THE SECOND HOUSE-THE SECOND ROOM

THE WAY OF THE MONK is also another room of possible existence and development or evolution and one is which many occupy themselves but without actually being in this room or they stumble upon it and may find it empty. The notion of 'a room' that is locked is,of course, part of the 'forbidden room' notions, such as is found in the fairy tale of BLUEBEARD. Along this line are also certain tales, like THE ARABIAN NIGHTS that require an endless array of nightly tales to prevent being executed or the like. However, finding the right keys to anything is a problem as is the exit from any LABYRINTH or MAZE. Finding the right maps for an endless journey or the HIDDEN CLUES is a task of which many give up on and abandon or perish as the cases may be. When you enter such a ROOM or HOUSE as this you do not know what the result will be but you must accept the need, the necessity, and the requirement which consists usually of; OBEDIENCE, CHASTITY & POVERTY and few can maintain such for a lifetime and reach the goal which lies, of course, in THE FOURTH ROOM@!

POPE JOHN PAUL 2

As some of you may know the late POPE JOHN PAUL THE SECOND, is being considered for 'SAINTHOOD' and a recent article on him mentioned his 'morification' practices which included 'sleeping on the floor' and 'flagellation'. Both of these things are time-honored practices not onlly in churches, monasteries, and convents,etc. but also among practitioners of martial arts, shugendo, fakirism groups,such as dervishes), mystics, yogis, and others. Stimulation of the body by use of percussion and strikes with sticks, hands,etc. to stimulate nerve centers and systems as well as to produce and develop an 'iron body' or appendage are somewhat known these days. Unfortunately, many associate these things with 'sado-masochism' and similar 'sexual' deviations and the like, which can, in some cases, be quite true. Some of this smacks, of course, of 'medievalism' and 'inquisitional' methods to the modern mind that is not used to anything too drastic or misunderstoof,etc. Most people in the world today tend to avoid pain at nearly every cost and subject themselves to pain killers of all kinds, even those that will kill or destroy them.