I was there. The apocalyptic event that turned my inner-cosmos upside down, prefiguring the eternity of cycles of civilizational self-dissolvement, both within and without. I was there, and it was both majestic and terrifying. No wonder Ibn Arabi in his Kitâb Al-Jalâl Wa-l Jamâl speaks of how Beauty, by unifying the majestic clashes of expansiveness against expansiveness in simple acts such as a state of awe through bisât (the prayer-mat) is fundamentally what protects us from the underlying schizophrenia of the drunkard complexity of Life. "Unacceptable behavior in the Divine Presence is the cause for expulsion and alienation" according to Ibn Arabi. He was right, in the psychoanalytic sense. Ibn Arabi was here speaking of madness in its purest manifestation. Unity is normality, and disunity is abnormality. A flow of normals (from old to new normals, from new to ever newer normals, and so on) is the way that abnormality exposes itself to us as a machinic process. Machines d