See also: Reflection on reality.
The State Graphic Designer asks for graphic material.

The first eonatic election of the universe
The election in Ladonia has started. Our 1 400 citizens now have their eonatic rights to vote for a constitution and on political parties. The election will go on for quite some time.
Ladonia is moving towards the past and in front of the future. We are proud to know that we will make all the sins that the new world made when it formed itself to become something else than the old world. Thus Ladonia is no Utopia but rather a place where the inhabitants are keen on observing the unspeakable. Ladonians are, however, not foreign to the hypothesis stated by Columbos, that the earth has the form of a pear and thus carries a peak closer to the sky than anything else. Our astronomers have pointed out that Ladonia might very well be situated on this spot.

From count Humberto Saccomandi, ambassador in Brazil, the following message has arrived:
"Dear countrymen,
as ambassador in Brazil, I invite you to vote Mr. Fernando Rodrigues for president of Ladonia.
Fernando is a very dynamic, active and creative person. I am sure he would be a good president. Besides that, electing someone from outside Sweden would reassure our compromise to a multicultural and open country. It could be a first step towards our citizen Anne Oeien's dream, of Ladonia as the only country reigning in the world. Electing Fernando would also give an international recognition to Ladonia, which would surely disturb our main enemy, the swedish government.
I am sure Fernando would consider travel to Sweden to his installation. This would be a major movement towards our self-determination and would surely attract the media.
Fernando for president, think about that!
Thank you all, greetings from sunny (and too hot) Brazil"

HOMEPAGE OF THE PEACE PARTY
The Peace Party which is taking part in the election now has its own homepage. It is made by "Ekan" Johansson, leader and also candidate for president: http://bip.concept.se/user/ekan/main.htm

FROM THE HEAD OF THE SECRET RELIGION OF OLSSON:
The queens head, coup d´état and fireworks
Det måste ha uppstått en missuppfattning. Vad kan bättre ersätta ett härlett väsen, som originalt definieras utifrån den herrliga titeln drott, än det mest värdefulla. En kvinnas huvud som styrande princip, det vore något. Observera att kroppen vilken i feministiska berättelser vanligen utpekas som det mannen åtrår lyfter vi inte fram. Låt mig understryka att Sverige redan öppnat vägen för en styrande drottning, något som för övrigt grannlandet Danmark (granne till såväl Ladonien som Sverige) länge haft som ordnande princip. Danmarks tronsittare har åtminstone den goda smaken att röka offentligt. Givetvis finns det en möjlighet att missuppfatta avsågningen som en sorts rekommendation, "off with their heads". Bättre då att se det som en markering mot den parabel som HC Andersens historia. Här finns utrymme både för feminister och anhängare av den romantiska kärleken att bre ut sig.
Jag har en annan fundering, som rör det ideologiska. Ett mönster som jag tyckt mig se är att tidigare har Nimis/Arx/Ladonien grundats på individe/n/r/s val för sig själv/a (jag vill: bygga ett universitet/ge ut en bok/bli adlig). Nu skall man välja vad andra skall bli?! När får vi se den första statskuppen? Jag har övervägt att tillsammans med Lord Zacharias tennsoldater genomföra en folklig statskupp till sommaren. Vi har ca 100 raketer av sagolik natur (häxpipor) samt tomtebloss. Jag kan redan idag se en lämplig dag. Mellan superstjärnan Arnold och klassikern den rasande Roland.
Sven-Erik

DRACO, DRACONIS Our star and the 4 000-year fête Very few countries, if any, is represented in the sky. Ladonia, however, can be seen among the stars. The constellation Draco is representing Ladon, the dragon and mythic king. 2 500 years ago the star Alfa Draconis (Thuban) was the Polar Star. If we wait another 23 300 years it will happen again. It will be celebrated with a humangous fête that will go on for 4 000 years.

HOSTILE ATTACK! Motorsaw-massacre on the Tower of the winds In the beginning of december an attack was made by an unknown man with a motor saw on the Governmental Building "Tower of the Winds". This building is however capable to defend itself and the sawing ended in one of the "stoppers". A "stopper" is a piece of wood peppered with nails and there is plenty of this stuff in the building.

