…“If this is belgium this must be sunday;
no british for us, thanks -- we’re sexy;
it only laughs when I hurt, and,
port out, sherry home,”
 --  I see that travel and inverted truchès 
remain on your brain,
and as you always say:
”when in rome, do as the germans do,”
--  how else will you ever leave your parochial state of mind, 
and snap out of it?!
 
 

It turns out that the facts regarding that  secret 
we were previously discussing
are actually quite simple and just slightly bent,
and your thoughts on the matter were not as far off
as the rest of the world still imagines.
Before we press on however,
I must ask that your pal with the 
popiel pocket security clearance badge leave the room,
(“Loose ships shrink hips,” and all that, don’t you know).
 
 
 

The reason that men came up with the notion that 
ideas are either right or wrong
is because all ideas are lunacy,
but by having a perceived choice between two possibilities 
it enables a man to claim a distinction between his, 
(the right ones),
and any ideas that oppose his,
(which by the process of elimination,
would be the wrong ones.)
…”Lunacy, lunacy -- my kingdom for lunacy -- 
would be a bargain at half the price.”
 
 
 

Ordinary consciousness has a built-in clock --
the extraordinary version does not.
 
 
 
 

After hearing a minister say that the way you can be sure it is the voice of god you hear talking to you 
is that he is --   “always consistent”
a man mused: “In that case, my thoughts are god,
for if they are anything  --  they are consistent:
JEEZE! are they consistent.”
…(okay, boy&girls,
can you tell me how to spell “consistency”
using only the letters, m,n,a,e,i,n,l,s,g,e,s?)
 
 
 

Ordinary people think of progress as 
the regaining of their usual health after an illness.
…(your sole bumper sticker should be:
“You Can’t NOT Get There From Here.”)
 
 
 
 

The bio read: “He began to understand that he was not merely selling model trains to young boys, 
but was selling them a dream,” 
but this is not so confined for whenever you buy a book, a CD, 
a fashionable swimsuit, a movie or sports ticket, 
you are buying a dream;
no matter the object or event pursued,
what you are hoping to purchase is a dream
that the object or event will trigger in your thoughts.
 
 
 
 

The brain concocted the notion of you having a “self”
so as to make a life of habit & redundancy seem more acceptable
in that you can then pretend it is "you" who decided to
live like that.
 
 
 
 
 
 

One guys says: “If I thought people were really serious in 
what they say  --  I’d cut my throat.”
 
 
 
 
 

Ordinary consciousness is like a scout who 
constantly sends back reports --  prematurely.
 
 
 
 

How Life Works:
Everyone stands around staring --
until someone moves --
then everyone stops staring long enough 
to react thereto --
which gives still other starers something to 
momentarily react to -- 
and on and on doeth life so roll.
 
 
 
 

One guy says:
“The most awake man I ever knew said that 
he did not know what, ‘being asleep’ meant, 
and if I did,
then I was asleep.”
 
 
 
 
 

You can never answer the question:
”Why does a cube have six sides?”
since what causes it is the same thing that
causes you to ask.

No system can understand itself based on
an explanation coming from within the system.
…(don’t drink the water --  wherever you are -- 
for it is being polluted simply by your being there.)
 
 
 
 

Under ordinary conditions: 
no one has a mind of their own.
Their mind is your mind, 
and your mind, part of theirs,
Everybody sharing just one big mind.
…(nothing personal about it.)

Notice Regarding Thinking
& The Question Of Honesty:
                      Everyone’s on the take.
 
 
 
 
 
 

One guys says he now finds only one thing, 
laugh-out-loud-funny,
that’s when he is alone and has some thought about,
”how awake he is.”
 
 
 
 
 
 

What you think is not important --
only what you think ABOUT.

Second Verse: What you think about is not important -
rather, what you think WITH.

   Wash your thoughts, not your hands, and
   watch your hands, not your thought.

        When the behavers and the talkers start
        choosing up sides,
        manage not to be there,
(either that or learn how to make your instincts speak 
so that you can hear them talking aloud in your head.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An awakened man lives with a stranger.
Everyone lives with a stranger.
An awakened man KNOWS that 
he lives with a stranger.
 
 
 

Fashion Tip For The Few:
If you think you’re ugly --  don’t look in the mirror.
 
 

Oh, you have to leave so soon?!….
well, one more before you go:

No one knows what, “you” is -  nor can anyone know;
the closest you can come to knowing is,
”passing out.”

Hey, you okay?..…you look a bit pale?!

                JAN
 
 
 
 
 
 

Time for: The Reasons cum Excuses, (starting with the first):
The reason these writings seem to lack a systematic coherency is that they are not the work of one man, but of a committee composed of several de-frocked sufis, some disbarred zennists, the stray kabbalist, and a blind taoist usually doing the proofing.
2. The reason the style, tone & quality of these writings varies so greatly from day to day is because the style, tone & quality 
of my thinking varies so greatly from day to day.
3.The reason that some days what I write seems familiar to you, and on other days it does not is because some days I have difficulty finding anything suitable to plagiarize.
4.The reason that some days you like and understand what I write about,and other days you don’t is because
you’re nuts. 
 
 
 

Oh yeah, the weekly reminder:
Any reference made to me personally in these writings 
is purely a bit of fiction.