Author : Alan Clements
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing." ~ Jack KerouacI woke up today thinking about the consciousness of madness. Thus, the quote by Mr. Kerouac.I have also been rereading a couple of old titles, "The Far Side of Madness" and "The Self in Psychotic Process," books by John Perry—the legendary Jungian Psychiatrist who (to my great fortune) was my next door neighbor for the seven years I lived in San Francisco after leaving the monastery in Burma. Mr. Perry was in my opinion one of our era's great explorers of soul and psyche—a revolutionary iconoclast.In thinking about Kerouac's use of the word "mad" and the more extreme forms characterized by 'frenzied (often violent) rage' (as in out-of-control-gang wars), or the hyper-pretentious obsessively denied versions of mad, (as seen in the out-of-control White House-wars-on-creating-terror), the "mad" I am thinking about is also referring to the madness of fearless human goodness— one who cries in bringing joys to others, not creating hell in service of ending terror.But what is the soul essence of the mad iconoclast—one who is committed to relentless humanness?One who is fiercely independent and compelling to be near simply because of her creative innocence? Who are these people who "never yawn?" Who are these sacred Goddesses and gem-like men drunk on the divine madness of fearless freedom?Let me reframe that. Here, I am not speaking about a person per se, but pointing to a way of being, a state of consciousness, an artful interactive original existence that is iconoclastic by nature of its alignment to deep humanness as an interrelated freedom.Let me label this form of madness as a metamorphic memetic metaphor—an evolving ontological liberating information pattern held in the memory of psyche. At the matrix of this madness is a "meta-memetic"—the science of totality—original freedom itself.The dharma is a meta-memetic -- a hyper network of interrelated liberating ontologies.The "meta-memetics of dharma"—the science of liberation as a lattice of discernable energy patterns within allness, points to a freedom that is both human and honorable, and innately iconoclastic by nature. As a fiercely creative force, the dharma when accessed—inhabited, if you will, functions to allow one to both breathe freedom fearlessly and share their expressions of freedom without promoting fearfulness in others.In other words, it is my belief that the dharma of the universe is innately free. Put in terms of madness: if the memetics of totality are not friendly, we're screwed.The task at hand? To learn how to live the dharma, breathe freedom, become oxygenated by it. In so doing, we'll naturally wean ourselves from the carbon monoxide fix of fear. An inherited strange comfort called madness.The earth did it. So can we.This is the true march of freedom —a relentless madness to be inside the "information pattern of liberation." To live it. Breath it. Be it. That is the core function of existence.This abiding in madness functions to harmonize our hearts to resonate with life's inherent unity. This is why I think true freedom is innately vulnerable. Freedom is both individual and contextual, simultaneously.Clearly, nothing exists alone. What happens over there effects us here. When the sun goes out, the lights go with it, and life (as we know it) will either become battery operated, or we'll become transbiological fireflies—luminous states of being without Walmarts and wars.Well, thank you for this most precious opportunity.I wish I could say it qualified as true madness. I think I still have a ways to go yet. Just chalk it up to another Monday on Earth—an attempt at communicating with two great departed souls—Mr. Perry and Mr. Kerouac—wherever they are.It is also a feeling in my heart, a feeling for the dharma of freedom, calling me to more courageously embody true madness—the revolutionary iconoclast within.Otherwise, who the hell wants to be defeated by righteousness and anger and God forbid, be reborn in heaven with all those evangelical Republicans playing endless rounds of golf while selling off their final shares of Haliburton to try to keep their cronies from going bankrupt back on earth?Alan Clements — a former Buddhist monk, author, war reporter, and theatrical monologist — is the Director for The Campaign to Liberate Freedom, and the co-founder of The World Dharma Online Institute — a nonsectarian community of seekers, artists, writers, performers, activists, and other "everyday rebels" exploring the nature of consciousness, the preciousness of freedom, and the mysterious wonder of the cosmos.
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