The Synopsis Treasury by Christopher Sirmons Haviland
Authors: Christopher Sirmons Haviland
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himself: “Was it one of those things (above) or … something else?” If I tie this off, that puts the story in the class of those yarns which wind up with Jenny marrying Alfred and Louise marrying Bill and everybody living happily ever after. You’ll forget that story the minute you’ve put it down. But you can see by the nature of this story’s ending, we don’t have that type of yarn at all. What we have is the set up for the next turn of events—which I’m already plotting, and expect to call “The God of The Ship.”
Question: How do you escape from the domination of an omnipotent, omnipresent being? I believe I’ve figured out a way.
The closest I came to a description of the sacred graphic was on page 226. The idea was based on the legend of the bodhisattva who devised an aid to the dhyana (mental exercises), said aid being a design he drew in the dust. The design (some versions say it resembled the face of Buddha) immediately transported this character into a state of hypnotic ecstasy.
I didn’t try to draw or sketch such a thing (maybe I’m a coward) but I did visualize it as something on the order of a mandala figure with several faces concealed in the patterns of its quadrant sections.
Books—
Jeffrey Swann’s Toehold on Zen is a good one. The one I mentioned on the phone is Sohaku Ogata’s Zen for the West (Dial Press). There’s also The Existence of Mind by John Beloff (Citadel).
But remember, please—while these books fall into the mystic category, they should be read primarily with the idea that the authors (when they turn mystic) are laboring to describe something for which there is no common ground of experience rooted in sufficient history and usage for them to be fully intelligible. I’m convinced they are talking about consciousness in the extended-spectrum sense.
The enlightened person sees what underlies all things, including himself, but he is always something other than what he sees.
As it says in the Zen text, “Inscribed On the Believing Mind”—
“The enlightened have no likes or dislikes. If you wish to follow the path of the One Vehicle have no prejudice against the six senses.”
That’s all from the Mysterious West today.
Warmest regards,
Frank
PS: I’m saving a truly horrible pun for Judy Blish. Also an old Gypsy curse which begins … well, it’s so powerful perhaps I’d better not even start it.
Many Brave Hearts
addenda for correction:
Page 46, line 20 XXXXX make it Timberlake, not Flattery. XXXXX
Page 68 reads into page 70, killing 69.
Page 124, line 4 XXX substitute Bickel for him. XXXX
Page 162-A, line 4—delete XXXX slammed and dogged it, XXXXX line 6—add XXX repeaters. Tim and Flattery were right behind. XXXXX
Page 172-A, line 31 XXXXX The chemical experiments on her body were giving her an acute XXXX
Page 107—insert a period after system and make it a cap T in That XXXXX
Page 179—restore Flattery’s thoughts about Prue.
Page 200—restore Prue’s computer check and thoughts.
**Page 225/pgh 5, beginning at line 18 XXXXX The whole form of their problem XXXXX and ending in line 26 XXXXX in limitless dimensional extensions. XXXXX This pgh should be moved to page 254 as an insert following line 25 there XXXXX Symbols! XXXXX AT end of insert/pickup line 26, page 254 XXXXX Bickel saw the vitality XXXXX
**This should restore all of Prue’s self-test sections.
FH
March 1, 1965
Dear Frank,
Thanks for the Zen list, which I will keep to back up the two books we already have on order.
That makes sense about the sensor, & I will leave it as is. About Prue, though, I think there is still a problem. On p. 240, Flattery examines her and thinks, “Did she think she was fooling me? She went off the A-S and was experimenting on her own body. Medical stores showed a gradual depletion of serotonin and adrenalin fractions.” This seems to refer explicitly to the idea I originally queried; earlier references to it have been
Question: How do you escape from the domination of an omnipotent, omnipresent being? I believe I’ve figured out a way.
The closest I came to a description of the sacred graphic was on page 226. The idea was based on the legend of the bodhisattva who devised an aid to the dhyana (mental exercises), said aid being a design he drew in the dust. The design (some versions say it resembled the face of Buddha) immediately transported this character into a state of hypnotic ecstasy.
I didn’t try to draw or sketch such a thing (maybe I’m a coward) but I did visualize it as something on the order of a mandala figure with several faces concealed in the patterns of its quadrant sections.
Books—
Jeffrey Swann’s Toehold on Zen is a good one. The one I mentioned on the phone is Sohaku Ogata’s Zen for the West (Dial Press). There’s also The Existence of Mind by John Beloff (Citadel).
But remember, please—while these books fall into the mystic category, they should be read primarily with the idea that the authors (when they turn mystic) are laboring to describe something for which there is no common ground of experience rooted in sufficient history and usage for them to be fully intelligible. I’m convinced they are talking about consciousness in the extended-spectrum sense.
The enlightened person sees what underlies all things, including himself, but he is always something other than what he sees.
As it says in the Zen text, “Inscribed On the Believing Mind”—
“The enlightened have no likes or dislikes. If you wish to follow the path of the One Vehicle have no prejudice against the six senses.”
That’s all from the Mysterious West today.
Warmest regards,
Frank
PS: I’m saving a truly horrible pun for Judy Blish. Also an old Gypsy curse which begins … well, it’s so powerful perhaps I’d better not even start it.
Many Brave Hearts
addenda for correction:
Page 46, line 20 XXXXX make it Timberlake, not Flattery. XXXXX
Page 68 reads into page 70, killing 69.
Page 124, line 4 XXX substitute Bickel for him. XXXX
Page 162-A, line 4—delete XXXX slammed and dogged it, XXXXX line 6—add XXX repeaters. Tim and Flattery were right behind. XXXXX
Page 172-A, line 31 XXXXX The chemical experiments on her body were giving her an acute XXXX
Page 107—insert a period after system and make it a cap T in That XXXXX
Page 179—restore Flattery’s thoughts about Prue.
Page 200—restore Prue’s computer check and thoughts.
**Page 225/pgh 5, beginning at line 18 XXXXX The whole form of their problem XXXXX and ending in line 26 XXXXX in limitless dimensional extensions. XXXXX This pgh should be moved to page 254 as an insert following line 25 there XXXXX Symbols! XXXXX AT end of insert/pickup line 26, page 254 XXXXX Bickel saw the vitality XXXXX
**This should restore all of Prue’s self-test sections.
FH
March 1, 1965
Dear Frank,
Thanks for the Zen list, which I will keep to back up the two books we already have on order.
That makes sense about the sensor, & I will leave it as is. About Prue, though, I think there is still a problem. On p. 240, Flattery examines her and thinks, “Did she think she was fooling me? She went off the A-S and was experimenting on her own body. Medical stores showed a gradual depletion of serotonin and adrenalin fractions.” This seems to refer explicitly to the idea I originally queried; earlier references to it have been
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