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of substance in terms of
rate of vibration can
give rise to what is
called "lift" and in
the process of development
and self-perfecting of a
higher body, we have a . . .
SHIP OF LIGHT
Lift is buoyancy.
"Living the life,"
but not of it, is
also buoyancy.
Maintenance of buoyancy requires
a line of work that is impartial
and since the substance of the
higher body is so subtle and
quick, so wise as a serpent
and gentle as a dove, it is
also stealthy in every
respect and this is
true even in the
midst of conditions
of ordinary life.
To put it "in short":
SEMOONIRANOOS
"In short, the transubstantiation
in themselves of an all-around
understanding of the functioning
of these two fundamental sacred
laws leads to the crystallization
in the common presence of three-
brained beings of data for
engendering that divine
property, indispensable
to every normal three-
brained being, existing
under the name of
'semooniranoos.' Your
favorites also have an
approximate representation
of this, and they call it
'impartiality.' [or 'buoyancy']
--ch 39, Purgatory
AIM is what guides the ship.
"On the continent of
America, the three-brained
beings have become so expert
in this advertising [of
feverish dollar businesses]
of theirs that one could
apply to them the following
saying of our dear Mullah
Nasr Eddin:
"'Only he will become a
friend of the cloven-hoofed
who perfects himself to such
a high degree of Reason and
Being that he can make an
elephant out of a fly.'
"Indeed, they have become
so skillful at 'making
elephants out of flies,'
and they do it so often,
that at the present time
if one meets a genuine
American elephant, one
has 'to remember oneself
with the whole of one's
being' not to get the
impression that it is
only a fly."
last two weeks I have been in a struggle
What Gurdjieff
called "writer's itch"
in Beelzebub's Tales
is, from a certain point
of view, a "disease," and
is a disease which influenced
my own writing activity over
the internet during the years
2004 through 2008 until a
change occurred which I
did not anticipate, it
was change as a result
of conscious shock, that
is, of self-remembering,
and on a very great scale,
the substance of the
material was transformed
in terms of a quality that
was more "essential."
Even now, I continue to repost
the same material during those
years 2004 through 2008 on internet
sites which nobody reads so as to
"re-experience" the same insanity,
but to do so consciously as an
impetus for self study, self
observation, that is to say,
to suffer real conscience over
the material that I wrote then,
and then to rewrite all the same
material while leaving out the insane
writing, which is a way for me to write
more directly WHAT I REALLY WANTED
TO SAY on an objective level, as a
distillation process to separate the
course from the fine, a means for
self remembering, as well as
integration into the higher
conscious self what was
clearly written on an
unconscious level ...
making it easier to read,
to follow, to understand.
I suppose it can be said that
all of this insane writing and
transmitting has been a "roundabout,
fraudulent way," for me to face my
own psychological imbalance
in association with what was
an obvious physical "nervous-
system-imbalance" and this
psychopathy was, in fact,
crystallized in connection
with the near-death that
happened to me at age
26 agitated to a "hundred
psychopaths squared" by the
LSD abuse WHILE IN THAT NEAR
DEATH STATE, that this kind of
LSD abuse and the starry entry
into bizarre cosmic states
included many moments of
unparalleled bliss, real
nirvana-level-bliss of
physical, emotional and
mental "all-centered-states"
of PEACE BEYOND UNDERSTANDING
which is a sort of description
of what it was to be in the
eye of a cosmic storm and
then having to suffer for it
later as in the "fall of Icarus"
and live many more years of
further involution and
evolution.
At times I suffered the ever-
slow--slow, slow passage of time
and will forever remain in my
consciousness the experience
of the "hypochondriac"
described by Gurdjieff
in chapter 16 on Time:
"Although, from the standpoint
of universal objectivity, the
period of the process of the
flow of Time in that drop of
water is, for the whole of it,
entirely subjective, yet for the
beings existing within the drop
of water itself, this same
period of the flow of Time
is perceived as objective.
"To clarify this idea, those
beings called 'HYPOCHONDRIACS'
who exist among the three-
brained beings of the planet
Earth can serve as another
example.
"It often seems to these
terrestrial hypochondriacs
that time passes infinitely
slowly or, as they would say,
it 'drags PHENOMENALLY
TEDIOUSLY.'
"In exactly the same way, it
may occasionally seem to some
infinitesimal beings in that
drop of water—-assuming, of
course, that there happen to
be 'hypochondriacs' among
them—-that time drags
phenomenally
tediously."
--Gurdjieff
--ch 16, relativity of time
Life for me at
26 years of age
approached a point
of choice:
LIVE or DIE!
I was in a physical body
in a state of total nervous
disruption and near-total
brain damage from just
having suffered a COSMIC
BREAK, I entered into
states of consciousness
in which I saw emptiness . . .
nothingness . . .
blackness --->
the dark night
of the soul --->
except for "something"
which was invisible to
everyone else around
me.
This very same dark night
was the journey for me through
the dark night of my own
inner psychological life,
and yet guided by an
unknowable "cosmic
light" and "fire."
The seriousness of the
situation made me very
VERY awake, BY CHOICE,
to the circumstances in
which I found myself and
it was of such seriousness
that was beyond understanding
because it was more than just
a matter of my own personal
life and death, that is,
looking back at it, I was
in the eye of a storm
and on a razor's edge
approaching the level
of the Absolute. The
continuation of my own
physical life AT THE TIME
was entirely dependent on
the continuation of the
aforementioned
"something"
else.
