R.I.P. Tom Robbins

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     It’s just a few days past the one year anniversary of Tom Robbins’ move through The Veil to The Other Side (2.9.2025). That said . . . ERLEICHDA! (Lighten Up! from Tom’s novel, Jitterbug Perfume.)
     Here’s a link to a page where this notion is considered in depth, via quotes and links to some of Tom’s writing on the matter: ERLEICHDA!

     Here’s one of the best bits from that page:

The Soul

     If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.
     To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.
     Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
     But say you’ve inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it’s soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.
     More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn’t get any better than that.

 

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Midlife Crisis Dance Party!

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In addition to DJ Ray’s creative and well-informed goofball storytelling and commentary, there’s a boatload of marvelous music (except for “The Worst Song of the Week”), and … drumroll … Word Play (!!), a 4:30 segment featuring poetry and prose (short, please!), submitted by listeners. (Email your submission to DJ@kptz.org as soon after 3:00 p.m. as possible.)

Listeners submitting typically include three of our longtime BuFoons, Richard Coletta, Mary Marinkovich, and Steve Gillard.

You should consider tuning in!!

P.S. Just in case you need dance lessons:
 

 

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ERLEICHDA!

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   Wisdom from the Near Death Experience of Amy Call, during which she visited our Home on The Other Side, to which we will all return one day….

AMY CALL NDE

   “I felt … love and gratitude for me and it was for me personally, for exactly who I am, at every level of me, everything I have ever been through beyond even what I know of in this lifetime. It was so grateful to me and loved me so much. I also felt as if It was bowing to me. So there was this mutual adoration and love.
   “That also helps me because coming back into the world I know not only to lighten up, but I know the level of love; this gratitude for us because in a way it’s like when we become embodied in the physical we’re learning through our senses and through suffering and joy and all these different levels. We’re picking up on so much information — learning how to be balanced and evolving in the mind — and as we do this everything that happens to us comes together and what we call the Divine is able to receive that information and our learning and our growth — that’s part of the whole intelligence of why It’s intelligent, why It knows. We think It’s beyond us; It’s so much more intelligent. And yet I understood that It was saying but this is because of those willing to go down into the bottom. I understood that Their feeling to us is almost like ‘you guys are the super heroes who go into the physical body and you experience the suffering and We have nothing but gratitude and love and wish for you and hope for you.’
   “I came to understand that most of us have lived much, MUCH longer than we could even fathom. That our lives that feel so very long are infinitesimal when placed in the Whole picture… which for that matter, cannot even be framed. I was shown how every single individual through their own free will chooses paths that . . . take them to the circumstances of their next existence or life. That NOTHING at all sits in accident or chaos. That every single aspect of our lives are ruled by NATURAL Laws that we placed ourSELVES in! That in a sense, we create our own worlds. I was shown how one can never assume either, that if someone lives a life of suffering that this is because of ‘evil’ deeds. Many may CHOOSE a life of suffering because of what it Awakens in them.. or to help another, etc.. We can NEVER EVER assume that we can be accurate in guessing why each Being lives the life they live. I cannot describe the relief… the refreshing, peaceful balm this Knowledge was for me. To finally gather this Truth that I’d yearned for all of my life… That all IS Good! That there IS sense and beauty all around. That no one is just ‘free-falling’ as it had seemed before! . . . While in this experience, out in the vast expanse of stars and planets, moons, and Knowledge, I Knew complete Trust for what felt like the first time. This was bliss for me. I had lived in fear and distrust and panic for 30 consecutive years.
   “I remember moving into a different space. From my background — where I come from — there is a lot of . . . ‘This is the correct religion. This is not.’ So it came to me as I saw another person who I felt this mentor quality [from] — Oh, I can ask. . . . ‘What’s the true religion?’ . . . And from his place it was as if a little kid came up and said ‘Which kind of cheese is the moon made of? Jack, Cheddar, or Swiss?’ He was really sweet about it. He didn’t even really answer me. In fact, there was something I understood there to be about respecting how we want to see things. So even if I thought ‘The moon is made out of Swiss cheese’ I think they would have been like [OK]. I don’t know that they would have said ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ I can’t say because I didn’t stay there. I came back. . . . To experience myself from his view, it blew everything — my whole foundation, everything I had come from — it kind of just pulled it out from under me because now I’m going ‘Oh, wow, the moon is not even made of cheese!’ Not that I thought that, but it was like it’s not even about religion.
   “My Guide stood by . . . as my support while I had a kind of life review. I never felt chastised at all, even though I know I’ve been very cruel at times and have hurt many people. I’ve lost my temper in horrible ways and I have had great trouble with forgiveness, and yet, I felt only Love and understanding through the entire life review. What it felt like to me was that I was being given the opportunity and Gift of being able to stand back and more fully understand and love myself. I was able to feel exactly what others around me had felt during my life. I understood how everything I did and said and even thought had touched others around me in one way or another. I was able to even enter the minds and emotional centers of many who had been around me, and understand where they were coming from in their own thinking… how their own personal views and lives’ experiences had brought them to the places each stood. I felt their own struggling and their own fears… their own desperate need for love and approval… and more than anything, I could feel how child-like everyone was. With every person I viewed, including myself, I was able to See and Feel with a Higher Mind and Eye. And the feeling I had toward everyone was nothing less than what a loving mother would feel for her own children at toddler age.
   “It was actually comical at moments. I could feel how the ‘Elders’ as I will call them (these are those who are Helpers on the Other Side… who have Mastered themselves in many or all ways, and help work with us) see us and find so much humor in the way we do things. It might seem brutally annoying to consider when we are in the midst of a great argument or drama that is playing out in our lives, that the Elders view these things very much like when a mother sees her two year old scream and cry and bop another child on the head with a stuffed animal. The mother doesn’t want her child to “fall apart” and become hysterical and cry. She feels for her child, but at the same time, she sees a little bit of comedy in how seriously the child takes what is usually a trivial drama. She continues to love her child and thinks the world of it, hoping it will go on enjoying the day, living and learning.
   “This was a big light bulb moment for me, because I had entertained the dark idea, during my life, that every little less than perfect action of mine, was being watched ‘by God,’ and judged with anger or great sadness. I felt constant guilt for my mistakes and belabored over the dread of ‘being watched’ with severe or at least very stern eyes. I wanted to please, and I believed that I was so often falling short. This had been a maddening way to live. So getting the chance to View others from a much Higher Frequency, was wonderful, to say the least. And Knowing how much Love I felt as I watched or sensed others in their personal situations, made me want to live more in joy rather than guilt and worry. No one was mad at me.
   “I saw people from then on the way we see toddlers when they’re playing. I see that despite how we age here — we get older and we take ourselves seriously and we think, you know, I have this important thing I’m doing — but the Divine is like: ‘Lighten up. It’s OK, you can lighten up.’ And I tend to be so serious from what I came from. I worry so much. I thought things were so serious and I wanted to please God and I prayed so much and now through the Divine I was seeing that it’s totally OK to just have fun and laugh.”

