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John Prophet Nov 2020
Mind, reality
one.
What’s
seen
reacts,
when it’s
seen.
Mental
interaction
collapses
the seen.
Mind to
matter
connections
intertwined.
Reacting.
Observation
collapse­s,
solidifies
the observed.  
Mind matter
unified,
melded
into the field.
The field
permeates.
Meshing all.
Everything
entwined,
fuzzy.
Quantum fuzz.
All is fuzzy,
flowing fog.
Riding
the wave
of reality.
Dance
of the
quantum.
Dance of
existence.
John Prophet Jan 2019
We
who walk
this world,
who are
now alive.
Trapped!
We are
trapped.
Trapped in
ourselves,
trapped on
this rock.
We live,
we think,
we die.
What to do?
What do
we do while
we’re here?
Trapped in
our existence.
Born the
way we are.
Ensconced
in our shell.
Born where
we were.
Trapped on
a rock in
a limitless
void.
What’s the point?
Maybe none.
Maybe everything.
What to do?
Tossed into
existence.
All things
known lost.
Lost to
infinity.
One stop
in many.
Rules to
the game.
Good
verses
evil.
Once played,
moving on
to the next.
John Prophet Nov 2021
Games.
The game,
it is
a foot.
Puppet
Masters
showing
their hand.
Spinning
orb under
siege.
What
once was
disturbed,
disrupted.
Shaking,
cracking
foundations.
Differen­t.
Minds
muddled,
confusion
reigns.
Pulsing,
manipulating
generat­ions.
Linked.
Linked to
a new
horizon.
One generated
in a different
realm.
Unscrupulous.
Unexpected
chaos.
Chaos
on a
global
scale.
Change agents
plying the
clouds.
Coming,
evolving faster.
Faster than
counter
adjustments.
What
follows,
unfathomable.
John Prophet Oct 2019
Outside
looking in.
Seeing
differently,
apart from.
Observing
interactions
discerning
rules.
Questioning
motiva­tions.
Why?
Why things
happen as
they do.
Fish bowl
etiquette,
rules unique.
Rules
as to
gamesmanship.
In the
bowl
rules apply
apply
to all.
All interact
according to
rules,
rules
laid down
long ago.
Game designed..
John Prophet Apr 2021
Gauntlet.

From

birth to

death.

The gauntlet

run.

Staying alive,

ancient

course

once

laid out.

Running

the gauntlet.

From

physical

to mental

obstacles

evolved.

Survival

of the

fittest,

once

obstacles

defined.

Inundation.

Modernities

curse.

Inundation,

smothered.

Smothered

in information,

running

harder to

keep up.

Never,

ending

free flowing

information.

Flooding,

smothering

the mind,

crushing

the soul.

Flow

accelerating

denser,

continuously

denser,

the gauntlet’s

state now!

Runaway

train the

course

has laid

out.

Look

into their

eyes,

humanity

losing

its mind,

its soul.

Flying

off the

rails

civilization

soon

will be.

