I'm seeing the term "lunatic state" bandied about on YouTube thumbnails. I look at lots of thumbnails. I'm also a YouTube producer, with a small following of under 500 subscribers (as of this post), given what I traffic in: esoterica.
One might object that's no excuse as some esoterica channels boast huge followings, however oxymoronic that sounds. I'm not making an excuse though; I'm proud of my cliquey niche.
So what about "satori state" at the other end of the spectrum?
"Satori" means "enlightened" i.e. "restored to radical sanity".
In the realm of the everyday psyche, if one does manage to identify with the whole of it, whatever that means, it'd make sense to have some sense of relative immortality, even if the belief system didn't come with clear rails to infinity in both directions (past and future); immortals wouldn't want those anyway.
So it stands to reason: a nation (a type of psyche, for the sake of argument) that realizes its planetary level ("my state is a planet") is going to feel more secure, given a lifespan more like the solar system's.
Of course the planet has many names. People like to say Gaia. Spaceship Earth, Global U… home to the United Nations and all those left out of the UN, nonhumans included.
Did you join a religion and drink the kool-aid yet? What's the delay? Too many to choose from?
Some of you have lived a long time and have done some significant cult hopping. Sometimes a person in government or maybe in an NGO or the private sector, will awaken to seeing the whole thing as theater, i.e. as a “programme”, a running script, executing instructions. It'll maybe seem smoother and more alien at the same time, less divided against itself.
Such an experience might easily get lost in translation though. Abducted by whom again?
The Genesis version shows a God beset with a problematic monster that keeps going off the rails. Eden doesn't work out, then it's down to Noah and family, then comes the Tower of Babel fiasco, at which point the problem is more or less solved: no one form of groupthink is likely to impose its monoculture, at least not for long, not globally.
Call it the blockchain if you wish. God gave us crypto in the sense of mutual unintelligibility regarding non-unitarily conceptual scenario Universe (to quote one of our genius resident advisors). No one group of conspirators would be strong enough to undermine transaction transparency. Duplicity relies on obscurity, back rooms to cook the books.
Because we disbanded after the Tower, becoming a diaspora, turning to exploring the planet, we gradually, finally, became aware, as a species, of our spherical Promised Land, our Israel, our Zion. No, it’s not a closed system: it feeds off the Sun.
Genesis doesn't talk about humans escaping to Mars, although I bet more than a few are finding prophecies regarding interplanetary travel in the Book of Revelations. At least we find ETs in some vernaculars.
I could see Japan being a Satori State, given its advanced level of science fiction and receptivity to intuition. How do you say Zion in Japanese? Just call it Nippon.
My branch of esoterica, geometric in flavor, has always featured practitioners of Japanese heritage: Sadao, Noguchi, Kajikawa, Kuromiya... that list continues.
