TTD'S MESSAGE BOARD NO.12

2004/11/9
Sananda's Newsletter: November 8th, 2004

Fellow rebels and friends of the oracle star :

A boy’s body
Belongs to the wind
To the primal joys of life
To discovery and
The languid drifting clouds
That like canvases of cotton
Paint the daylight hours with
The colours of delight
That pack a boys memory
With the confidence of crowds.
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One day Africa will spit back out the bullets pumped into her belly
by foreign mischief, as her daily bread, and be able to participate more in her own resources,
still the most valuable on the planet.
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What doesn’t kill us, increases the power of our testimony.
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Were Joni Mitchell born instead John Mitchell, she’d easily and without typical chauvinist reluctance
be ranked as one of the greatest artist of the second half of the century. Her genius is not only
a novelists eye for vignettes and imagery but also in the complexity of her harmonic ear and brilliant
melodies. More men owe a debt to her in my profession than have yet had the balls to own up to.
For me she easily ranks with the big boys of my Valhalla, Wilson, Wonder, Dylan, Bacharach etc.
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Another hugely underrated influence on myself and many others is Janis Ian.
The middle 8 part of Dolphin from ‘ANGELS & VAMPIRES’ is my stylistic homage to her,
just as my song Shalom from ‘WILDCARD - THE JOKER’S EDITION’ represents the effect
of too much Joni on the brain needing to find its expression.
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I remind you that the word ‘homage’ is French for stealing from your idols. If it is sloppily done
you get sued, if it is properly done you get added to your idols’ Christmas card list.
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A mistake is only the thing we didn’t think of. It teaches just as much.
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§
The bee
dives into yours
thinking that it is his
and the next thing you know
he drowns in it
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Conventional wisdom is for the conventional.
Be an unconventional fool observing your own wisdom and laugh all the way to the bank.
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I defy expectations because expectations are not my father.
My Creator is my father and his movements become my logic, even if it makes no sense at all to
my mind which was fathered by society.
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Our creator knows what we really need even when we don’t.
A crisis is God answering the prayers we weren’t even aware of .
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Bjork is a great artist. She’s vivid, searching and fearless and has not sold her soul to the market
but stands on her own as the fearless are compelled. Her music shows a fierce probing intellect
and a curiosity as big as her mouth. Her importance will outlast sales figures.
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I sometimes forget that there are women who object to my habitual use of the male descriptive
when I’m generalising. I tend to assume that ‘he’ or ‘man’ always denotes humanity, though
I understand this is not always met with mutual agreement. I will make greater efforts to be
more inclusive in my choice of words to suit my concern for all of the divine mother’s children.
Besides a man must be careful not to leave any dangling participles hanging around loosely
and unprotected !
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…there is however a line I do not wish to cross, that of political correctness, which in its crude form
is but another triumph of mind control.
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The world will never achieve Utopia. The human animal is most dangerous when it is bored and Utopia
in actual practice would bore most of us silly after the first few parades.
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We are first born by fire
The rebirth by defiance
A man with no defiance
Is a man without brakes
And though he bargain
A secure alliance
He’ll suffer until he wakes
The fire that first time shivers
Into the flesh and leaves
Its birth as sweat
Is never in the crossfire
Of the wind while it withers
But is made to dance gusting
Shadows of regret
You may as well burst your own bubble
Some build their temples next to science
I failed the call of recognition
Until I knew defiance
And the puppet lord
That feeds its cord
The God of self reliance
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Virtual T-shirt : WIN BIG
LOSE BIGOTRY ! c
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Lower back strain is very often the result of a man’s unwillingness to stand up for himself and
his pliability in bending over backwards to suit the bullying desires of others. A man not willing to
fight for himself and his heart’s true desires will lose his strength and witness it being drained by
others. A man willing to fight and stand up for himself will always gain the strength he needs in order
to keep his heart in the game.
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Odds only matter if you are playing someone else’s game. Define and play your own game and
the odds will always favour you.
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Even hell braces itself when bankers become bored.
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Try not to worry so much, it’s habit forming.
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The treasures are found in the process. Not at the end of it.
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Our looks may get us through our youth, it is our bearing that gets us through the rest.
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Expect only human nature to be human nature and your disappointments will have already
been anticipating and cushioned.
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There is nothing that you have to do except rejoice in being who you are and be willing to doggedly
defend it when necessary. Even when I’m getting pummelled ( and I am always being pummelled )
I still rejoice that others feel that I am worthy to attack.
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Poverty as much as any conditions which may help stabilize its effects is a problem less of capital
than of consciousness, and self worth issues play a large part in the incapacity to see themselves
( the poor ) as more, and as worthy of experiencing and receiving more.
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By providing education, positive challenges, and encouragement one who is poor can come
to realize themselves as the carpenter of their own ladder, built to lift themselves up and to
see more, which is to be more.
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Pity is passive disdain. To pity a man does not help him and only provides fuel for further
self-loathing. Compassion is not pity, it is a challenge to rise above.
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…and how much affection you add to your compassion, should always be consistent with the truth
of your nature. Fake affection builds resentment and mistrust between the affectioner and
the affectionee. Real affection heals.
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When corporations are left to decide what music is, the first casualties are the soul and spirit of it.
