are bricks in the modelling of thought – are
fies, make a whole bundle of them to then unpack it
indeed complex, hard to conceive and attain in a
time and again; we exaggerate the thing-like nature of
short term. A benefit (bene facere, benefactum)is a
reality weakening our sense of interconnectedness and
good or noble deed, not necessarily economic,
inter-being. A heart bound to affection cannot give rise
and a beneficiary is somebody who benefits from
to a subtle heart. To act free from contingencies and to
it. Profit (proficere, profectus, pro facere) means to
avoid creating karma is an obligation to extinguish the
make advance something, to progress it, is the
human debt of necessity, the collective karma. Action
extra-reward, or the surplus – not only economic –
and reaction: contingency. If our centre of gravity is
that exceed the true value of an entity – a ‘true’
not installed in the integral true human dimension,
value still calling for a better definition. In such a
an action performed in duality stimulates a re-action
case, value is an arbitrary predilection that shapes
ignited by the ancillary forces leaving debris (karma)
the relation with an object, or an idea, or with some
in the inner self, requiring thus to be amended
aspects of life assessed in contrast to some other
before any possible improvement. Conversely, an
deemed less worthy, which amounts to discrimina-
action arising from the true human self in the origi-
tion, and is the ultimate embodiment of a divided
nal unitary mode before obliteration, does not leave
consciousness generating contingencies. In economics,
karma behind, and bears a radiant connotation
profit overpowers true value, and the relation profit-
(farr) not blurred by contingencies. It is a ‘clean’
value identifies in money the epitome of the material
action, devoid of self-interest, not calling for any
force ruling society. Current economic dealings are
re-action or individual compensation, payment or
energetic exchanges taking place in a close system, as
reward to its own advantage or profit, it is per-
such, at any exchange, profit (entropy) increases as an
formed solely for the common good, comprising
economic gain both for the performer and the system.
both individual and collective concerns.
Mesoeconomy discards the concept of profit as the ulti-
Here lays the ground to assert that the emerg-
mate means for individual and social development to
ing new culture deriving from the true human
advances its cognition beyond the ordinary boundaries:
consciousness abiding in the collective plane,
the doer, the actor, the performer, the entrepreneur,
moving from an ego-driven outlook to an altru-
brings further the action to the benefit of the common
istic awareness-based holistic approach generat-
good, with no individual economic profit but the reward
ing clean actions, will necessarily give rise and
of the aware satisfaction heightened by performing at the
empower an economic system based on a not for
profit model. Interspiritual age, collective intelli- best of the capacity available in that particular circum-
gence, multiple perspectives approach, double stances. Here, satisfaction becomes a variable of circum-
and triple loop and cross-paradigmatic thinking, stances, just as the norm is a cultural variable. What
paradoxical reasoning, post-conventional inquiry, may be considered right and appropriate in certain cir-
primacy of the n-dimensional on the 3-dimen- cumstances might be considered wrong in another con-
sional operational space, mutualisation of knowl- text, which does not necessarily implies an objective
edge and structures, crowdsourcing, open source, reality as benchmark. The framework in which an
solidarity networks, community centric and driven action takes place influences and determines its result:
innovation, citizen driven cooperatives, community reality is being co-created within the performance of
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the act itself, whose value is established not in rela- without disappointment or frustration arising from
tion with an object, but for its intrinsic quality. Only expectations exceeding reality – better no expecta-
acts arising from the true human self – clean acts void tions at all. The temporary cyclic emergence of each
of debris – do create value, co-design and enact the of the two signatures characterizes our own individ-
enantiotropic function of the collective consciousness. uality, our own make up, and that of our society
signalled in the course of the historical linear time
This is precisely what it differentiates them from an
by one of the two emergencies. At its turn, each
anarchic action. Anarchy9, in its doctrinal acceptation is
emergence, by taking avail of enantiodromia,
a self-organizing force – an energetic pattern of activi-
transmutes into its opposite, in an even dynamic
ties, a system, nota single energy – that strives to control
equilibrium. The medial point, the saddler point
the whole by constantly re-focusing and re-adjusting
in between the two emergencies in which trans-
itself and all its inherent components to a new direction
mutation into the other occurs, the timeless
pulling from a stage yet to be reached, from an attractor
point in which they collide or diverge, depend-
located in the future. In the ‘present’, both past and
ing from the assumed perspective, can be seen as
futureare perceived as polarities governing the sub-lunar
a point of creation, either as a spark or as a new
world. Weltanschauung, worldviews, and believe systems
life. The experience does not stop at the neuronal
are consistently changing at all time, setting new goals
stage, it becomes sensory in as much as perme-
and achievements. As a quantum fluctuation, sub-atomic
ates the bodily global emergence. Consciousness
and atomic particles, nature, the solar system and the
does not differ from the energy that constitutes it,
universes are a vibrating self-organizing system, in which
it is itself that energy.
