Mrs. Burns

                                                           Sophomore Year I took an English course given by Mrs. Burns, a Grad Student working on her Ph.D .   Her first assignment was for us to write a brief bio so that she could "get a handle" on our Minds ---blah-blah-blah.  I gave NO thought to the assignment because I Thought it to be ridiculously E-Z .  About  week later she told us that she was exceedingly disappointed in our Efforts save for one .   She held up MY submission and then proceeded to read it to the class .   I was instantly SICKENED .   I still remember the First Line :  it was , "This is not my time", and from there I described my interest in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome where the Soldiers wielded Swords, and Scholars were REVERED .    I'm CERTAIN she had fallen in Love with me and that was corroborated when she interviewed us (me) , again, in order to know us better .   She told me that she had perceived an "Independence based on Confidence" that I was comfortable "Standing alone" .   2 words :   THAT was news to me !

                             NOW , I know that I have had MANY Lifetimes in Ancient Greece and the Far East, so I am almost grotesquely Familiar with the Ancients and turn to them to provide a Universal Perspective that has clearly withstood "The Test Of Time" .   These Ancients ARE MY FOUNDATION, they Define my Academic Ventures, my Writing and Studies .   Indeed, They Define my Existence .

                              

Legge-Wilhelm-Baynes

                                                           I have been accused of "Ancestor Worship" because of my  use of Ancient Texts and quotes from Ancient Masters and Venerable Sages .   "Worship" is such a STRONG word, and I reject its use to describe me and my Sentiments {to be  Senti-MENTAL} .   I was introduced to the I Ching via Herr Hermann Hesse and his Magister Ludi, a text that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature .   Reading and then Studying the I Ching transFORMED me .    I GUARANTEE that if my Gentle Readers read the I Ching, they, too, will be transformed .  

                           There are problems, of course, but there are ALWAYS Problems and these must be addressed if Understanding is to be planted and its fruits harvested .   I have two Translations of the I Ching, one by James Legge and the other by the German Scholar Richard Wilhelm and the PHENOMENAL American Translator, Cary F. Baynes .   Of these Two the translation by Wilhelm/Baynes is TRUEST to the Ancient Chinese [the I Ching was written and compiled between the 10th and 9th centuries BCE] .   Legge's Version is INTENSE as it provides DYNAMIC Scholarship that is sometimes {most times} esoteric and therefore requires an EXTENSIVE amount of Background Familiarity .   However, make no mistake, the Wilhelm/Baynes Translation is CLASSIC Chinese oriented, the use of Images and (get this) POETRY can be deemed inscrutable, and it IS --> Inscrutable until you commit to its Understanding by TAKING TIME to let the texts "Sink In" to your Sub-conscious and then your UN-Conscious where it will find AFFINITY as a Manifestation of the "Collective Unconscious" .  

Unremitting Vigilance

                                                        57.  Sun  /  The Gentle  (The Penetrating,  Wind)

                              "At times one has to deal with hidden enemies, intangible influences that slink into dark corners and from this hiding affect people by suggestion .   In instances like this, it is  necessary to trace these things back to their most secret recesses, in order to determine the nature of the influences to be dealt with .   This is the task of the priests; removing the influences is the task of the magicians .   The very anonymity of such plotting requires an especially vigorous and indefatigable effort, but this is well worth while .   For when such elusive influences are brought into the light and branded, they lose power over people ."

                  

                        Propaganda is hardly "hidden", however the EFFECTS of propaganda are 'felt' by one's Psyche =  the Unconscious, and ITS response has GREAT POWER although the POWER may have a NEGATIVE Aspect .   This Negative Power MUST BE addressed if one is to guarantee The TRUTH of Reality .   

                      It is written, "When there is lack of Faith, there is lack of GOOD Faith"  and so it is with Trust .   When there is lack of Trust, there is lack of GOOD Trust .  We must not Trust propaganda, and further, those that generate propaganda .  

                      How many times have we been defeated when we "Let our guard down" ?   Here it is where Unremitting Vigilance is necessary for our COMPLETE Defense .  

Miss Handled

                                                           I must connect one more dot .   Here it is where Frog equals Toad and a Plague of Frogs equals a Plague of Toads, or Toadies, fitting, because trump's "toadies" ARE a Plague upon America .   

                           I know that the trope I have used is incomplete, I must account for Hail, Locusts, true Darkness and the "Death of the first born" ---- please forgive an old man .  Oh yeah, BOILS  --- .

                           I will leave this here, I've been up since 3:00, my ribs are beginning to ache and I am famished .

