New Normal ...

Since this blog is being written in linear time, let's say 1950 - 2021, the birth year of the blogger and the current year, whether or not the last as yet unknown ... the events of living memory, inasmuch as this fragment of the Whole of Nature, known as "I" with all the baggage of an ego self examined but not fully understood, playing with the grammar in order to avoid over-nouning and full stops, not to mention the amusing task of writing cogently with minimal personal pronouns ...  the art being to remain present as the hero of the blog, telling a story as if autobiography, while subverting the mindset of the reader(s), if any ... thereby removing the illusion of the I and me and mine, preparing the world in "my" mind for liberation of a kind ... according to teachings from Lao Tse in Dao, Gautama in Buddhism, K in whatever he was saying along with friends like Bohm and Aldous Huxley ... and hinted at obliquely in the title of the blog, with reference to two rivers as well as a clever rhyme ...

Occasional feedback from friends and readers, not ostensibly deranged, encourages the old blogger to continue ... self knowing including the ever present danger of slipping into delusion, and while paranoia is identified as a psychological issue to beware of, the compassion of those readers and their willingness to criticise honestly from their perspective offers evidence that eccentricity is not normally diagnosed as abnormal or subnormal ... just maybe a different kind of normal ...

Normal, of course, is in the mind ... of each individual human being ... their Reality you might say ... and the more individualistic the society, the more opinions arise and coalesce around groups to form consensus reality, previously the realm of national identity, where whole countries clashed in wars, often allied with other countries, empires indeed, to ramp up the horror ... meanwhile power players play with human minds to bend group reality through hypnosis using levers like television and newspapers, susceptible to corruption and enforcement (as in D notices in UK) ... simple and consistently repeated messages in times of crisis however created, lead whole populations to agree, that previously abhorrent practices like mass wearing of masks and vaccinations become a New Normal ... normality as decreed by the World Economic Forum, offering lockdown release contingent on enslavement ...

All of this strange story, by the way, is only one version of reality as processed through the weird mind of one rebellious entity, playing human games with certain preset conditions like family constellations, birth date and so on, sent into a world soon perceived as in need of revolution in many ways ... gross inequality, violence at every level including mass murder in wars ... and this fragment of the whole found allies with similar aims, whether some branch of communism or Buddhism or other isms and none ... leading to today's offering, not too far removed from contemporary structures like Science and Non-Duality and countless others looping round to Dao and the primacy of consciousness itself to up the game of humanity, see through divide and rule, love of money, Fear itself and notably the illusion of fear of Death ... which is to say: Immortality is available ... but if you think you can buy it you're crazier than me!