Thread: Dannon's random writings, posts, ideas, and thoughts on life.

Castles Made of Sand

It was the Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner,
Total Recall, Minority Report) who suggested during a mushroom session with Buckminister Fuller (inventor of the Geodisic dome)
- that you could shape a building with sound .

With a grant from California Governor 'Moon-Beam' Brown,
they set up 150 giant speakers around an area of sand dunes near Valencia.

The sand was laced with a compound invented by Fuller,
which he named "fuller's earth"; it had an almost liquid state
until compressed, at which point it became temporarily solid.

The first attempt was with the ninth symphony.
The music built in solemn steps, like a prayer, or a joke;
And the sand swirled in growing waves under the blast of 150 speakers set to volume 11.

A cathedral appeared.
That refreshments were provided by writer Ken Kesey only casts some doubt on the story;
each witness describes the music shaping a majestic building that
reached up to the sky 'like the hand of a conductor or a drowning man'.

Dick wanted to enter (wearing protective ear-padds)
but was stopped by Fuller.
When the music ended the cathedral promptly collapsed.

They tried other musics;
a blast of Philip Glass created a house that seemed built of writhing snakes; no one was tempted to enter.

A Scarlotti harpsichord piece produced a forest of standing crystals,
almost transparent, almost beautiful, entirely mathematical.

Finaly, - a rock-n-roll piece.
They watched from the hillside as
Sargent Peppers trumpeted out across the dunes,
re-arranging the random grains of sand
to build,
- a kind of village
where each house was a gypsy caravan wagon,
with strange faces depicted on the sides.
And each wagon seemed to float in the air by
balloons, giant Oz-like balloons with ropes of sand.

The setting sun painted it all in every shade of sound between pink and black.

And then the music stopped,
the town shivered,
- and floated off in the ocean breeze,
out over the pacific and the night.

Sometimes people see it in the distance,
but you aren't allowed to live there.

WHEN WE DEVELOP MEMORY WE FORGET WHO WE ARE

This poem is for you,
When we are young babes we know who we are, but we can't remember being babies.
When we develop memory, we forget who we are.
When we recognize what we see and hear, we become deaf and blind.
When we learn what we are taught, we don't know anything.
Unlearning is the way to knowledge.
Forgetting who we are is the way to be who we are.
Having liquid eyes is the way to see the oneness of all things.
Not looking, not hearing, not knowing, not remembering.
Rather, the Way is Seeing, listening, being, and forgetting all memory.
The head thinks the heart is naive, maybe crazy,
lost in dreams.
But the heart does not care what the head thinks,
The head thinks it knows about the origin of the world,
Only the Heart knows
That the world is reborn,
Our hearts feel for each other,
trusting that they are one,
Touching a tree in spring,
Who are we?
I know who I am,
I am blooming.

Spider can feel the whole web at once.
yet Spider never gets caught.
How can I be like Spider?
Being everywhere on the web of life
Without getting caught?
It seems that I am Moth,
chasing the light of the moon,
I only get caught.
struggling to get free I only become more entangled.
At the end of the night Spider
She eats her web only to spin a new one.

The Idiot's Guide to being a Successful Guru
How To Be A Successful Guru

If you want to be a successful Guru you will need to think about what name you should adopt. Your name should express your particular style and be memorable. Also think about what kind of disciples you want to gather around you.
If you pick a Hindu name, for example, you will attract people who are attracted to anything different and exotic. You could have the title "swami" in front of your name; that is exotic enough and it implies that you have been iniated by a strange Guru and mastered many esoteric practices that seekers find fascinating. Examples are: Ram Das, Bhagwan Das, and Gangaji.
Or if you want to portray yourself as just a normal guy who happens to be smart or wise enough to have miracuously "got it", or if you are just too nerdy looking to have an exotic name you can keep your ordinary name. Some examples of this type of guru are: Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber.
Or if you aren't satisfied until you create your very own religion with you as God, you can just make up nonsense words for your name. Franklin Jones comes to mind, who changed his name many times to Bubba Free John, to The Da Avatar, Then Adi Da, and more.
If you aren't satisfied with your name it is totally acceptable to change it as many times as you see fit. Feel free to change it whenever the mood strikes you. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh went through a phase of changing his name many times until he settled on "Osho". No matter what name you choose, make sure you feel comfortable with it and that it fits you and how you want to portray yourself to your flock.

