(I found and posted this in early 2024, long after I finished with the series of letters to and from George and Helen.)<\/p>\r\n
As usual, my notes are after the letter.<\/p>\r\n
Content warning for casual use of the word eskimo<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n 5419 Foothill Blvd.<\/p>\r\n Oakland, Calif. 94601<\/p>\r\n (415) 536-9407<\/p>\r\n dear brother(s)--<\/p>\r\n o john i wrote you 2 pages typed & it didn\u2019t get mailed, & now seems to be lost in transit so i\u2019ll just have to re-construct it--actually it was a carbon--sent original to m\u2019s parents, & 1 copy to ours, & i am now incarcerated with: writing pad, pen, bull durham, matches, 6 envelopes, & books: \u201cTheory of Celestial Influence\u201d by Rodney Collin, \u201cNo More Secondhand God\u201d by Buckminster Fuller, \u201cTibetan Book of the Great Liberation\u201d (or \u201cthe Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind\u201d) edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz w\/commentary by C.G. Jung (same series as \u201cTibetan Book of the Dead\u201d and \u201cTibetan Yoga & Secret Doctrines\u201d), \u201cMyths of the Hindus & Buddhists\u201d by Ananda Coomaraswamy, & \u201cAdvanced Calculus\u201d by Osgood\u2026 how could i be so fortunate?<\/p>\r\n will now recapitulate recent events leading to this point in space-time... In the margin:<\/span> * surgery of appendix or tonsils is a farcical travesty, as it removes an organ of purification\u2026 but if the root is not removed, may grow again\u2026 (hope, hope)<\/p>\r\n it turns out that, taking advantage of the \u201cspiritual cords\u201d (binding ties) that exist between friends, relatives, loved ones, johrei may be administered by proxy! (this is what we learned from a japanese minister in the second class series--he taught us about the more spiritual aspects of johrei, and its applications to \u201cnature-farming\u201d--channeling johrei to soil & crops eliminates need for insecticides & chemical fertilizers--insects only attack crops which have toxins in them, like insecticides & chemical fertilizers\u2026!!)<\/p>\r\n so dorothy & marcy & i graduated & obtained our \u201cfocal points\u201d (these are parchments which protect the johrei-channeler from \u201cfeedback\u201d of spiritual clouds, and also REALLY FAR-OUT! you say\u2026 well, as soon as i get out of jail, marcy will channel johrei to you guys through me, by proxy, & you will see\u2026 david received it once, at harbinger\u2026<\/p>\r\n well, you\u2019re probably wondering why i\u2019m sitting in the slammer--the reason is that my driver\u2019s license was revoked because i made an illegal u-turn 15 months ago & never paid the fine\u2026 so now i need the license to get a job (probably with ma bell or ibm) & rather than pay $36 which i don\u2019t have, elected to serve the time\u2026 probably 4-5 days\u2026 a lesser magical retreat\u2026 i\u2019m not fasting, but 1-2 minutes of johrei purified the baloney sandwich In the margin, next to the \u201cillegal u-turn\u201d line, in Marcy\u2019s handwriting:<\/span> and a couple more indecencies, like 30 mph in 25 zone, yoicks! \u2014M<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n dear john--<\/p>\r\n wow, so much has happened since 1st<\/u><\/sup> page that this must be a new letter! i wrote that in san mateo city jail, in a private cell, i had all my books & all was fine--completely alone & feeling good\u2026 fri. morning was taken to court for hearing, sat in court through 50-60 cases, about 4 hrs., no lunch, plead guilty, sentenced to five days, transferred to county jail, which was INTOLERABLE---about 45 guys in a tank small for 24\u2026 couldn\u2019t find room for my mattress, even on floor, which was wet from leaky toilet, shower, & roof\u2026 was told to grab food fast, whenever a measly meal showed up, because some guys grabbed two\u2026 comb, toothbrush, tobacco, toothpaste, dental floss, books, writing-pad, pen, belt, & focal-point taken away, i told them focal-point was not supposed to be opened, that it was a religious medallion, th well, i was just about to call up marcy & ask her please to scrounge up the $31 bail, WHEN, MAGICALLY, the lieutenant-in-charge showed up, pulled 8 guys out including me & asked us if we wanted to go to camp, meaning la honda in the mountains\u2026 OH, YEAH! so we changed back to street clothes, out of the blues we\u2019d been wearing about an hour, & ate as much as we wanted in the cooks\u2019 dining room (rice, meat, coleslaw, cake, bread, butter, coffee w\/sugar the unmailed letter to you described our peregrinations, that since there were now two johrei channelers in modesto (a friend of one of the women in our astrology class also took the johrei course), and since we had accomplished our work there, we split & moved to oakland, & are now living in home with about 10 other ex-residents of harbinger\u2026<\/p>\r\n we are working everything out amongst us & becoming a family\u2026 the<\/u> changes<\/u> publication office is there\u2026 we are sanding & painting interior\u2026 eating grains, salads, fish, fruit, raisins, eggs, cheese, miso, peanut-butter, beautiful whole-grain bread, wonderful meals\u2026 jim is yes, yes, you found the fallacious point in the trisection figure--o well, it was a nice idea\u2026 even if it was invalid, it sounded<\/u> good\u2026 as soon as i have any bread, i\u2019ll start sending along any books-from-the-publisher that you need or want--you\u2019ll have the buckminster fuller before too<\/u> long\u2026 this \u201ctheory of celestial influence\u201d book by rodney collin has just been continuously BLOWING MY MIND!