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THE ADVENTURE OF ADVENTURES

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( Painting:  “Cupid Sleeping” by Miridori Louis, 1652 )

“Just a politicians abuse the trust of their constituents to gain personal power and wealth, rather than to serve their electorate,  so does the myopic mind consider that wisdom or wealth might be had from a magic potion!  Indeed, the mythical Fountain of Youth could never be discovered by an explorer in the New World at the cost of murdering countless native inhabitants.  The proverbial ‘eye of the needle’ does not admit the soul of a wealthy or brutal man into Nirvana.

As with many other alchemists before me, I have conducted a continuing series of careful observations upon the effects of a vast variety of chemical combinations.  The purpose of these is to discover and perfect a solution which can be ingested or injected into the human body to enhance the ability to perceive, understand and operate at an elevated level, both physically and spiritually — the latter being of senior importance to the former.

Originally, I was introduced to the notion that chemical alteration of the human system might alter or enhance the ordinary state of awareness or ability, through my study of chemistry, or more correctly, alchemy.  Many a sage has dabbled seriously with attempts to transmute the soul of man to a more profound understanding of life through chemical manipulation.  No less a personage than Sir Isaac Newton himself, as Mr. Dodgson observed during our first visit, spent a considerable number of years in this quest.  What results he may have obtained are not known, although it goes without saying that the scientific accomplishments of the great man are virtually unparalleled in human history!

Is it not probable that his mental acuity, or indeed his phenomenal genius, could have been augmented by his experimentations in alchemy? Reportedly, the man invested a prodigious number of years into this science, yet never shared his findings with anyone.  For what purposes did he study alchemy, and for what reasons did he conceal his findings?

How is it that a single man can innovate and revolutionize so many fundamental understandings of nature and of the spirit within a single lifetime?  Arguably, his intelligence exceeded those of any other living man, before or since.  It is my own observation that the spiritual world permeates all that is material.  It is this spiritual essence from which intelligence, and life itself, is empowered.

There is nothing mystical or fanciful in this subject whatever.  It is a fact of simple observation, which is easily proven to even the dimmest mind.

To wit: when an organism is killed or dies of natural causes, is it not the absence of an unseen force of animation that causes the transition from life to death?  Conversely, when a life form is borne it is the animation of the physical form by the non-physical force that we call life.

Anyone who has witnessed the death of a human body — as I have many times during my career as a criminal investigator — or who has attended the birth of a child or animal, cannot deny the phenomenon of that transition from inanimate object, into a living, breathing, self-motivating life form.

My personal quest for a spiritual elixir consumed many hours over many years. I did not concern myself with the possibility of negative consequences from my experiments.  The reward of success, for me, far outweighed the risk of deleterious effects upon my own person or mental state.  I suspect that Sir Isaac Newton shared my own insatiable passion for this science.

My own methods are always meticulous and thorough.  My observations upon the behavior of various chemical concoctions upon my own state, whether positive or negative, are equally meticulous.  With each self-administered dose I gained a more certain knowledge of the effects upon my own perception, ability, and understandings of life, and the universe.

To say that I had already succeeded in transcending the commonplace life of the “normal” citizens of Earth would be a gross understatement.  However, all states of existence can only be measured relative to similar states.  To this degree I deemed that a few of my experiments proved vastly more successful than others.  It was these upon which I focused my entire scientific attention in order that I might refine and improve upon them.  In my inmost heart I believed I could succeed where others failed.  Now that I found myself overwhelmed by this bizarre set of circumstances I had a new opportunity to test myself.

As a general rule I discovered that the effect of any chemical upon the human body serves only one, singular purpose:  to drive out or release the spirit from the body.  The spirit, the soul, the invisible animating essence of all life forms, is the true source of intelligence, awareness, ability and volition.  Indeed, life is not possible in the absence of it!

When driven or released from the constraints of a frail, tiny biological organism, such as the human body, I have observed that I, as a spiritual essence, can travel, perceive, understand and transcend the state of relative misery I experience when confined inside a body.

I frequently float about the room for hours, observing the microcosmic  minutia of every object within the room.  Likewise, I have, occasionally, traversed across half of the planet!  Lingering upon the towering peaks of storm blown mountains, floating across the burning desert sands — perceiving the intense heat without injury or discomfort — or quietly absorbing the moistness of moss upon the bark of magnificent redwood trees in the rugged Northwest.

This, I am certain, has been the prize sought by so many masters of mathematics, alchemy, philosophy and mysticism who have trod upon this lonely path.  The transmutation of base metals into precious metals has never been the goal of an accomplished alchemist!  What is mere gold compared to this?  What Earthly price can be placed upon the value of the soul?  What is a lifetime or two or twelve thousand spent in human pain, grief, disappointment and death, when compared to the possibility of a transcendent state of ability and awareness?

Indeed, so far as my experiments have revealed to me, there is no greater prize than realizing the full potential of subjective experience as a living spirit.  Unfortunately, the chemical syringe has been my only gateway through the portal of time, space and perception which lies between painful reality of the body, and the joy of freedom from it.  My personal adventure — the adventure of adventures,  the investigation of the highest order – has been to discover a safe and permanent transition between the reality of the flesh and the immortality of the soul.”

— Excerpt from Chapter 11 – Alchemical Solutions – from the book SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE, by Lawrence R. Spencer.

CANNED UNICORN MEAT

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“The unicorn is a legendary animal from European folklore that resembles a white horse with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead, and sometimes a goat’s beard and cloven hooves. First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the Middle Ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin. In the encyclopedias its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. Until the 19th century, belief in unicorns was widespread among historians, alchemists, writers, poets, naturalists, physicians, and theologians.

