Student Black
Me Red
Student Blue
Me Gold

Beloved,

May the blessings of Nothing continue to inform your every moment. I remain most grateful for your Presence and Guidance.

Barring my seeming infinite capacity for “kidding myself”, here are some recent musings and observations:

I awake at 2:00 AM. My right ankle is in pain, probably a gout attack. I take medication. I sip coffee. An owl hoots. I seem to be living in this place of Nothing. I AM present to “me” but even more present to an infinitely larger Presence, “ME”, in which there are no “Others” and the Golden Rule is a living reality.

Thank you for “DO, RE, MI, RE, MI, RE, ME.” Your “Three Bodies” diagram is most helpful. It seems I am “Starting Over”. I seem to have died to the world. From 2003 to 2011, I experience what I call, “Walking Death” in which I seem to die before I awake. Now because of the Sanger School, I AM awake, dead and reborn. What I learn from working in prison: “dead men cannot be intimidated”. My sense of reality is that of a lucid dream which I watch with curiosity and puzzlement. I am a “stranger in a strange land”. Whadsup?

My experience of time continues to seem slowed. April Fools occurred six months ago. It seems more like six years ago. Whatever.

I seem to be living in this place of reversal in which a new “Non-Physical” body is seems to be organizing both Astral and Mental bodies; where “DO 6”, LA 6 and FA 6” seem to be my current center of gravity. Possibly the hallucination of pain meds.

The Beast continues to exist as “Desire” primarily for sleep, food and sex. I acknowledge this existence as a reminding factor for the reality of “I shall not want…” as everything I need and want is given unconditionally. There is this doubling of wanting and non-wanting, knowing and non-knowing, being and non-being, waking and sleeping, visibility and invisibility that exists “Beyond” where “Duality” is both “real” (Every stick has two ends”) and “non-real” (“Freedom is a whole stick.”).

On my recent vacation, I am struck by a lack or reactions. When they occur, they are muted and have little force and seem to vaporize at a glance. I used to believe “reactions” were necessary. It now appears they are not. It is a new and strange sensation. I seem “unflappable” even when “flappable”.

I seem to experience the reality, “No man is an island..”. There are no “Others”. I appreciate the reality of man’s “pain” as my own as I and US attempt to resolve “feeding Moon and Sun”. What an awesome task to consciously recreate “the Ray of Creation” from the bottom up. May we continue our “conscious efforts and intentional sufferings” until “the Bell rings for All”.

On this discussion of Labels without denying their tendency to “wag the dog”, I find myself loving them. They articulate my inarticulation. They enable this email. My wife throws pots. I’m just potty.

I feel invisible and inconsequential. I am reminded of “It’s a Wonderful Life” in which we remain unaware of our “True Significance.” An ignorance that can keep one focused on “attempts” instead of “results”. Thank you for the lesson in which “virtue is indeed its own reward.”

Enough already. Guidance welcomed…

Love,
Rookie Sherpa

Rookie,

Sounds like the pain meds to me,

Or, if not… sounds like a man I want to learn from.

My ankles hurt as well but, for me, it is a lack of use that is probably the culprit. I sit in my chair and roll my feet in circles to loosen them up… but I wish you relief from the gout.

As always, your report is true testament of more than a rookie. Your humble signature of, proclaiming such, made that clear.

It is not often in life that one gets to enjoy banter and exchange ideas with men of a common mind (but it should be). So for that I am very grateful.

I see no ? marks in you text…. It is obvious that most of the answers have been revealed. How could it not be so to a man has done 6 years work in 6 months?

Guidance?… Keep climbing. Breathe the scenery. Smell the peace. Sit in the stillness’s of the moments… and once and awhile allow yourself to back up behind where you are sitting and enjoy the sight of you witnessing you witness the moments in between.

“On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley
Called to witness cycles only of the past
And we reach all this with movements in between the said remark” YES- Close to the Edge

Hop in vent sometime if you want to giggle.

Love.

