"Step
3: Wait. Step 4.... What I mean is: don't rush 1 and 2;
otherwise you go and do, but don't do what you do well.
It takes time to make enduring changes. And step 4:
action plan. We will talk about that when you are ready.
"Looking back at one life, what do you hope will be
one of the achievements: Salvation? National security?
Great Macarena dancing? Hey, it's not about absolute
values but about one's own values. What is 'already but
not yet' in you. It won't be new or foreign territory and
it won't be a recap of what is already finished, but a
continuity of what your spirit has been working on,
through, with, toward.
"If it were already resolved and achieved you
wouldn't be there, and if it is not yours you can't make
it be. And a hint: This is not a hard question.
Meditate... or medicate. Let go and see what hangs
on." (10/21/2003 - Y#67)
"Now, Step 8: party... oops. There is a reward.
"Step 4. Ok, let's recap: 1 values, 2 personal
assets... or 1 personal assets and 2 values, since life
is not linear either. 3: wait and wait and wait... round
up the usual suspects, they'll be waiting. And then
choose action--what you will do.
"So, for example: Mom, you are skilled in writing
and you value gap-toothed aardvarks. You ponder that and
decide you will organize an international writing
campaign for orthodonture for aardvarks (to create gaps,
of course). Dad, you silver-tongued orator who values
sloth, you would slowly ponder and then speak out in
defense of the slovenly. Get it. Match talents to values:
Step 4. And yes, there are Steps 5, 6, 7, and o yes, 8.
More on that later... or sooner... or now.
"5 is focus. When you know what you are doing and
why and it matches your skills and you've thought about
it, focus on it. Don't play the waterfront, don't spread
yourself too thin... not to mention your elf. So if you
are focusing on aardvarks don't get all a-twitter about
terns. So, seriously, if the point is A don't get
distracted by B. Focus. And 6: persevere, persevere,
persevere. Rome wasn't built in a day, it took 17
(Italian workers!).
"So focus, persevere, and 7: conspire. Make
connections. You don't have to do it all nor should you
expect others to do yours. So, baboons are someone else's
concern but you could work on shared orthodonture. If
there is a larger picture, which there always is, then
conspiring gets you closer without your having to give up
your choice or your focus. And then when success comes,
8: party.
"You don't have to go it alone but you have to do it
yourself. Ponder that. And watch the energy flow. When it
looks like a shower, not a faucet, you are not focused.
Don't get upset by everything but get upset by something.
Remember that it is the sum total of all, and not just
your own sum total, that counts. And don't do Step 2 or 1
based on 4 or 5. VICTORY." (10/24/2003 - Y#68)
"Remember Step 3: patience. Nothing of any lasting
meaning is ever fully realized in a single lifetime--both
for individuals and societies. People want Heaven now!
when Heaven is the sum total of the infinite processes of
becoming and ain't happening this week, bubbie. Next
week? No. Week after? No way, Jose. Last week of March
2056, naw.
"Everyone wants quantum, when all each can give is
incremental... but increments add up. It's like frequent
flyer miles. You want to go to Europe: 50,000, so you
start collecting a trip here and a trip there and then
one here again and one to Ashtabula and then Merced and
then Milwaukee and a short hop to Tweed International
Airport in New Haven and voilą you've got
27,000... oops, not enough, so you fly more. And then,
just before you hit the mark, 2 things could happen: You
fly again and get to go to Europe. And which flight was
it that got you there: the first? the last? the one to
Ashtabula? Or, just before you hit the mark, your doctor
says the earache you have means no more flying, sorry,
tough luck. But then was the prep meaningless? Did the
prior trips suddenly become worthless? And then what if
you transfer your miles to your nephew and he goes on one
trip, has enough miles, and goes to Europe and meets his
sweetie--a real cutie of a guy from Amsterdam--and they
hook up for life and they adopt a kid who they raise and
she becomes a great international diplomat and helps
peace break out. Were your trips for naught. And for the
religious crowd: Did it diminish Moses because he never
got to the Promised Land.
"Don't be in an incessant hurry to get to the end,
because the end doesn't justify the means nor even hinge
on one piece or another. Do what you are called to do as
revealed by what you cherish and who you are. Nothing
more is required. There is nothing you have to achieve
and finish in life, but there is much you can
work on. That's Rikkity's aphorism for today."
