In my constant search of answers to the esoteric perused many pieces of literature and one book in particular is called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by the author Tom Wolfe, and was published in 1968 which was a few years before my time to arrive into this brave new world. It is a story of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and their travels across the United States in a painted bus similar to the one depicted above, taking various forms of psychedelics especially LSD in search of obtaining a higher form of mental and spiritual consciousness. Along the way when others would join to "tune out and drop in" they would ask them, "Are you on the bus?"
That question referred to a state of moving forward in this "new" realm of consciousness, almost a Universal Consciousness.....I can only imagine it being in the realms of what Carl Jung has written. My thoughts began to question our birthing unto our planet....we were birthed here out of Love or so I care to believe. And a Love so enormous that one would never consider harming another for any reason what so ever.....but somewhere....sometime....borders were drawn on the land of mankind, religion became most important....more important than the Love for one another. Our Love was under an illusionary guise that material objects such as rocks and metals became more important for us than Love, religions separated themselves and took humanity along with it....each caring to believe in their own separate God, Ra, Jah, Buddha, Judah.....which ever seemed to work for each individual....then our Love for each others own faith became more important than the others....the whole time quickly losing our grasp of the true faith that kept us all together, warm, and whole.....Love.
Well we may not be able to turn back the hands of time but we can move forward, perhaps even time travel, the popular law of medicine otherwise known as the A.M.A. states that the fastest any person can react to any outside stimuli is 1/25th of a second....and most of mankind reacts to the things happening around us much slower. This is why alcohol impairs ones judgment....it slows down the mental process of proper thinking, but I have met a few people in my Life that become quick witted and sharped detailed after a few drinks, I like to believe they have thicker blood.
Now there have been a few individuals that have been recorded it time to have a reaction time much faster than stated above, one in particular is a man named Bruce Lee. He had been recorded to have a reaction time closer to 1/22nd of a second....this to me created the idea that he was "time traveling", for he had the ability to see things happening around us at a faster reaction time than most, so he could move accordingly.
But what does this all mean you may ask? Well, it means to me that no matter how broke any of us ever get we must ALWAYS be willing to afford to PAY ATTENTION....and when the world begins to get "on the bus" of feeling this enormous urge to Love one another with compassion and understanding, mankind may actually begin to heal itself of one of it's greatest cancers inflicting it today. That "cancer" ladies and gentlemen is Apathy.....and true healing of this world will come through the gateways of perception via Empathy, and on this note I care to let all these words resonate in your minds with this video by a man named Richie Havens & Groove Armada. Richie opened the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and I am glad he is still around to release songs such as the one below.
