Meditation for March 26th. 2016
The Security Blanket
We have something in our life that we need to feel safe and we don’t want anyone to take it away. We picture Linus from Peanuts with his blue blanket and sucking his thumb and getting mad at Snoopy who takes it from Linus all the time. When we need comfort we go to our security blanket and wrap ourselves up and let the scary things pass in the night.
If you have a security blanket, let it go. It doesn’t help you at all. You are relying once again on myth to make you feel better. Nothing gets you through tough times than just time and death. You either die from it or you get through it. No security in the world will actually help you. It’ll comfort you, but it’ll slow you down from healing.
We latch on to quotes, books, teddy bears, guns, cars and whatever else we put too much meaning into to help make us feel better. If something makes a threat towards taking that comfort away then we put up a fight. It is just a thing.
Guns are a security blanket. People hold their rifles while sucking on their thumbs. They feel safe and secure, but there is no likely threat. They cuddle that firearm in fear of burgers, biker gangs, a race war (Helter Skelter) or the government. Just that Glock is going to stop the federal government from taking the rifles away and make you pay your taxes.
Self-improvement is a security blanket. You are owed a gluten free yoga lifestyle as much as the person who thinks they deserve a rifle. People cling on to the idea of eastern religious quotes, a special diet and non-Judeo Christian meditation will keep them safe and healthy.
All of these things that we stand behind are crutches. They don’t help what really sucks about life and that is fear of getting what you have taken away or not getting what you need.
The unfortunate thing is we already have what we need a lot of the time, so we build self-fortresses to get what we just want. We need food to survive, but we want GMO labeling. We need shelter to survive the elements, we want the right to kill someone who touches our shelter. We need warmth to survive, but we want Bikram hot yoga near us. We need to feed our children, but we want a giant SUV to transport us from our excessively large house in the suburbs to take us miles and miles away to our job in the city and we don’t want to pay for that gasoline or roads we drive on and we don’t care that acres upon acres of forest was destroyed so I can have a place between the city and the country I can have a little safe and isolated community to hide from the roving gangs of the city and the redneck militias of the country side, and I sometimes secretly agree with the rednecks while pretending to want to help the roving gangs, but again I don’t want to pay the taxes that might make the community a better place, but I’ll vote for the person that talks about raising taxes.
Security blankets are like talismans that we keep to ward off evil. We might be logical in all other arenas but the one where a certain item is used to keep us safe and comfortable even though it really does neither.
Prayer
Green Man,
I sit here posting positive quotes on my Facebook wall,
making myself feel better about myself,
without actually doing anything at all,
except for occasionally going to a yoga class.
I drink matcha tea,
smoke American Spirits,
I ride my bike,
I vote democrat,
but I may be a libertarian,
because I’m a selfish piece of shit.
I pretend to be a part of the community,
but that’s just to get laid,
I pray that I’m doing all the right things.
Green Man,
I need a sign that I’m not doing all of this for nothing.
Mars,
As I clean my AR-15,
I want to give you a shout out,
To protect me from my enemies known and made up.
I will not let anyone get me and mine.
I deserve things, goddamnit.
Technically I didn’t work for any of it,
but I deserve it because I’m American.
This AR-15 will not only keep me from my nightmare of the Purge (a movie series where the government tries to alleviate the violent crime rate by allowing all crime one night a year. Idiots get caught out in the night while scary people in masks creatively kill for the pure enjoyment of it.) being real.
It will keep the government from taking over our land,
Even though I think that the technology the military has is a little better than a semi-automatic rifle shooting 5.56 X 45 rounds.
Drones are like the precursor to Skynet, man! (This is a reference to the robot uprising in the Terminator movies where the robots keep sending human looking robots back to the 80s and 90s to kill John and Sarah Connor so that the human resistance never takes place – because all the other humans will just be fine being wiped off the face of the earth by evil AI robots)
Amen.
Craft
Making a talisman.
If you really need something to ward off evil, than lets make it with magic.
First thing you will need is an object. It should have a little weight to it and made from the earth. If it is too processed by human hands, then the less magic it can store. Also iron will not work. Iron kills magic. A rock, a precious stone, a carved amulet are examples.
You will need to be specific of what kind of protection you need. A talisman can’t be an all-purpose talisman, so you will need to be specific about your biggest threat.
Build an altar to a god or goddess that best protects from that threat. Make it somewhere secluded in nature.
Meditate with your object with the protection you need and leave it on the altar for four days.
Come back on the fourth night.
Smoke PCP, eat a cat and scratch yourself bloody.
Your talisman is now ready for protecting you magically from your biggest threat.
Goal
It is nice to have something to turn to for comfort, but if your something is being threatened to be taken away and you are ready to fight to keep it, then you are putting too much emotion into something that isn’t needed. Let go of things that get in your way of being a truly brave person. A brave person doesn’t need a security blanket, a non-BPL water bottle or a Smith & Wesson .45 ACP to face his or her fear.
Be brave little camper.