Trip Report
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:14 pmWe (Kim and I and Kim's brother Dan) are in Ouray, CO, an ex-mining town, now a tourist retreat, sort of the south middle of Colorado, in a rented house that no one has lived in. We are managing to break it in a little. I've picked some local sage, Kim bought me some sweet grass at a Farmers Market in Boulder before we came here...plan is to smudge the place. It doesn't seem to have any bad vibes...it just seems not to have ANY vibes, so maybe a little smudge will initiate it.
Meantime, the power supply for the lap has gone flaky and will now work only when the cord connecting it to the laptop is in a particular position. Phil's dogs had chewed it up several years ago and it has several holes in it. As a result, until yesterday when we figured it out, we've had no Internet access.
Perhaps the break has had some influence on my browsing. Before we left Mission I had found several forums that were supposedly quite involved in the teachings of don Juan. Perhaps they are, actually, but now having taken a few days away from them, they are no different than most forums, mostly squabbling with one another about personal crap having little or nothing to do with Castaneda.
Secondly, and leading more to deepening disinterest is a focus on flyers, death defiers, and the foreign installation, concepts I've doubted ever since reading them, primarily because they were introduced very late in the sequence of books. The major problem, in my opinion, is that these concepts are used to define and excuse any errant behaviors of others. If someone gives you shit, or disagrees with you, its convenient to claim they know not what they are doing or saying because they have been influenced by a flyer, or the foreign installation has taken place and the person is no longer truly responsible for what they say and do. Apparently the vast majority of humanity is infected.
My third disagreement with these folk is concerning IOB's, and indirectly, the notion the universe is malevolent, and that is because in my opinion, we are all IOB's, really, that that is our natural condition of being, and that our short excursion into manifesting in human form is basically an aberration. I think those notions are somewhat corroborated by Robert Monroe.
So. Enough of the other forums. I believe I'll just hang out on YAW for a while, write my own crap, see who wants to do likewise, make cookies, drink beer, listen to music, enjoy the sunshine at 8,000 feet, and tomorrow, go ride a narrow gauge train from Durango to Silverton pulled by an old steam locomotive, and sometime or other, drive back to Boulder.
Meantime, the power supply for the lap has gone flaky and will now work only when the cord connecting it to the laptop is in a particular position. Phil's dogs had chewed it up several years ago and it has several holes in it. As a result, until yesterday when we figured it out, we've had no Internet access.
Perhaps the break has had some influence on my browsing. Before we left Mission I had found several forums that were supposedly quite involved in the teachings of don Juan. Perhaps they are, actually, but now having taken a few days away from them, they are no different than most forums, mostly squabbling with one another about personal crap having little or nothing to do with Castaneda.
Secondly, and leading more to deepening disinterest is a focus on flyers, death defiers, and the foreign installation, concepts I've doubted ever since reading them, primarily because they were introduced very late in the sequence of books. The major problem, in my opinion, is that these concepts are used to define and excuse any errant behaviors of others. If someone gives you shit, or disagrees with you, its convenient to claim they know not what they are doing or saying because they have been influenced by a flyer, or the foreign installation has taken place and the person is no longer truly responsible for what they say and do. Apparently the vast majority of humanity is infected.
My third disagreement with these folk is concerning IOB's, and indirectly, the notion the universe is malevolent, and that is because in my opinion, we are all IOB's, really, that that is our natural condition of being, and that our short excursion into manifesting in human form is basically an aberration. I think those notions are somewhat corroborated by Robert Monroe.
So. Enough of the other forums. I believe I'll just hang out on YAW for a while, write my own crap, see who wants to do likewise, make cookies, drink beer, listen to music, enjoy the sunshine at 8,000 feet, and tomorrow, go ride a narrow gauge train from Durango to Silverton pulled by an old steam locomotive, and sometime or other, drive back to Boulder.
