It ain’t the virus, it’s the ennui.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXLWqSPREw
Believe it, the anxiety, the worry, the fear, the superstitions and the boredom are the real danger here, although we can’t minimize the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Anxiety is the unseen enemy here — we don’t know we’re under attack and most of us don’t recognize the symptoms of anxiety, nor do we much care — but we should.
The deep-scar effects of anxiety are profound — ask any mental health professional. Most people suffer some sort of depression or anxiety, but don’t recognize the symptoms and are unaware that they need treatment, and fast.
The biggest, longest-lasting damage to People of Corona will be the isolation, the trapped feeling of being in lockdown, a sort of voluntary solitary confinement, even if it’s with your entire family.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If everyone is staying home except one member of the household, it’s the same as everyone going out in public — you don’t know what they’re bringing home or delivering to others. You hope they’re careful, but you don’t really know.
A simple brush of the jacket against an infected sinktop is all it takes.
If, by the way, you’re allowing packages or mail or anything to come DIRECTLY into your home without a scrub, you’re doomed.
Let me know how you make out, if they let you near a phone again.
Don’t Touch Your Face!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOpGXcmzHwg
Of course, if you’re in a strictly maintained totally clean environment, no problem, scritch and scratch away, but if you’re anywhere in public and you scratch your face, you’re going straight to Hell.
Heaven for the Climate, Hell for the Company.
You don’t want to be locked away forever in an Eternal Heaven populated by Billy Graham and his followers, nor do you want to end up in a Hell populated by gnomish wizards — it never works out.
Locked Away Forever is a condition of BEING, not of BODY.
In a body, “forever” is really relative. In a Being, it isn’t.
Take a video selfie of you at your work station. Did you ever realize how many times a minute you touch your hands to your face?
Idle hands are the Devil’s playground. DO something with your hands and stop touching your face!
What’s Next???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAU5ikazYS4
That’s the subject of today’s little dissertation. For myself, I know exactly what I’ll do — I’ll write blogs and make video blogs of a variety of things, but MOSTLY I’ll concentrate on answering the ageless question:
What Do You Want To Do Now?
You’ve never really been able to answer that question, but now’s the time to take it on. Look, you’re taking stock of the situation, evaluating, making design decisions about your life — at least, you’ve become partly conscious and/or aware of what you’re doing right now and what your next move might be.
So what’s the right action?
Sounds like a simple question, but it’s far more complex than most folks can handle. You start with the premise that you’re getting somewhere, and the whole thing falls apart.
You have to know quite clearly the utter futility of any undertaking conducted in The World of Action, which you call “reality” and which I call a full-body illusion.
It comes complete with smells and tastes and sensations, so if you drink a malted then experience the wrong end of a body-slam, you’ll get the idea of what it’s like to be in a body.
Life in a Body is Fun!
Well, that’s what the advertisements and commercials tell you, but you shouldn’t believe anything you see, hear or experience.
Like Trump’s famous question, “What are you gonna believe, me or your own lying eyes???”
And you were curious to find out what it FELT like to be in a body, huh??? Well, weren’t you? I thought you’d finally admit it. Feeling guilty?
No reason to feel anything about it — a Being without sensation WOULD wonder what sensations feel like, and if presented with an easy and simple opportunity to find out, it would voluntarily trigger the experiential path, something like the front seat of a self-starting roller-coaster train.
Well, now you know what it’s like to be in a body, and the word “pain” takes on new meaning.
Taste, Smell, Sensation — all come with a price. They hurt, at least too much of it does — too much of ANYTHING, no matter how initially pleasant, will tend to hurt.
At the End of Your Life there awaits you the Ultimate Slap in the Face as you pass through the portal of Death.
Death is a very subjective experience.
You can quote me on that.
My friend Jim Morrison came into my shop one day at an uncharacteristically early 11 AM and leaned against my bookcase, saying “It came to me today as I was sitting there sipping a cup of something — I’ll never get out of this alive.”
Well, Hell’s Bells, I coulda told him that WITHOUT having my only copy of Siddhartha shredded by his careless handling. He had every Hess book in my shop stashed away in his house on Roth Dell, right next to where Jan and I were staying.
Death is Nature’s Way of Telling You To Slow Down.
Desperito.
