“Going on to Better Shit!”

The relevant sequence is from 3:03 to 3:54- It’s not subtitled but you’ll get the idea. “Seven Beauties Pasqualino.”

I ended my musings on “What is Letting Go?” with “I mean it- I’m done, done!” As I wrote those words, a brilliant scene in Lean Wertmuller’s brilliant film “Seven Beauties Pascolini” came to mind. It takes place in a German concentration camp and one of the central characters, a sort of philosopher played by the famous Spanish actor Fernando Rey, has had enough. As an act of rebellion to what was going on in the concentration camp, he gives the German soldiers the fist and jumps into a deep latrine that’s full of shit saying, “I’m going on to better shit!” A bunch of German soldiers surround the shit hole and fire into it and kill him. The movie as a whole had a tremendous impact on me when I first saw it in my early 20’s, but this scene especially left its mark and summarizes exactly how I feel now: I’m done with this reality and am ready for better shit!

As an aside, “Seven Beauties Pasqualino” is A MUST SEE! It was directed by Lina Wertmüller who started out as Frederico Fellini’s assistant on his classic “8 1/2.” She actually made history with “Seven Beauties Pasqualino” as she was the first woman to win an Oscar nomination for best director. The film starred Giancarlo Giannini, who I personally believe was one of the two sexiest men in Italian cinema. The other was Marcello Mastriani. Most people now know Giancarlo Giannini as Rene Mathis, the detective in the James Bond films “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace.” Prior to “Seven Beauties Pasqualino” Lina Wertmüller made three other brilliant films with Giannini: “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away,” (this was remade in 2002 by Guy Ritchie starring his then wife Madonna and Adriano Giannini) and “Love and Anarchy.” I had the opportunity and good fortune to actually see Giancarlo Giannini up close at a screening of one of these films at Columbia University in the early 80’s and was shocked by both how tiny he was while simultaneously exuding such powerful charisma and sexiness.

It occurred to me that this act of rebellion, a suicide of sorts, is what’s called for- the ultimate in letting go! NO, I AM NOT CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE!!! What I am desperately seeking, however, is to die before I die. It’s becoming clear that this type of letting go- to die before you die- is what is being called for and anything else that one “does”- prayer, meditation, mantra, puja, attempts at letting go, etcetera- simply reenforces the “doer” and hence this dream, illusion, or simulation. It is the key to to exit Plato’s Cave and into the true nature of one’s reality. Jed McKenna calls it “Letting go of the letting go,” however even this implies a “doer,” who ultimately is what must be let go. It is the “doer,” the “I” that creates and maintains the illusion.

In this illusion, there is the perceiver, the perceived, and the act of perceiving. I have the impression that the key to this mindfuck of all mindfucks is to let go of the perceiver and the perceived and allow perceiving to happen. The perceiving is rooted in “Awareness,” which is CONSCIOUSNESS. It all comes back to that saying that the reason you can’t find God is that she’s looking out of your eyes.

So let go of EVERYTHING and then let go of the letting go. So go ahead. As an act of defiance, give this reality the fist and go jump into a figurative latrine screaming: “I’m going on to better shit!”

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