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2003. I had XP then, and I have XP now.
That’s me. This, on a slightly less serious note.
Oh, it is way too complex a product.
46664, 46664, 46664. Mandela, bless him, must have had quite
a tolerance for assholes. Actually, of that I am quite sure.
I wouldn’t want to be on the stage with him.
Joy in a box. And so much more.
Christo.
Jizo is one of the most beloved and revered Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism.
He is the embodiment of the Bodhisattva Vow, the aspiration to save all beings from
suffering. He is the protector of women, children, and travellers in the six realms
of existence. In India he is known as Ksitigarbha, in China as Dizang,
in Korea as Jijang Bosal, and in Japan as Jizo Bosatsu.
Here is a thought: oh, you are not going to like where this is going.
And in Europe, he is known to me as Saint Christopher.
Patron saint of travellers. Carries children on their journey.
And I used to have a dog that did. He was much loved.
It’s the front door right behind that tree, and I no longer live there. But
when I did, most of the time, in spite of everything, I was happy.
Pissed off: proof that I am crazy, right?
Aidan of Lindisfarne, born in Ireland, was known throughout the kingdom for his knowledge
of the Bible, his learning, his eloquent preaching, his holiness, his distaste for pomp, his
kindness to the poor, and the miracles attributed to him. He founded a monastery at
Lindisfarne that became known as the English Iona and was a centre of learning
and missionary activity for all of northern England. He died in 651.
But then, so was Aidan. Little fire. My beautiful dog.
- Calling the sheep in for the evening
There's a voice, calls above the howling wind
It says comes rest beside my little fire
We'll ride out the storm that's coming in
-
What good is a husband, what good is having a husband, when what is on your
conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg? So much more so than it is with anyone
else? Or any other kind of relationship, for that matter? And then what is on your
conscious mind isn’t the truth, isn’t how you really think or feel about
something, and what you don’t know, you do know.
It was a problem. It limited the options. And then there is this: read the above
and try explaining your actions this way…? To a husband…? Right.
And then, how can you surrender to someone, when that person doesn’t know about
the dangers you are facing? And you aren’t able to tell him? And he should know
about them, or they either shouldn’t be there any more. Mitigated, somehow.
Falling in love is something you do when you are carefree and feel safe.
Therefore, why even explore these subjects before? What’s the point?
You would need to surrender. Just to hold hands. That’s not me.
No room for frivolous things. Like a life. And love. Would you call me crazy if I said
that it was worth it to me? Even if it turns out the price I paid was higher than I would have
wanted it to be? It seems that C.S. Lewis was a believer in the future. You, not so much.
You would. Or somehow inferior. Too much of a dreamer. Needs watching.
The wrong kind. You have very little respect for the choices I’ve made.
I am proud of the choices I made. You have nothing to preach to me about.
But it hurts to not have a family. And it was their decision, not mine. They set it
up so that I had to make that choice. I made it, and it was worth it to me. But I am
the kind of person who would have wanted a family. And this photo is from
before they came. Buddhism versus Communism. The Chinese kind.
It isn’t a complete life, you are living, that way. There are just these feelings.
I was always on my way to… somewhere. And it was important. More important
then… and then that is where the thinking would stop. Never asked myself why.
Only got the first bit of an answer when I came upon the Platform.
And then a few more, while writing.
But at the time of the IJssellaan, none of the answers were workable ones.
Not the way they are now. Why do you keep comparing this time
to the IJssellaan? From what I recall, the moment I started
the second time, the whole thing went nuclear.
And I am not even in view.
There are two perspectives, if you are me. As a regular person, not on my way to
somewhere, I could have had a husband. The choice I made, consciously, was to if
at all possible, not to be one. And it is that identity you have been attacking.
As if they gave you an option. As a regular person: no Platform.
And that is still what it is. I need to be me to create it.
There was too much that I didn’t understand to want a husband.
Not just at the IJssellaan. Even before. My whole life.
It was a dream that was somehow… not for me.
Not a marriage. Not something holy.
- My friend, you know me and my family
You've seen us wandering through these times
You've seen us in weakness and in power
You've seen us forgetful and unkind
-
But it was also: what is on your conscious mind is just the tip
of the iceberg. So no one ever really knows you.
And then most importantly: it isn’t always you who is running things;).
Though that is now more in the past. I don’t
have to live like that anymore. I might still want to,
sometimes, but that is something else.
On my conscious mind, that I would want a husband. At some point! Somewhere
squeezed in between creating this platform and this fund. And everything it seems
to take to do so. And did I mention, because I think I did, that for that,
I need these inner children. And that I need them to be happy?
Moreover: creating the Platform is their job. And only a little bit mine.
Someone you can talk to, into the small hours of the night,
and you are still not done talking. Would be nice.
If that would be possible. For me.
Playtime with Chris. Underneath my conscious mind, inner children who don’t
want to be hindered by a husband. Who don’t know what one looks like. Or what
to do with one. Mainly that. And who are used to coming home, coming out,
and only being seen by the cats and dogs. And that’s how they roll.
I welcome you to my life. At 44. Are you sure you would do a better job living it?
Actually, I had more or less given up on having a husband.
Until now.
So now I have a two year old and a four year old who are up for one.
Well, sort of. You are in the way, still, after all. The path cleared,
all systems go… is what’s on my conscious mind.
Fuck off;). It’s a start.
- All that I want is one who knows me
A kind hand on my face when I weep
And I'd give back these things
I know are meaningless
For a little fire beside me when I sleep
- “Little fire”, Patricia J. Griffin
To me, that is what my dogs were to me, at the IJssellaan. A kind hand on
my face when I weep. Christo, but also Aidan. They watched over me.