\u2026 it\u2019s a reconstruction-synthesis of ouspensky\u2019s work, a very orderly progression & organization of extremely diverse & non-linear material\u2026 subtitled \u201cman, the universe, & cosmic mystery\u201d\u2026 he cor-relates EVERYTHING! he explicates: fields within fields within fields--atom-molecule Written in margin: <\/span>* at conception, foetus is considered one lunar-month-old on this scale because ovum lives one lunar mo.<\/p>\r\n Written at top of final page of letter:<\/span> p.s. well, i\u2019m out now--that takes care of $31-worth of karma, plus marcy borrowed $55 & paid $51-worth of s.f.-tickets, leaving only a couple in mendocino\u2026 we\u2019re going sailing today w\/ rick\u2026 lots more to tell you re harbinger etc., in next letter--love, love, love, peter, marcy, jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Peter tells his brothers about his experiences learning about Johrei and spending a couple days in jail in lieu of paying a traffic fine. \u201cwill now recapitulate recent events leading to this point in space-time\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-peter","category-post-harbinger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
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<\/a>: japanese figure meaning \u201cDivine Light\u201d\u2026<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike> other copy was for you but\u2026 o well, if you want to read it, & if your copy\u2019s not found, perhaps parents would forward you theirs\u2026<\/p>\r\nxxx<\/strike> dorothy (the ph.d.-psychologist lady in wheelchair whom we\u2019ve been living with past two months), as dorothy, marcy, as the cowardly lion, jedediah, as the scarecrow, & i, as the tin woodsman, set off down the yellow-brick road to xxx<\/strike> visit the wizard--AND WE DID! he turned out not to be a humbug after all, but a very knowledgable fellow who is, on the other side of his life, a mechanical engineer at Lockheed, but on the wizard side is an instructor of classes in the Church of World Messianity, or the JohRei (joe-ray) church\u2026 he instructed us in the more physical aspects of johrei (which is a japanese term meaning \u201cpurification<\/u> of and\/or by means of spirit<\/u>\u201d)\u2026 the basic teaching is that the \u201cspiritual\u201d (non-physical) x<\/strike> realm is the world of cause<\/u>, & the \u201cphysical\u201d world is the realm of effect<\/u>\u2026 thus all<\/u> disease, pain, injury, suffering, inharmony on physical level is but a reflection of an inharmony on spiritual levels, or \u201cspiritual clouds\u201d\u2026 all attempts to treat disease or injury on physical levels, with medicines, surgery*, etc., merely treat symptoms, & leave the causes untouched\u2026 illness represents an attempt by the organism to purify itself of toxins, & medicines not only repress the purification process so that it must begin again, perhaps manifesting in some other area, but also add more toxins to the body, x<\/strike> and these must give rise to further purifications (or \u201csicknesses\u201d)\u2026 so it turns out that parents were right about not popping pimples, but they didn\u2019t know the reason: if you lance a boil or pick a pimple-skin off, you\u2019re cutting short the purification process, and it must begin again--if you let it go full term, it will discharge all<\/u> the toxins in the area\u2026 then he told us all the centers of purification in the body; all the endocrine glands & chakras, the lymphatic nodes, the solar plexus, the occipital region, the shoulders, the kidneys, appendix, tonsils, adenoids, prostatic ganglion, etc. these are the places that johrei is directed, plus any localized cuts, burns, infections, pimples, sores, rashes, boils, etc. johrei is actually the divine light of God, it comes through the channeler\u2019s head (pate) and comes out his palm (either hand), and permeates the bodies of the person receiving it\u2026 the hand of the channeler is 1 to 2 feet away from the recipient, so there\u2019s no trouble with a.m.a. \u2026 it dispels, dissipates, disintegrates the \u201cspiritual clouds\u201d (bad karma) of the person who receives it, and the order so induced in the person\u2019s spiritual bodyxxx<\/strike> suffuses centrifugally throughout mental, emotional, and physical bodies, producing health, warm-compassionate-body-feeling, happiness\u2026 anyway, it makes you feel GOOD!