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Mirror in Art and John Lennon

A propagandum
[This work is still in the process of being drafted. Please feel free
to provide constructive comments for the author and speak freely
to and for anyone else.]
Merry Christmas!
Until the nineteenth century, Art, in Shakespeares phrase, held
"a mirror up to nature" and faithfully recorded an objectively real
world independent of the observer.
- Vince Brewton, University of Northern Alabama
I am tryin to say it to Yoko, but to all women, you know? On
behalf of all men, in a way. If thats taken it too much on meself, I
feel that artists are that theyre reflections of society... Mirrors.
- John Lennon
The following propagandum reflects on the release of the artist as
the revealer of nature by mirroring, to artist as mirror and then
reformulates the artists identity including mirroring, being
mirrored and living beyond and including mirroring and mirrors
in a radically new and sublime way to those artists still on the
road to Heaviside Layer. The artists release follows a natural
progression that begins in a narcissism (particularly derivative to
the initial realization of the narcissistic wound) to a bagism, to a
loverism (anti-terrorism), to a Jellicle Peptomism.
The quaternary that begins with a narcissism and culminates to a
Jellicle Peptomism suffers a partial regression along its way. A
Bagist has to his advantage something lost in loverism, a message
or statement, which is lost in loverism (unless love itself is a
message) and returns in a Jellicle Peptomism as an expression of
the highest truth of the practitioner.

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Manipulations of determinisms, when addressed by an adult as

behavioural and chemical influence on phenotype and genotype,
respectively, can only expect results based on a reality testing
stayed to through the upheavals of a path to Peptomism. Jellicle
Peptomism derives its name from a play on T.S. Eliot's "Old
Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and riffs on the brand name
Pepto Bismal in hopes the practitioner might only suffer pain so
great that it can be remedied over the counter from a more open
pharmacy and coming from a place of mixed knowledge and
ignorance about human physiology and about medicine on the
part of a "patient." While Jellicle Peptomism looks forward to a
bright future and assumes an advance in medicine it does not seek
to replace a trusted physician but rather casts such a person in a
sometimes supporting role in the maintenance of health and
amelioration of disease should it occur. The "Bismal" principle
applies better to art and craft better than to chemical or
behavioural remedy. Musics native to things Jellicle come from a
realm beyond body and mind and stand to improve most by a
Peptomist attitude resident in them. The "Bismal" analogy as an
imperative put: a person ought to administer over those tasks only
he or she can complete for him or herself, for others and the
World, for God, and which ought to be done as such because to
delegate them would miss a serious point about health or art as
the case may be. A serious point: you can pick your friends and
you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose.
Without the care and knowledge of the Doctor and patient (more
and more the same in a craft as practiced and conceived) no
project stands to grow as the nurture and control necessary to
guide it are ill-founded in anything but the highest calibers of
human knowledge, largely theoretical, and the most skillful
human practice are unique to the life-well lived. The quarternity
is the unfolding of life, doctor or no doctor and it is a non-genetic
determinism (with all of the opennesses determinists allow) that

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precedes genetic determinisms in its essence and power to

explain. Why Celine is so buoyant or why Frank is so smooth is a
result of care and autonomy employed beyond conscious
manipulations to a genotype which might later express as a
phenotype or an expression that might later "encode" as a
genotype. DNA does not stop "evolving" at birth. What role does
the conscious reprogramming of genes have in a Jellicle
Peptomism? The degree to which growth becomes conscious is
largely a choice faced by everyone on "the spiritual path," the road
less travelled by that we might arrive where we started and know
the place for the first time, to cross Eliot with Frost. Expanded
free will derives from a wisdom about playing with genetic
determinisms, with all the acceptances, rejections and changes
that come naturally, require premeditation or transpire
spontaneously with a basis in logic, itself a synthetic system, and
nature and transcend it as Zen. Another definition of Zen: where
ear the adept finds him or herself in the quarternity and what she
or he is doing in such a position. The quarternity is Zen in four
stages. Free will increases in power and scope with the wise
territory cleaning and mapping of a Peptomism in development.
Peptomism is always in development and returns to past stages,
as reminiscences and reflections, like cloudy afternoons following
a dark night of the soul, in its inter-growth and beatifications.
Free will diminishes with folly for self-presenting reasons most
often tantamount to a consequence of its misuse (i.e. The boy who
cried wolf) and is resurrected by surrender. If we think of the
mind in terms similar to the body, with part of its code written in
the stars, we might arrive at similar conclusions carrying this
thought forward to practice.
Quarternities in procession lend themselves to explanation by the
Axiom of Maria, discovered by a father of psychodynamics, Carl
Jung. The first object, A progresses into B after which C emerges
after which B and C transcend to D, reviving something of A lost

