{"id":51904,"date":"2024-09-23T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/?p=51904"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:58:14","slug":"towards-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/towards-the-star.html","title":{"rendered":"Towards The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68945\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cimetiere-marin-sete-valery-colombe-iks24-1200x720-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"chapo\">You know that I prefer to live in the astral, I spend most of my time there. Obviously, it blocks me from the world where my fellow human beings live. Are those below my like? Not really. Like me, they have chosen the astral. Smoke, light up without getting cold. Cold-insensitive, do not look down. Dizziness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Motionless at big strides<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Zeno! Cruel Zeno! Zeno of Elea!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Did you pierce me with this winged arrow<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>That vibrates, flies, and does not fly!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>The sound faints me and the arrow kills me!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Ah! the sun&#8230; what a shadow of turtle<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>For the soul, Achilles motionless at big strides!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes &#8211;often &#8212; I want to go back to the world where we are bored. Why do it? No idea, it feels like a need to pee. So I have taken the habit of not venturing too far into the multiverse, for fear that my flight back will take too long or even worse, the fear of not finding my way. Which is completely stupid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Dasein, Being-Here<\/h4>\n<p>There is no time or space in the astral planes. From the moment I realized my naivety, I stopped applying to the astral the physical laws of our space-time. But it took me a while. I have admitted that the notions of space and time are no longer valid in the astral. Whatever my distance, on Betelgeuse or in Kalamazoo, I can come back here in the instant. And I find myself sitting in front of my screen, from where, by the way, I had not moved.<\/p>\n<p>Only my mind leaves the field. My body remains fixed on the screen, at the keyboard, at the pond, at the gravel, at the foreshore, at none. I write without head, beheaded for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69154\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/heidegger-dasein-iks24-1000x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>This quiet roof where doves walk<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>Between the pines throbbing, between the tombs<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>The right Midi consists of fires<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>The sea, the sea, always recommenc\u00e9e<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>O reward after a thought<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>What a long look on the calm of the gods!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Hard Ending<\/h4>\n<p>Mysterious are the worlds of the beyond, absurd are our assessments of this other reality, more real than the original. What is called reality here on earth is an illusion fabricated by material beings and admitted by the lack of subtlety of <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/subtle-sensors.html\">our five senses<\/a>. The message they send to the brain is not an exact reflection of what\u2019s out there. It\u2019s far from that. It\u2019s partial and biased. Instead of a true copy, the message of our senses is a free interpretation. Free style in minor mode.<\/p>\n<p>When this incomplete and distorted message reaches our brain, it, like any computer, interprets it with its programs. Yes, but here we go. These programs are bugged. They contain orders to distort certain aspects of the real considered dangerous for us other basic morons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: Our brains, like any computer, need programs. Their own are bugged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who made these programs? Nature? Why would this impersonal and imaginary entity want to hide certain aspects of reality from us? Is it nature that decides what to hide and what to let leak? She would then be our true god. Shall we worship him on our knees, rather than the old bearded man who seems to be completely uninterested in his creatures? If it exists, and has created anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My answer:<\/strong> Well, then who made these damn bugged programs? The matter beings I talked about earlier. It\u2019s the best answer I could come up with. Now there are other, much more boring questions to ask, starting with this one: what happens to our <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/philosophy-freewill-freedom.html\">free will<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>Free will comes from ignorance of the real causes that make us act.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Democritus<\/footer><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The high cries of ticklish girls,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The eyes, teeth, wet eyelids,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The charming breast that plays with fire,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The blood that shines on the lips that yield,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The last gifts, the fingers defending,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">All goes underground and enters the game!