Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 196358 Harriet St., San Francisco 3, Calif.November 12, 1963My dear Hugo:This in a sense is my diary which is being converted into a communication. For my close friendand associate, Major Sadiq, is trying to come to the United States next month. He is a top spiritualistand healer, but he is also coming on an agricultural mission. This means a detailed movementthrough California and it will be easy to stop at SLO and we should wish to see you on both thehealing and spiritual missions.A number of weeks ago Ed Hunt warned me that a husband of one of my cousins was very ill,and the cousin denied it. But he died and I met Ed at the funeral and since. Not only age but changinginterests have drawn us close—for example, I am a sort of perpetual student at Art School andwe are both interested in beautification. So is John Wingate but John is not in circulation.The death brought into objectivity something which is much absent from the American psyche,which is to say a form of love which is super-physical without ceasing to be physical. I was readingin Inayat Khan how from his point of view the Western world was expressing mores and habitswhich were nothing but animality glorified in words. The animality was not wrong but the glorificationof it in words was preventing Occidentals from realizing areas of bliss and has, instead, pushedus pell-mell into LSD and a lot of nonsense parading as “occultism.”This period has also manifested the complete wiping out of adverse karma. With ten sets of enemiesin 1956 the guidance through meditation first was “Let your enemies fight each other.” This istoday true in some bizarre senses. I gave Alan Watts a pile of research and he immediately closed thedoor on it, would not let me refer to it, and became hostile. Like all the karma-wallahs, he got it. Hisassociates first and then his wife turned on him and now I am acclaimed—and it is disgusting—becauseI am out of favor with AW, just as before I was rejected because I was out of favor. The publicattitude has changed enormously in this and a number of other incidents of the same kind. There isnothing noble in it.But the big problem has always been Mrs. I. (to hide her identity) and the answer from meditationwas to “make friends with Mr. I’s friends.” Not only has this been accomplished but even Mr.I.—who is very important in international affairs—has come to me and asked what I have been doingon desert agriculture. This came immediately after I had outlined my “Solution of the PalestineImpasse” and “The Garden of Allah Project.”Originally I had a plan for Palestine which was OK’d by almost everybody from Rabbi Magneson Mt. Scopus to this Arab World but the above Mrs. I. made it impossible for me to proceed. I don’tgo into that. When I very quietly outlined some elements to the associates of Field Marshall Burnsthey all had the same reaction, most favorable. It is now I am coming out very carefully with a revisedscheme to fit the scope of the day.