Expect also the deterioration curve to be accelerated as increasingly ‘types’ of music are presented,
but no real music and no real presenters. It has gotten worse than white bread, it is white bread
with even the crust removed.
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Corporations now mainly use music to shape the shareholders view of the sort of socially
engineered society they wish to live in while completely ignoring the realities of this one.
The same people for example who greatly profit from the sale of caricatured gangster rap are
the same people who use the image of the caricature to justify tougher laws against the people
they cynically profit from. Yet the rapper who does not agree to play a pimp daddy minstrel and
scare the kiddies in the bargain does not get promoted. In essence, if you are not willing to help
corrode the image of your community, you are left behind, and those who are get promoted.
This encourages greater police oppression and the erosion of hard won civil liberties, which
of course only increases the conditions many rappers and singers sing about to the tune of
greater profit for the shareholders whose children never have to work, while yours are left
looking for lawyers to help them gain access to some of the money that may have fallen like
crumbs from the shareholders table.
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I would rather suffer in the pursuit of living my dream, than suffer the having abandoned it.
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…it would also be nice if the corporations would once more give opportunities to girls who can
actually sing and whose breasts are not bigger than their experience. Rock has always flirted
with stepping over the line, now it is pushing more mother’s children into selling themselves
as soft-core whores, who couldn’t hold a tune if it came in a backpack.
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Jealousy stings if it cannot rob.
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The difference between consciousness and sleep is that consciousness chooses better habits
and trades judgements of habits for compassion and a deepening gratitude that one has habits
to witness at all. There is no greater privilege than to be the witness of a life unfolding.
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Shortcuts usually cost more in the long run. Steady your pace and let it grow naturally.
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To my young compatriots : your ‘sound’ comes only partially from your guitar or amp or whatever
your chosen instrument. Most of your sound comes from you, your voice, your hands.
Great rock has been made with the finest available equipment but truly great and inspiring
rock has also been made with cheap and inexpensive tools.
The greatest tool is your song and your passion. If you need more than the basics to record
your song, chances are you don’t really have much of a song. Great music of any description
is not about the equipment, it’s about the music and the attitude.
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…and bear in mind that since each singer is now Pro-Tooled to death, the singers which will
stand out in the future are the ones which sound most human and inspiringly imperfect.
Say like an Otis Redding or a Janis Joplin ! Most singers now on Pop records sound as if they
were poured from a blender and into the producers synthesizer. Even a vocalist as awesome
as Anastasia sounds too much as if she’s coming through someone’s word processor.
When a singer with her obvious ability is treated in such a way, who sees one of the most
vital expressions of her spirit enchained like a cotton picking slave, it is time to pack up
the equipment and leave Maggie’s farm, and let the locusts devour the remaining crops.
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I am grateful that Jeff Buckley is not alive to witness not only the complete demise of our
once mighty and beloved industry, but also the fact that Sony is putting far more effort into
promoting him now that he is dead and can no longer ask for his money.
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Delusions are Karma.
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To women, all men are white.
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Equality is not about race or sex but about people. And it is up to each person to realize for
themselves their own equality.
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Each man’s idea of love is his idea of salvation.
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Those willing to suffer for love shall be saved by love.
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I call a poet a poet whatever sex they wear. To me poetess, poetina is all bullshit. Please go to
www.IreneCaesar.com for a taste of an emerging and moving voice in American letters.
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Worrying about what might have been is like wondering why the river took the shape it has.
The river is always right and always flows according to her own natural laws.
The river became the river because it had learned to go with the flow.
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One man’s addiction is another man’s preference. The rest is our addiction to judgement
and the self-loathing that often accompanies it.
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Sometimes the consequences of being right feel just as deep as the consequences for being wrong.
But if the consequences for being right are great, then so to are the rewards.
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All consequence bears fruit and even the bitter apples are good for our purging.
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Whatever the outcome, we always gain when we stand up for ourselves.
And to back down is to lose a little height.
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Pain accelerates understanding.
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I do not try to make music that is ‘commercial’, I strive to make music that is timeless and
great and since it is great less often than I would like, I continue. What is ‘commercial’,
after all, is decided by people who never have to ride the trains, so what would they know anyway?
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As one can imagine that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would be quite hesitant to allow
a blind man to curate a Picasso retrospective, is it too much to ask that record executives
hired to run record companies be able to dance? Shouldn’t having a rhythmic pulse be
a pre-requisite for running a company where one might just run into some rhythm,
even just for old time sake ?
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When the wise lose hope, cynicism sets in, and become the seeds of future corruption.
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Please enjoy these 4 new pieces of music from my heart to yours.
I enjoyed working on ‘NYMPHETAMINES’ as during the time it was recorded, it helped keep
me sane and focused ! I was being attacked from many sides and the songs helped remind
me of why I’m here.
Attacking me or anyone sincere in following through on the word presented to them is futile.
The attacks only increase their focus and determination. I love music with all of my heart
and soul and will serve the truth of her will for all of the rest of the days of my life.
I love you enough to persevere through all obstacles. I hope that I was successful in
transmitting my love through the music.

