From – The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, by P.D. Ouspensky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Life_of_Ivan_Osokin)
found and selected by Jason Salyers
“This is not certain. You may want to come, but you may not be able to. There are many sides to these problems which you do not know yet. You may meet quite unexpected difficulties. One thing only I can say for certain. Circumstances may change, but there is not the slightest possibility of doubt that you yourself will arrive at the same decision. In that there can be no difference or change…
My dear friend, this trap is called life. If you want to repeat the experiment once more, I am at your service. But I warn you, you will change nothing; you can only make things worse.
.
Even if you remember everything….. First, because you will not retain this memory long. It will be too painful, and you yourself will want to get rid of it and forget. And then you will forget. Second, even if you remember, it will not help you. You will remember — and still continue to do the same things.
.
You must understand that chances are limited; no one has unlimited chances. And you never know when you have used your last chance. On the other hand, if you go on living, perhaps something can be changed sufficiently to enable you to start differently the next time.
.
–“Is it worth living for this?”
.
“That is your affair. You have to decide for yourself. But remember one thing, if you go back as blind as you are now, you will do the same things again and a repetition of all that happened before is inevitable. You will not escape from the wheel; everything will go on as before. You ask me what you are to do. I answer: Live. It is your only chance.
.
If you think carefully, you will find in my words all that you need. But if you still want to go back and begin again I will send you back even to the day of your birth, if you like. But I warn you that you will come here again — if you can.
.
The wind returneth again according to his circuits… The thing that has been, it is that which will be; and that which is done is that which shall be done.”
.
–“So nothing can be changed?” says Osokin.
.
Ouspensky
I never said that nothing can be changed. I said that you cannot change anything, and that nothing will change by itself..
You must realize, that you yourself can change nothing and that you must seek help. And it must be a very deep realization, because to realize today and then forget tomorrow is not sufficient. One must live with this realization.
.
You can know what you may get through the realization of what it is you want. For some very complicated reasons which are all in yourself, you happen to have guessed a very great secret which people generally do not know. By itself your guess is useless because you cannot apply it to anything. But the fact that you know this secret opens certain doors for you. You know that everything repeats again and again. There have been other people who made the same discovery but they could make nothing of it. If you could change something in yourself, you would be able to use this knowledge for your own advantage. So, you see,
you do know what you want and what you may get.
Now to the question of what to sacrifice and how to sacrifice;
You say you have nothing. Not quite.
You have your life. So you can sacrifice your life. It is a very small price to pay since you meant to throw it away in any case.
Instead of that, give me your life and I will see what can be made of you. I will even make it easier for you. I shall not require the whole of your life. Twenty, even fifteen years will be sufficient.
But during these years you must belong to me. I mean, you must do everything I tell you without evasions and excuses. If you keep your side of the bargain, I shall keep mine. When this time is over you will be able to use your knowledge for yourself. It is your good luck that you can be useful to me just now – not at once, certainly, but I can wait if there is anything to wait for. So now you know what you have to sacrifice.
.
There is something else which may be said. People who make the same guess that you have made have certain advantages and certain disadvantages in comparison with other people who guess nothing. Their advantage is that they can be taught what other people cannot be taught, and their disadvantage is that, for them, time becomes very limited. An ordinary man can turn round and round on the wheel and nothing happens to him until he finally disappears.
.
Again, there are many things you do not know about this; but you must understand that in the course of time even the position of the stars in relation to one another changes. (And men depend on the stars much more than they realize, though not in the same way as they think, if they think about it at all.) Nothing remains the same in time. But a man who has begun to guess the great secret must make use of it, for otherwise it turns against him. It is not a safe secret. When one has become aware of it, one must go on or one will go down. When one finds the secret or hears about it, one has only two or three, or in any case a few more lives.
.
If those people do not find new guidance and new help very soon, their lives begin to go down, and after some time they cease to be born and are replaced by other people. You must understand that they become useless, sometimes dangerous, because they know the great secret and remember many things; but all that they know, they understand in the wrong way. And in any case, if they have not used their chances before, then each time their possibilities become fewer.
.
