Years ago, my friend Mel Powers — an incredible marketing genius who was also the publisher of the famous “For the Millions” book series — said that if I ever wrote a book on Astrology, he would title it “Astrology For The Dozens”.
I don’t know if you get the joke, but I never write for the millions, although I certainly know how — I made a small fortune as a Hollywood Writer, writing short articles about my friends the Monkees, Beatles, Doors, Jefferson Airplane and many more, all of whom I worked with between the years 1965 – 1975, my “Entertainment Industry Years”, about 40 years before my “Golden Years”, which I’m presently enjoying, began.
So it’s not that I don’t know how to write a hot book that sells to an easily drawn audience — I do, and I’ve done it for the rock & roll magazines and for the television industry. It’s not hard to make money at writing, especially at my pay rate in 1969 — 25 cents a word. It adds up faster than you can imagine, when you can pump out stories at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 words a night, which was the writing pace for “My Life as a Boy”. Do the math. I got even more, a dollar a word, from OMNI Magazine when I wrote for them.
But then you’re left with nothing but pulp. At the point where I was ready to publish, my writing was far removed from the Hollywood Glamour material I was pouring out of my little portable non-electric typewriter and yes, I type fast enough to snarl up anything but a Selectric with type-ball. If there are mechanical keys, I can type beyond their ability to keep up, just as I’m doing now.
If you measured the rate of ACCURATE typing I can manifest, it’d run about 180 – 220 words per minute at my best guess, although I don’t know the actual official figures. Suffice it to say that T. and I are the fastest typists I know, and we’re about even in speed and accuracy.
I tend to proofread as I go. I’ll occasionally miss something, but it’s those places where I made a change and then missed taking out the previous thing, or missed a letter or two when zipping across it — again, at the steady rate of around 180 – 220 words per minute.
People are amazed by the sound of the typing, and perhaps I’ll record that to use somewhere in a game environment. It’s quite unnerving, if you don’t know that it’s someone typing beyond fast.
The main reason I don’t write for the millions is that you’re only writing for money. There’s no one home. All the appeal is on sex, drugs, rock n’ roll on one end of the market, and super-repressive domination values on the other end — not a pretty sight.
You need to decide your purpose in writing, realizing that you only have so many writing minutes per lifetime.
If you value your efforts and energy, your dedication and attention, you will write what helps you to accomplish your aim, your purpose, your goal, your Vision Quest for this lifetime.
In my case, my primary purpose is to provide working tools for awakening, awareness and attention, combined with a sense of true ethics and higher spiritual values. You could hardly apply the term “Popular” to such an agenda. As a matter of fact, “Downright UN-Popular” would be a more accurate appellation.
I’ll be spending several weeks working on a project to combine all the best features of each edition of the American Book of the Dead into a single “Best Practices” Edition especially for the LRS Readers, of whom there are now very many, enough to provide powerful Bardo Support for Passers and Voyagers.
I know it’s going to sound totally weird until things break in the news, but that includes ANY trans-dimensional voyager with a TOC — Thread of Consciousness.
There are several things you’ll want to develop before you Pass again:
- SENSE OF SELF — Not as a fleshy robot, but as a Transcendental Consciousness. This is achieved through a variety of INDIRECT EXERCISES, the most fundamental of which is the “Guitar Lesson” and “The Movements”, both innocuous and playful.
- EASY VOYAGER — Familiarity with Passing comes from lots of exposure to Portals, lots and lots, which can be achieved through running Orbs, Bardo Stations, Portal Penetrators and Triad Trainers.
- QUIET MIND, CALM BODY — This is achieved through a variety of active and passive methods, which can include running Orbs and doing Movements and Rhythmics.
- TRANSCENDENT CONSCIOUSNESS — A deep sense of Self as transcending all organic experience, with a spiritual “footprint” that spans many lifetimes.
