I love smoking Virginia Slim cigarettes. I guess it's partly because of my mother. Beautiful woman, heavy smoker. It killed her early (she passed at fifty-nine). Psychologically speaking, we love our parents so much that we recreate their drama. I think another good chunk of the reason I started smoking is because being a smoker of "Virgina Slim" cigarettes makes it impossible to identify me as anything other than a limp-wristed sissy (big improvement!). But I think the main reason I chose to start smoking (only been smoking for two months or so) is because I choose to .. and that is reason enough to take it seriously.
I'm reading Jed McKenna's book (Spiritual Enlightenment - the damnedest thing). It's a painfully slow read. Jed loves to wander around, telling stories about his life, while giving you little snippets of enlightenment one sprinkle at a time. Painful. Like trying to take a shower with super low water pressure. He dropped gold early on in the book: "This universe gives us what we want. It's designed that way." Bingo! Yes Jed, master stroke. Made the rest of that boring-ass book go down easier.
Yes, Jed is correct, this universe gives us what we want, whatever we want. Now, this forum is the one place where I don't have to explain this. To Joe six-pack the reality that "This universe gives us what we want" is a revelation. To us, well, we already know this. If you can change your gender than there's literally nothing you can't do. I can hear this forum's collective yawn all the way from South Korea "Yeah Danielle, tell us something we don't know, you big sissy."
It's important to remember that the universe is like a pizza shop. You call up, you order and thirty minutes later your pizza arrives. It's exactly the same as a pizza shop except that the universe doesn't make pizza, doesn't deliver the goods in thirty minutes and doesn't use a phone (other than that it's totally the same .. really!).
Never ask the universe for money! Big mistake!! Money is an end result. For example, you put the universe on notice that you're going to build a really cool, hand made car. Once you've finished, the end product is so beautiful that someone buys it, dropping a big wad of cash in your lap. Asking for money is like asking for trouble. The universe will give you what you want. The money will be there. The problem is that you're not going to like what you have to do to get it. Guaranteed it won't be worth it.
Don't sit idle! Asking for nothing will get you nothing. Ask any TV-watching zombie. You must call the pizza shop to actually receive a pizza! Nothing will be delivered unless you pick up the phone and call.
Oh yeah, one last thing, the universe doesn't speak English (or Italian). It speaks Love. It brings you what you truly love.
Oh, and you gotta work at it. Exactly like having a pizza delivered.
