THE MORPHEALIST MANIFESTO
Morpheal
We, Morphealists, believe in Change. We, Morphealists, believe in
nothing else, as being absolute, other than Change. We, Morphealists,
believe that everything Changes. We believe that everything that
existed, in what is commonly referred to as "the past", that exists in
what is commonly referred to as "the present", or that could exist, in
what is commonly referred to as "the future", is subject to Change. In
fact, so is what is past, present and future, subject to Change. We
believe that anything, that is either imaginable or unimaginable, has
existed, or could exist, somewhere in the absolute of all of space and
all of time.
We believe that the limits of the human imagination are also completely
subject to Change. We believe that what was, what is, and what shall be
imagined, in its distinction to what is now considered real, is subject
to change. We believe in the power of Change as being the last and only
remaining genuinely supernatural power. The power of Change remains
supernatural, because Change and only Change transcends all previously
existing, now existing, and future existing, actual and potential,
natures and powers, as their only constant. There are no other, real,
constants in Nature or in Science. All other apparent constants are
subject to Change. We believe that the effective processes, that
existed, exist, or that shall exist, are all subject to Change.
Causalities, all causal relations themselves, are potentially subject
to Change. The fact that a particular observable cause gives rise to a
particular observable effect, and that that is commonly believed to be
predictably thus, is not necessarily thus in the past or in the future.
It was only thus at that moment of the observation and prediction. That
apparent thusness, no matter how many times the same is observed or how
carefully and closely it is scrutinized and measured, is subject to
Change. This is not negated by any fact of a continuous series of
similar or identical causal relations, having been apparently observed,
between any particular kind of presumed cause and any particular
presumed kind of effect, nor by how many times that same was observed.
The only certainty in causality is Change.
Change is not a theoretical principle, or an idea, or an existent, or
an energetic force, and yet there is nothing whatever, that ever
existed, that exists, or is yet to exist, that is not subject to Change,
and which does not exhibit the effects of Change. Change is everywhere,
and in everything, and yet change is not any particular thing, or any
particular principle. It is the
most fundamental characteristic of everywhere and everything. In fact
there is no thought, and there are no ideas, without Change. The very
intention of keeping an idea in mind, as it has arisen there, itself
involves Change. Any mental activity involves Changes. The mind is
essentially Change. Minds constantly Change.
We believe that everything that once existed, and everything that does
not now exist, is subject to the power of Change, such that that shall
somewhere, someday, exist again. In fact we believe that, subject to the
power of Change, that which did not ever exist and that which appeared
to have passed from existence, might subsequently have existed, or not
ever have not existed. We believe then, that neither the logical
proposition that it did not exist, nor the logical proposition that it
never did not exist, is falsified. This is a radical departure from all
previous beliefs and thinking. Similarly, we believe, with equal
resolve, that, subject to the power of Change, what exists and was
known, with absolute certainty, to have existed, might henceforth not
exist and then be known, with absolute certainty, as never having
existed. We believe then, that neither the logical proposition, it
existed, nor the logical proposition, it never existed, is falsified.
This is another radical departure from all previous thinking. We believe
that Change is the fundamental paradox, and that all paradoxes of time
and space are ultimately resolvable to that fundamental paradox. We
believe that Change is absolute and that all changing is itself subject
to Change. We believe that the rate of change might be stopped,
accelerated, or decreased, in any instance of anything changing, by
means of Change. The apparent limitations as to effecting this, whether
they are limitations as to thought or technology, are subject to Change.
Ultimately even the means of effecting such Changes could themselves be
effected by Change and could be themselves Changed. Morphealism is the
belief in the effecting of changes.
The advance forces of the Morphealist movement are the artists.
Morphealism is the successor of Surrealism. Where Surrealism dealt with
the idea and its transmutations and permutations of its possibilities,
Morphealism deals with the manifestation into reality of the Surrealist
Ideas. The Surrealists were the early prophets of Morphealism. Their
domain was the production of icons and symbols, within a language that
pertains to the transformations of the mind as its thoughts. This was
the first realization of the world as being a Morpheality.
We Morphealists recognize the fact that the mind is a mirror of the
external world. Thoughts are the mirror in which the world reflects. The
nature of the mind's processes reflect the nature of the world as
manifestations of the very same Morpheality. We Morphealists recognize
that the mind and its thoughts, as it was, is, and shall be, is subject
to being Changed as a part of the world as Morpheality. The stuff that
the world is made of, its matter and energies, its quanta, are the stuff
that Morpheality is comprised of. Morphealism in the arts is the
forerunner of Morphealism in those realities that go beyond the arts.
The arts provide the experimental basis for the implementation of the
techniques of Morphealism to the whole of the world as Morpheality.
