WORLDS WITHIN
Let's look at the basic idea of meditation, a system of
self-improvement for millenniums, mostly in the East (India). It's goal is to
change our awareness from the external world to the unknown
World of our inner self (Overself?).Looking at the old analogy of
the carriage (body) powered by a horse (Mind), controlled by the
reins,(Intellect) controlled by the
driver, (The Real You, Overself, etc).
When Mel Brooks Dr. Frankenstein wanted to give life to his
re-built human, he wisely used the heavenly lightning & thunder to
re-animate his work. Is this an analogy of the light & sound that animate
all humans and living things? It has been suggested that the body works on an
electrical system and the pineal gland , buried deep in the center of the skull
for protection, is the receptor of "The force", Luke.
After reading several
books about Near death 'experiences" ,I am encouraged to assume we have an
entity that continues after the death of our miserable body. These are particularly amazing as most of the
descriptions of folks leaving their bodies (briefly) are too similar to what
all the great teachers of Spirituality (Not religion) have been saying for many
millenniums.
It also seems that all
these correspondents never are able to stay out of their body more than a few
minutes, whether they are in a hospital or hurtling through space in a car
wreck. This is probably a good idea as the body can suffer permanent damage if
the brain and heart stop more than a few minutes. The first one to write about
these experiences was a Dr. Kubler-Ross,
who interviewed her patients who had suffered a 'Code Blue?. Since then, there have been an amazing number
of books published in a similar manner.
I , myself, In the early
days of Scottsdale, Arizona, have found myself up against a ceiling , looking
down on the body of Lamont Langworthy,,more surprised than anything, until I
wondered how I was going to get back into it. While I was there , stuck on the
ceiling , I noticed my girlfriend, usually a beautiful Hawaiian lass, had
morphed into a six foot parrot type bird, sporting a full regalia of bright
feathers. Needless to add, I
automatically found myself back inhabiting my good 'ol body, to continue our
ancient Indian Peyote experience.
Mary Shelly is totally different than Mel Brooks, and her system
of re-animation was pretty well sidestepped, though . She had Dr. Frankenstein
built his monster from scratch, not just stitching a few big pieces together, but using bones,
sinews and various organs to build her creation, and she made him large, eight
feet tall, because he was working with such small pieces, it was easier to
build it larger. Unfortunately, he neglected to consider that the creatures
brain had no morality portion, ergo the rampant murders that resulted afterward.
TRUMP
Although I believe there are few of my blog followers (blog-ites?)
Who are happy to see our new president Trump, the rest of you can be assured
that half of the voting public of the U.S. Believe he is the one to '"
Make Us Great" again. Be assured, that history has shown that our
particular type of government (Republic) only last about two hundred years
(Greece, Rome, etc.). TIMES UP!
VIDEO ALERT
Moliere - Most of us
Americans know very little of the French authors and play-rights except for
Dumas (Musketeers), Voltaire, etc. But if you really want to be entertained,
see this loose rendition of hIs life. He
was famous in the 17th century for his Comedies and Farces . The French King
had the good sense to give Moliere a small theatre to perform with his troupe
but he always wanted to do a tragedy. The movie does manage to bring a tear or
two to your eyes in the end.
PERSONAL NOTE.
I’m going to retire from
contracting jobs (of my design) as at 86 it's getting to be too much for me. I
find myself waking up at 1:00 AM to work out some small detail or another. I've
got better things to at that time of nite. I'll keep my license, however, as my
son, a contractor in Oregon, may want to use it. I've been licensed since 1964
originally under the name of "MASTER BUILDERS, INC.". Which I lost
years ago when the contractors license board forgot to send me an invoice. I
could have sold the name for a small fortune, otherwise.
BOOK NOTE
One of my favorite movies is "One Eyed Jacks" but over
the years I've been stymied about the meaning of the title. At first I thought
it had something to do with the child's game of 'Jacks' played with one eye
closed, but lo and behold, I recently discovered the movie was based on a book
titled "The Authentic Death of Hendry jones' AKA 'The kid'. Marlon Brando directed & starred in the movie with Karl Malden as Dad Langworth (No relation) a double dealing partner
turned Sheriff. Needless to say, ‘the Kid’ got his revenge for double dealing,
unlike the book, where he got killed in the end. Turns out, the name is from a card game 'One
Eyed Jacks', as the Jacks only showed one eye in those days, signifying a
double cross.
FRANCOPHILE
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TOP OF WORLD
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As a matter of fact, I ended up owning some of those other
experiments as in transportation; My first Volkswagen was one of the first sold
in the U.S. In 1954, remember the one with he rabbit ear turn signals, no gas
gauge, etc.? I first encountered them
in post war Tokyo, where they were used as Taxis, if you can imagine, as we had
to crawl over the front seat to get in the back.
There so few of us on the road, we would flash our headlights to
signify we also were one of the exclusive nuts to own one. Service? Even few
and further between. If your mechanic needed a part, you had it sent on a Greyhound
bus as this was before FedEx days.
