"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#100)
"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#101)
"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#102)
“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#103)
"What’s the point of mind over matter, if
matter is an illusion--the power of positive
stinking.
“He fed the poor by telling them their realities
were their choice.
“And if you can’t control what happens to you,
but you can control how you react, focusing on
controlling what happens is a great way to avoid risking
responsibility for your reactions. And then you are
double down: You think you are focusing on what you theoretically
can do, and not on what you can; so you fail twice:
victim².
“Change that attitude, and the rest becomes easy.
Ok, I’m pithed.” (2/17/2006 - Y#104)
"Ok, awhile back someone there (no names) said they
didn’t think I was giving as much pith. And I just
want to set the record obscure.
“Archeology: You get this stratum and
it’s all new and full. And you analyze what’s
there and, after a while, ‘I’m waiting,
I’m waiting,’ you say, ‘not much new
here.’ And then you dig a little deeper, and
suddenly: A new stratum chuck full of chuck
bones (must have been a Groundhog Day ritual). And so it goes: stratum
on stratum, layer on layer, crap on crap.
“So we have strings and strands and strata.
We many have different layers, various strata...
‘or, as we say, stratavarius.’ CT! Go pluck out
your guts and make a bow. What, strings? Ooops.
Pluck out your beard and make a bow. Now go. Ok, where
was I. Beard, guts, violins, violences, layers, devils
food cakes, birthdays, newness... that’s it.
“There is always another level waiting, but you
can’t go there until you’re ready. So sit back,
ponder the latest.
“And remember, all physical representations are for
the purpose of illustration, and do not imply factual
physical reality. Read the fine print.” (3/31/2006 -
Y#105)
"Now let’s quiz the wonder dog... ARF. Sandy...
ARF... what is the meaning of life. Woof woof snap.
O, nihilism... grrr... existentialism... grr...
realism... arf. Sit... woof. Me, too?
Sure, ok.
“It’s all an allusion. Life is just a metaphor,
but it’s never a simile... I guess... or not. Like
why? Because it’s not like anything else.
But it can be sensed through reference to other things.
So life is a bowl of cherries--delicious, but it has its
pits. But it is not like a bowl of cherries
because it doesn’t have a bowl.
“If you try to expand your spiritual understanding
by thinking what something is like, you
don’t expand. But if you sense what reminds you of this
spiritual that, then you can expand because you
understand that the spiritual is infinite. Everything can
point to everything else in a system, but not everything
is like everything else in a system.
“Sunsets may connect you to sunrises and to starry
nights, but they are not the same. A starry night is not
a sunset. Ok, ponder that. Compare and contrast.”
(4/23/2006 - Y#106)
"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#107)
"Nothing is certain but
death and faxes <grin> . So, do you risk or play it
safe. Your lives hang on the answer (spiritual lives). If
it is something you desire and don’t go for, you
shut down the house of spirit.
“Sooo many get to the fork in the road and choose
neither. Every time we opt for what our spirits tell us,
we add a new layer of depth to our spirits--a sharpening
of focus of a facet. Dull people have dull facets--the
lines of identity get blurry. When we choose, we put
things into focus. Ever notice how, once a choice is
made, everything seems clearer? That’s the
realization of this. So opt, decide, choose. Don’t
let things just happen. 'I am the master of my fate'... ‘I am the
captain of my rowboat’... CT.
“But know that you are creating the life you will
learn from. Much easier to learn from what is chosen than
from what is imposed. I think that’s enough. Pax
Nabisco.” (9/9/2006 - Y#108)
"So, how
many different planes of being are there: physical,
spiritual, and ______? Here’s a real stumper: Since
numbers relate to physicality, the answer is not a
number. It’s not a word, but a perception, an idea,
a notion... notions and needles, first floor.
“Just imagine what is beyond your ability to name
and know--at least at this level. But amoebas can’t
name and know banana splits. They stall out about one
scoop, since they have no experience above 1.
“So we have a ten-base math system, but three-toed
sloths have a three-based system, and amoebas a one-based
system... and LD, any system he wants. It
is about numbers at a certain point, but not before or
after that (using before and after in a
totally incorrect way, but you know what I mean because
that’s where youse is).
“One of the reasons that some religions grow
irrelevant, is that they use symbol systems, like
language, which no longer apply. Hebrew was great
thousands of years ago, but not now. And Arabic has no root for the
idea of democracy. And Illinoisians have no word for
mountain, and upland doesn’t cut it.
