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by Gary 'Z' McGee
November 03, 2019
from
FractalEnlightenment Website
Thunder Beings
by Nicole
Lemire
"I
am not a man.
I am
dynamite!"
Nietzsche
Zakoyeh is my sacred clown name. It was "whispered" to me in my
out-of-body-experience
initiation into the order of Thunder Shamans.
It's simply the letter "Z" with an inverted
heyoka added to it.
Zakoyeh is to Gary Z McGee as
Zarathustra is to Friedrich Nietzsche.
So be it...
In the Nietzschean spirit of being "dynamite" rather
than merely a man, Zakoyeh is the personification of being a
force of nature first, a man second.
As Nietzsche said,
"There are no facts, only interpretation."
We are mythological creatures born into
sociological conditions. Our mythologies transform our sociology
(cultures), and vice versa.
The way we interpret reality is vital to the overall evolution of
the species. Through Zakoyeh I have chosen to interpret reality from
the perspective of a sacred clown standing upon the shoulders of
the Übermensch (Overman).
Where Nietzsche's Zarathustra chose to climb down from the
mountains and teach the Overman to the Last Man, Zakoyeh chooses to
climb upon the shoulders of the Overman and attempt to see further
than he did.
Zakoyeh as Sacred Clown
"While we may be forced
to accept
the myth-less condition into
which we were born,
it does not follow that we must
endure
a meaningless existence as a
result."
Academy of Ideas
As a sacred clown, Zakoyeh begins from the premise of no
premises. Nothing is too sacred that cannot be questioned to the
nth degree and reduced to the profane.
Nothing has too much power that it cannot be deflated of that
power.
Nothing is so extraordinary that it cannot be
whittled down to its ordinary parts.
No "God" is immune to being existentially
mocked.
Nothing is perfect...
Heyoka
Everything is fleeting, impermanent,
transitory.
Nothing is infallible except for the
universal laws that govern the cosmos.
By correctly interpreting a "language
older than words," Sacred clowns use these universal laws
to leverage health into otherwise unhealthy cultures.
They use the golden rule to overrule man-made
rules. They use the nonaggression principle to fiercely overwhelm
power constructs that have become extreme, entrenched, overreaching,
violent or corrupt.
Sacred clowns are cultural leveling mechanism par excellence.
With thunder in their blood and lightning in
their words, they are the wild avatars of the
Trickster archetype.
Society is their canvas, and they refuse to hold
back their insurgent art.
Filled with unconditional humor, they are
exemplary at deflating overblown egos and animating oppressed souls.
They poke holes in outdated reasoning while lifting the spirit of
the downtrodden through insouciant courage and daring humor.
Zakoyeh as sacred clown is not here to obey.
He is here to mix things up.
To transform the banal into the novel, using
shock and awe.
To have a laugh - at gods, at demons, at
"love and light," at shadows and abysses.
As Oscar Wilde said,
"Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."
Indeed, Zakoyeh would rather die laughing at
entrenched power than bend the knee and live under its tyrannical
thumb.
Zakoyeh as Overman
"Your mind is
programmable...
and if you're not programming
it
then someone else will program
it for you."
Jeremy Hammond
Lest I become programmed by someone else, Zakoyeh is my cultural
leveling mechanism: the personification of my own mythological
programming (Self-inflicted
Mythology)...
As a potential Overman, Zakoyeh manages the evolution of the
self by perpetually overcoming the self.
The self is masks all the way down perceiving
delusions all the way up. Zakoyeh embraces this concept by
constantly questioning all masks and all delusions. Especially his
own...
The art of self-overcoming - of constantly overcoming the fixed and
rigid self by embracing the flexible and adaptable self - creates a
cosmic catharsis that leads to
cosmic heroism.
Cosmic heroism is a type of heroism (Fibonacci
sequence) that a potential Overman utilizes in his effort
to evolve toward the Overman (enlightenment, Phi).
As such, Zakoyeh is a dynamism of self-overcoming.
Overcoming the outdated self in order to
discover the updated self.
Overcoming the ordinary world in order to
discover extraordinary worlds.
Shaking up the orthodox in order to unleash
the unorthodox, and vice versa.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
in order to see further than they did.
If, as Czesla Milosz said,
"We should go and proclaim without cease and
remind people at every step of what we are:
that our capacity for self-delusion has
no limits and that anybody who believes anything is
mistaken," then it stands to reason that we question our own
delusions first and the delusions of others second.
Artwork by Burton Gray
The delusion isn't the problem.
The problem is belief.
The key is to not "believe" in the delusion
but rather to use the delusion as a tool for self-overcoming.
Zakoyeh as Overman represents delusion without
belief. He is the personification of questioning self-delusion
through the medium of self-overcoming. So as not to be "mistaken"
Zakoyeh skips the rigid belief phase and goes straight to the
flexible consideration phase.
By thinking rather than believing, by questioning rather than
relying on answers, by self-overcoming rather than leaning on the
outdated self, Zakoyeh as Overman becomes a perpetual wheel of
self-correcting evolution.
The irony is that Zakoyeh is my delusion just as
Zarathustra was Nietzsche's, but the beauty of both
Zakoyeh and Zarathustra is that they are delusional tools that a
philosopher uses to leverage self-overcoming, self-improvement, and
conscious evolution into the world, which will help perpetuate a
healthy and progressive evolution for our species.
Since Zakoyeh is standing on the Overman's shoulders in an attempt
to see further, Zakoyeh is,
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always becoming never become
-
always progressing never stagnant
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always questioning never relying upon an
answer
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always stretching comfort zones never
content with comfort
-
always flexibly vulnerable never rigidly
invulnerable
-
always open-minded never dogmatic
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always anti-fragile never fragile
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always entertaining a thought without
accepting it...
In the end, Zakoyeh is a sacred clown who manages
to fill the nihilistic and humorless gaps in the Nietzschean Overman
philosophy.
Through High Humor (sacred clown), he laughs
at the cosmic joke.
Through High Courage (potential Overman), he
modifies the equations that underlie the joke.
Through both he gets power over power and
bridges the gap between man and Overman.
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