At first I found the Crownstar/Anichi postings of real interest. Humans have been looking at the stars for as long as they've had eyes, relating what they've in the sky to the circumstances and events of earth. While I don't look to astrology for guidance, I think (shorn of its superstitious trappings) it can be a useful aid in the understanding of all that is.

I'd been finding the Crownstar/Anichi postings more and more strident, and had pretty much stopped reading them. I find statements that "any denial = proof that I'm right," "Harmony and positivity will prevail so don't think, talk, or communicate negatively" about life, the universe, or whatever to have about as much efficacy as saying "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you." Or like the small child who demands, "Don't say words!" when contradicted or redirected by adults.

I am reminded of the radical-feminist-lesbian-activist friend I visited a few years ago who attempted to police my every utterance for signs of "homophobia." (She seemed to define homophobia as anything less than an uncritical acceptance and embrace any homosexual lifestyle choice.)

Many people are able to accomplish what may be termed "real work" whilst "in" a state of altered consciousness - Dreamland, O.B.E., trance-like state in the withering heat of a windless summer day, etc. It may be naive to assume that one's own experiences using alternate cognitive tools or accomplishing not really quantifiable work is the zenith and sum total of all human doing in said "realms."

One's perspective changes as one moves in and out of these alternate states of human existance. One encounters other sorts of beings and other temporarily or permanently altered (sometimes deranged) human beings. Those persons are not necessarily any better informed nor any better at interpreting their information than one's self. Often those creatures act with the intent to harm and mislead. I think active source/form/historical critical analysis and discernment is necessary "armament" as one applies one's mind and consciousness to whatever one encounters within one's awareness. As one's perception changes, one's perspective is not necessarily better in those other "places," often it is just different. Like closing one's dominant eye and looking out through the other.

As one has these experiences that increase one's understanding and as one accomplishes one's "work," one does well to ponder just how it is that one "knows" anything about one's own activities and their results. Is scientific method the only legitimate way to know anything? Is faith a legitimate path to knowledge and understanding? I think the answer is "yes" to both.

As for me, strident demands that I do obeisance to the interpretations and experiences of others, that I sit around only their "fire" and cut off any awareness of those lights representing the rest of my "community" will be sometimes answered but never obeyed.

vM