The Buddha of Bernicia – Part Two

The Raw Milk Magic Mushroom Assassin

 

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Firstly, my upcoming presentation at the Riddings Community Centre in Derbyshire, “A Fistful of Shekels” and, secondly, my serialisation of “The Buddha of Bernicia” – a salutary audio examination of how I unwittingly and stupidly fell for the false promises of a cult and its leader, a man whom I mistakenly took to be a friend.

The first part ended with me asking the question as to how could I have not seen through it and can be heard here.

That question is a pertinent one. Some may claim that I should have been wiser, that I should have paid more attention to the BS and seen it as an exit sign that was flashing bright red.

But hindsight is just that and, being comfortable in my own skin (my bio-meat suit), being someone who appreciates solitude and, consequently, is never afraid to be alone, is it not natural that I would appreciate the company of another who was, seemingly, offering a reflection of myself, albeit a fake one?

That, in and of itself, is an interesting aspect of all of this for is it not the way of the con-artist to mirror his target and present a similar/compatible persona with which the target will ‘identify’ and from which a confidence will develop?

I’m not shying away from my errors of judgement, nor am I concerned about explaining them. We are each singular spirits (more powerful than we realise) passing through this spiritual world, a realm littered with pitfalls for the unwary; a perceived reality that all the while is being manipulated and re-presented to us as having a ‘real’ materiality when the opposite is the case.

Every day provides us with the opportunity to learn more and more. For instance, when I arrived in the city of Dunfermline with my children and their mother on Sunday last (13th September), I parked up and read a plaque near the Abbey walls. It informed me that Charles Stuart 1st was born in Dunfermline in 1600 and that for 400 years, this grand city had been the capital of Scotland.

Neither was I particularly knowledgeable of Andrew Carnegie, another famous son of Dunfermline who sold his American Steel Company to JP Morgan for what, nowadays, would be a sum in the billions of dollars.

Not that Morgan used cash: he bought it with commercial paper, largely in the form of bonds.

And so, I offer up the series in audio form in order to combat the lies that were spewed out about me by the wee BOB (Buddha of Bernicia), in the hope and expectation that the listener will glean interest and insights that may be of use to him, as he continues his journey through this incredible realm.

BOB Part Two: The Raw Milk Magic Mushroom Assassin

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Notes: the truth will out – in which the author admits to being fooled, to falling for a cult and its leaders false promise of free beer tomorrow – admittance to blind spots, to naivety – how I won’t be the first or the last as the world is a fiction and we are but our own imaginings of ourselves – the necessity of being your own man or woman, of being an errant or a rogue – £40k raised in donations for a high faulting legal team – went to a struck of barrister instead – Ben Conlon, a con within a con – a high end pad in Tynemouth – extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – commercial paper to form the basis for the UCT bank – but what kind of basis is that, truly? – two months of grandiosity, of self-aggrandisement – claims of greatness of intellect, fathering, fighting, love-making and comic superiority – the raw milk magic mushroom assassination attempt – the dating game – the height of delusion – a storm out on a rainy night.

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