Crazy is as crazy does and other hitchhiker guides on earth and beyond

    Once upon a time I clerked for US District Court Judge Clarence W. Allgood, in Birmingham Alabama, who presided over every federal criminal prosecution in that Court's jurisdiction. Behind the scenes, Judge Allgood ran the Democratic Party in Alabama - except for the George Wallace faction. Democrats who wanted to run for local or national office went to Judge Allgood to get his blessing. Today, I think Judge Allgood would be revolted by the Democrats and the Republicans.

As for the classified documents indictment, it is merely that, an indictment. A jury will decide if Trump is guilty. The Department of Justice chose to prosecute Trump in south Florida, which is very red, instead of in Washington, D.C., which is very blue. It takes a unanimous jury to convict. One hold-out juror, Trump walks. One Trump ringer on the jury, Trump walks. The DOJ could prosecute Trump again, but mostly likely, would not.

What might be in jurors' minds? How about Trump is nuts, and that's why he kept the classified documents after being asked to return them. Nuts is a good defense, if the Defendant pleads he is nuts, not responsible for his actions. Of course, pleading that defense might disqualify Trump from running for president again. But, a good defense lawyer very easily could plant that seed with the jury, without it being official.

A good defense attorney might put Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr on the witness stand and let him analyze Trump's Achilles heel- his giant ego blinds him to anything but his giant ego. He really does love America, but he's just too self-absorbed to see how his giant ego gets in the way. The classified documents were retrieved. It was ugly. But no harm, no foul.

Right. Did Trump actually damage national security? I think that will be on the jurors' minds. Can DOJ prove Trump actually damaged national security? Can Trump argue he is not getting equal protection under the law, because Hillary Clinton damaged national security, and she was not prosecuted? Can Trump argue to the jury that he only did what Hillary did, but he didn't actually damage national security like Hillary did?

What is not been talked about in the news I see online and on television, even if Trump is convicted, even if he is in prison, he still can run for president. He still can be elected. What a circus that would be, taking George Wallace's 3rd party candidacy to levels never before imagined by the craziest conspiracy freaks!

I told a black preacher friend yesterday, that it looks to me that Hunter Biden might be as sorry as Donald Trump, and it also looks to me that Hunter got to where he is today with help from his father, when he was President Obama's vice-president, and perhaps when his father was president. I think the DOJ needs to do to Hunter what is being done to Trump. I think the DOJ should do to Hillary what it is doing to Trump.

In 2016, I published many times at my blog that Trump and Hillary both should be locked up, in adjoining cells. After Trump beat Hillary, I published that the Democrats ran the only candidate Trump could beat.

    On the same day that upped and hopped out of me and I posted it at Facebook, this showed up in my email account:

POETICOUTLAWS.SUBSTACK.COM

Riding it to a New Age, a New Birth, a Totally New Condition of Mankind

By: Joseph Campbell

“Is there not some point of wisdom beyond the conflicts of illusion and truth by which lives can be put back together again? That is a prime question, I would say, of this hour in the bringing up of children.”

― Joseph Campbell

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. 

There are now no more horizons. 

And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. 

It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together. And so we are right now in an extremely perilous age of thunder, lightning, and hurricanes all around. 

I think it is improper to become hysterical about it, projecting hatred and blame. 

It is an inevitable, altogether natural thing that when energies that have never met before come into collision—each bearing its own pride—there should be turbulence. 

That is just what we are experiencing; and we are riding it: riding it to a new age, a new birth, a totally new condition of mankind—to which no one anywhere alive today can say that he has the key, the answer, the prophecy, to its dawn. 

Nor is there anyone to condemn here (”Judge not, that you may not be judged!”). What is occurring is completely natural, as are its pains, confusions, and mistakes.

Sloan Bashinsky

I was easing through the New Age when I discovered Joseph Campbell. In time, I came to view the New Age as kin to the Fukawi tribe, which was forever getting lost and gathering in a circle and sitting down and holding hands and closing their eyes and chanting, "Where the fuck are we?! Where the fuck are we?!" I feel much the same about mainstream Christendom. 

It looks to me that humanity, in the main, has lost its receptivity and creativity, which are aspects of the feminine, and the result is, humanity, in the main, is spiritually cloning itself and devolving. 

I think if I were a woman, I would be very concerned about bringing a baby into this world today. I might decline to do that. 

Tracing humanity back in time, it looks to me that the mess today is the result of men running most things. Humanity is killing the planet, and thus killing humanity, which don't seem terribly smart. 

A very tuned in woman named Dora Kalff, who graced me with being her friend, invented what is called Sandplay Therapy. She was a direct student and friend of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. She was a friend of the Dalai Lama, who, she said, told her that Sandplay therapy was applied Buddhism. Most of Dora's students were women, including my 3rd wife, which is how I met Dora.

When I asked I Dora at her home in Zollikon outside of Zurich, why she thought the Jungians had not embraced Sandplay Therapy?, she said she thought it was because they had not embraced the feminine. My wife gave me "the look" and looked like she wanted to hide.

Dora kept telling her students, in order for any change to occur in the world, the women will have to go first. That really bothered my wife and most of Dora's women students. It bothered me. I argued with Dora about that, and she humored me and said it was true nonetheless. 

Imagine if women went on strike, crossed their legs, quit having sex with men. Imagine if women quit making babies. In 100 years, humanity would cease to exist on this planet. Along the way, such interventions might cause a great deal of change in humanity.

The day before at a Reddit spirituality group:

Millenial Ardvark

I’m struggling with the state of the world right now

The rise of transphobia, misogyny, anti progressivism. The rise of AI and out further detachment from nature and our minds. The further demise of the environment. All these polarisation and conflicts are taking away the light. Even spirituality is mocked and dismissed more now. What do we do in this times? 

 

Puzzleheaded Drop (me)
In the main, humanity is destroying itself in two ways. It has lost its receptivity and creativity (feminine aspect) and is cloning itself spiritually and is devolving, and it is destroying the planet. If you watch or read mainstream TV news or commentary, you see this clearly. There is nothing you can do about it. All you can do is deal what is dead in front of you each day in the most authentic way you can. That includes spending a great deal of time looking at yourself in the mirror, which is not fun and certainly is not popular. I think women of childbearing age should give serious thought to not birthing children into such a wasteland. If women took charge of getting pregnant and stopped getting pregnant, they could put humanity out of its misery in less than 100 years, and save the planet, as well. Of course, that's not going to happen, so it's pretty much every man woman and child for themselves in the big scheme of things. But most people are social creatures, they need something to belong to, to feel okay, safe, have fun, feel relevant, secure. Me, included, although the path I was put on by angels known in the Bible did very definitely cut me out of any herds, and made it impossible for me to fit into herds. I came to feel like a visitor from another planet, or a new species that looks the same as the old species, but is wired very differently in perspective, endeavor and what is important and causes me to feel somewhat okay about myself. Even as I am tested ongoing, stretched, ground up, roughed up, etc. Mostly internally, today, but in the past the external tests were very rough, as well, and perhaps the external tests will return. In the end, it looks to me that life is the grindstone of soul alchemy for me and for humanity, and how I progress, or not, is why I'm here. In the spring of 2004, this fell out of me, I did not think I was its author: 

"Earth, the sacred prism through which souls are refracted into their elemental parts, purified in Holy Fire, then one-forged and sent on their way to not even God knows where, simply because they are all unique emanations of God, evolving..."

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