Another Test To Separate Potentially Real Mystics From The Dilettantes:
If (Again):
If everybody starts out...wanting to be better (to be more conscious)
then most eventually...give up
then what the hell gives with mystics...huh?...tell us that
(if you dare -- I mean can).

There was once a man with a deep interest in the extraordinary and plain things of life who had a son who seemed to share his interest, so when the lad was old enough to give an informed response, his father asked him if he would like to be told all that the old man had learned thus far or be killed now,
while there was still time.

The origin for man's concept of "strained relations"
came from that naturally existing between his instincts and his thinking.

Once upon a time, on a faraway world, was a creature who discovered a secret,
a secret so unexpected that when he tried to tell others about it
they thought it too strange to be true, and thus ignored it,
so he employed a different approach and made it sound not so strange, but others then just found it boring so he tried a third tactic of making it sound much weirder than it actually was
and then -- finally -- many of his fellow creatures took a likin' to what they heard,
and he became a popular celebrity.
...I guess the moral could be: "A small price to pay." Right?
Once upon a time there was a man who said:
"That's exactly why I quit talking to myself!"

 

And now for Friday's Cartoon Feature:
There was once a man who pretended to be a mystic,
and a group of people who pretended to take him as such,
and in his preparations for the comments
he would present to them when they would meet,
he would sometimes not prepare what he would say,
and at other times not prepare even more.
A man whose understanding can surpass this point
does not need the word "pretend" redefined for him yet again.

A gent once wrote to The Fierce & Piercing Physician and asked:
"Level with me, Doc -- is there actually any such creature as a 'mystic' outside of ones own self...potentially, that is?"

And the doctor replied:
"I'm glad you threw in that last part."

Without a dual nature,
no creature would ever refer to itself.