Little Durga, then quietly in the background, having now taken
over this task. Which is, these days, a lot lighter;).
My dogs know me. Because they watch me all the time.
Someone to share your love for dogs with. Who loves them as
much as you do. And in the same way. Would be nice.
Someone who knows how to love dogs is always a good person.
This you having people make me out to be unsympathetic… Or whatever it is
supposed to be. Have you ever seen a snake care about being sympathetic?
Or being likeable? A snake only has one purpose: to life the life of one.
And I am not the one who writes. Only if I can be bothered.
What do you think they did? And they built in the response.
They made it a demand. I want people to, because then they are safe.
And I am safe. And it leaves me free to go about my business.
You have been losing your writer, by the way. Very
dryly: don’t know if you have noticed.
Ninety percent of what I wrote was to go get you.
And now that that is out of the way...
Regardless of the outcome.
Don’t try to take that one personally, Atlas.
So burdened by me.
On October 7th, 1950 Chinese troops first invaded East Tibet.
And in 1958 the first Chinese settlers would arrive. Right on schedule.
But there was something in between that went unseen.
“In Tibet, however, the Chinese Communists opted not to place social reform as an
immediate priority. To the contrary, from 1951 to 1959, traditional Tibetan society
with its lords and manorial estates continued to function unchanged.”
You know, history reporting leaves a lot to be desired.
“Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say:
even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love
from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier there met me such a stream of love as
I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.”
For him to get waved at may have been organised. Is all I am saying. With
humour: oh a dictator could never be that cynical. Surely he means it?
The advice, with hindsight, should have been: don’t let them anywhere
near your elite. Because that was what they were after.
They wanted an ‘Anschluss’. So they used the same mixture of violence and,
well, “persuasion”. And what I have underlined in the previous slide, that was
the pretence that had to be kept up. By any truly cynical means necessary.
Diabolical.
It’s not like anyone would believe them, though. It’s repression.
“We are liberators.” You get dictated to, how they should be
seen. As a people. They can’t not be welcome.
And then you have the believers. Among their side. To be part of a force of “liberators”
is that much more honourable. It quiets the conscience. Surely with everything they have
been getting up to, as a party, they are still doing some good? For Tibet as well?
It is still all about this honourable cause of theirs? Their ideals not betrayed?
Is anyone now getting an idea why I don’t like her? The PvdA wasn’t left
enough for her. She has a Green Left background. And that, that… says it all.
The one on the right made the mistake of opening his mouth. Where is
a trap door when you need one? You know, one with a nice lever?
You know, life, this one, shouldn’t include having to deal
with them again. But I digress.
I can barely tolerate these ones.
Sadly, I got to know their party. Quite well. I mean, back then. And it all had to be nice.
We are talking about the ‘feel good’ kind of people. And I mean: feel good about themselves.
I can’t stand idealists. That kind. When it is ‘idealism’ mixed with equal parts of stupidity
and hypocrisy. And the way I have been responding to the current ones featured,
when in ‘nice’, ‘tolerating them’ mode, may be trained in.
And it sparks the overwhelming desire to ehm, educate them.
I mean, I like these two.
That it is a brain defect. Personality disorder. Genetically based, shared among
just a minority of any general population. The place socialism should have in civilised
society. What Marxists were really like. What the average person tends to think of them
and their ideal of society and any likelihood of that ever changing in the future.
Just something that cures them of any socialist tendencies for life.
“The limits of their usefulness.” I have more along these lines,
with a little advice: just don’t get me started.
To be fair, there is a difference between socialism in peacetime
and under those circumstances. In terms of the kind of people
it wouldn’t have attracted in the latter instance.
I’m trying here.
They were a force like any other. Over on our side.
There weren’t that many believers.
But you have the military, over on our side and then there are
the administrators. Cynically: about two, three levels down. From the top.
Civilians. Office people. Sarcastically: the future of the new nation. The believers.
Who had to believe it would all be worth it. In the end. As he had promised.
How much had the Dalai Lama been seen making public appearances? Before?
It was the perfect opportunity. But he is his usual normal self, right?
This one: foreign relations. But there is also internal.
And you will find the devil on your doorstep.
When you look at what the Dalai Lama is wearing. The clothes he is wearing are shiny.
And there would have been red in them. It must have taken my mother quite a bit
of shopping. Or not, the way that it works with karma. Someone may have
known about her and her little girl and made sure she would have just
the right outfit at just the right time. It’s the flowers on it as well.
Introducing you to this little four year old. On her birthday. This is also a little bit her story.
She says Hi. Don’t stick me in those clothes. Someone might get hurt.
There was a census. Why would they have co-operated with that? Because it was a dictatorship.
Not a powerful one, yet, but it was one. And the elite is so much more easily targeted. Than
the general populations. Plural, because it was also what they did in their own country.
Would our monasteries have been keeping records before? And would this census
have been meant to replace them? Of course, we would have overestimated our
population. Each in our own area we governed. Out of corruption.
See? That is how you do it. And our nobility had to be ready
for that. To take our place. To play ball, so to speak.
Some of that had to be confirmed. Or at least, not contradicted. At any time. Ever.
So now there is no genocide, because there is no record of the number of people who died.
Just a famine. Right? Because that’s you.
Tortured into liking.
They gave that an outlet.
But it is one thing that they did with the nobility of Tibet, and another
what they did in our monasteries. Not that the suffering wouldn’t
be the same. But it was a difference in approach.
The man who tortures you, is the one who hypnotises you.
