Lunch with a Friend

Going Places

Nostradamus … the medieval seer … saw into the nature of the creative energies … and produced many insights into the nature of life. He expressed his insights in poetic forms … that ran like cryptic clues … engaging symbolism … and represented the nature of his expression … as a unique and special … gift … that is rare and hard to behold. I don't believe that its necessarily the case. But there's no doubt … that his instruments of insight … were … like a Rubik's cube … indeed hard to behold.

There's a point … that we sometimes go to in our minds … that produces a startling account of possibilities … that makes us feel like a genius … grappling with the flame of the gnosis. Its a point … that's brought to us … as children of the world … for our introduction … to the nature of life and creation. Its a point that combines magic and divinity … to produce a field of all possibilities … and is the will of the universe.

In layman's terms … it may apply to the source of wave particles and their ionic content … that began the work of creation … and constitutes the basis of the collective will … in the world. But what will we say of the man … who makes contact with such a flow of the will … through the mechanics of the human constitution? Is such a man human? … how does he relate to others in society? And is the experience compatible with the physiology of the body?

Shirley Maclaine … dancer … movie star … and mystic … wrote of meeting two such gentlemen … in her book … ' Out on a Limb.' They were personalities channeled by a man in Sweden … who was in contact with the ionic universal experience … and could induce such an experience. However … the only way the man could … relate to the ionic experience was through these personalities … who represented an Irish pickpocket … and a sombre Gothic type man … who engaged the sublime in life's realities.

Its the stuff of seers … mystics … and clairvoyance and it represented a strange contact with a way of life in the medieval period. The growth in population … the urbanized life … and the pressures of modern relationships … have not been kind to the intuitive experience … of these folks in the universal ionic. As we attend to strict learning … and work guidelines in our lives … it has broken down this aspect … of our personality from previously … and has cultivated an adaptation … to modern lifestyles.

The men that we encounter today … who have broken down such impulses … substitute the loss of conventional social manners with technocratic instruments … to re-direct the flow of these impulses … to something new. They are generally inventive … strive in a commercial environment … poor with social skills … but are able to convert the socio-mystic natures … into product conceptualization in line with the perceived new needs of society. The effect is to transform … the conventional … without apology … to new ways of doing things.

Beyond catering to our normal needs … our modern day attitudes … of dismissing past schemes of thought … in favor of untutored ambition … and money … is frowned upon by the logical natures of the personalities we engage to transform. There's no doubt that we can all relate to this. From our youth … we recall a contact with a larger than life being … who related to us by intimation … and whose presence was a guide to the way we formed our perceptions of the world.

To make contact with the personality again today … is not without some anxiety about our past relation. Its where we formed our ideas and interest. But we realize today its a big area of interest … involving … knowledge of life … the self … individual natures … God … social skills … child raising … and communication of all these … without getting our tongue tied into a knot.

In learning to start anew … with the maturity we have gained … makes for an easier relation. So … we didn't know … but we are prepared to learn. That defines the new relations … and works into a sharing of experiences … both past and present. That may be done by going back … a bunch of years … and to review the nature of daily life … in the places … that were the source of mankind's civilization experiences. In general … it brings us back to farming communities … from whose ranks man chose the first Kings to govern us.

It was also the first time … that man began the experience of communal living … urbanization … fashion … alchemy … defense … civility and the progression of experiences away from the free and the wild. For those of you … following these narratives closely … you may want to note the social decorum … of common interest and society … that continues in our habits. In being mindful of it … it creates options for what you want to bring to it … matters as regards the human will to advance in reason.

We will need to be prepared … for the changes these may bring … to our own technocratic identities … in these times. No doubt … we will seek to unite the two experiences in a way … as to include future concerns. We learn in the process … to base our guides … on our ' gut ' … and intuition about events and people. Its not unusual to find on occasion … that the sources on the web … including research sites … are way off the mark on factual details.

Food is a remarkable … contributor to the flavor … of people's experiences … both past and present. It identifies with the passion … and induces the mind into an understanding of behaviors. In connection with the relations … we cultivate with past personalities … it is the bridge to a relation … that defies all rationality in areas that are entirely unfamiliar … to both sides. In that … it forms the ideal stimulation … to a communication … that is largely in the form of intimations … by the body. Bon appetite … and say hello … to a new friend.