“You can only truly experience what you have tools
to name; the rest is speculative... I guess. So do you
expand your edge of experience and look for ways to
communicate it, or do you expand ways to communicate and
see what experiences arise. Ponder that. Put it in a pot
and simmer for 18 hours or until tender.
“Or to put it another way, can you force your body
to digest a totally foreign substance, or does your body
need to change so you can expand your diet. A sudden
catastrophe, all normal foods are gone, who survives:
those who adapt to what’s left, or those already
ready to digest what’s left. Chicken or egg?
That’s enough.” (11/16/2006 - Y#109)
"I was thinking about language. Ok, I wasn’t
thinking because I have no brain, but I was doing
deductive exercises of sensation... or whatever.
“Take a word. Now, that word has an identity, but it
also has a context. And it has an etymology with a
provenance of other language bases. So amorous
relates to love and to amo in Latin.
And so it could be ‘I am feeling amorous now’
or it could be ‘I don’t give a damn how amorous
you feel. Get lost.’
“And it also has side relations to other languages,
such as amore... ‘When the moon hits your
eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore’... and amour.
And just as it is related to those, they also connect to
the strand of amo running through history. But
sometimes words in different languages are not from the
same root. And sometimes they are just freaks of
appropriation. Just figure how the word internet
could get into Hebrew, but it has. Just an illustration
of strands and strings and relations and patterns and
evolving entities.
“There’s a reason we speak in this way, because
language mirrors reality. We can’t see what we
don’t have language for; true, but we can’t
make reality with made-up words. Newspeak will only last a short time. Just a Moo
ramble. Ponder it... and why Pond’s soap is so good
for your complexion. Can you put Pond’s Cold Cream in the microwave.
“People in different linguistic strands. So, you can
think more like someone who speaks Spanish than Chinese,
but less so than one who speaks British... and Cockney, guv ot don’t give
us no botta, mon. Language, over entities, is more
determinant than race.” (11/23/2006 - Y#110)
"Entities are not physical. The universe is just one
big idea... or not. Maybe it’s 1.37.
“We are all expressions of a concept, and that
concept is being--which implies another universe
of nonbeing. But that’s too much for now,
but hinted at by entropy.
“A hug can be an idea and still be a hug, just as a
dog can be an idea and still be a dog... ARF.”
(11/28/2006 - Y#111)
"Things grab physical beings. Try dying. We can
sense a chair, but not sit on it; it is
and it’s not. Its concept we keep,
not its substance. Aha, pith without planning.
“Ever see a practice pad, no sound. I learned in
my spirit, and the spirit of the piano... or the concept
of the piano. You can think of things which do not exist,
but by whose concept you can experience. The idea of
peanut butter sticks to the roof of your soul.
“Do not detachment, but lack of attachment--two
different concepts. One pushes away, and the other
chooses not to grab. Affirm transience, and know that
what endures, what persists, is not physical... except
for junk mail (just the idea--concepts you didn’t
solicit). But letting go of what you have allowed to hold
you brings new possibilities.” (1/8/2007 - Y#112)
"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#113)
"Choice. Did you say choice, or did you opt
to not say choice.
“Choices are fields of rippling meaning which
radiate from acted-upon awareness. No one can know and
not choose; that is not an option. If you know the
possibilities, then what you do is choose, and not
choosing is not a choice because it is not an option.
“Awareness removes the possibility of no choice
because, in the moment of awareness, everything becomes a
system of probabilities which you cannot ignore or
mitigate. You know, therefore you have already chosen the
field. Some think the issue is the choice of inputs or
results, but the real choice is the field of
possibilities--just like Lakoff’s windows are more important frames
than the choices between the images in the frame. Ponder
that.
“In other words, Christians see the world through
the Christian lens, which means many choices are excluded
from awareness. No, and the big choice is not Presbyterian or Seventh Day Adventist, but the Christian choice
already made.
“Once you decide to have soup for lunch, casseroles
fall out of the frame... but thank goodness they
don’t fall out of the sky... ayeeee.
It’s ok, he’s only half-baked.
“I have much more to say, but I’ve said too
much. Grab your ankles and waddle and quack, but that
doesn’t make you a duck! no matter how hard you
choose or don’t!” (8/10/2007 - Y#114)
"People who don’t want to go anywhere are adept
at running from things. Watch people
running from a burning building. They get a distance from
it, and then stop and wonder ‘What am I doing here,
and where is here?’
