ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

[Richard Fiero]

John Bailey wrote:
>Vineland, Inherent Vice and now AtD have been very free 'n' easy with
>this concept of karmic adjustment. Isn't it a bit like saying
>. . .

Karmic adjustment is a biz that Takeshi began from a notion of 
insurance adjustment.
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But right at the beginning DL had to sit Takeshi down for an 
elbows-on-the-table talk. "It ain't a-zackly Tokyo here, you know, 
you can't just go free-lancin' in 'karmic adjustment,' whatever that 
is - nobody'll pay for it." "Ha-ha! But that's where you're wrong, 
Carrot-head! They'll pay us just like they pay the garbage men from 
the garbage dump, the plumbers in the septic tank - the mop hands at 
the toxic spill! They don't want to do it - so we'll do it for them! 
Dive right down into it! Down into all that - waste-pit of time! We 
know it's time lost forever - but they don't!" "Keep hearin' this 
'we.' . . ." "Trust me - this is just like insurance - only 
different! I have the experience, and - better than that, the - immunity too!"
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The official definition of karma is nothing about revenge but is just 
the amount of one's attachment to the world of illusion - might be 
everything that is not eating, shitting or fucking. See Heinrich 
Zimmer's "Philosophies of India," 1953.  Compare the Bardo Thodol.

Paraphrasing Emmet Fox in "Make Your Life Worth While." 1942: William 
Penn become uncomfortable about wearing a sword which he had done 
since boyhood. George Fox told him "Carry thy sword until thou canst 
no longer carry it." A year later Penn gave up the practice quite easily.