The Chain [View all]

“This world and yonder world are incessantly giving birth;
every cause is a mother, its effect the child.
When the effect is born, it to becomes a cause and
gives birth to wonderous effects.
These causes are generation on generation, but it needs
a very well lighted eye to see the links in their chain.”
Jalal-ad-bin Rumi, Persion Sufi poet

He is, in my opinion, the hideous, one-eyed ogre that Thomas Merton said Laurens Van Der Post spoke of, in Merton's introduction to his book “Gandhi on Non-Violence” (New Directions, 1964). He lacks depth perception, rendering his the most shallow of men. Being hollow, all he comes in touch with is damaged. Human beings even beyond his dim awareness also suffer and die.

At times over the last decade, he seemed almost like Victor Frankenstein's monster in Guillermo del Toro's flick, though far less composed of human flesh, due to make-up. Nothing seemed to stop him beyond a brief moment's promise for justice followed by the grief of reality that he escaped meaningful consequence time after time.

Each lie the felon has told is connected to the next, and thus these form the chains that are slowly beginning to tighten around him. For his life is a lie that has up to this point only damaged others. But the universe has a balance and thus we see the decaying flesh of the hideous, one-eyed ogre and listen to the putrefying thoughts of rancid, disconnecting brain.

“You own your lies,” Onondaga Chief Paul Waterman told me from his hospital bed when I asked him if he had a message for society. “And even if it takes a while, every lie you tell will eventually catch up to you. So try very hard to tell the truth. That's what I think. It's better to tell the truth.”

Gandhi said that truth is God, which is distinct from saying God is the truth. He was speaking about an energy force, which is the same as the Haudenosaunee's Power of the Good Mind, when it combines with the Power of Ideas. It is an energy force available to each of us as individuals, which multiplies when we are part of a larger group. An example was citizens collecting food for the poor when Congress was shut down. It is by investing in these things that we will quicken the just ending of the ogre's power to harm others, and actually deliver him to justice.

It may seem a contradiction to say tell the truth, but do not add to the negative force. Certainly, if you are in a large group, such as an extended family holiday gathering, you may “insult” a brain-dead maga who is under the force of the shared delusion that the felon is making America great. Keep in mind that the way you respond to this type has an influence on others listening in. There are positive avenues for communicating the felon's negatives.

The felon will soon be firing several members of the administration. Because he views them as extensions of himself, some of those who make him look bad will have lots more time to spend with their families. Another will be able to travel with his girlfriend, though without a SWAT team for protection. If these bumbling clowns seemed bad, wait until we see their replacements. And it gets worse for him, and better for us.

The maga in Congress are experiencing an implosion. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning. Thomas Massie has told about an FBI agent threatening to bring false charges against one of his staff if they continued to advocate for the release of the Epstein scandal files. The offices of both started experiencing the wrath of the rabid maga supporters of the felon. Like all Americans, they see lone phantoms called forth from within the dark shadows, pulling the triggers of weapons of war.

Some more will show signs of the starting of a spine growing in their backs in 2026. But most will not. And so it is our job to either convince them it's not worth running for re-election, or burying their political careers in the mid-terms. That is a very real possibility that is available to us at this time.