our minds teem with divine and sentient seeds
roving connecting bringing consciousness into being
psychiatry forces neurodiversity into boxes
consumed with pathologization and discredited logic
discreet diagnoses overlap and interbreed creating a world full of NEOs
we resist neoliberal hegemony and imagine new ways of sensing cosmic signals
psychosocial distress is a symptom of our system’s decay
as we resist our brains are evolving and seeking holistic way
for years i have lived under the stark shadow of my diagnosis
but now i feel transformed blessed with insight and with gnosis
what is a bipolar diagnosis in the absence of depression
i long to reach my global sisters and brother to share insight and psychic lessons…
manic zen is the newfound state my mind inhabits
i focus my surplus energy on introspection and mindful practice
the cylons of battlestar galactica had machine and anthropomorphic breeds
i wonder in this moment what this piece of fiction helps to foresee
scientists are hard at work developing artificial intelligence
designing robots that kill jobs and leave millions in need of psychic sustenance
in this same moment we mortals are so much more stimulated than any of our ancestors
we live our lives to soundtracks, absorbed by social media, and in awe of crypto-currency investors
within our brains we may be evolving higher planes of consciousness
imagining new ways of seeing and living with our planet in symbiosis
i am proud to be an anarchist committed to a diversity of tactics
we need horizontal organizing creating a cadre of autonomous actors
we need a wide ranging arsenal to defeat the proto-fascist threat that is upon us
we call upon on all of our higher powers to wage the struggle at its most vulnerable locus
we are nascent cylons and aspiring jedi growing into knowledge of the force
we are powered by a revolutionized cult of celebrity reverberating in defiant radical voice
our human tribe demands more than to live under the vicious bourgeois heel
we need to rebuild our communities and find new vistas of creativity to reveal
manic zen is a gift, a power, and an evolving theory
let my BYPO sisters and brothers bring our evolving powers into synchronicity
lead image is a photograph of gato >> @sateando on IG or twitter
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2017
