a new way for a new web …

Brian Hoffstein
Atman Games
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17 min readSep 20, 2023

the golden thread of the imaginal world whispers and wows as it blesses up all its nows with bows.

latch on to the ship.
we are setting sail with tensegrity and maps of great equip.

for in the twilight of this dawn
there is immense opportunity to spawn
new capacities from the beyond
like dreams spark a wand

once upon…

a song of the soul
in dedication to the web of life
and helping parts become whole.

top down and bottom up
with agape and eros to balance out our cup.

in memory of a living prayer
the wish of the wishes: to take great care.

the being said:

what is your fit, what is your style
how do the memories save up in your file?

how did you arrive to the here and now
in your self, how do you feel when you say wow?

what are you in touch with? how do you perceive the nature of relation?
if many worlds exist at once what is your perfect destination?

what stories do you live by? what is the lineage that becomes of you?
what spirits spill into your world? what spells spell your queue?

do you flow and get down with the divine dance?
do your flowers bloom? do your horses prance?

do you have nice friends? do you have nice recipes?
are you inspired by your team as they bare the bear necessities ?

are you actively stewarding the progress & betterment of your surrounds?
are you speaking the truth of your heart, are you making nice sounds?

are you going deeper into the wild
are you good with your higher self
and your inner child?

as the tale of your life unfurls
in mythopoiesis and sweat-laced curls

as every spin is always a spiral
and every wave has come more than a mile
what is the legend of your trial?

the eye responded:

all that i know is that i know nothing
and as i know this is something to know
we witness nothing become something to sow.

so, what is one to say of such a predicament?
with an army of angels in a dialectical syndicate
with a cadre of cowboys commited to ending the wicked
on a majestic earth that sprouts abundance in every thicket
one would think this life thing would be in the bag by now!
how are we to conceive of the nature of the great dao?
how does the nondual duel itself through the gruel?
how does the compost become fuel?
how does the web of life alchemize in every drool?
how does the tarot sing in every fool?
eye see them come,
drumming their drum
humming that hum,
hymning her him
speaking of tales that eat their own tails
speaking of whales that jailbreak the jails
speaking of liberation,
speaking of a space station
speaking of time dilation
and a profound qualia of sensation!
knowing that faith in life itself
is how we achieve great wealth
knowing that we must proceed
for the sake of pachamamma’s health!

the being:

if presence is the present, what are we to say to the peasant?
what do you say to the pheasant on thanksgiving
how does one go on living
while giving two fucks for this generation
i mean, there’s a whole ocean for desalination
and proper protocols for menstruation
and yet the world seems to be in wake of daunting degradation!
so hauntingly beautiful the mystery of this regeneration!!

eye:

in the beginning the word was known as deed
it held and hid source codes within every seed

it was known that all is born of the great mother
and that the great beloved might take you as her lover
… if you can ever so gently hover
connections are made between one and other …

for the dedication in times of merit and appreciation
inspires a fascination
that fancies and forms a kind of elation
one that catalyzes elevation and grounded manifestation.

for if we are to see from the soil to the stars
and if we are to know the earth, the moon, and mars
we must return to Gaia’s memoirs
to the sacred vows (to cross the great shore)
together through all weather,
to adore what the beloved has in store.

to ascend mountains of no tomorrow,
to rise in greatness and know no sorrow
to know the show is slow and still yet, to know how to grow

with all the tools provided for
and all the strength latent in our core
just as the birds know how to soar,
we too will roar our roar.

being:

i must question the moment, i am a being of atonement.

i would like to know more of your awareness
how life becomes an infinite game of fairness
how through the karma we may know the dharma
how to have the finest there is to offer in samsara
knowing ourselves as a bundle of bones in a bag of water
with veins that make special kinds of butter
as a consciousness, as a light and spark of imagination
as an entity that envelopes the whole world in living celebration
how might we evolve these human systems that cause such frustration!? why must there be argue? why do they not get it? it be do — let it, let it, let it!

the eye replied:

it must be crystal clear: we all come from the same
we are a family, by atom water and blood, if not by name
and we are on the same team in this game

so as you become aware of truth and dare
and train your will to be prepared to stare
into the gaze of the lord of mercy with care
and perceive all of life through your share
you will walk this earth with great wear
and know the divine pair, and see it everywhere.

for in this
the real essence can be evoked
for in this
the imagination can be poked
for in the true-true
will arise the new-new
through what you see and be
will you will to be and do!

the new way resides in your own inherence
for the new web is woven in coherence!

spaceship earth requests your tensegrity
it invites your wholeness and whole integrity
it lands you in the wheelbase
and puts you face to face
with the grace of a new pace
as you eclipse the old race
and remember there is nothing to chase
only kinds and kindnesses
throughout the playspaces of memes and viruses!