Now it is time to cultivate your "charisma". What is charisma? It is that special 'something' that all great leaders have. It is a kind of fascination that they are able to project that magnetically attracts weak-minded people. You are all probably familiar with charismatic people who got a huge following via the power of their personality. Have you heard of Barack Obama?
So how do you cultivate your charisma? There are many methods; yoga, qui gong, and hypnosis to name a few. But an easy way to get started is to sit in a comfortable chair in front of a mirror. Place the mirror slightly below you so that it is pointing up at you. Now try breathing slowly and smoothly as you pretend to gaze around at your adoring followers. Smile, but don't smile TOO much. Remember the point is to appear immersed in a transendental state of bliss. You want to appear as if this world is just a distraction to you, and that you are only concerned with it because you are SO compassionate for these pitiful humans. But you also need to look like that so great is your bliss, that no matter what happens you will always have a slight smile on your face. Even if someone is insulting you, or beating you, at no cost must that smug smile ever leave your face.
But a smile isn't anything if you don't know how to use your eyes. Practice looking into your mirror. Gaze into your eyes and pretend that you are Jesus or Buddha or whomever you aspire to be like. How would Jesus gaze? What does the Buddha's eyes look like when he is looking at you? Don't be discouraged if it is hard at first, just keep practicing and eventual you will get the 'knack' of it. Remember: practice makes perfect!
It also helps to meditate regularly in order to have some actual experience of a calm peaceful mind, but it isn't necessary to meditate to decieve people if you don't have the patience for it. Look at L Ron Hubbard! I don't think he meditated a day in his life but now even after his death he has a huge cult with many Hollywood stars in it. It just goes to show that with a little ingenuity anybody can become a successful guru!

Once you have your Guru name and you are pretty confident in your ability to appear enlightened in all situations, people will start approaching you asking for teachings and blessings. To be prepared for this it is important to have a strong idea of what your teachings will be. Before we go any further it is essential for you to understand one very important point that makes the Guru business the best business to be in. You must remember that what you are selling is invisible, intangible, unmeasurable, and may not really exist in the first place. But the greatest thing is that nobody can prove that it does or doesn't exist!
However there are many disclaimers and conditions that you should make just to protect yourself. For instance, if you are selling enlightenment and someone feels that you didn't deliver, you can say something like "You are not progressing because your faith is not complete. Only with complete and absolute faith in me will you progress upon the path." Do you see how clever this is and how it relieves you of any responsibility? Now it is on the disciple; they obviously didn't get the goods because they have some doubt in you, and of course everyone is bound to have some doubt; it is human nature. If someone has no doubt, that someone is a complete imbecile. that person will die for you or kill for you. Or you could say something like "I just show the way, it is up to you to walk the path." Again, this relieves you of any responsibility so you can just sit back and enjoy your spiritual supremacy.
So what are your teachings going to be? The most tried and true teachings is that you are GOD and that all anybody has to do is to love you, serve you, worship you, etc. This is the oldest teaching in the world, and it is really good at attracting morons and idiots to you. And it is good to surround yourself with idiots and morons because they are so willing to give you money or sleep with you.
But maybe that is too simple and easy for you. Then you can try a teaching style I like to call "Don't you get it?" An example of this kind of teaching is: "There is nothing to do, nothing to achieve, you are already that which you seek. Just realize what is." This one attracts a different type of disciple. These disciples are usually a little more intelligent than the previous example. They usually take pride in there intelligence. This teaching will challenge them. It will challenge their egos. This teaching will really leave them vulnerable. The biggest benefit of this teaching is that anyone who takes pride in their intelligence (which is almost everybody) will find it hard for their ego to accept that they can't realize something which is so obviously apparent. They most likely won't confront you on your claims of enlightenment because they don't want to appear unintelligent. It is like the old story "The Emperors New Clothes". This one is real good for a laugh if you are the Guru. And they will think that you are laughing with them! Also the idea that they are already perfectly enlightened and that there is nothing to do really appeals to their egos. So now they can just go on with their lives driving their mini-vans and eating at The Olive Garden being eternally grateful for you letting them not change anything. This teaching is like a diet that promises that you will lose weight without changing your diet or exercising.
But what if you feel bad exploiting these people who are desperately looking for some meaning in their lives? Try exploiting the genuinely insane people instead by teaching something so outlandish that not even a reasonably free-thinking child will accept it. A teaching I call "I am in contact with enlightened space aliens!" I call it that but you can substitute anything you want for space aliens. But the important thing is that only you are in contact with them so that everyone is dependent on you! But be aware that if this is your style you will get a lot of criticism. Only the craziest of the weak minded people will buy this one. It helps if you are genuinely insane also if this is going to be your teaching.