<\/p>\r\nxxx<\/strike> strengthen the effects of the joh-rei by tying in the channeler (by means of spiritual cords) to all the other church members, including the original channel of johrei, Meishu-sama, who left his body but is still working on the inner planes to keep the Divine Light flowing to Earth-people in our time of transition from old to New Age\u2026) the focal points are inscribed with the japanese character for \u201cdivine light\u201d as written by Meishu-sama & carved in a woodblock for printing\u2026 there are now 500,000 johrei-church members in japan, and 1600 in this country\u2026 it doesn\u2019t require that you give up membership or belief in any other religious system, it just is what it is, & it\u2019s very beautiful\u2026 it\u2019s prayer in action---we were told of a johrei-channeler in a courtroom beaming johrei from 15 feet away to 3rd<\/u><\/sup>-eye chakra of a witness who was lying--he changed his story on the witness stand & told the truth\u2026<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike> (white bread of course) and puffa-puffa rice that i\u2019ve been given to eat so far\u2026 mainly exercising & reading, + writing some letters to you, dave, marcy & jed, and an ibm executive i know\u2026<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike>ey said if it was narcotics it was my ass & opened it anyway\u2026 i\u2019ll have to get it re-blessed at the church altar\u2026 although i think i purified it of all low vibrations that may have been impressed by channeling johrei through & into it for 5 minutes\u2026<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike>, the best meal that had been served for 2-3 weeks they said), and then xx<\/strike> some guys went to la honda, & some, including me, came to the sherriff\u2019s work-furlough center, where i am now--it\u2019s REALLY nice\u2026 there\u2019s 3 telephones we can use anytime of day or evening, coffee-candy-coke machines, a library, color tv, ping-pong table, a piano, washer-dryer, ironing board, single cots in spacious dorms, private safe-box, private locker, individual councelors, plenty free-time, nice view of bay, honor-system (xxx<\/strike> few locked doorsx<\/strike>, no bars), birds singin outside, cafeteria where for breakfast this morning i ordered 2 eggs, over-easy, hash-browns, sausage & coffee (there was also juice, dry cereal, white bread, pancakes, milk, sugar, jam, peanut butter, butter, & lunch-meat)\u2026, everybody\u2019s groovy & respects one another, because everybody has inside (sweeping, mopping, washing-windows, cooking, barbering, etc.) and outside (city laborer or your own x<\/strike> regular job if you had one or can get one) jobs, & everybody pays rent for board & room, commensurate with their wages (maybe $25\/wk if you\u2019re making $125\/wk)--i got back all my belongings, called marcy twice collect, she & \u2018the family\u2019 are coming to visit (visiting hours are x<\/strike> 11-3 sunday only, you can go outside with your visitors & walk around, picnic tables & horseshoe pits\u2026)--i may get out sunday p.m. or monday a.m., which would be 3\u2153 or 4 days inside\u2026<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike> working as a stage-rigger at a shipyard, steve is working at taco-bell, & looking for work as research physicist, dennis is getting a job at phone co. as frame-man, alan is looking for work as chemist, susan just got job as mail-carrier, eddie\u2019s working for kelly-girls, steve h. & craig are publishing the changes, marcy\u2019s nursing jed, jed is sprouting his seventh tooth and learning to walk and saying \u201cbye-bye\u201d\u2026 i am looking for work at phone co. or at ibm, as engineer\u2019s aide or typewriter repairman or?\u2026 we want to get into making & experimenting with an orgone box (Don H. went into a trance and transcribed two hours onto tape from x<\/strike> unpublished material sealed in the orgone institute archive-vaults\u2026 relating to orgone-energy-domains - (life-force-fields) - and the oranur experiments\u2026), experimenting with an electroencephalograph & alpha-waves, making and selling eskimo yo-yo\u2019s ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1969\/02\/yo-yo-1.png\")
<\/a> (2 balls each on a 3-ft. cord, joined in a handle, you get the balls counter-rotating & it feels like a gyroscope\u2026), making telephone scramblers (one of each end of the connection, punched to same combination, gives clear speech at both ends, but garble anywhere between--neat for anti-bugging\u2026)<\/p>\r\nx<\/strike>-cell-man-nature-earth-sun-sirius-milkyway-Absolute\u2026 and each level has its own characterist time-rate & characteristic speed\u2026 a year for a man is one breath for the earth\u2026 a man\u2019s lifetime is a \u201ctwinkling of the eye\u201d for the sun (what would be 1\/30 sec. for a man\u2026)\u2026 he correlates musical scales & octaves with octaves of organic compounds, octaves of chakras, octavex<\/strike>-squared of periodic table of elements\u2026 also tells about slowing down of human time: divides lifetime into nine xxx<\/strike> subjectively<\/u> equal<\/u> time periods: conception to 2 lunar mo. (when foetus becomes fully human in form & structure), to 4\u00bd mo. (involuntary movement & individual blood-circulation), to birth (starts breathing), to 10 lunar mo. (crawling, voluntary movements), to 2 3\/4 yrs. (talking in sentences, developing intellectual processes), to 7 yrs. (the \u2018age of reason\u2019--full mental digestion of impressions), to 15 yrs. (puberty, beginning of sex function), to 35 yrs. (prime of life, balance of all powers, & possibility of new-age functions developing), to 76 yrs. (death)(and new conception of next lifetime): these periods correspond to one lunar month*, one cycle of \u263f, 10 \u263e-cycles, 1 cycle of \u2640, 100 \u263e-cycles, 1 \u2641-cycle, one \u2644-cycle, and one \u2645-cycle (=1000 \u263e-cycles)\u2026 enough to boggle your mind?!!<\/p>\r\nNotes<\/h2>\r\n
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