Rencently I've read my way through my first book by Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land! Actually, it was the 650+ pages german translation of Heinlein's original version which is said to be about a third bigger then the one first published.

I had come across the title in due to my interest in polyamory and my attention to minx'es podcast polyamory weekly where Heinlein and 'Stranger' were mentioned more than once as a poly person's first contact and inspiration to polyamory.



Wow, did I enjoy that book. It nearly totally captured me so my self-employed profession had to sustain at the bare minimum level for five days of the very good old reading gnosis. And if it were just for the poly thingy this sf novel was a superb read to me.

But to my great surprise, it turned out to be quite a story about high magick as well! Doesn't Heinlein deliver a very clear vison of how spirit controlles matter - in a very direct and immediate way? Well, I certainly do think so! And in that vision, we are ALL ONE again, in LOVE and in BLISS, and we understand each other as yet another of the many instances of the ONE (I am god, you are god, Jubal is god, all humans are god, all beings are god). Very inspiring! And it perfectly fits to the doughnut story.

At some point in the end, the story even gives a short description on how that control of spirit on matter actually worx - yet it leaves it open to the reader to realize how the mind can fully connect to a thing or a concept for this to work (but I admit it gives some examples during the book).

Now I can really understand that this book rocked the hippies - as it rocked me some decades later. If you already know it, i'd love to get your comments here in the blog (I heard it being assessed as fascistic and don't see why). If you don't know it I think *you* could give it a try too, it might rock you as well.

Have a good read and lots of joy in chaos!
cheers, blackpete.