Sunday, November 9, 2025

On the Shores of the Triverse

 by  shaun lawton 


    Here in this desolate parameter of planet Earth (situated in a region known across the Triverse as The Shallows) we hover adjacent to the great void.  Circumscribed by forces beyond our comprehension in which theoretical notions such as those justifying the existence of black holes (for example) only begin to suggest the deeper reality, to which the extent of our mind's ability to grasp not only remains insufficient to correlate it all, but more to the point, was never intended to do so in the first place; we, as individuals, are left with a deep personal choice on how to ease our consciousness into accepting or rejecting these notions and how they apply to our existence.  
 
     Behind and beyond Earth's moon lies a complicated conduit of orbital pathways that bend space and time until certain events in our own collective history bleed out, drop by exquisite droplet, as if pressed from a tourniquet in the eye of the storm.   When one takes into account the wisdom inherent to the poet Antonio Porchia's aphorism, "To wound the heart is to create it," one may get a better handle on this analogy.  There may not be much progress made without its equivalent toll paid in sweat, blood, and tears.  This remains part of the old wisdom which our youngest generations have yet to learn from experience.  
    
     As the navigators of temporal vessels (which we have somewhat thickly dubbed "space ships" in our literature of the fantastical) must surely come to intuit all too well, with every fold and gyration and orbital loop to cross over the great expanses, a new space opens which can be entered, while allowing anything in there to escape, this being a simple result of the law of conservation of mass. The thing about incoming mass and energy, there's always an equivalent portion that invariably gets exchanged. An electromagnetic connection does appear to exist; a quantum entanglement, if you will.  This is where quantum entanglement "at a spooky distance" becomes extremely interesting.  
    
     Here at Triverse headquarters, our new understanding of portals has significantly affected how we think of everything, now. As we have covered in the Blog of the Triverse, within the great map of The Territory it has been demonstrated how a certain dwarf planet-sized moon of our solar system's largest gas giant may serve as sort of electromagnetic and superconducive capacitor which allows for a limited travel into a posterior time field (necessarily away from The Shallows and into a deeper realm of The Territory, also referred to as the subDominion, i.e, The Worlds That Could Have Been) in which alternate states of conduction are occurring in a sublimated state of suspension.  

     In a sense, if you're reading this, you are standing before a hyperportal of the mind. As readers, we traverse a hidden territory of understanding when we are led to read transcriptions which could be said to reflect the truth; just as, conversely, when we're led to read lies or false information, that could be described as merely having been prevented from passing through certain portals, where our understanding serves as a gateway toward comprehension.  Our interpretation and discernment of certain bits of information fosters an appreciation and understanding that may lead us onward toward a capacity to factor faith into the equation, regardless of how technical and scientific our method of approach.  

     We are possessed and dispelled by the void while breathing in our planet's oxygen-rich atmosphere and regulating our heartbeats with the mass and motion of our daily activities, all of us born here on this Earth at the very quick of the latest outcropping in our reality, which despite ordinarily not being perfectly equipped to realize it fully, happens to be comprised wholly of something we can only dimly grasp as "time."  

     Here on the shores of the triverse, when we take the time to remove our egos from the equation and just stand outside at night to examine the constellations slowly sweeping by in their gradual orbital tracking as our planet spins along its trajectory around the Sun, we can actually learn to tell the difference between where our feet are firmly planted upon the soil of our world and our true being grounded in the current moment of time itself, which remains an electromagnetic property of a cosmic totality which may stay infinitely beyond our ability to really grasp, yet remains intimately here and now for us to appreciate while it sustains us. 

    Welcome to the Triverse, where faith and science dovetail seamlessly, and paradox itself becomes the mirror into which we may look for clarification or madness.  Where avenues toward damnation and salvation become so inextricably intertwined that only blindness and random chance may eventually light a pathway forward, and steadfast convictions may just as easily lead one toward a darkened and dead end. The point being simple, really. 

     When The Territory of our ultimate reality may be described in terms of time instead of space and the rocks upon which we plant our feet, then we may truly begin to consider that our minds may become free of the prison we've built up brick-by-brick, as with our own form of logic that we project onto the cosmos, effectively constructing for ourselves the greater panopticon of a reality we've chosen and remain in thrall to, over the reality of time in which we've become manifest.  I don't know what you would call this form of self entrapment, unless that's just society, which remains, after all, a collective manifestation.  

     Way out here at the outskirts of the universe as the limits of our triverse continue to unfold. How we have come to be among the few who survived all these storms remains a mystery to which we can only pay our respects.  Out here on the shores of the Triverse, who's going to take us all in our wild glory and youth? 




  
      

Thursday, January 23, 2025

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Mercy Seat

 by  shaun lawton

  deep inside the scarred heart a viper
    strikes from where the wooly mammoths 
of memory nest in turbulent germination 
  to reach a paroxysm of equilibrium 

the whipping star's fulcrum 
   opens its incandescent kernel 
  to set alight the pilot furnace 
   deep within our abominable dream

while nothing remains as it's seen
  even as the chimera stares back at us
 from the ubiquitous mirror spanning 
the works from vitreous matter to every pupil

  awake in the maelstrom of this sanctuary 
where our mirror neurons collide 
  across the habitat of the vacuum 
under the hypnotic pedipalps  

 the spinnerets of reverie have woven
    splicing together the panopticon
 of our daily ordinary weather 
   stitched in tandem in a lightning storm

so lower your eyelids and rest
  while you still can since after that
this gift we have been granted will 
  be replaced by the incessant tempest
    