Yeah, you slow down, all right, just before you accelerate to the Speed of Light.
Don’t you hate it when that happens? It’s that ripped-apart thing that happens when you pull out of the incarnation and set yourself on the Homeward Path.
There is no time, but there is an urgency to get “Home” and so you go to Center, where your Guide will ask you that God-Awful Question again.
“What do you want to do now?”
There is no sensation after the separation from the body, and you’re lucky if you get audio anywhere in the Afterlife.
Signing, Lip-Reading and Acting Out Charades is quite common in the Between-Lives State, but meanwhile, the sound is to say the least, really flaky if you get anything at all, and please, save your breath — I’m workin’ on it.
Changes can be wrought through Blue-Lining, which is the primary reason I’m here — we have an equivalency of all this gear and the internet connections in the Causal Plane, which is where it all began, of course — that’s why they call it the Causal Plane.
It causes.
Now, what about Sensation? Well, sensation happens across a rather narrow spectrum, and can be measured on the scale as notes from ecstasy to pain — top to bottom, just like a piano keyboard.
Pain is nothing compared to Eternal Suffering. Watch “Haunts of the Very Rich” to get a handle on this concept just a little better, a bit more in the gut than the head.
Relax about taking Rebirth. It’ll happen without your prompting. No point getting hung up with all that organic stuff — the best sensations will probably be gone by the time you get there — ain’t that always the way?
The main point here is that, thanks to your State Government, we’re in quarantine and isolation.
TIME CRUNCH ALERT!
You don’t have much time — if you’re lucky, we have anywhere from a couple of weeks to a bunch of months or even years of social distancing, so why not treat it as you would a voluntary spiritual retreat, which looks and feels about the same???
It’s like converting a jail cell into a monk’s or nun’s cell. It’s not the circumstances, which are almost the same — it’s the attitude. You can be anywhere.
The concept that lockdown is a GOOD thing is foreign to the Western mind, but relax that mind and you’ll quickly see that lockdown is the ideal opportunity to take advantage of the time to work out some of your life karma and spiritual obligations.
It’s also a great time to purify, and that’s exactly what I’m going to recommend for today’s activities.
So I have a plan to outline HOUR-BY-HOUR the Day’s Plan, and moreover, I will try to do that every day, publish a PLAN FOR THE DAY where you can maximize your time and efforts.
Waste not, want not.
Ben Franklin said that. He published it in Poor Richard’s Almanack back in 1736, if memory serves.
What Franklin DIDN’T say was “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.”
First of all, America didn’t exist yet, and a penny was quite a different thing back then — it was part of English currency, and a good portion of America was composed of British colonies up and down the East Coast of what would become the United States of America, America being the continent, and the states being, at least on paper, united.
I used to coach law students preparing for their Bar Exam — ethics and Constitutional — and I can tell you that Trump has clearly gone far overboard on States’ Rights issues.
He clearly does not understand that the United States is a federation of autonomous states within the framework of a representative federal government, whose rule and regulation are strictly limited.
In short, the President is not only a public servant, you and I are his bosses, but let’s not allow Bad-Boy Donald Jessica Trump to distract us, which is what he does best.
“Hey! Look over here!”
When Donald does a little dance and makes a fuss, you’ve learned your lessons well — you ignore him, let him carry on as he will, because you’re secure in the knowledge that, no matter what you do, he’ll continue his rant until he’s out of steam — one of the signals that he sends out that he’s greatly disturbed.
Realize that Trump can’t help himself — he’s programmed to be a prick.
Don’t get all hung up about it, just compartmentalize the whole thing and forget about it — concentrate on the Real Problem, which is, “What’ll I do NOW???”
This is the same problem you’ll encounter in the Bardos, the Between-Lives State. Where would you like to go next? What kind of life would you like? Which body do you want to wear? What do you hope will happen to you in that lifetime?
In the middle of a Pop-Quiz, that’s not when you want to start examining these values and dealing with these issues.
You have a clear several weeks ahead of you where you’ll be cleaning the furniture, adjusting the pillows, washing and scouring and scrubbing, but you won’t be doing that 100% of the time.
There’s bound to be some slack time, some period of time in every hour where there’s just nothing to do — you’ve done it all, many times over, and you’re BORED, BORED, BORED!