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68805\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/venus-botticelli-serpent-nasa-iks24-1400x840-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"840\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">The more it\u2019s there, the more we forget\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See how it melts into the folds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graceful light wavy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of your flying hair<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">\nShe<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Woman is the future of man.<\/strong> After being his long and distant past, she is sick and tired of now. She will go beyond herself. She will go beyond us. And we poor fall guys will all be broken. Some will die. Those who amassed the treasures of the past will suffer agony. Boned they will be. Stoned they will stay. Changed into rock. Petrified.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>The future of man is woman. She is the colour of his soul. She is his rumour and his noise. And without her, he is but a blasphemy.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Louis Aragon<\/footer><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m flying to a distant galaxy suddenly I am there. I touch a star that has just lit up. I smoke a candle or two. Time is waiting for me, and I\u2019m standing still. Whatever you do, it dies. It becomes space. It becomes tiny, gigantic, infinite. Its place is the opposite. A point is the universe, an eyelash the multiverse. Time is tired. Wherever you go, it dies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/initiation-great-goddess-isis-gaia-mother-earth-dana-viviane-old-age-full-of-grace.html\">I trust Her<\/a>. Wherever Her ship passes from space, I follow her on the trail. She kisses me, it embarrasses me. I will go to <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/our-lady-alcor.html\">Alcor<\/a> and see the suns rise on the purple horizon of a rice pudding bowl. I will go into the thickness of an angel\u2019s hair, in the intimate of an atom, in the immensity of a hadron squadron. Merry drills in espadrilles, towards the infinite of flying assholes I am squadron leader. My eyes are full of treacherous, and my fingers are glittering in your part of the stars. A heavenly ordeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/great-whole.html\">The Great All<\/a> and the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The ordeal or &#8220;judgment of God&#8221; was to subject a suspect to a potentially fatal test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>What pure work of fine lightning consumes<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>Many diamonds of imperceptible foam<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>And what peace seems to be conceived<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>When on the abyss a sun rests<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>Pure works of an eternal cause<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>Time sparkles and the dream is to know.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66626\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hathor-ciel-bleu-or-nuit-iks24-1200x720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Aphrodisiac incense is born\u00a0 Our pagan Virgin exists<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">She Even<\/h4>\n<p>Women are the future of men. After being their long and distant past, they have more than enough. They will go beyond themselves. They will go beyond us. And we poor bitches will all be broken. Some will die. Those who amassed the treasures of the past will feel it pass. Will be boned. Shoved. Escagasser.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Contemplating the Goddess, we look at him without seeing him, jerk as we are. The traitor is hiding in the pure gold of Her hair.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">A Star Lights Up<\/h4>\n<p>I\u2019m flying to a distant galaxy suddenly I am there. I touch a star that has just lit up. I smoke a candle or two. Time is waiting for me, and I\u2019m standing still. Whatever you do, it dies. It becomes space. It becomes tiny, gigantic, infinite. Its place is the opposite. A point is the universe, an eyelash the multiverse. Time is tired. Wherever you go, it dies.<\/p>\n<p>So much space we space so much. Pastimes in the space-time. Let this time goes on free. Break the leash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69155\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/munch-espace-cigognes-iks24-1000x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Shooting Star<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/initiation-great-goddess-isis-gaia-mother-earth-dana-viviane-old-age-full-of-grace.html\">I trust Her<\/a>. Wherever Her ship passes from space, I follow her on the trail. She kisses me, it embarrasses me. I will go to Alcor and see the six suns rise on the purple horizon of a bowl of rice pudding. I will go into the thickness of an angel\u2019s hair, in the intimate of an atom, in the immensity of a squadron of hadrons. Merry drills in espadrilles, towards the infinite of flying assholes I am squadron leader. My eyes are full of treacherous, and my fingers are glittering in your part of the stars. A heavenly ordeal. The great all and the rest.<\/p>\n<p><em>The ordeal or &#8220;judgment of God&#8221; was to subject a suspect to a potentially fatal test.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">What pure work of fine lightning consumes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">Many diamonds of imperceptible foam<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">And what peace seems to be conceived<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">When on the abyss a sun is taking rest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">Pure works of art from an eternal cause<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">Time sparkles and the dream is knowing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68802\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul-valery-espace-nasa-iks24-900x540-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"540\" \/>Paul Val\u00e9ry repose sur les hauteurs de S\u00e8te. Georges Brassens repose un peu plus loin. S\u00e8te admirable !