Thought and television, the eternal body, and Surfacing, a poem

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To say that thoughts are 'your own' is like saying that a television has channels all its own. This is idiotic. A television 'receives' channels and transmits these into recognizable pictures. It is merely an instrument. So are you. So there.

What appears to be inside is actually outside, and vice versa.

Ah, so this is God!

Come to the Lord in your purity and emptiness.

One of the final stages of the alchemical process is to produce the pure distillate, the essence, the immortal 'I'.

Recognize the body within the body. This is the eternal body.

If you seek yourself through effort, then the only 'I' you find is the one created from the effort of seeking.

I was trying to accomplish what I could not accomplish, but which was accomplished the instant I stopped trying.

SURFACING

I fall away now, into the distance which used to be so painful.

I fall away but no longer do I long to be with them.

And yet I long to be with them.

With them, and the love and sadness of it all.

From the souls I meet and hold, to the one's I can't remember.

So sad it is to know and never know another.

To feel yourself inside of them but to never feel inside.

But that is the heart and the reason we came here.

Dive in, I say, dive in.

Dive in and descend, and never look back nor regret nor worry about

surfacing.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.