"This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else."  Meister Eckhart

 

"And so I urge you, go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest." Cloud of Unknowing

 

Unknowing comes easy to someone who has lost their memory. For the next two weeks I am going to spend my days and nights quietly in the chapel of Chateau Madeleine. I shall sleep on a Therm-a-Rest Z mat in a lightweight sleeping bag and drink plenty of water with cayenne pepper and lemon juice. For breakfast I'll eat some organic muesli soaked overnight in the cayenne pepper water. For the rest of the day I'll be fasting. I have left instructions not to be disturbed, and in two weeks time I shall post the results of my meditations.

 

...Ray-Ban would now be bigger than Apple. As I lie in the Sirius sun next to Gisella, I am wearing the KaDoMa designer shades that they put on when they are asleep. It is pure magic. When you put them on, you enter into a world that is the collective mind of this remarkable species. It is a world of beautiful music, a dreamtime that enchants you, vivid and warm, and timeless. The summer here is almost over now, and today we shall decide whether or not to stay on the World Cloud during the long and bitterly cold winter.

Here is the full size version of my new avatar, La Maddalena penitente by Francesco Hayez (1825). 

I'll be posting to The Lost Symbologist later today, Earth time. In the meantime I'm gonna enjoy these awesome 3D high tech sunglasses a little bit longer.