An interview with Forget-Me-Not

Way ahead of the game.

-an interview with Forget-Me-Not, a purple flower.

"do you think the world is damned?"

F-M-N; "Some people's minds are damned. Life is not damned. Life is
flowing".

"Do you think evolution is at odds with Western style progress?".

F-M-N; "We are so much further ahead in our evolution than those with a
stake in the material status quo believe. We have already - in spirit -
moved beyond a faith in machines. We have tapped sources of energy more
sublime than crude oil or dinosaur electricity".

"You're saying then that we are in fact further ahead than the lag of
familarity?"

F-M-N; "Yes".

"Do you think the unkown daunts us"

F-M-N; "The unkownable is liberty. Its just that we don't know it. And
because we don't know it we all too easily fear it. But it is in the
familiar - in what we are used too - that the real danger lies".

"Yet, you seem to have an idea of what lies around the corner?".

F-M-N; "In the underground the future is already forming - a fire is
burning. We might not see it but it is burning.
A need for change is changing us. When people represent themselves as
who they really are - as vunerable people - as people who can be
touched - then they will find the beginings of the future.
Its not people who miss-rule us - its bad ideas. When we as
individuals, unattached within, free ourselves from such influences,
who we really are becomes apparent.
We are transcenders."

"Are you saying that its as natural creatures and not as radios in tune
to bad frequencies that we can really find the truth behind what's
happening?"

F-M-N; "Yes, its as a real soul in a real life that I have seen the
reality of our situation - which to be true - is not good. An energy
without design has been planting its deadly seeds and reaping its grim
harvest.
But it's too as a living creature in an alive creation that I have
seen a glimpse of our destiny - of what we could just let live through
us. To be true - its not bad - it's a spirit of transformation living
through us."

"What do you think about President Bush and his son of Star
Wars?"

F-M-N; "A pair of ugly offspring".

"Will you elaborate?"

F-M-N; "The earth does not need high-tech defences, just as it has no
call for a nuclear deterrant. Death should not rule us - not on a
planet of such living beauty.
Life presents us every moment with creative opportunity yet some turn
to death for a path to till.
That way can only lead to less stable relations between the family of
nations. It's a way that seeks to defend against some insane man's
miltary fantasies rather than dealing with realities.
Of all the fights we can fight, we should not waste energy fighting an
emeny that doesn't yet exist - that is terrible self-forfilling
prophecy.
There are poor forces in the world today, forces that act against the
advancement of the earth - ignorance, stupidity, self-glory, mean
thinking, apathy. Our struggle should be focused on overcoming the
continuation of wasted energy - of energy applied to self defeating
paths. For such ways can only lead to material and spirtual
crisis".

"Have we reached such a crisis?"

F-M-N; "The chinese character for crisis is also the one for
opporunity".

"We always have a chance?"

F-M-N; "Yes, life never gives up on us. Life is greater than its worse
dieaster".

"Do you think technology has become too paramount?"

F-M-N; "The path of technology misses something obvious - the potential
of the mind behind the technology.
Techonolgy is just the manifesting of one kind of formula. Its not the
only formula we can faith too. With the tapping of a spirtual source of
energy we can turn attention to ways that are profoundly free; that do
not foster such a need for things we do not posses.
With human-kind back at the fore we can go on to explore the fullness
of our reach.
Technology is only a formula for giving us a certain material kind of
plaything and as with all formula's for play, it's in its application
that it become what it will become. And skillfull application can only
really come from a spirit with a sense of an earthly journey. It can't
really come from a spirit that seeks only to make more toys.
We should not make the mistake of being held in awe by technology and
material things. We should not let them enshrine our spirit. The spirit
should be free to dance with life. Life is a freedom beyond things. Its
beyond definition. It can never be caught by a definition so neither
should we. It is a journey that flows that will take us ever onwards
and not a stagnant toying with technology.
We should be free to give currency to dreams unmolested by a corrupt
worship of material spoiling."

"You mean then that we should be free from a system of thought that
holds down real individuality?".

F-M-N; "Yes, we should stick to what we believe personally and what's
more - see it all the way through. We shouldn't surrender our beliefs
because of numbers because a million zero's still add up to
nothing".

"Why do you think we are drawn on mental journeys into bad
terriotries?".