Tendencies of all kinds
"self-calming" for me, IN
THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, meant
nothing less than CERTAIN
DEATH which I brushed with
constantly, almost every day,
WHILE IN STARRY STATES of
consciousness which did not
require any LSD whatever but
I went ahead and experienced
a series of LSD highs anyway,
all the time knowing, no matter
what the cost may or may not be,
that this was the only opportunity
I was going to "see" and experience
things that no one else has ever done
before at any time in human history . . .
And I turned out to be right . . .
a series of events,
including what is called "the
Black Rite" which is the
crystallization of a very
fine material on a starry
level, nothing gross,
dark or "mundane"
associated with
lower astral
levels.
The crystal that formed
seemingly in the middle
of my forehead is a fire
that has remained permanent
since that critical time and
even served to light the way
through a Hell of further
involution and evolution
into which I crash landed
and have been forced for
many years up to the
present time to
endure. It is
from that crystal
that there proceeded
"spiritual bread from fire"
whether I actually write
anything about it or not.
WRITER'S ITCH
"I charge you further—-again,
of course, as the heir on whom,
as is usual, will devolve the
fulfillment of the obligations
his predecessor took upon
himself and which, for
some reason or other,
were left unfulfilled—-
to pay special attention
to a question which greatly
interested me but which I
personally was unable to
elucidate, as it was still
premature to do so, that is,
I charge you to find out what
form, maleficent for their
descendants—-if, of course,
by that time their descendants
continue to arise—-has been
taken by the 'disease,' very
widespread then, which one
of their Misters, by the
name of Onanson, called
'WRITER'S ITCH.'
"Indeed, my boy, having
had a more or less close
relationship with many of
them during my stay there,
I soon found out that almost
every one of them either had
already written a book, was
just writing one at the
moment, or was getting
ready to 'burst into
print.'
"This peculiar 'disease,'
prevalent among almost all
the beings of this continent,
without distinction of age or
sex, had assumed epidemic
proportions among the
'youth,' that is, those
who are just at the
beginning of
responsible age,
particularly those
with runny noses and
many pimples on
their faces.
DRIVE-BY MEDIA
"In this connection you
should take note that there
flourishes among these beings
one feature of the strange
psyche of your favorites
which has become rooted
in their collective
existence and which
may be formulated thus
'the concentration of
interest on any idea
that has accidentally
become the question
of the day.'
"And so some of them,
who turned out to be a
little more 'cunning'
than the rest, and in
whom the data for the
being-impulse called
'instinctively to
refrain from all
manifestations which
may lead one's fellow-
beings into error' were
more atrophied, organized
various 'schools' and composed
all sorts of 'manuals,' in which
they showed in detail just what
the sequence of words should be
so that all written expositions
should be better perceived and
assimilated by the reader.
DILUTED --> DUMBED DOWN
"As a result, all those who
attended these 'schools' or
read these 'manuals,' who were
themselves in regard to being
and to their knowledge of
reality exactly such types
as our teacher, Mullah Nasr
Eddin, refers to as 'nullities
emitting an atmosphere of
unendurable vibrations,'
began to wiseacre according
to all these rules. And from
then on, since the process of
reading had become an organic
need of the beings of this
new group, thanks to various
other abnormalities fixed in
the conditions of their
ordinary existence, and
since, moreover, it was
possible to appreciate
the contents of any work
only by reading it through,
all the beings of this continent,
seduced by every kind of 'flashy'
title, began to read and read,
until finally it became
definitely noticeable
that their mentation,
already sufficiently
'diluted' without this,
became ever more and
more 'diluted.'
"I was not speaking lightly
when I said, 'if by that time
their descendants continue to
arise,' because I then noticed
the same extraordinary
singularity with regard
to the new conformation
of the planetary body of
beings of the female sex
that I had once noticed
long before in the process
of the ordinary existence
of these strange three-
brained beings, and
parallel with this,
I carefully observed
all its consequences.
"This curious phenomenon
first occurred there before
the loss of the continent of
Atlantis, in the process of
existence of a small group
of three-brained beings
originating from various
large communities of that
time. These beings existed
in isolation on the then
famous island called
'Balakhanira,' which
was situated to the
east of the continent
of Atlantis, and was
engulfed within the
planet at the same
time as Atlantis
itself.
"This small group died
out owing to the same
strange particularity
of the formation of the
planetary body of the beings
of the female sex, and the
manner in which the
continuation of their
species ceased was then
called by the learned
members of the Society
of Akhaldans 'dezsoop-
sentozirosso.'
"This extraordinary phenomenon,
which took place in the course
of several centuries before
their race finally disappeared,
was the gradual narrowing of
what is called the 'pelvis'
in the beings of the
female sex.
"This progressive narrowing
of the pelvis took place at
such a rate that two centuries
before their race finally vanished,
the 'appearance in God's world' of
their so to say haphazard
conceptions was effected
by the means then called
'sitrik,' and now called
'Caesarian section.'
At this point in Beelzebub's
tales, a cross-current or eddy
began in the ether which
penetrated the whole of
the ship Karnak. This
signified that the
passengers were being
summoned to the 'djamdjampal,'
that is, the refectory of the
ship, where all the passengers
assembled periodically to
partake of the second and
the first being-foods.
So Beelzebub, Hassein, and
Ahoon ended their conversation
and hastened to the djamdjampal.
--Gurdjieff
--ch 42, America