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And if one doesn't want to end it all, what then? Is anything gained, entertainment aside, from reading this stuff? Let's assume the reader has never been exposed to genuine solipsist-nihilist philosophy before. This crippled intellectual condition is common, even among the erudite, in a culture in which such double-domes as Bertrand Russell and Edmund Wilson have consistently confused solipsism with subjectivism and introversion. Let's say one has reviewed one's own psychedelic experience and has come to the conclusion that, yeah, well, maybe there might be something to it after all.
If you are willing to give it a whirl, that is, learn how to see things this way, will you be any better off than you were before?
Probably.
You will be liberated from dualism and naive realism, and all the depression and neuroticism that follows, and from supernaturalism and occultism and all the paranoia and general mental derangement thereof.
On the positive side, you will have the gift of synchronicity interpretation in the cheapest form ever delivered, thanks to the marvels of modern technology. Another dimension of meaning will be added to your capacity to interpret experience.
The events of everyday life, what you see, hear, feel and think, should begin to fit together into new and surprising patterns and combinations, as you recall, when your next ``coincidence'' comes along, that it is all your dream, and look for the connection which, in the light of that hypothesis, must always exist between simultaneous or associated events in any dream.
Take everything personally. Avoid syntactic rigidity. Remember that the relations you find are relations of meaning; not relations of physical cause and effect, power, or spatiality. It's psychological, and therefore everything is ``over-determined''; loaded to the bulwarks with golden meaning and riding low in the water. Yes, you can read it two ways. You can read it in a hundred different ways. This isn't the pseudo-science of the occultists or science fiction. It's an art. As with all arts, doing it well requires practice and self-criticism.
You're free to see it any way you like and then you are also free to witness the necessary consequences, the corollaries, of your decision to see it that way. Every event, no matter how complex or accidental it may seem in McPozzm terms, can be seen in Snazzm terms as a commentary on the condition of your consciousness, and interpreted like an I Ching hexagram.
There's one catch. You have to be honest with yourself. You can't relate your thoughts to events if you won't admit to yourself that what's on your mind is on your mind.
But synchronicity will show you the way out of that one, also. If dishonesty is your present problem, you will automatically be surrounded by a thousand lessons on the subject of dishonesty: origins of, problems of, varieties of, history of, consequences of, humorous sidelights on, for relief. Get into it! Make yourself an expert on the subject of dishonesty. In the process, you will learn how to be honest.
Then you will see that just because it's on your mind doesn't mean it's worth much. You have conflicting wishes and fears. Just as in an ordinary dream, your experience in general will be seen to be full of things which both gratify and deny, sometimes at the same time, any given impulse. Synchronicity will show you the way out of that one also, by demonstrating that the best kind of change is the transcendence of the conflict itself.
In a way, I envy the reader who has just embarked on the adventure I have attempted to describe. I hope you are able to figure out the difference between warnings and encouragements. Use the I Ching. If you have questions about how to interpret the Ching, address them to the Ching, which is the best authority on the subject. I hope you don't make all the mistakes I made, or at least don't repeat them as long as I did. It's only a matter of making the right decisions, after all.
O saisons, ô châteaux,
Quelle âme est sans défauts?O saisons, ô châteaux,
J'ai fait la magique étude
Du bonheur, que nul n'élude.O vive lui, chaque fois
Que chante le coq gaulois.Mais je n'aurai plus d'envie,
Il s'est chargé de ma vie.Ce charme! il prit âme et corps,
Et dispersa tous efforts.Que comprendre â ma parole?
Il fait qu'elle fuie et vole!O saisons, ô châteaux!
Rimbaud
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