ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

[David Morris]

Yes, but isn't it (KA) also a machine cure that saved Takeshi from the
death touch of DL?  That touch was orchrstrated purposely by DL's
kidnapper, Ralph W.  Everybody in VL seems to have an angle, but only
Takeshi has   the magic window that can flatten them all into view.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Bailey wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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