And life goes on around you, unchanged.
For the most part.
There is another photo, taken at the same birthday, where she is positively
glaring at her mother. Her love for Ali may be because she knows.
Consciously. Like a heat seeking missile: Ali!
There is nothing attractive about her. For me. Because there is no relationship.
Well, she had to do something. To work around you.
You kind of litter the picture. Currently.
And then there is me. My father, with his garden, would always talk about the goudiep
(golden elm), as well as his rhododendron. I have been considering putting one in my garden.
A golden elm. But decided against it. I have been thinking about planting a rhododendron.
A small one I could just fit in. And an azalea. Those were the two shrubs he really loved.
To put me in front of the ‘golden rain’ is slightly villainous when you have a daughter
who is trying to hide being holy. Somehow I don’t seem all that concerned.
Why do you demand to understand this, that or the other,
anyway, when you never really do?
The man in this photo is a stranger to me. It’s not you I’m writing to.
Oh, I’m sorry. It’s not you. You have this delegated. Supposedly.
Let’s face it: nothing I’m trying to do could be that
important. That it warrants your attention.
It was the way he talked about the goudiep. And the goudenregen. And then
there was the brem he stuck me in front of, when we were still living
in Waddinxveen. Which is a picture I am not going to show.
I am really not up for showing you a picture of me in a bikini, just to
make a point. And it is not like you appreciate it. All you do is complain.
Endlessly. And I really don’t know why I still bother.
It is one of your better pictures. Though I don’t like looking
at you. I’m really not joking when I say that I am quite
sick of you. And this. And everything.
If our family relationships were toxic, that is how they designed it.
It wasn’t his fault. And lesson learned: you are not him.
I wasn’t really up for showing you this one, either.
There is a relationship there. It was hidden, but it was there.
She would have been a man in this previous life. Ali. Most likely. But I have her
on my conscious mind as her and Ali. Ali! Which, I suspect, is kept going
by a little four year old. Because then I might go and find her.
There is nothing attractive about Ireland, except that it’s safe. And
I wouldn’t come anywhere near her. Unless some things change.
There is maybe a previous relationship there. Showing me a photo, the way
you would with a four year old, talking to me about it. As preparation for being reborn.
“This is me in my new life.” Another reason for her to move back in time, when being
reborn. So that she could do that. Prepare me. And if it is a relationship
that I remember, then I remember it to be a strong one.
It was somehow instilled. But at a four year old level. “This is me in my new life.”
I really think you have no idea how much it takes for me to come find you. How little
the chances are that I do. I really would much rather live a lonely life. I really only came
to find you because I needed you. And what do I need you for? Now, that is? I can have
everything I want and need on my own. Most of everything. Which is what
I am used to, anyway. Or did you think I have had an easy life?
So yes, it was a problem in our previous life. It needed that
kind of preparation. And no, there are no guarantees.
No one can handle rejection the way you have been doling it out. And I happen
to think there are people who would be quite happy to have me in their life. If there
is one thing I have learned from this, then it is how much I would have to offer.
Now that is you, I’m writing to. And then there is this:
Who needs dreams? You can do without relationships. Easily.
Especially if that way, you don’t get controlled.
Where do you come off, thinking you can make demands?
Es no possible. Really. Not a good idea. Certainly
not the ones you have been making.
Do you really think I wanted to be a part of your family? Or did they demand
this of me because it would have me facing my biggest fear? It is what they
wanted. Which is a real fear, by the way, and still a real threat.
All that effort, everything it takes, everything it takes
out of me, and you, you make demands?
I didn’t know if it was necessary, with what they did. And I still don’t.
I felt a need to, but that doesn’t have to mean anything. And I am still unravelling
what they did. But I have grown more confident. And there are options.
Why do you think I have been spending all of this time undoing my brainwashing?
Has it ever occurred to you that I might need to know the security measures
you are taking? That it would be a relief for me, for you to talk
to me about it? Such a simple reassurance.
You travel light, you travel alone, and no one gets hurt. And Bob’s children
have left home. Home is where the heart is, so I have never had one.
And he might be able to change that. I have been looking
for someone who would have influence on me.
And no, that is not about moving in. It is about daring to have a husband.
While being me. Could you not be an asshole about this for 5 seconds?
Bob would be asked about his security measures.
Casually. But the subject would come up.
And Richard has his own island. It’s a security measure.
And he would talk to her about security.
And Jan Peter was not to have his home address listed!
And then I can breathe easier.
Really, having a rock star come into your life is a prize.
I have had a life before and I liked it. You travel light,
you travel alone, it’s freedom to me.
So here is the 64,000 dollar question: what have you offered
that is worth giving up my freedom to me?
You make demands, and demands, and demands.
It is not that you make demands. You can make demands. It is
the idiocy of expecting someone who keeps telling you
she got tortured over relationships to meet them.
And you can be left empty-handed.
- Like a Linden tree; soft, gentle.
This.
This being treated as crazy. Or, well, not quite right in the head.
Without you knowing. It was gentle. It was never used to attack me.
The only reason to do that is because you are my enemy.
And I was miserable, because those are the trained in responses.
I remember that underneath, I was also happy. I was on my way
to somewhere. It was never used to keep me prisoner.
And it isn’t now. But, just my guess: you already know that.
But for as long as the ride will last? That’s you.
Regular spiders, this one, are used to keep you in place.
Long enough for you to accomplish something
you are not to strive for consciously.
And for that, everyone takes their cues from you.
And to stop you from settling into the organisation you are working for,
to live the life of a regular person. They will make sure you won’t succeed.
Very dryly: are you now starting to understand how
they might come in handy?