He who learns from him who has learned,

Russ

1. Reasoning from the model, it seems there must be many galaxies (LA-TI) of which only a few successfully provide a “trickle charge” YES plus a gaggle of rookie vineyard managers who possess the experience to up the percentages or screw things up even further like young Beelzebub? THE SCREW UP OR ADD A PERCENTAGE GUYS ARE FACTORED IN, AS ARE THE NUMBER OF PLANETS WITHOUT WATER. MASSIVE ATTEMPTS ALLOW A BIT OF EVERYTHING SO THE DESIRED RESULTS WILL GET MET WITH EM OR WITHOUT EM.
Ah So. Law of Averages on a Grand Scale!
Check
2. Pondering on the absence of a personal sense of urgency, it seems much non-doing needs doing in relation to the 5th Oblogonian Striving? “Yes, Mr. Miyagi, I remember that patience is the mother of will. I will continue painting the fence.” NON-DOING IS A FORM OF DOING. ONCE YOU CAN NOT DO WHAT YOU DID BEFORE, YOU CAN BEGIN TO DO WHAT YOU HADN’T.
Love it: The doing of non-doing. I am one busy guy!
Check
3. Looking at “The Three Bodies” diagram, it appears the Physical Body initially arouses the Astral Body; the Physical and Astral Bodies then arouse the Mental Body; the Astral and Mental Bodies then organize and purify the second and third stories of the Physical Body which when clean, complete and reborn, organizes the second and third stories of the Astral and Mental Bodies? Amazing. Will you comment further about this seeming reversal? UMM, THE HIGHER GUYS GOT THERE FIRST AND CREATED CONDITIONS WHICH ALLOWED THE PHYSICAL TO TAKE FORM. THEY THEN NURTURED THE PHYSICAL UP TO THE POINT WHERE THE PHYSICAL COULD NOW TAKE IN THE TWO HIGHERS AND ORGANIZE THEM (MAKING THEM BECOME HIGHER THAN WHAT THEY COULD HAVE BECOME WITHOUT THE PHYSICAL). FLOUR AND WATER DON’T MAKE BREAD. THE BAKER MAKES BREAD. HE BRINGS FLOUR AND WATER UP TO RECEPTIVENESS… TO BE ABLE TO EAT THE FIRE TO BECOME TRANSFORMED… THEN HE HIMSELF EATS THE BREAD AND PUTS IT IN A HIGHER OVEN (HIS STOMACH)… SO HE WILL LIVE AND BE ABLE TO INFLUENCE FUTURE FLOUR AND WATER. At the moment, it seems there is a Physical/Non-Physical Body, an Astral Body beginning to organize its third story and a Mental Body beginning to organize its second story? And while this is going on, I am at my favorite donut shop sipping French Roast and nibbling on a Blueberry Fritter. Go figure 😆 . INDEED. ONCE THE PHYSICAL IS WORKING RIGHT, IT IS LIKE THE TWO OVENS. THE FIRST TRANSFORMS THE BREAD AND THE SECOND TRANSFORMS THE BAKER. You’re probably going to tell me there is only One Body and giggle at me for continuing to look at its parts separately. Okay: Head, Heart, Spinal Cord. Makes sense. Just remember, I’m better at taking things apart than putting them back together. I always end up with extra stuff. NA, THREE BODIES WORKS… JUST SEE IT AS A THREE-IN-ONE FORMATION… AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A WASTE PRODUCT.
How many times do I need to see something to completely assimilate it? What ever the number is, you’ll probably need 2/3 of that. 😀 Right now, it is solid; a month from now? Who knows? Thank you for showing me how to make bread and eat it; again.You are welcome The old proverb holds: “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In this case, possibly many lifetimes?
4. Is it accurate to say successful doubling annihilates “levers”? I seem to have many fewer even when not taking pain meds. YES SIR. CALL GOD A BAD NAME AND HE WON’T SAY, “LEVER ME BE”. With regard to “not learning anything new after 17”: it now seems to me to refer to those who never awaken? YEP, THE BASIC LEVERS ARE CREATED EARLY IN LIFE… BUT G ALSO SAYS, OF THE THREE TOTALITIES, WHICH REFLECTS THE INTERACTIONS OF THE CENTERS, THAT AFTER THEY ARE FORMED THEY CAN BE ALTERED, “…continuing in the average man at present only until 60; but in the case of people who have consciously perfected themselves to the so-called “all-centers-awake state,” that is, to the state of being able in their waking state to think and feel on their own initiative, these factors still continue to form in man until the age of 300”.
Great! 230 years to go sounds right!
Check
5. It seems there must be three Astral Body and three Mental Body foods if those bodies can continue to exist after the death of the Physical Body? If so, what are they? What does a non-physical spinal cord look like? Dark matter? THERE IS THE RUB… IF THE MENTAL BODY IS IMMORTAL, WHAT HAPPENS TO IT IF IT DOESN’T EAT? OR IS IT ONLY IMMORTAL IF IT EATS? WE HAVE TO GRASP THE CONCEPT THAT GOD DOESN’T EAT… HE WASN’T DIMINISHING IN VOLUME… THE PLACE ON WHICH HE DWELT WAS. THEREIN THE HOLY SUN ABSOLUTE NEEDED FED… OK, OK, BUT IF WE DIDN’T FEED THE HSA AND IT DIMINISHED IN VOLUME UNTIL IT WAS ALL GONE, WHAT HAPPENS TO GOD? IS HE STILL IMMORTAL EVEN IF HE DOESN’T HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE? I GUESS, AT THAT POINT, ITS CALLED EVICTED IMMORTALITY. WOOT, WE SHOULD BECOME HOLY SUN ABSOLUTE REALTORS.