Whereas Surrealism was a new school, a new style, a new genre, of art
and within the arts, we Morphealists announce the end of all schools,
styles, and genres of art. In Morphealism art is liberated from the
categories that human thinking imposed upon it and from all the
traditional categories that did, do, or ever could, define the arts. We
Morphealists believe that all transmutations and transformations, all
transubstantiations, of anything that was, is, or is yet to be, are an
art. That is the final art that is no longer art as it was known, and
the final art that is the culmination of all of the arts, and of all
artistic schools, styles and genres. It is not where art and life once
met, or meet, but instead where art and life become the same. It is
where art is life and where life is art.
Morphealism is the first advance in thinking that has no ancestry. All
of Morphealism's predecessors and ancestors are subject to Change. All
of Morphealism's methods, techniques, means and ways, are subject to
Change. This distinguishes Morphealism from all precedents. All of
Morphealism's results, products, effects, are subject to Change. Unlike
everything before it, Morphealism has no ideology, and refuses to be
used by any ideology. With the advent of Morphealism we Morphealists
believe that all ideologies are subject to Change. We Morphealists
announce the final end of art and the beginning of Morpheality where
Morphealism has no specific materials or effects distinctive unto
itself, unlike all previous arts and technologies, but instead is
inclusive of all the potentialities of all possible involvements with
all possible and imaginable past, present, and future materials and
means of Change. Morphealism is the culmination of the prophecies of
alchemy, and thus of the dreams of the sciences, as to the Great Work of
transmutation that becomes Morphealism's Changing of everything into
absolute Morpheality. Morphealism and the production of Morpheality is
the final purpose of humanity. Morphealism is the final method
inclusive of all methods and thus the liberation from methods.
Morpheality is the final result, inclusive of all possible results and
thus the liberation from efficacies. Morphealism is the new and
constant dynamism that is productive of the world of human and non human
beings, of all that existed, exists or ever shall exist, as becoming
the whole of the Morpheality.
Copyright by the author. Hamilton, Canada
------------------------------------------------ December 31, 1997 -
January 1st, 1998.
The Morphealist Manifesto is more dangerous than the atomic bomb.
--
Bob Ezergailis morp...@bserv.com Canada
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Fascinan
Mags
There's also a reason why we learn about the ancient philosphy as ancient
and why we laught at it. Their philosophy(ies) do not embraca vast enough
areas of human lives and the world we live to be considered by us human
beings or even by more advanced beings. Heraclitus and other Pre-Socratic
philosophers did not know what they were talking about, and many of their
ideas, including the idea of eternal change were bogus. You can't have
anything original when everyone's influenced by the same source (i.e.
Socrates, then Plato, then Aristotle).
Read Dewey and Kant instead.
The Morphealist Manifesto makes sense as much as explaining that blue is
the best color of all when you take it out of context completely and focus
on it completely. It is a nice argument, that's what Sophists were famous
for - arguing to death about things they did not necessarily support. But
I don't agree. I believe in eternal things that never change. And no, it
would not be god or any other divine being. It wouldn't be anything like
space or void, but definitely something.
If nothing lasts, how do you know things are changing? Change can be
noticed only in respect to some stable thing. (i.e. yuo're on a train
that's moving, and there's another train next to you moving the same way,
you get the feelnig that you're not moving at all, even though you both
are, and vice-versa - you could be both standing and have a feeling that
you're moving).
Well, anyways, my point is not to make a big deal out of this whole issue,
that's not my interest. What I am trying to say that a statement like
"everything changes" is too simple to actually apply to our world. There
is no recipe for the universe, and if there is one (I highly doubt it,
with all the chaos and all), it is definitely not the main idea of the
manifesto in question - change.
Mags
On 1 Dec 1999, Fascinan wrote:
> "All is flux" Heraclitus
>
>
Elephants are not camels.
Brandon J. Freels
> I believe in eternal things that never change.
I believe in eternal things that always change.
Brandon J. Freels
> "All is flux" Heraclitus
"All is Fluxus" Hera's clitoris
Mags
I change the eternal beliefs always.
Mags
Elephants are not camels.
Brandon J. Freels
Mags
Mags
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Brandon J. Freels wrote:
> How do you feel about spare change?
>
>
>
>
Elephants are not camels.
Brandon J. Freels
> existed, or could exist, somewhere in the absolute of all of space and
> all of time.
Define *exist*.
> We believe in the power of Change as being the last and only
> remaining genuinely supernatural power. The power of Change remains
> supernatural . . . All other apparent constants are subject to Change.
Change is constant. It is part of nature, and therefore not supernatural.
> Change is not a theoretical principle, or an idea, or an existent, or
> an energetic force [etc]
How about a *process*?
> Any mental activity involves Changes. The mind is essentially Change.
Minds
> constantly Change.
Agree.
> This is a radical departure from all previous beliefs and thinking.
Kind of into yourself, aren't you.