Controlling environments are there to move from one into another.
Even the regular spiders are there at your disposal. Camiel who had this
short career at KLM. Which was short enough to learn all that
he needed to know, consciously, about the airline industry.
Which was one of their demands.
With a smile: regular spiders are apt to eject you.
It is pretty clear as well, with enough of a set up, that with
American Express, he is once more in a controlling environment.
Say the little ones who arrange for these kinds of things,
with some satisfaction: in just the right kind.
In stitches: I said it was gentle. I didn’t say it was subtle.
You can imagine that after you have spent time as an inner child with the one
who tortures you, you might want to be an inner child with someone
you know and trust. And then with that in mind, and experience
on their side, you then create a similar relationship.
Would I know you that way? As a two year old?
Of course, the relationship would be warm and cordial.
Face to face, that is.
Hell is reserved for long distance and when you are out of reach.
I can’t get away from you fast enough. I have weathered many a storm.
But you? You will be the death of me. From the very beginning you have had
but one thing on your mind: ways of how to break me.
Tell me that isn’t what torturers do?
There is a word for what you have been doing. It’s called interrogations.
And then there is another level of cruelty where you are asking questions you
don’t need the answers to and you know the other person won’t want
to answer. Because then you can do even more damage.
The way I have been responding. You don’t recognise that that is what someone
who has been tortured does? Hide for as much as possible what they are thinking?
Which, like a right cruel asshole, you then won’t allow?
It’s visceral, and you have a need to.
Well, have you not been wanting to establish a similar relationship?
To only come into my life after you have broken me?
You love to threaten with it.
But there is something else going on. I have been protecting my mother from
a real threat, you dumb fucking asshole. And I don’t have 600 million in the bank
to do that with. Yet. But between you and me, you have me motivated.
There is a reason I have been silent. Ever heard of beating a dead horse?
This mailbox. Which I am no longer that attached to.
If you were to take a look at it, it would show
that you have been preying on me.
You knew that that is how I would respond.
You can’t break me. Because it is not you I am afraid of.
You can put me six feet under.
Sarcastically: would they have given me an ultimate way
of protecting the ones I love? And I have loved ones.
That they know about, from this life before.
I don’t know what they buried in my subconscious, and that is the very scary part.
Just my sense of humour: I will put it in my will. On my tomb stone: it was Bono
who did it. Or, if not allowed (legally): ultra high tones, only audible for a few,
spookily, whenever they pass by my grave: Bo-noooo. It was Bono who did it.
(Dark tones, imagining an arm sticking up through the earth:) I will rule from the grave.
I’ll tell you one thing: I have been seriously considering
drawing up my will. Just that for the first time
in my life, I feel there is a need to do that.
Did I mention I want to live, Satan?
Well, how would you like me to call him? Come on, give me some suggestions. If I called him
an asshole, that would put us back to square one, wouldn’t it? Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?
Nope, that would still be spiritual. He was a bad guy. Oops, there we go again.
Meanwhile, you have lost your main supporter:
(With humour:) “I love you, and I haven’t been wanting to say this,
in case you have had more people, as we say in the Netherlands, ‘exchange
the temporary for the eternal’, but: you are lethal. And I would want
to not yet spend my time pushing up daisies.”
Your main supporter would be the one who has been making it
as easy as possible at an inner child level for you to – I don’t even want
to go there in my mind – get your hands on me. Eventually. But
not with you taking things to this level of extremes.
She says: “I mean, I do want to live, here.”
She would be the one of ‘Satan’, making it a bit of a joke,
but there is another one.
There is no devil, not on earth, not in heavens above. But I am starting to think
that they presented themselves to us as evil. Which was the reason for me to talk to
you about it. And which is where the story comes from, that it presents itself as
more powerful than it really is. It was a way of telling you something
in code. Something you needed at the time.
I don’t have a problem with the boy on stage. And everyone around
him has been trained. And he is being watched. As they told him. And
they are a real threat, still, to him as well. And everyone he loves.
In code: that they have their own limitations. That there are limits
to what they can do. Mainly, that the really, really bad guys
are being limited by those around them.
Stories spun. That at Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations, December 1949,
he was treated as just another guest. But he is sitting right next to him.
So why create this semblance of a political distance between them?
Would that be because he was about to organise another
famine? I’m talking about the one on the right.
I’m going with: yes, that’s about it.
Look, he is about to make a speech. The one on the left. Isn’t he looking earnest?
(In stitches. Just when you thought you were out of trouble. She makes
a distinction. Adult vs. child. Best so you know.)
And the devil has tea with you.
When you are the Dalai Lama, and you get to know someone like Mao personally,
in a particular way, am I not being nice, you end up having karma with him.
And you may come across a reincarnated Mao in your next life.
And just to be clear, since it has been such an issue with you:
he would be human. And not in a position of power.
And still an asshole.
Continuing a bit of relating for me, because that is what she does:
Also known as Satan.
Well, I’m not him. They wanted me to have grudges in this lifetime.
I would never have left a child isolated. Because that’s me.
The one you have been having such a problem with.
And an axe to grind.
I’m talking about these ones, this time.
But you are not Tibetan. And have you been gentle with me?
So here is where this story starts.

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Fyoraa rise above part 1ii the snake that guards the holy secret

  • 1. 2003. I had XP then, and I have XP now. That’s me. This, on a slightly less serious note. Oh, it is way too complex a product.
  • 2. 46664, 46664, 46664. Mandela, bless him, must have had quite a tolerance for assholes. Actually, of that I am quite sure. I wouldn’t want to be on the stage with him.