Pictures, please!
State Graphic Designer Vera Porad encourages everyone to contribute with graphic material to Ladonia. Please remember to keep the kilobytes down...
Mail: verap@swipnet.se
You are also welcome to visit her website: http://www.pyramid.se/verap

What is the nature of reality?
One of the aims of greatest importance in Ladonia is the awareness of "level of reality". Is everything "real" in this country, or is it allegorical or pure rethoric, or a mixture? We can only say that most of the time the human being is not conscious. The concentration you need to be conscious needs so much energy that you can only for shorter periods stay at this level. That leaves us with an indirect knowledge of being conscious of not being able to be conscious more than very shortly. This statement is no answer but rather a question concerning the nature of "reality".
If not anywhere else, in Ladonia there is always another level and almost available.

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We can present the following religions established in Ladonia:

1. The religion constituted by our Minister of the Church, Ingemar Nilsson. He hasn't described its point in full details but it should be based on Christianity.

2. Viskums Holy of the Last Days
The Norwegian artist Morten Viskum is Archbishop and leader of this society. The community is worshipping the mistletoe and the sacred spirit ISEA.

3. St Martin the Deputy
St Martin is working on the plan for this religion. He is collaborating with Görel, the priestess:
Att samla den befintliga och kommande verksamheten under namnet Ställföreträdarna "The Deputies" är passande då rörelsen enligt min mening inte bör verka för en absolut och för alla tider gällande religion utan vara öppen för medborgarnas individuella önskemål. Vidare så visar namnet på hur öppen rörelsen bör vara inför medborgare som vill ansluta sig och verka aktivt i utarbetandet av en eller flera religioner. Eventuellt kan man tänka sig ett tillägg till namnet, före eller efter, för att tydligare visa rörelsens karaktär och inriktning.

4. Eris
Mitt syfte är att, om tillstånd gives, färdas till Ladonia och där låta uppföra ett altare till Eris ära. (De som känner att de har bristfällig kunskap om Eris och discordianism hänvisas vänligen till http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/thudthwacker.html).
Detta ämnar jag göra för att berika Ladoniernas liv med en andlig dimension och därigenom främja spridningen av kreativt kaos (fnord).
Högaktningsfullt,
Pastor Primarius Mingus III Zingo, C.S.C., Påve, chefredaktör och oansvarslös utgivare av Otitis Media, grundare av Skallbergets Rövkroksklubb, Kommendant av 5:e graden i Folkförvirringsfronten, Branschkoordinator för Prereinkarnerade Nondesillusionistiska Zen- bilförares (enl. Svlad Cjelli-metoden) Planetförbund, Miljö- och hälsoskyddsinspektör i Västerås stad, Klistrare av Fina Affischer, Beavis, Subinofficiell representant för Anonyma Nihilister, Kapellmästare för den nykonservativa kammarmusikensembeln "Katastreptikos" (sättning: glockenspiel och pålkran). Tillika även lic. deltidsanalfabet, 1:e papperstuggsoperatör (dearkivarie), av Aftonbladet utnämnd Skibaum, samt allmän Falskspelare.
Gloria Eris Discordia!!!!!
email: magnus.lofqvist@mail.vasteras.se

5. The Secret Religion of Olsson
As this religion is secret not very much more can be said than that Olsson´s feet is involved and that 1 000 turtles are martyrs. Olsson himself can be checked at the amazing sight:
http://www.algonet.se/~kultsveo

If you want to know more about his religious work click "cult" on this page.

Going for civil war?
In the last issue of the Herald our Ministry of Sophistry, Horatius, wrote an article concerning feminism. He has got an answer:

"The ministry stinks!"
There is something rotten in the state of Ladonia.
The Minister of Sophistry stinks. He is an environmental threat. His suggestion that deodorants be forbidden are a typical boyish (immature) strategy to keep carriers of the female principle away. But he is mistaken - The Daugters of Europe are experienced, clever, mature and tolerant! And smelling badly is not efficient in scaring us away.
So, dear Minister! Listen to this: Don´t let`s begin our hard work on settling down here in Ladonia with starting a civil war. It is perhaps hard to believe it, but we have found that we, the women in the network organization Daughters of Europe, and you, the Minister of Sophistry of Ladonia, have the same objective.
With an increasing number of carriers of the female principle in Ladonia we attract, not boys, but real men! With more of the female principle in Ladonia we will therefore attract more of the masculine principle to the cuntry. Just as you, the Minister of Sophistry, likes it to be.
So we, the Daughters of Europe, want to send this message to the Minister of Sophistry in Ladonia:
Dear Stinky! Don´t worry! Be happy!