being:

i feel this in my barbarian and my savage
that we must remember life also has ravage
for in this movement of evolution
through the web of life, this truly unnamable institution
with unending, unyielding legislature and constitution
the congruence of the great dao’s development
is the divine pleroma in holy envelopment
and, as such, by its fruits will it be known
how the web of life is truly sown.

eye:

yes!
we must go deeper for the dreams to reach the sleeper
into the fortress, the place of great protection
the place of praise, the place of perfection!
like spirit effervescence poured through cups of tea
like the sweetness of honey and the majesty of the bee
like hammers hammer nails, like winds wind sails
life is long and also fruitful
so there is no need to seek approval!
let all things come, let becoming have its day
and through the new web may you will what you may!
nothing is guaranteed in life except for what you will
and so it is a new ethos with which we must instill.

do you feel your insides love your outsides?
do you know the divides like low and high tides?
do you know the movements of the Ocean, do you know her sensation?
do you know the ingredients of the potion, the sound of creation?
do you know the mutation of Gaia’s fixation?
do you know Love as the foundation?
do the thoughts that feather out of you make your mother proud of you?
do the actions you express and embody
become more than habit, do they become a hobby?
do you attain alignment with your divine assignment?
do refine your own refinement?
do you see the pearl forming in the oyster?
does your consciousness crystallize in the cloister?

because space and time are inextricably linked:
synchronicities come, as if God has winked
and reminded us of the path we are on:
in premonitions melodized through the song of the swan
the great eschaton: a liberated eros, which we rest upon
from the amazonian shaman to the desert mystic reciting the koran
this whole world is but a jewel in the web of life
residing in Indra’s Net,
knowing great joy and great strife
knowing the balance needed for our time
knowing the majesty of the phi and the prime
knowing the middle way,
knowing ancient future presents
knowing the tenants of tenets,
knowing the trap of the presidents
knowing the system is crumbling for the phoenix to rise
knowing the fire as alchemy,
knowing Spirit has eternal eyes.

and as we become aware of these things
and witness our prana taking flight with wings
our own becoming becomes an expression of a new way
and yet still we remember and know both night and day!
we must hold the perennial philosophy
as an earth-aware theosophy
with transcendence and omniscience wrapped and saged
to experience the imminence of a new age!

on this planet it has been called many things
the supreme source, the dao — through many languages God sings
it is brahman expressed through the harmony of shiva and vishnu
it is the angelic hipster who makes cool kew
it is the baker who lets the yeast do its thing and rise
it is even the talking heads on their programming with their lies
for each particle expresses the nature of poiesis
and the christ counsciousness is one that can kiss
the entire reality with tenderness
and appreciation
seeing in the seed of each moment
a divine formation!

being:

neat, now i am getting it.
being and becoming are mostly about letting it
go — forward with conviction
steadfast and discipline
to unlock the pearlescence latent in every situation
and the immense opportunity in every instantation
4for(fore(four)) new ways to see,
the fifth provides a new start
for the songs of our soul sing through the heart !

it seems the world doesn’t need saving, but it does have thirst
epochs are real, things can bubble and burst!
even in the totality of wholeness and perfection
the dharma perpetuates in both refraction and reflection
so if the universe is a song then life is groovy
but only God can know the true movie
and as a divine plot twists every thread
as the yin and yang wed
naked in love in bed
we reclaim the discernment and the teachings of the serpent
to get turnt up and lit
to get vital and fit.
pray, tell me, what cool tools are in your kit?

eye:

i say funny things:
we must be diligent and we must be careful what we put into our soap. because we must not be fools and yet we must also have hope!
we must recognize that our very selves become the greatest works of art
and perceive the galaxy’s metabolism in every fart
we must close loops,
from our peeing to our poops
through our tables and our scoops
to work with the holistic adaptogenic nature in all things
and reclaim our sacred inheritance as queens and kings.

there is a koan, an ageless wonder:
how does the lightning become thunder?
how does Gaia birth a brother,
how a sister, how a mother
how a father, son, and ghost
are of the the most (the most high, the most)?
how natural law
gets reclaimed for all to be recognized as God’s draw
how humans attain new seeing,
one that affords a new kind of being
one in which a community of communities begins to find itself agreeing
that in a becoming-with with the web which webs every second
and the development of a telos that can both reckon and beckon
with all that has come before,
in the grand heretofore
the world offers us wisdom to harvest
and implores us to go further the farthest
it begs us to remember always through all ways
through town halls and hallways
through lakes and bays
even when the paths don’t cross right aways

the web of life says

to know the energy that matters is to know the void
to know consciousness permeates all, even the droid
to know the vacuum as an imaginary figment
to know the invisible visages through all pigment
to recognize that how you see and what you do
arise from how you grow and how you grew
in the expansiveness of this pluriversal new-knew
there is an ancient voice that moves through …
it tickles the cochlea in subconscious residue
and arrives in the here and now of our shared world
the mundus imaginalus upholded and unfurled!

standing shoulder to shoulder with all the homies who ride
expanding the sphere of our being and feeling home as a vibe
home within our heart, within the webbing of tribe.

i leave you with the words of one who came before
& a new glossary for a new web — new words for a new store.
a seed to plant in the fertile soil of your star wave frequency
and an offering for the divine evolution to evolve ever so peacably:

may bliss be your base.
may you have amazing things come true.
may you achieve more than you ever thought you knew you could do
may life surprise you!

