Writer in Windows
Questions & Answers from this Website
Last Century - 1999-98
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11/22/99
I am in a time of darkness and felt drawn to visit your website.
I enjoyed reading about your birthday and your inner battles. Somehow your
difficulty made me feel less alone in my struggles. I feel like I try so hard to
make my life good, to quiet my brain to cultivate lovingkindness -- but my mind still runs
amok, transfixed with desires. Oh, dear writer in the window, will I ever find
peace?
There is no peace on earth. Desires abound always, though they change.
Why be here if not to experience all the facets? Oh -- you thought you had
and were finished? And the brain -- be quiet???? Soon enough, but then
you won't be around to enjoy it. This is why meditation is taught: to get some
modicum of hummmmmmm into the buzz and babble of brain chemistry. All the work
you've been doing for goodness and peace and lovingkindness to be available in your life
does hone your sensitivity to these things. But no one rests while bombs still fall,
knives still kill, words still hurt, homelessness exists. No one rests when so many
of us are beasts still.
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11/21/99
I am a business woman with a high level position in an advertising
agency. I am a Scorpio to a tee. I am planning on getting a tattoo of my
planet sign, Pluto, on Thanksgiving. What is the full meaning of the planet sign?
Mutate now, enjoy the rush -- that's Pluto's message. Pluto is aligned
with Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death and Rebirth, she who dances with skulls. Pluto
has three faces describing its mutation process. The first is the quiescent face,
hidden. Like oil untapped in the smooth plain of the desert, you don't know it's
there. The second face of Pluto is the oil tapped, gushing out, making a mess,
rebellious in its pursuit of expression. The third face of Pluto is the oil
transformed into useable fuel, the right use of Power. Like Scorpio, Pluto rules the
underground: crime, garbage disposal, sewers, outlaws; and also the Plutocracy, the
governmental powers. In fact, Pluto equals power, whether untapped, rebellious or
transformed power. I regard Pluto in a person's birth chart as the deep magnetic
core of the person, the place where the real Purpose and Passion of their life resides.
If the person is unaware of this power, it ekes out in unconscious actions, drawing
the person to any situation that relates even tangentially to their true interest.
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11/19/99
If I meet somebody during the Mercury Rx (I'm Sagittarius, they're
Leo) and the relationship ends during a Mercury Rx, what's going on here?
You're tying up loose ends, reviewing a not yet understood lesson. Are
your lessons done?
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11/2/99
Can one
have love and money?
Yes, but -- to have lots of money, you've gotta have
love of money; to have lots of love, you've got to pay attention to the lover, not to the accumulation of
money; which means you'll have love, and money enough to live comfortably though not
extravagantly.
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10/10/99
If one's Venus is in Sagittarius is it impossible
for one to be happy with just one love? (I bet Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones has
Venus in Sag!)
Maybe it's impossible for the Venus in Sag. person to be happy at all
with love, because no one can meet
their rose colored perfected vision of a lover. Also,
a Venus in Sagittarius needs to turn from the mirror and explore the person laying next to
him.
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9/19/99
Why do we pray for it and then become frightened when it arrives?
How do we walk through the fear and hold on to the success?
It's overwhelming to pray and receive. We get frightened when we
feel our power, our power to get what we ask for in this case. And then, what we
prayed for was once only a wish, and a lack in our lives. When that wish manifests,
and the lack becomes fullness, the reality and work begin. Both expose
flaws the prayer didn't dream of. As to walking thru fear, just do it:
acknowledge the fear, lunge on thru and past it anyway. It's intention that
pushes through fear. Desire, obsession, and necessity all create that intention.
Success? Success, especially in earthy matters, is mutable, don't hold
on. Hold on to knowing and trusting your Self. That's real success.
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9/19/99
Will a marriage be successful if it takes place while Mercury
is retrograde ? Do marriages work out well when people get married during this
period? Or would it be wiser to plan a different time to marry?
It's wiser to plan, rethink the marriage during a Mercury retrograde
period. It's really not party time, Mercury retrograde, so the celebration would be
held under difficult influences, when cars tend to break down and travel brings travail.
As to the success of a marriage formed while Mercury is retrograde, the symbolism
suggests a scenario where you say yes when you mean maybe, that doubt would likely
besiege the partners, on the day of the marriage as well as throughout it's life.
