"Clerks"
What I sometimes refer to as an "eternity sandwich" is anything but eternal in the strict sense of the word (hence its being "sandwiched") but is rather a perception of the quality of eternity within what is fleeting; the perception of a manifested law of nature or "destiny" within an action, occurrence, or pattern that creates a powerful sensation that "all is exactly as it should be" and the universe is running precisely as it must…you are at the height of a routine that is no longer a curse or an accident of circumstance, but a consciously chosen course of action ("what I have is what I want") and the clerks that previously worked at the store now own and run the store that once was a burden yet now is a manifest destiny; Jay and Silent Bob take up their post outside goofing along the wall, and all is in its place and as it should be. Norm sits on his favorite stool at the corner of the bar, my best friend is just a phone call or email away, my wife opens her Sam Adams and goes out for a smoke, and my mom stays up until midnight and goes to bed after tanning herself and playing a video game with the weather channel on in the background. All of this will end sooner rather than later, but for now - the cosmic machinery is well greased and runs as it should, and that which is happening is happening for reasons of its own, and whatever we are here to do - we are doing it now. Destiny is achieved even if it is not fully perceived in that way, and eternity peeks its face out from behind the masks of impermanence, sandwiched between a mortal beginning and a mortal end.
Speaking of "Clerks", I got something kind of heavy out of both of those movies. All four of the main characters end up at the finish where they were at the beginning, but what used to be "nowhere" and "nothing" is now the Where and What that they want (granted, three of them wanted it all along, but the fourth character, who is the anchor of the movies, did not, so he becomes the focus of this analysis) The transformation that occurs is as simple as a change of perception, and as complex as a revolution of perception. It is essentially the same message as that which is contained in the speech by Peter Boyle's character "Wizard" in Taxi Driver: "why am I still driving a taxi after all these years? It must be what I want!"
The clerk in question who experiences his life as confusion and helplessness and misery throughout both movies does so only because he has not awakened (Xeper) to the realization that his life is the result of his unconscious "will" to make it that way; in effect, he has worked hard to make his life exactly what it is, but still thinks via his ego-consciousness that he wants the "good life" of conventional success that he has been taught he should want, and thus wars against the strength of his own nature as it is expressed in his life with the much weaker idea of what he thinks it "should" be. At the end of the second movie, he becomes conscious of his true will for himself, and from this moment forward goes on to consciously choose the very life that he previously struggled futilely against, only because he did not understand it to be a sum-effect of who he really was.
If a person cannot see the way in which the life he lives is a manifestation of what he has "willed", he cannot take full advantage of the power that comes from a conscious choice, and will struggle against his Self, thereby dividing and blocking the free flow of his "magical" power, which follows the laws of nature and the human psyche, and is therefore empirically real. When you understand magic by this definition, you realize that it can actually be tested for results, for it is what has made your life what it Is and Is Not - according to your level of consciousness concerning its activity.
When one awakens to Who they are, and how What they are can be observed in the patterns of their life, they can embrace this identity that expresses itself in these supra-personal patterns with the clarity of a conscious will that now chooses what it used to rebel against out of ignorance. One is no longer divided against their Self, and their magic (application of will) can flow with them instead of against them, because it is no longer obstructed by a lack of self-knowledge.
When this self-knowledge is achieved, the opposites of Consciousness and Unconsciousness form a new partnership; a new Center of cooperation from which a more authentic Being can arise and create its life out of wholeness, rather than division.
-Werbinox
Speaking of "Clerks", I got something kind of heavy out of both of those movies. All four of the main characters end up at the finish where they were at the beginning, but what used to be "nowhere" and "nothing" is now the Where and What that they want (granted, three of them wanted it all along, but the fourth character, who is the anchor of the movies, did not, so he becomes the focus of this analysis) The transformation that occurs is as simple as a change of perception, and as complex as a revolution of perception. It is essentially the same message as that which is contained in the speech by Peter Boyle's character "Wizard" in Taxi Driver: "why am I still driving a taxi after all these years? It must be what I want!"
The clerk in question who experiences his life as confusion and helplessness and misery throughout both movies does so only because he has not awakened (Xeper) to the realization that his life is the result of his unconscious "will" to make it that way; in effect, he has worked hard to make his life exactly what it is, but still thinks via his ego-consciousness that he wants the "good life" of conventional success that he has been taught he should want, and thus wars against the strength of his own nature as it is expressed in his life with the much weaker idea of what he thinks it "should" be. At the end of the second movie, he becomes conscious of his true will for himself, and from this moment forward goes on to consciously choose the very life that he previously struggled futilely against, only because he did not understand it to be a sum-effect of who he really was.
If a person cannot see the way in which the life he lives is a manifestation of what he has "willed", he cannot take full advantage of the power that comes from a conscious choice, and will struggle against his Self, thereby dividing and blocking the free flow of his "magical" power, which follows the laws of nature and the human psyche, and is therefore empirically real. When you understand magic by this definition, you realize that it can actually be tested for results, for it is what has made your life what it Is and Is Not - according to your level of consciousness concerning its activity.
When one awakens to Who they are, and how What they are can be observed in the patterns of their life, they can embrace this identity that expresses itself in these supra-personal patterns with the clarity of a conscious will that now chooses what it used to rebel against out of ignorance. One is no longer divided against their Self, and their magic (application of will) can flow with them instead of against them, because it is no longer obstructed by a lack of self-knowledge.
When this self-knowledge is achieved, the opposites of Consciousness and Unconsciousness form a new partnership; a new Center of cooperation from which a more authentic Being can arise and create its life out of wholeness, rather than division.
-Werbinox
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