  • 3. Joy in a box. And so much more. Christo.
  • 4. Jizo is one of the most beloved and revered Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the embodiment of the Bodhisattva Vow, the aspiration to save all beings from suffering. He is the protector of women, children, and travellers in the six realms of existence. In India he is known as Ksitigarbha, in China as Dizang, in Korea as Jijang Bosal, and in Japan as Jizo Bosatsu. Here is a thought: oh, you are not going to like where this is going.
  • 5. And in Europe, he is known to me as Saint Christopher. Patron saint of travellers. Carries children on their journey. And I used to have a dog that did. He was much loved.
  • 6. It’s the front door right behind that tree, and I no longer live there. But when I did, most of the time, in spite of everything, I was happy. Pissed off: proof that I am crazy, right?
  • 7. Aidan of Lindisfarne, born in Ireland, was known throughout the kingdom for his knowledge of the Bible, his learning, his eloquent preaching, his holiness, his distaste for pomp, his kindness to the poor, and the miracles attributed to him. He founded a monastery at Lindisfarne that became known as the English Iona and was a centre of learning and missionary activity for all of northern England. He died in 651. But then, so was Aidan. Little fire. My beautiful dog.
  • 8. - Calling the sheep in for the evening There's a voice, calls above the howling wind It says comes rest beside my little fire We'll ride out the storm that's coming in -
  • 9. What good is a husband, what good is having a husband, when what is on your conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg? So much more so than it is with anyone else? Or any other kind of relationship, for that matter? And then what is on your conscious mind isn’t the truth, isn’t how you really think or feel about something, and what you don’t know, you do know. It was a problem. It limited the options. And then there is this: read the above and try explaining your actions this way…? To a husband…? Right.
  • 10. And then, how can you surrender to someone, when that person doesn’t know about the dangers you are facing? And you aren’t able to tell him? And he should know about them, or they either shouldn’t be there any more. Mitigated, somehow.
  • 11. Falling in love is something you do when you are carefree and feel safe. Therefore, why even explore these subjects before? What’s the point? You would need to surrender. Just to hold hands. That’s not me.
  • 12. No room for frivolous things. Like a life. And love. Would you call me crazy if I said that it was worth it to me? Even if it turns out the price I paid was higher than I would have wanted it to be? It seems that C.S. Lewis was a believer in the future. You, not so much. You would. Or somehow inferior. Too much of a dreamer. Needs watching. The wrong kind. You have very little respect for the choices I’ve made.
  • 13. I am proud of the choices I made. You have nothing to preach to me about. But it hurts to not have a family. And it was their decision, not mine. They set it up so that I had to make that choice. I made it, and it was worth it to me. But I am the kind of person who would have wanted a family. And this photo is from before they came. Buddhism versus Communism. The Chinese kind.
  • 14. It isn’t a complete life, you are living, that way. There are just these feelings. I was always on my way to… somewhere. And it was important. More important then… and then that is where the thinking would stop. Never asked myself why. Only got the first bit of an answer when I came upon the Platform. And then a few more, while writing. But at the time of the IJssellaan, none of the answers were workable ones.
  • 15. Not the way they are now. Why do you keep comparing this time to the IJssellaan? From what I recall, the moment I started the second time, the whole thing went nuclear. And I am not even in view.
  • 16. There are two perspectives, if you are me. As a regular person, not on my way to somewhere, I could have had a husband. The choice I made, consciously, was to if at all possible, not to be one. And it is that identity you have been attacking. As if they gave you an option. As a regular person: no Platform. And that is still what it is. I need to be me to create it.
  • 17. There was too much that I didn’t understand to want a husband. Not just at the IJssellaan. Even before. My whole life. It was a dream that was somehow… not for me. Not a marriage. Not something holy.
  • 18. - My friend, you know me and my family You've seen us wandering through these times You've seen us in weakness and in power You've seen us forgetful and unkind -
  • 19. But it was also: what is on your conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg. So no one ever really knows you.
  • 20. And then most importantly: it isn’t always you who is running things;). Though that is now more in the past. I don’t have to live like that anymore. I might still want to, sometimes, but that is something else.
  • 21. On my conscious mind, that I would want a husband. At some point! Somewhere squeezed in between creating this platform and this fund. And everything it seems to take to do so. And did I mention, because I think I did, that for that, I need these inner children. And that I need them to be happy? Moreover: creating the Platform is their job. And only a little bit mine.
  • 22. Someone you can talk to, into the small hours of the night, and you are still not done talking. Would be nice. If that would be possible. For me.
  • 23. Playtime with Chris. Underneath my conscious mind, inner children who don’t want to be hindered by a husband. Who don’t know what one looks like. Or what to do with one. Mainly that. And who are used to coming home, coming out, and only being seen by the cats and dogs. And that’s how they roll. I welcome you to my life. At 44. Are you sure you would do a better job living it?
  • 24. Actually, I had more or less given up on having a husband. Until now.
  • 25. So now I have a two year old and a four year old who are up for one. Well, sort of. You are in the way, still, after all. The path cleared, all systems go… is what’s on my conscious mind. Fuck off;). It’s a start.
  • 26. - All that I want is one who knows me A kind hand on my face when I weep And I'd give back these things I know are meaningless For a little fire beside me when I sleep - “Little fire”, Patricia J. Griffin
  • 27. To me, that is what my dogs were to me, at the IJssellaan. A kind hand on my face when I weep. Christo, but also Aidan. They watched over me. Little Durga, then quietly in the background, having now taken over this task. Which is, these days, a lot lighter;). My dogs know me. Because they watch me all the time.
