Determinism

To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”

Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.

There is only one Karma. Not one for each person, for each tree, for each planet or star.  Just one universal Karma.

Everything is moving along – being moved along – according to the Karma.

Karma is work.  Not work for us to do, but work to be done on us, on All.  All is being worked,

I never cried during my mother’s illness, nor at her death. Nor later at my daughter Kathie’s funeral.

I had come to understand that tears are for unfulfilled fantasy: what I had imagined the rest of their lives would have, should have, been. What they would have done, what we would have done together.

All tears, like

First believe that every moment, each and every happening, of your life is Determined – by the Great Spirit.

And then believe that It is Always Smiling on you.

(2002)

This morning, just after waking, I recalled this incident at a seminar on “medical intuition:” A doctor who admitted he used intuition in his psychiatric practice was asked by the speaker whether he had told his colleagues.

I believe that All is Determined—by some Master Determiner or Planner—or whatever word you choose to use. Einstein similarly believed that we have no free will, although he impishly added that we should act as if we did. And Nietzsche believed so as well. Adding that the concept of free will was invented by those

I believe that if there is a reason for me to meditate, it is to become Aware, hopefully one day Ever Aware, of the linkage to the Spirit World and beyond to the Force Divine, The Great Spirit, the Determiner of All.

One particular morning I was meditating in our bedroom,

A general note on what I think I mean: Soul: the Deepest, Holiest part of an individual’s self, which, being of the self, dies with the rest. It is our Jen, our Humanity, our Matrophilia. Spirit: The spirit dwells within us throughout our lives, being incarnated at our conception. And on our death it returns to the Spirit World, to be reincarnated again and again as it has been countless times in the past – and as it will be in the future.

First believe that every moment, each and every happening, of your life is Determined – by the Great Spirit.

And then believe that It is Always Smiling on you.

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A smile is our reflexive response to feeling smiled on, as a child smiles back to his beaming mother.

We can eliminate the

Heaven’s Decree – the Karmic Plan – is for Yin and Yang to be forever in Perfect Balance: empty and full, “just-so.”