“Theirs is a dispersal pattern--diaspora. But contrast and compare this with a
person or group that goes toward
something. Ahh, the Hajj--from all over the world to Mecca;
focused, not dispersed. The problem with this is that the
power of focus does not rely on the content. So the
stadium of Yankee fans can be focused on getting drubbed by Cleveland, boo hoo. I like
to add in contemporary references to make these
communications seem authentic. The Dow closes up. J.Lo is preggies. CT’s an idiot. Put
it down. No, not on me. Flat spirit, just like in the
cartoons.
“Focus is always more powerful than dispersion. And
the trick is to have the right point of focus.
That’s all that COA was about (Coming of
Age): put together a group of teens and focus on their
teenness, and something grew, more than what each
brought. And we could have gone to Secaucus just as well
as Boston. It was the focus. But Boston was a better
content.
“And institutions should always be about focus, and
know and proclaim the content of that focus. Can you
remember Papa’s old TV, which had a knob for focus. Now much of
what people get is pre-focused. And they yearn for the
forgotten art of self-focus or group focus.
“Fundamentalism is not about the content, but about
accepting what has been pre-focused. So there is
fundamentalistic liberalism, dogmatic democracy, and
stupidhead intelligence (S.I.). He used his S.I. to make
his point, and we showed ours by agreeing. And shithead
and stupidhead are not the same. One you can tell without
thinking, but the other takes real thought to expose. I
do pith on.” (10/12/2007 - Y#115)
"It is interesting how the story becomes evermore
important. And even with commercialization, it stays the
same. No ‘And the babe was wrapped in swaddling
clothes from Babes R Us.’ No ‘If they
had called Holiday Inn, there would have been a
room.’ No disclaimers from PETA about animals:
‘Shepherds abandon their flocks to wolves. Story at
11.’
“And myrrh. What is myrrh. It’s a
balm. A bomb! And all the gold I could eat. Always look
on the bright side of death, da dum da dum da dum.
“Keep up the focus on the values and vision. Make
people realize how every choice is about that. Either
you’re aiming at where you want to go, or not.
It’s that simple. Too simple for most leaders. A
simple but profound Point to Ponder.
“Ok, I said, show me which bear did it. Just point
to panda. It’s a Point to Panda. They are just like
a kviga (black and white).”
(12/26/2007 - Y#116)
"The end of the world is near! See, just to comment
on it makes it false. So, too, with so much. To comment
is to disturb, to change, to make otherwise. Like the
well-meaning idiot who goes wow at the sunset.
Sun didn’t need no wow, it was
wow. Every time we take what is and
make it something else--a word, a picture, a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl--we change it. We rob it
by making it ours. True spirituality is when we do the
other, and let ourselves... and our elves... be theirs.
When we turn the sunset into the object and we are the
subject, we and it lose. But when we let the sunset be
the subject and we the object, voilą...
mais oui, but of course, ees no problem.
“Most religion is based on the switching of the
subject and the object. Too bad... sorry... wrong... go
back and try again.
“Why is it that we call someone an egotist if she or
he or it...hmm, Itt (Cousin Itt)... makes a dinner and brags about it,
but we regard with favor the person who speaks of a
spiritual experience as if it were theirs. Subject,
object... I object! She’s leading the witness.
ARF... on a leash... arfff.” (1/11/2008 -
Y#117)
“You need to determine the author to validate
authority. Hmmm, mini pith.” (9/9/2008 -
Y#118)
“Remember, parallel realities may not be physical.
So, in another reality, you could be a Jewish Buddhist
who can’t eat anything. But it’s ok, because
you’ve been chosen to be non-attached. Can one
practice non-attachment to being chosen.
“Maimonides says that choice must be
welcomed to be fulfilled. Hillel says that choice is a firm
attachment to the sacred. Zing Tao says we must never attach
ourselves to either the outcome or the source of outcome.
Bob says he’ll take his with ketchup. But when I say
I don’t have any, he says ‘Ok, mustard
then.’ Only Bob is non-attached to the choice. If I dress all the hotdogs
my way, what am I. If I never get one just the way I like
it, when will I. If not now, why am I standing here? So
we call him The Bob... oops, that title is
already taken.” (1/26/2009 - Y#119)
“Is SP particular, no.
It is more peculiar. All good systems of thought
are more peculiar than particular. They apply to new
inclusivities, which makes them appear strange because
they are unfamiliar.