Birgitta Ahltorp
chairwoman of the network organization Daughters of Europe
Mail: birgitta.ahltorp@mailbox.swipnet.se

Our Minister of Sophistry is following up with these words:

"Insubstantial girlish thinking"
OK. Feminists are allowed to use deodorants. But they must shave their armpits. It is quite sophistical to accuse me -- the enemy no. 1 of immature thinking - of boyish thinking. The Daughters of Europe are mixing things up. Ever heard of pantagruelism?
It is sad (but not surprising) that this insubstantial response to my observation in Herald no. 5 centers around the least important aspect of my article: deodorants. There were bigger and more important issues to sink one's teeth into. But for that one needs strong teeth. This thinking is worse than boyish; it is girlish.

Ladislaus Horatius
P.S. Please observe the spelling of "country". And don't say I didn't warn you!

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An Arctic reading-circle
The State Librarian of Ladonia intends to establish a very special specialcollection.
In these modern times of circuits when everything goes round and round, a scholarly collection of circles is proper by all means. The study of circles is an interdisciplinary field and of great interest for many scholars. For example for those studying beginnings and ends, circles not only are of most importance, they are also a major problem. Ladonia State Library will endorse all researchers in circle-studies by building up a special collection of circles. Rings, discs, round plates,wheels and roundabouts will form the core of this special specialcollection. But the State Library also wants to build up a sample collection of metaphorical circles. For the library so-called reading-circles are of great interest. There are various types of reading-circles: most common is the type where few people in a small village read and discuss a certain book; several studies have been made on these. Much less frequent is the type where someone for example in northern Sweden takes a certain book in his hand, sits down on the Artic circle and reads the book, at the same time as someone else in i.e. Siberia takes the same book in his hands, sits down on the Arctic circle and reads the book. This is problematic: Has the Arctic circle turned into a reading-circle?

These questions and many others are almost impossible to answer because the studying of the Arctic circle is very unconvenient. The Ladonia State Library would of course like to have the complete Arctic circle in its stacks, but as Ladonia is a small country it cannot be filled with the Arctic circle alone, so we have decided to collect samples of the Arctic-circle and that way make Arctic circle field studies possible. The samples will be 30 cm of the Arctic circle from different places around the globe. For this purpose we would like to get contact with people in Chegytun, Mukhomornoye, Arga, Khonu, Unkyur, Kotekh, Ust-Kureyka, Nyda, Abez, Nes and Kuzreka in Siberia, Rovaniemi in Finland, Jokkmokk in Sweden, Mo i Rana in Norway, Raufarhofn in Iceland (as Iceland only tangers the Arctic circle we accept a sample of only 20 cm), Angmagssalik and Sisimiut in Greenland, Cape Dyer, Repulse Bay, Echo Bay and Fort Good Hope in Canada, and Fort Yukon and Selawik in Alaska. Together these samples are 6,5 m long. They will be placed in eastern Ladonia near Farstuhaalet, easy to access for the researchers.
Furthermore, the State Library hereby announces a new scholarship in Artic circle studies and welcomes application from all over the world. Applicationforms can be obtained on request.

Steingrimur Jonsson, State Librarian

e-mail: steingrimur.jonsson@ub1.lu.se
See also "Projects".

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FROM THE MINISTRY OF IRONY AND DEPRESSION:
Problems everywhere
A suitable report from this department has come from its minister Lady Liliann:

"What´s happening?
What´s going on?
Wherever I turn,
wherever I go.
Problems everywhere.
I can´t stand no more.
Sometimes it s up
but most often down.
Closing my eyes
and dreaming away.
My life is too short."
by Lady Liliann

FROM THE MINISTRY OF CREATIVITY:
Bureaucracy gave birth to Ladonia
Our Minister Ulla-Britt Karyd has appointed Birgitta Ahltorp A.A. to the Minister of Creativity. They have collaborated in the plan for the department:

"To start with:
On organization: The Departement of Creativity doesn´t need a lot of staff. Overstaffing, as we all know it, kills creativity. Therefore I intend to limit the number of co-workers. The number of A.A:s (administrative assistants) will not exceed one hundred. Bureaucracy also kills creativity. As Ladonians we are utterly grateful to the Swedish Bureaucracy which gave us the birth of Ladonia. Hurray! We must all honour the lovable temporary regent of Ladonia, Lars Vilks, the supermanmidwife of our time, who, with a little help from friends within the Swedish Administration, initiated the creatitivty that gave birth to Ladonia.
The Departement of Creativity intends to continue the work on making everything possible. That includes efforts to prevent cementating processes which might strangle the flow of new ideas. Creative ideas may sometimes look banal and ordinary in the beginning. The genius is seldom understood as a baby. The Department of Creativity therefore intends to foster all sorts of differences, diversities and varieties."

