Chateau Latour

The Chateau Latour wines - there are three of them produced each year - are the 'old school' Bordeaux style of wine.

I mean you could go on and on at length describing what any particular example of this wine tastes like, if you have tasted it, and if you had the kinds of words that are typically splashed all over 'old school premium magazines...' Except that, of course, today, there is pretty much no such thing as a 'premium magazine!' 

The 2005 Grand Vin will cost you around two and a half thousand dollars. 

Okay but let's move a touch above and beyond the rest of the world here, shall we?

So what's the secret? The secret is who will you drink this wine with. And even a few steps before that is how will you 'connect' with the worthy...

I want you to imagine that inside your mind, it is just like the planet on which you live. There is this blaring noise, my friends, going on inside your head - and it comes from all the 'truth' that everyone around you has shared with you since you were a little child, insisted on sharing with you, and still are sharing and frankly, are possibly even imposing on you by this stage likely as not without you even being able to resist all that easily.

Where we 'live' from moment to moment inside our own heads is mostly close to where all the noise is - that is, we don't see it as noise; we see it as 'truth,' and using reason, being 'informed,' moreover we have the audacity to say 'informed with facts!' Uh-huh.

 

McLaren seat back

Now let me tell you what you already know about the natural world... When you go into some lonely forest, you will walk through tall trees, thick growth, undergrowth, narrow paths if you are lucky, with the highest energy sunlight mostly captured in the canopy level, and slower frequency/lower energy light filtering down to the lower levels, until, right at the bottom, there may even be plants that have iridescent blue-green leaves, which scavenge the small amounts of red spectrum light. 

In the relative darkness down there, in the silence, then, you can start to discriminate one frequency from the other, and observe the different characteristics of each one, without being pushed around by the 'noise' of too much data and too much indiscriminate stimuli.

So... Are you getting close to an understanding of what it means, when some wise people of ancient times employed phrases like 'a still small voice?'

You know, when Zarathustra rushed out into the marketplace and screamed that he had found 'truth' or 'the' truth, and he threw his message into the blaring 'noise' that was already there, the crowd thought him mad.

Finding 'the truth' isn't even all that difficult. Keeping your mouth shut about it is intensely challenging.

You make a really large sum of money and unprepared, you will walk into a place in the forest of your own mind, that no one explains properly mostly because they have never been there and returned intact, or else, they wander lost there pretending they are 'the elite' or the 'wealthy.' 

Just a place in Barcelona somewhere

In the forests of your mind, especially if these grow up the sides of elevations, there are vast 'fog walls' which descend down upon you, and in which you will be utterly lost if you don't know what you are doing. Mountain fog is very moist too, full of actual droplets of water, and you can't see beyond ten feet in there. Depending on what side of the mountain you are, the fog may not even lift right throughout the day, and at night, you'll be cold and drenched and all alone.

Now you can carry on like most people do, pretending that you are ever going to find your way out all by yourself, but you never will. 

What do you think now? Are you coming with me up into the hills? Are you going up by yourself maybe, high up there to find the mystical blue poppy all alone, and by yourself?

LOL.

...What do you think? Now that your eyes and ears are becoming more accustomed to the silence and the dark... Are we alone? ; ) 

My friends, I am quite sure there are still many among you who have been reading here for a good long while and you are still quite sure that you haven't got vertigo, and that you know 'up' from 'down' and that you literally do have the power and the capability to judge what is really true basing it all from what you are quite sure you know and have already established as fact, or at least the factual basis for knowing what is real and what is only delusion.