Free Advice about Life, Universe and Other Stuff from Lawrence R. Spencer
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Thou Art Beauty!
born beyond being…
rare and simple purity
fragile power — timeless mortality.
Complex simplicity, perfectly sublime:
undying yet reborn.
Serenity in action, uncompromised by time.
No dance can sway Thee
No psalm can say Thee
No sight can see Thee
No sense can be Thee
You Are that You Are
as ever You will be.
Thou Art Beauty!
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Poem by Lawrence R. Spencer. Copyright © 2012.
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.” — Thomas Paine, 1776
Recently I have been re-reading the writings of Thomas Paine. He’s the guy that sparked the American Revolution in 1776. He started a viral protest against the insanely oppressive government of England, which was the most powerful nation on Earth at that time. How did he do it? He published a little pamphlet called “Common Sense” and started passing it out to fellow citizens like George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams and thousands of others. This, and many other protest in history such as those of Mohandas Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the US have been effective, in spite of overwhelming opposition.
Viral protests against government injustice and corporate criminals can be effective. Even the most powerful nations on Earth can’t control the whole population against their collective will. Many have tried and failed. The current “New World Order” movement is succeeding at global control at an alarming rate. The day the entire population is subject to the will of a few criminals in government and commerce we are doomed. That time has come. The American colonists didn’t have the Internet. But, they also didn’t have global government capable of controlling all the media, the military, our private lives and the economy. If we want to remain free we’ll have to communicate with each other and act as though our current lives and our future lives depend upon it.
Here is a recent video from The Guardian that illustrates the message in the present moment.
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“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“The most difficult task for the rational observer is to avoid becoming, through empathy or introspection, that which one observes. This ability, applied, enables a detective to emulate the impulses of the criminal – no matter how insane or counter-survival the result of their behavior might be. Fortunately, one need not become a criminal in order to fully comprehend the demented universe of these insane creatures!
Many years ago I read about the case of the Irish poet, Oscar Wilde, a man of great intelligence and artistic sensibilities. The man, although married, with children, who was a respectable person of society, was attracted into a licentious life through association with decadent perverts. It ruined him thoroughly, causing him to lose all that he had gained in reputation, respect, possessions and freedom.
This once great and clever man was cast out from society, and imprisoned to serve for two years of hard labour. As such, he was removed from contact with the depraved associates who precipitated his undoing. During the interval of his imprisonment he applied the innate intellect which elevated him above the multitude, to reflect upon the essence of his existence.
Here is a small portion of a letter he wrote to an associate which was published in the London Times obituary notice of his passing:
“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal.
It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else – the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver – would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
I have concluded that criminality, and insanity – forms of the same disease – are contagious. In human society, as with the cancerous cells of a dying body, a healthy cell can be corrupted or overwhelmed by proximity to or interaction with the cancer. Therefore, I esteem that it is important to differentiate and segregate the sane from the insane, the healthy from the unhealthy, and likewise, the identification of the spirit with the body.”
— Excerpt from SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE, by Lawrence R. Spencer