also human activity takes place. The converging and
diverging energies making up the anarchic pattern are “Poor us, poor us!!!” brayed the donkey unac-
in such an intimacy with the collective intelligence that customed to driving “we will end up in the a-
the two are but one. A pale shade of this can be byssus, in the bottomless”. But he didn’t realize
observed for instance in the ‘unregulated’ chaotic traffic that it was not him in charge of the chariot get-
of big cities like Delhi or Jakarta, in which the traffic ting lose, and for a short while felt relieved of the
flow seems mastered by a collective mind supervising heavy burden of leading, of its toll and its lot. “A
both individual and mass vectors, at any moment donkey shouldn’t lead!” Shouted the charioteer “I
apparently bound to collide but never, or seldom, should do it instead!” “Who is this “I”? asked the
doing so – any complex systems has critical points astounded donkey “Neither the Ego nor Me, the
where sudden change can take place, so that some Self or the Beast, vula bass e schiva i sass” answered
‘accident’ may occur… We are journeying the ‘per- the agent “and mind your own ass! Liaise with cap-
manent’ stage where the collective consciousness tain Achab, if you can!” Fetonte, not Arjuna, drives
is becoming conscious of itself thanks to the indi- the Sun chariot, an inexperienced and proud chario-
vidual becoming aware of being part and particle teer, a devastated I subdued to an inflated ego. The
of the collective mind. authorial ‘I’ and the inner sense merge to rewind the
clock of history at zero ground. Forgot the password?
Decentralized, un-concentrated, disseminated,
Here is a secure way to recall your life anew.
pollinated, comprehensive, receptive, liquid,
extensive, engendered, permeated, pervaded, allo- These few lines just to depict the way and the why of
cated, delivered, diffused leadership: briefly, anar- the Self endless quest in-between z.a¯hir and ba¯.tin and
chic in it original take, keeping at sight that all disclose the why and how of an endless revelation. In
definitions are always partial, as to ‘define’ is to this time-bound dimension is hard to helm both worlds,
limit and restrict a concept to just a few of its distractions abide at both sides, even in the mindfulness
aspects. Governance moves here to a higher of no-thought.
degree of systemic coordination; accordingly, There are no coincidences in the mesoteric realm, for in
social anarchy is not the abdication to the law of the timeless continuum everything is co-present. Syn-
chaos, but to dharma instead. The law is at all chronicity is a sub-function of time, which is a mental
level the same; what differs is the modality of its construct of the realm of quantity. Conscious awareness
manifestation in ‘time’, namely, its historical pairs quality to quantity and transmutes them both into
application. To accept and submit to the law of the mesoteric pace, which retains the awareness of the
dharma is to become one with it while retaining polarities but deprives them of their former grip. It
the awareness of the individual actions, a self reflex- transmutes them from masters to servants at the service
ive consciousness, aware of its own acts imbedded of the higher function of consciousness. Time becomes
with[in] awareness. Endeavours performed by and a potential sub-function of quantity, deprived of any
in virtue of genuine clean acts bore in themselves the hold on reality, mastered at the service of a con-
knowledge and the signature of the flowing dharma, sciousness preserving the awareness of duration of
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