 
 
  

Saturday, June 17, 2023

The Map becomes the Territory

 by  Shaun Lawton 




   When the map becomes the territory, the world comes alive in a snap. The tumultuous terrain breaks free in upheaval, shedding series of dorsal fins from overlapping tectonic plates. Generated from the interstices in between, wriggling out a host of scuttling insects that swarm and shudder off into the shadowy distance. A bifurcating reality opens up, as if being unzipped and let in to ours; a monstrous invasion with no apparent way of stopping it. 
 These were to be known as the Dragons of the Instant, another manifestation of demonic possession.  What makes them unnerving but not overtly dangerous is how, upon their manifestation before us, while taking on the appearance of an objectively autonomous creature capable of attacking, they always render as an optical illusion and instead phase into the backdrop scenery itself, unraveling into the foothills along the horizon, revealing itself to be another section of the land we're traversing.  It does feel as if a map were being unfolded at our feet, a map to step into through which we enter into the terrain it depicts.  Leaving behind the sensation mirrored in the unfolding of creatures capable of appearing any time. 



Saturday, February 18, 2023

Seeing Stones

 


   You're staring at the evolution of my digital art, and it's staring right back at you.   I can make this assertion with a certain degree of confidence considering the style templates I designed to be used in my deep dream generated pieces.  The swirling patterns that result often generate eye-like whirlpools in their random interwoven configurations for a reason.   

        A few months ago I began working on a series of digital images rendered using Wombo since they added the feature of being able to upload images for transfiguration.  I was working on the idea of creating a gallery of images which would be presented in the form of individual cards in an oracle deck.  I had already begun to build several oracle decks, beginning with the Tolkien middle-Earth deck (which for now I've been referring to as my Ennor deck), continuing with a series of individual cards based on Werewolves which I call the Wolf Pack, a Melnibonean oracle deck, and a Kaiju deck which features a subcategory (which is to say, many guest star appearances) depicting nods to Ultraman.  

   The Seeing Stone  deck is comprised of a series of images which all feature the oval shape of the cabochon-cut stones that I bought from my friend Andy through his Etsy shop Uncommon Stones. It all started the day I asked him to shine a blacklight on one of his dinosaur bone stones. A vivid interlaced tapestry of fossilized veins shone out in the resulting picture I took of it on my cellphone.  I decided to use this as a style template in Deep Dream Generator as well as in Wombo.  The two images depicted below were created on the Wombo app.  

   

    


   These two cards are from my dinosaur oracle deck.  The idea being, it's the same stone, only each time you look into it, a different scene from the distant past is shown.  In the case of this stone, it always displays glimpses into eras back when the dinosaurs roamed. These 'time stones' are kind of like little palantirs, which is to say windows through which the viewer may see certain scenes of the past. (The methods by which this may be achieved is the focus of my time travel story.)   

    The crux of the matter lies in the stones themselves, in particular the one dinosaur fossil which I photographed under blacklight. That's the one I think of as my flux capacitor. It's ultra hi-lit profile based on an actual fossil record serves as the foundation upon which the AI text-prompted vectors were configured into their shapes.  It's sort of an exercise in showcasing a range of possible variants to the requested scenery, and the best of these may serve to represent that bygone possibility, a subject still available for examination in hindsight.    

      As noted in the image at the top of the page here, the middle stone appears to be staring up at the top stone.  A closer examination of the top stone reveals the lower greenish circular area to be the top stone creature's nose, and its eye readily noted just above and to the right, in a shade of brown with a black pupil. This stone appears far older than the smaller one below it, which now resembles more of a newborn stone, or at least one yet in its infancy.  These are the opals. 

    The two darker stones below are the dinosaur fossils.  The one to the right appears to have an eye with which it stares out of and off the page at an angle.  The stone to the left seems to be a tangle of shadows and tails or some sort of blended components nestled up within the stone. The impression I'm left with is that these four are some sort of family of stones forming a nuclear unit, conjuring an electromagnetic connection like lodestones.  

   The seeing stones signify that time travel as we have typically come to wish to expect it to be (i.e, the ability to travel into the past or future) remains a mere fantasy, an objective which applied here in the real world will never yield results.   Thus making this ability to glimpse the past or future a viable alternative to outright time-travel, the next-best thing so to speak.    







    

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Notescense Inusticularity

 If it wasn't in between the jaws of the sea leviathan,
 it would have been against the twisting edge 
of another's blade winking in the moonlight, 
just another cutting whisper on the wind.

 The way the earth's been shaking about once a week 
has got us pretty unsettled. It only happens during 
the weekend, and in hourly tremors, at that. 

If the novel coranavirus were one sign of the trumpet, 
these other manifestations fall in accord with the overall
 development of ongoing issues heralded in the scriptures 
of various languages and their countries, it would seem to me. 

The finishastration  ensumeralled encyclircodices 
diversticulated  enshrevesascense forwithinto 
a triumverification of elegant forces combined
 in a brand new concerted effort against the quarantine. 



Tuesday, September 14, 2021

only the unbroken

 
Tethered to the preamble
   why does time go on 
 are we time, time humanity 
 we exultant in song 

In the halls of you, I am
  in turn a hallway for thee 
 a passage toward another side
where vows serve a purpose

only the unbroken  
  are left to share a falling out 
 an erosion, expected 
   nevermind guaranteed