moon soup

Perfect day for the fair. Not too hot, mostly cloudy. Animals were mostly sleepy because it was early afternoon.

Fun to see all the4H kids taking care of their animals, shoveling crap and getting ready for judging.

A beautiful song by Kirtana,

a less gorgeous cover by me,

but it’s on my mind so I sang it.

Are posted on Overthrow the Stars and on Maelgwyn’s Journey.

Here are some dark cartoons.

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Un-proof-read. Overthrow the stars. Up to part of Chapter 15. Lots of new stuff. Much has not been proofread.

Plus some pictures from walkin around.

I don’t have a great deal of confidence in my mind. I am definitely skeptical of the thoughts and perceptions that run through it. It all appears to be constantly changing.

I don’t know if anyone else has this but on the border of sleep, often just before waking in the morning, I find my mind is preoccupied with strange fascinations. I am thinking in geometric patterns, colors or numbers and there are serious, even dangerous, meanings to the thoughts. These moving patterns can be very intricate and detailed. It is often an unsettling experience.

The reality of these thoughts is absolute- just like a dream, I experience them as completely true. As I awake the images, thoughts and meanings fade and I can’t even describe these extremely compelling beliefs that underpin the world I was just in.

The other day at bedtime I had one of these experiences. It was as though I had woken from one of these dream fascinations and I believed that the world I live in was actually one of those compelling but ultimately meaningless kaleidoscopic patterns.

It startled me into wakefulness. I had the strong feeling that all my thoughts, beliefs and understandings were exactly as true and real as those dream images and vice versa.

There is a buddha quote I like. It’s probably not actual- I can’t find it’s source anywhere right now- but it’s basically (paraphrasing):

What is Totality?

There is the eye and the objects of vision,

The ear and the objects of sound,

The body and the objects of sensation,

The mind and the objects of cognition.

Anyone who tells you there is more, does not know what they’re talking about.

I used to think he was saying, “Everything is here in front of you right now in the perceived world.” I wonder if maybe everything, including this perceived world, is more than a tad wiggly. Lots of shadows and symbols, short on substance.

Is getting better.

New chapter, a good deal of editing.

Give it a try. I’ll make it easy. (Updates are always found for this story on the tab somewhere on this page)

Overthrow the Stars is different. I changed a bunch of things including the order of the chapters and the narrator in some spots.

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