Summer 2000 - News in Psychic Counseling

 

I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE

Remember when Peter Finch yelled that line in the movie Network?  Don't you feel that way some times?  Well so do I, but we Virgos are not supposed to get angry.  “Virgos don't get mad… they get even.”  But I'm a DOUBLE Virgo so I get to do BOTH.

And here you and I both thought a middle aged metaphysician would have risen above the level of just plain mad.  He deals with rarefied forces.  He has manifesting tools that go beyond the mere physical.  Nothing could get him pissed off.

Wrong!  My current favorite bumper sticker is “If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.”  And I'm paying attention.  In fact, it may very well be that my work in metaphysics and my work coaching clients to take action has made me so aware of some of life's stupidities and made me so aware of the great potentials for remedy, that I'm not willing to just take it anymore.  I DO HAVE CHOICES.  And that's all I ask for.

I'm really tired of being lied to.  And I'll start with the big one.  For nearly 2 years I've read dozens of books about the history of the early Christian church, the history of the Knights Templar and what they probably found in Jerusalem and where the treasure and the knowledge they found has gone today.  I'm appalled.  Scholars in the last 20 years have pretty much proven that all the stories fundamental to western culture are lies.  Not just subtle misinterpretations of some biblical passage.  Out right lies.  Mary Magdalene wasn't a whore but was probably Jesus' wife?  He didn't die on the cross but fathered two children whose lineage exists today in France?  (Read Holy Blood, Holy Grail.)  Interesting stuff, but so what, I ask?  Jesus' descendant is found and proven and then makes the rounds of the morning news shows and ends on Jay Leno at night.  Doesn't impact my life.

Oh NO?  Maybe that same lineage also knows the magic that we now know Jesus knew and performed.  Maybe that knowledge would bring me REAL salvation and immortality.  If the church had spent 2000 years fostering and nurturing the scientific method instead of burning it at the stake, we'd ALL be immortal now.  (Read The Immortalist, by Alan Harrington if you dare.)  But we're all going to barely miss that bus.  Soon people won't have to die but will be cloned or healed or made immortal by some other scientific process just being discovered.  Or maybe Jesus' lineage will reveal what he knew and we can all start using it.  But it's probably too late for me and it tends to make me just a tiny bit peeved.

So what are my choices here?  I can say nothing and wait a few more centuries for people to find out truth, or I can help make people aware and conscious and encourage them to dig for the truth, not settle for what they've been told, demand honesty in all things.

I'm tired of people, myself included, not taking responsibility.  When I teach the Tarot class, I always underline the word 'responsibility' so often that students can hear it coming and say in unison “reeeespooooonsibiiiiility!”  It's the main danger of dealing with the cards, for once you understand how the universe operates in your life you are then responsible for your life.  Something to be avoided if possible!  But 22 years of studying the Tarot has apparently seeped into my cells and now I'm very uncomfortable as I watch myself pass off responsibility.  I still do it, mind you…  I'm just uncomfortable doing it at least!  I watch as I hope difficult problems and evil people will pass out of sight as I beg “not me, Lord, please not me.”  It's OK that they go on to devastate other people as long as I'm not involved.  I drop a law suit against a lying, professional con man because the judge says it will cost $50,000 to prove it in court.  I let it go knowing he's out there conning the rest of you.

So when do I stand my ground and take responsibility for myself and others.  When do I refuse to be assaulted by people and do what is necessary to punish them?  I know I'm supposed to wait for the slow wheel of karma, but damn it, I can't wait.  It's somehow not enough to know they will get theirs in some future life.  I'm living here and now and I think it's important to take action now, for my sake and the community's.  I'm tired of being a metaphysical pansy.

One of the ways I'm taking a stand is in my own little town in the gorge.  I have sat back for a couple years and watched a negative, radical, extremist run roughshod over the city council, alienating nearly every group in the town.  This past month it became clear that he is the only candidate running for mayor.  Several people asked me to run and I in turn made calls to others pushing them to run.  In the end, no one wanted to take him on.  Suddenly it all came clear to me one morning.  I'm doing the same thing I complain about…  passing the buck.  What's wrong with me running?  So I have announced my candidacy for Mayor of Mosier and now you're about to see it on the evening news!  The opponent is going door to door telling people of my deviant lifestyle, my devil worship and my fortunetelling with crystal balls and those evil Tarot cards.  I do this with some very real fear of this homophobic loose cannon who may have access to a gun, but I'd rather be a martyr than just a corpse any day.  And I have to say, I feel an inner sense of pride and control knowing I'm doing something…  taking some action…  toward taking control and taking responsibility for my life and my community.

This little race has the potential for being big news for the media, so check your local listings!

So what's the point to this diatribe?  I think I'm trying to remind myself as much as readers to take action.  That's the essence of coaching…  define needs and goals and strike out toward them.  I only feel angry when I feel overwhelmed by an issue or situation.  But even with cosmic lies, human conmen, crazy citizens, I do have choices in how I respond to them and what I do to change them.  I may not win or effect the change, but my anger dissipates by just taking some action.  I would encourage you to 'pay attention' in your life and see what ruffles your feathers and then decide what you can do about it.

Go ahead and get mad and don't take it anymore.

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