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Date = April 24, 1996
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The News
96048-1
According to a secret government report:
One way by which life keeps too many people from getting too deeply involved in
The attempt to alter and expand their consciousness
Is by making those who do show initial interest therein
Never get past the stage of perceiving it to be a most solemn,
And possibly dangerous — even, forbidden, affair.
96048-2
Some tips to help simplify the census:
Everyone who lives in the city is the same.
Everyone who lives in the city operates at the same speed.
And: everyone who lives in the city is stupid… which is why they live so long.
As he stood on his front porch watching traffic pass by, one man thought:
“I — I ain’t answerin’ any more questions!”
And,
More than anyone else,
Was relieved to hear this.
Once upon a time a priest, a rabbi and a prime minister
Got together and decided that they would write to a certain mystic -….But then after further reflection and discussion on the matter decided to send him a mail bomb instead.
96048-3
According to one story,
Everyone is born once before they’re physically born,
Which is when they learn everything that they’re going to know after they’re born,
….(another of those accounts, which for some reason, enjoy limited distribution.
96048-4
The idea of, “More conscious, or awakened people”
Is not literally true, in the way the ordinary mind would take it -yet it is not wholly metaphorical either —
— it falls somewhere in between,
In an area not touched by routine thought..
Put simply again,
All descriptions are: kisses-in-the-wind,
For the benefit of those who have, made-it-to-the-air-field,
And are presently relying on non-standard wind socks for directional assistance.
Once you’ve made a successful solo flight
..There’s not much else to say about the techniques of taking-off.
96048 -5
It is those with faulty memories who concoct creation stories.
96048-6
A man asked a mystic:
“If we do have a, ‘true nature’ apart from our common one,
It is surely not a, ‘thinking one’?”
And the knowledgeable-one “Hummed”….And rubbed his chin, and finally said:
“I’m gonna have to think about that one.”
And the man walked away — feeling somehow that he’d either been,
Impersonally “Had,”
Or else offered an opportunity to see something new.
It’s easy to give undeserved respect to the mind,
And easy to make fun of it,
But what is not easy is to speak directly to it about itself.
…You see,
That’s why it’s the mind and you’re not!
96048-7
How health actually works — (behind your 3-d back:
Worry enough about your teeth, and your gums’ll fall out.
…(sad to say, the same’s not so regarding how stupid you are, — well, oh yeah! — sure it is,
But I can’t be yammerin’ about it here in public!…[you know that]!)
96048-8
It is those with faulty memories who predict the future.
96048-9
One man so mused:
“The ideas coming from religion are too fantastic to be believable or useful, while those from true mysticism are not fantastic enough to seem useful.”
…And he further thought:
“Boy! — I’ll bet this is a real problem! – …For those who don’t know any better!”
96048-10
The reason that,
From higher ground,
No criticism of the city is valid,
Is because from that view, ’tis clear that,
Everything runs at its proper speed.
96048-11
Men with faulty memories look to the past as the source of their troubles —
Not that this lacks validity, but curious thing is
That such men also always suffer from poor vision.
96048-12
Two men who’d been long involved in the struggle for consciousness
Were one day sitting, watching the crowds pass by, and one of them said: “You do know that not all of humanity ‘lives’ in their heads as much as do you and I ?
And the other man replied:
“Yes — but yet even though we do reside there more than most, perhaps, can we truly say that we do so in a defensible fashion?!” and they both, being honorable men, had to drop their heads and stare at the ground.
Even non-judgmental comparisons to others is pointless
The ever-shifting styles of fashion
Serve for the simple to distinguish themselves, one from another, in ways undemanding, visible, and possible for all —
What could be further apart from the private, internal quest?! A more awakened man’s efforts are only relevant to himself.
96443-13
Door prizes to the study of man…?
Two guys talking and one of ’em says: “A man’s face is a dead giveaway,”, and the other one replied:
“Well, I don’t want any.”
There was once a chap who did an extensive investigation of an ant hill;
He in fact became an expert in that regard;
He eventually knew everything to be known about the ant hill,
The one thing he did not know was to stop the study once he’d learned everything
…But certainly- all of you living in the city should not take this seriously -or try to act on it,
…(I’ll give you hint: what ended Samson’s career
Was not his being crushed under the collapse of
Physical structures! —
…Whoa-a-a, close-cropped-ones! — not hardly!
Each evening, one man would send up this prayer: “Now I lay me down in bed,
And ask that life fall on my head…bad cities… bad boys!”
96048-14
One man began to privately laugh at his government
..Then, scoff at the prevailing religion —
..then, ridicule the customs and morality of the land,
But was eventually struck! — “I’ve got to stop this! — I’m the king!”
A mind with any allegiance is a terrible waste of time.
The simple need structures same as cheap underwear requires starch to stand up.
