Meeting in Green
Room of Theatre, on the squashy sofa. [Meetings here are the 'softer,
kinder gentler' version of meetings onstage. All have to do with
interactions in the 3D]
C: How can I help
you?
K: I need assistance
getting an income that will support me. It's all very well to 'belong
to timelessness', but I have to pay my bills, keep a roof over my
head, and food on the table. Same old problems.
C: have you taken
into account what Franz said recently? [about work relating to former
writings]
K: Yes. But I'm
seeing no signs of it. So I don't trust it. I put in applications
every day and nothing comes back. I send to agents and nothing comes
back. I need assistance. I need a miracle.
C: Your council
granted assistance.
K: Not seeing any
sign of that either.
C: So you're
feeling discouraged.
K: To put it
mildly. As I mentioned to a friend just now, what use is knowing and
seeing all this, how it works, when it makes not a blind bit of
difference to practical life? Whoopie, I 'inspire people'. I shall
inspire them ever so when I am dead because of lack of funds, meds,
help. I just don't
understand WHY the only things I have ever done to keep myself are
also soul killing and debilitating to my adrenal condition.
C: Because you have
settled for, allowed those things, when you found they were draining.
K: I have to get a
living. No trust fund. None of my books has made me rich. Brother
Rabbit has not. Even Williamsburg, much as I loved it, was very
part-time. In fine, this life reads better than it lives, and I feel
that I don't belong here, that the world doesn't need or want me.
C: belonging,
again. Because you cannot thrive.
K: To heck with
thrive, I just want to break even. I object to the 'do whatever it
takes' philosophy, when no shops around here will hire me because I
haven't food experience in decades, no business down the hill because … I don't
know why.
C: Understand that
I am not criticising you. I am in fact taking notes.
K:?
C: to present to
the Council.
K: I see. Well
thank you.
C: I recognise
better than you do what factors are at play in the game.
K... I had the
cognition the other day that the personality and the 'sub'elements'
if you will – other resonances [life-roles] that are affecting this
personality – are in conflict in terms of desires. On the one hand,
personality wants to immerse itself in the Brother Rabbit model of
business (but there is no income from which to do that now) AND wants
to leave. The various sub-factors want to 1) write and study anthro
[Mary Anne O'Malley]; 2) Study the arcane [Ancel]; 3)stay home and
manage things [Molly, Patty]; 4) go home (in both senses) [Ellie]. I
can see how and when all these factors were or are at play in my life.
Are there more?
C: Everything going
on here. I know that your life there seems pointless to you, and has
done for many years with the exception of the children. 'The effect
of choice and the consequences of choice'. The affection and
gratitude with which you are regarded is no small accomplishment, by
the way. But as you say, 'that's nice, it doesn't put bread on the
table.' WE are aware of this – Franz, George, and myself. Your
Council is aware of it (through your and our repeated updates.) WE
are working to try to change matters, change their minds regarding
interference.
K: The maxim goes '
if you don't like something in your life, the way it's turned out,
work to change it.' Well doing so, or going for 'what I wanted and am
good at' has only resulted in material hardship, if not ruin, over
and over. It is this which has got me down.
C: The part which
is left out of that maxim is 'following the rules of the game you are
playing'. Your problems have come from trying to skip several steps,
unknowing that there were steps.
K: Great. I thought
I was following signs correctly.
C: The rules of the
game there still adhere.
K: So, what do I
do?
C: as I have said, keep doing what you're doing. For our part, we're working on it, with other players there, with the Council. It will take a little while. But there are very promising leads.
C: as I have said, keep doing what you're doing. For our part, we're working on it, with other players there, with the Council. It will take a little while. But there are very promising leads.
K ...Thanks...
Needless to say, this puts an interesting spin on the concept of free will and 'you can do whatever you want so long as you are aware of what you are doing.' In the first case - free will doesn't mean unlimited choices. In the second case, it's not a free pass or a Get Out of Jail Free card to do WHATEVER we WANT. This conversation implies that there are natural 'brakes' on certain avenues, based on 'agreed upon' parametres. One could, if clever, totally bamboozle one's way into being an airline pilot or doctor, like Frank Abignale, but that's pretty rare and he had to - one would have to- endure the consequences. Bottom line: you gotta play the game by the rules laid down, whatever your game is here.
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