GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Sat Apr 19 18:34:30 CDT 2003


"Because it's hard to get over the wonder of finding
that Earth is a living critter, after all these years
of thinking about a big dumb rock to find a body and
psyche, he feels like a child again, he knows that in
theory he must not attach himself, but still he is in
love with his sense of wonder, with having found it
again, even this late, even knowing he must soon let
it go. . . ." (GR, 590)

Here this view is presented as a hallucination experienced by Lyle Bland,
shortly before he gathers his family together to go Carlos Castaneda on
them.

"Around 9:30 Buddy left to see THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and Mrs. Bland
covered the serene face with a dusty chintz drape she'd received from a
cousin who had never understood her taste." (GR, 591)

So much for the substance of the Gaia reading of GR.




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