- TELEPATHY — Yes, it can be done and YOU can achieve this. It’s not hard, if you can overcome all the horrible and powerful Social Taboos against telepathy as a practice. Since people commonly lie, telepathy seems dangerous to them, and they will shun you or tar and feather you and run you out of town on a wooden rail, if they come to realize your telepathic skills and a phone call from you to their home could ruin their sex lives and threaten them with alimony payments for the rest of their lives.
- EMPATHY — A definite personal and feelable connection with others, transcending the “otherness” to a common bond, which is the Spiritual Connectivity that results from the entire MegaUniverse being alive and real-time connected, meaning that it’s One Single Thing, it’s Alive, and it FEELS itself and SENSES itself at speeds faster than light.
- VISION OF THE COSMOS — You need a full realization of what the universe is, how it operates and how YOU can fit into the working plans and make yourself useful and productive in the bigger scheme of things, providing you can take on the struggle, can learn to handle and transmit lightning — yes, I do mean the kind of “lightning” you see in the sky during rainstorms. You need to actually meet GOD face to face at some point. If there is a judge, you are it.
- A SENSE OF OBJECTIVE AESTHETIC — This is hard to define, but easy to get across in the form of music, theater, painting, sculpture, jewelry, paper arts, dance and a wide variety of creative endeavors. Creativity is what’s wanted here, and those opposed to creativity expose their desire to control and suppress your spirit. You need to learn to be creative so that when you arrive at your Appointed Place, you’ll be able to work creatively, not robotically.
- FREEDOM FROM ROBOTICISM — Without intervention and special help, you are doomed to be a Soft Robot all your life, never peeking out from the cave, never wondering what you are and what you could become. In order to realize your True Self and your True Destiny, you MUST climb out of sleep, out of the Robot Mentality and the Robot Limits, out of the Robot Box, a task easier said than done, unless you take quick decisive action to remedy this with a Daily Practice that includes waking up from the Robot Persona.
- A SENSE OF PERSONAL DESTINY — Destiny doesn’t get dumped on your lap as you sit around waiting for personal freedom and higher consciousness. You have to work hard to get SEEN by the universe enough to rescue you from robot life and lift you up into the Work. If you’re happy with being a lump, an end-user, a pampered pet, you have no worries beyond simple pleasures, but if you feel a purpose in your life, it’s best to start working on it sooner rather than later. Don’t wait until you’re too weak and too far-gone to do the Work. Do it now, while you still can.
My exercises and projects are all designed to incorporate these aims and purposes and to make conditions under which skills can be built. There aren’t a lot of folks out there who aspire to these aims.
It’s more like making a magical sign and muttering “Saint Anthony, Protect Me”, as many of my Catholic friends in grade school used to do. Of course, they still do it, but it’s more of an automatic, knee-jerk response now, not at all in their direct perceptual consciousness.
Of course, your purpose in this life may well be to totally waste it, shred yourself on common pleasures and drown yourself in some sort of sticky bubblegum paste, which can be anything self-destructive. If you plan to waste your life, “Astrology for the Millions” might be right up your alley.
My work exercises are not always direct, don’t always appear to be what they actually are. This is especially true in the jewelry area, where you are learning skills, sure, but at the same time, you’re learning higher consciousness and awareness skills which you won’t really need until you get to the higher dimensions.
Part of my job is to prepare you for what’s coming, in an area that doesn’t naturally include the higher level conditions.
In a sense, you’re operating in Nightmare while still in Normal, and I assure you, your present level of life-gaming is well within the bounds of “Normal”. In short, you’re still in Blood Moor and you’re acting as if you’re on a Baal Run.
One of the most basic points about my Higher Life Exercises, or HLEs, is that you do them at exactly the same time twice each day, as close to 6:00 a.m. in the morning and 18:00 hours or six o’clock in the early evening, about daybreak and sunset, the twilight hours.
Five minutes a day of any Practice is better than engorging yourself with a Yoga Binge once a week or once a month if you haven’t got the time.
Think about this: out of 24 hours — which comes out to 1,440 minutes in a day — you can’t find 5 minutes in the morning, and 5 minutes in the evening, to do your Practice? I have asked you repeatedly not to make me laugh when my lips are chapped.