F-M-N; "Every venture into the mass-mind of the myth of civilisation is
a venture to free that which has, it would seem, being taken from us;
our right to be free; our individuality.
It's a self-doubt that leads us first to venture beyond our own
reality and it is the answering of that doubt with a spiritual
certainity that leads to the release from a fatal attraction; a false
gravity.
The mass-mind of civilisation has no hold on us. It has nothing of us
other than our compliance in return for its sanctuary. It has no real
hold, there's nothing to it to stop us from simply freeing ourselves by
reconnecting with the earth and spirtual energy."

"You mean that in the end there is nothing real to it?"

F-M-N; "Yes, self-doubt was the attractor but it failed to deliver. It
had no real substance to it, nothing round which to gravitate. Only the
earth can provide a stage for life to find its feet. For real."

"It offered no real deliverance?"

F-M-N; "It offered only a peace from the brutality that it itself
breeds".

"You have been?"

F-M-N; "I have and I have left such self-doubts behind me".

"Is it then, now a question of self-empowerment?"

F-M-N; "The light to be whoever we are indivually has always been
within us. It is a question of empowerment".

"Is something good happening?"

F-M-N; "Something incredible has always been happening. Its just that
we haven't been free enough to realise."

"Till now?"

F-M-N; "Till now; people are empowering themselves. Each person is a
special person".

"How?"

F-M-N; "People are returning to the source. I have seen this happening.
People are reconecting to the earth in a fundamental way. The earth
still feeds us with the transforming energy that gives our spirit the
freedom to let something incredible live through us".

"An awakening?"

F-M-N; "Its happening; not everywhere but everywhere its
happening."

"What about America?"

F-M-N; "What about America? Its happening in America. Its happening all
round the world. The old citadels of centralised power are crumbling.
Their days are numbered because their reasoning is numbered. They
express only an age that must pass as ages pass. Life is emerging from
its winter. Life is something that needs no patronage. It is the
birth-right of all creatures who are born to live. Life is slowly
becoming the primary power. What life needs is freedom."

"The freedom to express itself?"

F-M-N; "Yes, the freedom to express in a substantial sense."

"But, Bush, the Toxic Texan - surely he is working to promote forces
that are against freedom?"

F-M-N; "All governments act to curtail freedoms and to promote the
requirements of those that have access to the corridors of its legal
apparatus. They are clumsy and full of contradiction. Yet they exist in
a world where a universe can exist within a three leaf clover, where
every life-form is original and holy.
They rule from behind us - life has always been at the front-line.
They rule us by hoodwinking us into believing that they serve a common
good. But what kind of common good is it that's distilled from this
political vine. Why are we left so thirsty. Why are so many cast out
into the outer-reaches of growth - where life is a terrible
burden.
How common is this good - can it cross borders and boundries or does
it come to an abrupt stop for reasons the rest of life doesn't know. Is
it just a myth, and I believe it is and that's all that matters, that
allows the few to profit over the many.
Yet, it has no hold over us other than mental slavery. We give it too
much attention, too much thought. We allow to easily for its
continuation."

"We allow these disabling thoughts into our head?"

F-M-N; "Yes, there's too much system talk. Its time to walk and to
allow the free energy its own time and space to express. Its time to
allow a fresh energy to surprise us with what's always been
happening."

"I know you want to be getting on with your life but can you just
answer a few more questions?"

F-M-N; "Alright, if answers are what you need".

"What do you mean?"

F-M-N; "We're here aren't we. What more do we need?"

"Freedom?"

PAUSE

F-M-N; "Its beyond words".

"People are talking about globalisation being the end of
history?"

F-M-N; "It's the end of a myth. That's the truth. It's the end of a
myth that holds one race of people superior over all others. It's the
beginning of honesty, healing and laughter."

"President Bush and the forces he acts for seem to want to take the
world back as if the last forty years never happened".

F-M-N; "Bush is addding to the pressure that creates change. He is
forcing people to be grounded whilst his puppeteers have the freedom of
the skies. By grounding people and by pounding the ground, he's forcing
people to be closer to the earth, and to the underground - where the
earth is giving birth.
Its like a lightning strike travelling all the way down the spine to
the feet, till earth and feet meet as if for the first time. He's
forcing people to find a deeper source of inspiration.
It can make us feel mad. But the pressure of insane forces acting
overhead can fuse the weight of confusion, that sits on our head, till
it comes a light for cultivating a way ahead.
Forces that deny life's freedom lead life to the underground. It's the
only way that's open - the way even further down. Its in the
underground that the beginings of a fresh future are to be found, and
Bush is driving people into the underground.
There's something wounderful happening. Its beginning as a subterrain
movement. Its beginning to rise up skies that are unmolested by
ungrounded flies."

