SHACK 152 A WELL KNOWN SAYING

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This place is in the middle of nowhere or another version this place is like the middle of nowhere.  We're in the middle of nowhere. 

I know I am probably being pedantic however being insatiably curious I am tempted to ask; 

Can nowhere have a middle?

If so it cannot be a nowhere.

Iv'e often wondered what nowhere is like

Since its nowhere it does't seem much chance I'll find it.

Its the puzzle of no puzzle

and that's a puzzle in itself

SHACK

If one gives it a name like desert, wilderness and so on then one is going somewhere and somewhere cannot be a nowhere--oh dear. (Shack)

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SHACK 151 SNAIL OR ' SCHNELL'

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It was a bank holiday and a large crowd were gathered in Piccadilly in London UK and the police waited patiently.  A figure appeared at the doorway, a small man with a white robe and a black beard and carrying flowers, behind a man of medium height for a European, the man was gesticulating and looked flushed and excited, behind him came four famous musicians and some other celebrities, they were cordoned gently by the police, and they led the crowds who followed on behind. 

The small bearded man in front was a famous Guru and he was going home to India and saying farewell. Many cried and begged him to come back. 

The Man from Europe was a sort of administrative Secretary and from Germany his name was Heir Schnell (quick, fast), the Guru and the crowd were heading towards Victoria Station and had a boat train to catch and as a bank holiday thus would be packed for people wanting to go abroad.

The Guru walked slowly, really slowly, Schnell urging him to walk faster saying they would miss the train, the Guru said not to worry all will be well and not to run to his demise but walk to it.  Some rude remarked a snail would move faster.

Eventually everyone got to the Station. The police could only let about a hundred into the platform to say goodbye.  The Station Master came and said 'I am afraid you have missed your train' whereupon Schnell exclaimed 'what did I tell you, sometimes you have to be practical about these things'. The Station Master said ' However knowing it was a bank holiday and were expecting a large crowd we are running an extra train, only your secretary and you will be on this train with other passengers' Schnell looked downcast and the Guru gave him a flower waved at the crowd and went onto the train.

A young orphan lad of say 17 years of age dodged past the Station Master and Police and ran to the train as it was moving, the Guru opened the door and let the lad in and went all the way to India with him.  The Guru I understood said this was meant to be.

I used to have chats with the Guru as I had met him years back, I was not a disciple or took the initiation but he told me once 'if you want protection from the public always have a fussy, egoistic person as your private secretary'  I wonder if he was alluding to Heir Schnell?

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SHACK 150 HIDE AND SEEK

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The pilgrim Fathers in 1602 went in the Mayflower Boat from England to America. On board were 102 passengers of which were two from a London Stock Company and 35 Separatists, a radical form of religion named Puritanism, they fled from England to Leiden in the Netherlands because they were so fanatic and were chased away.

One of the anecdotes to be recorded was that the Quaker like community of Christians were sitting in the silence as is their custom and as to this day, when the native so called 'red skin or Indians' I find this distasteful and belittling to name them thus, came and sat down on the ground and said 'good they pray like us' they sat very still and meditated for hours in their community. Normally the Quakers would settle for an hour and share vocally if felt moved to do so.

The next day the indigenous people were dancing around a Totem Pole and the Quakers said 'you mustn't do that, Jesus is not in a piece of painted wood'.  The day after they were dancing around the pole chanting Jesus, Jesus, Jesus'

The Chief and Medicine man tried to explain that God, the Great Spirit was not in the wood as an idol but was a symbol reminding them to praise and thank him, and as the same as the cross and they were not stupid that God was a Pole, a piece of wood'.  The reply was 'no the cross is a better reminder.'

Among my family and friends of the Jewish Faith some are disappointed that I do not go to Synagogue.  I do not go to Church, Mosque, Chapel, Sanctuary or places of worship on a regular basis or if at all. Yet I pray and meditate several times a day at irregular times, bless my food and give thanks constantly.  However sometimes when I need to be quiet in a busy noisy situation I will go to a place of worship for a few minutes should one be nearby. 

This still does not satisfy them and they chastise me and barred me from seeing their children in case I pollute them with my heathen ideas. Where is God the Beloved that 'HeShe' cannot be found is 'SheHe' our Cosmic Parent, The Spirit playing hide and seek with us, nay, The Great One is in all of us and every place is a place of worship and prayer and silent willingness to surrender ourselves to Heshe's loving care and arms.

So symbols and signs I have and were and are given to me by friends of different faiths and yet I have none that are my own, a family member who visited my home was appalled at these items given to me as friendship and love as heathen and that I was antisemitic and so on. No amount of explanation would suffice and was said trying to wriggle out of the fact I was a Jew Hater.  I support all religions and faith not the dogma.

 A wise Jewish lady who was relatively religious and loved her faith and was very tolerant and came as refugee from Poland and was in her eighthes, and I gave her a lift home and we would talk for a considerable time asked me what I would say to Moses when my time came and he opened the book of Life on me and read my file; If Moses said 'Yosef (my Hebrew name) you did not go to Synagogue on Sabbaths and on Holy Days or keep Kosher foods how come?' 'Moses I never pretended to be religious, those who accuse me not going to Synagogue in the morning on Sabbath and then shop, do business go to football matches and other things in the afternoon, then they may eat Kosher at home and not when they are out, please judge me on my heart and not hypocrisy'  To which the Lady said ' I believe you and know you are right, but I am so long in this tradition it is hard for me to change and my children would not like it as I am a role model for their children and my Grandchildren'.  This I knew and out of the whole family I loved her most for her kindness to me and understanding.

