I woke this morning to the realization that my comments about ME in yesterday’s articles contained the sound of chest-beating.

I also woke with a terrible cold.

The two are related.

My doctor brother explained to me decades ago that one symptom of a cold coming on is a lot like taking speed. Since he pointed this out, I started noticing it. So it was as if I had taken a small does of Dexedrine, which leads to chest-beating if you have been off speed for many, many years.

I have told you about the many times in college when I would actually laugh out loud at things like the Preamble to the Soviet Constitution of 1936, and realize that the class and the professor were all looking at me oddly. When I was in drug recovery many year later I suppressed this urge.

A guy was taking his year chip and said that he had been “chemical free for another year.” If I had laughed, I would have gotten that old sensation of everybody looking at me with those glazed eyes that I experienced in college.

What would I have laughed at? We all know that if he had been chemical free he would be dead. More to the point, the fact that he is able to speak shows that he is a mass of chemical reactions that an endocrinologist would require a library and a full day to describe, and those are just the reactions medicine knows about.

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to describe when, in his exercises, “The pain began.”

People who love heavy exercise are addicted to dopamine, which is the chemical a morphine addict is addicted to. It is secreted inside the body as a reaction to pain or a shot of morphine, which is why morphine is a pain suppresser.

When we say “drugs” we mean chemicals inserted into the body. But I was also addicted to adrenaline and to fatigue poisons that were secreted from inside my own body as I reached my sixteenth hour of frantic work.

This takes a little of the romance out of being an exercise fanatic or a workaholic, but it is the truth.

It is not only outside chemicals which are addictive or which make you unbalanced. That is one reason I leave The Divine Plan out of my religion. If the human body is the result of a Divine Plan, it has all the earmarks of a Soviet Five Year Plan. I am not about to go to Judgment saying that God is no smarter than Lenin!

I prefer to blame evolution. In the program, one if led to believe that the natural human glands are in some kind of Perfect Balance. It definitely is not. As in the case of my machismo yesterday, no human brain is or ever will be in that kind of balance.

I have had to literally sit on people who had stopped taking their lithium. They were drug-free, and this always seems to lead to a manic-depressive deciding he doesn’t need THAT chemical either.

You don’t have to be on drugs to have a drug problem. A person who needs lithium or a hundred other drugs is NOT “chemical free.” He is in fact being poisoned by the chemical imbalances INSIDE HIS BODY.

This effect of the drug program is unfortunate. If people in it realized this, they would get a permanent benefit from their former addiction: They would learn to LISTEN for chemical imbalances, which is more than the average person knows to do.

They should do as we do with the Mantra. You BEGIN with Mantra Logic, not just as cure for what ails society right now, but as a guide to the whole say of thinking which is what is wrong with our world.

Thank you, Dave! This is an extension of your insight.

Thank you, woundednietzsche! You brought my fliratation with machismo back to the Mantra after I left the subject hanging.

Woundednietzsche, bless him,said:

“This did not have the dramatic effect of terrifying him. He just looked at me and decided I made sense. Every person who lives a life of confrontation makes a calculation. If he goes after everybody he’s dead before he reaches age twenty. I was just somebody he knew not to push.”

You didn’t have to terrify him, you simply had to show no fear. Street hustlers, muggers, aggressors, and PC ENFORCERS (Bob’s caps) are very much like dogs, they work off of signals. Everything you do is sending a signal, but they can smell fear a mile off. Fear is what ignites their aggression. Fear is what they expect you to show. When you don’t show fear, THEY immediately become frightened. We know what’s in their arsenal and its nothing we’ve not seen before. Trust that the enemy will be feeling the mantra slice into their underbelly for the first time