Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963January 11Most of the things that have followed are connected with Ted Reich. Lottie Fernandez has comeout of her hole, and appears at the TS on Tuesdays. I hope to see her and arrange a meeting withDella Goertz. One does not know if there is any advantage in bringing the Rinzai and Soto peopletogether. Tomorrow afternoon, I go to the Buddhist-Taoist Assn., which is Chinese and Americans,but contains more mature people, and some I knew at an earlier period. The Chinese Buddhists areas divided as the Japanese, but the Japanese differences are based in part by analytical selection, andthe Chinese by synthetic selection (like the Brahmo Semaj.)Last night was spent at the home of Mrs. Charlotte White, 556 Spruce St. It was complicated becauseshe, her friend Pelle, and her closest associate, all wanted to learn both about Sufism and psychism,and it took about two hours to integrate them. However, these are functional people whosepsychism depends neither on mediums nor trances. Yet they all want me to meet a leader here, a Dr.Haley. This is indeterminate on my part.Ted loaned me a copy of “Atomic Suicide” by the Russells. I had met Walter two or three timesin 1946, very long sessions. He is a sort of mystic, and certainly has a cosmic vision. He was veryanti-Atchabelli. Besides, his work is remarkably impersonal. A single reading does not impress, andthe authors distinctly ask readers to read at least three times. I am not enough advanced in physicsand cosmology. But their warning seems well taken, and I believe they are near some of those principleswhich, if accepted, might lead to the eradication of cancer and other virulent diseases.Ted and I have talked this over and we agree that until our sciences accept three bodies, therewill always seem some very unsolvable problems. It is necessary to follow this up. Ted has also locatedPaul Reps’ publisher, and has prepared the way for my visit.I am at last “getting it” in the drawing class. The lecture did go over from the extremely warmwelcome received. I shall go slowly about following up because it is impossible to meet everybodysocially. Tonight I am going to visit my old dancing class, but whether this is resumed is questionable.Life shows at the moment the rejection of reports by a lot of people I thought would receivethem, but a much larger acceptance by people I did not know before. Between the blank walls metby psychic researchers, people with streams of unhappiness and inhibitions, and the searches forGod and spiritual freedom, the outlook is favorable at the moment. It does involve some radicalchanges in my social life, but some of the welcomes given by my very oldest friends here more thancompensate for the displacements of others.