So, no, I would not advise a wedding while Mercury is retrograde. I would advise
Mercury retrograde as a great time to send out the invitations, plan the menu,
order the gown, rehearse the ceremony: all the while inwardly reviewing and settling any
doubts you have. It's easier to cancel the invitations than to have a bad marriage.
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8/29/99
Why am I so utterly frightened of death, yet so (seemingly)
attracted to it? I do not have an affinity for horrific movies (I've never even seen
"Psycho," "Rosemary's Baby," "The Exorcist,"
"Scream," "Friday the 13th," etc.) but I go totally overboard on
Halloween, even to the point of displaying my own bloody (literally; well, fake,
literally) pine coffin. My Halloween setup is amazing. The only jokes that
seem hysterical to me are the ones dealing with death. My younger brother committed
suicide at 24, so perhaps I'm still trying to deal with that, but I honestly don't think
that is the reason. I'm terrified of dying. Help!
It sounds like you're doing everything you can to work yourself
away from the fear of death into an acceptance of it. One of my favorite
writers, Octavia Butler, reminded me recently in her new book [Parable of the Talents]
that fear is power. So, your fear of death is eventually going to give you the power
to accept death, and if you live a long enough life, welcome it. In my very young
youth, like from six to sixteen, I would wake up every morning with the thought: what
if I die today?' I wondered why I thought this, and soon understood that it
didn't reflect just a fear of dying, but more a fear of being unprepared for it, of being
afraid and resisting death. Actually, I think that this waking thought lasted way
beyond sixteen, into my forties; but now, at 63, it doesn't come to me any more.
I've accepted that the death time will come, and I also have developed a lively connection
with the Spirit that pervades and constructs all form and formlessness. This
connection helps me visualize death as a journey into familiar territory. I think
you can turn your fear into power by similarly getting to know the Spirit of Life as it
dwells within you and within everything.
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7/15/99
An exquisite poem from a 'window' reader recalls an observation that we
are all alone together:
Confessions
Confessions
The day is brilliant.
I am alone.
The day is hollow,
and I am alone.
The night is;
I am always alone.
The only thing that is for
sure are the dogs and the horses.
They depend on me.
Some days they seem to be all
that keeps me going,
because I know they are
waiting. And the land,
it is always there. I
depend on it.
Sometimes, I am too harsh on
the dogs and
the horses. I need to be
softer. As my teachers are
with me, so
must I be with them. I forget
that they have foibles of
their own
to work through.
In high school I had a
duckling and two chicks.
I don't remember how
I got them.
They followed me around
the yard. I was at a friend's
house when a summer
storm blew in. Hail. Rain.
I thought I should check
on them but I didn't.
I came home to find
them sprawled out on the lawn
dead. Like murder victims, their bodies
were contorted unnaturally.
It was my fault. I am sorry
for not being there for them.
I have never forgotten.
I hate flying over large cities, or
being stuck in traffic, or
seeing moving images of
crowded city sidewalks.
It makes me feel like I
don't count. I feel all
their troubles and
desires, and
unrealized hopes, and
am overwhelmed.
When it is just me
and the dogs, we count.
We're all there is.
My mother says she
prays for me daily
that I will meet a nice man
who is considerate, and
kind, and funny, and
loves God.
She didn't say that last one,
I added that. But she says
I have to help her out because
I have too many dogs and men
like meat. She says there are
not many men who are vegetarian.
I only need about 50 acres
between me and the next
person. If I can't see any
houses, that is good too.
But how can anyone be lonely
in this world with so many
people.
by Victoria Seale
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6/21/99
Why do I always dream of dead people, like my classmate
who died of asthma several years ago? I dreamed of her last year and now my
grandfather, what does it signify? They are both crying in my dreams and my
classmate wants to bring me along with her. Both of them, I never visit their
graves.
Dreams and their symbols are very personal. It seems clear,
though, that you haven't resolved or completely accepted these deaths, especially your
classmate's. I am partial to Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy way of dream
interpretation. He posited that every component of your dream is an aspect of you.
Hence, it's not your dead classmate or grandfather who is doing the crying,
but you. You feel grief, and probably you've not gone into your sorrow over these deaths
and need to. But, you can "be" your classmate, for
instance, and see what "she" is crying about. Have a wise friend work with
you. She/he sits in one chair, you, as your dead classmate, in the other.
Your friend then asks you, "why are you crying?" and you answer her.