Sincerely, your Maitreya
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COPYRIGHT SANANDA MAITREYA - MILANO, NOV 8TH 2004
ALL INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS AND IDEAS HEREIN RESERVED AND PROTECTED.
ALL VIOLATORS WILL BE VIGOROUSLY PURSUED*

*THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN TO THOSE WHO WISH TO SHARE WITH ANOTHER WHATHEVER
MAY AMUSE THEM.
IT IS TO ENSURE THAT NO ONE ELSE PROFITS FROM THESE WORKS AND CALLS THEM THEIR OWN.

PS STAY TUNED ! FOR MORE INCLUDING ‘THE CAMEL POEMS’

www.SanandaMaitreya.com

To all of my Dolphins,

Thank you very much for your reception of the last 3 songs! I am really enjoying not fighting
anyone anymore to preserve the integrity of how I am inspired to present my portion of God’s light.
This is the sound of joy again that you hear being reborn in the music. The music is always
an expression of the state of your soul and for as long as your music stays pure, your soul
stays uncorrupted. We are many pieces of rainbow, bundled up by nerves of steel and no one else
has the God given right to tell you which colours you may or may not express. Let your joy tell
you who you are, surrender to your curiosity and follow it to its natural conclusion which is always
the path of your healing and the betterment and repair of your psyche.
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African-American voters in Florida would be better served and far less intimidated and harassed
(deja-voodoo anyone?) were they to go to the polls wearing a white hood over their faces
(white robe optional). Not only would they be ushered straight through to the voting booths,
they’d also probably be offered a seat in the government as well.
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You’ll probably witness more hurricanes and property threatening weather until this dangerously
regressive attitude is swept out of my beloved sunshine State. Where the State and its dark
repressive shadow are now more in evidence then the sunshine which once graced it with
an inner light, an inner light now replaced by a throbbing blue siren representing the constant
state of alarm and the imminent anxiety which always attends it. Karma never forgets.
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Those of us not willing to fight ourselves out of our birdcages do not deserve to fly.
To have flown is to have known evidence of freedom, of heaven, and the skies which serve as
its afterthought.
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Master Bruce Springsteen has always served as a mentor and fellow traveller to me since first
I heard ‘BORN TO RUN’ which was for many in my generation what Dylan’s ‘LIKE A ROLLING STONE’
was to his. It was a huge reclamation of the values of Rock and its roots in the blues, in folk and in
the natural social activism great music inspires. The inspiration to better one’s life and release
the pain that accompanies oppression and negative social assumption and the policies which
apologize for them. And all the while mocking the souls of those who have given so much to
what remains of our culture and received so little in return but the chance to witness increasing
and greater insults to our culture. This is why all the channels are choked like chickens with
the sound of our industry choking on its own cynicism and desperation, and showing no respect
at all for the real needs of those of us who MUST rock, who MUST deepen the funk and who
MUST continually try to spread fresh gravy over rotting and putrid meat. This is why many stand
like a wall in the communications industry between what you need your soul to witness and those
who would serve it. This is why

Bruce Springsteen is a man, one of the captains of our team, a revivalist.
This is why he is the BOSS, because he is willing like Johnny Cash to walk the line and call the
line as he sees it and not pretend to be blind to the emperor’s greed and how it deeply affects
us all and the emperor’s willingness to do everything necessary including tearing apart the fragile
fabric of our nation simply to keep his hands buried deep into our storehouse. But what do I know?
(I only once passed through -Morehouse- )
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Ps to bear witness to master Bruce’s genius for foreshadowing (in the light of our current troubles)
go back and listen to the songs of ‘Nebraska’ .
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All the praises be to the name of your Gods and Bloodlines
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COPYRIGHT SANANDA MAITREYA -MILANO, 18TH AUGUST 2004ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
www.SanandaMaitreya.com