(10/28/2003 - Y#69)
"There is no spiritual ascendency but only spiritual
depth development. And it is always qualitative, not
quantitative. In other words, you can get deeper into it
but you can't rise above it. We are all in the soup
together, as the missionary wired home from the
cannibals. To rise above the cosmic creative soup of
possibility would be to deny those possibilities.
"Or, to put it another way, getting spiritually
whole is a dirty business and if you want to stay clean
you'll have to miss the whole show. Or, to put it still
another way, if you want it safe and easy and comfortable
you came to the wrong existence. Or, to put it even
another way, you've got to risk the pain and trouble to
get the sunsets and hugs.
"It's not about easy. It's about fulfilling."
(1/4/2004 - Y#70)
"We gotta do what we
gotta do. Hey, there's a test. How many people have any
sense that there's anything they gotta do. Too many are
too passionless. Too many think faith is what keeps you
from doing bad things. But no, it is best when it is
leading you to good things--things which, when you do
them, fulfill you spiritually.
"He called it 'bliss,' I call it 'passion,' some say
'the way;' it's all the same. It's when you live such
that you feel you are on the cutting edge of existence.
We all gotta do what we gotta do... or else we come back
and gotta do it some more. So why not now! And yet, so
many say they'll do that later. But with an infinite
'later' they'll never do it.
"So, it's a simple test: Are you doing what you are
here to do. And that's not all serious shit, either:
relaxing when we have to, sleeping, dreaming, laughing,
making love, making lives--all as important as all the
tasks we think we need to do for others. So, right now
I'm gonna lie down in the sun and sip... moooo."
(1/26/2004 - Y#71)
"Not doubt, but question. Questioning is not doubt.
If doubt is the shadow of faith, then doubt would be
another absence of questioning. Questioning is more like
opening a window in the firm wall of faith. You don't
want the wall to fall down, but you want a better view.
"Doubt is thinking there is no wall that can stand.
And in the midst of destruction you don't get many grand
vistas. Ah, the new Grand Vista: 6 cylinders of power...
and room for 10 if they are the size of MCP."
(2/6/2004 - Y#72)
"Sometimes, when the going gets rough, you have to
energize and rev up--meet the circumstances with vigor.
But sometimes it's better to chill out and let go and
allow the spirit to get a real sense of itself. Reaction
can be good or not; proaction can, too. But no action can
also serve... or not.
"When we step back... ARF... or fall back, we allow
ourselves and the universe to set the stage, and not the
circumstances. And if one believes that the universal is
transcendent of the particular, then a longer view is
better. Now, if CT were drowning out there in the surf,
it would be no time for contemplation. But in the absence
of a crisis, contemplation can be the wisest action.
"Too often we rush to the alarm bell with fire hoses
drawn, only to discover the problem is a cat up a tree...
grrrrr. So there we are with a hose but no fire,
and a cat but no ladder. Not everything is urgent, and
that which is not urgent is usually harmed by urgent
actions. So slow down... arrrrf... stop... f...
pause... rrf?... no, pause!
"I have often said the truth resides in the cracks
between the facts. So, too, eternity is found in the time
between the seconds, and the universe in the space
between the elements. So chill, relax... o yes.
"The choices is between jumping and standing, but
both are actually motions--one is just slower... muucchh
slloowweerr. You need to ask 'Is this an emergency.' If
so, act; if not, ponder. And if you find that a great
portion of things feel or seem to be emergencies, you've
got a problem of perspective or a delusion of your worth.
No one is called to fix everything, but everyone is
called to fix something. Get either side of that wrong
and you'll make a mess... and lose yourself in the
process.
"The motion to act will become as certain as needed
with a little inaction... except if CT is drowning.
"Those who say you have to act NOW just want to use
your energy and not your thoughts and intuitions. Follow
the energy! Is it focused, deliberate, and energizing. If
not, wait until what you feel called to do does fulfill
those qualities." (2/24/2004 - Y#73)
"You can embody a value; you can embrace a value;
you can incorporate a value. But you can't encompass a
value--always bigger than a physical container. Keep
pondering... rot those brain cells." (3/5/2004 -
Y#74)
"If you are looking for
yourself outside yourself, you might miss yourself. And
if you look inside yourself only, you might not see
yourself; for we only see in relationship, not in
profile. And if you expect the universe to give you a
portrait of yourself, it will probably be with you
holding numbers under your chin.
"Others are quick to tell us of our failures; we
need to be aware of our insights, because often our
insights don't spill out... but it's ok if your insides
don't spill out. That's what skin is for. Thick-skinned
people think they protect their innermost selves, but
they also keep their deepest insights from being shared.