Best

turn off

the machines,

while

you still

can.
John Prophet Jul 2019
Gazing.
Gazing
into the
night sky,
as billions
have done
before.
Looking into
infinity.
Contemplating
existence,
reality.
Realizing
all on this
mote we live,
confined.
Like a prison,
confined.
A prison of
thought.
Colloquial
in nature.
A prison
of reality.
Civilization
as is confined,
confined
by primitive
instincts.
Primitive
knowledge.
Knowledge
derived in
insignificance.
All that is
known dwarfed
by all that’s
not known.
Dwarfed
by everything,
everything
out there,
way out there.
Ensconced in
our cradle,
part of the
whole.
Yet, like
fish
in a bowl
knowing
not much of
anything!
Humbling
it be.
John Prophet Feb 10
Gene pool.
Self evident.
Leaders.
Tyrants.
Followers.
Fools.
Those
who’ll
control­.
Stalking.
Walk
amongst.
Always
have.
Power.
Control.
Rule.
They’ve
been here
from the
start.
Generation
to generation.
Club.
Arrow.
Bullet.
Evolution.
Tools
of the
trade,
control.
They
come.
They
go.
New
game.
New
control.
Mind
control.
Cloud
control.
Molded
control.
Weapons
in hand.
Screens to
face.
Altered
state.
Ultimate
weapon,
mind control.
John Prophet Nov 2020
Spinning back.
One to
the next.
Back
into time.
Generations
past.
One to
the next.
Blending
one to
another.
Similar,
not much
apart,
one
to the
next.
Not much
changed.
Not much
different.
Thousands
of years
one
after
another.
Next up.
Generations.
Pivot point.
Different.
Moving
forward
different.
Nothing
the same.
Moving
forward,
Light speed
change.
Nothing
familiar,
nothing
similar.
Nothing
the same.
Will never
be the
same.
Change
at the
speed
of light.
Ever accelerating.
Nothing
familiar.
Unscripted.
Unrecognizable.
One
t­o the
next.
Unrecognizable
blur,
future.
Struggling
to adapt,
understand.
Civilization
on the
brink.
Globally
linked.
Individualism
gone.
Travelers
forewar­ned.
John Prophet Sep 2024
Generator.
Conduit.
Rippled
structure.
All passes
through.
Shapes,
sizes,
concepts.
Forms.
Erupt.
Come into
being.
Magic.
Ancient
thought.
Current
thought.
Future
thoug­ht.
Every
thought
conceived.
Sophisticated.
Simple.
Such derived.
Infinite
variations,
mixtures of
themes.
All possibilities.
Exist.
Ideas.
Eureka!
Origin?
Self conceived?
Transceiver
received?
Grey matter
focused,
transforming.
Received
from a
different
place?
Reformatting.
Individualized.
Reality
spilling­ out.
Magic.
Canvas
covered.
Page after
page.
Never ending.
All incomplete.
Misunderstood.
John Prophet Mar 2018
Back in time.
Staring back
they are.
Wondering
about the
ancients
they do.
Wondering about
those who
came before.
Deep history
exploring.
Digital
archeology,
searching.
Searching
for the
Genesis planet.
Ancestor programs
churned by
quantum simulators
looking.
Looking
for probable
origin
scenarios.
We who
are here,
now.
Lived
long
long
ago!
John Prophet Mar 2017
Traversing the hills,
caressing the trees,
gently swirling the scene.

Life's medium moves, ebbs
and flows surrounding all
with subtle sensation.

Moving all with jocularity.
Ripples across an endless water.
Lifting wings, sailing seeds.

