Dear Greatness, SA:

I had this muse and thought of you.

When I said before that music for me is like puberty II, I can expand on that to say that in general I’m always struggling to catch up to the past. Meanwhile, moments in the present fly by. What was that? In 20 to 40 years I might could begin to get a grip on the present of today. At the moment, though, I’m still trying to cope with adolescence, trying to marshal together the tools to meet that emergency. Music, for example, might be a means by which a socially awkward nerdy kid might could break out of terrible lonely isolation.

I know that I’d never get a bit of traction on this claim within our present Christio-fascist culture, but for a certain part of the population, an hallucinogenic trip can be advantageous. I’m not Belzabub here trying to lure you onto that path with “Come on, it’ll make you feel reaalll good.” No. I don’t recommend it. Especially as you can’t know how it’ll affect your personal brain chemistry. For another certain proportion of people, the results can be disastrous and permanent. And don’t go messing with a good thing, your mind. And yes, my generation has a lot to answer for in inviting in the drug culture. It seemed kind of like a cute little thing at the time but then very rapidly grew into a nation eating monster that craps out tooth rotted hulls of former humans. But still. For a certain part of the population the hallucinogenic trip provided genuine insights. That’s my claim and I’m sticking to it. I’m not talking about the amphetamines, nor the opiates, nor alcohol – the drug of Christianity, just the hallucinogen.

And in any case, it seems like in every culture in every time people have gone out of their way to trip out, even when it required ingesting vile stuff and a whole lot of puking and so on. What’s the attraction? There’s a glimpse only but a glimpse of what it’s like to get in sync with the cosmos as it’s going by right this instant. Right now. That insight was delightfully and playfully rendered in Richard Alpert’s “Be Here Now.”

Those who’ve been there have a shared experience maybe a tiny bit analogous to having lived in a cult. Those who’ve never been there can’t know the attraction. Not that it’s anything to recommend it but there is a genuine kernel of genuine insight.

It begs the question, is there any kind of philosophy and/or discipline by which you could be here now all the time?

Me, I kind of go in cycles on that question. I go for long periods of time where I’m in the Frank Zappa consciousness mode, as in “Look here brother, who you jiving with that cosmic debris?” and where I’m fairly certain that life consists of a few laughs along with mostly pain, aggravation, boredom, lonliness, your occasional moments of sheer terror, a few lovely orgasms, death, and taxes.

Now and then, though, I run across a certain sort of a dad gummed character who reminds one that maybe the possibilities are limitless. You, Greatness. You remind me.

Yours, Charles

And remember, Jesus likes you.

chaster

I swear, you're hard to read when you get philosophical. I've read you 4 times and I'm still not quite sure what you are saying, except that you went to puberty twice and that I remind you of an dad gummed character. LOL

But thank you.

If you are being honest, and I have perhaps reminded you that the possiblities are limitless. . . . . then honored to be such a dad gummed character.

I believe in God and I believe in creation, but having advanced from my youth, I don't think that God creates things all at once. God is STILL in the creation process. And if he that is called Creator ever quits Creating then I suppose that we're in big trouble.

I have had a number of mystic experiences in my life. I "know" that man is nothing. I "know" that God is all knowing. I "know" that it is impossible to stand in the presence of God as we are.

The possibility between where we are now and where God is would allow for limitless possibility, but add to that another 80 billion years of creation time before we think the universe will begin a death cycle. . . . there are a lot more possibilities.

God is the source of Life, and all Life has the same root. For us to say that a life form is loved more by God than another is silly, God gives Life to those that will follow the Laws of Life. God is not respecters of persons, or any life form for that matter. Those that obey the Laws of God LIVE!! And those that don't, die. And I am not taking about mortal life cycle, but about the spirit of life.

Life can be shaped on limitless forms, each form having its connection to God. Life compells us to live, regardless of our birth or circumstances (bible parable or good or rocky soil.) If we have planeted ourselves in rockie soil and are doomed to die when the Heat of the Lone Star shines upon us. . . . then such is fate. But if we are harty, strong, and have good roots into the Source of Life, then we shall live. If we need pluck out a few weeds. . . . . then such is the nature of Life.

But I have said it before. . . . God loves these people too. And they are a creation of God as much as you, Pres. Bush, or anyone else.

Again, I have said it before. God is going to use this people to teach the world a lesson . . . . . and lesson that they need to learn. I have feared, that this lesson would come at the expense of the innocent, not that God hasn't been known to do that sort of thing before.

I am honored that I could "remind" of the limitless possibilities that Life can provide.