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THE NEIGHBOR Spit -Dalstar
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"In nature everythingis directed towards procreation"
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By: Dalstar (r)
(Dana Sapiro, 20-07-02006)
SeBASTIAAN SPIT IS 53 YEARS OLD. HE WANTS TO PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS. FOR THIRTY YEARS SPIT HAS BEEN PAINTING ORNAMENTS, CLOUDS, LANDSCAPES AND
NUDES.ITS TIME FOR THE CREAM ON THE APPLE PIE", SAYS SPIT,EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE". SEBASTIAAN SEEMS DETERMINED TO BECOME RICH AND FAMOUS.
MANY PEOPLEINCLUDING ARTISTS, HAVE THE SAME DESIRE AND SUCCEED. BUT MOST OF THEM FAIL, DUE TO LACK OF TALENT, ENDEAVOR OR A MULTITUDE OF
CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE SIMPLE DOWN TO EARTH LUCK. ALTHOUGH HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE IS A MENTAL
CONDITION SINE QUA NON AND THE CAREER OF AN ARTIST CAN TAKE UNEXPECTED TURNS, HE MUST HAVE A PLAN. FOR MOST THINGS NEVER HAPPEN.
WHAT IS SEBASTIAAN'S PLAN? REASON? HARD WORK? INTELLIGENCE? INTUITION?
"MAYBE ALL OF THAT. BUT THE MAIN THING NOW IS BEING SENSIBLE. TWO YEARS AGO I REMEMBERED SOMETHING FROM WAY BACK, WHEN I WAS A BOY, GOING TO
SCHOOL IN ALMELO. I VISITED A GUY CALLED JEROEN BEKKER, FROM NEEDE, A HAMLET NEAR THE GERMAN BORDER. HE WAS A FARMER. BUT ALSO A DEVINER.
HE COULD FIND WATER. JUST BY WALKING THROUGH THE VILLAGE AND CARRYING HIS DEVINING ROD, HE DETECTED SUBTERRANEAN WATER COURSES. HE
STARTED DIGGING AND FOUND A WELL. SO I ASKED FOR A WILLOW ROD AND TRIED IT MYSELF. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I FOUND WATER TOOSO I WAS A RADIATION
EXPERT OVERNIGHT. I COULD SENSE NEGATIVE RADIATIONJUST BY A POSITIVE ATTITUDE. A FEW YEARS LATER, IN THE SUMMER OF 1985,1 SPENT A SIX WEEK
HOLIDAY WITH MY PARENTS IN DENIA, SPAIN, BETWEEN VALENCIA AND ALICANTE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST. PRACTICALLY NO RAIN. THE WATER WAS
UNDRINKABLE. TOO SALTY. SO HERE WAS THE TEST. COULD I FIND A WELL? I WALKED THE ROD. YESI COULD."
I HAD HEARD THESE STORIES BEFORE. A DEVINER THAT COULD HELP PEOPLE FIND WATER. DEVINERS MUST HAVE AN ENERGETIC BODY, WHOSE CRITICAL MASS
CAN DETECT WATER ENERGY FIELDS BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THEIR COURSE, BOUNDARIES AND STRENGH. GEOPATHIC RADIATION HAS A NEGATIVE
EFFECT ON HUMAN ORGANS AND ITS MINERAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. A SHORTWAVE LOW FREQUENCY RADIATION CAUSES IDIOMOTORIC TREMBLING IN
WEAK PARTS OF THE BODY, A QUIVERING IN THE BRAIN, A SLIGHT VIBRATION IN THE HEART. THE OSCILLATION BETWEEN PLUS AND MINUS IN THE BODY ELECTRIC
THEN CAUSES THE DIVINING ROD TO POP UP AND DOWN. SUPPOSEDLY JESUS COULD PULL THE TRICK TOO. BEATING WATER FROM THE ROCK. ALTHOUGH IT
SEEMS EASY, IT IS A HELL OF A JOB. TO CONCENTRATE ON THE RIGHT COORDINATION OF BRAINS, HEART AND HANDS. IT TAKES A LOT OF CONCENTRATION TO
FOCUS ON A SIMPLE NATURAL PHENOMENON LIKE THE HUMAN BODY, A BIG SACK OF WATER IN ITSELF. MEDITATION ON THE OLD ESOTERIC LAW OF ALCHE
MISTS,- AS ABOVE, SO BELOW-, HELPS A LOT. LEONARDO DAVINCI CONCLUDED FROM HIS EXPERIMENTS WITH MATTER, LIQUIDS ANDGASSES, THAT ON EARTH
ONLY WATER CAN TAKE ALL FORMS. PLANTS, ANIMALS, HUMAN LIFE ON THE PLANET LIVE BY VIRTUE OF A HUGE WATERTRADE. WE ARE-AS LAWRENCE WEINER
PUT IT-, WATER SPILT FROM SOURCE TO USE.
I REMEMBERED AN EPISODE FROM THE FALL OF 1986.1 WAS A POET IN RESIDENCE AT A GUEST HOUSE OF PAUL MAENZ GALLERY IN COLOGNE, GERMANY.
OVERLOOKING THE RHINE RIVER FROM AN APPARTMENT IN DEUTZ, OPPOSITE OF THE KÖLNER DOM, THE LUDWIG AND RICHARD-WALRAFF MUSEUM, I WAS WRITING