A year works out to 525,600 minutes. You’d think with all those minutes that at least a few of them would stray into the “available for work” category, wouldn’t you??? I wouldn’t, because I’m experienced at working with people, and I know better than to place my bets on them as winners in this race.
Still, there are always the Few, a lonely and desolate place to be on a planet swarming with billions of creatures who look almost exactly alike and somehow manage to find ways to see differences between them.
Perceived Differences spark off that knee-jerk reaction of all lower order animals, “fight or flight”, which always results in some sort of local warfare or mob action resembling the activity you might find on the microbial level. Honest, a mob of humans looks from above just like a swarm of bacteria closing in on a single helpless victim. Overwhelming Numbers, Overwhelming Force, the battle-cry of evil dictators and bacteria alike.
Ever wonder how evil dictators could possibly get elected by intelligent people? If you knew the robotic nature of humans, you wouldn’t wonder. Intelligence has nothing to do with anything other than being productive and fitting into the social and anthrological scheme of things.
I have woven The Teaching into many musical forms, including guitar practice, flute, drums, harmonica, bass, recorder, Native American flute, keyboards and more, all designed to appear perfectly ordinary, but all designed with higher consciousness and spiritual attainment in mind.
You will also find The Teaching in other forms into which I’ve woven it with many practical applications rather than mental explanations. These forms include The Movements, Rhythmics, theatrical performances of Creation Story, Norton Street, Redfin and other plays I’ve written to include work problems and solutions.
You will also find The Teaching incorporated in my Paleo Jewelry Course, as well as the trans-dimensional practices revolving around the Super-Beacon, Matrix and Ammy.
Most of the obviously spiritual forms will be disallowed by repressive governments or agencies or groups or mobs, so I’ve taken precautions against these life-conditions by designing work that can be performed directly in front of repressive forces and still get by the radar, because they appear so ordinary, such as guitar or drum practice, or tap dancing or story-telling.
You never know what will and will not be allowed by any given repressive government, and this all depends upon outside pressures exerted on them relative to violations of human rights.
There will be plenty of human rights violations in the future, just as there are now in the present. These work exercises are designed for those residing in imprisoned societies with repressive measures such as death to the practitioner of anything other than the State Religion, established by whomever happens to be in power at the moment, and that is always subject to change, but what isn’t subject to change is the omnipresence of repression and fear and ignorance and hate and superstition.
Best look like you’re just practicing guitar. There’s a Jewish joke to go along with this — a Jewish man tries to enter a Synagogue — that’s “temple” or “church” to you unless you happen to be Jewish or know a bit about Judaism, and most folks don’t, although Jesus was a Jew and knew this stuff pretty well, being a Gnostic and all.
So this guy tries to get past the door guardian into the Temple, and he’s held back. This is the High Holy Day, and nobody without a ticket gets in.
“I just want to tell Murray Weinstock something — it’ll only take a minute, and you can watch me from here. I see him right over there!”
“Okay,” the door guardian says grudgingly, go ahead, but don’t let me catch you praying!”
Praying can only be in the prescribed manner, and the price must be paid. God forbid that anyone mention that you don’t actually need a minister to pray to God?
Tribalism is alive and well today, still functioning in pretty much the same fashion as it was back in the Stone Ages both Neo and Paleo, New and Old Lithics, Stone Ages.
Lithography is made on stones. My jewelry is Old Stone Age in design and manufacture, except that my tools are now steel where before they were bronze and iron and stone. We used whole and crushed stone and sand to drill and polish stone. How else?
We didn’t need aliens to teach us how to make monolithic buildings, but we did appreciate their business at the gold mines and the tourist shops. Many aliens have shops in and around Area 51, because they need the extra cash to get off this mudball.
Evidently, some aliens can’t make gold from simple carbon atoms, haw haw, although they clearly and demonstrably manage to make enough diamonds to choke several UFO Mercury Drives from those same carbon atoms.