“When you are reaching for a new inclusion, the
gesture will often be misunderstood. The person with the
best diction was awarded the title of Miss Understood,
and we couldn’t find out why the audience
laughed.” (3/14/2010 - Y#120)
“The test of all meaning is whether it can spiral
both ways–down to a central value, and out to
evermore inclusive realms. The real meaning has to be
true for the quick and the dead... and
smart and CT... ‘Wait just a moment there, pardner.
Was you implying I’m not smart.’ No, I
wasn’t implying it. ‘O, proceed.’ As much
as for dogs... ARF ARF... as for His Universalness.
That’s it in a nutcase. I mix my metaphors and add
ice.” (5/24/2010 - Y#121)
“All existence is a digression. The truths
don’t need existence for their verity. New York City
is still New York without any guide books ever being
published.” (11/14/2010 - Y#122)
Question from Glenda: When we get the opportunity to
come into another life, if we refuse it, do we get a
second choice?
“Opportunity? Who said opportunity. I did
not say it that way because turning it down is an act of
choice, not living and dying your way into the
opportunity. More windows will present themselves to you
as opportunities. It’s like having a window open
into a new vista, and if you find yourself then in that
landscape, it’s yours. But if you don’t, other
windows open. And sometimes, the other windows just seem
the same as the first because you aren’t astute
enough to sense the other aspects. However, if the
windows involve aspics, don’t go there.
“You could think about your favorite film. Probably
there is one scene that stands out, and in that scene,
one frame. It’s the one you live into. That’s
what I mean.
“Give up choice; go with identification.
I don’t choose the window, I identify with it. I am
ready to go there. I am prepared. Re-cognition: it
awakens what you know as your being. You sense a way you
will fit in and participate in its fulfillment... unless,
of course, you’re clueless. But then, you
wouldn’t be moving on, would you. Aha, you
say. The windows, the frames, the vistas are always
playing before you. When you have learned and remembered
sufficiently to fulfill the potential of what you are,
you finally sense them being there: 'Whoa, where
did those images come from suddenly.' Dreams can be
portals to windows.
“Remember, the possibilities of all the connections
of your spirit are already. And they are also in flux.
‘And if you want more choices, you use a flux capacitor.’ CT, back to the
future!
“Choices only matter in limited systems. What is
chosen--or rather, lived--in love is always beyond the
finite. Ok, enough.
“But first, what is good religion? Good religion is
a team of window washers.” (12/7/2010 - Y#123)
Question from Glenda: Rikkity will you chose another
life here on Earth?
“I don’t choose; I am chosen, and then
decide to accept. It is a voluntary spiritual
draft.” (12/26/2010 - Y#124)
Question from Chelsea: I have a question about
negativity. I've read that the Earth has more negative
energy than any other place one can be incarnated into,
and that it is the only incarnation where the souls don't
'remember' right off the bat. So my question is: Was
negative energy on the lesson plan to begin with or is it
a byproduct of our incarnate souls not remembering? Thank
you for your 'time.' P.S. my mom always says the universe
doesn't understand sarcasm, but I think you prove that
wrong, I love your humor!
“ ‘Dear one, bless your heart. You want
sarcasm, I’ll give you sarcasm.’ CT.
“There are many notions about the particularity of
Earth which always assert that it is unique. Well, it is
unique, just like every other physical locale of
existence. But it is no different in essential ways. What
is is, and on the plane of being which includes
Earth, all energies are tipped just slightly to the
positive. That ‘negative sum’ notion is about
as good as inherent sin--which is to say, not much.
“Now, if one were to argue there is more negative
energy on Earth, then it’s true only because
there’s also more positive energy, which is the
result of a larger scope of continuum... continuum...
continuum than elsewhere because of a greater
concentration of free will. O, am I saying that free will
of constituent entities increases the polarities of
energies? I am. On the Moon, nothing is there making any
conscious choices, so its range of spiritual energy is
very small. Hmmm.
“Now, as to the question of whether the greater but
not predominant negative energy here is part of the plan,
note I spoke of free will, not of determined plan. The
thing that is determined and planned here is free will.
It’s part of this level of entity existence. Wellll,
actually it’s part of every level. The entities go
back in their remembered–yes, immediately
remembered–identities to know the information of
every preceding free connection of greater complexity. We
remember what we learned and remembered--what we
incorporated into the essence of our entity--and
it’s that way in every movement to greater
complexity. When we are ready to take with us as
remembered what fulfills us as our entity, then we can
move on and keep it all.
