One evening, while doing some 'zapping, he came across a program on hypnosis. The guy they were interviewing a hypnotist who claimed his name was Joe Saturn, said that everyone practiced every day a little 'self-hypnosis. The next morning we use it to enter into a spirit-oriented work, and when we read a novel or watch a movie we use it to "enter history" in the evening there serve to fall asleep. That last example that Joe was the preferred Saturn and dwells in illustrating the various systems used every night to ensure a "good sleep": Check the locks of doors and windows, perhaps, drink a glass of water, say a little prayer or engage in a brief moment of meditation. Approached these rituals to the mechanisms set in motion the hypnotist: count backward from ten to zero, for example, or convince the subject gave himself seized by "a heavy drowsiness."
Exercise, pg 177
The reality is a mystery, Dr. Bonsaint, and the texture of everyday things is the stuff with which we mask brightness and darkness. I think for the same reason we cover the faces of the corpses. We see the faces of the dead as a kind of door. E 'closed ... but we know that is not always closed. One day you will get for each of us and each of us will cross the threshold.
But there are places where the fabric is torn and the reality is subtle. The face behind you peering through ... but not the face of a corpse. Almost would be better if it were. The Ackerman's Field is one of those places and it's no wonder that its exhibitor has driven down the sign that says DO NOT ENTER.
N., pg 287
THE KING AND 'BACK
(and I, last night, I fell asleep with the light on)
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