Boredom is Bullshit
You’re not really bored. You were taught to act as if bored when nothing much was happening, but it’s total bullshit — you’re vitally disinterested, as would be any spiritual being observing any organic reality.
Fascinating? I think not, but we carry on. Hey, this is just exactly the right time to buckle down to some serious spiritual work, as long as everything else turns out to be either impossible right now, or totally worthless and therefore futile.
But what kind of spiritual work could you accomplish right now, today?
It could take a number of forms, but for today, let’s deal with some of our sticky points, our Accumulated Past Life and Present Life Karma.
Karma is kind of a collection of sticky and annoying “barnacles”, a sort of invasive clam that cling to your hull, so to speak. It’s generally bad stuff, and you want to get rid of all your “Back-Karma” by a process of purification, which is the only method that works.
I have a Purifying Method for you:
I’ve made it easy for you to burn Karma, in many different forms, because it comes in so many different forms — fear, anger, resentment, despair, anxiety, stupidity, failure, suffering and many more.
I’ve made Orbs to run for all of them, to help you avoid having to deal with them in the midst of your Bardo Crisis, and you WILL have a Bardo crisis, everyone does, because you confront whatever’s crossing you at the moment, and that changes from lifetime to lifetime.
DR Orbs deal with Dissolving Radiations, hence the name “DR”. It’s not a game. Well, it is a game , and it isn’t.
The FORM is game-like, but the CONTENT is decidedly not, nor the way you play it. It’s definitely NOT a form of casual entertainment.
Okay, so now what?
Well, one way or another, you’re going to have to spend your time going through the next 24 hours, so you might as well get some use out of those otherwise wasted hours, eh?
So what is absolutely the VERY BEST use of your precious time right now? Let’s make a list, keeping in mind that this is a generalized SUGGESTED list of daily activities — you can fill in the time zones with whatever you like. Here are a few of my suggestions:
5:30 AM — Yes, I know. You’re home and you’re jobless, but that doesn’t mean shit in my book. Get up, get FULLY dressed just as if you were going to work today, and do all your toilet including brushing teeth, shaving, whatever you normally do when you get out of bed.
6:00 AM — Tune into MSNBC and get the morning breakdown from a truthful and reliable source. Don’t get all bent out of shape by the latest Trumpian Outrage — it’s just his knee-jerk reaction to everyday life, like any other Drama Queen. EAT your breakfast and relax, eat slowly, don’t discuss anything or think about anything, especially the news.
6:30 AM — Read my blog quickly — don’t get hung up on details — then come to my Morning Broadcast on ZOOM. If you can’t get on ZOOM, you can watch on LiveStream, but I won’t be able to see you in that case. The whole advantage of ZOOM is that I can see your work, so it’s perfect for art, comedy, dance, crafts, silver and copper smithing, and of course, music classes, my personal favorite. You can ask ANY QUESTION of me when I’m on ZOOM with you. I mean it, any question. It’s all fair game, and I invite you to join us in a ZOOM session for the time of your life.
7:00 AM — Clean and arrange your altar, then light some incense, fumigate your candle or candles, change the water in the Float Dish, and sit down with the SuperBeacon for your three-minute cleansing session.
8:00 AM — Run the DR FEAR Orb for a full hour — just keep running it, don’t think about anything else during this time, and I DON’T mean, “Don’t think of the word ‘Hippopotamus’,” either.
9:00 AM — Snack time, take it easy, don’t rush. Make your snack — it can be very elaborate or very simple, but it all takes SOME time to make and arrange it or put it on a plate and then to set the table with napkin and flatware, and then sit down at a table and eat it like a person.
10:00 AM — It’s mid-morning, and you need to move, so get up from your workstation or computer area or kitchen table and WALK around a little, without bouncing off the walls, then settle yourself down in the living room and DO THE MOVEMENTS. You can watch others to help you follow the movements, by getting onto ZOOM with any one of our many movements classes. That way, your movements and postures can be corrected by your instructor — people can take turns instructing or everyone can help, or you can elect a helper, it all works out.
11:00 AM — Time now for a little more moving around, then watch a series of QMV videos on youtube.
12:00 NOON — Eat. Don’t rush. Relax. Prepare your food, set the table, do your normal kitchen and dining room routine in spite of the fact that nobody’s gonna see you do it.
