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Fakirs

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On March 19, 2017

In Philosphing

Even though my completion of the Great Work or Enlightenment took place in mostly pre-internet times, I had still fallen “victim” to a number of “mystery schools” that operated correspondence courses via the post-office. I put the word “victim” in quotes because all experience has it’s value. I put the words “mystery schools” in quotes because, well… yeah.

If you don’t know what I am talking about when I try to describe the state of mind so aptly code-named “The Philosopher’s Stone”, and yet find yourself to be what some call a Seeker, you have a problem. Too much help!

Hop on the ‘Net and do a search for “Guru”. Or try “Enlightened Teacher”. “Mystery School” is still popular. Spread your net wider. Type “Church” or “Temple”. You may even find someone who can “channel” you an “Ascended Master”.

And so convenient. Get a book. Take a course. Attend a seminar. Go to a retreat. Let the imampriestpastorministerswamirabbi at your Standard House Of Worship tell you the Truth. Join a cult. Read some goofy blogs.

So many choices… Do all of these pathways lead to the same destination? Why are they so different? Do they have anything in common?

Of course they do.

The only teacher you need is yourself. That may sound dumb but only because you don’t know who you really are yet. The clues are all around you. Study symbolism. Stoke the fire that is your desire to Know WTF is going on here. You will need that fire in order to burn through and pass beyond all the bogey-men.  The knowledge you seek cannot be defined by words. Here is the closest I can get. If you are almost there, it may just be enough:

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING AND YOU ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM IT!

There. You’re God now.

No charge.

Compadre

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On March 17, 2017

In Poeting

Emotionalistic, anti-socialistic
followers of the Bind.
Bottle-blurry,
loving worry,
trapped in the web that is Mind.

Incarceration, fascination
with finely balanced shocks.
Hard to see
in light of Me,
the Heart of Paradox.

Broken wheels have made us feel
bereft and all alone.
Several years
and countless tears
measure how we’ve grown.

All is paced and each is graced,
perfection is the rule.
What we see
is what we need
and everything is cool.

From self-attacks we must relax
and seek out what we love.
Simple birth
for what it’s worth,
here’s our heart-felt Dove.

Accept what is and that’s show-biz.
Relativity, that’s the deal.
I salute you my friend,
in this world without end,
where all the Illusions are Real.

Triple Crown Device #4

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On March 16, 2017

In Radionics

House of Mirrors

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On March 16, 2017

In Philosphing

Have you ever been totally at peace and happy? The world was wonderful, the future looked bright and you felt secure yet excited to simply exist?

How about the opposite? Anger and pain was all you could see. The world was a cruel and desperate place filled with suffering and horror.

How you experience reality is a reflection of how you are inside. If you go about your day looking for reasons to love people and finding ways to be helpful, you will receive the same in kind. Walking around with a scowl and complaining about everything will yield you a world of antagonism and hatred.

This is a basic rule of ethics and as such “the golden rule” is a powerful way to reach out and change the reality you experience. However there are more internal changes you can make such as looking for beauty in unexpected places. You can consciously decide to emphasize the positive side of things and count your blessings by noticing and appreciating all the special people and personal triumphs in your life.

Okay, enough with the gratitude attitude platitudes. You have also no-doubt noticed the phenomena wherein something that is in your mind tends to appear in the “outside” world. Perhaps you question something and the answer comes into your life in an unexpected manner. This can range from the everyday synchronicities to the quite jarring alignments that occur during major life-changes. The willful application of this is the basis of what is called prayer, spell-casting and a lot of new-age bullshit I won’t go into. Respect it though.

It is instructive to experiment along these lines. With as much or as little ceremony as you like, try creating a thought-form specifically for the purpose of looking for similar or related things to appear either in your dreams or in the world around you. Keep notes if you can. Like your dreams, uncanny events go into the memory-shredder quickly. Also, look for evidence of intelligent humor in the results of these experiments.

As you would expect, this is a two-way street. Things that appear in your life will tend to make their way inside. Want to be filled with despair and sickness? That’s easy, just spend time wallowing in the “news”. Worry about all the things you are told to worry about. Soak up all the attending drug commercials while you’re there. Want to feel better? Ditch the news and go play. Meet some new people. Rediscover nature. Allow yourself to be loved.

Even being out of control is completely under our control.

When we realize that there is only one Thing, we will discern that changing one thing changes everything. When we realize that we are the one Thing, we will understand that changing everything changes nothing.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei

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On March 9, 2017

In Philosphing

Are you familiar with the concept of the “Goldilocks Universe”? The observation by Science that there exists in Nature an overwhelming number of variables that must meet very precise values in order for life to be possible?

Is this the elusive Proof of God that said deity apparently goes through so much trouble to conceal? Or is it just a trick of perception similar to desert mirages or matter becoming conscious?

Just imagine the staggering number of coincidences and alignments that have (and are) occurring just to produce you. Right now. Right here.

Does the very thought of this make you feel unbelievably special?

Or maybe just a little suspicious?

The “Goldilocks” or Finely-Tuned Universe observation is a compilation of all the minutely perfect arrangements of elements and forces that exist to make life possible. The slightest change in parameters such as the strength of gravity or in the odd, asymmetric relationship between matter and anti-matter would result in a sterile or unsustainable universe.

So how could this be? Why would we exist in a universe that is perfectly suited to us? Pop-science is currently having fun with the idea that perhaps we are programmed characters  living in some Great Computer Simulation. That idea, like that of Panspermia giving rise to life on Earth is a red herring that begs the question by merely pushing it out another layer.

Might the difficulty here be that the original premise is wrong? Why should we assume that Something Out There is the cause of us? Is there any evidence that we might be the cause of It?

Speaking as a person who works daily with the mentally ill, I can vouch for the fact that what some of us accept as reality can bear very little resemblance to what others experience. We can argue until we are blue in the face (and I have) about who’s reality is more real. In the end of course, the problem originates in our inadequate ability to communicate and the prevailing assumption that we must live in only one world.

At this level, on this world, seven-billion or so humans are defining our reality based on what we can agree upon. Have you noticed that pretty much anything we imagine in science-fiction eventually becomes real? The limits fall away once we agree that they can. The barriers only exist when we say they do.

There are others who have not elected to join us in this project and so have no reason to limit themselves to our current rules and regulations. Our occasional encounters with them leave us frightened and mystified. Aliens? Spirits? Angels?

None-of-the-above. They aren’t playing this particular game by our particular rules. My advice is not to communicate with them. They will tend to mess with your head. Not because they’re evil. Simply because it’s funny.

This is after all, just a game.

Triple Crown Device #3

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On March 4, 2017

In Radionics

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