All will come again into its strength:

the fields undivided, the waters undammed

the trees towering and the walls built low

and in the valleys,

people as strong and varied as the

land.

And no churches where God

is imprisoned and lamented

like a trapped and wounded animal.

The houses welcoming all who knock

and a sense of boundless offering

in all relations, and in you and me.

No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond

no belittling of death,

but only longing for what belongs to us

and serving Earth, lest we remain unused.

~ Rilke, “All Will Come Again”

new words for a knew way

this glossary catalogs source code emanations practices for the pleroma and fragments of i and thou.

momentization is when the moment becomes anew. when thoughts grow from how you grew. aspects: invention, innovation, consciousness, concrescence

envelopment is the yab-yum union in which the inner and outer, higher and lower merge into and through an enchanted state of Self-becoming. aspects: wholeness, eternal recurrence, feedback loops

pleroma is the totality of the divine powers which bring forth the knew of the world in restoration and revelation. aspects: congruence, coherence, light and dark

web3 is the synthesis that upward spirals virtue into the virtual. it distributes through the world a new computation system that advances the intelligence of the great dao and its emanations through the spacetime continuum. aspects: cryptographic security, decentralization, belonging

web of life is that which connects every moment with every movement and every world with the-many-world. aspects: ecology, mutual arising

the golden thread is the key that leads you in at heaven’s gate built in jerusalem’s wall. aspects: great mystery, song of songs

the imaginal world is what dreams the dream of the dreamer who dreams the dream of your dreamer. aspects: mundus imaginalus, the great undying spirit that becomes all things

the megaverse is a place of infinite dimensions. it knows itself through thoughts and inventions and regenerates the life-eternal anew. aspects: multiverse, pluriverse, metaverse, universes

full stack permaculture is a kind of praxis and view that appreciates the myriad ecologies in life and responds to all as one and lover.
aspects: stewardship, rewilding, regeneration, rebirth and renew

symbiogenesis is the combination of things in which more life blossoms and blooms. it actively alchemizes energy to matter. aspects: synergy, syntropy, syntony, symbiosis

sympoiesis is like spiritual sex it recognizes the eye of the i and sees a new view through the lens of too. aspects: marvels of the modern world, generative evolution

metapattern is the thing that connects the harmony of the spheres in grace, balance, and dynamic equilibrium. aspects: lenses, perspective, situation and orientation

mettapattern is the ground of all spiritual beings uniting in a foundation of love of eros and agape, the four directions and the supreme source beloved divine. aspects: sacred communion, holy embrace

syntallaxy catallaxy combined with sacred economics is the progeny of a new cosmo-vision that upgrades the ghost in the machine with a golden heart. aspects: industry, elements, resources, flows, currency

Post script…

There is an unspoken truth that cannot be named. And yet, it has been spoken of for eons and eras. It absorbs consciousness in an invisible chrysallis and wraps the world in a connective tapestry that weaves together the fabric and fit for Indra’s Net to repose in itself so gracefully. It allows for this and affords for that. It knows itself through embrace and embodiment, as an expression of Eros within a metaphysics of gravity. It is like the breath, it has a cyclical nature. It knows the four loves and it knows how morphogenic frequencecies pave pathways for the kosmos to sing. It knows gravity as that which is “serious”. It upholds a lineage some refer to as the supreme source. It knows the ground of being through a multidimensional holographic lens of connection and play. And, just like words coming through screens, just like sounds coming through screams, just like daisys dancing in daisies, just like refracations of the divine offering insight through the sublime, the web of life weaves its own weavers, it webs its own webbing and lives out its own life in lives that live on living.

The spectrum of existence that we are a part of spans the entirety of the spacetime continuum. Whilst we may have access to the big mystery we may never know it precisely. We may grasp it — we may even smell parts of it — but it will never be all of that which is. It is that which brings life to life and thus creates more life. It is that that we are. It is the eternal story postmarked with a golden thead that is the miracle of you and i and we together. It is the imaginal world coming through ether and presiding in form: the great undying spirit that becomes all things. From where it comes and to where it goes we can only intuit. But in the felt presence of direct experience we access the reaches we can.

