Is Bush a crook-coddling pinko?

A Connecticut yankee's take on "Seattle Drivers."

I found this while reading (re-reading, really) Jane Roberts' and Seth's, The Unknown Reality, volume 1:


"You have put yourselves in a position where your consciousness must now become aware of the probable pasts and probable futures, in order to form yourselves a sane, fulfilling, and creative present.

"...You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeologies, or other disciplines. Man's 'unconscious' knowledge is becoming more and more consciously apparent.

"...When, at this point now, of mankind's development, his emerging unconscious knowledge is denied by his institutions, then it will rise up despite those institutions, and annihilate them.

"...This need not take place, for the conscious mind - basically, now - having learned to focus in physical terms, is meant to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge, and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns.

"The great emotion of love has been thus far poorly used, yet it represents even the biological impetus of your being. Your religions in a large measure have taught you to hate yourselves and physical existence. They have told you to love God, but rarely taught you to experience the gods in yourselves.

"Now: In one way or another religions have always followed, again, the development of your consciousness, and so they have served its purposes and yours; and they have always reflected, though distorted, those greater inner realities of your being....

"There is nothing wrong with the concept of an egotistically based individual being, colon: I am not suggesting, therefore, that you individuality is something to be lost, thrown aside, or superceded....

"I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. To do this you must understand, again, that man must move beyond the concept of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood. You are now poised, in your terms, upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways. ...There are potentials within the body's mechanisms, in your terms, not yet used. Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the race, and bring it to levels of spiritual and psychic and physical fulfillment. If some changes are not made, the race as such will not endure."


-session 687, pp85-87

Walking with Katie, from the Seattle Times, and James Vesely ruminates on the summer salmon season.

Ok, I enjoy calls from home (three hour time difference) but if you are on the east coast then please keep in mind that it will be three hours earlier here. Abby called at seven this morning to tell me that they have tickets. Good price too. I bought two throw rugs to cover the offending carpet today, so I'm that much closer to being able to entertain here.

I ran yesterday. I measured the middle 5 miles. Mile 1 to 5 were 7:38.16, 8:21.60, 7:30.41, 8:38.60, 8:32.85, respectively. I don't think that is too bad.

The national do not call list is coming, but I probably already sent you an e-mail.

Wow, the weather here has been drier and hotter than back at home. We might see rain in a few days. I got sunburned yesterday when my body just had to go out for a run. It hit me like a ton of bricks because of the heat, and it wasn't too pleasant. I think it went up to 90 degrees yesterday. I don't think that Seattleites know about air-conditioning. It is nice to have southern facing windows but in the weather we have had lately it can really heat up your home.

I have an update on the purported raise. I was told that there is no answer yet to how much it will be or whether I will get it at all. I guess I jumped the gun but I'm still skeptical. Can you tell? And as far as the f***ing carpet goes I have decided to live with it until the end of the lease and then leave Archstone Redmond Hill for good. I'd like to send a letter to the district manager and the boss above that position too. On the one hand they say that the carpet cleaners cannot get the smell out yet thay will move me to another apartment, thus leaving the smell there. I don't want to change my address and move from this apartment I like. That is too much of an inconvenience for me. I also consider all of my time here so far to be mostly lost because I have never been able to adequately settle in. Bastards.

They want to move me instead of changing my carpet. I need help out there willing them to change the carpet because I like where my apartment is. Help, help help.

I have been sporadically using the treadmill at the fitness center here where I live. I get most of my exercise from my landscaping job (more on this later). I wasn't sure what shape I would be in for a run outside, along the route I used to take before the job and before some bastard took my running stuff from the laundromat. Since I no longer own a pair of running shorts, I cut some of the bottoms off a pair of gym/swim trunks and used them yesterday. I ran along the Sammamish Slough and after feeling good enough to continue, I went out to the 2 1/2 mile mark on the trail. That is 5 miles there. It takes a couple of miles and more to get to the trail (5 more miles), so I think I ran 10 miles yesterday. It is nice to know I can still do that.

The weather yesterday was stellar. There are high clouds today and the temperature will be in the 60's. After yesterday's exertion I don't need to tax myself like that today. Maybe a bike-ride would be nice.

Work. My boss told me a few weeks ago that I would be getting a raise after an initial 30 day or so trial period. I didn't get it. I am now opening up new possibilities for myself. In other words I will be looking for another job. I won't storm into there and quit, but this outfit has proven itself to be undependable while I have done what was asked. I drove their stinkin' truck and trailer and completed the routes and they showed me bad faith by not holding up their side of the deal. I haven't talked with Burt about this but now I know why he was avoiding me on Friday. So anyone out there, again, in the Issaquah, Redmond and Belleview areas who would like to have a dependable and honest worker, barring some last minute change of heart from Earthworks, I will soon be available. So y'all have a great week. Life is good. Don't waste it on bad employers.