2004/6/17
Sananda's Newsletter: News writings of Sananda

TO ALL MY BLUE BABIES AND SONS….
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The Black Rock Coalition began roughly about the same time as I came to public awareness.
Part of the reason for their existence is to remind particularly the U. S music industry of
the lineage of the founding fathers of rock and their great and enduring contribution to
a vast portion of our American cultural heritage and how traditionally once the black community
creates a new forum of expression, they are then usually squeezed out of it after it is renamed,
relabelled and given exclusively to another tribe as if it were created solely for them.
Our contribution is meant for the healing of all nations, for all souls and for all who recognize
themselves in the music we create. To my understanding the coalition is not against anyone’s
expression, it is simply for more inclusion. They have always been an encouragement to my existence
and its dreams. Find out more about them, if you are interested, by going to their site.
The group ‘LIVING COLOUR’ (for example) was also a prime associate and beneficiary of the BRC.
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What I’ve learned as a producer is this:
The more space you leave
The more space you move
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Arguably comedy is the most difficult discipline to master in all of the arts, or at least the entertainment arts.
These following souls are a good bet to stretch your funny bone as well as your mind.
All have made a huge contribution to their craft and have helped to ease the tension our rat race
encourages us to hold on to:
CHRIS ROCK -RICHARD PRYOR -BILL HICKS -GEORGE CARLIN
STEVEN WRIGHT -ROBIN HARRIS -BILL COSBY -LENNY BRUCE
LILY TOMLIN -ANDY KAUFMANN -SAM KINISON -JOAN RIVERS
REDD FOXX -WHOOPI GOLDBERG -WOODY ALLEN -DENNIS MILLER
Of course there are more, begin with these artists work on cd and get to chuckling!
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Seek out the work of BILL HICKS at all costs. He was very funny and very enlightened and seemed clearly to
care about the state of his fellow man ‘s condition.
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It is the nature of the beast that complacency in using the freedoms granted to us will find those same
freedoms under attack and reassumed as dictatorial authority. We are expected to use our gifts if we
cherish them and expect to keep them. Otherwise we don’t deserve them, having proven ourselves not
worthy to hold on to them.
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All men have every right to feel pride without apology in the tribal distinctions they were asked to wear by
creator in order to move forward all tribes and to deepen our understanding. Creator loves all of the
branches on its tree and the leaves that the wind blows and scatters all over the world.
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I carry double headed coins because:
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE!
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§
‘I’m an alchemist
of practical skill‘
said the wine-man
to Othello
‘tonight I’ll drink
your finest red and tomorrow
it comes out yellow‘
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MICHAEL BUBLE’ ‘s daddy is HARRY CONNICK JR, one of the most gifted musicians I’ve ever had
the distinction to meet and a real true bonafide southern gentleman of breeding and class.
He’s also become a burgeoning fine actor.
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My wife Francesca and I are very grateful to Roberto and Eva Cavalli for their support and friendship.
Blessings & Godspeed to their enterprise, lovely daughters and hansome sons.
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Suffering is the priviledge of the blessed.
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We lose time not being ourselves.
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Depression is the close shadow of uncertainty. A mind split against itself depletes its own battery and
depression is a result of a depleted battery, a mind tired from battering itself. Clarity, patience and
rest raises the mind’s frequency. As does prayer and meditation.
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Heaven does not care how long we live, only how much.
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Having multiple personalities has its upside : you have more drinking buddies!
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I would hate for my tombstone to read like this:
‘here lies a man
who neither smoked,
drank, ate meat,
or sweets and avoided
a life of vice
but is still dead
just like everyone else
in this bone yard‘
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A life of meditation means nothing without a firm commitment to life attached to it, or there’s nothing to
meditate on. Live as fully and fearlessly as you can. It is the fast track to evolution and what fuel you use to
power your progress is your own affair.
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Do not hesitate to be the person that each day requires and each night demands. Be the Buddha one day and
Genghis Khan the next. A man is not an idea, but a response to the truth of the circumstances which attend him
and confront him, moment to moment. Right action is always fresh, never a stale reflex. One day it delivers roses,
the next day weeds but what it adds up to is a real garden full of life, full of possibility.
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The bigger the ‘philosophy’ we have to carry around, the shorter our life span.
The least we believe in, the more life we see on its own terms.
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From the department of ?when Rock was real? (and not only a Christmas stocking stuffer) check out the MC5:
‘KICK OUT THE JAMS‘ it may just save your soul and respects to one of their esteemed alumnus
WAYNE KRAMER who is still making the troubadors trek on behalf of good music.
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If you are not successful in locating a copy of the MC5, the same recommendation applies to IGGY AND
THE STOOGES ‘RAW POWER’.
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It’s good to see the WHITE STRIPES carrying on Detroit’s distinguished rock tradition. When it’s good and
comes out of Detroit (whether MOTOWN, MC5 , STOOGES, NUGENT, etc ) it grooves hard!
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All of life exists in all dimensions at all times and only the form is subject to change.
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Many of our myths are history as actually lived on the higher dimensions and remembered by us here in the
third dimension. Do not think yourself silly for believing in myths for they are our memory transposed to another key.
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Evolved higher dimensional figures have access to all of the lower dimensions. Whether or not one believes that
JESUS and BUDDHA, (and for that matter KING ARTHUR or MERLIN) are real historical figures is irrelevant.
They are fully alive to themselves where they do exist and are able to make their presence felt as necessary
in order to convey their thoughts and emotions throughout the fabric of space/time. And because of their
great powers of focus can manifest in any of the lower dimensions (including our own) at will and through
whomever they choose.
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That your Gods exist in your heart already places them firmly in space where they beam back to you
(if allowed) your heart’s desire.
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What doesn’t kill us softens us up for what eventually will!
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A good thing about schizophrenia is that you can always get a witness.
Can I get a witness?
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There is no greater priviledge for a man than to bear witness to a Goddess coming of age. Even from a distance.
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When your wife is also your best friend one has a greater understanding of the nature of God’s love in practice.
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There is no greater proof of our blindness than to see how much we lust and long for what we already have now.
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When all is said and done, usually a lot is said and little is done.
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One man’s M is another man’s W
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Our demons exist to keep us honest
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JAMES BALDWIN is no longer with us but GORE VIDAL is! HE IS STILL ALIVE! TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE!
He (for me) ranks with EMERSON, THOREAU and BALDWIN as exemplers of American high style.
He writes with boldness, truth, wit and the power of the convinced. He is one of our great american yet
international man of letters. To read him or to hear him speak is to be both enlightened and
entertained. Rub this Buddha’s belly while he is still here to appreciate the awe he inspires and t
he respect he deserves.
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Puritans are born, not made
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Blue has the greatest colour range of all other visible colours in the spectrum.
It stretches from the darkest blue (almost black) to the heavenly blue of the empty sky.
Infact in truth there is no black, just blue meditating on deep blue business.
Space is not black but deep blue. Blue even stretches itself into the green range for blue-green collaborations.

