“That he not busy being born is busy dying” - Bob Dylan, from “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” The Ecstatic and The State Look throughout history – whether circa A.D. 381 with the state sanctioned and enforced holy trinity[1] or the 1950-1990 East German Stasi (The Ministry for State Security or State Security Service) – and there’s a struggle between the Ecstatic (outside the state) and the State. The State is static and akin to the status quo with strict guidelines for the ladder of success and superiority, whereas the Ecstatic is wild, free, blissfully serene, fill in the blank because who knows what the Ecstatic might harmlessly do next. People cannot help but seek the Ecstatic, as witness sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, yet the addiction to seeking and finding transitory Ecstatic ignores the immediately accessible Ecstatic, like pinching a piece of basil from the garden then smelling&tasting, the herb packing a wallop of flavor and aroma ― now how did all that intensely good stuff get into one little leafy form? Imagine how much Ecstatic energy is within you, within your community, with the natural world . . . The Multi-Verse and MonoMSMism MainStreamMedia (MSM). Akin to the distant authority figures of monotheism, minds are being played by monoMSMism. Not to diminish the significance of COVID-19 or the strain of racist violence that helped Make America Greedy from the Get-Go Avarice (MAGGGA), yet the fixation on a top story shifts public consciousness away from other as significant stories. In his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, along with coining the term “global village” because of the emerging technology, Marshall McLuhan wrote: “Psychologists define hypnosis as the filling of the field of attention by one sense only. At such a moment “the garden” dies. That is, the garden indicates the interplay of all the senses in haptic harmony. With the instressed concern with one sense only, the mechanical principle of abstraction and repetition emerges into explicit form. Technology is explicitness, as Lyman Bryson said.”[2]While sitting in a vacant parking lot one morning at 8:00a.m. while waiting for an oil change, with head down I gazed at the concrete and along with the array of embedded rocks, I noticed an ant trucking along with a tiny (from my perspective) something, then several more milling about in various directions. That ant with the tiny something was busy starting his-her day, busy with his-her ‘work.’ This gives example of the multi- rather than uni-verse, the ant with every bit as much intensity and work ethic as the mechanic doing the oil change or me wanting to get on with the rest of so-called my day. “Trying to stay static - Bruce Cockburn, from “The Gift” Many labels have been put forth with regard to the history, the atrocity, and future changes surrounding the murder of George Floyd: racism, capitalism, classism, systemic, history of slavery, genocide, and more, all valid. Yet if the chokeholding of George Floyd is put in life and death terms (“genocide” coming the closest), that will assist connecting the dots with other historical and current traumas. The Eugenics movement, which Hitler pilfered from, in essence promoted gene superiority, thus the insane desire for genocide of others’ genes (in other words, future generations, specifically with sterilizations), namely genes deemed inferior and a threat to the well-being of humankind. Eu-Genics loosely translates to Good-Birthings but you have to read beyond the deceptive label because it's a form of 'playing one God,' similarly to The Church claiming “original sin” about a newborn. In her book Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen writes: “Hoffman’s antiplant work in herbicides was one element of Detrick’s three-part biological weapons division, the other two being antiman and antianimal. Antianimal weapons were aimed at killing entire animal populations, with the goal of starving to death the people who relied on those animals for food. At the locus of the U.S. antianimal program was Operation Paperclip’s Dr. Erich Traub, Kurt Blome’s deputy. Traub was recruited into the Accelerated Paperclip program by Dr. Blome’s handler, Charles McPherson, and arrived in America on April 4, 1949.”[3]Can it get any more god-awful antilife than that? Just the other day I got an email from the Center for Biological Diversity informing that there’s a Washington [state] Department of Fish and Wildlife “kill order” for a Togo wolf pack, so as to better serve the profits of the livestock industry because a calf was allegedly injured by a wolf. Orwell rolls in his grave at “wildlife kill order.” May the Togo wolves NOT go the way of George Floyd. May the Togo wolves NOT go the way of masses of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the so-called retarded, and others affected by the Nazi holocaust. May the Togo wolves NOT go the way of any people killed because of being labeled sub-human. Antilife can also manifest in various guises, hiding behind labels such as “politics”: “The political persecution of the de-facto government of Bolivia continues as three leaders associated with the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) were illegally arrested Tuesday on charges of sedition and terrorism. ... [former President, Evo] Morales, exiled in Argentina, described the event as an illegal act. ‘With the new arrests, the government shows that it is more concerned about politics than about life,’ he tweeted.”[4]Beyond the State and the ego Though getting probably no monoMSMism attention yet as disturbing as the murder of George Floyd: “Domingo Choc Che was well-known internationally for his knowledge of natural medicine. Accused of being a "witch doctor," the natural medicine expert Domingo Choc was violently killed in the Chimay village, in the department of Peten, in Guatemala. Outlet La Vanguardia reported that 'images of Choc running in flames through a field have shocked part of the Guatemalan society that asks for justice... The prosecution launched an investigation to find those responsible who allegedly tortured the victim for over 10 hours.'”[5]And you thought 8 minutes and 46 seconds was horrific?! But, of course, such comparisons are beside the point. Or maybe they are precisely the point, that the world needs to address what precipitates such lengthy madness. While monoMSMism highlights possibilities of vaccines and other cure-alls for COVID-19, what's overlooked is some of what the Mayan man's life was about and represents: the wise use of medicines from plants and other sources growing from Mother Earth; the people worldwide who know such stuff deserve at the least, respect if not reverence. Some decades ago, one time in New Mexico at a restaurant, as part of the meal I had a sauce made from green peppers/chiles, as in some locales the red is hotter and I was a spice lightweight back then. The result of my ignorance was that I gasped so hard I had to leave the restaurant and dance around for minutes while trying to catch my breath. The experience wasn't what I would call Ecstatic but it sure got me outside of my typical self (befitting of the Greek, “Ecstasy: ekstasis ‘standing outside oneself’”). And that Ecstatic dance taught me to respect the power of a being I had previously considered a plain old vegetable. Many of the foods have become genetically modified, as the eugenics monsters and mad scientists misbehave as blindly to human beings as to vegetables; the black magic doctors think the world is their little gene oyster but beyond their severely irritating behaviors shine the true pearls of wise living, of which the first and most basic guideline is: show respect for all living beings. NOTES [1] A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State - Charles Freeman (The Overlook Press, 2008). [2] Signet Books, pp.26-27. [3] Back Bay Books, 2014, p.389. [4] “Bolivia Political Persecution Continues, 3 MAS Leaders Arrested” [5] “Maya Leader Is Burned Alive Accused of Being a Witch Doctor” Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. 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