Saturday, July 14, 2012

Question: Why Bother With Metaphysics?



PERSONAL GREETINGS:  Good morning and Happy Bastille Day.  Happy Orange County Fair opening yesterday.  You know with both the moon phases and the calendar dates, things tend to run approximately in eleven year cycles.  This would take us back to 1990, which is also a year of the Lucust just as it was the year of the Locust when "Technical Extacy" by Steely Dan came out and also the year my Dad died.  A part of me would like to go back to summer of 1990.  It was "the good old days" before parents bought that house in Laguna Hills.  I never liked the "Feng Chue" of that house.  Frankly, Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa has a lot better Feng Chue.  It's just some of the people I have a problem with.  I didn’t include the stuff I was musing about at breakfast a few days ago about how grandpa was “a black eyed boy” but otherwise was ignored by his mother, strangely because an older more appealing son has just died.  There were other racial allusions in this diary.  There is also that line warning against marrying a Black man because ‘No matter how light he is you could end up having a child as black as the Ace of Spades”.  I also didn’t say anything more about Mal Evans and that upcoming report on Scientology, if he decided to issue one.  I also didn’t walk down memory lane from 1990 which is 22 years ago this weekend, covering events of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which should already be covered in ‘June-bug”.   I remember the events of that period rather well.


Sometimes a person who gets his fondest fantasy suddenly fulfilled has a funny way of ending up dead soon.  Life has a nasty habbit of disappearing over night.  But what you really want to know is “What is a Crossroads demon” as in “Some of us will remain here to meet You at your crossroads”.  Instant karma’s gona knock you right in the head.  Better get yourself together darling.  Pretty soon you’re gona be Dead.  Back in late 1969 and about March of 1970 I did five “Marcus is Dead” compilations.  They are like “tribute records” of my Life after I was supposedly Dead.  The question is why I would feel this way - - then.  I told you about the time I was looking through my baby book (the one I don’t have any more) and stuck in there was some letter or something of my Mother written in the late fall of 1969 inquiring how I might get on Welfare”.  I was freaked out about this when I came across it years later and asked my Mom and she said “Well I thought you might be moving to Santa Ana or something - - - “ where Group Therapy sponsored by the State was held and whose sessions I had been assigned to by “Vocational Rehabilitation”.  (an add place to stick me)  Bottom line is way back then my Mom was already entertaining Fantacies of my being much as I am now.  Unemployed, penniless, and in a board and care home being attended to by doctors.  So the question is one seeing this letter would ask “I see the end result but what could have led up so a conclusion like that?” and the dirty little secret is there IS no “rest t of the story”.  That’s the whole novel – the whole enchilada right there.  So it’s “instant karma” like Jesus People had where their lives turn completely around in a day.  Only thing is their lives usually turn for the better.  But in my case “I might as well be dead”.  Somehow without possibly knowing, I “picked up these vibes”.  People may ask “Why even study metaphysics anyhow?”  This is a good question because if you go into some - - course of study, a class, with no motivation or purpose, how do you know where you are going?  Maybe you decide to take a math class so enroll in beginning Algebra.  Only the teacher is way ahead of you and suggests you start your study with elementary calculus instead.  And then he instructs all of the students to turn to chapter seventeen - - of their Calculus books, which none of them have because they didn’t know it was part of the curricula.  My point in this lenghtly example is that- - this is how it is with anybody who is curious about Metaphysics.  It’s the classic bait and switch.  The guru tells then “you want to know if there is any reality beyond this world like other Dimensions or other Forces are acting on this world you don’t see that you should be made aware of the reality of.  And right away they want to sign you up for a religion, a church membership with God and the trinity and the cross and a contract of eternal servitude to the teacher with no expiration date.  One important thing to bear in mind about metaphysics is that it is by Definition NOT provable.  It’s a hypothisis- - an extrapolation, or a classic case of “thinking outside the box”.  As I once wrote, “He who think outside the Box inherently demeans the value of the Box.  So what is “The Box”.  It could be academic discipline, or logic, or even your own mental sanity and soundness.  That’s what “The Box” is.  Even so some like to go outside the Box like that commercial about advertizing cigarettes targeting school children.  It’s “not playing by the rules”.  We have used the example time and again about the Apple.  If you slice it very near the bottom transversing the five bumps at the bottom, you will see it as Five Islands and ONLY five islands in a flat dimension.  In other words ALL of the evidence in YOUR world conclusively and Indisputably Points to it being “five islands of apple-ness”.  But people get to imagining things and extrapolating a theory not based on the slightest bit of physical evidence, but it’s just a theory, a “notion” they have.  Do these “notions” ever pay off in science?  Sometimes.  In my theory on metaphysics- - metaphysics represents not an alternate reality but merely different aspects or dimensions of the Same reality.  For instance you see a computer program in BASIC run.  Someone else just looks at the text code.  Both are seeing “reality”.  Sometimes it’s prudent to let go of the outward and seek the inward.  As I have also said “when all else fails lift up the hood and take a look at the code”.  There are times when this is THEE most prudent thing to do.  The “other dimension” that I and others refer to as “the vertical dimension” is the one of Karma and Morality.  “Instant Karma” is thus a shock term because we know it takes time to build character and temperance.  You can’t bottle it and sell it in a book store, unless you’re Chuck Smith or Pat Robertson.  We should know the difference between religions and metaphysics.  Jim Jones is a religion.  Gene Scott is a religion.  Neil alias Jesus Christ of KFI - - is a religion.  Other things by their very nature are far less “religious” and primarily metaphysical.  These would be Taoism and transcendental meditation, Scientology, or Thai Quan Doo.  Many believe there are many ways to worship God, so to speak.  Some believe you devote yourself to physical fitness of the body.  Others pursue religious exticy and devotion.  Others believe in good deeds in serving man.  Some believe it’s mental enlightenment of the mind.  I teach that there are three “classes” of dimensions - - Space, Time, and Awareness.  The Bhuddist teaches above all the highest Way is to be “Awake”.  In Scientology they have gradations of “Being Alive” from Self Actualization at the top, and Death at the bottom, and numerous other states in-between.  Since nobody has ever scientifically quantified this quality of the Soul or “Awareness” then one might suppose or theorize that this Awareness State is the Link to the “Two worlds” you might say, of “the vertical” and “the horizontal”.  But be warned the likelihood of entering into Error is very High, and I’m speaking to myself as well.  Above all you should first be Logical,  If you can’t be logical, the rest of this theorizing is Pointless.  By way of karmic protection just remember “Circles are possessive things.  Violate them at your own Peril.  Circles are paradoxes being both finite and bounded, and infinite and eternal.


