38 — Sunday, May 24, 1998 ~

ane.

‘WAY back in the ’60s
when I was a peculiar
combination of reluc-
tant young movie actor,
screenwriter, astroiogi-
cally-oriented student
of metaphysics, etc. I
became acquainted with
the venerable maverick
of American letters,
Henry Miller.

We would play ping pong,
together at his Pacific
Palisades abode. He was in his
seventies at the time, and very
much the outrageously mis-
chievous little boy. W
however. Very wise. He
always had something of
timeless interest to say, some
of which I noted.

For example:

“You know what happens
when you isolate and examine
any particle of matter, be it a
grain of wheat, a fingernail,
or a tiny gem — you cannot
help becoming intensely
aware that a supreme and
inscrutable intelligence is
“manifesting itself. You sense
an order, a purpose, a beauty,
a logic to which you are ordi-
narily blind. Likewise, when
you dwell on the prophetic,
you come to realize that there
is an invisible pattern to the
events which mold our des-
tiny, and -nat history, philoso-
phy, science, art and religion
yield but a distorted, mean-
ingless, even ‘ridiculous’
image of this divine web. But
the most interesting aspect of
this experience, this lifting of

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ruallified. What is is,
be will be, and that

\ ament, chat
there is a greater plan, cnables
one to abdicate, In abdicat-

cam of lite,

; one plunges in more
deeply, , more wholehearted-
ly...that is the curious thing.
All that is sacrificed is one’s
limited, egocentric view of
life, the view which caused
one to swim against the cur-
rent instead of with it. One is
also made acutely aware that
history can never offer any-
thing but a backward view of
things. Once is convinced that
neither a backward view nor a
forward view is of the least
importance... ‘Before
Abraham was Tam.’ It’s on
that fulcrum you come to
rest. Denying the world will
not rid us of it.

“Separating spirit and real-
ity only makes one hope!
divided. The visible and the
invisible are one. The mind
that grasps this ceases to
struggle. It is ao longer lite
and death, but life in death

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Henry jumped clear of the clockwork §

and death in fife... the nwo
joined like Siamese teins and
making for something that is
be yond the meaning ‘of either.
““Ir follows inevitably thar
the one and only thing to do

is to five as if the Kingdom of

ven were already
but, enough! Th

too serious. Besides,
all E wanted to tell you, or
urge vou, is t continue
doing as litte as possible,
ev ithe ‘goad as possi-
bie. For, if anv ha’ nd -
ed better i in fouling up the

called ‘evil-

judgemental as this soun
Discerning, yes. And hopeful.
He was also known to say:
There have been cnough
emancipated individuals
througheut the course of his-
tory — prophets, religious
leaders, innovate 0
make me believe that we can
break the old, suffocating
molds, that we can somehow
end forever the vicious and
futile cycle of aspiration and
antment, transcend
the age-old and recurring
dilenumas, rid ourselves of the
appurtenances of so-called
ation — jump clear of
the clockwork, as someone
put it. If we can, it’s barely
ible chat someday what's
buried in us and longs to
come out will find expression.
i can’t imagine what the form
of that ideal future will take
-- but it will mean giving
egress, however belatedly, ro

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