Evening star., 1933-07-30

me regret my return to . longer stay
on our planet Was from member Of .
spiritist society She wrote . trifle illeg-
IDLY. but the gist Of her letter was that
], after passing on, should become q
sort Of patron ghost fof the benefit Of
certain spirits on the other side, and
get messages from them to relay to the
society. Also. was to take messages
from the society with me when I went,
and deliver them to the spirits ad-
dressed.
This. my friend ed, would necessi-
tate q personal meeting between me
and the members of the society, and
would come out to the home town and
become acquainted?
It was temptation. but It's lucky
didn't fall for it. as don't expect to
carry that sort Of message in the i'm
mediate future.
Only two letter-writers took my
article as jest.
One said: II got good laugh out Of
your funny piece; you are real humor-
But It wasn't jest at all. For q time,
my life, as the poets say. hung by
However. the thread didn't break. You
see, threads that have q responsibility
seem to take themselves seriously.
Like that sword Of Damocles that
hung by hair. It never fell-to my
knowledge.
Mental Outlook Unchanged.
And now that am assured by doctors
and laymen and friends and housemaids
who have had knee that am freed
from any danger Of immediate death
from heart disease, my mental outlook
Is not affected any more than It was
BY the prophecy Of said danger.
never allow myself to be affected
BY tribes, and to me the question of
dying or not dying is q trife. This is
IN no way q gesture of irreverence or
pessimism: 1t is merely that my COM
mon sense tells me must die some day.
1 cannot alter that fact, SO why
worry? 1t did not worry me when tne
time was set. SO why worry now, when
it Is No. get?
But 4.m glad to have bit more time
70 puzzle out what is meant by those
mail nobody told me that. Yet It is a
phrase glibly used by serious-minded
people. Oh yes, there was one letter
about 1t, but the writer seemed to think
mes deeper issues were butterflies
wings, snowhakes, q birds feather.
truth, beauty and honor. Starting in
this way, the difficulty Is to find anv-
thing to leave out.
Many gentle souls recommended me-
to meditation. Now I've NV own ideas
ABOUT meditation, per Sc, and they're
not invariably in its favor. Not given
to the art myself, I've seen MANY who
were. and 1t always came as a shock
when they drifted from deep thoueht
INTO deep sleep, or, at any rate. a
light doze.
Believes Mediation Lost Art
Nor. granting their capacity to stay
awake. have ever heard any profound
thought or wisdom expressed as A re-
suit Of meditation.
I am quite ready to believe that the
ancient philosophers meditated sue
cessfully. but I can't help feeling 1t is
Q lost art.
Nor do care. have small use for
meditation. I never mediate, make
my decisions on the instant, do things
and say things on the spur Of the mo-
ment. and with me meditation is q
waste OF time. There are so many
more interesting things to do than to
mediate. And one Of them Is to read
other peoples meditations-people who
are born meditators.
I managed to pull through the whole
excitement and retain my beautiful dis
position. Many friends said: II don't
see how you take 1t all so calmly"
But didn't tell them it was be-
cause feared for the tranquility of
my beautiful disposition. That's my
only really winsome feature, and have
to be very careful of it.
And as I'm on the way (thouRh
long way) to complete recovery and as
big hats are coming it. don't see
that have anything special to fret
about.
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