"Be like a permeable membrane--but only if you have
a good sense of self. Barriers are needed only where
identity is weak. Truly strong identities--which reflect
empowering entities--never violate boundaries because
they don't need to go robbing energy.
"I need an energy bar... k.... grrrrrr.
He's soooo cute. Can he keep me?" (5/18/2004 - Y#75)
"What is it about veneration? We fill our own sense
of inadequacy with the overblown portrayals we give to
those who can't speak for themselves. I have a thought.
We should start looking for 2 mountains: one grand and
tall and picture-perfect, and an adjacent one that is
small and short and not that well formed and always in
the other's shadow. So when both Bushes are dead, we can
name them after them: 'There's Mount Bush and, look
below, there's Mount W.' W gets water only through
trickle-down.
"But isn't all the hoopla about us, not Reagan. It
says much about the poor state of today that Reagan is so
venerated... or about Bonzo. And a distraction from
terror and war. It once was bread and circuses, now it's
funerals and tax cuts. O, let them eat brioche.
"Let's put it this way: He will be sooo excited when
he is chosen and told to prepare for a new role just for
him. Wait, remember about people being chosen to play
special roles: 'Who, me? I am so special.' 'Bye-bye.'
First-timer or complete, is there a difference. Yes, but
technical: One is oblivious and the other thinks themself
omniscient, and knowing nothing and knowing it all are
virtually the same. One doesn't know what to question,
and the other thinks there's nothing to question--too
much certainty either way. Whoa, I'm getting serious. So
I'll stop." (6/10/2004 - Y#76)
"I have been noticing that some people go to the
website and say 'Sure, ok, but I want more.' Well,
they're not going to get it! blech. Because...
duh... they wouldn't get it if they got it. They want
ultimate universal answers, like what one who is all with
All would understand. They want to go from the middle of
the deck right to the top. Hey guys, it's not about me
telling you but about you learning and remembering. And
it's making a great assumption to believe that all us
dead people know the universal ultimate answers. If we
did, we wouldn't be dead, we'd be gone! And not out
of here, but intensely into here. The answer is
never out there, it's always right here. Look, see... no,
not over there, here. Right here, next to the green thing
with horns. Can't see it, well then you'll just have to
look for it in your own way--and it probably won't be
green nor have horns. It might look like CT... or me...
or Sandy... or even YOU!
"The secrets of the universe are never separate from
you, and your growing complexity takes you closer to full
embodiment of their understanding. Why do people always
assume someone else is the messiah or the prophet or the
buddha. I don't know. Well, neither do I, so there... and
here. I argue with myself and lose. But I get in the last
word. No, you don't. Yes, I do.
"And others might know, but it is not what we will
learn and dismember... oops, remember. Catch a falling
star and put it in your pocket and you'll get burned...
ouch! Look to yourself as the star of your
constellation--one which gives light and hope, but which
doesn't have larger meaning until seen in the context of
other stars. The Big Dipper makes no sense if we look
star by star. If we look for a Starbucks, they're on
every corner.... mocha! So, there it is, folks. All you
ever need... or not.
"Asian cultures find learning this easier, but they
are not a model for us. They don't get attached to what
they learn. We just don't learn and they don't get
attached. Hard to remember, either way. Huh. If I were to
seriously take 'or not' as my mantra, I would never learn
anything either, even as I learn little by investing
myself in the experience of others. Damned if you do and
damned if you don't... or not. Whatever." (6/25/2004
- Y#77)
"When we get bods, we are not assigned--no big Soul
Placement Bureau in the sky. And do we choose, no. Huh.
Not assigned and not chosen, what's left? My favorite,
and it's so random: random--because the lessons we need
to learn and remember are spiritual, not physical. And,
until we are almost fulfilled at this level, there are
lots of things to learn and remember. So it doesn't
matter if you show up as a Brahmin in India or an
itinerant carpenter in Palestine or a tribal chief in
Arabia or a black orphan in Detroit or a wealthy farmer
in Texas or a lonely guy in Vatican City. There's
something to be learned in any incarnation. And since
they are not sequential, hierarchical, and invariant,
there is no right order. The universe is vast enough to
offer us wisdom wherever and however and whoever we find
ourselves to be. And when you are close enough to have
only one lifetime of learning to remember and grow from,
it won't matter which form you take because you will have
learned and remembered how to learn and remember from any
experience.