Ulla-Britt Karyd
Minister of Creativity
Our Minister Ulla-Britt is a psychologist and working in Malmoe. She is playing the cello in the chamber orchestra in Vellinge and is the mother of two children.

MINISTRY OF LIVE ROLEPLAY:
Live roleplay for all
Our new Minister of Live Roleplay, Jared Elgvin from Norway presents his department in this way:
I belive that a minister should make things as convinient and easy as possible, for citicens who want to preform the kind of activity concerning his ministry. (And NOT as many ministers (Foreign) seem to belive: As Difficult and buerocratic as possible.)
I have been playing Live Roleplay for as long as it has been knovn in Norway. I have ALOT of Knowledge and Expertise on the subject. Therefor My Plan for the Ministry of Live Roleplay is as follows:

-The Minister of Live Roleplay should Work to make the experience of participating in a Live Roleplay available for all Citicens wanting to do so.
-The Minister of Live Roleplay should Work to make the concept Live Roleplay known throughout the whole virtual country.
-The Minister of Live Roleplay should Help all Citicens wanting to Arrange a Live Roleplay with guidance and advice on How to make a sucsessfull Live Roleplay. All forms of Live Roleplay shall be equal, (no matter what age, plot, intrigue or concept they are based upon) and have the right to Support from The ministry as long as they are subject to Ladonian LAW and of course the local LAW wherever they are preformed.
-The Minister of Live Roleplay Can appoint workgroups concisting only of voulenteers to help contribute to the making of better Live Roleplay.

My working situation is as follows: I have access to all known forms of office equipment.
I want to work with Live Roleplay.
I have Arranged and helped arrange alot of Live Roleplays.
I have accsess to all the written material on the subject in Norway.
I want to help Citicens of Ladonia to develop a wide range of culture. Therfore i want to work with the part of culture that I know about.

Jared Elgvin, Rustadgata 52, 3187 Horten, Norge

Tlf: 33032565, Mob: 92898274
e-mail: jared.elgvin@norcontrol.no

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MINISTRY OF CHANCE
Alea jacta est?
Our minister Svein Olav Nyberg has impressively presented some ideas for this department. He is to be found in Edingburgh on this adress: solan@maths.ac.ed.uk
His proposals are given in Norwegian and we have at the moment no translation.

Man skulle gjerne samarbeide med finansdepartementet om muligheten for statslotteri. For å forenkle statslotteriet, og samtidig bygge opp under lokaldemokratiet, foreslås følegende form:
Man samler 6 mennesker, som alle satser 1 ortug, evt. annen passende pengeenhet. Man slår deretter terning, og vinneren får 4 ortug, mens de resterende 2 ortug brukes til frimerke og monetært innhold i brev til statskassen. Dette har den fordelen at statslotteriet ikke behøver noen sentral kontroll, og samtidig viser det hvilken tillit den Ladoniske regjering har til sitt folk ved at den delegerer arrangering av selve stats-lotteriet til folket.
Videre er det kjent at der hvor alt er kjent og planlagt, der er livet øde og dødt. Hvorfor leve et liv som man allerede kjenner i minste detalj. Det som kan hindre slik degenerering, er slumpen. Man planlegger aldri sine beste venner, man treffer dem på slump. Alle de viktigste tingene i livet kommer av slump som bryter av den planlagte strømmen. Slumpdepartementet vil derfor jobbe for å bringe mer slump inn i borgernes liv. Første handlingsplan er å oppfordre til flere tilfeldige avgjørelser:
Ta en mynt, eller en terning, og bær den på deg hver dag. Dette er din personlige tilfeldighetsgenerator. For de avanserte kan også kortstokk benyttes. Identifiser hver dag et øyeblikk hvor du tar et viktig valg, og bruk din personlige tilfeldighetsgenerator for å hjelpe deg med dette valget. For eksempel; skal du kjøpe middagen på butikk A eller B? Kanskje treffer du noen som vil forandre hele ditt liv på en av disse butikkene? Det er slump. Bruk din personlige tilfeldighetsgenerator for å velge veien gjennom disse slumpetreffene.

