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Cheerer-uppers
Part II
by Ceci Lumley
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| The issue, the way is far more dangerous
than that of any drug, and far, far gentler.
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| Trees shelter birds, squirrels, and an
occasional snake. So do we. So do we. (Our belief in our existential "purity" is
primitive and simplistic hubris.) Mobile trees.
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| Acculturation = metaphysical
disenfranchisement. Learning to refocus one’s attention = metaphysical
re-empowerment. Not paradise regained. Not childhood regained. Shackles dropped.
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| We are, laughably, in our scientific and
linguistic playpen, nominalists manqué. The spirits do have names, and wholly proper ones
at that.
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| Meter stick. You can measure your progress
by the accuracy and frequency with which you can keep track psychically of the comings and
goings of those you care about.
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| Through our mindlessness, we turn the
body-eden into a prison, shackles, a rut. Ease out.
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| Nature nurtures. Subtly, slowly, quietly,
gently, powerfully. Tramping and camping about is not the way. The ego walls must come
down, and then you must be still, gain and again. And again. Sustenance flows through.
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| There exists a ground of being where, with
perfection, your pain and you pleasure, your lies to yourself and to others, your false
efforts and your true, your honest mistakes and your dishonest mistakes are in some way
known. A balance, fair beyond our perceiving and merciful beyond our best hopes, is always
struck.
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| During drought, does the earth stop being
earth? Do seeds stop being seeds?
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| Your muscles, all your organs are starved
for prolonged mindful, heartful attention. Not of the artless, heartless calisthenics,
aerobic variety. Yoga, tai chi.
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| Isn’t the road better than the bushes?
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| Road signs? Yes, many, usually felt, not
seen. They are known as "heart’s desires."
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| View your circumcision as a battle scar, if
you like.
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| Congruence, existential congruence is
possible. Between "entities," between sentient systems.
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| Road signs: resonances from possible
futures.
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| Isolation is in the eye—and
skin—of the beholder, and the beholden.
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| Do not take pride in any of your
accomplishments. They have all been injurious. You have no way of knowing how injurious
and to whom.
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| Go gently along the path. There may be other
effective demeanors. I am doubtful.
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| One day your pelvis will feel full and you
will know you are pregnant.
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| Either we enter new worlds and find new
cultures, or we stultify, as did the Chinese behind their many walls.
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