On 01-13-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Day Brown... 
 MB>  DB> Like my desktop computer, I tinker with my mind, trying to 
 MB>  DB> get it run more smoothly- I have risked some serious crashes 
 MB>  DB> in this endeavor, but the results of stressing the system to 
 MB>  DB> limits teaches me more about it. Obviously not something to 
 MB>  DB> recommend to anyone else; if you have another tool use it. 
 MB> 
 MB>  When you are able to muster the capability to see from underneath 
 MB>  what is inside the quark, to realize how huge it actually is, 
 MB>  and to see how small the universe is by comparison; to understand 
 MB>  that the meaning of your own life is minor in relation to knowing 
 MB>  the mechanism which _decided_ you must exist, to comprehend the 
 MB>  majesty of the desert rose, and to grasp time in your fingers and 
 MB>  make it hang in the air and smell of jasmine, when you can touch 
 MB>  with your hands the breadth of space and to exhale life itself 
 MB>  to a distant sphere - then your tools will have made you God, 
 MB>  and you will know the fullness of being, and win the bet. 
I don't need to do it quite that way Mark, all I need 
to do is increase the bandwidth so that I may draw on 
the mainframe databank of God. I do not need to do all 
the research, I can draw on his.  At the heart of the 
eastern mystic belief is the idea that one can change 
oneself to open up this channel.  The advantage of the 
computer is the metaphor it provides to understand the 
whole process. 
 
Nor, do I need to limit my understanding by the limits 
on the insight of the Biblical authors; there is also 
the vast collection of the Greek, Persian, Egyptian, 
Sumerian, Hindu, Confucian... Joseph Campbell has done 
a pretty good job of integrating all the mythology, 
and tracing the evolution of myth has it's own clues. 
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