Gee, it’s 1999 already. This seems like a good time to stop farting around in life.
While I sometimes do my best to make this column a place to experience practical spirituality, and occasionally succeed, the lateness of the hour has prompted me to assert myself somewhat more directly in the general vicinity of getting people off their freaking butts. Back in 1989, most of us were probably assuming that we would be nuked, kooked and rebuked out of existence by this time the next decade, but, my fellow citizens of the Milky Way, we successfully have arrived at the Cusp of Whatever Comes Next.
We are at the Junction of Forever. The Hyperlink to Eternity. One foot on the Cosmic Banana Peel, one foot in the future. This is what it feels like.
Now that all of our lame excuses for not doing what we wanted in all times previous have proven to be dismally ridiculous, including the supposition that we would be dead, that we would all be dead, that the fascists would have taken over and stopped us from having fun, as well as our stubbornly refusing to deal with paralysis instilled by blatant guilt inflicted upon us by the oppressor, we must now approach the New Millennium with bold new philosophies for living.
I propose revolution. There are about seven people calling for revolution at the moment, mostly in Canada, probably because it’s illegal in the United States (though Thomas Jefferson personally said it was a healthy idea every now and again). Though the type of rev I am revving requires neither bombs nor the voting lever; both are against my religion.
On the off-hand chance you are interested in making real changes in your life, I propose you experiment with one or more of these patented techniques.
Tell only the truth for one day. It may seem that so many of us are so cut off from ourselves that we have a difficult time knowing what our truth is. However, I don’t buy this one. The truth is the original thing you were going to say right before you said something else. It is that elusive “original thing” we are after how you actually feel, what you actually think, what you secretly want. Clue: It is the thing that you don’t say because you’re afraid it will “hurt someone,” or because people will “think you’re selfish” or “think” in general. Verily: a lie is what you say when you don’t trust people to think for themselves. Here’s another clue: Your personal truth changes. Life changes. If you have a new feeling, a new idea or a new response to something or someone, call that your truth and try telling it. Speak your mind spontaneously in the moment and see what happens.