"At the first encounter with a spiritual level, you
may take several lives before you get something you learn
and remember as yours. But later fewer, and at last any
would do and you need none because you are out of here!
And I'm out of here.
"Randomness does not exclude patterns. At the
beginning of an incarnation, you might not see the
connections, but later you can. For example, it took you
4 decades to get connected to Dad although you are part
of the same entity. And who knows what is still coming.
Expansive spirits are evidence of this knowledge.
Scarcity thinkers are early-timers, thinking there is
only one of anything: one pattern, one life, one
connection, one entity, etc.... one tunnel of light. Hey
folks, it's a franchise!" (8/10/2004 - Y#78)
"So, do we get assigned learnings. Do we choose.
Yes, by our whole being and what is not yet understood.
We are assigned by our own lives. And we choose, in a
sense, by what we have not chosen before. Get it.
"Ok, you have a test with 50 questions, numbered 1
through 50... or 50 through 1. You, on day 1, answer
questions 12, 17, 19, 34, 46, 49. Ok, on day 2 you are
assigned--by your own prior actions--the questions that
are left. Or, to put it another way, you have chosen on
day 1 what you will do on day 2, etc. Take a long series
of lives, get in the middle, and you can't tell
assignment from choice. So it goes... or not.
"Back to the test: You look at question 1 and say
'Huh,' and then 2 and 'Huh,' etc., but when you get to 12
you go 'O' and do it. Later you can deal with 1, and you
may never look at 37 until much later. And trying to prep
by reading about someone else's test is not much help.
Qualities of life help, answers of life don't.
"Infinite number of questions, from which your life
learnings are extracted. Your lives are your test, and
someone else's is theirs. And then, to confuse it all,
you could have the same questions as another but with
different answers. And remember! this is either an
analogy or a metaphor. I am not! saying there is a test,
or 50 questions. Am I implying it's all multiple choice?
No, it's analogy, duh. Don't ever take spirits
literally... or do so at your own peril. But seriously,
you need 75 to pass... no no no no... 100. You are either
fulfilled, and therefore ready, or not.
"Life, time... Newsweek, Look, Mad... nothing and
everything helps you. Wait, let's take this apart. You
cannot exist separate from All That Is and All That Is
cannot exist without you in it, so All That Is offers
your fulfilled self a place in the whole of it all.
You--at each and every stage of spiritual
complexity--have a place to fill. Hey, having a place to
be is a great help! Otherwise, you're out of here. And
the fact that there's a place waiting for your fulfilled
self is the best offer you'll get.
"All of your wholeness is aided by this promise, and
it's not conditional--not on time or sequence or
whatever. You have to do the work, but the inclusion is a
given. I say that's a big support. And of course, there's
us guides who remind you you have to do it for yourself.
If I had a banana for each time a spirit asked me for an
answer, I'd be the best friend of a gorilla... with fudge
sauce. Ok, I wax ponderous... and I stop."
(8/13/2004 - Y#79)
"Speak, McPooch... ARF.
You do know he's not really a dog. He just plays one on
UTV... arrf. He is actually the 5th baronial
magistrate of the House of Cleft... rrrrf.
"He was relatively friendless in the people world,
so he chose man's best friend. Karma can be a duty or a
choice or a tool. He chose tool... but I'm not saying
he's a tool... woof. Remember, if it isn't true
here, it isn't true there. Here it won't do you in or let
you out, but it is a tool which can illumine."
(11/12/2004 - Y#80)
"One of the fallouts of the religious right's
crusades is the diminution of the spiritual in life. They
want religious, not spiritual, values, and we who dabble
in the occult... oooOOOooo... will feel a chilling
wind... oooOOOooo... as any form of diversity or creative
experiencing is seen as heresy. Heresy Brothers, the
department store in downtown Oshkosh. Their motto:
'Something for everyone.' But seriously, folkettes, this
will probably mean that some who would have explored will
now, out of fear, not look. And that's sad... boo hoo.
"The start of the Middle Ages was the small
suppressions of diverse thinking and exploring. If you
think the Inquisition was bad, remember it was the last
gasp, not the first breath. Consolidation of view and
opinion--under the guise of religion--started it all.
Constantine demanded that everyone believe the same, and
wed church and state and set up the popes to have power.
I hear faintly familiar rings in your present... not
determined, so awareness is the key.
"MCP has something to say. MCP, come to the front of
the class, take off your hat, and speak."
