In California, the animist gods of fire, water (floods/droughts), earth (mudslides/earthquakes) and air (inflation) are screaming for people to leave. Yet, sentimental thinking (the self) keeps people from listening....
Fiction is our memory of non-fiction....
We are born of the soul as a self for a short journey in the play of life. When we are scripted out of the play, we are no longer a self but remain the soul. The play is a divine comedy for those who remember the way of the ever-present and eternal soul. The play is a tragedy for those selves who don't know the way. They are the lost souls....
Political decadence is when right or wrong is replaced by right or left....
The mystical experience is seeing the light through the mist. ...