This is Friday July 13, 2012 on another overcast day and it’s after two and I’ve been listening to Randy Rhodes.  She said once you have enough money to meet your immediate needs most people aren’t that concerned about money any more.  Mitt Romney’s total appeal is that “I have the right to make as much money and be as greedy as I want.  And I have the right to zealously look after my own financial interests and don’t have to be concerned about anybody else” and he thinks that platform will get him elected President.  One person said that Ronald Reagan ran on a platform of “It’s Morning in America” when the unemployment rate was 7.2%  And this speaker contrasted this by saying ‘Obama on the other hand took a bad economy and made it worse by his actions and blames George Bush for his problems”.  Judy has gone so far as to say this was some “mental character issue” with the President.  But Judy has a label for just about everybody, except of course herself.  Obama’s rate now is 8.2% which is only one percent higher than what Ronald Reagan won with.  I’d be interested to find out whether Jimmy Carter’s unemployment rate was higher than or below that 7.2%.  I bet it wasn’t as high.  This morning I had the Ed Schultz show on from nine till a quarter to eleven.  He’s about beaten the issue of “Romney is either a felon with the SEC or else he lied to the American people about when he left Bane Capital”.  By the way Romney said “My job was to make money for the stock holders of Bane Capital” and yet I’ve heard Romney was the ONLY stock holder.  Romney is ECO and owns one hundred percent of Bane Capital.  I switched to KTLK at a quarter to eleven.  Someone said that the reason why they got the bankruptsey bill run through congress so quickly “They were fighting to push this bill like their lives depended on it”.  Well, after things collapsed in September of 2008 the creditors had the law on their sides in a way they didn’t before.  One bill they got passed in the House in the previous congress was the donation disclosure bill, but it was blocked in the senate with only 59 votes for it, despite Mitch Mc Conell telling Tim Russart on television he was for a wide ranging disclosure bill.  I was just rereading “Between the Wheels”.  The only event successfully predicted so far is George Zimmerman’s getting out on bail for increased bond.  I skip quickly while still in the first paragraph all the way up to late August.  This story was written on June seventh, which was the last time incidentally Dr. Levy held his class.  I’m going to run out of cigarettes very soon for the week and coffee won’t last till Tuesday, either.  And next week will be even tighter.  I’m one of those people I believe has the right to worry about money.  Apparently the Republicans just blocked a congressional move by Democrats- - to pass a tax cutting bill for small business that the President wanted.  Therein you have your answer.  But I’m not going to post today because whatever I post today some story tomorrow about Romney, something we don’t even know about yet, will supplant it.  That’s how it is with Mitt Romney.  It’s just one horrible revelation after another about the man and this is only mid July.  What do you think things will be like in late August when they hold the Conventions?  What about the fall?  We could learn a bunch of new facts about Mitt Romney before we’re done.  And nobody will care about those either.  Just like people don’t read my blogs because “Apathy is our new born King, uh huh.”


And now an outtake from the final Abbey Road studio sessions:  The pizza day was then moved up a week to May 17th and on May 24th Dr. Levy again didn’t show and I express disappointment in getting no money.  That’s a fact I wanted to be sure and establish.  And I did not get money in late May.  Apparently Dr. Levy was again late the following week and did not show till Saturday June 2nd.  Stephano was killed on Friday June first and so it’s been all this time- - - some six weeks - - to even apprehend a suspect.  That’s pretty slow police work considering they really didn’t scratch the surface of possible suspects of, for instance, all of his gangland rivals.  They pretty much fixated on Elvis because they didn’t like him and I am not convinced by any means that Elvis did it.  I’d like to see a solid indication.
  

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