Take as long as you need in the answering. Your friend's work is not only to
ask the questions, but to remember what you say. If you have a video camera, it
might be good to tape the session. You can do this exercise on your own if you
need to, becoming the questioner and the classmate both, especially with the help of the
video camera.
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6/21/99
What is meant by the value of one's work?
At the root, the word value means
"to be strong." That definition came from earlier derivations meaning
"to wield, to rule, to govern: power." The value of one's work today seems
to be more in line with the wielding of power and the ability to rule. More's the
pity. What I mean by the value of one's work is the joy it gives you and others, and
how it strengthens and expresses the truth of your unique existence.
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5/23/99
Eclipses?
Upstaging. Blocking.
"The partial or complete obscuring....A temporary or permanent dimming or
cutting off of light....A fall into obscurity or disuse; a decline....From Greek ekleipein=to
fail to appear."* The root of eclipse is leik[w]=to leave.
Powerful dynamics involved in eclipses, then, whether they occur between
celestial bodies or earthly ones. And when there's a cast of characters interacting
with the eclipsing bodies, watch out: sparks, tempers and sometimes bombs will fly.
*The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1992
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5/23/99
O! Writer in the Window! Speak to me about anger.
I have two friends who are very very angry. They are not often angry at me,
but they are often angry in general and that makes me afraid and silent. How can I
be with my angry friends without feeling alienated and distanced? One is a 64 year
old woman, one is a 38 year old woman. We are all gay so men aren't doing it/causing
it (unless very indirectly!) Since I am afraid of anger, maybe it makes sense that I
am attracted to anger? Maybe I am asking for too much ease in life?
Anger comes from frustration, from feeling thwarted. There's
good anger and bad anger; a time for anger and a time when anger's
expression is inappropriate. I think the abundance of anger
your 64 year old friend is experiencing may be the result of a lifetime of too much
hindrance from the world and not enough work on her inner being; maybe too little study of
the Ways of Spirit. I've experienced anger as a healthy release from
self-pity. And I've experienced anger arising, even now when I'm older (63) and
wiser, simply because my way had been thwarted, my ideas disagreed with:
frustration. I don't think anger belongs in exchanges with others. It needs to
be explored in solitude, and released there. As in: pound the pillows and yell, and
know who you're yelling at, form the words and scream them, release the fury
physically and mentally. The root of the word 'anger' is angh=tight,
painfully constricted, painful. Therefore, release is essential to health; but not a
release that brings pain to someone else. The destructive nature of anger is vividly
described in the word's etymology: "Agnail (hangnail), from Old
English ang-nael=painful spike in the flesh....from Old Norse angr=sorrow,
grief....from High German angust=anxiety....from Latin angere=to
strangle, torment....from Greek ankhone=a strangling."* Words coming
from the same root as anger are anxious, anguish, angina. So the
heart comes into the picture (angina). In my experience, anger arises where there is
no love: for oneself, for the other, or for life; and that love is awakened thru
dedicated inner research and reconnoiter.
*American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton
Mifflin, 1992
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5/23/99
Why is it that some people can get away with anything, while
others are persecuted for telling the truth? Perhaps if teachers weren't so biased
and didn't play favorites, then students wouldn't be like that.
Then, would we all get along better? How would it
effect how school is run and the cliques that run them?
We are all affected by charm, by a winning personality. And
truth is not, usually, a charming commodity. Nor is a winning personality always a
truthful one. Wouldn't it be a fine world if teachers were more diligent in
strengthening their sense of fairness, if most of them focused on becoming wise guides for
their pupils? But teachers too are "only human,"
a phrase people seem happy to use as an excuse for all their faults. You can change
that, at least in your own life. You can become the fair, truthful person you want
your teacher and friend to be. By your example, you might inspire a few others to do
the same.
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4/2/99
What do the stars and the planets have to do with the astrology
chart and the way the houses are set up?
The stars and the planets are the figures astrology is based on.
Psychological qualities have been assigned to them, and by their relationship to
each other, astrologers interpret personality attributes and events.
The houses are set up mathematically
as placement for the planets in a chart. These
houses represent the twelve major arenas of human activity. Their setup is
dependant on the specific hour of birth. The planets have nothing to do with the way
the houses are set up. Their placement in a house, however, adds texture to
the interpretation of a birth chart. For instance, Venus, planet of love and art,
when in the fourth house of home and family shows a love of these endeavors, while Venus
placed in the tenth house of career illustrates a person who is involved in the arts as a
life-path. Use of the stars and
constellations as event activators is another, more esoteric branch of astrology.
