Mummies and mad men

When we’re wrapped up in our emotions, we’re effectively mummified. In its original mid 16^th century sense, the word “emotion” denoted a public disturbance.

The true and the false

So then, how to tell the difference between the true and the false, the real and the unreal? Whatever has a beginning and an end is false. All else is true. From A Course in Miracles: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

UFOs, plastic flowers, ego, etcetera

An intelligence that does not know itself is properly described as artificial.

Immaterial, clamorous, enraged

Having no life of its own, and with the obsessiveness of a Monster-fuelled sports nut, ego comments on what we’re doing and then judges what we’ve done. One is embarrassed on its behalf.