Occult Vision

That our memories are tied to sensory information and specifically that sensory information issuing from the eyes requires us to be wary of an oppression of the slightest nature. It is the connective tissue of oppression itself. Our memories, where they are tied to images and events seen in the past constitute facts, held in one's mind about a condition of the self, others around it, and the world it inhabits. That fact forms a foundation for a now, partially existing out of its present condition due to the load capacity of time for information processing. That information, itself, is photons of light registering on the retina, processed by the optic nerve, and shuffled to the back of a brain whose very world and body model has been flipped to interface with the raw signal of the world seen through the eye's lens. The light that passes through this lens reflects upon a ruddy bottom to a muddy puddle, turned by the puddle's surface upside down. Our's is an electric, sensory experience that accumulates over time, which is oriented toward time. And that time can be distilled into so many vignettes of vision and understanding occurring upon the occult facet of this viscous puddle, the eye. In those instances when we form lasting memories from the mute moments of vision we fall victim to its occult manipulations. They are present in a metaphor for vision, which frames it as an unvarnished fact. This metaphor functions as an interface between fact and vision, which constitutes a way of remembering through seeing. Consequently, this metaphor informs how people collect facts by demanding evidence that must be seen. This metaphor allows vision for the sake of knowing and knowing for the sake of vision.

To the extent that our vision constitutes a past and from that past we cobble together historically genuine states of existence, then those who are so privvy to have access to this vision have control over the remembrances collected by vision, the opinions formed about them, and the actions taken because of them. Consciousness, as is on display in these words scrolling before the fingers orchestrating it is such a sliver of the full and incoherent 'mass'  of brain. Consciousness is an epiphenomen to nerve impulses occurring for the sake of themselves seemingly coordinated by a centralizing category called a self, which becomes occult as it exist as the persistent and dynamic features of the co-presence of a self and its sensations over time.

Vision, which serves for memory, can be manipulated in a way that allows power to, first, assert itself as reality, and in doing so co-opt that sensory metaphor for truth, that is, existence beyond the motives of mere mortals. If this is occurring then we are being manipulated. The mind is an enfolding of possible cellular physics. In its doing it creates, then conquers, a fourth, non-sensory realm: time. Time exists to us in so many metaphors, most of which revolve around a circle symmetrically divided, or in its digital protege, the possibility of four numbers bisected in twos by a colon.
Occult vision is the manipulation of that sense to set up conditions for reality favorable to those through which a form of power can operate. Namely, power functions interstitially as a binding and bounding condition of reality through which people can experience an existence. Power imprints the behavior of subjects by persistently tethering them to obligations to that power. These obligations emerge from a relationship established in the past that requires the subject to honor conditions at a future place and time. Institutionalized behaviors as essential as language, mathematics, and identity are at once synthetic to the world yet essential to the humans who propagate them. They have contexts in which they are developed, applied, or simply expressed, and these characterize the coincidence of an existent world and the realities by which each of us leads lives within that world.

Consciousness is, itself, the occult category of an invasion. It exists as a property and category of mentation. It occupies the notions of a beginning and an end. It asserts the total frame required for the sandbox of imagination. Its obverse, infinity, mystifies ordering principles, placing them within the occult category of gods and creation. Mind, self, and vision are the old slave hooks, tethering the matter of a self with a something-that-matters narrative by which it operates.