Try this with a friend:

1. Decide on which one of you will be the Guru and which one will be the senior disciple.

2. When the Guru is giving darshan or speaking to a group of seekers the senior disciple starts contorting and rolling on the ground, eyes rolling back in head, and otherwise making a spectacle of himself/herself.

3.Now the Guru should explain that this person is a very advanced disciple and that he/she is coming along very nicely and that this behavior is from the Guru raising the disciple's kundalini.

4. Now watch as more and more people start demonstrating similar behavior. Now you are on your way to being a successful Guru!

Today I saw two bears playing in the forest, which was pretty strange, I always thought that they were solitary animals. Yet there they were, playing. At first I thought that they were fighting but no, they were playing kind of like big slow dogs, except when dogs roll around when they play bears stand up. The big bear even would quickly run up a tree about fifteen feet and hang on there and then slide back down. They would rest between bouts of playing and big bear would stretch his pays up over his head. He also was scratching the tree. They were cute. They knew I was there but they paid me no mind. I don't know if it was foreplay or if they were feeling romantic or what. I never seen two grown bears hang out together.

Darkmatters, I also saw two great horned owls! One of them had one eye open and the other was sleeping.

Dreams
Show me glimpses of all that was and the shapes of things to come,
Like lotus flowers blossoming under the sun,
revealing the clockwork and gears behind every landscape,
And the secrets of every wizard's magic cape,
Reminding me that all is mine to know.
If only I trust enough to let go.

Am I going crazy? Didn't you have one about the spider and her web? I like that one

Beautiful. I really liked the poem about the Spider's web. Are you a fan of COIL?

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

WHEN WE DEVELOP MEMORY WE FORGET WHO WE ARE

This poem is for you,
When we are young babes we know who we are, but we can't remember being babies.
When we develop memory, we forget who we are.
When we recognize what we see and hear, we become deaf and blind.
When we learn what we are taught, we don't know anything.
Unlearning is the way to knowledge.
Forgetting who we are is the way to be who we are.
Having liquid eyes is the way to see the oneness of all things.
Not looking, not hearing, not knowing, not remembering.
Rather, the Way is Seeing, listening, being, and forgetting all memory.
The head thinks the heart is naive, maybe crazy,
lost in dreams.
But the heart does not care what the head thinks,
The head thinks it knows about the origin of the world,
Only the Heart knows
That the world is reborn,
Our hearts feel for each other,
trusting that they are one,
Touching a tree in spring,
Who are we?
I know who I am,
I am blooming.

Wrote this one down and posted it on my bedroom wall. I also love looking at the pictures you posted. It feels like each picture symbolizes something special hehe.

And not to bring drug discussion into your thread, but reading some of your poems and thoughts while tripping (I've read them on LSD, and once on 2C-I) spawned some massively deep thoughts. In fact, reading this kind of stuff is one of my favorite things to do now (tripping or sober).

Thanks for sharing man! I'd love to read more!

Originally Posted by Motumz

Wrote this one down and posted it on my bedroom wall. I also love looking at the pictures you posted. It feels like each picture symbolizes something special hehe.

And not to bring drug discussion into your thread, but reading some of your poems and thoughts while tripping (I've read them on LSD, and once on 2C-I) spawned some massively deep thoughts. In fact, reading this kind of stuff is one of my favorite things to do now (tripping or sober).

Thanks for sharing man! I'd love to read more!

Wow, thank you. I am glad that you appreciate it. I pretty much write to myself and I assume that this stuff is meaningful only to me. I am glad that you can relate. And I love that my writings have spawned some massively deep thoughts for you. I am honored that this is on your bedroom wall.


If you like to read something that will spawn some deep thoughts while on psychedelics read my latest post in my dream journal about the haunted canyon. It is not a sleep-dream, but a waking dream spawned by ingesting a poisonous hallucinogen (Datura Stramonium). It is NOT psychedelic, but extremely hallucinogenic as you can see by my story.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Wow, thank you. I am glad that you appreciate it. I pretty much write to myself and I assume that this stuff is meaningful only to me. I am glad that you can relate. And I love that my writings have spawned some massively deep thoughts for you. I am honored that this is on your bedroom wall.


If you like to read something that will spawn some deep thoughts while on psychedelics read my latest post in my dream journal about the haunted canyon. It is not a sleep-dream, but a waking dream spawned by ingesting a poisonous hallucinogen (Datura Stramonium). It is NOT psychedelic, but extremely hallucinogenic as you can see by my story.

