Time

As time flows like pages blowing from a book, and the wind grows stronger with each passing year, one questions the direction of the body-ship and whether that direction is true and good.  Unless the anesthesia of greed and body-indulgence has cast over the eye a sickly pall of blind neglect, age brings an increasing urgency to know, be and see the reality that drives one’s life, and the question whether that reality is loving, hateful, or indifferent.  I need to know a truth greater than that which pundits pronounce only to please their benefactors.  I need to know what’s beyond the “headlines,” what’s behind the thin smile of my co-worker or the desk-clerk at the license bureau.  Who lights their hearth-fires, if anyone?  Whence commeth their help, their life… and mine?

All around an endless projection of images of a missing center, an absent truth, a fulfilling sense of being that’s somehow escaped each person’s grasp, stirs one to seek more fervently with age.  This is the one and only blessing of age.  If it is not embraced, then one’s life will be, in the end, worth little to one’s self, worth less to others — that is, except insofar as a void and emptiness drives, through pain, others and one’s self to seek a greater wisdom!

So, what has one gained in this life?  What have I gained in this life?

Now, I count my blessings, for curled within them like gems in a blazing fire, is a wealth that opens worlds beyond this world, world’s of immortality, of blessedness, of endless being!

Whence Commeth My Help? Not from “They” but from Me!

Those who lead have abandoned responsibility and truth.  Those who follow seem for the most part only too happy to turn to strident cries of “Where is our leadership?” and “When will our leaders make things right?” rather than acting.  But what action is called for?  The Status Quo is a circle of powerlessness bestowing power upon the unworthy, and the self-perceived powerless making _themselves_ unworthy in the process.

Until we reclaim our own internal leadership and self-sufficiency, and as long as we rely upon the network of economic and production mechanisms that have conspired and succeeded in shifting the means-of-survival from the individual to the network of corporate centralized production machinery, we will be at the mercy of others.  This is the real heart of the problem we now face.  We are dependent upon those who would exploit.  And because we find it so difficult and do not seriously attempt to turn to self-sufficiency and build up our inner strength and our ability to provide for ourselves (literally grow our own food, make our own health, make our own living, be our own “source”) we will be at their mercy.

Stan Goff has some interesting articles on this topic on his blog “Feral Scholar.”  More importantly, it really is a spiritual issue.  It’s a challenge that calls us to center in a greater, more encompassing and self-re-affirming awareness that will free us from the fools and fiends who pretend to lead and let us no longer look to them at all… for anything.  To me, that is the only way freedom will be fully realized in our country.  It starts literally and only with the individual creating his/her own freedom from dependency… and “co-dependency.”

Truth Is; Logic Is Becomming

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

A Dead Man’s Party

“Everyone’s safe, we’re in the grave–

see you there for afternoon tea!”

-Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)