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Chief Archon<\/h4>\n<p>They are swimmers from the sky, very old messengers. Many have known them, few have returned. Their used message has moved them. Their leader is <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/gm.html\">an archon, a devil, a rabid<\/a>. For the sake of payoff he got me out.<\/p>\n<p>Drift. I\u2019m delirious. This dream is becoming more realistic. I fly at a crazy speed in a fast one. That\u2019s what it looks like. A current accelerated by unidentified masses of energy. And it flows through there like a raging torrent running into a canyon.<\/p>\n<p>Keep my calm and my belt to brace. Don\u2019t let me board. I\u2019m too far off. The space brakes are on. All the ballast is dropped. This current is a shit. You have to go fording. All senses are on the lookout. The barge is decanted.<\/p>\n<p>I make it up, but it does. The walls tighten. Thin me as quickly as possible. Fear makes me pale. My big belly hates the vacuum. Fatal handicap. Infernal parade. I get stuck. It pinches. It\u2019s time to play the finer game. Slip nutmeg! Like in cotton candy!<\/p>\n<p>I sink deep below the waterline. And not even a life jacket. My kingdom for a parachute! Come on, an umbrella is enough. A shoulder-strap umbrella. A Band-Aid will do!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Far from me the idea of breaking his blow, a daredevil whose soul roams in shit up to the neck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">Beautiful bitch, ban the idolater!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">When, lonely with a shepherd smile,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">I have seen grazing those curious sheep,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">The white flock of my quiet graves,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">Away from them the prudent doves,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">The vain dreams, the insidious angels!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Minerve\u2019s owl takes its flight at dusk<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68807\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chouette-de-minerve-nasa-iks24-1500x900-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I make it up, but it works. Hail makeup! The walls tighten. Thin me as quickly as possible. Fear makes me pale. My big belly hates the vacuum. Fatal handicap. Infernal parade. I get stuck. It pinches. It\u2019s time to play the finer game. Slip nutmeg! Like in cotton candy!<\/p>\n<p>I sink deep below the waterline. And not even a life jacket. My kingdom for a parachute! Come on, an umbrella is enough. A shoulder-strap umbrella. A Band-Aid will do!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Far from me the idea of breaking his blow, a daredevil whose soul roams in shit up to the neck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>Stable treasure, simple temple to Minerva,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>Mass of calm, and visible reserve,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>Punctilious water, eye that keeps in you<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>So much sleep under a veil of flame,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>Oh my silence! Edifice in the soul,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>But a thousand-tiled gold, Roof!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51970\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/xs-double-iks24-dynam-1900x1140-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Paul Val\u00e9ry invokes heaven as a privileged witness of his change. The whole poem is a metaphysical meditation on the sublime beauty of nature in the Mediterranean summer. He has meditated, contemplated, evoked learned memories. He feels different, renewed, ready for the more prosaic life that awaits him in the capital. If he was born in S\u00e8te and if he rests there, he will die in Paris, victim of an uneasy celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>His two friends Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust form with him the trio of intelligence and insight. Proust the novelist in his Quest for Lost Time, Bergson the philosopher in <em>Matter and Memory<\/em> or <em>Creative Evolution<\/em>, Paul Val\u00e9ry the poet in the <em>The Marine Cemetery<\/em>, his masterpiece, even if he composed many other immortal poems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>Great sky, true sky, look at me who changes!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>After so much pride, after so many strange<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>Idleness, but full of power,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>I surrender myself to this brilliant space,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>On the houses of the dead my shadow passes<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>Taming me to its weak move.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">~~Paul Val\u00e9ry, The Marine Cemetery (excerpt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69151\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erquy-croix-celt-xs-encens-iks24-1900x1140-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three wings in  conscious astral, on a music by Paul Val\u00e9ry, poet of intelligence.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3467],"tags":[2752,2908,32,3312],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51904"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52774,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions\/52774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}