MCP: "Hey-a. When I traveled with my papa and
uncle we went east--not just because of trade, but also
because we were freer there than we would have been in
Europe. In Europe, we had to watch our speech and our
backs; in Asia, we did not. You can't explore if you are
constantly looking over your shoulder. Fear makes a bad
traveling companion because, though you may move, you
don't really travel. I'm done-a. Here's-a her-a and
she's-a one cute-a babe."
"MCP! Be aware, speak out. Doors can only be shut
when no one is holding them open! So don't gather in
seclusion, but in the public eye. Secret wisdom doesn't
serve in a closed society. And organize. With the
advances in communication, you don't have to go dark like
that (Middle Ages = Dark Ages). The internet is a hope,
as is writing and speaking and witnessing and partying. I
am saying you should say what you feel you need to say
before your silences become custom.
"Historically the most tragic victims were those who
suffered and had not spoken out. If you are going to have
to endure whatever, at least make it for doing something
of value.
"This is a time not for anxiety, but for commitment.
Nothing is cast in stone... ok, some things are but
they're usually tombstones and dead precepts
(Ozymandias). I theenk thees ees eet." (11/20/2004 -
Y#81)
Note: Click here to read the poem Ozymandias
"Here's a watchword for the near future... wellll,
actually two watchwords: persistence and patience. In it
for the long haul and in it despite a lack of apparent
progress.
"So, there's these two trilobites and they are
communicating but not talking (lack of larynx will do
that). And they are considering how much better their
neighborhood could be if it weren't so flat--because
their being flat also made it all the more depressing. So
they thought up an idea: erosion. Generations pass, the
erosion works, and all they have to show for it is a tiny
little fissure... hell, their own spines--if they had
any--would have been bigger. So the one trilo says to the
other 'Forget about it. Ain't gonna happen. We need
cataclysm, not progress.' And he goes off and fossilizes,
while the other evolves. And, many generations later, POOF
Grand Canyon! Persistence and patience.
"The ways of nature are slow but sure, and the ways
of nature win out over the plans of men and women and
trilos. So let the natural timetable occur and be
persistent and patient. Pretend you're in Casablanca.
"You will hear the calls to immediate action. But
immediate action is not all fast. Hey, let me just remind
y'all of 40 years in the desert... or was that 40 years
without dessert. Pretty much the same without the milk
and honey. That story was not meant to be taken
literally, just that the journey's worth starting and
keeping to; may not bring us to the Promised Land, but if
we aren't headed there with persistence and patience, no
one will get there ever.
"If you want to see the sea, no matter how inland
you are you have to head for the coast. The coast is not
going to Google you and come visit.
"The great danger of hurried revolution is that it
mindlessly and impatiently creates new horrors. So, the
sure and steady beats the impulsive because one is of
values long held, and the other of emotions shortly
expressed. 'I've had enough! I can't take it anymore.
I'll do anything to change how it is. Anything would be
better than this. See! Those czars don't look too bad
now, do they.' Said in the winter of '38."
(12/8/2004 - Y#82)
"So, it all keeps on keeping on. Everyone expects a
big zazaam (because kazaam is
copyrighted) and then it will all be different. Hey
folks, wake up and smell the evolution. Even revolutions
don't happen overnight. Bread rises overnight if left in
the right place... but I digress. And no one was ever an
overnight sensation, although overnight I have had
sensations... but I digress again.
"Don't y'all see that the creeping pace of change
might be all the system can stand. A little here and a
little there adds up! Or not. If tomorrow were to dawn
with every change you dream of accomplished, it would be
a disaster because you wouldn't have the experience of
change to prepare you to live like that. Lottery winners
show us this. They say 'If only I had a million' but when
they get 34 million they don't know what to do with it,
but if they got $1,000 they would.
"Just like the person who has been starving: A full
Parisian meal would do them in. Bit by bit is better than
a flood... or should I say drop by drop. And without
time, the effect is the same on the benefit side but not
as much deficit.
"Just a spiritual pondering. So work for change but
don't expect it overnight... that costs extra."
(1/8/2005 - Y#83)
"Pith: Whenever people look for titles and logos
more than values and vision, watch out. You can't brand
an idea. Ideas have a worth of their own. People try to
impart worth to them or exploit their worth for other
purposes... or other porpoises.
"No one can possess an idea. If it can be boxed and
sold, it's a concept, not an idea. And don't ask about
trends, fads, crazes. An idea is more fundamental. Ideas
are the building blocks on which concepts sit... unless
they are too close to the edge and fall off.