   ERLEICHDA! (“Lighten up! from Tom Robbins’ “Jitterbug Perfume”)
 

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God Is

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God exists.

God loves everyone unconditionally.

God has a delightful sense of humor. So do the angels, guides, and spiritual beings that serve The Light. We should too. We should also lighten up and not take life so seriously.

We are immortal, indestructible beings. The pursuit of money, fame, and power do not lead to happiness. Love and serve others: humans, animals, plants, everything.

Remember the little things — the kind word, the understanding smile, the compassionate touch — are the big things. Small, heartfelt acts of love change lives and ripple across the universe.

While there is evidence everywhere to the contrary, train your mind to look beneath the surface and see the truth: life is good; the world is a beautiful place and you, complete with your human weaknesses and shortcomings, are magnificent.

You are known, loved, and cherished. You are unique, essential, and irreplaceable. You have a special role to play in the grand scheme of things. When you find and follow your unique path, which is different from everyone else’s, magic happens.

No matter how many times you try and fail; no matter how far you may be from embodying your full Divine Nature, you will eventually succeed. Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. And always remember you are never alone, even when your earthly senses tell you otherwise.”

Excerpted from “Universal Truths” by David Sunfellow, which is based on the core truths championed by near-death experiences from around the world:

Universal Truths – The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth
 

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Happy No Death Day!

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Easter! The day we celebrate Jesus demonstrating that there is no actual death!

The Romans crucified him for “claiming he was King of the Jews,” a claim he never made.

Some religious leaders wanted him punished for “blasphemy.” For claiming he was One with our Creator, a claim he DID make and a claim he also made about EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US! No exceptions, conditions, judgments. Just … WE ARE ONE with our Creator.

The absurd notion that our Creator, because we were born “sinners,” was prepared to send the lot of us to Hell unless (Old Testament) innocent animals were slaughtered or (New Testament) an innocent man – the Son of the Creator – was killed instead of us … that notion came MUCH later. It certainly was NEVER anything Jesus claimed about his death and resurrection.

So, at least for me, Easter is about Jesus demonstrating that THERE IS NO DEATH of who we really are: Eternal beings, as is He, who are ONE with our Creator.

“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55)

Steve Gillard

Painting of Jesus, “The Prince of Peace,” by Akiane Kramarik

 

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