YOU CAN START A MOST WONDERFUL JOURNEY

from your comfortable bed,in a horizontal yoga pose, or slightly upright in you comfortable armchair in the 'meditative pose advocated also for 'Westerners'. Either position,either way,involves a passive 'body' a relaxed 'mind', and positive 'emotions' among other things plus a lengthy period free from any and all distractions: basically, 'attention','concentration''awareness' ,'self-observation', and 'meditation'-leading to 'contemplation' and/or 'ecstacy/enlightenment'--WORDS THAT ARE NOT IN MOST ORDINARY PERSONS VOCABULARY OR INTEREST. 'Sensation' & 'excitement';'stimulation' and 'arousal'; are what contemporarypeoples want and desire, seek,search and devote their lives and energies until they are 'wasted' and 'devoured' by 'THE HUNGRY GODS WHO FEED ON MANKIND-the source of all vampire/demon stories, of course......Watch out for 'demon lovers' in particular.....

OVERSTUFFED FURNITURE: COUCHES & CHAIRS AND SOFAS AND DIVANS

Victorian type homes and houses,both in England and the US, for example, often had an air of elegance and charm and so on, even if some people were not wealthy or had homes that resembled castles......Today's crap with its ultra slim and light materials for moderns and contemporaries who occupy apartments, flats, and pads or live in tents,etc. and hate to lift heavy chairs or use large tables and often prefer to sit 'yogi'style on the floors and roam around the rooms 'doggie' style, then one can understand why old furniture is often seen as 'antiques' commanding high prices if any good stuff can be found....well, of course, wood and timber in the US is hard to come by,that is, the great trees of long age are seldom to be found and usually have to be protected in various ways, otherwise they are turned into wood pellets and bio-fuels... Anyway, the armchair and the couch,now used mostly for TV and other entertainments, rather than for rest and meditation, seem archaic and obsolete for many...but some of the world's greatest thinkers have made use of such furniture in their own way to come up with some ideas and things that still exert an influence on mankind, at least to those who read and understand them perhaps.

THE ARMCHAIR

I grew up using real armchairs that were soft, huge, comfortable, with nice arms and which allowd room for thinking and writing and doing a lot of meditational work and which are 'a great invention'..MOST GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS AND MAGICIANS all used arm chairs in some way when doing things....mulling things over by even fictional characters sitting in armchairs is well-known especially among Victorian Detectives of note and literary fame.........The armchir is a sort of throne but it is more than that...IT IS A VEHICLE OF TRANSPORTATION OF THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE WINGS...a place to view VAST VISTAS and to receive IMAGES...and to take flights of the imagination...at true LAUNCH PAD....today's abominable abodes, those slick modern apartments and senior centers with glizy, trendy furniture and modernistic twists, do not have such a thing.....children are relegated to a culture of clutter and plastic and cheap, light materials that eventually are disposed of and thrown away to be replaced by 'adult' toys of crap that has not lasting value or significance...but which fills landfills .....When was the last time you sat in a real armchair?