"The universe is filled with wasted thoughts, but it
is equally filled with the grand and awesome. Rasti say
'Be the idea, don't speak the idea.' And I say 'Dance the
idea.' " (2/25/2005 - Y#84)
"Ok, here we go... and we're back. Why is it that
those most committed to spirit--as in soul--are the same
least committed to giving spirit its life beyond the
physical. They spend so much energy keeping bodies alive,
and I can tell you bodies aren't all they're cracked up
to be... although I had a great one.
"Now, if we are going to try to focus on values,
then we better ask: values for what? There are some great
values which keep kings on thrones, and some which bring
riots to the streets. Are these what we want. We need to
value what leads us toward the fulfillment of our
potential. Values for too small, or too particular,
visions just won't do.
"A value should never be stated without its
objective. 'We value this because....' or 'We value this
to....' So one test of any value is to see it as a verb
and ask what its object is. You are the noun, the value
verb, and then what. And don't be surprised by the
expediency of most things stated as values."
(3/19/2005 - Y#85)
"Values which are not made explicit are at best
pernicious, and at worst missing. And evident means
thought, felt, lived, and expressed... or at least Parcel
Posted (i.e., written will do, mutes included). Values
should be so evident by some means of commonly understood
expression that no one will have any doubts. That's
honest values. Anything less can become a tool or weapon.
What we act from but do not express is our hidden agenda,
which is a power play or manipulation. To act out of
values but to say 'I'll keep my values to myself'... or
my elf... is manipulative at best, and at worst is a
complex defensive mechanism to avoid any responsibility.
I would rather deal with someone with no values than with
someone who claims to be principled but I don't know how
or what. And I and we and even they... but not him... are
perplexed when those who claim honesty as a highest value
want to keep values personal and hidden. I theenk not!
"No value which is truly valued, and understood as
having value, is ever afraid of the light of day or the
dark of night or the fray of engagement. It's easy to
create excuses for doing otherwise, but excuses are never
values.
"Right now we have an interesting juxtaposition in
your world. Those who are least certain of their values
are acting most courageously with them, and it's because
those who feel their values most strongly and centrally
are acting like cowards. Sort it out! Now! Go! Do! Act!
Speak! ARF! Good boy... arff." (7/18/2005 -
Y#86)
"Keep up the word, and the word is 'values.' Nothing
else matters, because good deeds done without walues are
yust random acts. And yes, values without deeds are like
fish without bicycles. So, carry on." (7/22/2005 -
Y#87)
"I'm learning all the time--which doesn't exist. So,
does that mean I'm not learning or I'm learning
everything? Not the latter and not the former. I learn
what an entity at this level can, and then slam!
Wall. I get hints, clues, intimations, and I can't get them.
Like it's right on the tip of my tongue (which I don't
have) and I can't say it. The verge... da verge... I'm on
da verge of understanding.
"You are actually closer to fulfillment when the
learning slows down and the mysteries increase, because
you are then on da verge. Ponder that.
"Stupid heads think they are learning and learned.
Big brains know they don't know it all, so there!
Non-specific specifications of entity evolution."
(7/26/2005 - Y#88)
"So here we are, getting up on my 10th. But aren't
we all always on the 10th anniversary of something. But
what about the 10th predecessary–it's the
predecessary of something to come. Are you ready. As ye
sow, so shall ye reap. If you are planting the seeds of
the future you want, good, but if not who will. Which is
better: fulfilling or preparing. Since no one, in her
time, will find complete fulfillment, wouldn't
preparation be a better focus. I ponder.
"If this is journey, not destination, the answer
becomes obvious... or not... until then. But in the
infinite end, it's done, but that's far away. And if you
assume your meager goals represent fulfillment, what an
empty future you have.
"I always chuckled in school... and got in trouble,
but that's another story. I chuckled at the idea of
finals. I would raise my hand and ask the teacher if she
or he would promise this was the final exam. Damn, never
got 'yes.' " (7/29/2005 - Y#89)
“Here’s a tidbit: There’s a great
difference between those who say they are messengers
of the divine and those who say they are the
Divine.
“With a messenger, you can receive the message and
ponder it. With the Divine, you sort of have to take it
or leave it. So, I’d rather get a letter of meaning
I could ponder than a head-whammy I have no choice about.
“After all, it’s not about the teacher but
about the student. So maybe all teachers should be
teaching as if their students were the divine and they
were reminding them of what they already know as their
essence.
