Dear friends and family -
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| David Dakan Allison - the Fool |
I send you love and light from Chiang Mai. It’s been a funky week for me. Every day was yesterday until I got to Saturday and found out it was really Sunday. I lost a day somewhere - where did it go? It’s been 100 degrees and muggy and I’ve been full of shit. Literally. But beside all that I report in healthy and happy.
I’ll admit I’m The Fool. In the tarot the Fool is about to walk off a cliff totally unaware of the danger ahead. He keeps walking, proceeding in innocence. What’s ahead isn’t danger at all, but enlightenment and self-realization. One is either foolish enough to proceed, or not. I am. "Moment to moment, and with every step, the Fool leaves the past behind. He carries nothing more than his purity, innocence and trust."
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| Osho - the Fool |
As a fictional author I spend time every day writing about a journey into an alternate reality--Shambala - The Path to Paradise. I live in a sort of alternate reality - Thailand, but still it’s the third dimension. Apparently (as the fool) I'm moving, literally, into the forth and fifth dimensions of reality - where I lose track of linear time as we know it and weird things happen. I’m having fun and my spirit is going for it--it being self-realization--as I allow myself to explore these dimensions of reality. There are tools which people use to experience other dimensions--LSD, potent mushrooms and ayawaska. I have experimented with each so I am aware of the effect. But, drugs are like a day at the amusement park--you go there and the next day you go back to work. In a Shaman’s journey the drugs aren’t necessary. The daily walk goes in an out of dimensions. I believe one day (maybe sooner than we imagine) we’ll all be able to freely travel in the 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions.
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| Blessing ceremony |
Master Lek is a Buddhist shaman. I can’t prove the correlation, only report the story, which has taken weeks to unfold. An evil spirit was removed from my gut, but not really (he was hiding) and the evil spirit wasn’t even evil (just stubborn)--he was a Tibetan Buddhist Lama. In the third ceremony Lek identified and successfully removed the Lama from my gut and placed him on the altar in his house, not suspecting what was to come. The Lama liked being in my gut, had been there for a long time, and was very angry with Lek for taking him out. Two things happened. Lek, a normally healthy man, became extremely ill--throwing up and diarrhea every day for a week. And I, a regular man, was totally constipated without one bowel movement for that same week. (thus full of shit—not normal) Lek battled for seven days with the powerful Lama and on Sunday night he finally proved to be more powerful. He got well and I got diarrhea--and the Lama went back to his place on the altar. Shaman like Lek see all this—it is a part of their world which is a part of ours.
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| Lakshmi |
Sometime during the week the owner of a sacred art
store gave me this drawing of Lakshmi - as a reminder
that I am entitled (all of us) to wealth, prosperity, light,
wisdom, fortune, fertility, generosity and courage.
The goddess Lakshmi is the embodiment of beauty,
grace and charm.
Yesterday Lek gave me a little piece of paper--supposedly very sacred and blessed by five Buddhas--to swallow, protecting my stomach. Is it possible to have someone like a Lama living in your belly, dictating things like celibacy, poverty and diet? In my personal experience, the reality of my life, I would say yes. I just thought of a friend I once had. She started slumping over and couldn’t be with a man for more than two dates. Then a shaman pointed to her deceased mother sitting on her shoulders, nagging her that all the men were wrong for her. Once mother was gone her posture immediately improved and she met her husband. Who knows what will happen now that the Lama is gone.
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| This is the world outside my window |
I keep updating my website. I would love to include your picture in it. I like to connect a real person with websites or events—so if you have something you want posted on my site please send a picture with the link. I have a new page called Inspirations, including a most beautiful message from Patricia Cota Robles—well worth fifteen minutes of quiet time. And if you want to know what's really happening in the world, click on David Wilcox. In the meantime I keep editing my book and enjoying my life in Chiang Mai. Next week I'll be writing from Hanoi, Vietnam, maybe a day sooner, since I will be taking the overnight train to Sapa, near the China border. http://www.ki-earth.com
With all my love,
David Dakan Allison
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