Grounded Mysticism
In my next life I think I'd like to be a grounded mystic. I'm not unwishing the life of a burly henchman, because that might degrease the wheel. If there's one thing I don't want to encourage, it's insufficiently lubricated cosmic machinery.
As a grounded mystic, I wouldn't have to worry about bobbing in the river of unsupportable arguments, such as time's linear nature in the context of reincarnation. Where ungrounded mysticism might lead to certain assumptions regarding how many lives are allowed at once, the properly grounded mystic snorts at the idea of single-file marching orders, blowing his nose into the handkerchief of circadian chronology.
I think it would be a good idea to use green wire for my ground connection, because that would reduce the chances of being plugged into a wall outlet by mistake.
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i can no longer feel the ground so thank you for the reminder...once again. i think i need to start paying you as a consultant.
even though you remember how something went down in another life can you change it now since it's still happening?
Mumphf . . . well . . . my business card reads, "Will consult for food," but anyone who's seen me eat knows I'm unaffordable. And my business card isn't really a card at all, but a large piece of cardboard. Just so you know what you'd be getting into, were you to actually get into it, which isn't the case because the law prevents me from giving professional advice, so this is all hypothetical.
With these things in mind, I would simply indicate that the answer to your question may or may not be "maybe."
Fun coincidence: just after reading your blog, I read these lines about a grounded mystic in Hermann Hesse's THE GLASS BEAD GAME: "For this yogi, he felt, had plunged through the surface of the world, through the superficial world, into the ground of being, into the secret of all things. He had broken through and thrown off the magical net of the senses, the play of light, sound, color, and sensation, and lived secure in the essential and unchanging."
Hi Craig. Probably not so coincidentally, the lines you quote remind me of recent conversations with My One True Love, who reminds me that plunging through the surface of the world is often challenging, but always worthwhile.
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