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3/8/99
When a goldfish collides with the sides of
its bowl, do its eyes water?
When goldfish collide with the side of their bowl, they cry, and
when goldfish cry, their eyes are dry.
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3/8/99
Here is my burning question: After an unexpected raid and
arrest by state troopers at the end of last year, I began to have a roaring in my ears.
My G.P. said it was due to aging, which I don't accept. My stress level at
the time was so high, my blood pressure sky-rocketed and I almost stroked out.
Two
months later, my blood pressure is normal and I still have this nerve-wracking roaring in
my ears. I have had chiropractic alignment, and some cranial-sacral work. I am
going to get my acupuncturist to work on me next month. In the meantime -- do you
have any words of wisdom? Is it just old age? Do I have to resign myself to
live with this obnoxious noise in my ears because I am growing older? I thought it
was only wrinkles and sagging skin and fat butts -- where did this come from?
The body expresses the psyche's pain. I think, in the shock situation that
was the seed of the nerve-wracking roar in your ears, some physical reaction has
gotten stuck, like a phonograph needle caught in the rut of a broken record.
Once the physical joins the emotions and psyche in reacting to a situation,
the body must have healing treatment. I do think you're doing the best thing
for yourself by getting acupuncture and cranial sacral work. As to resigning
yourself to living the rest of your life with the obnoxious noise, I
don't believe you do have to, but you need to believe that.
You'll need devotion to this belief too. When we get older, the record has more
ruts, and the needle gets stuck more often; which means we have to be more vigilant in
lifting the needle out of the rut.
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2/5/99
What is your description/interpretation of "crone?"
A crone is a woman past the point and age of caring how she looks
or behaves. She has lived her life at the beck and call of mate and children, and
upon completing menopause/men, a pause, she lives her life to please herself. The
modern crone deliberately chooses this name, which in olden times was given to her as a
derogatory curse for no longer being attractive to or hankering after the almighty male.
The root of the word 'crone' is sker-, to cut. I
guess when the guys of yore named the old woman this they secretely feared she'd cut their
balls off, as indeed her disdain for their needs symbolically did.
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2/5/99
A 'Horse Whisperer' is supposed to be a person who communicates
telepathically with horses on the spirit level; if this is so, O Writer in the Monitor,
speak to us of the implications of 'Bird Brain.'
Similarly telepathic are Bird Brains and Horse Whisperers, but
Bird Brains speak in whistles. :-)
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12/12/98
Why, when I scream out to bloom, do I wait?
Blooming takes time and waiting. But that waiting is filled
with activities that nurture the scream-seed so it can bloom. Also, the
season one plants in must be right if the scream-seed is to bloom. Was it the winter
of your discontent or the spring of your determination in which you planted your future
bloom?
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12/12/98
I just wanted to ask you, well, I have a best friend and she
knew I really like this boy and what make it so bad is that she went behind my back and
ask him out on a date without telling me. How I found out was because he told me it
was in progress for about two months. What you think I should do?
Ever hear the phrase: With friends like that, who needs enemies?
You're both very young, so chalk it up to one of life's lessons; yours is: examine
how you're choosing your friends, and what made you think she was your best friend.
For instance, did you have a little hunch that she wasn't really honest, or that
she didn't really value you, did some small voice in your head whisper that to you way at
the beginning of your friendship? If so, next time, listen to it. If not, next
time, listen for it. Her lesson, which you'll teach her by
ditching her, at least for a while, is the value of being trustworthy. As for the
boy, this may be your first but not your last class in What Males Are Like When It
Comes To Females. In my experience, which is ample and long, 99.9 percent of
males are like Bill Clinton and this boy. Maybe that information will lessen your
expectations and allow you to be more independent when dealing with males from now on.
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12/2/98
Anyway I was wondering why do people always fall in love, and
then later on down the line they are not happy? And when people get married why do
they always have an affair on each other? What is the point of that?
Fall, that's the keyword here. Wouldn't it be nice if people
rose in love? I think we'd be happier flying high
instead of falling, diving into the pits! Indeed, what's the point of the marriage
that comes after this falling? Love withers when it's bound. Love needs to fly
and flow. Chain it and it breaks free into someone else's habitat.
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12/2/98
Can you think of ANY reason why a person under 35 should pay
Social Security Tax, other than the fact that it is illegal not to? I'm stumped.