AM OF THE BLUE TRIBE, ARE YOU?
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War is the cost of greed.
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We advance the cause just as much by opposing it.
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WOW, you mean you’re Blue-ish? Funny, you don’t look blue-ish!
Yes, I was circumscribed as a child!
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Master RAY CHARLES never gave a damn about what kind of music he was ‘supposed‘ to make,
which is one reason we are mourning him now.
He proved clearly that : WHO DARES WINS!
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Heaven does not care which side of the battle you are on. Only that you are on the side of the truth
as YOU feel it to be. All sides advance the cause of justice. It’s all a game anyway, enjoy your role!
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I’m pleased to see that the new Spanish government has included so many women in the new prime minister
’s cabinet. Our governments can use all of the balanced help available to them by including women and
their gifts and values in keeping our world from being blown up because of a few economic
fascists and their war games.
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Deja-vus are proof of the existence of time travel. Think about it!
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I would like to thank ECAST for their participation in the unfolding of my drama.
Check them out on www.ecastinc.com
They are here to help the Angel brigade.
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Institutionalized racism is a form of state sponsored terrorism against its own citizens.
When it also becomes foreign policy we can then begin to see why we draw it back to us as our
disease draws back to itself its own temperance. What eats us from within soon begins to attack
us from without. Our best defense against more terrorism is to address the ways in which
we can eliminate more of the conditions and attitudes which many of our citizens feel terrorised by
in their day to day existence.
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§
I looked through the curtains
of a falling window
and saw gasping, reaching limbs
one man may have heard
lustful moans
but to me they were sweet hymns
in the timing of
ecstasy announced
air rushed in through a newly
opened crack
I’m vulnerable in my lower back
but I’m a tiger
so I pounced
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I hear her speak
the language of angels
in her sleep
it seems garbled
and I don’t have the mind
to decode or to keep
my attention, not to mention
the dreams
I’ve yet to reap
but it seems that there are
chasms
where only the faithful
leap
and into the arms of winged
spasms
heaving towards
conclusions
that sputter out once dispelled
of their
confusion
they then,
devoid of heaven
attend disaster
they say it makes their
lifespans
flutter faster.
§
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All praises be to the name of your Gods, ancestors and friends!
(and other important stuff..)
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COPYRIGHT SANANDA MAITREYA -MILANO 17TH JUNE 2004
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

