This sounds weird and incredibly stupid, but non-facial brainmass bulges are basically arrows that point towards direction of spiritual orientation.
Direction of sync:
Melon – up
Thal – down
SC – left and right
Melon syncs vertically, hierarchically upwards. Dysfunction: pyramid cult of Lucifer. Function: Adam and God in Eden.
Thal syncs down, towards Earth. Dysfunction: atomized processer of holistic detail spheres, signifying nothing. Function: tight-knit familial fact geniuses. Endlessly described by Tex and I elsewhere.
Starchild syncs left and right. This bears closer examination.
Despite their mid-size tribe social design, Starchildren are atomized, just like Thals. They are around people, but they are too rare to be around each other much, if ever.
They have a very strong tendency to view the universe in New Age, magical thinking terms – correspondence, law of attraction, mirroring, etc. They believe that the read-write arrows between themselves, the universe, and other people are fully bidirectional and spiritual/supernatural. There is no hierarchy – all nodes are flat and divisions are illusory.
In my proof of the existence of the supernatural, I demonstrated that consciousness, or spirit, cannot be composed of matter. Thus, either matter is illusory and spirit is real, or else matter and spirit are separate but linked. Starchildren are predisposed to believe the former. Having a healthy respect for physics, and Neo notwithstanding, I believe the latter.
How do we reconcile the tremendous body of evidence for the reality of the supernatural with science’s apparent inability to discover any? We need only examine the former – agency is nigh-universally attributed to supernatural phenomena. Thus human scientists searching for proof of the supernatural are much like plants searching for proof of animal life. Even if a herd of cattle passes directly overhead, grazing and shitting, the scientists are unlikely to prove anything.
In my proof of the supernatural, I compared a human being to a dandelion. The blind flower is the spiritual consciousness monad, and the root network is the physical body. Inbetween, the green stalk links the two, via the ever finer chain from brain to electrical dance to software to spirit.
Normally, this consciousness monad has sharp, hard borders that contain it within its own little world, forever alone.
Starchildren wish to blur the coherence of these boundaries, establishing conduits to the surrounding all-in-all. They wish to synchronise via mutual rewriting. The result, with the ur-SCs, is the ocean of chaos – an absence of any fixed reference point or boundary.
Of course, a lone modern SC dandelion does not have the juice to rewrite much. Nevertheless, SCs often find evidence that they have succeeded, and done magic. Why?
Because just as there are things on the inside that want to get out, there are things on the outside that want to get in. The interior of a human monad is an inviting place for these wafting, rootless travelers. Being born of Man is a privilege. And they do possess the juice to cause more significant rewriting of reality – if given a conduit to our realm. So they are happy to pay a toll for the privilege of a crackling hearth.
Starchild trust of these faceless entities and influences seems naive to me. If a stranger in a big city walks up to you on the street and starts trying to charm you, the first thought is, “What does he want?” You might nervously check that others are around and the area is well-lit.
Well, the dimension-verse is a lot bigger than a human city, and stranger, and it certainly isn’t well lit. And you are all alone.
Or at least, you hope you are.
So I think that this deep bio-psychological SC need for intense inter-community explains their tendency to be New Age gurus advocating an entourage lifestyle of friendly spirit guides to accompany them on the endless path to enlightenment. They have found a surrogate tribe in the aether.
These guides may start out as purely functional meditational techniques and magical practices, but they inevitably develop into full-blown personalities as the barriers of the monad are worn away.
The highest SC value is warm equalitarian inter-rewriting community. There is good reason to question whether that is really what they’ve found.
My personal interest is in fostering an SC community that remains Men. The community of the aether strikes me as depressingly monocultural, with all participants asymptotically approaching the same result. Window-lickers.
Think about it. If their lives were so rich and abundant, would they want to move in? It’s like sex with homeless guys.