"You seem happy?"

F-M-N; "Yes, I'm happy. It's a wounderful life."

"So, President Bush and his like are working, despite their own
intentions for a greater destiny?"

F-M-N; "Indirectly all oppressors are working their own downfall. They
are being played by a higher puppeteer. I am working directly for a
higher force. I am working as an independent.
Let me tell you of the spiral of life. The spiral is, if you try to
escape, like a spiders. It will catch you and play with you till
eventually your nemesis comes round to destroy the self-enlarged you.
But if you embrace life and allow life to embrace you, the spiral will
connect you to the truly alive. It will enable you to inspire and be
inspired, till eventually your renewal will come round and destroy the
lesser-you.
President Bush is intent on breeding fear and defensiveness. This
phatom menace, that he and his co-chaos-creators create, is the bogey
man of our childhood.
I am intent on breeding the light within; the light that defeats this
terrible kind of fear; this fear of reaching beyond reacting to events
to understanding the causes. There, we really have an opportunity to
transcend an emeny - a common enemy - stupidity and wasted
energy."

"Servral commentators have said , in spate of recent events, that
terrorism knows no boundary. What do you say to that?"

F-M-N; "Look, with a peace of mind. Love knows no boundary"

"The American landing on the moon - surely this was one of humanities
greatest moments. Can it be surpassed?"

F-M-N; "The American landing on the moon was a great moment. The
pictures of the earth floating in space showed without argument that
our lives are inter-dependent. The Earth has been seen to truly be a
family of one - and this undeniable reality must feed our actions - how
we respond to relations. It was a great moment in that it highlighted
the reality of our situation."

"Has what was seen been applied?"

F-M-N; "It's an undeniable reality, in that there can only be energy
that is wasted and energy that is liberated.

"You mean then, that if a vision of such simplicity, as the earth as
one, goes unrecognised then vision is otherwise engaged in something
less than real?"

F-M-N; "Sometimes I feel sore, what the Americans never saw was the
spirit Totem Pole the earthed people had left on the moon. It was not a
flag of possesion but a beautiful symbol of the unity of all creation.
Americans were not the first people to travel to the moon. They where
just the first to travel in a mechanical way. Grounded people have been
travelling to the moon for aeons. It has been one of the meeting places
of the different culture's of the planet.
What some people don't seem to realise is that earthed people are way
ahead of the game. We are becoming to know creation as a living process
and not a once and for all show. We are becoming to know verbs as where
the truth is at. We are becoming to know that there is more to the
world than there seems to be. We celerbrate love's mystery.
We've been touched by angels; we've founded religions without a name;
we've discovered some of the secrets of time; we've learnt how to keep
our best secrets in eternity; we've found the earth's fertility and the
silence of growth. We've been there and done that and moved on, and if
it was good we've kept it and if it wasn't we haven't.
We've moved beyond a soul faith in machines and into the realm of
purposeful application of free dreams. We've tapped a source of
wounderful energy. Its living through us.
I must make this clear, I have nothing against the humanity of America
- its only inhumanity that I have trouble with. Humanity, all life is
dear to me.There are, to be fair, people who carry bad ideas and
oppress others with those ideas all round the world. Such people need
time out. I need time out. Such people need to rediscover what the
earth's about."
"Some people may say this is fiction."

F-M-N; "life is art of fiction becoming fact".

"Thank you."

F-M-N; "There's one last thing I want to say - I say this for myself -
Independence and sharing is what I'm about. I have a simple
understanding and want to play, for that is the best way.
I'm light. I don't care for academic posturing or artistic poses cause
I'm dancing. I've moved on. My actions will speak what my words can
only say as possibility. I don't need language because I am
substantial. Thank you. Thank you life. Higher expectations to all of
you. May an earth spring live through you.
Forege-Me-Not. Forget-Me-Please. Words are like summer leaves. When
all else dies the spirit survies. Life lives on. Some might say that
this is fiction. But, life is the art of fiction becoming fact.
Goodbye. The words have fallen but the spirit of this forest
surives."

Thomas Erskine, (the cooks that dance), Oakerthorpe, October 2001