2004/5/30
Sananda's Newsletter: new writings

TO ALL MY HALOS AND HELLIONS ….
And to my alien friends who cleverly disguise themselves!
Congratulations to one of my heroes Todd Rundgren for his great new music.
His work is always revealing and inspiring and keeps the rest of us younger punks honest.
The pupil gives one of his teachers an A+!
Those of you who marvel at Prince’s, Lenny’s or my own ability to be a one man band and studio
wizard should know that before us were Stevie Wonder and Todd Rundgren as sterling examples
of musical self determination and song craft. Like Stevie’s Todd’s catalogue is full of gems waiting
to be rediscovered by the younger generation. He is also a great visionary, who foresaw years ago
much of what is currently going on with the internet and DVD. Check him out, it really is worth the effort!
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…he also produced some seminal records that helped to shape the vocabulary of Rock and Roll like the first
‘New York Dolls’ Record and one of the RAMONES Records.
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MOST VISIONARIES ARE SEEN ONLY AS STUBBORN FOOLS
….until their vision pans out, afterwhich they are seen only as stubborn fools
who got lucky!
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§
my love is scarlet
her poems once fell at my feet
like top heavy leaves
over moistened by dew
now
they have become the waters
that bathe my soul
in mist
even though
I’m already drowning
my skin was bruised
though now
its browning
§
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Young players remember :
IF YOU PLAY IT LIKE A MAN, IT WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF!
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What if we could program the satellites in Space to beam frequencies designed to promote peaceful ,
restful and creative dreams as opposed to the anxiety they beam. Wouldn’t that be cool?
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The third dimension is the result of the animated thought forms of the fourth dimension. To wit,
we are each witnesses to our own thought process (including the shadows we push away),
working its way to completion.
Change the way you think about yourself and your physical world will reflect this change.
The matrix access point of the third dimension lies in the fourth where we also dream.
The practice of lucid dreaming therefore allows you an opportunity to address your neuro-wiring
more directly and with faster results. With practice and intention (and it helps to keep a dream-diary)
this form of dreaming can be attained. Once this occurs, you will then notice how much more lucid
to our waking dream you will become.
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Those who choose money over love soon come to find that there’s never enough love nor money.
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For as long as we maintain our dignity, we maintain our common sense.
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I would love to report otherwise, but the reality is that, there is no way for a man to sleep with
a lot of women and not wind up with a very confused mind and a belly full of anxiety.
This only applies if you have a mind that is of value to you. If you don’t, then you are much
luckier than you know, so go for it.
Otherwise the attempt to find moderation in this is in and of itself a meditation.
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Much terrorism is sponsored secretly by the very governments decrying it , who use it as an excuse to
assume more power and control of culture through the apparatus of fear. We are much easier to
sheepherd when we are scared senseless according to the logic of our demented, heartless, keepers.
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Expect naturally that the closer we get to the most internationally watched U.S. election ever, the more
of a ‘terror alert’ the U.S. will be put on. A cursory reading of NOSTRADAMUS reveals where we are
now in our gamesmanship and the price we will all be expected to pay for the economic folly of a few.
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Prophets hate being right, it means they’ve failed to get their message across.
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MICHAEL MOORE must be some kind of freak! For he actually believes that filmmakers are allowed to
make films that actually say something. He actually believes that film (the pen) is at least as mighty
as the sword. Bravo to him for being misguided enough to believe that artists can still make a difference
and for putting some balls back into American film!
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You can have a great life or an easy life, you cannot have both.
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TALES OUT OF SCHOOL: in the early mid ’90s one of my heroes JEFF BECK and
I were in enthusiastic discussion about doing a project together. Since I’ve always been
a very big ROD STEWART fan and loved the music ROD and JEFF made together back in the day
I looked forward to the whole 9 since at that time (and throughout my association with them)
The American Label Sony had me so tightly under wraps (political persuasion) that I went from a mack daddy
to a moldy mummy in the time it took to close and seal my tomb. For whatever earthly reason
‘the Label’ were not amused that he and I were going to blaze up some new music.
I had no doubt that between myself and Jeff (one of the most daring and innovative musicians alive)

we would come up with some pretty explosive music so ‘the Label’ decided to kill the idea
by poisoning Jeff’s mind with some bullshit against me while leading him to believe that it
were I who flaked. Once again I retreated back into the bat-cave where I licked my wounds and
worked on the magic spells which would one day bring these transnational bullies down to their current size.

HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, LAUGHS IN STEREO.
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Are elephants allowed to live in ivory towers?
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Constructive anger fuels most progress.
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Babies spend most of their waking time meditating and their sleep time playing with Angels. Mainly
they meditate on the nature of what appears before them, each time new, like cats.
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I will never again allow a corporation to stand in between me and the will of my creator.
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Clarity supercedes logic.
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THE PRICE OF TRANSFORMATION IS to not only lose the fear of walking through the fires that you
yourself create, but to create more fires so that creation always is.
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Peace is not about attainment, it is about acceptance.
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Just because I am independent does not mean that I am not willing to be of service to the music industry.
After all this is still the industry (although dramatically different and politically co opted) that gave me the Beatles.
So here goes a suggestion: ‘the recording industry will take a huge step forward when they begin to reinvent
themselves by breaking their networks down into smaller regional distribution outlets, leaving the A&R to
the artists and producers themselves. Since it is clear by the numbers that the public are not begging for
more formula, but for more fiber, originality and passion, a little more sincerity and a little less desperation.
This would also serve to spare the industry the unnecessary overhead which currently bogs it down
in debt while leaving it more mobile to respond to trends as they happen in real time.

Allowing the artists to make the music their creators placed in their hearts will show a big difference and
give the public something worth coming back for: divine inspiration and new wicked grooves.
After all progress cannot be stopped, it can only be taxed.’
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No one needs a huge advance to make a good record, just good songs.
One needs a lot of money to make mediocre music better.
Furthermore an artist being given more money than is necessary
for the work, places too much stress on the artist as well as the label. It also has a tendency
to dull the creative edge and promotes complacency. To earn a fortune is much better for
the health of the psyche than to be given one.
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The price of your truth not being spoken is that you become indecisive and chocked with grief,
GO ON AND LET YOUR SCREAM OUT!
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COMING SOON! NEW SONGS FOR A NEW ELECTIC ERA!
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Evil fears those who do not fear evil
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It will always be hard to understand the nature of evil if you yourself are not. What I do know of it is that to
fear it is to allow it.
To not fear it is to reduce it . A little evil must be if we are to remain honest and focused otherwise we
fall asleep and become fodder for its terror.
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One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.
The distinction is whether or not WE are paying him.
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From the cultural image department: ‘Historically there does seem to be an image that frightens U.S. culture
more than the consistently circulated image of a black man with a gun and that is a black man with a guitar’.
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It would be wonderful to see my country grow up and expand itself beyond its deeply flawed mean-spirited
racist foreign policy which does seem to conflict mightily with the democratic ideals we say we wish to
export and convince others of, yet which we ourselves fail so miserably to enact even at home and
with such half-hearted determination. It is hard to export something that amounts to more slogan
than substance. Furthermore, it will also do well for our country to lay off the surveillance of prominent
American men of colour who have influence abroad for it only serves to verify why they chose to live
abroad in the first place and it serves no function other than intimidation and only increases
the heavy karmic burden that we, as a nation, are already suffering under the weight of.
Our American desire to recreate the world in the image of our ideology would seem to be more effective
if were we actually to become the nation we wish to export elsewhere.
Our allies abroad are increasingly witnessing the transparency of our credibility.
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From the truth of my heart I have been under some form of surveillance since the 1st Bush administration
and yet remain under the eye of other agents (some pretty sloppy in their methods) and apologists for
the biased contingency plan for the world. Furthermore when I lived in Los Angeles I was kept under
the lens by the L.A.P.D. which keeps a secret file on many people, most celebrities and almost all known
men of colour. And for what exactly?
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I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart all of the people who’ve responded so positively
to the first offering from ‘Angels & Vampires’. I still aim to mix in some free stuff as the opportunity allows
and to keep the price within easy range of spending. Let’s face it: it’s just music NOT A HERNIA OPERATION!
