Laughter: The Best Medicine
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“The short psychic who escaped from prison was a small medium at large”
“The Two things God likes most in the world are change and a good joke”
Isak Dinesen
“Humor is the lubrication on the clitoris of reality”- Jaime Sams- Native American writer ~ Teacher
Use of Humor in Mysticism and Healing
The uses of humor, stories and puzzles are well developed in traditional pagan and shamanistic traditions. The spirit of mischief releases tension and gives one a realization of the solutions to life problems and situations. The archetype of the crazy fool and trickster survives in all cultures and traditions, from Loki in Scandinavia, Coyote in North America, and Elegba in Africa. In the Middle East the character of the Mullah Nasrudin dates back to pre-literate times. The tales of Nasrudin have sometimes been used in various Sufi traditions as teaching stories. These traditions use the stories and jokes to bypass the logical mind and reach into the more intuitive mind to engage, enter and retain.
THEY DON'T WORKAn engineer was fixing a bell outside a house. Mulla Nasrudin came by, stopped and asked:
'What is that thing?'
'Fire alarm'.
'I've seen them before -- they don't work,' said the Mulla.
'What do you mean ?'
'The bell rings all right, but the fire burns just the same.'
From "The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin" by Idries Shah
The Nasrudin stories may be understood in many ways. It is said, there are as many interpretations as stars in the sky.
At the
lucidity site each time you refresh the page another of the many tales of Mulla is displayed. It’s a great way to stretch the mind and lighten the soul.
LaughterWhat is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!
It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
Veiling your eyes and heart.
It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure
That is your Real body - called Truth.
It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight
To embrace everyone and everything in this world.
Laughter is the polestar
Held in the sky by our Beloved,
Who eternally says,
"Yes, dear ones, come this way,
Come this way towards Me and Love!
Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs
And with your movements - your magic movements
Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!
Know that to God's Eye,
All movement is a Wondrous Language,
And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"
O what is laughter, Hafiz?
What is this precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?
It is the glorious sound
Of a soul waking up!
~ Hafiz ~(I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)
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Each of us already has all of the answers within. It’s matching them with the corresponding questions, that is the challenge.” -- Swami Beyondananda
Swami Beyondananda's 2006 State of the Universe Address 
Swami Calls for an Up-WisingWise Up, Everybody ...The Evolution Has Begun! For years now, we've been hearing "shift happens," and wondering when, where and how. Now finally, it looks as if the shift is about to hit the fan. This is good news for all those shift fans who've been wondering if the new age will arrive before old age does. Of course, if you're looking for signs in the news, you won't find them. At least, not yet. The news might as well be called the "olds," because the world still seems stuck in greedlock, ruled by fossilized fools fueled by fossil fuels. But I have been receiving encouraging intelligence reports that say indeed, humans are becoming more intelligent. Yes, people everywhere are wising up. And that's great, because we could sure use an up-wising!
"Dig Infinity!"Lord Buckley, or Richard Myrle Buckley, (April 5, 1906 - November 12, 1960) was an eccentric, joyous American monologist.
Buckley, an accomplished cultural assimilator, adopted for his hipsemantic persona the lingo of poor black Southerners, jazzy beatniks, and English aristocracy. He dressed exuberantly and sported a mustache in the style of Salvador Dalí.
None of this was an act, because by all accounts he stayed in character off stage, "holding court" at his home (frequently in the nude) and dubbing all his friends and family with noble titles.
His personal philosophy was one of love and respect for his fellow man, consistently reflected in his elaborate references to Christian brotherhood.
Occasionally performing to music and singing, he frequently punctuated his monologues with nonlinguistic vocal sounds.
Most Buckley recordings are solo tours de force on themes of real gravity. His most enduring tracks are his retellings of historical or legendary events, most fictionalized to a certain degree, imbued with his scandalous and high-brow humor.
Notable among these are the stories of Jesus (The Nazz), Gandhi (The Hip Gan), the Marquis de Sade (The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade, the King of Bad Cats), among others.
He also retold several classic documents such as a (relatively sober) Gettysburg Address and an (appropriately psychedelic) The Raven.
In Marc Antony's Funeral Oration, he recast Shakespeare s "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" as "Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes".
And so for the words of
Lord Buckley himself George Carlin- A Modern Man:
I'm a modern man,
digital and smoke-free;
a man for the millennium.
A diversified, multi-cultural,
post-modern deconstructionist;
politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect.
I've been uplinked and downloaded,
I've been inputted and outsourced.
I know the upside of downsizing,
I know the downside of upgrading.
I'm a high-tech low-life.
A cutting-edge, state-of-the-art,
bi-coastal multi-tasker,
and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.
I'm new-wave, but I'm old-school;
and my inner child is outward-bound.
I'm a hot-wired, heat-seeking,
warm-hearted cool customer;
voice-activated and bio-degradable.
For the full rap click hereKen Nordine:You have heard Ken Nordine on countless commercials on TV and radio. His “Word Jazz” recordings are a combination of sound painting, stories, and musical improvisation. Ken Nordine turns incidents of our lives inside out, much like the writers Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison would do. If Rod Serling made radio it would sound like this. His programs are like a voice in your head that you try to ignore, and can’t. His weekly radio show is always an inner and aural treat.
Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller
"Don't bother just listening to the words, but try to get the feel of what I'm putting out! Realization can't be taught, it can only be caught".
"There are three things one needs for the spiritual path -- common sense, a sense of humor, and more common sense!"
"This isn't something you can go to India and get, or the moon, or South America to get! It's inside you. Just be still and find it and start living from there”.
“The truth IS, nobody can say it. You've got to BE it!"
"You can get more stinkin' from thinkin' than you can from drinkin', but to feel is for real! AND I MEAN REALLY FEEL!"
His advice on meditation was disarmingly simple: "Just take a gentle in-drawn breath into the heart and feel unselfish love flowing out. If you can do that you're cooking on the big burner."
Joe's message was simple but powerful, direct but subtle:
"Just be. But just be who and what you really are, in depth. Not what someone else tells you to be, or what you think you should be. Be. When you first wake-up in the morning, who are you then? When you say "I", you put your hand to your heart, don't you? Well, that's headquarters, not in your head. Your head is just an outpost. You've got to get out of your cotton-picking mind! Go deeper."
Joe was always trying to break-up people's fixed ideas and biases about how to get to the goal: "You've got to do it for you. No one can carry you piggy-back to the Reality. You've all got your own do-it-yourself kits. You don't have to go to anybody else, pay out a lot of loot, do a hundred thousand gyashos, and contemplate your navel till it gets as big as a wash-tub. Just be still, be very still.""
I know I'm NOTHING, no-thing, no-thing, not me, not me. I'm just a wild assed spark of the Infinite functioning in the Finite! This is the magic that each of us has within us."
Joe Miller left his body Aug 19, 1992, but his presence and message live on.
Come Back soon Joe, the planet needs you.
"If you want
special illumination,
look upon a human face:
see deeply,
within laughter,
the essence
of ultimate
truth..."Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
