Comments on: Sometime in Poona in 1977

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:54:58 +0000

PM, I enjoyed that wee ditty.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:40:20 +0000

It really was `the way of the heart`, after all!

By: frank

frank — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:03:51 +0000

Roger Mcgough is doing a few gigs this year. Well worth it if in your area.

On the subject of death:
Do you remember the idea that ‘repression causes cancer’?
It was picked up by sannyasins via Reichian therapists from the work of Wilhelm Reich, who first floated the idea. I heard that at Humaniversity and Osho Leela they are still shouting it at participants in cathartic exercises as encouragement!

I remember believing it myself altho` for quite some years it has struck me as unsubstantiated nonsense (like a lot of Reich`s claims). It definitely found it`s way into the sannyas (and some New Age) credo but is it just more newage sewage?

I decided to do a survey of the causes of death in the Oshonews ‘Voyages’-obit section.

Interestingly, the main cause of death(by far) amongst (western) sannyasins is…cancer. However, there are very, very few deaths attributed to cardio-vascular/heart disease which is very unusual compared to the general public.

My conclusion, for what it`s worth, is that leaping about cathartically, dancing etc. does not protect from cancer at all (that belief is cultish nonsense) but is very good for your heart and cardio.

Hoo hoo hoo!

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:33:43 +0000

Says more and more as we get older. (•̀o•́)ง

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:31:05 +0000

That’s a prayer, Parmartha. Not a poem.

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:34:37 +0000

I agree, Lokesh. And here is Roger McGough with a poem I have celebrated for many years in the same spirit:

Let me die a youngman’s death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holy water death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I’m 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an all night party

Or when I’m 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber’s chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I’m 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman’s death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death,
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
‘what a nice way to go’ death.

(ROGER MCGOUGH)

By: frank

frank — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:58:08 +0000

Lokesh,
I think you’re probably right.
Dementia is not a nice way to go, for sure.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:19:53 +0000

Maybe James Dean was right. Better to burn out than fade away. Who knows?

By: sw. veet (francesco)

sw. veet (francesco) — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:40:37 +0000

@Kavita
Thank you.

“…drinking a wine of paradox, looking into what can’t be seen flying into the empty sky vanishing….”

Ciao, Ma Mukta!

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:29:34 +0000

PS (-energy) of the evening…
….two e mails lost, I wrote to the SN chat…….
….Arpana proudly as ever ´having the last word´
Trump-style ( denied)…as buisiness is buisiness in the chat-net….constellation…
….Frank very fortunately ´switched in re moderating in terms of energy-work , when that was really needed…and gave me the only laughter of to-day. And thank you, Frank, for this…

– So- NOW

Have a good night everybody with my ´no-news-no-fake´
as I went to the ´home cinema´watching again the movie, called ´PHOENIX´*( Christian Petzold, 2014) which was on offer by ARTE today

And that was a blessing, you might not believe it
and with the Tears of a Clown,
I wish you all well, readers, travellors

Madhu

* very recommendable movie-plot but needs Silence, to get it