num_pages: 135
description: Everything you think you are is a mirror reflecting who you are not contained within the prefab frame of your reflection. This text expands that frame to allow you to see directly to what lies on the other side of that mirror, to the fully visioned you that sees you clearly. Who is this other you? Consider a geological metaphor: your original idenity is volcanic, molten, continually shifting. Overlying this magma and containing it are layers of silt and stone eroded from mountians of ancient beliefs that have shaped you. The intense pressure to remember and fully express your explosive power eventually cracks these overlying sedimentary beds. The intrusions of lava find their way through faults in the containing rock, expand into these fractures and flow upward. In some cracks the molten rock will cool and go no further. Through others it will rush to the surface and explode with the ecstasy of knowing all at once. Or the magma will work its way sideways till it finds a fault in the imprisoning overlay and expand up through it and find another break. Little by little this original consciousness that is the uncontained you finds its way to the surface. Nothing in this book is particularly true finally and forever, but hidden throughout its stories, fairy tales, reflections and paradoxes are keys to access your personal truth. There is no wisdom here that you do not bring to it. The text provides a few fractures in the stony mantle of forgetfulness, the rest is up to you. Only you know your way. Samples: Heaven--A place where everything's terrific, couldn't be better. Hell--A place where everything's terrible, couldn't be worse. Human being--Heaven and Hell The Game--Hide and seek as a vocation. Also known as Life. The purpose of the Game is to challenge our soul by setting up problems that monopolize our lives in their solving. As in the game of Monopoly we use life as the board, bank and properties, and ourselves as the gaming pieces, dice and draw cards for punishment and good fortune. The Game is the organizing principle of civilization providing an understandable matrix that categorizes existence into rules and regulations we internalize. Once we accept our gaming piece and the bank's money we relinquish our non-game independence to become a player. From the first roll of the dice until we win or lose the Game we are challenged to work out the seemingly unsolvable paradoxes that make playing so compelling: How do I ever get free if I play by others' rules? How can I be truly human and still play a game that seeks to impoverish me and others? If I live the Lie is anything in my life true? Can I protect my children from the ruthlessness of the Game and still help prepare them as honest players who can still win? Fear is the main dynamic of the Game, fear of there not being enough or too much, fear of life and fear of death. It is confusing. The meaning of things shift continually. Sometimes up is up but it can also be down. In is in until you get in and it turns out you're out. Sometimes it is smart to be dumb. Weakness is power, ignorance wisdom, poverty wealth and good is bad. Death is finality but then some of us die and swear there is no such thing, that if anything we are almost dead now and when we do kick off we're finally alive. Honesty is not the best policy, scarcity is plenty relatively speaking, abundance not enough, truth is fiction and suffering is the norm and very good for you--unless it is you suffering. A litte consciousness is good and more consciousness is dangerous as hell and inadvisable if you want to keep playing the Game...
title: The Gospel According to Garcia: Spiritual Bones for Mad Dogs
titlecomplete: The Gospel According to Garcia: Spiritual Bones for Mad Dogs
publisher: Augusta Wind Press