Cometman needed to be more careful with his words

[Michael Bailey]

>
> > It was a giant Adenoid. At least as big as St. Paul's
> >What was it that caused him his blindness? An adenoid?
>
> I believe it was a vision, that temporarily blinded him on the road to
> Damascus, where he was going to persecute the followers of a (then) strange
> new religion (Christianity), and turned him into one of those followers?



>This resembles that same lament of Eliot in Gerontion,
> >a sense that for all I do, this just ain't "gettin it".



I was thinking that about posting as cometman here.  Fiction takes a lot of
artifice and I am an amateur (a kindly German professor once told
me,however, not to despise amateur, as it means "one who loves")
Peter O'Toole interview in some magazine years ago, "I asked a priest if it
would be permissible to pray while I smoked.  He laughed and said, my dear,
you don't even know how to ask: you should wonder if it's permissible to
smoke while you pray!"

I guess, like "whistle while you work" - the anterior placement of the
whistling indicates its relatively lesser importance?
 word choice


>
> 3rd beggar, "giddy with his hundredth year" something something
> something


sang unnoticed like a bird


  Channeled explanatory material is available
> (requiring a suspension of disbelief in Lemuria eg) on the Pegasus site



NB ********** this is  _not_  a medical recommendation, or an advertisement
on my part.  I quote from their site:

"The use of crystals and gemstones has been recorded in almost every ancient
civilization as a form of healing and changing consciousness. As with flower
essences they can be made using the sun method. Simply put, after cleansing
the stone energetically, preferably in its natural, raw form, it is placed
in a bowl of pure water and left out in sunlight for a minimum of two hours
and sometimes for several days. After exposure to the sun the mineral is
removed the water is strained, if necessary and alcohol is added as a
preservative of the energy. The resulting liquid is placed under a geometric
structure to further amplify and preserve it. "

Luke, the beloved physician, has a unique position within our culture and
our legal system.  I'm sure that neither Luke nor the owners of the sites
"cometman" mentioned would want anyone to mistake medical care for
thought-provoking curios, or vice-versa.  When I have a medical problem, I
see a medical doctor.  I would even go so far as to recommend the same.

Vision, or idea, morphing a rainbow: with the semicircle of the 'bow, a
> beautiful pair of hands appears (or, it just happens, as a meditation
> it seems to work "mit or mitout") cups the rainbow, opens, having
> Rotated it through and through to produce a beautiful shimmering
> Rainbow Sphere



See, here, again, word choice.  The vision is inadequately conveyed on my
part.  I've not fully realized it mentally either.

How would Gravity own or produce or generate a rainbow?
Light is (photons are) subject to gravity.
Blurring of my mental vision once again.


Mike Bailey
--
"Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!" -Woody
Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose
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