"In reality, nothing about last week in Houston was atypical of the lives most people live while under the influence of the drama-drug."
E-mail from "Anonymous in California": "If everything is ‘relative,’ why should anything matter? Why should I care about anything, including natural or supernatural or unnatural living? What would it have mattered if Hurricane Rita had ended the manifestation called ‘Floyd’ or if it didn’t? You know: who cares?"
F.: Not I, be assured, Anonymous. ("Everything" by the way, is not relative, but I'll save that for another day.) Please consider: does the energy released from the sun care if it (a) reflects off the earth’s moon rather than (b) manifests in a plant on earth? Of course not, but if conscious-energy does manifest in a plant on earth and subsequently manifests in a food-body, it would function naturally until it unmanifests if it could avoid faulty programming and enculturation. Since You—the conscious energy—are currently manifested in a space on earth, if sane (in touch with reality) you will also function naturally until the consciousness unmanifests. If, on the other hand, you don’t behave sanely and naturally because of faulty programming, so it is. For years, the space called ‘Floyd’ lived unnaturally and lived supernaturally, so natural living resulted after having tried all three and after finding that the first two produced desires, fears and emotional intoxication. Natural living, conversely, preempts all of those and allows for peace and calm as a result of being stabilized in reality. For those addicted to chaos, peace and calm are the last thing they desire. They are programmed to prefer instability. So it is. It so happens that the space called ‘floyd’ now enjoys a relative existence that is free of emotional intoxication and chaos, eliminated via realization. You mentioned Hurricane Rita, so maybe you have seen what persons in this south Texas area experienced with Rita: two days before landfall, I watched a fist-fight break out at the pumps at a Chevron station. Inside, I watched a man and woman fight over the last bag of ice in the freezer. (She "won.") You may have seen some three million people experiencing the frustration and anger of averaging two miles an hour on the freeways leading out of Houston. That was because we were originally in the bull’s eye of the predicted path. Prior to realization, I’d have been in the fist-fight and the bag-of-ice-fight and I’ve have been sitting idle but angry in the ninety-mile-long line of traffic on the interstate. In 1983, prior to realization, "Floyd" experienced Hurricane Alicia and the extensive damage to home and property. Emotionally-intoxicated persons—when they hear someone in the theater yell “Fire!”—will panic and race for the exits…trampling many in the rush or being trampled themselves. The realized will calmly wait, rather than react, and after the dust clears they will calmly walk out over the strewn bodies. As I sat by and watched neighbors pack their cars with their "valuables" and then hurry off to wait, I knew two other possibilities existed: (1) the course of Rita could change its path and I could stay put and avoid the panic and emotional intoxication and anger and frustration and chaos of the evacuees, or (2) the path would continue toward Galveston and Houston and then toward the lake where I live and I would cruise away along the open highways just before the storm arrived. My car would not stall from over-heating or run out of gas while idling. Either way, I would not—and in the end, did not—experience the storm, as all persons certainly did. Yes, 65-m.p.h. winds rocked the home. Yes, the over-sized sliding doors had to be opened at 3 AM to prevent the suction from pulling them out of their tracks. Yes, the towels had to be manned in order to catch the rain that began to blow onto the wooden floors as a result of having to leave the doors ajar for a time. But no "I" experienced the storm. Realization and witnessing do not prevent sane and sound steps from happening; rather, realization and witnessing alone allow sane and sound steps to happen. Ultimately, though, the truth is pointed to in your question, “Who cares?” The bottom line for Me was, and is, this: as long as I Am manifested in this space, I enjoy this relative existence far more the way it happened during Rita as opposed to the way it happened in the past for "Floyd" and as opposed to the way it was experienced by the millions of persons around Me last week. In reality, nothing about last week in Houston was atypical of the lives most people live while under the influence of the drama-drug: 95% live lives of anxious desperation, reacting and over-reacting as a result of being driven by body identification and personas. They are actors on stage who are so consumed by their play-acting that they have come to believe that their drama and their assumed personas are "the real." Conversely, 5% witness whatever happens or not, and take whatever steps are taken or not, from a rational state of calm. So it is. Which group are you fixated in? Please enter the silence of contemplation.