Applying now.
Check 🙂
6. What is Astral Decay? I THINK OF SUCH THINGS IN THIS WAY (AS I CAN ONLY DEFINE THEM USING PHYSICAL WORLD MODELS)… GASSES ARE LIKE THE PHYSICAL STUFF THEY NEVER BECOME FIXED AND ARE NOT VERY CONCENTRATED (AND JUST LIKE AIR IN A BALLOON, THEY WILL ESCAPE AND THE BALLOON WILL DEFLATE UNLESS YOU KEEP PUMPING MORE GAS IN). LIQUIDS ARE LIKE THE ASTRAL STUFF, ONCE THEY BECOME FIXED YOU HAVE A LARGER CONCENTRATION IN ONE PLACE (YOU CAN KEEP WATER IN A SWIMMING POOL FOR A LONG TIME UNTIL IT EVAPORATES). BALLOONS STAY CONNECTED TO THE PUMP, WHILE ALIVE, AND CAN KEEP GETTING PUMPED UP. AFTER DEATH, SWIMMING POOLS NO LONGER HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF A GARDEN HOSE TO FILL THEM UP… AND THEREBY EVAPORATION (DECAY) EVENTUALLY WINS. SOLIDS ARE LIKE THE MENTAL STUFF AND ARE SO CONCENTRATED THAT AS A RESULT THEY BECOME “FIXED/CRYSTALLIZED”, WHICH IS A GOOD THING… BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS, “DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER”.
Makes sense. Makes the ability to start over of some consequence. Are uncut diamonds as valuable as cut ones?
Cut ones are more complicated… they have more facets. 😀
7. What are the differences between emanations, radiations, and Vibrations? THESE ARE TOUGH THINGS TO SEPARATE. EVERYTHING EMANATES AS G SAID AND, “MY EMANATIONS DIFFER WHETHER I’VE HAD TEA OR COFFEE”. I SUPPOSE THAT “THE ABSOLUTE FIRM CALM” MAY NOT EMANATE. THERE IS SUPPOSEDLY NO MOVEMENT AT ABSOLUTE ZERO. HOWEVER, IN THE WORK SENSE, EMANATIONS MAY BE LIKENED TO THAT WHICH EVOKE FEELINGS (DOGS HELP HEAL PEOPLE BY MAKING THEM FEEL BETTER). WHEREAS RADIATIONS ARE SIMPLY THE PROCESS IN WHICH ENERGY IS EMITTED AS PARTICLES OR WAVES (GAMMA RADIATION HELPS HEAL PEOPLE BY KILLING CANCER CELLS), AND VIBRATIONS ARE THE OSCILLATING, RECIPROCATING, OR OTHER PERIODIC MOTION OF A RIGID OR ELASTIC BODY OR MEDIUM FORCED FROM A POSITION OR STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM (SOUNDS AND CERTAIN IMAGES MAY HEAL PEOPLE BY STIMULATING, CREATING, OR RESETTING VARIOUS RESONATIONS OR RHYTHMS OF THE BODY).
“I’m picking up good vibrations.” How do you differentiate between formatory and formulation? Formatory usually only considers two things to make a decision. Formulation considers everything it can to make a decision. In other words, Formatory is the path of least Formulation.
8. On the LA-TI Diagram, would “Patience” appear at the level of “Real I”? WOW, AS IT SEEMS TO ME TO NOT BE TIED TO WHAT I SEE AS THE ASPECTS OF A CENTER, IT MAY WELL BE TIED TO THE REAL “I”… YET IT MAY BE VIEWED AS JUST A PROPERTY OF THE STATES OF MAN, I.E., THE PATIENCE OF MAN #1, THE PATIENCE OF MAN #2, THE PATIENCE OF MAN #3, ETC.
Makes sense, but isn’t “Impartiality” a property of the State of Man as Master?. On the LA-TI Diagram, impartiality is at FA of Master. Another musing: since “Impartiality” is the ability to see the “true significance of what is without bias and with empathy”…Empathy is at the FA of Steward and compassion is at the FA of Man. might “Impartiality” also be correctly described as “Objective Love”? It may, since FA is the Emotional Aspect of Objective Consciousness (on the other hand, it may be a property of man… since, as I remember it, most girls I tried to go to bed with, objected). 😕
Women are often described as “Intuitive”. Does that indicate that Higher Intellectual Center tends to function in them more often? Not really. The female usually has a stronger emotional center. She is the child raiser and is quick to act from feeling (the power is in the horse). Intuitive definition is, “Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive”. Is that why Gurdjieff is purported to have said, “It takes a man 20 years to acquire what women already have”? Yes, he also said, “Women are already awake, they just don’t know it”. That, too, has been my observations when taking students through Cosmic Secrets and doing April Fools. Women usually have a better developed Emotional Center. Is Pascal’s saying, “The heart has it reasons that reason does not know” a reference to this “intuition”? Yes, “Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive”. If so, it would explain why women in my life so often scoff at my ruminations. They’re just not feeling it… tip: to influence the horse… take an apple. Wow, I’ll bet that’s why we usually buy them dinner! It may also explain why you see me as a “girlie guy”. Na, it’s the hat. 😉
Yum. This bread’s delicious. I like it when you sprinkle it with giggles.
Coated in flour; your baking fool of an apprentice…

Love,
The Rookie Baker

/bow
Russ