96048-15
The “Curious tale” of one man:
One man wrote to
Everyone who knew —
— asking them: “What to do?” ….And they all answered him!
…(well…Perhaps it wasn’t all that curious.)
96048-16
Try it from this angle:
The “Problem” with heroes is that
No matter who they are,
Where they came from,
When they lived,
What they did, and in what area of human activity they did it,
No matter all of that — they arise solely from the mind,
And it is from the mind
That true heroes struggle to escape.
…(so you see the problem? …)
A man once concluded that he lived in a dream, and upon realizing it — awoke from the dream —
— but from then on he was faced with the question of whether he was
Still awake — or now dreaming that he was.
What reasonable person would ask a beet farmer
If he recommended a vegetarian diet?!
…And yet,
Such is the standard approach of men to their minds.
…(why those on the journey spend less on postage and phone calls.)
96048-17
One man used to hold seances in an attempt to contact the dead -foolish boy! – what does he think memory’s for?!
96048-18
One version of: “Life in the city”:
The simple go to the grocery store; the sophisticated, to the library, but where do the extraordinarily-wired traipse off to?! — ..,(heh heh — don’t you wish you knew?!)
96048 -19
One guy’s slogan was: “I’m working on it,”
And life’s response was: “No hurry — take your time.”
Point being: if life’s not in support of what you do,
What chu gotta worry about any way — huh?!, huh?!, huh?!
Counter-rounter point: when one man heard the proverb:
“God helps those who help themself.” he pondered: “Well, who helps god?” And the answer is:
Those who do “Help themselves.”
…And someone demands:
“You can say that in the face of what you just said before it?
Him missing the fact that everything that’s said, is said in the face of everything that’s gone before it,
….(and the original guy adds: “I’m still working on it.” And life assured him again that there is no-0-0 hurry.)
96048-20
Today’s inspirational story from the mystical annals:
One man who’d long struggled to become more conscious finally concluded: “Maybe it’d be easier if I just tried to help others awaken?
And by god! — of course, he was correct.
..(I did say this was going to be inspirational, didn’t I!
96048-21
One ruler looked out across his kingdom and mused: “Religion has managed to personify evil for the people -why has nothing arisen to do the same for stupidity?!” But before he could ponder the question further,
His mother called him in for lunch.
96048 -22
The memory of those without stabilized consciousness is whatever life wants it to be.
96048 -23
“Help, help! — I’m limping.” “Your legs look fine to me.” “No, it’s my mind!”
96048-24
Another snippet from the real history of man:
It was from a weariness of confronting their ignorance that man conceived of: the sacred.
Thus it is that even those with the best of intentions worship at alters they never intended.
One man used to, “Curse the dark,” — but life put a stop to it -said he was, “Getting too close!”
96048 -25
Every city built and seen by man actually consists of two cities —
One, the one you normally see, and the other, the one you normally don’t.
(And some people still think the transcendental to be too vague, and hard to understand!!)
96048 – 26
Proverbial wisdom update:
A house divided against itself will stand quite nicely, thank you.
96048-27
There is one myth which says that all of the problems man presently confronts is due to the fact that his reality was originally created, running in the opposite direction of what it does now.
….(and the myth adds: not to ask it why this happened! -its only job is to: “Tell the tales,” any analyzation is up to you.)
…(No surprise why myths are not near as popular as say…Sex…& movies.)
96048-28
Stupidity’s not quantifiable as regards knowledge, but rather — speed.
Each night, one man would so pray: “As I lay me down to sleep,
I ask that life — take this mental governor off me, dammit!”
96048-29
After hearing a certain myth, a man wrote to the universal doctor and asked: “Dear doctor: could a reality actually run in two opposite directions? And if so:
Then what would a 3-d one be if it ran backwards?”
But alas — his letter never got through,
…,well…it never went any further than did the writer’s understanding of what he’d asked – but, jiggers!, what else is new around this part of the galaxy?!
One man said: “My face hurts!” and someone pointed out:
“Well no wonder! — look what it’s attached to!”
96048 – 30
One father’s instructions to his son:
“If you want to study the nature of man, here’s how to begin:
First take everything that’s commonly accepted knowledge in that regard, and, — dismiss it totally.”
The reason advice in the city is so expensive and fragile
Is because of the ease with which the slums will go lip in flames.
….”Hey thar Cheyenne, throw another log on tha far!”
“Them ain’t logs, Ringo — them’s my brains.”
“Well, eye-doggies! – don’t them little suckers burn good?!”
“Yeah, I know — that’s what I been a’tellin’ ya.”
And as we leave the two partners to settle down for the night,
In the background, the cows begin to softly moo,
In an attempt to dismiss all they’d just heard
Comin’ from ’round the campfire.