MINISTRY OF GUARDIAN ANGELS
Trial-and-error-angels guides us
to become celestial beings
This new, and I think, very important contribution to Ladonian knowledge and experience, department is presenting its working plan thus:

Ladonia will act as a trial-and-error project for the angels of above (in contrast to those from below) during the transit to the New Millenia through this Apocalyptic time we are seeing now. The mature Ladonia will be responsible for all their inhabitants (mostly plants, animals and the invisible beings of all living creatures in the Fifth Dimension). My aim is to contribute to that each one will be transformed into a Celestial Being according to each one's own vibrational frequency. As soon as this ideal situation is attained, the Ministry of the Guardian Angels will, as expected, merge into Nirvana.
Countess Kicki of Ladonia, in charge of this Ministry, begun at twelve o´clock of the twelvth month of 1996 to meditate upon the different shivering minds existing above and below the new born country of Ladonia, more specifically at Skälderviken's coast line, Scania, Sweden. It's my purpose to establish my Headquarter twelve m above the Big Flat Stone at the place known as Håle Stenar 6.
All Illuminati will easily see the pyramidal construction as a mirror triangle, where the base lines meets in perfect harmony in service of all Ladonian free thinkers. As below so above. All citizens of Ladonia seeking counselling will get a password for communicating by e-mail with the Countess Kicki, Ministress of The Guardian Angels.
E-mail: kicki.hankell@svt.se

- We hope that this ministry also will take care of problems concerning angels in general. For this purpose we would like to present the seven most well-known angels: Michael ruling the Sunday, Gabriel - Monday, Camael - Tuesday, Rafael - Wednesday, Sachiel - Thursday, Anael - Friday and Cassiel - Saturday. There is a lot of inexact knowledge to be brought in order:
Are there 4 Archangels or 7? The Serafins and Cherubins (with many wings) - where do they find their place in the hierarchy of angels?

MINISTRY OF SUB-AQUATIC TERRITORIES:
Preventing swedes from oceanside infiltration
Most of Ladonia is water and so far very little attention has been payed to this part. Now we have a minister to seek into the depths in order to find fabulous treasures and sunken islands.

Our new minister Lord Peter Kimay writes:
To my knowledge there is no such thing as a Departement of the Sub-Aquatic territories of Ladonia. My intention is to explore these waters, to take pictures and write articles for the Ladonia Herald, and naturally to preserve its inhabitants as best I can. Further more I ll keep an eye out for any Swedish attempts to infiltrate the Ladonian state of mind, from the oceanside.
His e-mail is: peter.kimay@jcs.se

MINISTRY OF NOTHING
Bringing nothing to the light

"I am totally optimistic about nothing", said Bacon the painter.

The suggestion for this department has come from Conny Andersson. He means, and we certainly agree, that nothingness shouldn't be left out in the darkness. The growing of this plan seems promising and we hope that Mr Andersson soon is to present further details. Mr Andersson has a homepage of interest: http://www.algonet.se/~ccontour/hem.htm
If you want to support him with ideas his e-mail is: ccontour@algonet.se

MINISTRY OF CHESS
How to play chess in Ladonia
The Ministry of Chess, Ojvind Grotmol, kindly request interested players to his site: http://home.sn.no/~grotm/sjakk.html

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ORACLE SERVICE
We will never be nonplussed!
Ladonia offers a tremendous possibility through our National Oracle. If you want to know the answer of any question available in your mind or elsewhere you can ask on this adress: gemini@df.lth.se
The name of our Oracle is Ola.

ENVIRONMENT AND JAZZ
A groovy kind of green peace?
Our citizen Bertil Varenius has told us of his rare ability to work with environmental protection as a kind of jazz. The connection between these two areas has, as far as we know, not been established before.

