Ural and nonduality
«Но обратно её закрутил наш комбат,
Оттолкнувшись ногой от Урала.»
– Владимир С. Высоцкий, 1972, «Мы вращаем Землю»
I dreamt that the most powerful metal riffs ever recorded were recorded on an album by the shaman band «Урал» («Ural»), released in USSR in 1982. It was shocking, and hard to believe that such a thing took place right there and then. The man who presented this album to me lived in a wooden cottage, and he said that it was necessary to listen to this record only through a specific type of headphones, because with any other headphones the complex, dangerous curses are manifested – outside the cottage, on the roof, but also oppositely to it, some strange creatures appeared (a bit like trolls), shooting deadly arrows. In general, these headphones caused a certain influence on reality – supposedly they protected against the negative effects of this «Урал», but I was not sure what they did besides that. I was not sure what to do about the whole situation, and decided to think about it. All this was happening in the context of a feeling of homelessness, amidst successive hopeless-sad moves from nowhere to nowhere, and a sense of being threatened by more emergent creatures. The man living in this cottage worked as a sculptor, creating very subtle, but also strange, sculptures that were also forms of poetry. He told me that, by listening to the music of the band «Урал» (through these specific headphones), he would now be able to safely tap into deeper layers of power when creating sculpture-poetry. In all this, for me, there was a vague sort of lameness of these sculptures, as if they were marked by some strange shadow. Later in the dream, I met another man who had something semi-magical about him, and who had built a whole building-labyrinth (simultaneously in the architectural-material and social-spiritual sense) based on the power given to him by his mastery of the combinatorial algorithms of exchange between DNA and morality, i.e. the concrete combination of mental-moral consciousness operations with the epigenetic expression of biological-metaphysical powers, giving profoundly non-obvious possibilities for the transformation of collectively experienced reality. I was deeply moved by the insight that the essence of biology is the quantitative equivalence between physics and ethics.
Falenica, 28.IV.22; transl. from Polish: Brzeźno, 10.I.23