V6 No.2. Kids of Lower Utopia:
Softdoor's Older Sister's I-AM Knot
(The Realizations of River Scout Finnagain)

V6.2.Page 2. Post Introduction for the Second Printing. Part 1

KIDS OF LOWER UTOPIA V6 No2. A POST- INTRODUCTION FOR THIS 2ND PRINTING

(11/11/06) Last night an old friend reminded me of something I once said to him back when we were young voracious seekers. I said if your God is the final concept who stands at the door of liberation - to total Self Realization - then why worship some generic household brand name, some old hand-me-down approximation, why not worship one of your own creation, one custom fit to the shapes and colors of your own psyche?

Though I can't remember telling him that, I know I was not just being philosophic, this was what I had done as a kid, which I still hold in me as most sacred, and back then as a guarded secret.

Religions have always mistaken the finger pointing at God for God. I am essentially an atheist to me God is the persona of your deepest realization given an anthropomorphic form. But recognizing God as "man made" does not make God any less sacred. On the contrary, it frees God (The Final Concept) from fitting any other criteria other then your own deepest feeling of the sublime. The sublime lives within you, it is you, and feeling - which can not be taught - is your only communion with That Truth.

"The Truth is not any idea beyond all other ideas. The Truth is not an idea at all. The Truth is an experience." -Agnes Martin

So as a child, what my parents called my "imaginary friends," were … my Gods. My mother had her Jesus, my father had his Holy Ancestors of Western Art, and I had TheOtherCat and PapaWolf.
Why these personas? Why this cup? Because they were exactly what I needed. How do I know that they were exactly what I needed? By the fact that they came to me. Because that is how It works. "The world is because You Are." And from PapaWolf was sent The Circus: a menagerie of Godlings who informed my life (all varying personas of the final concept). In the same way that my mother read the hand of Jesus in the minutia of daily life, and spoke to Jesus (her "imaginary friend") in prayer, so I did with PapaWolf, TheOtherCat, BlackAlice, Pope Joey, Peter-in-the-rock, Mr. Bones, The Stripped Man, Catfish Shaw, Snake, and the Others.

The imagination of a child is far stronger then the mutual reality of the world, it is far more potent because a child having just arrived from Pure Reality is still partly of that Reality, a child's mind is still somewhat transparent to It, and effortlessly feels the unlimited-potential alive in everything. Look into the eyes of a calm new-born that is the very Buddha looking back at you. Look into the eyes of a coyote in the wide - same Buddha.

Quantum Mechanics tells us that the mutual reality is an agreed upon illusion imagined and maintained by thought. So …change your thoughts; change your reality. But how do you change your thoughts? You can not change your thoughts from within your thoughts, that is where all religions fail. If you want to change your thoughts you must go to the root of thoughts. You must ask your self the question: Who is this "I" who wants to know. What is this Awareness that is the witnessing space in which all your thoughts arise? (Always remembering that; "What is perceived can not be the perceiver." -Nisargadatta)

(Contintued on page 3)