Or later, the first Honda '70 N600, another air cooled baby that
used their motorcycle engine in a passenger car., Or how about the first Datsun
sold here, I bought a small wagon type that still had a curved roof form
reminiscent of Japanese Toras. I guess
they became Nissan?
BOOK REPORT
The Prince by Peter Constantine
I've had a distorted view of the man Nicolo Machiavelli all my
long life but after reading 'The Prince I've had to revise my image of him. He
was a confidante and employee of The Medicis in 15th century Firenze, and this
book is about how Princes (Incontrast to Kings), should act when running a
country. In those days, each city was an entity in itself, like a small
country. My image of him as even one of dark double dealer, a veritable ‘One Eyed Jack’, sets down how a
ruler should respond to various concerns regarding all the Dukes & citizens. He was able to play both sides of various scenarios with equal
measure, some with abject cruelty, others with benign concern. I you ever want
to be ruler over a lot of people, I highly recommend this small document to
assist you in our despotic or benign ruling of the masses.(Got that, Trump?).
VIDEO ALERT
If you want to be depressed, view this really interesting
description of the state of our miserable affairs due to the runaway debt we
have gotten ourselves into, See I.O.U.S.A. We're talking Trillions here but about his
time we might have to start thinking in Quadrillions (Is that the correct
term?)
Full of clips of all our presidents and how much each one of the
added or subtracted to this unmanageable mound. Strangely, Clinton was about
the only one able to reduce it to any degree..
BOOK REPORT
If you're not depressed
enough after seeing the above, read Jane Mayer's book DARK MONEY. What is
really depressing to me is that one of the wealthiest guy in the world started
the Libertarian Party! And also fund the
John Birch Society about the same time, Don't forget, that was the party that
was trying to get Big Government off our backs plus reduce the income taxes.
Charles & David Koch (pronounced Coke) This is a detailed and well
documented history of how they gathered together other overly wealthy and lay a
track bound for power in order to reduce their taxes and other ideas. Super Pacs, Think Tanks,
Academia, they invented the concept of "tax-deductible
"philanthropy" which allowed them to funnel scads of only to the politicians
and to put away in their pocket. The author traces the Byzantine trail of the
billions of dollars spent by their network and provides vivid portraits of the
colorful figures behind the new American Oligarchy. Surprisingly, such companies such as Amway are
part of the problem as they can give 20 million dollars to their non-profit in
order to avoid taxes. Can you imagine that giant oil companies make a much as 10
Billion in a quarter of a year. Let's see, doesn't that add up to about 40
Billion a yearin profits ?? Nobody would want to have to pay taxes on that would they ?
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Why do people still buy watches? Other than me, I mean, as I need
to know what time it is once in a while. Are they trying to keep alive the last
vestige of analog life? It must be
something to do with jewelry? Why else would you pay $5,000 for a piece when
you have the correct time (from an atomic clock) on your ever present I-phone.
IT ALL BEGAN when women didn't like the idea that men had their
own Manhole. It wasn't' exactly like them using the Men's toilet but
they had to get all our MANHOLES changed to PERSON HOLES. And while you’re at
it, change all other references to the poor oppressed Male. Thanks to Woe-man.
WHAT? OIL AGAIN?
I was only 10 years old when the Japanese (Japs) did their sneak
attack on our Pearl Harbor, killing about 3,00 of our military. Amazingly, it
took me but 70 years to find out why, and I was very surprised that ‘ol demon
OIL was the cause. It seems to have been a response to a United States-led oil
embargo that would have devastated the Japanese Empire. although why it would,
I have't been able to uncover what that was all about, except I always had a
snaky idea myself, that there was more to it than we were informed.
KAWANZA
I See the black folks are now not left out of the White Man'
Christmas as they can now celebrate Kawanza. I've always wanted to know exactly
what type of celebration they participate in so I finally had to google it. I
guess they have not been able to blend in as this non-religious celebration was
invented by Dr. Karenga in 1966 so black folk don't have to assimilate and sit
around celebrating some white boys birth or worse, Just what is it that Jews
celebrate? . But what do they do to participate? Have a jitterbug contest?
NEW YEARS EVE
I?m girding up for
another goofy New Year's Eve, but don't get me wrong, I'm ever happy to see
another coming around, as, at my age, you always wonder if there you will see
another. But really, how did we get to such a low point as getting all excited
offer a huge expensive 'BALL' be let down a flag pole? Even the tiny town of
Graton has their own now. Well, count me
out, as I really believe in a spherical earth and know there are 24 time zones,
and each one will have its' own mid-night celebration. I assume someone by now
has figured out how to travel around the world and catch all 24 of them but that
would really require some hustling. I'm just trying to avoid the one here in
Sebastopol and that's not so easy. However, I ave figured out my own program as
Joy & I celebrate the new Year with the Parisians, which occurs about nine
hours earlier here and gets me in bed at my usual time .
PEACE ON EARTH?
Don't make me laugh ! That will never happen as long as the
United States is the world's largest supplier of weapons to kill one
another. That number, $40 Billion,
represents one half of all weapons produced in the world, peryear ! Yikes !!