> The Surrealists were the early prophets of Morphealism.
Prophets?
> Whereas Surrealism was a new school, a new style, a new genre, of art
> and within the arts, we Morphealists announce the end of all schools,
> styles, and genres of art.
Surrealism is not a school of art. Dada announced the end of all schools. I
thought you were going to be original.
> Morphealism is the first advance in thinking that has no ancestry.
What about Surrealism. You just said that Morphealism was the successor of
Surrealism, yet now you claim Morphealism has no ancestry?
> Copyright by the author. Hamilton, Canada
Why copyright?
john adams
We have already existed.
Everything has Equal sweetener.
Nothing else changes.
The nucleus in stars is morphealite pudding.
kristina
today...
kristina.
--
kristina
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Morpheal
fasc...@aol.com (Fascinan) wrote:
> "All is flux" Heraclitus
When I was in grade 10, long years ago, I proposed the idea that past,
present and future were "compresent" and time therefore was a kind of
illusion even though sequences of events are real enough. I found that
somewhere within Shakespeare, but got my wrists slapped by the English
teacher for discussing something that she felt was too far beyond my
appropriate level of comprehension. Odd, she did not say that it was
wrong, only that it was too far beyond my appropriate level. It made her
terribly nervous to even criticize it.
The closest parallel to Morphealism on the question of time is in fact
to be found in Hinduism, from the Vedas. Actually the earliest parts of
the Rg Veda, but also in the Upanishads. I came to that much later on,
and did not really accept the idea beyond finding it intellectually
interesting.
Of course once I arrived at Morphealism, that does arrive at the
prediction that there is an achievable alchemy of all things transformed
and transmuted, all wave functions being potentially discernable and
transformable in an essentially alchemical manner. The impact upon
"time" as it is understood within the Einsteinian model of four
dimensional space-time, is that time becomes no longer the contraint
upon such transformations that it was in a Judeo-Christian linear
cosmology that sees time as an arrow strictly proceeding from past to
future, beginning to ending. Instead there are influences from the
future upon the past as well as influences from the past upon the
future. This is consistent with "maya" (not to be understood as meaning
"illusion" as is commonly translated) in Hinduism. In fact that ancient
cosmology is the nearest to what Morphealism predicts, even if not
exactly the same.
In terms of quantum models, and cosmology, see the writings of Jack
Sarfatti, available on the www, particularly as to his ideas on the
subject of "back reaction" which is the signal travelling from the
future into the past, defined within quantum theory. I think Jack is
absolutely correct in how he defines "back reaction" and that he is
consistent with the Rg Veda on that subject. Interesting that
Oppenheimer probably knew it, as he was a student of Hindu scriptures
and took his inspiration from them. Oppenheimer was in some ways the
father of the nuclear bomb.
Paul Kinsler
> Mags wrote
>> I believe in eternal things that never change.
> I believe in eternal things that always change.
I believe in changing eternal things.
#Paul
dale houstman
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exquisite...
DMH
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> fasc...@aol.com (Fascinan) wrote:
>
>> "All is flux" Heraclitus
>
> When I was in grade 10, long years ago, I proposed the idea that past,
> present and future were "compresent" and time therefore was a kind of
> illusion even though sequences of events are real enough. I found that
> somewhere within Shakespeare, but got my wrists slapped by the English
> teacher for discussing something that she felt was too far beyond my
> appropriate level of comprehension. Odd, she did not say that it was
> wrong, only that it was too far beyond my appropriate level. It made her
> terribly nervous to even criticize it.
That kind of thing was a favourite pastime of mine when I was bored in
high school. I used to practice creating mental images of four- and
five-dimensional objects, with time taking zero, one, or two of those
dimensions... interesting. Then years later, when I had forgotten
about that, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder about moving backwards
through time, experiencing consciousness in reverse. I made recordings
of spoken words and music and played them backwards, trying to prepare
myself so that in case I started going backwards in time, I'd be able
to understand what I was hearing. Ah, those were strange days.
Your description of change in Morphealism reminds me of zen buddhism,
which has a similar notion of time, on a practical level at least.
What happens when the past catches up with the present?
Ping! The future explodes...
I dunno about Sarfatti though, he seems even crazier than me.
_
Morpheal
"dale houstman" <dm...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >> I believe in eternal things that never change.
> > > I believe in eternal things that always change.
> > I believe in changing eternal things
> exquisite...
The eternal _is_ morpheal according to its very own nature.
john adams
Morpheal wrote:
> In article <825mc6$8g1$1...@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
> "dale houstman" <dm...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > > >> I believe in eternal things that never change.
> > > > I believe in eternal things that always change.
> > > I believe in changing eternal things
> > exquisite...
>
> The eternal _is_ morpheal according to its very own nature.
>
Is there an Anti-Morpheal in this scheme... Mehpistopheles perhaps?