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Alan Watts
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Found myself listening to a lot of him lately.
He's well reasoned, reassuring, the recordings of him on YouTube vary greatly - from his younger self to older, he speaks simply and eloquently on the greater mysteries of life.
In the absence of intelligent company there's always the internet...
In the end...
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You knew this was coming. I did as well.
Try as I might, study the menu, work faster, smarter, or slower, more cautious, it wasn't working. There was no way it could work.
The week before, turning, my back twists, lower back. Sunday, barely unable to get out of bed. Monday, very slightly recovered.
The job, nothing but stress and anxiety, you see it in the mannerisms of those who've somehow managed to fit in, the swish, swagger, effeminate manners - even affected by the straight lads, the "stoop" - shoulders hunched - the physical symptoms of having being "broken", the "Knowing" of the menu - that this morsel has 3 bites, this tid-bit has 4, the continual reprimands - about offenses you see everyone around you committing - wine glass - filled too high - not high enough - the constant querying of the Chef, because under no circumstances do you promise anything to the customer that he has not approved - and - when not reprimanding you he reprimands others in your presence - for filling your shot glass too full, for answering a question...
It's feudal - this - the managers, Chef, eat at a common table, many courses, dirty plates left for the servers to clean, to see how "the other half" eats.
Contrast this with your overcooked pasta in oil, and the same bloody salad day after day.
So, after another intolerably long night of perpetual reprimands and bitchy behaviors I'm done. Chef agrees.
He's a short man, who - through a triumph of will has realized his every ambition, but - this with everyone that has served being squashed underfoot. It's feudalism, he will accept you as a subject - but you must accept him as your Lord, these are not human relationships, or like none that I am familiar with.
I have never hated a job so much in my life, or been so relieved to escape.
But now, what next?
We will see.
Dora Van Gelder & C.W. Leadbeater
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Reading...Dora Van Gelder's "The Real World of Fairies: A True First-Person Account".
Actually, "read", it was a slender book at a mere 120 pages, slender compared to most books, but positively voluminous given it's subject.
It begins by quoting Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and various of Eddington's not only theories but later doubts, making room to color in the margins with all manner of wonderful creatures beyond the apprehension of most mere mortals.
Shortly after this an old bookmark falls out - the bridge, from a pack of rolling papers. Undoubtedly that improved the book immensely.
Now, it is I suspect clearly not only possible but very likely that there are any number of creatures that live in spheres beyond our apprehension, and if we take the premise of a conscious, living universe this should not really be so surprising or absurd.
The miracle of our own sphere - tangible, visible, is a matter of scale...that we are composed of what amounts - at best - to a pinprick of matter that swarms and organizes to give us shape, idea, thought - and that pinprick, even so it may be generous, the further down we look the less that we see, the universe may well indeed possess nothing approaching matter, instead composed of fluid lines of energy.
So in this, given that we are comprised of no less than 99.999999% space, the thought of an order beings perhaps even just a few orders of magnitude more or less substantial than ourselves should not be tough to imagine. However, this did not persuade me (nor did I suspect it would). It was however an entertaining look at somebody else's world...
A gold mine of alternative thinking (not necessarily accurate - although, caveat - reality is subjective - hers is merely a bit more colorful) - links below:
Link: Dora Kunz (nee Van Gelder)
Married to: Fritz Kunz
Link: C.W. Leadbeater
Invisible Helpers, by C.W. Leadbeater- Link: https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/InvisibleHelpers_CWLeadbeater.pdf
The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals -(this is a GOLD MINE!) Link: http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/theosophist/ - an amazing resource.
Now, very definitely 'twould be handy to get into the gnomes and kobold's good books and find the earth's hidden treasures, so next time I'm on the prospecting trail I'll have to keep my eyes and ears more finely attuned...
Henry III Gold Coin Found in Devon Field
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Yeah, there's something about metal detecting in the bush VS Europe or China...
An impressive find - with a hefty price tag (a single coin!!). Although there's always the risk the government will take it from you...
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/devon-detectorist-13th-century-gold-coin-sold
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