My Special Powers

You may have asked about my so-called special powers. It is not my intention to disappoint or deceive, but the rumors of my legend are greatly exaggerated. Pens explode in my hands. Watches stop ticking on my wrist. I can predict earthquakes. No, I have never bent spoons, but I roll pencils and hypnotize lizards. It is an obscure talent. I can read you and tell your future. I am an excellent problem solver. Sentient and prescient, I am a vaticinator.

This is not unusual in my family. My mother is a hand healer and my grandmother can see the future. It really turned on around thirty years of age in Key West outside of a huge garden nestled in the middle of the city.

So let us not dwell on insignificant properties. They are nothing compared to being present with everything you experience without faulty perception, altered communication, or misplaced anger. Follow your breath. This will ground you and you can transform everything as you transform.

Understanding others leads to the wisdom of compassion. We can bring peace by being peace. This may seem impossible, but it is easy to observe how a peaceful individual affects a room full of others. Be here now. Simple.

There is no past. There is no future. There is only now. The forever of today remains an enlightened state regardless of where we are. We have the warmth of the heart that transcends all depletion of the star-shine of the spirit. Our perspective, eternal, is a profound experiential reality.

This happiness of the understanding lies in our capacity for compassion. Let me be set to the wind like the bamboo, adapting with the wave- seen and unseen. This is our Heaven. This is our Nirvana.

Living in physical reality naturally places us in positions of resistance. Suffering is all around us. Our sensitivity to understand the cause of this suffering is where we bring Peace. Again, misplaced perceptions, natural desires that have lost their intended purpose, lack of communication, and anger that has been misdirected are all significant causes of suffering.

If we distill this to its purest essence, we can say, as is the human experience, all desire causes suffering. Most suffering encountered occurs when an individual is operating from a previously formed identity obscuring the basic neutral existence of the peaceful being. These may be layered shallowly or thickly based upon personal experience and evidence gathered to verify the skewed experience of the filtered.

When we obtain objectivity, concerning where one may be on the path, we can bring peace to translate the teaching of existing in the now according to the deficit in communication, perception, or lack of desire. Be. Be here now. If you are interested, I could teach you how to hypnotize lizards. All you need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Scintilla Fly Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved “True Stories”

Republicans are masters at fooling people into believing that only Republicans serve their interests, while simultaneously representing only the corporations, super-rich and super-selfish people, fascists, bigots, and anarchists.

Democrats are catching up, I think, in the effectiveness of their messaging - but the sad fact is that the simple messaging required to fight the Republican destroyers of civilized society conflicts with the not-so-simple solutions required to keep us working well as an American society in the 21st century.

Plus, the Democrats aren't perfect, either. Even Bill Clinton got us into a needless war with dubious benefit for the country, and Obama might as well, because the war profiteers are very powerful in congress.