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to B and C and including elements of each of B and C, excluding

yet other elements of B and C transmogrifying the sum of their
remaining parts magically producing a map of the development of
an idea. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof's model of the perinatal birth
matrix lends itself to understanding by the Axiom of Maria as
does a dynamically-inspired reading of the Biblical Gospels,
psychosexual stages of development, Carl Sagan's model of an
evolving brain and the suits on a deck of cards.
[Map the quarternity at hand to the axiom of Maria]
In seeking to add to a tradition that functions by its own steam
and by nature's steam we detract more than we add. By the same
engine that propels the Earth around the sun or the tree to rise
from the grown and grow new leaves each season do the seasons
of man come to pass in good order, determined and with
openness and open with determinants.
Quarternity, where
nature's steam and synthetic engines propel not only an idea but a
spirituality as lived, with a thing or person as an object of
appropriate and life-affirming love serves not only the one who
needs to love or who needs to be loved but also nature and also
the development of syntheses.
The Bagists biologically imperative end precipitates a move from
artist utilizing mirrors as tools at perception and reproduction
Take, for example, the scene in Tommy where Mrs. Walker
demands Tommy go to the mirror and Mrs. Walker, arriving at
wits end after Tommys failure to comply with her manipulation,
smashes it and with it the germ of Tommys narcissism such that
his Self might reform without including its image, physical and
mental, reflected back at him inopportunely. After Tommys
release from a bondage of pinball and failed attempts at therapy,
the artist (or Pinball Wizard) returns to the opinion of others to
answer the question how do I look? or more importantly, how

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does the work look? and approaches asking, how am I doing?

The mysticism of a bag full of ideologies and activisms that come
with romance and brotherly love transmogrify into ineffable
experiences for the Peptomist, a man or woman returned to his
deepest and truest nature. The bag becomes a repository of lost
treasures available on Christmas or whenever else peace on Earth,
goodwill toward men begs its usage.
How would a native to intersecting worlds of art explain a move
from a conception of art (and worse, the artist) as merely a mirror
of man and his world (his routines, goals and his nature) to a
conception of art (and the artist) as an evolutionary process which
draws on mirrors not only for artist but also for critic, spectator
and financier in such a way as to permit the artist to generate
novelty beyond reflection and mere imitation while keeping the
power of gnosis well-protected and wisely deploying it to reach yet
others with truth.Bold but subtle; meaningful but not
manipulative, such art would be - such it is. In some cases, art
reflects back timeliness and timelessness both as the artist
experiences it in the world and as the artist's audience follows suit
. As works are fully engaged, delivered for the common good and
gauged to edify by means of an audience's receptive ears and eyes,
it's mind and soul. The artist is not just a mirror or a manipulator
of them, ever. In art, espionage and everyday life, mirrors are
mirrors and artists are people.
Artists have imaginations and interests that extend better and
better beyond their noses as they progress from a narcissism to a
Jellicle Peptomism, another ism that might get lust to plurality
but on pains of losing how it uniquely finds something to like
about even the narcissist if for no other reason than to transmute
him or her upwardly toward self-realization and expression.
Complete people make better artists.

