His small project completed, he swigged orange juice, then poured a large bowl of cereal and put milk and sugar on it. That was quicker than almost any other meal. After eating it, he took a hot shower, and crawled into bed without setting his alarm.
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From “Ngunda’s Room” in
New Age Wonks’ Clubhouse
Zen Wannabe: You’ve said meditation isn’t for everyone. Why not? To me that sounds elitest and repressive.
Dove: Different souls have lived different numbers of lives. In general, those who’ve lived fewer than eighty or ninety lives haven’t accrued the lessons necessary to meditate to much avail. As far as that’s concerned, in western cultures very few of them are likely even to try. Today’s Buddhist and yogic adepts are old souls, all beyond the hundred life-time mark. Back at seventy lifetimes they were still busy with the lessons of young souls, not those of old souls.
In fact, most souls complete all the lessons of the physical plane without ever having meditated. Although those with certain life tasks find them facilitated by meditation.
Reality’s Child: I’m basically a skeptic. Hopeful but a skeptic. How do you know all that stuff?
Dove: Call it intuition. True intuition. The word is also applied to false intuitions growing out of fear, hatred, prejudice and pride. In that sense, Adolf Hitler was highly intuitive, but his “intuitions” grew out of festering hatreds.
As for my own intuitions: like more than a few people, I’ve visited the astral plane in out-of-body experiences. The first was at age eleven, when I drowned, and before I was resuscitated. On each successive visit—not trauma-induced like the first—on each successive visit, my connection was upgraded. My “modem to heaven,” so to speak.
Thus my intuitions are more reliable and precise than intuitions generally are. But I cannot prove that to you, and it’s quite appropriate to doubt me. In fact it’s natural, especially at first, if you are “wired” as a skeptic. Nor is there an objective way of sorting intuitions from false intuitions. Intuitions nudge us toward our true goals, completing lessons and fulfilling agreements, all of which tend to differ at different soul ages.
In any instance of intuition, different people evaluating its validity will tend to draw different conclusions. One person might regard me as inspired by the Tao, and someone else as a messenger of Satan. Or as a con artist intent on gathering money and power. The decision is up to the individual. I do not expect to convince everyone, nor do I try. Some are ready, some are not. Even the Infinite Soul, when it next manifests, will not convince everyone on Earth. To do that, it would have to preempt their power of choice.
And regardless of what many Christian and Islamic teachers tell you, it is all right to be mistaken. The Tao is neither disappointed nor surprised at mistakes, and does not condemn us for them.
Satan, incidentally, is a myth. Humans can perform the grossest atrocities without satanic inspiration.
Headline News
Atlanta, GA, Jan. 27
After years of increasing contention, “the Republic of Eastern Siberia” yesterday declared its independence from the Russian Federated Republic. The first real secession in nearly a decade, it is also the largest. It involves a remarkable alliance between citizens of Slavic racial stocks on the one hand, and on the other, a number of native minorities, notably the Yakuts.
Moscow has refused to comment on what its response may be. The White House too is declining to comment until more is known.
A worsening epidemic of virulent, so-called “Polish Flu,” reported from Poland earlier this week, has spread eastward to Moscow, and westward past the Rhine River. What appears to be the same strain has also been reported from Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Poland reported over 1,500 fatalities as of yesterday.
This year’s flu vaccine has been ineffective against it.
Headline News
Atlanta, GA, Jan. 28
Deutsche Welle last night reported a claim by two leaders of the environmentalist party, die Grünen, that the Polish Flu was engineered by a virologist within their organization to combat what they termed “the disaster of world overpopulation.” They predicted that flu deaths would exceed two billion by the end of February. Authorities have closed all German offices of the organization, taken twenty-three persons into custody for questioning, and taken custody of all records.