The term blue is very unique in the English language. It is both its thesis and antithesis; that is, it can be a premise and the opposite of that premise. Blue can mean the exhilaration of crystal blue skies or the angst and despair of having the blues, of felling blue and melancholy. It can refer to pornographic "blue films" or to Puritanical people, the "blue noses" who do not want people to watch these films.
In 1936 a song called "The Blue Bird Of Happiness" was recorded by Jan Peerce, an operatic tenor. The song continued to be hugely popular throughout the Great Depression and into the nineteen forties and fifties. It is a rather maudlin song by contemporary standards that speaks of searching for the mythical BluebIrd, the archetypal symbol that represents everything that is right and beautiful about the world. Not many people of the time realized that the song derived from a play written in 1908 by Maurice Metterlinck, which was called the "Bluebird" and for which Metterlinck was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.
The scenario of the "Bluebird" is focused on an initiatory quest through a number of realms of the mind. It is a quest to perceive ultimate reality, to no longer be enslaved to subjective pseudo-reality. Children are led into different worlds of the mind's eye, and one is given the "diamond of the third eye" to press against his pineal gland so that he can perceive the reality behind the fraudulent facade of what is generally accepted as being reality. These children visit these different realms of the mind, coming to the the Land Of Memory on All Hallow's Eve, when their dead ancestors return. They journey into the Palace Of Luxury where they learn that wealth can destroy the human soul, and they venture into the Palace Of Night where it is found that death is but an illusory dream.
The most profound realm that they visit is the Palace Of The Future, which is a beatifically benevolent world encompassed by crystal. At the center of this infinitely-faceted crystal are beings who exist in a state of preconsciousness. These are the children who are waiting to incarnate on the earthly sphere. They must wait for the precise moment when incarnation must take place. While waiting to be born, they practice the arts and sciences that will be their focus when they achieve corporeal reality. On our present Earth, another crystal can impact the birth of these beings: Crystal Meth. This drug can cause their potentiality to be lost in a raging sea of birth defects, or they may horrifically incarnate as living abortions. In recent decades. crystal meth has become increasingly powerful, and there is now a crystal blue meth that can hurl these impacted infants into a blue purgatory that only the most extraordinary care can release them from.
Interestingly enough, When the CIA was created in the late late 1940s, their first operation was called Operation Bluebird, being named after the "Bluebird" play. The motto of the CIA is: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. This clandestine organization was looking for an entryway into The Land Of Memory so that they could discover the truth, so that they could create a truth serum by using LSD and mescaline. This quest for "The Truth" gave rise to the hallucinogenic, psychedelic sixties. In their attempts to unravel the human mind, the CIA also utilized amphetamines and later methamphetamines to speed up this entry into the mind. This Operation Bluebird largely fomented the crystal blue meth, twenty-first century. Unfortunately, this phenomenon has caused large numbers of these Palace Of The Future, "Angels In Waiting" to incarnate in the wrong place, if not at the wrong time. Hopefully, the truth will eventually set them free.
The donations that Angels In Waiting has recently received have been quite marvelous, and they have enabled our organization to obtain a space in the Bavarian- styled village of Lake Arrowhead, CA where we will continue our quest for the Bluebird. Possibly, as in the play, the Bluebird has always been in our own back yard. We wish all our benefactors success in finding their our personal Bluebirds Of Happiness in the coming year.
