What's it LIKE to Be a ONE?

Dear Transcendental Romantics & Colleagues Across the
Curriculum,

         And all shall be well and
        All manner of thing shall be well
        By the purification of the motive
        In the ground of our beseeching.

I’m Not For Everyone 

     

    First Yr. Student Responds to Last Class

                  Prior to Flight Home

"Preaching to my friends, don't let the pharmaceutical

companies take your money or your chi- get off your

mild  medications, they are keeping you tame- for

heaven's sake don't use fluoride tooth paste, it's been

proven to cause cellular damage and calcify your third

eye. I leave for home in 30 minutes, bound for mommy

on her anti-depressants, blood pressure meds, and

benzos; daddy on high doses of opiates, anti-depressants,

circulatory meds, allergy meds; grandma on who knows

what plus a lot of pain pills; and little sissy on what I

honestly couldn't tell you, I know she's tried out all of

the "uppers, downers, laughers, and screamers" as Hunter

S might say. I wouldn't dare tell my  parents that some of

their medicines are keeping them complacent and void of

energy, which is what I believe.

I think the aspect of myself  that is weakest is the self I

let be around my parents; I won't stand up because if

what I were to say reaches them they are going to feel

it where it hurts, they don't do shit with  their lives but  

live vicariously through mine. I've tried telling  them,

but they put up walls to keep the truth out. I just went

off of my last lingering medication... but the  food and

water I drink is filled to the brim with chemicals I don't

want in my body, so is the air and the soil I walk on.

It just makes me feel like the people before me didn't take

care of their home, and ignorance was a huge factor 'back

in the day' but we know better than to shit  where we eat

and yet it happens all of the time.  Do people really not

care about what their children are going to do when the

problems we keep band-aiding explode?

I rambled and have no direction

with this response, and honestly

I'm not concerned because I get

to see my dog in a matter of hours

so wah-doo happy day and a merry

turkey feast to all"      .-Cupcakes

         Maybe You’re Not For Everyone, too.

Some guru  Krishna-something-or-other on  URTV last night

was playing prophet—wonderfully smooth slab-sided cheeks

and semi-scrutable demeanor delivering slow- motion meaningful

ancient truth we’ve all heard before to a rapt audience of groan-ups

solemn faced, raped, enraptured, captured  and captivated by the

persona sounding thru the kingdom within:  priceless, home where

I AM., don’t be seeking it elsewhere the  source of your eternal  &

unquenchable thirst is with you all ways always.

       Fragments from Last Class Conversation:

          19^th c. American Writers: Emerson,

                Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe,

                 Whitman + some Emily

       A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
    Who till they died, did not alive become—
    Who had they lived, had died but when
           They died, Vitality begun.

Sex & Drugs but no rock & roll. Prostitution & traffic-ing and

pregnancy and periods and  child delivery on the one hand and

then on  the other: control-&- regulation medication not  your

recreational drugging but cultural relativity: keep the peace and

settle down the ADD ADHD restless legs, Aderalled and

Ritylin-ed,  lithiumized, Prozac-ed et al. Viagra  Falls et al,

learning  disabilities,  dyslexia, aspergers & autism, body

dysmorphic  manic depressing bi-polar binging & purging

anxiety  disorder, cutting,  panic, anti-social socio-pathologic:

all variations on what it's like to be and to be treated for what
it's like to be a ONE  which is the theme of the course.

              What IS it like to be a  ONE?

                  And the one I AM?

Every one an expert of one. Do we need myn-in-white coats to

answer this?  Go-to-the-library research?  Wikipaedea?  Down

the hall to ask  the psychology  department?  Religion? Philosophy?

Sociologic? Theologic?

Of course.

Of course we do.

All that and more, or what’s  a college for

if not to figure out what-it’s-like to be a ONE,

and in particular: the one that I AM (I am not

every body & you’re not every body either)

and we shall never cease from exploration…  
 

“I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good

belongs to you. . .”