Saturday, March 28, 2015

53. PLANET LOVE

    "The human body,
     Like everything else in nature
     Is subject to certain governing principles,
     All the principles of nature are derived from one basic law,
     The oscillation of Yin and Yang.

     The mutations of Yin and Yang are the Universal Force, or Tao.

     In the Tao, Yin is receptive and Yang is active.
     Their function is mutation
     And the result of their interaction is continual creation.

     In every element of life

     There is both Yin and Yang.
     In one is contained the seed of the other.
     In life is the seed of death;
     In death is the seed of life."
            -- Corinne Calvet, "Acupuncture and the Human Galaxy"
      Do we really believe we can mutate our DNA? Affirmative. I believe in faeries, elves, vampires, dragons, mermaids, sprouting yin-yangs and every other "impossible thing" under the Sun! Mutating DNA is one surefire way to get answers from the Freaky Source of Creation, a possible way to checkmate the insanity built-in our chromosomal make-up, and legendary as the Quest for the San Grael. It implies asking the greatest questions of all time, "Who am I, from Whence I came, to Where (for the Grace of God) Go I?"1 Hamlet, step aside. We will immanentize the eschaton (fixate Heaven on Earth) by mutating our cancerous blight upon Gea, to effect a healing rebirth of Planet Love. Our mission is to unwind Humanity's twisted, hard-wired, cellular morphology / psychopathology / T. Gondii bacteria, to release Love's guiding Light in our empirical DNA (cancer = living cells reprogrammed to electro-magnetically self-destruct, by fear-based input data - from toxic bio-forms to negative thought forms).
     "In the Beginning" (16.4 billion years ago, according to Ian X Lungold's encryptions of ancient Mayan calendrical observations), the Cosmic AUM / Big Bang in our local Multi-Universe created some very big waves, which, in turn, effected endless ripples, which, we are still, miraculously, surfing. The same elements unleashed in that uncontrolled (and very loud? silent?) experiment continue to reverberate inside us. Carbon units evolved from stardust, fish walked the earth, matriarchal fertility cults spread, and invocations were babbled to tame dragons and fire. Advances in evolution, however, kept breaking down, negated by invaders, warlocks, genetic manipulation, UV radiation, and the sheer necessity of dealing daily with nasty creatures, baring sharpened incisors.....the Word / the Gospel / the Code of Life, became a WARNING, written (burned) in stone, in ALL CAPITALS.....
    Thus DNA de-evolved, in response to, and reflecting the wrathful pathos (malnutrition, hoarding) and oppression of brutal, sacrifice-driven, totalitarian tyrants and chieftains. Matriarchal tribal cohesion proved vulnerable to spears, arrows, swords, and other breaks in the chain, namely War, Control, Greed, Aggression, Fear, Dis-ease, Decay, Cannibalism, Organized Religion and Death (the weak links in our game of Snakes and Ladders). Our responsibility is to adapt our Power to Mutate: to Re-Evolve and to CHANGE LINKS: selecting friendly, positive, Harm-None, hereditary genetic traits, in order to immortalize the nobler qualities of Sentient Life: Peace and Love, Trust and Co-operation. Subdue the Inner Beast! (not sure where this leaves tigers and their ilk?). Good Luck and Hurry Up! (has it ever occurred to anyone besides the Boys From Brazil2 that the practice of storing the aberrant DNA of violent perpetrators may result in the genetic engineering of the Most Inhuman Clones of All Time?)
                                                                                  Villagrana, Roman, Back to Creation
     Mutations can be effected by copying "errors" in genetic material during cell division (i.e. sexual reproduction, kids), UV or ionizing radiation, chemical mutagens or viruses, or induced in the organism itself, by an Extreme Act of Will, a magical process termed Hypermutation. Mutator: Know Thyself! It is our theory we can induce Somatic Mutations, which will eventually become Germline Mutations, passing onto all Kindred, by a love bite from our proactive, Vam Pyrrhic saliva (smitten with P-53 - the "Guardian Angel" gene, whose activation inhibits cell death). Get Bitten! Kiss-Kiss! Suck-Suck! Beyond hierarchies and victimhood, the Bliss of Conscious Co-Creation awaits! All we have to lose is our Killer Instinct! Tuck in that reptilian tail. To be or not to be? Nature or Nurture? Mutate. Mutations fix everything.

1 The Buddha, and Buddhists, consider these questions immaterial; they would direct us to the Path of Liberation, guided by The Four Precepts, and the cultivation of the Eight Attributes, towards Nirvana (the Cessation of Desire).
2 Schaffner, Franklin J., The Boys From Brazil (1978)
      "Mutation's great! Mutation's really fun! It's a great little hobby - you know, mutation for fun and profit. And it's cool as hell. You end up with some cool stuff and some ugly stuff and stuff no one has ever seen before and it's just great."
     She asked him what the point of it was. "Hey, mutation is the answer to everything," he said irritably. "Look, why do you think some people are smarter than others? Obviously, it's because they mutated when they were babies! I'm sure I was one of those people. When I was a baby I probably got exposed to something that mutated me, and now I'm incredibly smart. Mutation is great. It's the way evolution moves ahead. And I think it's good for the world to promote mutation as a hobby. You know, there are an awful lot of wasted lives out there and people with nothing to do. This is the interesting sort-of stuff they should be doing."
                   -- Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief

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