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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #120 - And She's Buying a Stairway to the Closest Theosophic Equivalent to Heaven
10.19.11
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives
for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities,
and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!
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This week:
And She's Buying a Stairway to the Closest Theosophic Equivalent to Heaven
...But, honestly, we looked at their detailed charts of the many, many different astral
planes and we couldn't make heads or tails of which one most closely corresponded
to the Judeo-Christian concept of heaven. Because, well, it's like comparing apples
to oranges. Except the oranges aren't oranges, they're forces of beingness issuing
from the indivisible truth of the Unknown Root.
And we've had enough of that hippie-dippy stuff on this ride lately. Enough "kosmic
planes" and enough "Universal Over-Souls." Which isn't to say that we endorse the
normativity of the Judeo-Christian belief system. Heavens, no. You might say we have
our own Exploration-Disorientation belief system. Which will be in full force this week.
As will the sacred rite of stair-climbing (riders with clipless cleats be advised!). But let's
focus more on the curves and the hills than the histories and the philosophies, shall
we? Let's keep our beingness in the moment. How very First Prakritic Plane-y of us.
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