Yea I read up on Datura a while ago. In fact, it might of been you who gave me a peek of what it could do. Was it you who almost walked off a canyon? It's some crazy stuff, but I guess you would a lot more than I would.

But while I read your other post, I wanted to ask you; What 'inspires' you to have such deep thoughts like the one I posted on my wall? Does this type of stuff just naturally flow through your brain now?

Sorry if that didn't really make sense, I'm having trouble reiterating my exact question into written out words..

Originally Posted by Motumz

Yea I read up on Datura a while ago. In fact, it might of been you who gave me a peek of what it could do. Was it you who almost walked off a canyon? It's some crazy stuff, but I guess you would a lot more than I would.

But while I read your other post, I wanted to ask you; What 'inspires' you to have such deep thoughts like the one I posted on my wall? Does this type of stuff just naturally flow through your brain now?

Sorry if that didn't really make sense, I'm having trouble reiterating my exact question into written out words..

Lol! It is flattering that you think I am deep! Yes, this is natural for me. That is why sometimes I question my sanity. I can spout stuff like this but to me it seems amateurish, but that is me being critical of my poetry, since I am not a connoisseur of poetry. In fact, I don't really 'get' poetry and don't like most poetry. I like lyrics though, but I think music adds the missing feeling that I can't get from the written word. I hate going to poetry readings.

My approach is to write out my thoughts without trying to write poetry, because I don't really know how to write poetry. I don't know about meter and rhyming structures. But my thoughts come put somewhat poetic because that is the only way I can express them. There is a living juicy quality to my thoughts that I need to express. It isn't just the concepts I'm trying to express, but the life behind them that inspires them. Because what I am trying to express is not just mental concepts and intellectual theories and beliefs, but experiences and feelings. The true meaning is not in the words, but between the lines. The words are just to capture attention. Once I have your attention then I can draw your attention to the silences between the words. That is the real inspiration. That is where the truth of what I am expressing lies. Because, words can always be misunderstood and misinterpreted. That is why I posted those videos. But silence is the ground of being and is common to us all. When we are paying attention to silence, and our minds are in silence, mirroring, then we all are having the same experience. Then we are not only in communication, but we are in communion. A friend once said that I have a way with words, I guess that maybe I do. Probably because I am a quadruple Gemini!

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Lol! It is flattering that you think I am deep! Yes, this is natural for me. That is why sometimes I question my sanity. I can spout stuff like this but to me it seems amateurish, but that is me being critical of my poetry, since I am not a connoisseur of poetry. In fact, I don't really 'get' poetry and don't like most poetry. I like lyrics though, but I think music adds the missing feeling that I can't get from the written word. I hate going to poetry readings.

My approach is to write out my thoughts without trying to write poetry, because I don't really know how to write poetry. I don't know about meter and rhyming structures. But my thoughts come put somewhat poetic because that is the only way I can express them. There is a living juicy quality to my thoughts that I need to express. It isn't just the concepts I'm trying to express, but the life behind them that inspires them. Because what I am trying to express is not just mental concepts and intellectual theories and beliefs, but experiences and feelings. The true meaning is not in the words, but between the lines. The words are just to capture attention. Once I have your attention then I can draw your attention to the silences between the words. That is the real inspiration. That is where the truth of what I am expressing lies. Because, words can always be misunderstood and misinterpreted. That is why I posted those videos. But silence is the ground of being and is common to us all. When we are paying attention to silence, and our minds are in silence, mirroring, then we all are having the same experience. Then we are not only in communication, but we are in communion. A friend once said that I have a way with words, I guess that maybe I do. Probably because I am a quadruple Gemini!

Not to disregard everything you wrote, but what exactly is a quadruple Gemini? But yea that's why I like reading things like this on psychedelics. I can read in between the lines and understand it much more without trying, and basically as soon as the words leave my lips, it creates thoughts and ideas that I would of never "accomplished" or thought of, sober. It's almost like when I'm on a psychedelic substance, that my subconscious and my conscious thoughts interact at the same time, and relay thoughts to each other.

Haha, sorry if I sound like I'm just babbling on randomly. I'm quite new to psychedelics, and I've learned so much in such a short period of time, that's it is quite overwhelming. I can hardly express it.

Oh and also, I have a few questions about your Haunted Canyon experience. - First off, what all was REALLY real? Was the family RV, tent lady, and teenage party / cop all "real"?

- And do you think your shadow friend means something? What do you think he meant when he said you will meet someday later? Death?

- Also did you really trip for several days straight? Or was that just apart of the Datura effect? If it was several days of tripping, what were your friends doing in the mean time?