So where do we find God or our Spiritual needs, I guess this is a personal quest or maybe there is not the interest to do so.  For me it has and will always be top of the list, I have to be One with the One and is a burning desire etched and branded into my heart.  

I need no omens, signs, tokens or symbols, Life itself is the Totem Pole and Cross for me.  God does not play hide and seek.

SHACK

SHACK 149 NO OTHER LOVE

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Relationships can come and go or if there is just one love in all one's life in a partner, disregarding hobbies, sport, a mission however including pets and animals of the wild these die with age as we do and are tangible and of the senses.

There is a love which transcends human love.  It has no form that the senses see, touch, feel, hear or smell, it goes beyond imagination and past experiences.

It is felt deep within the space of the heart, not the physical heart, but that feeling when it seems to emanate from the heart.  It is beyond experience of a physical nature accept to say I am saying that it can be felt in a physical body and assuming from NDE the energy body of the deceased. 

For me I have had small tasters and it is all consuming and can say this is the Touch of The Beloved.  No other love has quenched my thirst for being in love and loved back.  In fact to correct that sentence one is joined in love, there is no flow of give and return because one is one with love, it is our true nature, we are love. In a way we are in love with love, just for its own sake.

It is not a case of loving an attribute, love for a something, there is no something or anything to love simply because it is a pure state and stands alone so to speak.

One thing is for sure that once experienced it captures one and the drive to be one with it and release all other side issues is all consuming and almost fanatical.  

I feel I have never lived in harmony or peace until I merge and surrender my personality and who I am that I perceive I am until this oneness and unity is accomplished.  It may never happen in this physical lifetime but come hell or high water I feel the quest and pursuit are all thats left for me in my remaining years.

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SHACK 148 MORE HASTE

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What's the difference

of walking 

to your grave 

and running 

to your grave?

You have missed something

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SHACK 147 BLAME

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Sometimes in meditation it seems as though a light goes on and one 

is consumed by a balm and grace---it feels like being enveloped in

an ocean of Love(Shack) 

I suppose we have all at one time blamed our bodies for letting us down and now as I type this I feel I owe my body an apology for all I put it through and I have done 'I'm sorry dear body' only to do it harm and blame again and again.

It seems as though my impatience and my urge to be perfect and have my own agenda has forced these issues on my dear innocent body.

The intelligence imbued in the cells of my body and yea even deeper to an invisible energy intelligence which the cells draw to themselves, other than nutrients and the saline bathing that cells appreciate.

This intelligence can be felt and by going 'inside' the body with the mind sensing through the body.  One can feel a sort of gentle vibration in a relaxed state, it as if the mind senses without sensors.

This relaxing and gentle mind probing with no agenda, just exploration with no purpose often prompts a sort of inner knowing, definitely intuitive and spontaneous if the scheming mind decides to grant a visa to these dimensions.  One relinquishes control of the ego and allows the body mind to communicate.

So this beautiful body, maybe not to world fashion and model agencies approval and doctors who wish to bombard it, although they mean well, and wouldn't have too if our life styles were not out of sync with Nature which is the bodies origin and homeland. So my body suffers unnaturally and it's my lack of awareness and taking it for granted that maybe its cause.  No matter what modern living imposes on it I can still endeavor to make do as best that fits the well being of this wonderful gift from Nature and the Author of Nature.

So dearest body I will forget and neglect you at times and then come back to you full of remorse.  I beg your forgiveness and like the spirit of the essence of nature you forgive unconditionally until I make the mistakes that cause your uncomfortable disturbances and eventually your breakdown.

I can only hope and pray I will be mindful of you and let you live the remaining years with grace and dignity.  I love you dearest body friend with all that I have as a human and invoke the divine to do so as well.

SHACK

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It has been found that DNA self replicates Itself and draws an invisible
but measurable energy from the vacuum or space--part of the phantom wave project(Shack)   

SHACK 146 AGAIN AND AGAIN

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You know I have had a reasonable education.  The early years a shamble and the following years what I consider to be real education, which is about Life and living.

All the science in the world and explanations which may be logical, make sense and some irrefutable, yet can you shake a deep, deep conviction nay a feeling that is the root and foundation of me of something magical, unexplainable, mystical and indeed is the corner stone of Life.

Such is the wonder I have to see people walking, their feet just walking, heel toe, the humming bird suspended by fast beating wings, the fish swimming, the Cheetah running, the Giraffe lofty and majestic with sexy eyes, the baby feeding at Mother's breast.

The very act of walking, you know my mind cannot comprehend, a tree growing, plants, they are sort of rooted and grounded, but how do I walk free no Earth roots to harness me, the bird fly and so on. Planets that hang in space with their cousins the stars.

Please don't take me back to the classroom, the lecture theater, the dissecting, the compartmentalizations which break up the unity of the whole, of fragmented pieces of the jig saw puzzle. I don't wish to hear about gravity, the big bang, Darwin, Bibles and History, Politics and Wars.

Just let me be with the magic, unanswerable and let it be so for the moment you solve the magic trick, the conjurers illusion then Life loses its zest and we return to the stream of logic and explanation. 

SHACK

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YOU KNOW IT FEELS SAFE WITH LOGIC AND EXPLANATION---UNTIL IT BREAKS DOWN---THEN LOOKS FOR ANOTHER AND SO ON---INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING--BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN LOGIC AND INTELLECT---DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT? (SHACK)