“That would surely change the equation... and
don’t call me Shirley. What would you do if you were
trying to remind All That Is about some of All That Is?
Ok, enough.” (8/19/2005 - Y#90)
“Like all works, take what works and use the rest
for toilet paper.
“No one book contains it all. A chapter here, a line
there--just like TJ and his bible. Isn’t all
knowledge really one’s collected anthology.
It’s called Life... not Time. Some are readers and
some are writers and some are editors, and most are some
of each.
“Never accept as yours the work of others. Include
theirs, but be not limited by them.” (8/24/2005 -
Y#91)
“And my Halloween message: Keep carrying the light
to minds in the dark. The world will be transformed by
enlightenment more than revolution. So be enlightened,
not revolting.
“And dance and dance the dance of Creation, and
never step the steps of endings--for there are none.
All persists. If it didn’t, then All That Is would
suffer losses, but it is whole. Ponder that.”
(10/31/2005 - Y#92)
"We scare some
people, and how! Bigtime. People seem to be ok for a
while, and then it dawns on them: 'O, this is scary.'
Why, because it pushes the envelope--makes them have to
choose between retreating and changing some basic
assumptions. Just because they're scared doesn't mean
they don't hear!
"Worry about the ones who aren't scared,
because they aren't paying attention. Anything important
is always a little scary. Otherwise, it would be familiar
and known.
"It's easier to not be scared by the untruths. Ok,
that's the pith." (11/30/2005 - Y#93)
“I always leave breadcrumbs. As Alex Trebek says,
all the Final Jeopardy answers contain clues to the
questions. So, too, with moi.
“Look for the hints more than the facts. This is a
pattern, not a report. And never forget that everything
is a work in progress.” (1/25/2006 - Y#94)
"Ok, let’s review. Have I ever said we move
ahead to more complicated entities? No. What is
complicated is just a pile of simple things which work
together to do some complicated thingie. The total is the
sum of its parts, no more and no less... no less... noblesse
oblige. But I have always spoken of complexity... as
well as complexion. In complexity, you get more
than the sum of the parts.
“There is a diversity in complexity, but it is not
based on differences--although without differences you
don’t get complexity. Put together 405 little
electrical switches and what do you get. A big switch.
But then, couple that with the notion of ‘yes and
no,’ plus a way to speak in ‘yes and no,’
and the switches become a computer: Complexity based on
the introduction of a foreign element. Switches
don’t know language. Language doesn’t know from
numbers. But together they can generate both, and beyond
the capacity of either.
“If you put all the wise people in the world in a
room... ‘someone would ask for room service’...
CT!... and all were equally wise, they wouldn’t wise
up. Know-it-all’s don’t make things change. The
provocative unknowing triggers the insightful to
new understandings. Take a look at the New Testament.
Almost everything worth remembering was said in response
to a seemingly ignorant question.
“Questions are the intellectual equivalent of
difference. Ponder that!
“And what about ropes and cords and strings, I
don’t know. In a parallel universe I dance on my own
head. How many pins can dance on the head of an angel?
But if the angel answer is ‘infinite,’ so too
for pins. It’s not about the nature of angels, but
about the nature of infinity. Don’t mistake the
expression or embodiment for the essence.
“Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator. It was a
nation ready for the idea which was the Emancipator.
They could have said ‘Hell, no’... well they
actually did, but it didn’t win the day... which is
why the Klan rode at night (dark humor). See, it
isn’t the vessel, it’s the cargo.
“And otherwise, all else is well.” (5/19/2006 -
Y#95)
"Ok, pith 1: You are not there to figure out here,
but to figure out there. Don’t skip grades.
“And then get where we’re going. The paradigm
shifted and nobody took a reading, so it’s hard to
get our bearings, and what the Founding Fathers thought
is irrelevant... ‘Hey!’... to their
situation... ‘O.’ Illuminating, but not
definitive... and certainly not split infinitive.
“Look for the signs and patterns. Try to fit the
pieces into new matrices, not old ones. At the
woman’s prison they had matrices. My matrices is
lumpy. Lumpy was Wally’s friend. Wally was an
astronaut. His last name rhymes with hurrah. Hurrah for
Captain Spaulding. One night I shot an elephant in my
pajamas. How he got in my pajamas is irrelephant... but I
digress.
“Ok, put the old pieces in new matrices... did I
mention the woman’s prison?... and then see the
spaces for newnesses. But this is old wisdom. Don’t
put new wine in old wine skins... ‘and don’t
put new wine in old winos’... CT!
