Deep sleep is contagious.īut I was now serious again. We HAVE to fight.īut years and years of avoidance had produced a sleeping vacuum where my seriousness about life had previously been.
In an immoral world, moral action is imperative. But, you know, I had known that long ago, when I effected my first vain escapes… I had just forgotten how fierce the fighting was. Only by now – the battle had become an ARMAGEDDON. So I looked for something much more substantially positive for my reawakened mind, and found it in the faith of my youth.Īnd rejoined the Battle I had so long ago deserted. That bred anxiety – an anxiety that hung on.
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So I pursued my career to its successful conclusion, with full retirement benefits.įinally, retirement! – and I could no longer ignore the Problem of Evil with either Hindu semantics or intellectual circularity. The two strategies were soporific sedatives. The world was now so in-your-face for me, that I looked for a new retreat – and found it in the elevated, circular thinking of the postmodernists.īoth strategies did their part to protect me from the nightmares of the noonday devils and the garish predawn bêtes noires that my sleeping subconscious dredged up from my past. And if all personalities were empty of selfhood, why worry?Īnd that escape mechanism worked for a while.īut in midlife, the fast and furious pace of my career started to burn me out. I read the Gita and learned it was ALL a dream. And I was desperately struggling to hold onto my dreams! Only after a while I was overwhelmed by the cruel, cold logic of the noonday devils of the adult world. But, it’s a dream we must participate in.īack when I was young, I pretended I was a player in the battle of life. He comforts Arjuna with the knowledge that life and death are mere dreams we all must dream. “Death is not only possible, but imminently likely.”īut then the Lord – or Krishna, in this Hindu version of that battle – steps in. “For that battle will pit friend against friend, brother against brother, the Devils of the Pit against Angels from the Realms of Glory – the Fulness of Being itself against the Void of Nonbeing. I can find no meaning in life or in the cataclysmic approaching battle… The final confrontation between the massed forces of Good and Evil. It’s the dawning of the Final Day – the day of Armageddon.
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