Our statements and posts stand on their own integrity.
My statement is JMO, everyone can make their own...Great!
Who cares??
Who are you,
who am I???
Nobody.
A few decades back, late 60’s, a man changed his name legally to Wavy Gravy.
I am not conversant with his entire personal history
to state with authority
what potential childhood dinnertime amusement caught his eye and possibly the ire of a father
perhaps wishing his prodigy would be a bit more ‘normal’
and eat his meal the ‘right’ way.
I do know that he had quite a sense of humor and made that a focus of much of his energies.
He once said,
‘Without a sense of humor things just aren’t funny.’
Then he announced he was going to change his name once again and run for president of The United States of America.
He was going to change his name to nobody and that would become his campaign slogan.
‘Vote for Nobody because Nobody cares.’
Around the same time Pat Paulson,
on The Smothers Brothers TV show,
was running for president as well.
I do not know if he and Wavy were compadres or not.
He had an equally brilliant inspiration
with use
of a humor fulcrum. [hmmm…]
He was going to save the tax payers billions of dollars by doing away with the United States Postal Service.
He calmed concerns by reassuring all that they would still get the mail.
His plan to run a free mail service was to have the Jehovah Witnesses deliver the mail as they are always visiting everyone anyway and probably would not mind doing it.
We are learning
to grow
out of our nastiness
and littleness
and fear.
As humans it can be and generally is a painful process.
Is human all we are?
If so does the semantic term human have broad enough horizon to contain all the possibilities?
Joseph Campbell was interviewed by Bill Moyer in a multipart special on his book, The Power of Myth.
Bill said, paraphrased from memory,
You have studied, perhaps more then anyone your entire life, reading, researching and interviewing and being a student with many teachers, gurus, mystics and religious and spiritual leaders and landmarks in spirituality and truth. You have experienced truth from your efforts. What can you share with us that might offer others hope or insight from what you know?
He relied, from memory paraphrased except for the direct quote,
I can not give another my experience and what others understand or get from truth is up to them but I can share with you what I have learned from my illumination,
‘I am here to participate JOYUSLY in the sorrows of the world.’
Therein lies great and profound truth.
Though some might ask as that immortal elder TV gal asked of America,
‘Where’s the beef?’
And so it goes.
Jesus offered a path...
within.
Within what? [:O)]
While being dogged by all who had heard of the miracles he could bring about he truthfully replied,
'I must go or the comforter will not come.'
As beings
'in the world'
we don't hear the cell phone within
if we don't learn to listen for it
because
it is
Not of this world
alone.
It is conditional here for us.
If/then.
The Witch of Andor.
Which?
And?
Or?
The home of the intellect and ego...
Crucifixion
The meeting
of the vertical
and
the horizontal plane
on a cross.
Both
as perpendicular lines
can meet each other
at but one point of intersection.
Each can continue on infinitely.
Time and MEST worlds.
Where was the point of intersection on the cross in question?
The point, The One, The Timeless, the Singularity, the Eternal.
The Heart.
John The Baptist gave his head,
[the intellect, the ego, the separate self, i]
on a platter it was served to Herod
at the request of a harlot in exchange for her sweet sensual promises.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
The Old Testament, the book of laws, earning your way to enlightenment.
That understanding
opened for reappraisal
with a broader understanding, [no] pun intended.
Heady stuff to grasp I suppose,
a lot to figure out and
It All
hangs in the balance.
The intersection.
The crux of
'i'
is fiction.
Or at least relative
As Al pointed out.
I have his picture on my piano. My Grandfather, a professor there, took the photo at City College in NY many years ago. It was a sunny day and he had an umbrella under one arm, briefcase in the other hand, a too tight suit jacket with bulging buttons and THAT wonderful hair. He was also a...
‘Mystic traveler
The unraveler’
Dave Mason, lyric |