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God sent artists to the world to check up on humans and report

back to them.
Fans and critics, unwitting shoppers and devotees continue to use
art as mirrors in an age where the lines between real and surreal
are blurred in some of the best work out there. Are you more like
Han Solo or Darth Sidious? Are they even all together that
different? Maybe not, save for but one decision about how to
conduct oneself in the world and particularly as it pertains to
responsibility to others. Patrons persist in obsolete modes of
criticism even when art doesn't lend itself to such a kind of
reflection. The play was great but the climax dragged on too
long. I thought you liked it that way.. Defining art as a servile
reflection of Self, Other, World and God, however lifted to the
higher realms of pageantry and pedantics, they have broader
power to explain. A view on art disrespectful to the autonomy of
the artists misses the point of art and cannot pass the test of
higher reason as it pertains to progress in art. Progress, however
controversial and difficult to define, lends itself to being measured
by the artists emancipation of himself and his victims (read
patronage): just because an artist can act as a mirror or make
works in accord with imitation and principles which guide it, to
another or to a society, does not mean that he or she must. A
Jackson Pollock can capture a room and augment its eerie timbre
in a way a realist might not consider. Art is creative and while it
may play on Universal themes it offers a way out as much as a way
in. It depends on the work and how the beholder processes it
within a leeway of how the work lends itself to analysis which can
be pursued or not, and in some cases one and not the other case
preferred for the better appreciation of art and in consideration of
the role one is playing in relation to it. In cases where analysis
does not depend on introspection or projection art has moved
beyond imitation with the caveat that it must be comprehensible
in terms of a common world and in increasing degrees as the work

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becomes more universal. Just because someone sees themselves

in a work or projects psychic matter onto a work does not imply
this, or the work itself for that matter, ought to have been done.
Art has the power to express nascent phenomena in the world to
the world and the archetype of the shaman is often subsumed by
the artist. (Some of the best artists don't think of themselves as
that, but as friends, lovers, parents, bingo players, skydivers,
counter-semolina pilchard-ing etc.) While art imitates, it need
not be imitation.
Such is the difference between an abject
mannerism, in theatre arts, and an approach in accord with
Stanislavki's system. One annoyingly imitates while the other, in
the absence of inspiration or the common sense of a carpenter,
has the power to explain, prescribe and define. The difference
between making funny faces and getting to know yourself as you
can be applied to a role is the difference between heaven and hell.
To reiterate, because art imitates doesn't mean it is imitation or
somehow counterfeit. It is an object unto itself in consideration of
it and it is part of a dynamic system, or even, a world. You can't
fool a woman with an imitation string of pearls when she knows
how to see the persistence of memory in only the authentic object
as a lustre, or maybe a vibration.
Real pearls have more
harmonious vibrations, they have lustre. Only the authentic
object has the power to edify. Imitation beyond a mistaken
forgery in a work ought to express the subjects of a work, mindful
of form or the particular object being imitated or transmuted to
the canvas, record, flower arrangement, etc.. Having refused to
consider the possibility that a perfect verisimilitude could exist
and given a preference against pipe-dreams with the way the light
reflects on oil paint. Authentic works also tend to be authoritative
in delivering perspectives over ranges of ideas. The difference
between Hamlet and pantomime exemplifies the range of reality
and unreality, with imitations in service to them, the theatre
might express as much as the writing allows. The depths of

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Hamlet have lead some to drown while Pantomime only invites

the occasional nap.
The bagism continuum begins and ends in love. The bagism
continuum is a process involving two caterpillar people getting
into a bag and coming out as one butterfly. Next, lovers pass
through infatuation, a loverism comes to include more outside
objects, objects freer from the cathexis between lovers, but
reluctantly, and eventually, as the story goes, lovers come to a
Jellicle Peptomism. Loverism includes as part of its unwritten
doctrine, a catholic love of self and intimate other (work, family
and friends start to matter again after the conspiracy of everything
else ruined a return to Eden) whereas a bagism entails spending a
month with a beloved one in a hotel room, a step within the bag
beyond the bag at inception of an instance of bagism because of
its connection to the real world, however tenuous, strengthens
before God cuts it like the umbilical cord it is. Hotels have lobbies
and lobbies have lounges. Bagism does not only begin in
describing how personal evolutions work out in the world (it
revives the seventies and with it possibility and not the wars
between neighbours fought about mileage, ministry and memes)
and in a way the triune presented here is beyond nature and in
that way, each of bagism, loverism and Jellicle Peptomism are at
a glorious stalemate of a wild nature. Universal elements of art
illustrate more primal, primordial and thus, in many cases, more
primary objects (a guilt by association) in those cases where such
a primacy sought erroneously in films which do not honour the
very elements that bring film to life, and life to film.
Its been a hard days night and Ive been working like a dog.
Art rock, shamanism and Tantra demand a treatment inclusive of
past beyond their less refined substrates. Peptomist ideology
stems from eternal truth and adapts well into future incarnations

