He woke up the next day, He slept well, but he couldn’t
remember whose dreams he was having. It looked like
another great day on the shore,
What was happening to him, to the world in fact, was
something that had been predicted by all the major
religions, the Hopi, the Maya…all of them. Everyone had
been waiting for a specific date, a point, a pivot when the
great change was suddenly to occur. But observing the
USA today, there are symptoms of massive pressure
building. From competitive eating to reality television…
to psychotic teenagers with assault weapons, aberrant
behavior is pandemic in America. Some of it purports
to be entertainment….but seen as a landscape, it is
obviously the product of unconscious activity. As
Gurdjieff wrote in 1916; “It is precisely in unconscious
involuntary manifestations that all evil lies. You do not
yet understand and cannot imagine all the results of this
evil. But the time will come when you will understand.”
All these symptoms are similar to reactions to an illness.
There’s really a question whether the individuals performing
these acts are acting with a free will, or if the environment,
the climate, has robbed them of that. John Wilkes Booth was
the last lone assassin…nowadays, every city you go to you
meet nine or ten Manchurian Candidates. It’s all the social
engineering that went bad…imagine a production line
putting out Frankenstein monsters. Because many people
have realized what’s happening to them, the awareness
movement has gained steam. But the pressure I’m writing
about has as its end the opposite of awareness…and what’s
producing that pressure holds power.
****
Senator Claybell from South Carolina takes the podium.
“The deficit, the financial crisis, mass murders, all are
reasons why we need to create a department of government
to recognize and promote mental health in our society.”
Some of the senators were sleeping it off at their desks…
one was shooting heroin…another was getting a B.J.
by his assistant. An pizza delivery guy brought in a large
pepperoni to the senator from New Jersey...the big one.
****
Frank went up to the restaurant and ordered a shrimp
cocktail. You could see the beach from where he was
sitting, and two soldiers were patrolling carrying M-16s.
A young woman sat down a couple of seats away.
“Hi, I’m Gerlinda….what’s your name?”
“F rank…how are you doing?”
“Very well…thank you. I’m here because after December
twenty first was such a bust, I had to get out of L.A.”
“Every time I was in L.A. I felt I had to get out immediately.”
“Really? I think it’s such a great city, full of glamour and
panache…such beautiful people. “
That was it. Frank picked up his shrimp cocktail, nodded to
Gerlinda, and went back out to his beach chair.
****
“That was rude…to get up and leave like that.” Gerlinda
looked as though she was about to cry.
“Honey, you got money, don’t you?”
“Yes…but…what?”
“Go spend some of it….you’ll feel better.”
Gerlinda stomped angrily off.
****
“Welcome to mind training school #PS-47. During your
course of study here, you will experience days of meditation
practice,. You will become familiar with the techniques of
sensory deprivation, biofeedback, and engram recalculation.
Your kundalini will be awoken and your charkas will be
cleansed. Fasting and vision quests, sundance and temescal
all will be studied and practiced. When you leave our school,
your mind will be as slick as a baby’s butt.”
****
After Frank left school, he didn’t have any trouble
finding a job. With his certificate from the school
he could qualify for almost any training program.
His employers knew he would be able to learn new
tasks quickly and that there would be no psychological
problems concerning his time of employment.