Ask Dr. Druid . Day 47
The How

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    As we study [other] dreams more assiduously, we can, will, & must speculate with intricate admiration, desire, rage even about how in all that absurd ebullience of starry profusion we take one step upon a planet, how there is one dragonfly, one piece of French toast?
    Or more achingly, how in the face of a million steps and a million dragonflys, we could have any moment of distress or depression or kill each other for striped cloths?
    The 2nd Ache we'll address in Bks 2 + 3. For now the glorious stuffness of K1T1, of the AllElse, its fearful symmetry should electrify our attention.
    As a long distance runner gets her pulse rate up and her muscles tuned, her endurance honed, your long distance attention will get easy & toughened.
    Think of the House-Attacking BlueJay. This don quixote BlueJay tilted furiously at the windows of Lowell's house for 5 weeks. Why? Because his reflection in the window was an indefatigable intruder warrior bird. (Talk about projection! Even Jung's mind would pretzel at this one.)
    No matter how fiercely Our Bird pecked the hateful intruder in the glass, the hateful intruder pecked back just as fiercely. No matter how menacingly Our Bird puffed up his feathers, the prideful intruder puffed up his terrible feathers igualmente. Brilliant but often dumb evolution hadn't included 'reflections' in our House-Attacking BlueJay's instinct vocabulary.
    So, thus, we are always gathering evidence with our honed attention for its fabulous own fascinating sake, but also that a case may coalesce so we may grok 'reflections' or whatever other hidden in plain sight twists of comprehension lie waiting to eureka us.
    It was only by being persistently alert that I got the key inescapable evidence for the multi-dimensional universe decades before it became dimmly glimpsed by the scientos. When the window glass went elastic for 4 seconds at 403 Hope Street on the southwest side of the house, a 'reflection aha!' revealed itself: 'Oh my brain is an agency in the collaboration of the production of “reality.”' Hmmm.  
    So as we get more accustomed to including muchas kaleids or facets in our increasingly spherical experience of realities, you'll get as hooked on The How as the rest of us psioneers.
    As your New Awake gets stabilized as a plenishing process, a gently & intensely increasingly illuminated process, boredom will be finito unless you're one of those loonland nutvilles determined to starve at a smorgasbord.
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    As you include your night dreams or reveries in your comprehension of reality, allow the staggering How jolt your grokking. The scale of the Mystery will blow through you like a great wind. The How is a powerful drug. Only take it in the doses you can just bearly stand. It can knock you rudely on your rump if you swallow too much of the ocean at once. The How is a very haunting question.
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..k1 is our basic shared persistence of the kinesthetic dear day world; t1 is our sort of linear time.
..fearful symmetry is from Blake, the Most Electrified of All except maybe GM Hopkins. This is no doubt the greatest poem dreadfully inquiring about The How. Recall that it's all burning bright.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart,
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Ask Dr. Druid, 55 Days from Lead to Gold, Secrets of Alchemy You Can Use, a druid shaman’s playbook .. Intro; Prologue; Day 1; Days 2 & 3; Day 4; Day 5; Day 6; Day 7; Day 8; Day 9; Day 10; Day 11; Day 12; Day 13; Day 14; day 15 Review 2; Day 16; Day 17; Day 18; Day 19; Day 20; Day 21; Day 22; Day 23; Day 24; Day 25; Day 26; Day 27; Day 28; Day 29; Day 30; Day 31; Day 32; Day 33; Day 34; Day 35; Day 36; Day 37; [Day 38]; Day 39; Day 40; Day 41; Day 42; Day 43; Day 44; Day 45; Day 46; Day 47;
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