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or other-world adventures with and without steady form, as such

experiences derive from an itinerary set out to facilitate
progression: bagism, loverism and Jellicle Peptomism.
Narcissism is best resolved when left alone, except in the most
abject of cases. Empirical results aren't sufficient to identify a
particular ideology as practical for our purposes in making our
creations; results may be too narrowly constrained, "off the
mark," or misconstrued as interpreted. In part, what makes art
beautiful is its nature as evidenced by a product/process
continuum - practical or impractical. Jellicle Peptomism is an
"umbrella" under which all religions coexist in peace; it is a
primitive and a call from the heights of technology both. It is a
proposition: love God with all your heart, your mind and your
soul and your neighbour [or fellow Peptomist] as yourself.
"Handle me with care" says George Harrison.
A post-mythic life is a legend reorganized in a higher dimension
after having taken the stage as a story well-enacted on Earth and
in the best of cases, beyond the netherworld also. A post-mythic
organizational process includes a bagism, loverism and Jellicle
Peptomism and denies the conventions of literature and film as
sufficient unto themselves for the best understandings possible to
arise such that what might edify and inspire, even in pockets of
interlocution full of insights too pretentious to be called that. A
narcissism upset with a narcissism..
Primordial sound resonates most completely and healthfully in
the human body and its environment (more than a refined and
cultured sound) in peace than in and by whatever primordial
instrument (like the didgeridoo) in nature. When the audience is
perfectly ill-prepared, having willingly suspended disbelief, the
audience is welcomed to feel wonder by God Herself.

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Maybe my hubris went back to the IRA with the horn I borrowed
from them upon snaking out their marching band The Optimists
Alumni. I spend too much time in bed (say the people who try to
enlighten me beyond bed
peace) to put in the grunt work
necessary to be a functional
spy from another dimension
or symphonic multiinstrumentalist, neither of
which are possible or pay very
well. I work with a computer
making music that may one
day come to life after being set
free from chips, keyboards, 1s
and 0s. Maybe in the astral
some time from now. Hang
on, I hear a bell, it may be my
hubris or it may be my other
enemy.. The past. No, its the
sound of freedom, its amazing grace. Back to Bed Peace, back to
flower power, never the USSR. God save the Queen.

Even the publicans love their friends; love thine enemy.

Her Majestys a pretty nice girl but she doesnt have a lot to say.
No one is ready to forgive their past in these contemporary times
because to do so without sufficient understanding has become
uncouth.
Genius is not to be forgiven... The multitudes seem to
be waiting for Jesus, the pizza or the next infomercial (wasnt
The Secret great?) By releasing salvation from our own hands, it
is relegated to an airy-fairy new age, 12 steps to cult deity worship,

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low church attendance and meditation in whatever forms it might

take but mostly on objects that obscure the evanescence of the
Cosmic. Not bad, but incomplete. Salvation is a reminder of Who
You Really Are as much as much as a coronation at Calvary.
Salvation is a negation of a need for salvation. The multitudes are
not only wrong: let the dead bury their own dead and you go
preach the gospel.
For me, for a time the gospel was a UFC version of Oprah vs. The
Church (in the collective unconscious and manifestly) that
plagued the conscience of too few to mention. But look, I
mentioned it. Peccator (deadly sinners) refuse to feel meaningful
spiritual pain and live it again and again. Who is ready to make
way for the coming of The Lord and with Him, peace profound?!
It is hard to find the appropriate faith and partly because how
vocally and sentimentally the sinners say they love war (in covert
terms as well as forthrightly.) Releasing the past (as music or as
vibrations otherwise) and making amends are married processes.
As within, so without; as without, so within and have a happy New
Year.
Our own inner struggles, when we are ashamed of them, beget a
naivety that peace is not our responsibility. We may become as
bratty children screaming (even if quietly in our heads) about our
needs at an indifferent universe instead of taking it by the reigns
and driving it to exactly the spot where the pot of gold ends and
the rainbow begins. It is incumbent that we do this because they
paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Prosperity is the new
peace... A peace native to the Elysian plains is on the horizon! It
has been set free by the storm to end all storms. Imagine that!
Disease is Over (if you want it)