One reason: the future. If I hadn't paid into Social
Security when I was under 35, I wouldn't be able to afford my rent now that I'm 62.
Since we all hear that this small nest material may not be available to you under 35ers in
the future, you've got to risk standing up and shouting "we're not gonna pay it
anymore!" Make Waves. But do make plans for securing your shelter and
needs after 65, when you may not be cute or agile or even interested enough to work for
them.
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11/27/98
What is the quality of friendship? How do we esteem it?
How and when do we let it go? How do we know if it's over? What's
"appropriate" to do to get it back?
The quality of friendship is affinity. We esteem it with
honesty and by listening. We know it's over, we let it go, when there is more
difference than affinity. When the two paths meet again through affinity, the
friendship resumes. "And let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own
mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
[Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf,
Publisher]
Affinity: a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; an
inherent similarity between persons or things. In chemistry, an attraction or force
between particles that causes them to combine. [According to American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.]
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11/20/98
What does it mean to live a "balanced" life?
It means to be constantly vigilant in knowing one's self.
Balance is created by movement, by continual alternations that synchronize one to the
rhythms of the moment. Balance is a dance that requires a center to stand on.
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11/20/98
How does a woman over 60 define herself? Most people
define themselves by what they do and who they know. But that is easier said than
done. You can be somebody's wife, mother, sister, daughter, niece, friend, but is
that a definition of oneself? You can talk about what you do for a living, which is
a kind of definition. But when you get beyond the obvious answers, how can you
define yourself? And when you retire, how do you redefine
yourself? That's a
whole thought I struggle with occasionally.
The beauty for a woman in being over sixty, past menopause and
past service to family, is that at long last she gets to define
herself, to live for herself, to nurture her own values and
interests. All the nourishment she has seldom given to herself, but instead to
others, she can now invest in herself to re-create her own joy in living. I think it
takes some sitting with an inward look to re-cognize the you
that has been growing and waiting to be fully expressed. As I write this, an
excerpt of a favorite poem keeps flooding my thoughts. It expresses the greatest
gift of aging:
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart...
"Love after Love" by Derek Walcott
from the collection "Sea Grapes," 1976
also in "Collected Poems: 1948-1984,"
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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10/29/98
Can the "baby" of a large family ever truly
"grow up" in the eyes of the older siblings?
Part of growing up entails cutting the cords, divorcing from
family so that you can discover yourself as an individual. When you've done that and
spent time in the world on your own, you can go back to siblings and they will see you
have developed experience and dimensions they were not part of, that you're more than the
"baby" they grew up with. But, you've gotta make the break, get the
divorce, if you're to become an individual. That's how I see it.
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10/25/98
With only 26 symbols in our language called the alphabet how
can there be understanding, or misunderstanding? Only 26 is the basis for all this
prolific writing.
Ah, but the combinations of 26, that's what fashions the
understanding. Those 26 symbols form the exquisite nuance of meaning that describes
haste in all its permutations, from speed to rapidity to abruptness. Those 26
symbols let us re-create hello to Yo, nice to kewl, wise to hip. As with any
instrument, those 26 symbols and their combinations require study and use, or the music is
out of tune and misunderstood.
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10/24/98
Most of my life since childhood, I have experienced
"disappointment" to an extreme degree because I always believed in majick, or a
god or higher power or whatever, but as it turned out, all of that stuff was just
"stuff" and I can't get over it. Got any suggestions?
I think we've been taught incorrectly about god and majick.
We've been told to believe that they are outside of ourselves and extraordinary.
Clearly your experience has shown you they are not. So has mine. But, I have
experienced, as Buffy St. Marie once sang, that god is alive and majick is afoot, within
me, within you, within each human. We are surrounded by the same Mind that created
Everything, we are composed of that Mind, which exists in the molecules and atoms and All.
So, when I need something to manifest in my life, I talk to the molecules, I ask Universe
as it dwells in atoms and molecules for what I need, and my need is filled.
Specifics count in that asking: knowing exactly the person you want healed or protected,
knowing exactly how much money you need to not be homeless. And, god within
you communicates with god around you and with god within and around me, and
within all you communicate with, to manifest your request. That's the majick of
life. But, that's the majick of life as I experience it. The problem
with god and majick is believing someone else's experience of it, the dogmas we've been
taught to believe under threat of hellfire. Now those old doctrines are crumbling;
many of us humans being are disillusioned with them. This is a millenium to discover
your own map to majick and god, and use it to travel to and live in that
destination. No doubt your map will have parts of many belief systems you've
encountered, the parts that appeal to you. To which I add my own roadsigns, for your
consideration: The majick of life is found by relating to "god" in all and
everything.