  • 28. Someone to share your love for dogs with. Who loves them as much as you do. And in the same way. Would be nice. Someone who knows how to love dogs is always a good person.
  • 29. This you having people make me out to be unsympathetic… Or whatever it is supposed to be. Have you ever seen a snake care about being sympathetic? Or being likeable? A snake only has one purpose: to life the life of one. And I am not the one who writes. Only if I can be bothered.
  • 30. What do you think they did? And they built in the response. They made it a demand. I want people to, because then they are safe. And I am safe. And it leaves me free to go about my business. You have been losing your writer, by the way. Very dryly: don’t know if you have noticed.
  • 31. Ninety percent of what I wrote was to go get you. And now that that is out of the way... Regardless of the outcome.
  • 32. Don’t try to take that one personally, Atlas. So burdened by me.
  • 33.
  • 34.
  • 35.
  • 36. On October 7th, 1950 Chinese troops first invaded East Tibet.
  • 37. And in 1958 the first Chinese settlers would arrive. Right on schedule.
  • 38. But there was something in between that went unseen.
  • 39. “In Tibet, however, the Chinese Communists opted not to place social reform as an immediate priority. To the contrary, from 1951 to 1959, traditional Tibetan society with its lords and manorial estates continued to function unchanged.” You know, history reporting leaves a lot to be desired.
  • 40. “Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say: even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.” For him to get waved at may have been organised. Is all I am saying. With humour: oh a dictator could never be that cynical. Surely he means it?
  • 41. The advice, with hindsight, should have been: don’t let them anywhere near your elite. Because that was what they were after.
  • 42. They wanted an ‘Anschluss’. So they used the same mixture of violence and, well, “persuasion”. And what I have underlined in the previous slide, that was the pretence that had to be kept up. By any truly cynical means necessary. Diabolical.
  • 43. It’s not like anyone would believe them, though. It’s repression. “We are liberators.” You get dictated to, how they should be seen. As a people. They can’t not be welcome. And then you have the believers. Among their side. To be part of a force of “liberators” is that much more honourable. It quiets the conscience. Surely with everything they have been getting up to, as a party, they are still doing some good? For Tibet as well? It is still all about this honourable cause of theirs? Their ideals not betrayed?
  • 44. Is anyone now getting an idea why I don’t like her? The PvdA wasn’t left enough for her. She has a Green Left background. And that, that… says it all. The one on the right made the mistake of opening his mouth. Where is a trap door when you need one? You know, one with a nice lever? You know, life, this one, shouldn’t include having to deal with them again. But I digress.
  • 45. I can barely tolerate these ones. Sadly, I got to know their party. Quite well. I mean, back then. And it all had to be nice. We are talking about the ‘feel good’ kind of people. And I mean: feel good about themselves. I can’t stand idealists. That kind. When it is ‘idealism’ mixed with equal parts of stupidity and hypocrisy. And the way I have been responding to the current ones featured, when in ‘nice’, ‘tolerating them’ mode, may be trained in.
  • 46. And it sparks the overwhelming desire to ehm, educate them. I mean, I like these two.
  • 47. That it is a brain defect. Personality disorder. Genetically based, shared among just a minority of any general population. The place socialism should have in civilised society. What Marxists were really like. What the average person tends to think of them and their ideal of society and any likelihood of that ever changing in the future. Just something that cures them of any socialist tendencies for life. “The limits of their usefulness.” I have more along these lines, with a little advice: just don’t get me started.
  • 48. To be fair, there is a difference between socialism in peacetime and under those circumstances. In terms of the kind of people it wouldn’t have attracted in the latter instance. I’m trying here.
  • 49. They were a force like any other. Over on our side. There weren’t that many believers. But you have the military, over on our side and then there are the administrators. Cynically: about two, three levels down. From the top. Civilians. Office people. Sarcastically: the future of the new nation. The believers. Who had to believe it would all be worth it. In the end. As he had promised.
  • 50. How much had the Dalai Lama been seen making public appearances? Before? It was the perfect opportunity. But he is his usual normal self, right?
  • 51. This one: foreign relations. But there is also internal.
  • 52. And you will find the devil on your doorstep.
  • 53. When you look at what the Dalai Lama is wearing. The clothes he is wearing are shiny. And there would have been red in them. It must have taken my mother quite a bit of shopping. Or not, the way that it works with karma. Someone may have known about her and her little girl and made sure she would have just the right outfit at just the right time. It’s the flowers on it as well. Introducing you to this little four year old. On her birthday. This is also a little bit her story.
  • 54. She says Hi. Don’t stick me in those clothes. Someone might get hurt.
  • 55. There was a census. Why would they have co-operated with that? Because it was a dictatorship. Not a powerful one, yet, but it was one. And the elite is so much more easily targeted. Than the general populations. Plural, because it was also what they did in their own country.
  • 56. Would our monasteries have been keeping records before? And would this census have been meant to replace them? Of course, we would have overestimated our population. Each in our own area we governed. Out of corruption. See? That is how you do it. And our nobility had to be ready for that. To take our place. To play ball, so to speak. Some of that had to be confirmed. Or at least, not contradicted. At any time. Ever.
  • 57. So now there is no genocide, because there is no record of the number of people who died. Just a famine. Right? Because that’s you.
  • 59. They gave that an outlet.
  • 60. But it is one thing that they did with the nobility of Tibet, and another what they did in our monasteries. Not that the suffering wouldn’t be the same. But it was a difference in approach.
  • 61. The man who tortures you, is the one who hypnotises you. And life goes on around you, unchanged.
  • 62. For the most part.