UNICORNS IN THE BIBLE:

“God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.”—Numbers 23:22
“God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.”—Numbers 24:8
“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth.”—Deuteronomy 33:17
“Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?”—Job 39:9–12
“Save me from the lion’s mouth; for thou hast heard me from the horns of unicorns.”—Psalms 22:21
“He maketh them [the cedars of Lebanon] also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.”—Psalms 29:6
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of the unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”—Psalms 92:10
“And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with their bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.”—Isaiah 34:7″

— (Wikipedia.org)

MANITAS DE PLATA — The Greatest Flamenco Guitarist

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Manitas De Plata, Jose Reyes and Manero Ballardo Perform the Malagueñas Flamenco. This is the first recording ever made ​​of Manitas De Plata – October 1963, in Arles, France, produced by E. Alan Silver of the Connoisseur Society (the recording engineer David B. Jones WAS). It WAS INITIALLY year released as LP (“Manitas de Plata at Saintes Maries de la Mer”) on the Connoisseur Society label and Philips (I Believe the Connoisseur Society distribution cam first) I Purchased the chromium-oxide tape version – from Which I Have made ​​this video – when it Appeared sometime in the early 1970s. 

 ~ ~ Guitar: Segovia, Bream, Manitas de de Plata (literally small Scissorhands but in fact is the French expression “nimble fingers”) is a famous gypsy guitarist. Whose real name is Ricardo Baliardo, Manitas de Plata was born August 7, 1921 in Sète, in a caravan. It was soon recognized by his people as Manitas de Plata, the man with the “magic fingers”. It differs every year, playing the guitar at the Gypsy pilgrimage of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Django Reinhardt was alive, he dare not even think to dethrone that which was then considered the king of gypsy music. Ten years after the death of Django, he agrees to play in public, and the miracle happens. In New York, at an exhibition of photographs by his friend Lucien Clergue, an acknowledged admirer of one of the shots and persuaded him to record. He made ​​his debut in the chapel of Arles. An American manager does play on stage at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York in December 1965. The gypsy illiterate, who can not read a note of music, conquers the world. In March 1964, an evening bullfight in Arles, Picasso, after hearing him play, exclaims: “It is more expensive than me! “.He was a friend of Salvador Dalí. Since 1967, Manitas de Plata continues to release records, travels the world surrounded by his tribe and always his eldest son, Manero, one of the last great singers of the Camargue, or developing smaller, his family around him . He played well in the U.S., Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, England, Algeria, etc.. Manitas has sold over 93 million albums of his music, over 83 different disks (source: manitasdeplata.fr). He lives very modestly to the Grande Motte. Manitas has lost his younger brother, 27 May 2009, which accompanied him during his early career on the biggest stages the world Balliardo Hippolyte, 84, also of the greatest friend. On August 8, 2009, there is still the arena “El Cordobés” Palavas-les-Flots (France), at the tribute night dedicated to his brother Hippolyte but also on the occasion of his birthday (7 August 2009), the public makes him a standing ovation while moving him this illiterate gypsy, who introduced El Flamenco worldwide, having reduced later this music to its purest form. Manitas de Plata is now considered the greatest flamenco guitarist in the world although controversial by the purists of the traditionalist school academic Spanish, because of his illiteracy and non-academic. Yet the artist Manitas is the world flamenco, all shades together, to be the best selling album in the world, an artist always respected and loved precisely because of its extraordinary art. Salvador Dali, who resembled the father Manitas, said of him, “Whenever Manitas plays, firefighters take fire.” Manitas met the most influential artistic, economic, literary and political, all captivated by the art, the personality of the artist at once modest and somewhat narcissistic, but always so endearing, touching and authentic. There are a permanent UN International Gypsy world representing these people and stuff.

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Manitas de Plata partying with 60’s sex-bomb Bridget Bardo

BEWARE OF STUPIDITY

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“Stupidity cannot be cured.

Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death.

There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Ignorance is curable. Stupid is forever.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

TOUR THE TEMPLES OF HUMANKIND

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Here is a still photo a very interesting place in Italy called “Temples of Humankind” .  This is an underground construction excavated by hand by the citizens of spiritual community of Damanhur.  Some call it the ‘Eighth wonder of the world’.  The Temple Halls are an underground work of art, a subterranean cathedral created entirely by hand and dedicated to the divine nature of humanity.  You can take a “virtual tour” of these amazing temples here:   http://www.thetemples.org/tour/

WHORE MOANS

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“it’s just sex”

she said

flouncing out of bed

through the shower

and out the door.

my heart broke

to see her go.

I was

left in the room

alone.

she called later:

“hi, honey bunny

there’s a bun

in my oven.

it’s yours.”

“it’s not just sex

anymore”, I said.

it’s a life.

growing…

hormones.

EVERY THOUGHT

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“Every thought, or idea, you accept or believe becomes a part of your reality.” – AG

THE POWER WE GIVE THEM

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It’s easy to bitch about Congress and Wall Street and Bankers and politicians.  But the fact is that these imbeciles and criminals only have The Power We Give Them.  The government we have, or don’t have, is the government we deserve until we step up and take the power away from ththe criminals and other lunatics we allow to run our public affairs.

30 LESSONS LEARNED BY GANDHI

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Mahatma Gandhi needs no introduction. In India, his name is pronounced with the same sincere respect as the names of the saints. The whole world knows the man who led his country to independence from Britain back in 1947.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.
The future depends on what you do today.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ’still small voice’ within me.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
’Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Find purpose, the means will follow.
Live simply so that others may simply live.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Where love is, there God is also.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
A ’No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ’Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
’True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Janis Joplin – Summertime

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