I must warn you that there are many dangers on the way, dangers about which you have never heard, or heard quite wrongly. A long time ago I met a very disagreeable gentleman who is sometimes pictured with horns and hoofs. He is not as big as some people make him out to be, but his chief occupation in life is to hinder the development of people who have guessed the great secret. And my occupation is to hinder him.
So you must understand that very powerful forces will be opposed to you — and you will be alone, always alone. Remember this.”
.
.
…..Website visitors worldwide
.
6/30 @ 9:50 : Trenton, New Jersey, US
6/30 @ 9:49 : Winnipeg, CA
6/30 @ 9:49 : Mexico, MX
6/30 @ 9:49 : Regensburg, DE
6/30 @ 9:49 : Rostock, DE
6/30 @ 9:48 : San Francisco, California, US
6/30 @ 9:48 : Rostock, DE
6/30 @ 9:46 : London, GB
6/30 @ 9:46 : Bad Dürkheim, DE
6/30 @ 9:44 : Winnipeg, CA
6/30 @ 9:44 : Spring Valley, New York, US
6/30 @ 9:43 : Winnipeg, CA
6/30 @ 9:42 : Mexico, MX
6/30 @ 9:35 : Princeton, New Jersey, US
6/30 @ 9:35 : Menlo Park, California, US
6/30 @ 9:35 : Riehen, CH
…..Can you donate?
John de Nugent
POB 43
Apollo PA 15613
(724) 596-4268
john_denugent@yahoo.com
For PayPal, please write me.
–$50 from D. in Phoenix, Arizona via Greendot MoneyPak
–May 31, 2014 $200 from W. in Germany via Western Union …
Donations log: https://johndenugent.com/donations-log
What is it that Germans understand, when they donate to me, about the misery of having NO FREE SPEECH OR GUNS that Americans still do not get? 
.
….Paid work I do in writing, videos, and translations
https://johndenugent.com/wn-biography-of-jdn/about-john/important-articles-and-threads
.
.
……to a comrade who criticized my path
Thank you for your email.
Hitler got a pitiful 2.6% of the vote in 1928 after eight years of backbreaking political work: speeches, writing, marching and organizing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1928
What this proves is that when the time is not right, no leader can get off the ground. Every historian agrees that the Great Depression made Hitler.
In this article you can see the difference that the Crash caused — hunger, unemployment, despair and the rising threat of German communism. This time Hitler got 18% and he rose faster and faster after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1930
Two posters for the NSDAP that came out after the Depression hit: 1) “Workers of the brain and hand, vote for the frontline soldier Hitler” and 2) “Against hunger and despair, vote Hitler”
The Black-White alliance against the Pharisees and the searing NUMEC issue (example: our neighbor lost all three of her sisters to rare cancers) will propel me in November 2015 to political victory here in this town of 1600 that is just 14 blocks north to south. I just need a pair of shoes to campaign here, $50 for flyers, courage, persistence and a simple message: take back America from the Pharisee Jews.
THIS ONE VIDEO ALONE (http://trutube.tv/video/22307/Israeli-tv-show-mocks-Christ8217s-Crucifixion-)CAUSES JAWS TO ABSOLUTELY DROP IN THIS TOWN FULL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. And I mean literally drop. This one video of this Israeli mocking and savaging Jesus Christ leaves people stunned. In these three minutes they “get it” about the hate-filled, violent, murderous nature of the Pharisee Jews. And the thing is this: everyone likes Jesus, even agnostics, even if they think he was just a gentle hippie or deluded idealist teaching good stuff. What is not to like about peace, love, forgiveness, brotherhood, humility, and service to others?
I remain convinced that I am not perfect but on the right path. I am groping my way through the fog of neurochemicals (this town is being blizzarded with chemtrails spewed by low-level flights), defeatism, narcissistic selfishness and personal treachery. Whites today act like ghetto blacks in the 1960s. Heroin use is everywhere. And they hate each other in this town, and especially their politicians and cops.
The task is immense and daunting. So I must think outside the box, and follow my star no matter how alone that might initially leave me.
John de Nugent
Leave a Reply