It really is feeling more and more like we are living through one very suspenseful inexplicable and totally engaging episode of the Twilight Zone. But as we watch the people mentioned above reveal their true intentions, maybe this is a good time to stop for a moment and reflect. As someone who has spent a lifetime exploring the intricat…
It really is feeling more and more like we are living through one very suspenseful inexplicable and totally engaging episode of the Twilight Zone. But as we watch the people mentioned above reveal their true intentions, maybe this is a good time to stop for a moment and reflect. As someone who has spent a lifetime exploring the intricate and inspiring nature of the human heart, I can only wonder if what we are now going through is part of a divine plan. Maybe this is the only way for all of us who truly care to be shaken enough to wake up from the nightmare we’ve been struggling through.
Growing up in the aftermath of 2 World Wars and much else, I often ask myself if I was present there in a previous lifetime. And if I was, how has it effected the way I see things here and now? The one thing that keeps coming up is the longing to serve and respect the supreme source, the divine higher self. I join a rapidly expanding movement that is working to move us as far away as possible from the demented vision of philathropaths you refer to (my first time using this word), and look into the eyes of those who stand with me in this quest - there is a deep respect for life, an understanding that we are leaving behind our slave self and following the call of a voice, once just a whisper, and now becoming a song of the deepest love we can ever experience.
Beautiful, Jeff, and I am continually amazed at how prescient and increasingly applicable “The Twilight Zone” episodes are! Fresh on the heels of WWII totalitarianism, Rod Serling tried to warn us against falling for those tricks again, but sadly, too many people failed to pay attention.
After the original black and white series (always of Friday nights) had concluded, the Twilight Zone returned in living color on Thursdays a couple of years later. The episodes were not all written by Serling but were still mind bending and often very profound. I still vividly remember one show where a very young man has begun to stir up crowds as he attends rallies deliver exciting speeches. Turns out he’s being influenced by an older man who’s face remains hidden until the last scene where we see it to be that of the aging Fuhrer himself.
I’ve mentioned this little story of my own youth on numerous occasions. When I was 16 I was staying in a hotel in New York with my mom and headed down to the lobby when I stepped into an elevator alone with Rod Serling. Just the two of us took a ride down 40 floors into the Twilight Zone. I was not going to pass up the opportunity so I asked him if these stories he created were for real. Taking a drag on his ever present cigarette, he smiled and said ”yeah kid they are.”
"we are leaving behind our slave self and following the call of a voice, once just a whisper, and now becoming a song of the deepest love we can ever experience."
It really is feeling more and more like we are living through one very suspenseful inexplicable and totally engaging episode of the Twilight Zone. But as we watch the people mentioned above reveal their true intentions, maybe this is a good time to stop for a moment and reflect. As someone who has spent a lifetime exploring the intricate and inspiring nature of the human heart, I can only wonder if what we are now going through is part of a divine plan. Maybe this is the only way for all of us who truly care to be shaken enough to wake up from the nightmare we’ve been struggling through.
Growing up in the aftermath of 2 World Wars and much else, I often ask myself if I was present there in a previous lifetime. And if I was, how has it effected the way I see things here and now? The one thing that keeps coming up is the longing to serve and respect the supreme source, the divine higher self. I join a rapidly expanding movement that is working to move us as far away as possible from the demented vision of philathropaths you refer to (my first time using this word), and look into the eyes of those who stand with me in this quest - there is a deep respect for life, an understanding that we are leaving behind our slave self and following the call of a voice, once just a whisper, and now becoming a song of the deepest love we can ever experience.
Beautiful, Jeff, and I am continually amazed at how prescient and increasingly applicable “The Twilight Zone” episodes are! Fresh on the heels of WWII totalitarianism, Rod Serling tried to warn us against falling for those tricks again, but sadly, too many people failed to pay attention.
After the original black and white series (always of Friday nights) had concluded, the Twilight Zone returned in living color on Thursdays a couple of years later. The episodes were not all written by Serling but were still mind bending and often very profound. I still vividly remember one show where a very young man has begun to stir up crowds as he attends rallies deliver exciting speeches. Turns out he’s being influenced by an older man who’s face remains hidden until the last scene where we see it to be that of the aging Fuhrer himself.
I’ve mentioned this little story of my own youth on numerous occasions. When I was 16 I was staying in a hotel in New York with my mom and headed down to the lobby when I stepped into an elevator alone with Rod Serling. Just the two of us took a ride down 40 floors into the Twilight Zone. I was not going to pass up the opportunity so I asked him if these stories he created were for real. Taking a drag on his ever present cigarette, he smiled and said ”yeah kid they are.”
Actually, that was an original TZ titled “He’s Alive” (https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/He%27s_Alive) and starring a young Dennis Hopper!
WOW, what a fabulous anecdote about Rod Serling! Makes you wonder what he meant by “real.”
"we are leaving behind our slave self and following the call of a voice, once just a whisper, and now becoming a song of the deepest love we can ever experience."
I'm with you. Beautifully put.