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An alive mind is a rarity. Most are deadened by our death dealing culture. Drugs, money, pets, interest, distractions, polluted food and environment, sports, entertainment, main-stream literature, academia, politics, religion, family, business -- yes, all of it and etc etc are poisoned by 5000 years of patriarchy. The mind is one of the first victims and in most cases is left for dead under bulldozer tracks.
Not a pretty picture but a true one -- if there is a mind left to perceive the tragedy. But the tragedy is that minds today are so thoroughly brainwashed that they lack the where-with-all to see they've been put through the wringer and hung out to dry. It makes me want to cry because I too am one of the washed out ones. It's taken me 70 years to see that I don't see.
A lively mind is growing all the time and therefore leaves a trail of mistakes aplenty. But it learns from mistakes and is not afraid of making more. It sees into the darkness of its own deception and has the capacity not to get scared off and to be able to laugh at itself. A living dead mind is imprisoned in the patrix and shows few signs of real life. Threatened from all sides it can only seek shelter in its comfort zone and try to save as many of its assets as possible.
Step 19 opens up the mind to all 51 other cards and the cards within cards forever. It's exhilarating like being in the kaleidoscope you think you think you're thinking. When you can lose your mealy mind you are exposed to a really awesome kind of mind. It's not easy to let go and let love but it can be done with a little help from card friends.
I speak from the experience of having a really measly mind but now when I observe the mentalities about me, I think mine's not so bad; not that my mentalizing coulldn't at any moment collapse like a house of cards because it does right on schedule all the time.
The mood is "stimulated." A mind in love is always stimulated.
-Dennis James, a mental masturbator by history who had the good fortune of being introduced by herstory to a superior mind and a Super Lover who doesn't mind. |