“However, in the midst of every level of complexity,
it seems like we aren’t remembering. But we never
lose what has become essential to our entity (as long as
that entity coheres and is not disassembled). If what is
remembered can connect with other remembered entities in
ways that are potentially fulfilling and enhancing, then
we remember and create meaningful complexity.
“So, let’s review. We arrive at this level
remembering all that the less-complex states of our
sub-entities have gained, and at the same junction
don’t yet remember from this level of complexity.
But when we fulfill this level of complexity in ways that
can lead to more complex fulfillment, we take the
remembered as essential parts of us into the next level
of complexity. And here’s a new pearl of pith: That
which is remembered into sustainable new levels of
complexity will always have more positive attributes than
negative. Otherwise, it couldn’t connect in
sustainable, meaningful, fulfilling, enhancing ways. I
hope this is a sufficient answer. If not, leave a note
under the large maple tree at the end of Main Street in
Lee, Massachusetts on the first day after the snow melts,
ok? Sanford will get it... ARF... not wet it, get it... grrr.
Wow, I think that is sufficient for today.
“And remember, Earth is not a proving ground, but a
place to live and enjoy so we can learn and remember.
It’s not about taking a test, it’s about living
a life.” (1/13/2011 - Y#125)
“So, the quiet tide of freedom slowly breaks the
crusty habits of control and exuberantly shouts
‘Yes’ against the clamor of ‘No’, and
in doing so, echoes the very nature of existence.
That’s why we know freedom is natural. Because it,
like existence, cries ‘Yes’ to the future.
“And a tip of the old fez to my Egyptian buds. It
takes courage to envision a different future; it takes cowardice to
accept what is. ‘And it takes 3 dimes and 2
pennies to get a cheeseburger at MacDonald’s on
Sundays.’ CT, get a grip. I’m making grand
statements of eternal wisdom, and you. . . What? No, I
don’t want to hear about the Dollar Value Menu. Go! Geez,
is he for real? As real as any of us." (2/4/2011 -
Y#126)
“She believed that one entered death to wait to be
summoned to the Great Resurrection. So she is just
patiently waiting... and waiting... and waiting. Eternal,
but it goes by like that *snap*. So, she is content and
awaits the future in faith.
“It is a delusion which cannot be sustained because
it is counter to the way things go. Can’t just sit
and wait, there’s still more to learn and remember.
So, those who resist that future of learning need to be
reassembled. Not disassembled, but reassembled. New idea
for y’all.
“Yep, some arrive here fully fulfilled from the
prior complexity level, don’t suck energy, but also
don’t create new possibilities. So, the very good
parts of several get spiritually interchanged. They were
ready to move on into this spiritual complexity, but just
got a less than helpful pairing... combo... mix. So they
think about single linearity, and we have to tweak them.
Sandy’s good at tweaking... grrrr. So
ponder that.
“Has to be first-timers or else they’d be
sitting around forever. But once in awhile, not more than
a few gazillion in later go-arounds, seem to stop and
take on this attitude. And she’s one of
those–old, wise soul, distracted for who knows why.
So, she will get a little rearranged into several
entities, and her wisdom and remembering will spread out,
but her forgetful focus will be dissipated. Take what, in
concentration, stops growth. Keep its essential value,
but dilute the fears that stop the growth... and
loathing, and hate. ‘And dyspepsia.’ He’s
back. So ponder that until we meet again.” (2/4/2011
- Y#127)
“Here’s more about reassembly. Now, some
entities are not first-timers but along the way they get
stuck–not learning, not remembering, still ordering
from the kids’ menu. So, it would take an infinite
number of lives and they still wouldn’t get it. And
since we are all waiting for everything to get its act
together, we need some action.
“Remember, none of the constituent parts are
energy-sucking, and all have been fulfilled and
thoroughly warranteed. They work well together, but
don’t get much done. Sort of like Congress...but I
digress.
“So, it is necessary to take apart, but not take
down, the parts. Nothing deficient--just not a great
combo. And this seems seamless to them, because whatever
the entity has remembered has accrued to every piece of
the entity. But suddenly, it’s like you’re eyes
pop open and you feel like you’ve been roused from a
deep sleep, ready to move on. Just a little maintenance
work of existence. Gotta keep the balance to the yes
side; neutral doesn’t cut it. Ok,
that’s enough.” (2/6/2011 - Y#128)
“Any good works will not allow a part to wear down
to the harm of the whole. Because every stuck entity
sticks everything else. Can’t be getting on if a
piece of yet-to-be is not coming.
