[mkirkpatrick]

Today the glamour of materiality is lessening perceptibly .The peoples of the world are entering the wilderness experience ,and will find in the wildderness how little is required for full living,true experience and real happiness.The gluttonous desire for possessions is not regarded as so reputable a desire as formerly,and a desire for riches is not producing the clutching hands as earlier in racial history.When desire is absent and man seeks nothing for the seperated self,the responsibility of material wealth can be safely handled again I would now like to move to the glamour of sentiment.Sentiment holds the good people of earth in thrall,and in a dence fog of emotional reactions.Love ,for many people,for the majority indeed,is not really love but a mixture of the desire to love and the desire to be loved,plus a willingness to do anything to show and evoke this sentiment,and consequently to be more comfortable in ones own interior life.It is this pseudo-love,based primarily on a theory of love,which characterises so many human relationships,such as those existing,for instance,between husband and wife,parents and their children.Glamoured by their sentiment for them and knowing little of thelove of the soul which is free itself and leaves others free also,they wander in a dence fog,often dragging with them the ones they desire to serve in order to draw forth a responsive affection.Study the word affection,and see its true meaning,affection is not love.It is that desire which we express through an exertion of mind and this activity affects our contacts,it is not the spontaneous desirelessness of the soul who asks nothing for its seperated self.This glamour of sentiment imprisons and bewilders all the Nice people in the world,imposing upon them obligations which do not exist,and producing a glamour which must eventually be dissipated by pouring in true and selfless love.The whole nature of glamour is vast,and could fill many bookshelfs to cover its entiretyI have briefly outlined that which seems to me important at this time,I am also painfully aware of much more that could be said,Can we ever break out of this glamour then?yes we certanly can,but it will take an awful lot of soul searching,and listening to the inner voice of conscience,which if heeded will lead us out of the fog and miasma and into the sunlight of reality..

kindest regards,michael....

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