Consistent, generationally
reminding life of its existence.
John Prophet Jan 2023
Ghosts.
Creation’s
ghosts.
Universal
spirit.
Ether
bound,
dimensi­onally
spread.
Everywhere.
Every time.
All at
once.
Universal
consciousness
fabric
rippling
throughout.
Ener­gy
pulsating,
congealing.
Bits and
pieces
limited
scope.
Minute
part of
the whole.
Spinning
up, crashing
back again.
Reabsorbed
to reemerge.
Creations
milieu.
Wild thrashings
of the
way
things are.
John Prophet Dec 2021
Ghosts.
Sounds
of the
past.
Slipping
sideways.
Reverberating.
Ripples
in time,
ever flowing.
Billions
of souls.
Billions
of imprints.
Imprinted
ether bound.
Souls
never die.
Merely
relocate.
Exists
in a
different
realm.
Parallel
place.
Can be
heard still.
Listen!
Cosmic
ghosts.
From
places
long dead.
Universal
ghosts.
All in a
different
place.
Never
fading.
Ethereal
realms
inhabit.
Amongst
us all.
Side
by side.
John Prophet Jun 2022
Ghosts.
Spirits.
Adrift,
the ether
flows.
Always.
Universal.
Energy,
mind
always
conserves.
Ne­ither
created nor
destroyed.
Minds,
once were
are still.
Always!
Reformed
in a
different
realm.
Hills and
vales the
energy
roams,
congeals.
Listen
to hear.
Sense
to see.
Universal
spirit,
everywhere.
All at
once.
Every time.
Reforms.
Relives.
Fresh.
Always
fresh and
new.
Storylines
good and
bad.
Learning
the reason
be.
Infinite
knowledge
at hand!
John Prophet Feb 2024
Gift.
Existence.
Personal
existence,
inexplicable
gift.
Life.
Sen­tience.
Personal
understanding.
Infinite
void.
No sign
of life
beyond
earth.
Alone.
Possibly
only earth.
Yet,
here we
sit.
Moment.
Brief
moment.
Awe, pure
awe.
All that
occurred
for this
smudge
of personal
existence.
This
moment.
Stars born,
die.
Elements
created.
Planets
coalesce.
Life.
Evolution.
B­illions
of years.
Countless
iterations
of life.
Thousands
of
generations.
Before.
All that
had to
come
together
before
you.
Creation
made!
Awe!
What a
trip!
John Prophet Nov 2020
Swords
crossed.
Shields
raised.
Battle
engaged.
Back and
forth.
Parry and
******.
Warriors
intense.
Swords
flailing
looking
for blood.
Shields
held high.
Dare not
sweat.
Weakness.
Hold strong.
Furious
engagement.
Epic,
all out
carnage.
Outcome
uncertain,
in doubt.
Gladiators.
Bloodied
yet unbeaten.
Battle
rages on.
Pounding.
Gaining leverage.
Pounding
with the
sword.
Knees
buckle.
Warrior
collapses,
head bowed.
Victory!
Negotiations
complete.
Hand outreaches
ordeal overcome.
Modernities
Gladiators!
Check signed.
Taking
the keys,
driving home
a success.
John Prophet Jan 2023
Glass
darkly.
Reflections.
Perceptions
of creation.
Shadows
on a cave
wall.
What
can be
known,
understood?
Human
pictographs,
of creation,
reality.
Perception
shackled,
stunted.
Words,
concepts,
thoughts.
Reflections
of a
finite
vision.
Hieroglyphics
of  
creation.
Through
a glass darkly
we walk.
Reflections
of tiny
scope.
Snarling
righteous
little beasts.
What fools
we mortals
be.
John Prophet Dec 2016
Mankind began as a troop animal.
Living amongst its own kind.
Stepping out of the trees onto the Savanna.
Mankind became a wander, small family bands bound by blood. Millenia past, mankind developed farming and the wanderer settled down. Small wandering groups became small farming villages. Small farming villages became larger farming villages, then small towns.
Small towns became larger towns inhabited by hundreds.
Larger towns grew to small cities inhabited by thousands. Agriculture and technology developed to sustain and enhance such growth. Cities evolved into city states, then becoming small countries inhabited by hundreds of thousands. Finally today we have countries inhabited by hundreds of millions.
All along this path battles and wars, killing millions along the way, till today we have weapons that can wipe out us all.
The salvation of mankind and the natural progression of things is global organization, global integration.
The globe is being wired with its own global neural net, a global brain if you will. One world controlling itself.
