So I Wrote Back, I Said,...

     ... Eternalism can be simplified, Think of it this way;

     "I have lived in the Eternal past. and I will live in the Eternal future. This is your Enlightenment.

ART ; The Heights And The Depths Of Eternalism

     People tell me I'm artistic and what not. And I'm just here to tell you now that my reactions to the world have been as common as anyone else's. Our artistic differences are in the talent of empathy, not in our observational capacities.

     One might even say that whatever artistic powers we have, we have through EMPATHY.
     People want their presence felt through other people. It's the nature of sex, family and all social order.

     True empathy keeps us from taking advantage of our subjects. But we do not always have TRUE EMPATHY. We can search for it when we meditate on Eternity. We are only immortal when we feel the presence of Eternity.

     What we observe as mortals we feed back through a wider prism, with colors of our own choosing.

Eternalist Thought Is Only Possible With A Free Mind

You'll need to be uncompromising in your search for knowledge.

That means unfettered by routines and assumptions, conscious and unconscious patterns and dogmas, social, religious, political and intellectual.

It's starting to be understood that Eternalist thinking is a discipline, the mind controlling the mind. You start with the questions you find you are asking yourself; 'Am I prepared for possible worldwide calamities?' 'Am I sexually attractive to the kinds of people I am sexually attracted to?' 'What if I die? What is that really like? Should I believe the dogma of heaven and hell just to relieve my anxiety over death?'

These and other questions are important in that they help you sustain a base reality to your life. The more basic the question, the more become the center, the groundwork of your mind. But what about the answers?

I teach to be very suspicious of answers. Having an answer is like parachuting into quicksand. You'll have to maneuver that parachute to more solid ground.

Correspondence; to Gina in Hawaii

Gina,

Thanks for the music. I might have some of this on tapes from back then.

A lot has happened around me in the last decade or so. 

The establishment of Eternalism as a valid alternative to dogmatic religions is my main focus, and that includes all the arts; writing, music, design, painting, even architecture and fashion. Eternalism is created to start a way of thinking, a mindset based on the search for knowledge.

This morning is busy, but I'll leave you these prototypes of the symbol. Use them wherever and whenever you like. They will even become more important if you leave a note with them saying they are symbols of Eternalism.

Oh, and a brief blurb;

"I wrote the song '74' when I was 27 and had started a band in San Francisco called 'The Living Daylights'. Gina and my sister had done a spectral job of backup singing on TLD record. My purpose in writing '74' was to plan my life up until that age, and then move on to the next life form or whatever was beyond that. It was at the very beginning of the philosophical concepts that would lead me to formal Eternalism. I was so glad that Gina liked the song so much she included it in her repertoire and recorded it. It stands as a document not only of my personal evolution in the '80's but also of the halycon San Francisco music scene at that time."