  • 63. There is another photo, taken at the same birthday, where she is positively glaring at her mother. Her love for Ali may be because she knows. Consciously. Like a heat seeking missile: Ali! There is nothing attractive about her. For me. Because there is no relationship.
  • 64. Well, she had to do something. To work around you.
  • 65. You kind of litter the picture. Currently.
  • 66. And then there is me. My father, with his garden, would always talk about the goudiep (golden elm), as well as his rhododendron. I have been considering putting one in my garden. A golden elm. But decided against it. I have been thinking about planting a rhododendron. A small one I could just fit in. And an azalea. Those were the two shrubs he really loved. To put me in front of the ‘golden rain’ is slightly villainous when you have a daughter who is trying to hide being holy. Somehow I don’t seem all that concerned.
  • 67. Why do you demand to understand this, that or the other, anyway, when you never really do? The man in this photo is a stranger to me. It’s not you I’m writing to.
  • 68. Oh, I’m sorry. It’s not you. You have this delegated. Supposedly. Let’s face it: nothing I’m trying to do could be that important. That it warrants your attention.
  • 69. It was the way he talked about the goudiep. And the goudenregen. And then there was the brem he stuck me in front of, when we were still living in Waddinxveen. Which is a picture I am not going to show.
  • 70. I am really not up for showing you a picture of me in a bikini, just to make a point. And it is not like you appreciate it. All you do is complain. Endlessly. And I really don’t know why I still bother.
  • 71. It is one of your better pictures. Though I don’t like looking at you. I’m really not joking when I say that I am quite sick of you. And this. And everything.
  • 72. If our family relationships were toxic, that is how they designed it. It wasn’t his fault. And lesson learned: you are not him. I wasn’t really up for showing you this one, either. There is a relationship there. It was hidden, but it was there.
  • 73. She would have been a man in this previous life. Ali. Most likely. But I have her on my conscious mind as her and Ali. Ali! Which, I suspect, is kept going by a little four year old. Because then I might go and find her. There is nothing attractive about Ireland, except that it’s safe. And I wouldn’t come anywhere near her. Unless some things change.
  • 74. There is maybe a previous relationship there. Showing me a photo, the way you would with a four year old, talking to me about it. As preparation for being reborn. “This is me in my new life.” Another reason for her to move back in time, when being reborn. So that she could do that. Prepare me. And if it is a relationship that I remember, then I remember it to be a strong one. It was somehow instilled. But at a four year old level. “This is me in my new life.”
  • 75. I really think you have no idea how much it takes for me to come find you. How little the chances are that I do. I really would much rather live a lonely life. I really only came to find you because I needed you. And what do I need you for? Now, that is? I can have everything I want and need on my own. Most of everything. Which is what I am used to, anyway. Or did you think I have had an easy life? So yes, it was a problem in our previous life. It needed that kind of preparation. And no, there are no guarantees.
  • 76. No one can handle rejection the way you have been doling it out. And I happen to think there are people who would be quite happy to have me in their life. If there is one thing I have learned from this, then it is how much I would have to offer. Now that is you, I’m writing to. And then there is this:
  • 77. Who needs dreams? You can do without relationships. Easily. Especially if that way, you don’t get controlled.
  • 78. Where do you come off, thinking you can make demands? Es no possible. Really. Not a good idea. Certainly not the ones you have been making.
  • 79. Do you really think I wanted to be a part of your family? Or did they demand this of me because it would have me facing my biggest fear? It is what they wanted. Which is a real fear, by the way, and still a real threat. All that effort, everything it takes, everything it takes out of me, and you, you make demands?
  • 80. I didn’t know if it was necessary, with what they did. And I still don’t. I felt a need to, but that doesn’t have to mean anything. And I am still unravelling what they did. But I have grown more confident. And there are options. Why do you think I have been spending all of this time undoing my brainwashing?
  • 81. Has it ever occurred to you that I might need to know the security measures you are taking? That it would be a relief for me, for you to talk to me about it? Such a simple reassurance.
  • 82. You travel light, you travel alone, and no one gets hurt. And Bob’s children have left home. Home is where the heart is, so I have never had one. And he might be able to change that. I have been looking for someone who would have influence on me. And no, that is not about moving in. It is about daring to have a husband. While being me. Could you not be an asshole about this for 5 seconds?
  • 83. Bob would be asked about his security measures. Casually. But the subject would come up.
  • 84. And Richard has his own island. It’s a security measure. And he would talk to her about security.
  • 85. And Jan Peter was not to have his home address listed!
  • 86. And then I can breathe easier.
  • 87. Really, having a rock star come into your life is a prize. I have had a life before and I liked it. You travel light, you travel alone, it’s freedom to me.
  • 88. So here is the 64,000 dollar question: what have you offered that is worth giving up my freedom to me? You make demands, and demands, and demands.
  • 89. It is not that you make demands. You can make demands. It is the idiocy of expecting someone who keeps telling you she got tortured over relationships to meet them. And you can be left empty-handed.
  • 90. - Like a Linden tree; soft, gentle.
  • 91. This.
  • 92. This being treated as crazy. Or, well, not quite right in the head. Without you knowing. It was gentle. It was never used to attack me. The only reason to do that is because you are my enemy.
  • 93. And I was miserable, because those are the trained in responses. I remember that underneath, I was also happy. I was on my way to somewhere. It was never used to keep me prisoner. And it isn’t now. But, just my guess: you already know that. But for as long as the ride will last? That’s you.
  • 94. Regular spiders, this one, are used to keep you in place. Long enough for you to accomplish something you are not to strive for consciously. And for that, everyone takes their cues from you.