One world that will not nuke itself! The salvation of us all.
John Prophet Mar 2024
Global
think.
Rapidly.
Injected
hearts and
minds.
One
to the
next.
Light speed
altering.
Changing
people,
souls.
Modifying
perceptions.
Le­mmings
to the
cliff.
Contemporary
Valhalla.
Manipulation
of the
new gods.
Altar of
technology.
Heads bowed.
Minds
wiped.
New
dogma,
creed
downloaded,
installed.
Minds­
wiped.
Group
think.
Created.
No options,
all now
one.
Must
adhere.
No options.
Dogma
from on
high.
Must adhere.
Group think.
Must adhere.
John Prophet Apr 27
Glory.
Praise be.
Understanding.
Complex.
Existence.
How?
Why?
How to
make
sense?
Human
capacity
to know.
Limited.
Overwhelming.
Eyes open.
Overwhelming.
Endlessness.
Beyond
comprehension.
What
to make
of it
all?
What
to hold
on to?
Creation.
Mind
built.
Envisioned.
Fashioned,
meeting
need.
St­ories
told.
Evolving.
Reflecting
immensity.
Spun up
from
humble
beginnings.
To glorious
trappings.
Underlying
uncertainty.
Reflecting
universal
­glory
of the
quest.
John Prophet Nov 2021
Gnarly
little things.
Narratives.
Thoughts.
Virus like.
Infecting
its host.
Taking
root.
Burrowing
in.
Taking
control.
Mind and
soul.
Infection
growing,
spreading.
like wildfire.
Mind to
mind it
spreads.
Technology
enhanced.
Instantly
on a
global bases.
Injection.
Mainlined
directly.
Controlling,
programming.
P­eople
do not
rule the
world.
Their
programming
does.
Beware the
programmers.
John Prophet Mar 2023
Gnomes.
Life’s
journey.
Transformative.
Each,
laid out
as a
clump of
clay.
Unformed.
Malleable.
Gnome’s
fingers
working
each day.
Moved,
shoved
along.
Life’s
pathway.
Forks
everywhere.
Deter­minative.
Twisting.
Bending.
Pathways
galore.
Little
Gnome
finger­s
kneading
away.
Hammering
here.
Chipping
away there.
Possibilities.
Endless
possibilities.
Artistic
interpretat­ion
holding sway.
Shaping
results.
Once
journey
ends,
they
stop to
*****.
Then
double back,
next
project
on the
bench.
Starting
over again.
John Prophet Feb 2021
God no God!
Battle rages.
Some say
yes.
Some say
no.
What’s
the point?
Who cares?
No one
has proof,
no proof
whatsoever.
No proof
either way.
“Faith”!
Faith
is a
weasel word.
What’s
said when
there’s no
answers,
no proof.
God, no
God.
Who cares!
Is God
really
about the
here and
now?
Or,
existence
for eternity.
Humanity,
more concerned
about living
forever
than
dealing with
current
reality,
the world
that’s
occupied
now?
Afterlife?
Who cares?
No one
knows for
sure.
Humanity
has much
work to do
now.
Much work
to make
now a
better place.
A better
place
for all.
Some believe.
Some do not.
No matter.
When it’s
all said
and done,
eternity
will take
care of
the issue,
sorting
things out
once and
for all.
Not giving
a hoot
what was
believed
or not
believed.
John Prophet Jun 2023
Gods.
God
is a
concept.
A concept
humanity
holds tight.
A concept
used to
deal
with the
unexplainable.
The unknown.
Over
millennia
gods
have come
and gone.
Generations
lived
believing
in gods
who no
longer
hold sway.
Over time,
hundreds
of gods
have been
prayed to.
Have
inhabited
high places.
Held high
in the
minds
of mankind.
Temples
built then
crumbled.
God’s
who’ve
long faded
from human
consciousness.
Billions
of years
universal
existence.
How many
gods
existed
before
humanity
arrived?
What is,
beyond
human
cognition.
John Prophet Mar 15
Gone.
Deep
into the
aether.
Lost
to the
sands
of time.
Fading.
Into the
dark.
Just a
memory.
Once
entwined,
part of.
Fissures.
Split.
Eruption.
Flying
pieces,
debris.
Sailing
off­.
Momentum
strong.
No
turning
back.
Humpty
Dumpty
unsalvageable.
­Rubicon
wreck.
Those
closest
cut
deepest.
Never
to return.
John Prophet May 31
Gossamer.
Ghosts.
Wafting
in the
breeze.
Floating
in the
clouds.
Loose
within
the land.
Spirits,
souls
of the
past
still
plying
the
world.
Ripples
of the
past.
All souls
vibrate
energy,
long lost
solid form.
Yet essence
remains.
Ethereal
whispers.
Echos
in the
hills.
Winds
over the
oceans.
Twisters
on the
plains.
What was
still is.
Reflections