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Our lives are precious and unique. If 99% of our experience

denies truth as such then it is the other 1% that we need to recall
to accept, and better, to cherish it; once a bed of sentimentality
and now fertile soil for seeds, whose roots become a foundation
for the future, whose trunk becomes our integrity and whose
leaves keep us cool after standing in divine light. Who are we?
We are mystics, crusaders, philosophers and lovers. The 1% world
is that well-spring from which we need to draw in order to
preserve ourselves and to grow. It is the closest object to the
Supernal Light. A life is precious and unique and a moment lost
can never be regained. No moment was ever lost. As breathing
into here and now becomes ok, the more truths written and
discovered become self-evident in yet others. The 1% world is the
best of our lives in the most economical condition. The 1% World
is immortal mind, immortal memory.
Happy Science on Putting the Horse Before the Cart in Physics:
The human mind is not merely a moralistic existence, but was
created according to the Physics of the Light of Buddha. This rule
states that the universe exists according to Buddhas will, and that
the cosmic laws are governed by the Physics of the Light of
Buddha. In other words, the laws that control this world and those
realms beyond can all be attributed to the various qualities of the
Light of Buddha. This is an idea that is supported by the majority
of physicists in the Real World.
-Hidehito Idera
What will you do with your mirror? The bathroom mirror, the
rearview, the decorative mirror.
Manipulative art (particularly film) fails by what it interprets for
the spectator and what it leaves open to interpretation. Culprits
often responsible for film that leave little to the conscience or
imagination or are so abstract as to be bordering on meaningless,

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include, superfluous repetitions of thoughts in symbols, fantasies

or words spoken, There are so many visitations from lost loved
ones in the film, "What Dreams May Come" the fact that "death is
not the end" becomes cause for as much upset as relief, depending
on who shows up to the film and how the spectator shows up to
the film. What adds insult to injury are non-diegetic elements,
typefaces and scores, which contaminate the story world as much
as improve it at a time when Hollywood films are just pretentious
in a different form from how art house film are pretentious, the
former trusts magic as if it's God and the second is atheistic.
"Buzz" which is technically something that exists outside the
cinema is still laden with manipulations by advertisements which
prime certain kinds of thoughts over others and associate them
with the work before the traitor reel has started to run.
How does the Peptomist aspirant develop a compassion for people
for whom he or she has no sufficient basis for a sympathy or is in
a position such that pity is an inappropriate response? Sympathy
as felt is a harmonic resonance based in shared or similar
experience and lends itself to the reasoning with which such
feeling need co-occur to meet a full definition of a sympathy. No
sufficient ground for a pity based in an unevenness in powers of
authority can fulfill the requirements for a compassion either. In
certain cases a fall back of laughter with the absurd or the
extension of a helping hand, in kindness, are sufficient to meet the
requirements of moral situations but still do not lend themselves
to the enlightenments a compassion can entail. There is also
compassion in suspending the desire to benefit from compassion
or to bring benefit to another by one's own extension of
compassion or one's understanding of compassion. Suspension of
Self and self-concept gives a breath to the Self suspended and in
that reinvigorates in a more accurate expression of Who it Really
Is. Solutions to the problem of impossible compassion often

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require a creativity in reasoning, empathizing and in the best

