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Beyond Weakness
by Stephen Garvey
Beyond Weakness was published in 1998. It is Garvey's third non-fiction
work. The book is a journey through Garvey's thoughts to the meaning of
our existence. During the journey, he envisions a higher type who will
replace the economic types of the modern age. The so-called Higher Type
will do this by not using inventions to exist through others, but to
transcend them by existing solely through himself. Later in the journey,
Garvey explores in depth the contradiction that we exist from inventions,
though inventions themselves are empty of who we are. So the more we
exist from inventions, the more we will diminute our lives. Added to
this, since there are others who use inventions, we are trapped in a race
to keep using them, or face being eliminated by those that use them.
Overall, the book captures the nature of our existence and the world, and
suggests ways of dealing with it.
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EXCERPT:
What can The Higher Type be worth in a self-destructing existence than
to be part of something in which nothing is really distinguishable because
everything is part of the same thing. Though for us who rely on our
fabricated distinctions, we look to The Higher Type as the next dominant
accounter of our weakness, whereby those who use fabrications to exploit
others will be strengthened through. He is like a being that has arisen
out of the ashes left by the fabricators to lead a new movement of
strength against the weakness of the fabrication itself, and thereby the
basis for economic conquest. From this, we must conclude that The Higher
Type may eventually become a weakness, though his moment of strength is
now. What he will earn is not material strength, but conscious control
over his fellow man and woman, and thus over our environment. His
strength will lie in hastening the inevitable internal destruction of
states, while lessening our destruction of nature. The key point is that
him and others like him will be in control rather than those set on
economic conquest who will be undercut in their attempt to control and
even eliminate the internal weaknesses of states. This amounts to an
intensification of the dynamic of strength through weakness before a
stable period of individual independence.
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I Am Existence
by Stephen Garvey
I Am Existence is Garvey's first non-fiction work. It was first published in 1997. The book is a journey through our beliefs and ideas to a deeper understanding our existence and the world. And more than that, it is a cleaning of Garvey's mind, or what he calls our "mind dumps," and thus his attainment of greater individual freedom. The main character in the work, The Solitaire overcomes most of his beliefs and ideas, through solitude, perseverance, and struggle. And then at the end of the book, he comes up with probably the most profound idea, because it explains our conscious existence.
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EXCERPT:
What Do Pits Mean?
In the glowing coals and ashes of the fire, the strong converse with each
other. With his head tilting The Solitaire listens.
"We have no control over anything," one of them blurts out. "What will
happen will happen. There is nothing to earn or strive for. We don't earn
our rightful existence we get it without any of our doing. And we have no
choice. It is as if there is a master plan behind everything."
'I don't know when I will return or what form I will return as,' another
thinks. 'I have no control so why does anything matter to me? Things will happen anyway.'
"Everything we do is not from ourselves," he remarks. "We are not trapped.
We don't exist!"
"You are right. We don't exist because we are never the same. And
there is nothing we can do about it because everything else determines what
we do," responds one of them.
"We are just drifting endlessly. And even now as we talk," says another of
the strong. "We can't think of ourselves or the whole because neither of
them have meaning. There is the endless dynamic of strength through
weakness, and we are part of it. There are no choices."
Nearby the weak watch with curiosity. "They're all mad," they whisper to
each other.
The Solitaire covers his face with his hands. 'We have fallen into
nihilism,' flashes on his mind.
"The only consolation is that we are never the same," another adds.
"And it is not even our doing."
"What bothers me more than anything is that everything we do is condition
on everything else," says one of them. "We are an endless whole and
nothing else."
'There are no escapes from it,' The Solitaire reflects to himself. 'We
exist without our choice or doing, and there is nothing that can help us.
We will know what we are meant to know.'
"The whole is in constant flux. We are in constant flux. The whole is
never the same. We are never the same," The Solitaire says to the strong.
He picks up a handful of ashes and lets them fall.
"It's him," the weak whisper to each other.
"Our beings move from weakness to strength to elimination of weakness
around endless other beings moving through the same cycle though at
endless other stages," The Solitaire continues. "There is a constant
flux between those beings completing their cycles and new beings beginning
their cycles. It is to be in the endlessness of strength through weakness
on infinite levels. The continuous interaction of the cycles is the
unfolding of existence. There is a constant strengthening and replenishing
of beings. We use up our existence, and others replace us, and it does not
stop. It is like there is wood always being placed in a fire and on wood
that has almost had its time. It is like we are waves of an ocean
followed by limitless other waves, and each wave representing a
generation of people and amounting to no more than the ocean itself.
And every ocean and wave, every tree and piece of wood is an assertion
of existence. Everything by existing is an assertion of existence. Every
assertion of existence is an assertion of the will to exist. It is the
will to strengthen through weakness. It is the interaction of the will
to strengthen through weakness by all things and beings which determines
existence! And in all our own ways according to our form and force
whether we are a wave or a human being we express no to mediocrity. We
are part of the impulse of existence to strengthen and purify itself,
and we act it out in our own way."
The strong move closer and listen.
"We are all part of the infinity of existence. We and others to follow,
and ones that have past are part of the endless return of slightly
different beings. We do not have to hope for a return. It is happening
all the time," The Solitaire says to them. "Every existing being is an
example of eternal changing states of being. We have been mislead by the
idea of self. There is no self because everything causes everything else.
We are all inseparable parts of each other within a dynamic whole that
is constantly unfolding. It is to be part of the constant interaction
between changing strengths and weaknesses of being. There is no end to
anything. There are no pits as we perceive them. A being does not just
disappear. It merely changes form while remaining part of everything
else. It is like a wave crashing onto a bank. Though the form of the
wave ceases to exist, the wave itself returns to where it came from
while another one replaces it! And it is these momentary forms, these
assertions of existence with no more significance than anything else
that we call selves! It is like we have gone on a walk and gave names
and meaning to everything we saw based on our understanding of the
individual things while not understanding how and why they interact
as a whole. It is the will to exist behind the endless whole of existence,
the endless state of everything causing everything that has and will
only have meaning."
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