  • 95. And to stop you from settling into the organisation you are working for, to live the life of a regular person. They will make sure you won’t succeed. Very dryly: are you now starting to understand how they might come in handy?
  • 96. Controlling environments are there to move from one into another. Even the regular spiders are there at your disposal. Camiel who had this short career at KLM. Which was short enough to learn all that he needed to know, consciously, about the airline industry. Which was one of their demands.
  • 97. With a smile: regular spiders are apt to eject you.
  • 98. It is pretty clear as well, with enough of a set up, that with American Express, he is once more in a controlling environment. Say the little ones who arrange for these kinds of things, with some satisfaction: in just the right kind. In stitches: I said it was gentle. I didn’t say it was subtle.
  • 99. You can imagine that after you have spent time as an inner child with the one who tortures you, you might want to be an inner child with someone you know and trust. And then with that in mind, and experience on their side, you then create a similar relationship. Would I know you that way? As a two year old?
  • 100. Of course, the relationship would be warm and cordial. Face to face, that is. Hell is reserved for long distance and when you are out of reach.
  • 101. I can’t get away from you fast enough. I have weathered many a storm. But you? You will be the death of me. From the very beginning you have had but one thing on your mind: ways of how to break me. Tell me that isn’t what torturers do?
  • 102. There is a word for what you have been doing. It’s called interrogations. And then there is another level of cruelty where you are asking questions you don’t need the answers to and you know the other person won’t want to answer. Because then you can do even more damage.
  • 103. The way I have been responding. You don’t recognise that that is what someone who has been tortured does? Hide for as much as possible what they are thinking? Which, like a right cruel asshole, you then won’t allow? It’s visceral, and you have a need to.
  • 104. Well, have you not been wanting to establish a similar relationship? To only come into my life after you have broken me? You love to threaten with it.
  • 105. But there is something else going on. I have been protecting my mother from a real threat, you dumb fucking asshole. And I don’t have 600 million in the bank to do that with. Yet. But between you and me, you have me motivated. There is a reason I have been silent. Ever heard of beating a dead horse?
  • 106. This mailbox. Which I am no longer that attached to. If you were to take a look at it, it would show that you have been preying on me. You knew that that is how I would respond.
  • 107. You can’t break me. Because it is not you I am afraid of. You can put me six feet under.
  • 108. Sarcastically: would they have given me an ultimate way of protecting the ones I love? And I have loved ones. That they know about, from this life before. I don’t know what they buried in my subconscious, and that is the very scary part.
  • 109. Just my sense of humour: I will put it in my will. On my tomb stone: it was Bono who did it. Or, if not allowed (legally): ultra high tones, only audible for a few, spookily, whenever they pass by my grave: Bo-noooo. It was Bono who did it. (Dark tones, imagining an arm sticking up through the earth:) I will rule from the grave.
  • 110. I’ll tell you one thing: I have been seriously considering drawing up my will. Just that for the first time in my life, I feel there is a need to do that. Did I mention I want to live, Satan?
  • 111. Well, how would you like me to call him? Come on, give me some suggestions. If I called him an asshole, that would put us back to square one, wouldn’t it? Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Nope, that would still be spiritual. He was a bad guy. Oops, there we go again.
  • 112. Meanwhile, you have lost your main supporter: (With humour:) “I love you, and I haven’t been wanting to say this, in case you have had more people, as we say in the Netherlands, ‘exchange the temporary for the eternal’, but: you are lethal. And I would want to not yet spend my time pushing up daisies.”
  • 113. Your main supporter would be the one who has been making it as easy as possible at an inner child level for you to – I don’t even want to go there in my mind – get your hands on me. Eventually. But not with you taking things to this level of extremes. She says: “I mean, I do want to live, here.” She would be the one of ‘Satan’, making it a bit of a joke, but there is another one.
  • 114. There is no devil, not on earth, not in heavens above. But I am starting to think that they presented themselves to us as evil. Which was the reason for me to talk to you about it. And which is where the story comes from, that it presents itself as more powerful than it really is. It was a way of telling you something in code. Something you needed at the time.
  • 115. I don’t have a problem with the boy on stage. And everyone around him has been trained. And he is being watched. As they told him. And they are a real threat, still, to him as well. And everyone he loves.
  • 116. In code: that they have their own limitations. That there are limits to what they can do. Mainly, that the really, really bad guys are being limited by those around them.
  • 117. Stories spun. That at Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations, December 1949, he was treated as just another guest. But he is sitting right next to him. So why create this semblance of a political distance between them? Would that be because he was about to organise another famine? I’m talking about the one on the right. I’m going with: yes, that’s about it.
  • 118. Look, he is about to make a speech. The one on the left. Isn’t he looking earnest? (In stitches. Just when you thought you were out of trouble. She makes a distinction. Adult vs. child. Best so you know.)
  • 119. And the devil has tea with you. When you are the Dalai Lama, and you get to know someone like Mao personally, in a particular way, am I not being nice, you end up having karma with him. And you may come across a reincarnated Mao in your next life.
  • 120. And just to be clear, since it has been such an issue with you: he would be human. And not in a position of power. And still an asshole.
  • 121. Continuing a bit of relating for me, because that is what she does:
  • 122. Also known as Satan.
  • 123. Well, I’m not him. They wanted me to have grudges in this lifetime.
  • 124. I would never have left a child isolated. Because that’s me. The one you have been having such a problem with. And an axe to grind.
  • 125. I’m talking about these ones, this time.
  • 126. But you are not Tibetan. And have you been gentle with me? So here is where this story starts.