                           Dr. Moynihan wrote me that the Job of a Modern Writer is to review the Past and Modernize what has been written before and deemed unquestionably Valuable, ESPECIALLY those Myths, Stories, Fables and Tales that have resonated as TRUTH throughout the History(ies) of Civilization .   GEESUS FUCKING KRISS DOC,  ANYHING ELSE ???  

                          2 words  WOW .

                    

                          "Tare Forward" and  "Keep the Faith"       

The End is FEAR

                                                           It is imperative to note that all the Plagues have yet to manifest, that the List is partial, but it still represents the Condition of being under Divine Affliction .   Still more important is the necessity to acknowledge Pharoah's parochial stubborn-ness, meaning, after every Affliction Pharoah had the Chance to Release the Israelis---to give the Freedom and Self-Sovereignty but he declined to do so until the very END when his first born was slain by God ........only THEN did he submit to the Will of The Divine Almighty :   BUT  even THEN he continued to chase-down HIS Slaves and had his entire army PERISH on the floor of the Red Sea, we MUST view trump as if HE is Pharoah ; a Stubborn-ness built on CRIMINAL ARROGANCE and a complete dys-regard* for Israeli Life , that is HUMAN  LIFE .   

                           Pharoah was NOT given the option to RESIGN, to "step down" and away from his Reign of Cruelty .   We've yet to see ANY Request / Demand for trump to Resign, to step down and walk away .   I insist that it is NECESSARY to give trump the Option to Resign and do so IMMEDIATELY .   The democrats have all but ASSURED trump that he will be Tried and Convicted, resulting in his Imprison- ment .   I ASSUME that his entire Wealth will be confiscated and the Monies returned to the Treasury, leaving him and his OTHERS also POVERTY STRICKEN .  

                          

No Place Like Dome

                                                           I mean SO WHAT if what is transpiring in America is Biblical ????   the Wild Fires are CANADIAN ---|--- are we to Believe that CANADA is responsible for the "PALL" over America, are we to Believe that God has INFLICTED >HELL FIRES< upon Canada, I mean, what the fuck have THEY done to receive such AFFLICTION ?   Don't THEY live in a version of contemporary modern Utopia ????    What the fuck have THEY >>>>Done<<< to be mercilessly set ablaze ???   

                            It ain't "what they've done"  it's all about what they HAVEN'T done .   Some time ago I suggested the the vaunted Canadian Mounted Police should fly into D.C. and ARREST trump--- that They should "Maduro" that sonofabitch bring him to Canada and Charge his with CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY .   Not only would they be DOING AMERICA  A FAVOR They would be giving the  WORLD an Act of Political CHARITY, by Removing him for the World Stage .   That didn't happen and OF COURSE it didn't happen, HOW could it ???

                            Then there's the "Heat Dome" over Europe, in order to maintain trope I argue that the Heat Dome is Heaven Sent, meaning, Canada was afflicted by Hell Fires, and that Europe is similarly afflicted with >>>>>>>>>>>HELL HEAT<<<<<<<<<< .    I must contend that the Hell Heat ACTS like DARKNESS in that ALL THINGS AND ALL PEOPLES are effected by the Darkness that IS trump and trumpism .   Further, I contend that the World and specifically Europe has NOT "Done Enough" to oppose trump even tho* Europe is opposing putin albeit in a modified way, even THERE Ukraine is also in "Dire Straits due to a lack of missile defenses which puts Its Citizenry at Risk .  

Hail the President

                                                           What follows is the list of the "10 Plagues" inflicted upon Pharoah during Moses' Time :   "1.  Water turned to blood ,   2.  Frogs   3.  Gnats   4.  Flies   5.  Livestock disease   6.  Boils   7. Hail   8.  Locusts   9. Darkness   10.  Death of the 1st born ".     First Glance hardly considers that what is "happening in America" to be Biblical, I object to Mr. First Glance ~~~ .

                            The list of  "BAD THINGS HAPPENING IN AMERICA" is sizeable, but NOT Biblical, I mean for the most part , but I suggest NO the shit happening IS >>>BIBLICAL<<<  and we , as in I, should examine and scrutinize {if we must} these "happenings" so that we can properly address the Diseases being inflicted upon us by GOD, as HIS 'Response" to trump the Pharoah .   Polemics allows me this ~~~~~~~~~~~> latitude so, I mean, there's THAT .

                           There is "blood in the water" in Texas, folks have died IN the flood waters that were the result of BIBLICAL INUNDATION ---  the Livestock Disease is the "Screw-worm Plague, the Frogs, Gnats and Flies are represented by PARASITES >> the Clyclospora Outbreak<<, and Ebola has reared its ugly head in Africa.   The entirety of the List above has not been actualized but it must be noted that this THIS is the BEGINNING ,  I venture MORE will follow , based on Biblical Precedence .