An email comes in from a reader:
“Question: Who was the person originally responsible for the idea that, ‘man is asleep, but can awaken’? Oh yeah, one more: and was he the only one who ever actually woke up? Awaiting Your Reply…Not Without Some Trepidation, Yours Sincerely,” etc.
There are some things that all would-be mystics want to know and, one thing which none of them do. (The rip cord between the would-be-ers, and the actual jumpers.)
The Royal Astrologymeister plotted his charts then told the King: “Sire, different parts of your being are dying at different speeds.” He made this up just to see how his Liege would respond. The joke, however, was on the star dreamer inasmuch as Hamlet never dies. The earthbound mind is drawn to a world that never tangibly was and then frets most over its imagined demise. This is how psychiatrists are able to charge more than G.P.’s, and rabbis more than them all. Everyone tells you they can treat your strictly human ills, (the meaningless ones), but none can deal with the single real one. Thus do the alert take treatment only from themselves, after making their funeral arrangements.
“Yes, I at first was sad to see myself go…but then I looked down in the box…then back at my previous existence, and thought: ‘Screw you!’ – tossed some dirt on him and left.”
If the above ever happens in your life, at least have the intelligence
not to mention it publicly like this guy just did.
J.