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SANANDA’S SMALL TABLE FABLES :
A lion once told a rabbit that it was going to eat it.
The rabbit asked for a head start. The lion told him that since he wasn’t already in the lion’s mouth,
he already had a head start.
With this the rabbit took off. (this proved convenient for the rabbit since he was already late for
a doctor’s appointment).
***
By some miracle the rabbit escaped. Normally lions accept that their images are larger than their percentages,
since most mobile, active food prefers to remain mobile and active.
This particular rabbit however would not escape the lion’s mind and two days later (which is really quite
long in the life of a rabbit), the lion happened upon the same rabbit asleep in the middle of an open field.
It was almost too easy thought the lion, in fact, rabbit was dead.
***
Let’s face it: sometimes you can try to jack one too many Nicholsons and the next bite woke
the rabbit back up and the lion, startled by this unlikely turn of events, began trying to regurgitate
rabbit up out of his throat. Rabbit however had other ideas since it wasn’t everyday that he received
such a vigorous and healthy work out and seemed to be holding on to the lions teeth not for dear
life but for dear spite and personal amusement.
The rabbit had decided that it was important for lion to understand why it might be in its current and
future best interests to leave the blood of rabbit alone, that the value of its blood was greater for
rabbit than for lion. Lion could keep his own blood and that would be that.
***
After several days of rolling agonizingly through flatland and roaring in bewilderment and
great embarassment, the lion couldn’t help but notice a crowd of the jungles’ menagerie who
were enjoying this amazing spectacle, who would think to see a rabbit fully in control inside
the mouth of a lion, whipping the lion’s tail and sending out squeals of delight that rippled through
the lion’s ribcage and caused it to moan an unlikely, un-lion-like, moan. Not a moan of ecstasy,
but of despair. Who would ever believe such a thing?
***
Finally, after every imaginable ache and pain had wrecked with shivers the lion’s flesh, rabbit lie
still and allowed lion to breath in new life and so, with a heaping heaving lunge for air,
which was now blowing coolly and mercifully towards lion, his mouth opened wide.
With but a small shake of his damp fur the rabbit announced TA- DA !
and stepped outside whereupon he limbered and stretched, checked for all of his pieces and bits
and once reassured quickly fainted. He fell into a nice deep restful sleep.
***
Lion is still king of the jungle but rabbit is now king of that lion.
They’ve not seen each other since, though legend now has it that every now and then
you will hear somewhere a rabbit roar, whereby the Lions hop away in fright, gather together,
lie still, and pray for greater wisdom.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the world:
A snake once swallowed a toad and immediately began to regret his appetite because
the toad wouldn’t go down. After what seemed forever spent in every conceivable position
trying to digest the toad, the snake tried in vain to spit it out. BUT TOAD WOULDN’T GO DOWN …
and neither would he budge one way or the other and thought to himself : ‘wow, what a cool ride!
Just wait until my friends hear about this later!’.
The snake asked the toad why he wouldn’t just come out, wouldn’t any toad be grateful and in a hurry
to exit the mouth of a snake? ‘Perhaps’, said the toad, ’ but you see I am not just ANY toad,
I am this particular toad and I am enjoying this view of life immensely. Afterall I don’t often get
to play with snakes in my pond since they assume their superiority to us and only come around
when they are looking for a meal.
***
The snake thought he had heard it all and begged the toad to just get out as quickly as possible and leave.
The toad reminded him that when he , the snake, assumed that he could take the life of the toad,
the toad just as soon assumed that he could take the life of the snake and wouldn’t his skin make
a nice leather belt? Maybe even with a little left over for a nice hat for his girlfriend Tina Toad.
The snake thought this absurd and replied to the toad that for him it was a lot simpler than that.
‘It is a snake’s right to devour a toad whole and I demand my rights!’
***
Toad hadn’t heard anything this funny since the toad network cancelled his favourite show:
‘THE HA HA MAKE A TOAD LAUGH SHOW FEATURING MR VERY FUNNY TOAD!’ .
The toad began to laugh so loud that the snake began to writhe in pain. Once the toad finished
with his good rollicking belly laugh, his slid out of the mouth of snake and inhaled the light
of day he’d not seen for quite some time. He signed off with a ‘ribbit’ ‘ribbit’
(he was a friend of ‘rabbit’ ‘rabbit’ in the other story)
and spent the rest of his life minding his own business, doing his own thing, but now swimming in
any pond he wished and lounging on any lily pad which caught his pleasure.
The snake however, no longer quite slithers now mainly he dithers.
***
The moral of our story? SOMETIMES, YOU SIMPLY SWALLOW THE WRONG TOAD!
THE END
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Finally my restless wonders:
§
sometimes
when I get stuck
for a rhyme
I cheat
I stop writing
with my right hand
and start writing
with my two feet
one foot holds down
the page
to keep it from
moving
out of range
while
the other foot
scribbles furiously
leaving footprints
to stamp out
the raging flames
§
I once read a chapter
in the book of eyes
and which page did not stare
winked
there was a page
which foretold
my entire life
but on that page
I blinked
§
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your eternal fool Sananda Francesco Maitreya
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