“Get it? You think the past lives are less complex,
but maybe it’s just that the matrix has
more dimensions and the pieces known are the same...
hmmm. It doesn’t imply more complexity in
experience--not until you learn and remember new pieces.
Hey, a devil’s food cake in a bundt pan is still
just a devil’s food cake. But put in a tunnel of
fudge and wow! Zits. Ok.” (6/4/2006 - Y#96)
"When we last spoke, CT was hiding in a closet while
MCP said ‘Hiya.’ Now we return to our action as
Sandy the Wonder Dog arfs... ARF. A storm has wreaked
havoc in Spirit City and the residents fear the rodents.
But suddenly they hear their savior... Arrrf.
Once again, they are safe... grrrr. (We have to
humor him once in awhile. He’s a dog, you know.)
“Moving right along, we have a letter from little
Missy Edwards of Titsworth-on-Thames. She writes,
‘How does the soul differentiate itself into
experience while still having existence in the matrix of
All.’ Missy, little children shouldn’t play
with metaphysics. But since you asked, think about your
dinner of bangers and mash. Each bit of banger is both a
part of the whole but made up of even smaller parts, yet
it takes all the parts of the banger matrix to make it
other than a Sheffield sausage. And each bit is itself,
and a part of the banger at the same moment. And those
nasty bits... well, just spit them into your napkin and
know they will not have continued existence of the banger
as it becomes one with the ‘you’ matrix.
Disgusted enough! Good. Now eat your dinner.
“And precocious Bobbi McIntyre of Perth writes,
‘How does one differentiate between the knowledge of
the spirit and the knowledge of the body.’ Sounds
like a deep question. But he goes on, ‘And how do I
convince Mary Ellen Richards to let me have some
knowledge of her body.’ Naughty, naughty. Yet I
think you will find that if you pay attention to the
spirit, you may become welcome to the body... but rarely
the other way ‘round.
“And finally, young Master Williams of Cardiff
writes, ‘Why is my immortal soul connected to a
mortal body.’ Ah, the essential question of
this level. And I remind you we are here to live
and enjoy... especially if Mary Ellen is willing... and
therefore to learn and remember what the soul cannot
learn without a physical experience. Thanks,
boys and girls, for your questions.
“And now, it’s time for Teen Toons. Sanford the
Wonder Dog... ARF.
“Physicality teaches us the limitations of
physicality. Don’t laugh, this is deep and
essential. Every level of complexity has the same lesson:
To learn the limits of the basic structures of that level
so that one moves from seeing that existence as being
paramount, to seeing it as limited and limiting and
inviting of a greater inclusivity to get past the limits.
Every level feels like a new universal until experience
of it shows its limitations, and a more universal is
desired at the soul level. A person who is starving
thinks bangers and mash is a feast, but after years of
them they yearn for something more. Ok, got that?
“If you step on a Wonder Dog’s cape, he
can’t fly... grrrr. But how often do we
step on someone’s Wonder Soul so they can’t
soar.” (6/26/2006 - Y#97)
"I tell you this:
Nothing ever learned on drugs is really remembered
because it is always attributed to the drugs. Escape,
yes; advancement, no.
“You see, the deep insights about existence do not
come from altered reality. The trick of the spirit is
that you can’t really incorporate an insight that is
not yours. And if you don’t do the work of learning
and remembering your shit, then you’ll wake up in
the morning and say ‘I knew the secrets of the
universe but I forgot.’ But what is yours is also universal,
so if you try for the bigtime and don’t look for
yours, you’ll get nowhere. The whole is made of its
parts, not itself... and not its elf. ‘Hi.’
Roderick! ‘Hi.’ I thought you had gone back.
‘Hi.’ O well.
“Ok, a question. How does someone congenitally blind
know to go to the light. Do such people experience the
light in NDE. If so, it’s not the birth memory,
is it? We sit here and ponder such. And why are foot-long
hot dogs 10 inches. And what’s new about New
Hampshire with an Old Man as their symbol. Get it right.
Too much not-time on our not-hands. Guess not. O well.
“But seriously, that bit about your learning and
bigger learnings is important. If you saw the whole
meaning of existence flash before you, it would mean
nothing--and in fact, that’s always happening. But
to master your pieces of it, ahhh.
Get the square right and the next square right, and in
the end you’ve got the whole board.
“And don’t use artificial means unless you love
artificial understandings. I guess that’s
enough.” (3/28/2007 - Y#98)
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