cases, trouble-shooting or planning.
In many a tragic case, false humility and inverse narcissism join
up to create a air of superiority unbeknown to its beholder. While
at first it can be endearing it invariably comes to be a spiritual
hindrance if not a non-starter.
False humility curtails real
humility mostly by a negative feedback loop by perception in the
other as an inaccurate barometer of another's sentiments.
Before bagism comes a narcissism which includes a mistake on
individualism or collectivism.
Before narcissism, whether
experienced as the wounded toddler or the misanthropic genius,
or in nature as demiergos masquerades as maple trees, squirrels
and.. whats that? I think its the beginning of Peace Profound. It
is the hurt and not its expressions that compassion aims to
remedy. The expression gives the ocean a reflection of itself, it
blossoms as a flower and dies to a ground consecrated by the salt
of the Earth.
In one sense the revelation of spirit is complete and in another
sense it can never be complete. In the first sense, because
ordinary people have arrived at personal liberations and have
attained illumination of the mind the task of acting out myths,
once exhilaration and constituent of a seeming all there is to
some, transmutes into a battle of the intestines with a wise old
woman here, an interest in cooking but for another and quaint
stories about days once understood but now wonderful again at
nothing as grand as the end of history but as powerful as the
mustard seed that moved the mountains in our hearts that
released the floodgates on love as felt. There is nowhere to go,
there is nothing to do, says one of the gurus of The Secret film I
made fun of earlier. In another sense, as long as the spirit of

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discovery is alive, God might

even conceal known truth so it
might be discovered again, not
only so improvement in their
comprehension and
elucidation of their core but
also for the joy of it, in another
society and particular to it, in
the future as a retro movement
about thought, in ones
imagination, etc.
After the
revelation of spirit is complete,
whether it be a work of art that captures and transmits a sense of
renewed possible, a religious service that reaffirms knowledge of
the immortality of the soul, right relationship with ones fellow
person and the answer to Mr. Walkers quandary, how can men
whove never seen light be enlightened?

For each day a sufficient trouble thereof, says an old Zen saying.
Mother Nature's Other Son,
P.S.
Bagist art immortalizes its intended message in its decomposition
and beyond its decomposition in its evolution in the life welllived, as artefacts of bagism and to bagism, and in response to
bagism and lastly progression free from bags.
The Baggiest art
tends to be shit. It belongs in the garden so it might foster new
growth as manure.. It needs to be quickly chopped up and never
digested unless as a methamphetamine at the Cavern. Evolution
proceeds: life well-lived with another as loverism and in response
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begs the beyond. Loverism and bagism each end in a recognition

of their necessity and futility in a confusion about time. Art
reaches the apex of its power to move in the reality and
immortality of experience and thought as Jellicle Peptomist, part
of a fellowship, in love with one's former bagmate, God and
cellophane flowers and marmalade skies. Without Lucy (and all
her diamonds) as a point of reference, art can seem foreign or in
some way inhuman as modernisms and post-modernism mutate
into something too young to suffer a christening. So, picture
yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine seas and marmalade
skies.
When revisited, Bagism and loverism take on the
character of "the lovers" archetype in isolation and aloneness;
purpose and passion before a faith in oneself and ones work, a
restored sense of dignity, the ability to synergies and a release
from beliefs in ego-centrists as either sinful or necessary. A
Peptomist culmination earns former loverists a Christian grace.
Jellicle Peptomism makes way for an influx of grace by virtue of
how its Author leaves it in your capable hands. The Peptomist
faith is not my invention or creation, but a discovery of an
emergent reality.
[The reason I use the word Peptomist is to indicate a preference to
stay free from pharmaceuticals and at worst, require a dose of the
Bismal to overcome an indulgence in wine or whining within
reason and always in
consultation with
ones physician (as a
Reiki Master Im
required to say
that.)]
"And in the end the
love we take is equal
to the love we make.

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We reach an equilibrium by augmentations and advancements in

the quality of conscious and functions of mind earned from timely
departures and restorations from the imagined confines of our
minds to a patriotism for the Undiscovered Country.
A bagism/loverism developmental hitch: the object of one's
devotion need not be a lover but a practice, study, guru or friend
also suffices. In a Jellicle Peptomism a practice, a study, a guru
and a friend are requisite to real progress while lovers and
partners come (and go) to suit our needs but moreover the needs
of the Cosmos to bring people together in waits suitable to its
nature and the proliferation of that nature.
A spaces theory of mental visitation as a quarternity that develops
alongside a continuum to Peptomism.
"Cold Turkey has Got me on the Run" becomes a mantra, a maxim
and a distant memory, by evolution.
It is a fact that "Imagine" plays on the radio every day and
multiple times.
John is lost in deep reflection, again, listening for depths in
"Yesterday."
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
- John Lennon