Tripping the Future
by Michael Erlewine
I’m still trying to figure out how to turn what seems to me is like a long fast into a food plan for going forward.
Right now, I am consuming my own extra fat, which accounts for the weight loss, but obviously this can’t continue without my passing away, so how to gradually throttle that back and move to a life-sustainable plan.
Right now, I’m drinking a lot of kefir and at the same time making sure to consume protein enough to not lose strength. Other than that, I am not hungry.
And so that has to come to a halt soon and some kind of transition back to a normal diet created.
Such an eating plan will have to include some sort of way (kefir) of maintaining my gut biome and strengthening my vagus nerve.
I have been eating almost no carbs these weeks and have no interest in them.
I am interested in writing articles like these and am trying to keep up to date in this department.
As for my philosophical approach these days, it is about tuning my mind to remain in non-duality as much as possible. I am not planning for any other future than staying in the present moment, and being as useful as possible, until I pass on. With that begins a whole other chapter.
I am reorganizing my physical body and its life as best I can, although as you can see it’s quite involved. Where to rest the mind is this present moment.
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Keeping up with the houses and property obviously is something facing Margaret and me.
As for Mahamudra and the non-duality in my life and what’s coming up, little can be said, which does not mean I won’t keep talking about it or even focusing on it. It’s just that words about the ineffable, what cannot be expressed in words is just that.
It’s fun trying to express the ineffable, yet very difficult to do especially when I have gone only so far into what cannot be said in words.
Many years ago, in the late 1960s, my brother Dan Erlewine had torn off the entire roof of the well-known Ann Arbor guitar maker Herb David.
There, Dan and I sat, me astraddle the top of an outside wall and my brother far over on another wall of the house. There was no roof, no joists or girders, nothing but blue sky. Dan and I were looking at one another across that space and laughing. What had we done? We had to replace that entire roof… pronto. LOL. Here is an AI I created photo that expresses that as best I can, although the actual building was larger than this, Herb David’s home not his store.
That’s how I feel now, like I’m between two worlds. I’m saying goodbye to one and readying myself to step into the next.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it,
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.