There is a new web on the frontier and it presents a new way. It is a new possibility for its and bits and spacetime travel through the kosmos. And, like a great paradox, a coincidence of opposites, a precipice of the new web is the new way coming alive first itself. In reclamation of the ancient teachings, brought through the medium of the co-creations which co-arise in a fifth dimensional nature, the new way fortifies the alchemy of our lives; for it is only when we appreciate the divine nature in all things — it is only when we recognize the supreme source reposes in our very body breath and being — that we may witness a sunset where miracles happen; then we may know the dusk as we do the dawn. When the web of life envelopes in our seeing we attain a new kind of being.

There is A pointing of a way, a great dao dialecting itself through an elemental synthesis that inheres and inhabits the movements of the many ten thousand things.

In the Ocean of Aum anything is possible. Through high tide and low tide, crests and valleys, life has found a way to inspire itself into new and fantastic things. The full picture of its genesis and multitudes in both gnostic possibility and actual multiversal timelines is beyond which one can neither fully fathom nor know. Though know that we do, and knowing of knowing is the first great knowing. Alan Watts liked to refer to the universe as a giant game of hide and seek. Now you see me, now you don’t, now you got me, now you won’t! It’s a joyous cosmology he expressed the watercourse way through (and as, for he certainly knew how to play his part!). And it beckons: What is it to find one self? What are we really after, after all? The omni-infinite perspective reified into palatable bits and atoms for project life to flourish through an engine for regeneration, a gift that keeps on giving. An awareness rooted in careness and fairness!

I am that which knows itself to be of the earth. A being of beings, a soul of souls. My ancestry and yours is connected so closely we could even consider us part of one giant human family.

In the pleroma that envelopes the wholess of creation: the first requisite melody is the dao. It is a pattern and a principle which contains both contradiction and multitude. It is the coincidentia oppositorum brought through a vector equilibrium. Web3 and the web of life conjoin in the dao to express a totality of being in which the prima materia of existence can regenerate itself anew. Welcome to the new web. It begins through this new way. It expresses, embodies, and enables you to rise every day. And as we sync in divine coherence, and remember our sacred inherence, as we venture and as we vie, as we live and as we die, we may perceive the golden thread as an eternal gift, we may receive its grace like wings that help us to lift and elevate as we manifest and penetrate the spacetime continuum with God’s LOVE, within a web of meanings, in dedication to life itself and all its leanings, we rise above with our roots reaching down to hell dancing on sacred ground through the realization of this new way for the temple of heaven’s bell to dwell.

Notes

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within and without us.

It is the supreme nondual awareness and perceiving of the great dao in all things, and it produces a quality of being that can help us make sense of our time, all the time.

Each motion becomes meaningful and each mistake becomes like “portals of discovery.”

“No tree can grow to heaven, it is said, unless its roots reach down to hell.” ~ Carl Jung

“Freud did not, like Plato, carry Ascent to its conclusion in the One, he had no way whatsoever to unite it with a radiant Descent into the Many. No way, that is, to unite Eros and Thanatos — to unite the way up and the way down — to overcome their eternal strife… Lacking the unifying Heart, the unspoken One, that joins Ascent and Descent in the everlasting Circle of Redemption and Embrace, Freud simply remained as one of the many, and certainly one of the greatest, of the fractured footnotes to Plato.” ~ Ken Wilbur

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung

The Stack is the multilayered architecture of planetary computation, comprised of earth, cloud, city, address, interface and user layers. Each of these layers is a new battlefield.

“computational mechanism allows not only “mere calculation,” but for intelligence to orient itself in relation to its planetary condition. By thinking with the abstractions so afforded, intelligence has some inkling of its own possibility and agency.” Bratton

At the same time, planetary-scale computation is also instrumentally transforming the world, physically terraforming the planet in its image through fiber-optic cables linking continents and data centers bored into mountains, satellites encrusting the atmosphere, all linked to the glowing glass rectangles we hold in our hands. But computation is also an epistemological technology. As it drives astronomy, climate science, genomics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, medicine, geology and so on, computation has revealed and demystified the world and ourselves and the interrelations between them.

How must computation be enrolled in the organization of a viable planetary condition?

In the past half century, but really since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been a rush to build planetary-scale computation as fast as possible and to monetize and capitalize this construction by whatever means are most expedient and optimizable (such as advertising and attention). As such, the planetary scale computation we have isn’t the technological and infrastructural stack we really want or need. It’s not the one with which complex planetary civilizations can thrive.

The societies, economies and ecologies we require can’t emerge by simply extrapolating the present into the future. So what is the stack-to-come? The answers come down to navigation, orientation and how intelligence is reflected and extended by computation, and how, through the mechanism, it grasps its own predicament and planetary condition.

The area we call “synthetic catallaxy” deals with computational economics. It considers the macroeconomic effects of automation and the prospects of universal basic services, new forms of pricing and price signaling that include negative externalities and the return of planning as a form of economic intelligence cognizant of its own future.

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