Well, that was a thread with JMJM, who understands, I think. But... .
Compassion knows no bounds.
Certainly, I lost a sense that I had any weight tying me to the planet. And
the mad mind had stopped. Hence, everything was open. But let's not minimize
it to your mind by phenomenological specificity. I am only pointing.
Cut to: once back at home, much later:
Yet, I found I could still do advanced mathematics. But it was very different,
when the mind does not move, for months, and nothing can be held there, like a
number, or a variable, even if you use a hell of a lot of force. It took a
week or so to get "used to" (never!), after retreat. But, it did not crush my
career. In fact, I found after a month that I had two new job offers in
addition to the job I already had. When it rains, it sometimes pours, if karma
becomes voided. So, I took one extra job. It wore me out a bit, but it was
good for me and for Science. We got a lot done. Radio Astronomy; as well as
the construction and testing of ground-support electronics for sounding-rocket
observations in x-ray astronomy from White Sands, New Mexico.
"Out to launch"!, it said on my office door, for a while, at Columbia.
We laughed about our intimacy, and the fact that we were, as Lenny Bruce said,
"the same Schmuck", essentially. Of course we hit each other a lot. But the
secret parts must remain private.
I'll leave out the good parts, because it's surely none of your bidness, in all
compassion, and because of promises, and the injunction to not speak too
plainly. Ah, me. Even if we had a private Skype connection, I would not tell
you beans beyond these coarse generalities.
Don't be complacent, now,
...there's gold in them thar dross hills on your red lava island, too, you
know, notwithstanding. You may not be an Astronomer, but the Morning Star is
bright these days: are you seeing it? Jupiter is above it, and just a little
fainter. The first-magnitude star Alpha Tauri, Aldebaran, is just to the right
(South) of Venus, about one degree.
Clear skies,
good surf,
-J.
> Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote:
>
> What did you think your teachers were laughing about losing?!
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