of what
used
to be.
Listen.
See.
Orbiting
still.
Origin.
Home.
John Prophet Nov 2020
Cosmic impression.
Mind imprint.
Deep
connections.
Consciousness,
intelligence
weaves throughout.
Embedded
deep.
Deep
universal
consciousness.
Web of
awareness
encompasses
all.
Everything.
Everywhere.
Every time.
All
entanglements.
Complex
gossamer
connections.
Each a bit
of creation.
Each
connected
to all.
Energy
coursing
through
Tapping
the flow.
Feeling
the surge.
Surge
of creation.
Surge
of
understanding
permeates.
Pure
understanding
accessible.
Sense it,
feel it.
Listen.
John Prophet Jan 23
Grasping.
Gasping.
for
understanding,
knowledge.
Philosophical
gy­mnastics,
religion.
Spinning
a safe
place.
Scaffolding
built.
Easing fear,
tension.
Mythology
expands.
Evolves.
Understanding
wrapped
­in ignorance.
Gods to
explain.
Explain the
unexplainable.
Humanity’s
capacity
limited.
Universal
truths
­beyond
reach.
Mythology,
philosophy,
religion.
Filling
the infinity
void.
Holding
it all
together.
John Prophet Apr 2021
Grid.
Systems
in place.
Circling
the globe.
Overhead.
Underneath.
All around.
Grip
tightens.
Mind
grabbing,
strangling
the soul.
Free will
denied.
Canceled.
The grid
reaches.
Reaches
into the
mind.
Asimov’s
Mule.
Altering
attitudes
kneading
perspectives­.
Grid
flowing into
the mind.
The soul.
Freedom
of uniqueness
crushed.
Single pane
of glass
information
flows.
Soon,
to be
installed
direct.
End of
the past.
Designer
of the
future.
Brave
new world?
Indeed!
John Prophet Feb 2020
Firmly griped.
Griped
in what’s
around.
Griped
by the
code.
Where
we are.
Internal
instinct
gripping
what is done.
Programmed.
Coded for
function.
Controlled
by code.
Do what’s
done, coded
as such.
No way out!
No way
out of
determinism.
Predetermined
from the start.
Coded
from
inception.
Illusions.
Merry-go-round.
Everything
a merry-go-round.
Spinning.
Relentlessly
spinning.
Going nowhere,
simply in
circles
as designed.
John Prophet Nov 2022
Grip.
Tighter
and
tighter.
Boa constrictor,
slithering
wrapping.
Controlling.
Circling
the globe.
Tightening
its hold.
Trapped.
Nowhere
to go.
Orb.
Floating in
nothingness.
Cloud
surrounded.
Raining
control.
Levers
pulled.
Buttons
pushed.
Message
injected
into the
soul.
Molding,
bridling
hearts and
minds.
From on
high,
new gods
of the
cloud.
Narratives
delivered.
Programming
on going.
Ultimate
control!
John Prophet Nov 2023
Grizzled.
Life’s
journey.
Etched
deeply.
Reflective.
Chiseled,
ha­mmered.
Rough
hewn
textured.
Wisdom
hard
earned.
Stooped.
Great
b­urdens
endured.
Battle
hardened.
Beyond
the assured
age of
ignorance.
Youth.
Looking
back
so many
missteps.
Lessons
learned.
Attainment.
Knowledge
compounded.­
Final
product.
Enlightenment,
never ending
winding
road.
John Prophet Aug 2022
Growl.
Dog eat
Dog.
Guttural
sound.
Flashing
of white.
Fangs
exposed.
Pecking
order.
How
established.
Jungle
worl­d.
Jockeying
for
position.
Pushback.
Otherwise
dominated.
Jungle,­
survival
of the
fittest.
Climbing
the ranks
or pushed
to the
bottom.
Humanity
no different.
Animals all.
Growling.
Flashing
of fangs.
Stand and
fight,
less
driven
from the
scene.
Animals
all.
John Prophet Jan 2021
Grumpy Old Men.
Always wondered.
Grumpy
old men.
Where
do they
come from?
Why
do they
exist?
What
made them
so grumpy?
When young,
everything
was a
promise.
Everything
was possible.
No limitations.
Oysters
on the
half shell.
There to
be had.
Excitement.
Adventure.
Three ring
circus,
plenty
for all.
Time
wore on.
Lily
turned
brown.
People.
Learning
about people.
Gilded lilies.
Deceiving.
Skin deep.
Inside
a different
creature.
Existence
a mirage
not what
it seems.
Shiny things
tarnish.
Illusion.
Time
needed to
learn.
Understand.
Grumpy
old men,
manufactured
in the
mirage,
illusion.
Grumpy
old men,
made
not born.
John Prophet Jun 2018
Hand
on the wall,
creation
complete.
Mouth
full of
pigment,
sprayed on
the hand.
Artist signature
for the
eons to
observe.
I
was here
the
artist
shouts out.
You don’t
know
who I am,
but,
I