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9/18/1998
Why is it that people who work hard have no money?
Hard work has always been the purview of slaves and servants.
Wealth is won by wits. Labor merely makes a living. Especially today is
wealth won by wits rather than hard work. There are now millionaires whose work to
make the millions consists of an hour on the internet and 20 minutes on the telephone.
The idea that one must work hard in life is a dying one. Work soft,
remembering that the root of the word work means "to make sacred." That
way, if the money doesn't jingle, your joy will.
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9/6/1998
I've recently come to believe that scarcity is manufactured and
that the universe is truly abundant. If that's true: is there a sense in which
we can see all abundance as positive, even the abundant waste, corruption, and destruction
the patriarchy imposes? Still looking for angels.
Dear Still Looking for Angels: Yes, in this sense the
abundant negativity of today is positive: we're working it out of our human system,
this greedlust. It's pus-full, but like all wounds, once the pus is out, the scab
sets, the wound heals, the scar forms, we go on, mindful of the pleasure of wholeness.
Birth originates in darkness.
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9/6/1998
Do the best of us come back as cats or horses?
From what I know of the way humans treat horses, I hope not!
As to cats, there are a lot of mangy, starving cats roaming the streets of this
world, so again, I hope the best of us aren't among them. (I think the best of us
don't come back here at all!)
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8/31/1998
Will my love for Cute Mike grow old and cold -- and if it does,
what should I do?
Even if your love grows old and cold, it will always be a part of
you. This I've recently experienced in reviewing loves of the past: they are still
alive within me, quieter, but more permeating, than when they were flaming. Love
really is forever. Body presence isn't, but then, neither are bodies forever!
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8/31/1998
Why have angels become so popular in the last ten years or so?
Or is it the belief in angels that has become popular? Signed, Ruth in
Salem, feathering someone's wings.
Dear feathering someone's wings: Angels have become so popular in
the last ten years or so because we need 'em: our cisterns are overflowing and the
stink is awful. Angels remind us there's more to hope springs than Arkansas!
As to belief or reality: as we believe, so we manifest.
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8/24/1998
What's the difference between the (terrorist) bomb in Omagh and
the (terrorist) cruise missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan? What defines a
terrorist? And, finally, does it matter to the innocents supping on shrapnel?
The difference is government sanction: the lack of it is a major part
of what defines a terrorist. A terrorist is so called because he/she strikes terror
in the minds of government men, the terror of losing the power of control and the
control of power. The terrorist clearly operates from the frustration of no power
except violence rashly applied in the most accessible places. And no, I don't think
the innocents supping on shrapnel are won over to the terrorists' way of thinking, in
fact, just the reverse. For me, there's little difference between the terrorist
leaders and the government sanctioned generals: they both think war is a righteous game.
That's the way of the day when testosterone rules.
~
8/22/1998
When will Jewish women start to name their children
"Adolph" again?
Never. That name will be forbidden and filthy until the end of this
creation, yuga and epoch. Its history is so venal it may never leave the memory of
universe-building atoms, and hence never be used even in the next creation, yuga or epoch.
~
8/18/1998
My question for the Writer in the Window is:
Why do I fear becoming the person I'm most likely to become?
Perhaps you inherently know that your concept of who you are likely to
become is too limited. As you are becoming, there are layers you
haven't seen yet, parts of you that are budding, that in fuller flower will likely alter
and redirect your current sense of yourself and your path. I say: Emerge from
the fear, become fascinated with the changing shades of becoming.
~
8/18/1998
I can't seem to get off this screen without sending you
something, so that's the question: How do I get off this screen? I'm
sure you'll have fun expanding on that one, question and answer.
Signed, Trapped in New York City.
Dear Trapped: You get off this screen by getting off on
it: as you did when sending this question, which sent you to another
screen, one that offered you expression. Of course, after you expressed your
thoughts, you were brought back to the same dilemma -- the screen you began with; and I
dare say that since you'd gotten off on that beginning screen because of the expression it
led you to, you were motivated to clik off to yet another screen. See, life on the
net, like life in the world, is a matter of fully using the screen you're on -- the
experience you're in -- so you can clik to -- jump into -- another!
~