In a few years, you’ll be able to make just about anything in your printer, even a decent omelet cooked exactly as some famous French Gourmet Chef cooks his omelets for his own breakfast, served at the exact heat he would serve it, with all the sauces and side dishes on there, too.
At that point, it’s hard to see where solid printing is going, but I can assure you that it gets very wild and dangerous, because there’s no reason you can’t print a nuclear bomb, if you can bypass the limiter controls — this of course won’t be happening for quite a few of your years, but as I mentioned earlier, each year is a mere half million minutes and when you’re as old as I am, that goes by rather quickly.
One human lifetime in my home world is a single breath in and out.
Details are realizable only by Direct Descension, which is not comfortable, but easy to learn. It’s the same dimension-hopping principle used in Jacob’s Ladder by many of the Serving and Protecting Angels.
Just because some aliens were misidentified as angels doesn’t mean that angels don’t exist but aliens do. Both aliens and angels exist, along with all sorts of things that you’d probably rather not know about.
Problem is, in the higher realms, all things are possible, and you need to be able to deal with absolutely all of them, equally well and with proper Spiritual Etiquette.
It isn’t likely that the Gates of Heaven will open up to a ruthless, brutal creature with hatred and evil in his or her heart, and the chances for a mean, stingy and selfish creature are just as slim.
Work Stations are not thrust upon anyone. It takes a lot of conscious effort and acquired skills to bring yourself into a position to take on some level of Essence Responsibility. Nothing happens by accident. Just leaning against the door won’t open the door, and there’s no guarantee that the door will ever open by itself.
You need to knock on the door, and that means applied work, effort and energy, and that’s what you get with my work exercises, materials and tools, and that’s why they are not for the millions but for the dozens, amongst whom you can be counted.
Popularity has its price — As the man in the alley said to Jack Benny: “Your money or your life.”
In the radio show to which I’m referring, Benny doesn’t make a move, doesn’t speak a word, doesn’t rustle or fluff. He stands there like wood, and you hear nothing except the audience slowly breaking into the longest laugh in radio history, at the end of which, the stick-up gunman says, “Did you hear me? Your money or your life!”
Again there is a long, long pause. Finally, Jack Benny says, “I’m thinking, I’m thinking.”
Money or Work is the inflexible rule — it’s similar to the Altitude Speed trade-off you get in flying aircraft — thrust needed to gain altitude can be applied to an aircraft in level flight to achieve greater speed.
You can spend money or you can do work. Work for money, money for work, work or money, money or work. Sounds absurd, right? But it isn’t. Reflect on this a moment — you can make a greeting card or buy one, right?
You can chop down a Christmas tree or buy one at a Christmas tree yard or buy an artificial one at your local craft shop.
You can build shelves or cabinets or decks yourself with your very own Craftsman tools, or you can buy them ready-made at a furniture store or K-Mart.
You can spend $20 on a tube of special organic natural toothpaste, or you can stick your toothbrush into a jar of baking soda and achieve the same result.
You can spend hours trying to drive nails into wood or hire a carpenter. If you got a pro woodworker to do the job, you’d save yourself the grief I had when I discovered that all the nails I’d been throwing away because they were aimed the wrong way were for the other side of the house!
Sure, it’s a joke, but it speaks well to the actual situation. Sometimes you have it ALMOST all together, the pieces are so close to together that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and for once it isn’t New Jersey OR Manhattan, but you need a little hint, a glimmer of trusted help, to get your trailing leg over the bar.
Hey, don’t we all need a little help from our friends now and then? And you know what? it’s no accident that those who give help easily also get help easily. Don’t be afraid or ashamed of needing help — it’s part of EGO that demands we be a hero, but heroes don’t last long and they get other folks in trouble.
In combat, you don’t want to be anywhere around an idiot who stands there waving a weapon around, yelling for those cowards to come out and do hand to hand combat. This is a recipe for disaster.
So what’s the message here?
If you think I’m gonna bottom-line this entire treatise, you got another think coming.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby