The divine play, forgiveness, hell, Christ and sinners, Ramakrishna, and the flesh.

To be human is to be a member of the divine play, and to be the divine itself; it is to be a living part of an organic whole, a whole which, awkwardly, no individual part can understand in its entirety.

It is only when the part becomes whole, and therefore becomes one with the whole, that the part no longer misperceives reality, for reality has now shifted, transformed, and grown, and is seen in its completeness, rather than through the perspective of a fragment.

We must forgive, if we are to be forgiven.

Were it not for the law of forgiveness, we would all be roasting in hell, the hell of our crimes, judgment, aloneness, and regret.

I had to accept that I was a sinner. To be a sinner means that I had within me the ability to deceive my brethren. Luckily for me Christ had come for just such rogues.

"A true devotee who has drunk deep of Divine Love is like a veritable drunkard, and, as such, cannot always observe the rules of propriety." Ramakrishna

I offer here a homeopathic cure for anyone who tries, with great metaphysical dexterity, to convince you that the world is not real. And that is this: I suggest you pinch them very, very hard. Don’t let them go until they flinch away in pain. Only then will they have to validate the flesh.

I have tried this test with great success, when I was up against one who was proselytizing the illusionary nature of reality, and so I proselytized physical reality right back at him with a painful little pinch. I believe he got my message.

However, if this pinch does not work, then no argument, nor even a boiling bucket of pig piss poured over them while they are asleep will likely yield the acknowledgement that the flesh is real, for the mind has taken over and squashed the legitimacy of feeling, and the battle is over.

These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.