I'm 80 years old and have had what seems like many lives progressing more and more towards stranger than fiction. Along the way, I concluded the herd is never right, and the status quo is a living organism that views change as a lethal threat and uses any and all means possible to defeat it.
Along those lines is my recent post into a Reddit spirituality group. Everyone there uses a fake name. I'm Puzzleheaded.
Chains that bindAccepted a friend request yesterday from a friend of 3 of my Facebook friends. The new friend said he's a free spirit. I replied that everyone I have known was chained to something. Such as, I am chained to a Facebook censor board, which decides what is appropriate. Such as, Covid-19, which has no respect for any person. Such as, subconscious goings on that influence me unawares, while my mind, which is about 5 percent of my total consciousness, tries to run my picture show. Such as, the angels that have run, advised and corrected me since early 1987. Such as, body ails that drag me down. Such as, pregnant women being forced to be unwilling mothers of unwanted babies. Such as, no one being in charge of their bodies. Secular laws, social norms and medical philosophy requiring everyone live as long as possible, to maximize profit$$$ for medical, hospital, nursing and hospice industries, lawyers, accountants, mental health practitioners, churches and ministers, Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social, fast food, soft drink and booze companies, cell phone, internet, and cable TV companies, Hollywood, FOX, CNN, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, banks, Wall Street, lawyers, etc. Apologies to chains I didn't think to mention, or don't know even exist.KitchenWow, do you realise they do not bind everyone right?PuzzleheadedI mentioned some chains of which I am aware. No two people are alike, so each person has his or her own chains that bind, knowingly or unknowingly. That's the human condition. I hope it's different in the afterlife. However, a good friend, about half my age (I'm 80) had a dream along those lines last night. The essence of the dream was, he was walking land owned by his family. Beyond a small family graveyard was what appeared to be a whirling fire, but as he neared it, it saw it was amber and it had something like a tractor beam that drew anyone near into it, including him. Inside, he saw many people, as well as himself, being shown themselves and other people they knew, all of it, but the other people were not able, or were not willing, to see everything, or much of it, whereas he was seeing all of it. He asked me what I thought the dream meant? I said the dream was profound, he should frame it, and never forget it, because it showed him where he stands in reality and with God, compared to everyone else in the amber vortex with him.
Keith
Sloan Bashinsky All I can say is wow!
Along similar lines:
Poetic Outlaws Facebook page“To live beyond the pale, to work for the pleasure of working, to grow old gracefully while retaining one’s faculties, one’s enthusiasms, one’s self respect, one has to establish other values than those endorsed by the mob. It takes an artist to make this breach in the wall. An artist is primarily one who has faith in himself. He does not respond to the normal stimuli: he is neither a drudge nor a parasite. He lives to express himself and in so doing enriches the world.”~ Henry MillerSloan BashinskyAround age 50, I learned I was a poet when poems started coming out of me. Then, a lot of poems came out of me. They seemed to write themselves. I already had written some non-fiction books. Then, some novels came. The tone was off-beat, road seldom traveled, and mostly mystical. I'm now 80.
For a little over 2/3 of my life, I have suffered a petulant G.I. tract, which arrived one spring day when I was 26, without any warning. It was immune to medicine and anything else I threw at it. It's still with me and is a big piece of what caused me to wonder what's the point in all the attempts to keep people alive in their later years, unless they really want to be kept alive?
Why doesn't society and medicine and religion and government get over themselves and furnish a pill that suffering people can take, if they wish, and end their travail? I'm sure there are many answers to why not do that. However, it seems to me that a lot of money is made keeping people alive, which would not be made if they were dead.DonataSloan Bashinsky have you looked into CVS- cyclic vomiting syndrome. Perplexing malady for sure. My husband has it since very young - on and off.Sloan BashinskyDonata vomiting not part if it. I've had many experiences with it that convinced me it is psychic in origin.LindaSloan BashinskyYep! It’s not always compassion but a passion for funds $!BarbSloan Bashinsky Canada has new assisted suicide laws, you can check out pretty much whenever you want now.Brent SymonsBarb Sherman very sensible those Canadians :-)Sloan BashinskyBarb Maybe Canadians understand torture better than Americans? Maybe they see the drain on their healthcare system better than Americans? Maybe they understand the legions of vulture$ who$e very exi$tence depend$ on keeping people alive, no matter what the co$t!KeithSloan Bashinsky Good on you Sloan! Look at the creativity that flowed freely and unsolicited, through you, and may happen again in your 80’s or 90’s…The good Lord, higher power…(pick your deity or spiritual belief)….takes each of us when he and we are ready…. Still….if looking for that pill, I think Dr Kavorkian can accommodate your wishes.Sloan BashinskyKeith guns and knives freely available to off oneself, but not a simple pill. I'm not at the wanting to leave stage, yet, but the going physically is mostly rough, and nothing in me is okay with what money I have being spent on live-in caretakers, nursing home, hospice, doctors and hospitals trying to keep me alive. There are much better uses for money, is my perspective.
Creativity still flows through me, but mostly it's in a cheeky podcast a friend, also a mystic, with tech skills, makes possible for him and me to cut up and hold forth and groan and laugh at The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. Here's a link to our most recent podcast, which is in the Torrent system, along with about maybe 50 other episodes. We get 50,000 or so complete watches per episode. Don't know the numbers on this one yet.YOUTUBE.COMCathouse Podcasting Presents: A Podcast or Podcats About Cats and Puttytaths
Or, if you like to read novels online, here's a link to a free read of the last of my novels, which leaped out of me in mid-2000.
HEAVY WAIT: A Strange Tale
KeithThanks, will check outBarbSloan Bashinsky I agree with another commenter. You've accomplished so much despite the pain, you should stick around to see what other gems emerge from you, plus to witness the crazy devolution of a formerly free west.Sloan BashinskyBarb I truly appreciate your and Keith McClure's input. Funny, the gems emerge analogy. For a very long time now, I have watched my gut behave like a birthing canal. Something new, usually grisly, coming my way, into me, is preceded by my gut getting more cranky than usual, sometimes a lot more cranky. As I work through it internally and externally, it begins to ease in my gut and release, and return to its "normal" cranky self. Like I'm a cranky human sewage treatment plant.One colossal example -
After President Obama accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace, while carrying forward the Bush-Cheney rich white men wars for corporate profit in Afghanistan and Iraq, my gut shut down nearly completely for a month. Then, right before a monthly Keys West Poetry Guild reading above the hugely popular Blue Heaven Caribbean restaurant in the Bahama Village section of Key West (where Africans had settled in the city before it was part of the USA, I jotted down a little quite violent, outraged poem about what Obama had gone and done, and then I read it, and read it again at a Poetry Guild event in a city pocket park, and - Viola!!!, my gut eased and released and went back to its "normal" cranky self .How does a black American president accept the Nobel Prize for peace, while waging rich white men's wars for corporate profit? How does the Nobel Committee nominate that black president, when he is waging those two wars? John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Malcom X all came out against the Vietnam war, which was a rich white men's war for corporate profit, and they all were shot and killed. That is not taught in America's school and colleges, is it? What are the Las Vegas odds of four prominent Americans publicly opposing the Vietnam war being assassinated not being connected? The Las Vegas odds are zero, as are those odds zero in the Kingdom of God.BarbSloan Bashinsky Yes you're right, I think the Nobel should go to a common person who achieves amazing things like reforesting 100s of acres for years all on their own. People like that.
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