1:00 PM — Take a nap.
2:00 PM — Have a small snack, no sugar, while watching some funny videos on youtube.
3:00 PM — Do a reading for others.
4:00 PM — Rest. Maybe do a little gunslinging or dumbbell-lifting — 2.5 pounds each. Walk around the house or take a SHORT walk outside, at least 50 feet away from anyone else.
6:00 PM — Eat. Don’t watch the news at this time.
7:00 PM — Sleep.
Now, with this schedule, I nap until about 10:30, then go to work right here, at my computer desk, until 6:00 AM, when I take a break for breakfast.
My biggest Secret of Life nobody seems to get, but I keep putting it out there just the same. You can double your lifetime simply by doubling your days — one session in the morning, one session at night.
It’s a question of becoming Temporally Ambidextrous, a term I don’t expect many will understand, appreciate or be able to spell correctly.
11:00 PM – 6:00 AM — Blue Line, Videos & Blog. That’s where I am right now, doing a blog at around 3:00 AM, and I’ll continue writing until dawn.
In the Night Kitchen
I often create something in the middle of writing a blog, but it’s hard to account for those times, because they vary. Tonight I did a little work in the two Coronavirus Shooter Series, designed to lower the anxiety and depression levels that arise from being attacked by an invisible and deadly foe.
I might also during the night hours spend some time creating a ZOOM video which I will then upload onto youtube and probably post on the aforementioned “blog”.
During night hours I’m likely to pace a bit to get muscles working, and in the course of this I might very well end up spending an hour or two at the jewelry workbench in my pastel studio, so named because that’s where I do all my pastel work, which requires good ventilation, so you see? Any pastel artist who has a decent studio already HAS a ventilator.
And during these night hours, I’m very likely to squeeze out some paint onto a palette, grab up a brush and paint some canvases, then frame them, photograph them and post them on eBay.
Um, let’s see — I spend time on my SuperBeacon whenever the fit strikes me, and do the same with my prayer wheels, speaking of which, we have some prayer potential — there are a LOT of folks out there who are looking for potent prayers, and we have them, so I spend some time advising them of their rights.
I will have two, sometimes three SMALL and non-sweet snacks at night. I often play guitar while waiting in Gorby’s Cafe for my snack to arrive. It’s times like this that make it all worthwhile, I’m told by those who know.
So what do I do with the rest of my ample spare time?
Why, I mostly teach Blue Line and Music, of course, but I don’t just teach music — I teach the WORK IDEAS, THROUGH music — music has everything from sensitive emotion all the way to hard math and weird science.
One bit of fun data for your consideration — I found that I was able to instantly play transverse flute perfectly, when I was presented with a beautiful solid silver open-hole Gemeinhardt, and recorded two albums that same day and the next.
I’m glad it worked out — those flutes are very dear, and I had worried that I might not do it justice, but we got two very popular best-selling albums out of it, and I’m working on a third.
My point is that any flute I’ve managed to learn was learned in earlier lifetimes — I’ve had no exposure whatever to flute playing at that time.
You definitely have hundreds of unused skills you’ve accumulated from past lives, and you can EASILY recover them with my Method.
So, those first two flute CDs recorded the day I received the flute and the day after, are still in print, and you can get them easily from Marvette — she’ll be on ZOOM, and that’s a great time to ask, because it will remind others that they also want that.
ZOOM is a GREAT place to meet clients or customers, and I’m thinking of starting a gallery where people come in through ZOOM, and I show them some things I think would interest them, plus give them a run-through in my virtual gallery.
Of course, virtual art is now the thing, which makes an artist’s life only that much less endurable — nobody wants to pay just for pixels, and they don’t understand paying for labor or knowledge or skills, they just don’t take those things into consideration when buying an item.
Things that come from China are not priced according to skills of the workers who produced the items, packed the items or shipped them to you.
The fact is, you’ll have to make a living charging people for things they think should be free. How can you keep providing things when you can’t pay the rent or food bills?
That’s not THEIR problem, it’s YOURS, making an impossible situation, but I plan to show you how to beat the odds.
Stay tuned for more — Every Day I’ll post something to DO, so God Forbid you shouldn’t be bored. What will you do with all the time you saved???
See You At The Top!!!
gorby