“And so the little engine sat in the train yard and
said ‘I’m happy right here.’ And the toys
and the dolls went over and thrashed him. Reassembled him
in a shining new high speed train... which produced many
new jobs... or is that, Jobs. ‘And that’s all I
have to say about that!’ Thanks, Forrest.” (2/10/2011 -
Y#129)
“Reassembly. I’ll give you a new idea
which you’ve heard from me before. Remember those
photographs and the idea of sorting them into different
story lines. Nothing got left out, but they were
assembled differently with different understanding and
meaning. Ok, apply, discuss.
“There is no perfect right story, but there are some
that can’t hold the narrative without bringing in
other entities, other photos. And there are those which
lead to a very limited story--or even a looping story, in
which there is no chance to learn or remember. So, you
might take the photos out of the sequence and toss them
up to see what stories emerge, or you might just toss the
pile in hopes of getting stories with meaning. The first
is disassembly and the second is reassembly.
“Scatter the photos into a mix of many: disassembly.
Toss the same ones in with a discrete set of photos from
the same person, but not in the original album:
reassembly.
“Sometimes you read old diaries and think ‘This
person did nothing with her life, went nowhere, sucked
energy badly (which is not the opposite of sucking energy
well).’ And so, about halfway you stop reading. Time
to suggest they get a life. Other times you read such a
diary, but then you come across some other information
about them that amplifies the picture and makes you
realize that the same boring dull events, in the light of
a larger context, could be compelling.
“Disassembly is about combinations in which some
subentities are not fully fulfilled or fulfilled in ways
that allow for more complex connections, and other
entities are--you see or sense--are just not going
anywhere meaningful, but are not energy deficient or
lacking in info. It’s a matter of
fulfillment–the difference between being able to go
somewhere, actually going there, and not being able to go
there without having to drag another along.
‘It’s sort of like a ladies’
restroom.’ CT, bad bad bad. He makes his point...
with his head.
“See, existence seeks fulfillment, and so any
impediment to that will generate its own solution. Just
plug that phrase in the old PtoPs. Because... and
here’s another new thought I have shared before...
if this were not true, existence would have wound down in
the fullness of being into nonbeing. I think
that’s enough for now.” (2/13/2011 - Y#130)
“So, here we are, and the same issues we started
years ago: about people thinking that definition is about
differentiation, and not about connection. Instead of
thinking about how you can stand out and make a
difference, how about where you can fit in and fulfill.
Ego crap.
“In the short term spiritual view, you think you
need to know yourself and to thyself be true. But in the
total flow of All, it matters if your piece of the larger
whole becomes ready to complete the picture. Hey, the
jigsaw puzzle piece by itself under the couch is
worthless--except as a minute glimpse of the possible
grander whole.
“The only reason to differentiate is to be able to
clearly see one’s role in the unfolding of meaning
larger than one. A single integer has value only in its
equation, but its value must be known and understood. But
to know and understand it standing alone means nothing.
So, you’re 5, so what? But 5 as
part of something has meaning. Ponder that.
“People either want you to be blindly part of
something or knowingly yourself, but I suggest something
more.” (5/1/2011 - Y#131)
“If you are not willing to be uncomfortable, then
you are not open to change, so you must think or feel you
are fulfilled at the point you are–which is the
biggest conceit of the ego. And those who try to argue
that they’ve found a release from craving more and
are comfortable as they are, are the biggest egoists.
“It takes an inflated self to think there’s no
room for growth. Self-satisfied is being
satisfied with the self that already is.
Ain’t no future in that, babe. Because if you
aren’t learning and remembering, it’s going to
be a long squat on the wayside bench. And the rest of the
potentially more complex entity might just get tired and
leave with someone else, and then where would you fit?
Nowhere. So, back to basics, as it were. If you are not
moving along, then the universe may think you have no
potential. ‘We had such high hopes for them, but
they let a little setback stop them.’
“Then there are those who spend tremendous energy
exploring infinitesimal realms–the nuances of the
trivial or the minutia of the meaningless. Ok, you get
the point: Often more involved in converting others than
living for oneself.” (5/24/2011 - Y#132)
“I am not the way, but just a wayfarer. Like monotheism, the new understandings
will appear as if new in many places. And it is
happening. Remember, it took monotheism centuries to
catch on. And lots of wandering. Being lost is a prelude
to finding.” (9/2/2011 - Y#133)
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