From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: superfluous
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:02:29 -0800


Not carrying anything in your hands whilst walking or such
is what I learned from Castenada. I cannot recall anything
else of much importance. Well there was a friend who talked
to me constantly about Castenada, and Juanito, even when I
dissappeared to take a dump in the woods. He would talk
constantly even if I was not around. I caught him doing this
more than once.

It is a good practice to carry all you can in your backpack
or hip pack. These practitioners are supposed to be
warriors. You take a little Mescaline, and you have visions.
I never did have visions. The later writings are about
'petty tyrants' and 'assemblage points'.

Classic cases of 'dis-associative' behaviour. I left my body
once. It was after I had read most of my Grandmothers
Lobsang Rampa books on astral travel. I did not travel very
far. I was on the sofa, and my spirit lifted up about 5
meters or so. This was my 'transcendental subject' hovering
there observing my material body. Then I snapped back into
place.


john foster




But when in Burckhardt we come upon a passage: "In this year
the Venetians refused to make war upon the Milanese because
they held that any war between buyer and seller must prove
profitable to neither," we come upon a portent, the old
order changes, one conception of war and the state b egins
to decline. The Middle Ages imperceptibly give ground to the
Renaissance." [Hugh Kenner]




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