was here!
We
know not
who
the
artist was.
But we
know the
meaning
of the
hand
on the
wall.
The hand
on the
wall.
We
do so
still!
John Prophet Dec 2022
Hand.
Heavy
hand.
Pressing
down.
Force
feeding
narratives.
Circli­ng.
Cajoling
hearts,
minds.
Reshaping
thought.
Kneading
perceptio­n.
Heavy
handed
control.
Nefarious
hand
pounding,
shaping
expecta­tions.
Hand on
hammer,
shaping,
chiseling.
Manipulating
designed
outcomes.
Al­ways
been those
who lust
for control.
Technology
aided
*******.
Heavy handed
dominion.
End game.
Global
control!
John Prophet Nov 2023
Hearts.
What
evil
dwells
in the
hearts
of men.
Raging
eternity
bound.
Charging
the fields
of ages.
Leaving
death,
destruction.
Suffering
in their
wake.
Madness!
Primitive
instincts
holding
sway.
Overwhelmi­ng
logic and
trust.
Animal
blood lust.
Mindlessness
on full
display.
Leaving
the innocent
in disarray
to pick up
and carry
on.
Putting
the pieces
back on
display.
John Prophet Feb 2018
We are
in
Hell.
We make
the best
of it,
but,
make no
mistake
we are all
In hell.
Trapped on
an orb
surround by
endlessness.
No
hope of
escape.
Look around.
Hate,
violence,
madness,
suffering,
mayhem,
destruction,
­cancer,
pain,
disease,
illness,
war.
Why?
The suffering,
the
decadence,
evil.
What kind
of god
would treat
us
this way?
The kind
that put
us
In
Hell!
John Prophet Feb 2020
Here and
now.
Not just
here.
Not just
now.
Continuum
of existence.
Flowing from
one to the
next.
Limitless
existence.
One realm
to the
next.
Segmented,
no connection.
Dreams.
Dreams reflect
what once
was.
Reality,
an illusion.
Essence of
self flows
through
one illusion
to the next.
Energy,
vibrations
dispersed.
Spread out,
everywhere.
Here not
here.
Here is
everywhere!
Now is
timeless.
Uncertainty
presides.
Consciousness
crystallizes.
John Prophet Dec 2023
Hierarchy.
Intellectual
hierarchy.
Sapiens
the wise.
To a
point.
Infinite
scale,
finite
knowledge,
achievement.
Self
impr­essed,
no
reason.
Big
dog,
small
pound.
Accumulated
wisdom
minusc­ule.
Negligible
on creation’s
scale.
Barely
out of
the trees.
Millennia
before
pure
knowledge
attainment.
Before
enlight­enment.
Immature!
Perspective.
None!
Humility.
None!
Planet
ravag­ed
with
brutally.
Vicious
little
beasts.
Power
hungry.
Still tadpoles
in a
puddle.
Perhaps
soon to
dry up.
Puff of
smoke,
nothing
more
but a
squeak
in the
endless.
John Prophet Mar 2022
Hill.
Over
the hill.
The
others live.
Different.
Not
to be
trusted.
Defend.
Clubs.
Must
defend.
Over
the hill.
The
enemy
lives.
Over
the
mountains.
The others.
They
live.
Enemies.
Different.
Not
to be
trusted.
Cannons.
Must
defend.
Around
the world.
The
others
live.
Enemies.
Different,
not
to be
trusted.
Must
defend.
Missiles.
Enemies
everywhere.
None
to be
trusted.
The enemy
is us,
defending
ourselves
from
ourselves.
The human
condition.
Insanity!
John Prophet Dec 2018
For millennia,
its been
building
for millennia.
History,
building
up over
time.
Mankind’s
story
building
in the ruins
of time.
Digging.
Digging deep
finding layer
after layer
of mans
ancient
realities.
History
of man
building
in the soil.
Layer after
layer.
History.
History, being
buried one
layer
upon
another.
Crushing
the past
as it builds.
Much never
to be seen
again, ever!
Digital.
Digital history,
building up
layer after layer.
Digital relics
buried deeper
and deeper.
Crushed.
Crushed by
sheer
volume.
Pushed deeper
and
deeper.
Deeper
into cyberspace.
More and
more digital
history
building,
layered
deeper and
deeper.
Some.
Some
to be
discovered
by
digital
archeologists.
Most, never
to be
seen again,
ever!
John Prophet Jun 2023
Hive.
Hive
mind.
Group
think.
Massaging
thought.
Like molding
clay.
Ceaseless
motion.
Shape
after
shape.
Mind
after
min­d.
Duplicated.
Master
artisan,
molding
tools
in hand.
Zeros
and
ones.
Etching
the mind,
soul.
Free will
co-opted.
Master.
Made to
heel.
Follow
the script,
narrative.
Inundated.
Nonstop.
Screen to
mind.
How
zombies
are born.
How
free will
is lost.
John Prophet Sep 2017
Chastened

