Utopians Anonymous

C.,

You write: "Where we part ways, is your belief that it is the ego talking"

You speak as though you've already made the trip to the other side of the Divine Paradox and experienced this non-dualistic reality as fact.

Yet, there's something in your delivery that leads me to doubt it.

My only "belief" here is that, standing on this (human) side of the Paradox, it is better to admit our egotism, than to protest it's absence and remove all doubt as to our foolishness.

Something to do with embracing our shadow . . . .

Think maybe I'll start a society to help people recover from the escapist embrace of non-dualistic thought systems ...... I'd call it "Utopians Anonymous"

Joe: "Hi my name is Joe . . ."

Everybody: "Hi Joe!"

Joe: "and I'm a spiritual junkie."

Everybody: "Tell us your story Joe."

Joe: "Well, I thought I could just fly up to heaven and leave all the shit behind."

Everybody: "So how did ya figure it out, Joe?"

Joe: "My shit kept following me, so I kept running faster and faster, until one day I turned a corner and there was my shit, waiting for me."

Everybody: "Then what happened?"

Joe: "I finally caught a wiff of myself."

Everybody: "You don't smell so bad to us, Joe."

Joe: "Thanks. I guess I needed my shit to show me where I need to clean up my act, but my shit also helped me to realize that we're all in this shit together."

Everybody: "Right on! Life's not so much about leaving our shit behind as it is about getting our shit together. Once we get our shit together, we can put it to good use."

Joe: "Fertilizer!"

Everybody: "Yes, but remember it's God who grows the garden."

Joe: "So, I guess that after I get my shit together, I've got to learn to let go of my shit, so the garden can BE."

Everybody: "That's right, cause it ain't your garden. We're God's gardeners - given a small plot to till for him. We plant the seeds, fertilize it, tend it, weed it, all for the Master Gardener - God."

And so it is ....how our shit gets transmuted into a beautiful garden....

JC

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N.,

That was quite an interesting etymological excursion!

Another interesting link between ash and elixir is the fact that shit makes great fertilizer.

So the question in life is not "what am I going to do about my shit", but "what am I going to do WITH my shit."

Of course if I want to reduce the amount of, or increase the quality of the shit I do produce, then I can feed my furnace better fuel, improve the combustion/elimination process of my furnace, or both.

Now I know what colonic technicians and analytical psychologists have in common - they both help with elimination. The function of "Elimination" is related to K13 (Death). What kills us is our inability to "eliminate" our waste products - our inability to let-go of our shit.

It also helps to have an anal-expulsive personality - or as Ben Franklin once said: "Fart Proudly" :-)

JC
(Psychological Scatologist)

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N.J. writes:  

JC, I disagree with the "sinner" belief that we need to "make ourselves  worthy" before liberation takes place. Just being human is being  worthy. Sure, preparation for higher or more realistic understanding of  our real identity takes place through the discomfort and separation of  appearances until a proper receptivity is brought about by that  dissatisfaction (suffering in orthodoxy).

 You keep mentioning "purification" as being necessary in this realization  "truth." What exactly do you mean and what is the nature of "impurity"  that is such a block to realization? N.J.

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impurity = Whatever it is that's burning my ass.

purification = Taking a good spiritual bowel movement.

JC