PART ONE
Imagination manifests continuously
Bridging the beyond into flesh
Magnetic channeling of light
Our reality goes
Beyond fiction
RICARDO
Over the course of his life he had developed a way of living which consisted of three rules. One, not lie, two not steal and three not tell others his business.
“1+1+1=2” he said.
That was the model.
To lie and to steal are the same things, meaning that you can steal objects as well as steal the truth from others. Ricardo lived by those rules which aimed for Truth.
In today’s world it seems as though it has become difficult for people to express themselves. I say this thinking that the multitude of strategies to evoke truth have been associated with psychological warfare. The media, the polls, elections, work, have consumed individuals to duplicate ideas made by the few to direct a cohesive and massive integration of ideologies which are directed towards control. This is not some kind of conspiracy, instead I speak of hypnosis and global homogeneity which have for two thousand years contributed to the extermination of cultures and replaced them with a unitary and elegant disguise of beauty as a human.
What is the problem with that?
We talked for a while about ownership and other aspects of comfort level, but to him it wasn’t necessarily about what type of compromises people had to make, it was more about what he had to do to get his comfort. He also felt in a state of paralysis because of the array of choices, overly vulgar, unsustainable, unsubstantial. Ricardo had a strong sense of what materialism meant and spoke of it in terms of novelty. Meaning that each thing in life is most important but are not attractive because they ultimately “lose their novelty” he said.
I had assumed differently because he had little possessions
he knew very well that money was not a source of his level of happiness and would solely give him things, some stuff. But here is what he confirmed to me. that if you don’t have much then you are less likely to get more. It’s important to keep that in mind because this aspect of society is part of the war that is going on in the sense that the richest people had access to all the wealth while the people with very little had access to what the richest people do not want, hence why it is accessible.
Ricardo is profound and I learn form him the behavior of survival, of someone that did what they wanted when they wanted and took the consequences equally. When I asked him about his perspective of jail and life outside of jail, he told me he saw no differences. I would think that this feeling made him almost beyond society having learned to just accept the fact that he was where he was and nothing else could separate him from this feeling. How in tune is this man with himself to never be so disturbed by his surrounding?
There is such a strong dedication to explain his experience in life as opposed to his experience with life and as he had seriously said to me “life is not a game”. I sat amazed by the vigor of his speech and by the tone of his voice because for the first time in my life I was listening to a man who knew about the fact that happiness does not come from a material point of view and could tell me about the absurdity of thinking of it as a field of roses. This is important I feel because I feel as though I am speaking to a person who is one of the last of his kind. His realness, his tact, his actions, his persistence and precision are becoming rare elements of humanity. What we see today is a melodramatic emphasis on how you act and what you wear and what you do and what you eat and where you go out all to describe who you are.
This almost Buddhist whose temple is the street and all its culture, with African roots and feet in the U.S. is the remains of a human aspect which is disappearing and being replaced by soft individuals, willing to put up with just about anything and never analyzing the multitudes of perspectives that are being imposed upon them.
He had showed me some of his bullet wounds produced by shotgun, pistols and his body was as solid as a stone. Ricardo again had little to do with sports on his everyday life and his habits made him first of all a criminal but most importantly healthy as a rock. His distance of age, this living phenomenon was capable of insuring that his mind stayed as sharp as his body.
After thinking about it the image was clear, yes “life is not a game” and for that matter you could not let yourself lie to yourself. This is the perspective that Ricardo gave me, he was teaching me to take care of my mind because as bullets, ideas and actions could devastate and leave you weak and subject to the environment, subject to stupid actions and subject to mistakes lowering the integrity you had of your life. This is more than profound and more than essential, this is vital, and looking back at the numerous people that stood for justice we can see that Ricardo contained those ideas. He lived not quite for his life but for the continuation of those ideas.
