Debauchery, the greater self, a gospel, telephones, spirit, and symbology

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In the final stage, however, there is no such thing as union with the All, for the all is One already, and therefore it is not for the individual to seek union with that which he or she already is, but merely to relinquish any idea or feeling of being separate.

This applies to debauchery as well. Though I still drink wine with dinner, the intense rounds of boozing are done for me, largely due to the fact that I found out what alcohol is- cowardice.

When we release the external, our internal becomes another external, and our greater self steps forth to view it.

And then I recall a line from a pre-Christian, esoteric gospel: “And I saw man take the one great sun and make a thousand little suns. And I held my head in shame.”

We need telephones because we have forgotten how to communicate spirit to spirit, we need art because we have lost the ability to see beauty, and we overeat food because we do not allow ourselves to be nourished by God.

I had made existence seem like my punishment rather than my service.

To accept the experience ‘of being’, no matter what. To accept it for what it is. The bald isness of existence. No symbology. No mind. To accept.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.