http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2022/07/the-skies-are-lit-with-enchanting.html

I've heard it said that still waters run deep. I take it that a part of the meaning is that they are not troubled or disturbed by the action on the surface. This... then leads me to consider that those who are troubled are the ones who live on the surface.

That would include all the performers and surface personalities that bring us the reconstituted news of the day; tell us what their associates are up to, pretend to be acting on our behalf in governing bodies, and wave their symbols of power over our heads... and lose their minds. Surely... you can see this happening?

In Times of Material Darkness, many more of us live on the surface, where all the distractions are... in the Disneyland of The Mind. The attractions of The Desire Body... and the appetites that ran away with The Dish and The Spoon, and... certain other instruments of engagement. It is at times like these that one is inspired to perform random acts of stupidity and senseless acts of self-interest. Time to “visualize whirled peas.”

Now we are come to the end of We Have no Pride Month. These celebrants also live on the surface... tossed about on the tempestuous waters of unrestrained and peculiar passions that grow into obsessions. Babylon can rise swiftly. Its fall is also sudden. It is like a firework display. The skies are lit with enchanting lights. They gleam and glitter for a moment and then... the lights go out... and the ash travels on the wind, and lands somewhere.