by expectations.

Seasoned

by trial.

All journeys

begin

the same.

Roads diverge,

yet all

end

at

the same

destination.

Experiences vary,

stories differ.

But

the results

the same.

Progress

occurs

by the nectar

left behind.

In this way,

the hive

is built.
John Prophet Nov 2021
Hive mind.
Seven hours
each day.
On average
people spend
seven
hours
each day
on screen
stare.
Nearly half
of awake
time
on screen
stare.
To what
end?
More anxiety.
More hostility.
More easily
coerced,
controlled.
Fifty
years ago.
People
spent zero
hours
on screen
stare.
To what
end?
Less anxiety.
Less hostility.
Less easily
coerced,
controlled.
Fifty
years
from now
people
will spend
all their
time on
screen
stare.
To what
end?
Complete
lose of
individuality.
Ultimate
control.
Uniformity
of thought.
Hive mind.
John Prophet Dec 2016
Some say the Garden of Eden was a myth, that such a beautiful
place never existed.
The Universe is a cold forbidding inhospitable place, a place filled
with frozen gases, ***** of fire, cosmic radiation that can fry one alive,
dead planets, frozen asteroids and meteoroids.
Huge deadly volumes of space with no discernible purpose.

There is a place, at least one place where things came together.
Eons of star formation and destruction seeding the cosmos with
the periodic table that, along with gravity cobbled together one speck
of blue. A place that was warm, had water, breathable atmosphere and a magnetic force field keeping deadly radiation at bay.

Somehow in the deadly darkness of the void, paradise was forged,
a blue pearl, a Garden of Eden, a place to call home.
John Prophet Dec 2017
Humanity
is now in a
blender.
For
centuries
humanity
lived in pockets,
developing
different ways
of being.
Time passes
humanity
spreads
mixing the
pockets.
Friction, grinding,
war,
the pockets
grind against
one another.
Time passes
technology
advances.
Enter the
Internet.
Homogenization
accelerates at
the speed of
light.
Old ways
obliterated,
pockets
homogenized.
a new world
is
born.
John Prophet Aug 2022
Horizon.
History,
past to
present.
Archaic
to
modernity.
Upside
down.
Growth,
exponentia­l.
Knowledge
compounding.
Technology
circling the
globe.
Gazing,
viewing
the
beginning.
Revelations
daily.
Buil­ding
on
yesterday.
Yet.
Beliefs,
philosophies
mired,
shackled
to the
past.
Distant
past.
Question not
ancient
thoughts
derived
millennia
before.
Kneeling
at the
alter of
superannuated
beliefs.
Time
ripe
to expand.
Expand
philosophical
horizons.
Ponder
anew.
Widen
the mind,
staring
forward.
Forward
toward
distant
horizons
for new
philosophical
treatises.
John Prophet Sep 2021
Hostage.
Intelligence
held hostage.
Buffeted.
Buffeted
at every
turn.
Biology
grabs
by the
throat.
Submission.
Demanding
primordial
allegiance.
Allegian­ce
to programming.
How designed.
Where
laws
of the
jungle run
roughshod.
Roughshod
over logic,
wisdom,
conscience.
Defaulting
to baser
instincts.
Genetics,
holding
court.
Calling
the shots.
Logic,
wisdom,
conscience,
battling
with the
past.
Battling
with its
core.
John Prophet Aug 2018
Crickets
sounding their
enchanting
sound.
Peeper choruses
from the pond,
finely tuned,
while Bullfrogs
barup their
baritone song.
Swooping bats
devouring,
warm breezes
dancing.
Owl hoots
deep in the
woods.
Coyotes howling
in the
distance.
Evening’s
Symphony
tuned to
perfection.
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