What Makes A Man Look Upward

Congratulations to me. I stopped smoking tobacco a year ago today. Pride goeth before the fall. '-)

I continue to try to describe a situation that seems to work for me strictly because of how I recognize it for what it is to me. I don't really have to do anything but understand how it works. This confuses me. I like for what happens to more or less have a reason. I like to think I play some meaningful role in when and how it takes place. In this type of situation, however, everything seems to fall in place just as my sense of integrity does. There's not much difference between integrity and atonement in my way of seeing the world. My integrity appears to gather itself around the notion that the world can do what it likes, but how I react to the way the world does, is pretty much up to me.

I read a book by Tom Patterson last week. He sent me a copy free of charge, so I felt sort of obligated to read it. The two times Tom and I spent any time together talking we got along real well. We appear to have some artistic impressions about life in common. In that way, it wasn't like reading a book written by somebody else that Tom thought was real groovy and recommended it, it was a book he had written himself. Fortunately for me, there were lot's of pictures. He wrote about this eccentric named Eddie Martin. Eddie was born in Marion County, Georgia to a mean, hard drinking tenant farmer, and an angel-like, good-looking woman for a mother.

Eddie was "different" even unto himself growing up in the Georgia countryside, and it won't long before he started going up north on the train and hanging around New York City. He ran outta money quick enough, and started selling his body and hustling to pay his way. Later on in life he started reading cards for a living, and that's the part of the book that interested me. He got to know a man who did this for a living who worked in a Tea Room and read the dregs of the tea leaves in the bottom of a cup, and he got Eddie a job doing the same thing.

Eddie liked the idea of being a card reader, but he did know what he could talk to people about. His mentor told him what to do, and gave him some good advice that I identified with immediately because of my own experience doing readings. He told Eddie that if he just sorta allowed for or thought that he could do it, he probably could.

Reading palms was like that for me. I never even watched somebody read palms except the time I got mine read along with a couple of other kids out on a lark. I just "knew" I could do it straight out of the box. Of course, it was different for me because I was already reading the Tarot cards. Also, I had begun studying astrology on a regular basis at this time too. I soon learned that astrology is considered the Mother of all the occult interests, and there is a powerful reason.

Every element of astrology is based on an abstract construct. The entire zodiac is a system for categorizing the universal principles Everyman is or should be familiar with in my opinion. It's a system for expounding the contents of the wisdom books of most cultures. Like the Mahabharata, Bartlett's Book Of Quotations, the Koran or The Sutras or any version of the Christian Bible. It is to be talked or spoken without betraying the fact that you're using a system to seem casually sporadic . It really doesn't matter how these universal sayings are arranged, sequentially or otherwise, the operator of the system can't go wrong because all the sayings are universal and always sound fundamentally right.

One facticity has to be taken into consideration in any or all of these systems. Your audience must interpret what you say to mean what they think/opine it does. There is nothing that can be done about that. They hear what they think you're saying no matter your intent. Any person operating an oracle like astrology has to be aware of this or they won't be believable over ti-me. This, in spite of the fact that all believability is fraudulent.

All any system does is provide the speaker with something to say. It doesn't matter whether the oratory system is politically or religiously oriented, it's believability that counts with their audience either large or small. Politicians are considered to have mastered their craft when they can sound meaningful about any topic without saying anything much at all. It's the same thing with preachers. It's not what they're saying that matters. What they say doesn't fill the coffers.