GOVERNOR OF EAST LADONIA
Ruler near the lighthouse
Björn Malm is appointed governor of East Ladonia. He has his residence near the famous lighthouse in the west end of the mountain Kullen.The distance between Ladonia and the lighthouse is about 6 km. It is said that he rules this piece of land himself. If you want to look at pictures of this landscape and know more about the Malm Clan you should go to: http://www.fisk.helsingborg.se/~ib95joma

SENTENCES AND APHORISMS
Everything explained?
Conny Andersson has sent us this object to our project:

"Allt har en förklaring - varför är det så" (Oskar Poss 18??-19??)
/Everything has an explanation - Why is it so?/

And from Sven-Erik Olsson this:
"Första supen! Andra supen! Tredje supen! Golvad!!! (fritt efter en av Maxwell Bodenheims beundrare)
/First dram! Second dram! Third dram! Floored!!!/

LATIN
The "diem" is often "carped"
Obviously a few latin sentences (that are chosen by our citizens) are steadily repeated. It might be a good idea to avoid these:
carpe diem
navigare necesse est
alea jacta est
veni vidi vici
volvo

We give a few new suggestions:
Interdiu stellas non conspicimus solis luce obsuratas
(Om dagen kunna vi icke upptäcka stjärnorna, emedan de äro fördunklade av solljuset)

Xerxes ponte in Hellesponto facto copias in Europam traiecit
(Xerxes slog en bro över Hellesponten och förde över sina trupper till Europa)

Hoc est templum nostrum
(Detta är vårt tempel)

Principiis obsta
(Stå emot redan i början)

- Our eminent expert on latin, Olav G. Bakken from Norway has been appointed State Linguistic. His comment (ad unguem leonem) was: "How far is it from Mons Capitolinus to the Tarpeian cliff? One step."

Fooling the swedes with a virtual wall
Our citizen Joacim Barkström has suggested that instead of building a wall around Ladonia, it might be a better idea to build one around Sweden as our main enemies than would be effectively locked up. It is a fascinating idea in the sense that building a wall around Sweden would also mean that it will also be built around Ladonia. In his proposal, Mr. Barkström talks about a virtual wall and that could be enough to fool the swedish authorities.

Charging a good vibration-wall
We will also create a wall of good vibrations by meditating. This meditation is open every full-moon night between 10 and 12 pm. The meditation should last about 20 minutes anytime during this period to recharge the good vibration-wall for the next moon-cycle. The more ladonians meditating, the stronger the wall.
Trespassers will suffer a horrendous fate.

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The Ministry of Health is planning a House of Health in East Ladonia where the grass is green and tall trees provide agreeable shade during the occasional hot summer weeks which sometimes occur in our country. For this reason the Ministry has recognized the importance of aquiring a deep understanding of the allegedly health restoring Qi-energy, which seems to be the concern of every educated man today, and was known already in old archaic Ladonia as wicwifkin, or possibly wictoriafirakin. It is commonly believed among Ladonian scientists that the term was derived from some extatic but otherwise forgotten feats our forefathers were engaged in to aquire immortality. The Ministry feels we need to proceed with great care, and therefore, just like the master of a house before cutting his Sunday steak does sharpen his knife, the Ministry has decided to begin by reading treatises of algebra. So engaged I happened to overhear a conversation between a vicar and a hospital nurse in the hospital staff´s coffee room, and since it was December the 13th, their TV set had been turned on for seeing one of the many Santa Lucia appearances that day. The vicar had later in life been trained as a doctor and was of course a staff member with a white robe and a large number of pens in his left breast pocket. He had evidently been watching a program about so called "alternative medicine", the night before on TV:

- "And then the doctor chose a bottle of some herbal medication, held it in one hand, and swinged a pendulum over some aching limb of his patient with the other", the vicar explained, "and said: No, this medicine you don´t need, and chose a new bottle to hold in his hand, swinged the pendulum again, and repeated: No, this medicine you don´t need - took a third bottle, swinged the pendulum, and suddenly exclaimed: But here is the medicine for you! - I don´t believe in this!!"
- "Well", I rose my voice entering the conversation, "all we can really safely conclude is that you do believe in objective reality."
- "And so what is this hospital here about then, with all the archives of radiographs, quality assurance documents, and other records of daily work??"
- "The church", I instructed rising an authoritative index finger, "has always favoured an objective and on beautiful dogma resting reality, almost as beautiful and well ordered as the sequence of integers when we begin to count our fingers - But!", I added with a friendly smile, "we might be rebellious and read the numbers 1, 2, 3, many - according to recorded primitive practise deep down in the lap of Mother Nature". Seing that I rather wanted to dwell on philosophy than in a word battle, the vicar at once dropped his guard.
- "In Sweden a new Arch Bishop was appointed yesterday", he continued, "who encourages mysticism and "alternative" beliefs." In the same moment the famous Swedish Sancta Lucia appeared on the TV screen, with her suit of young men in funny topped hats with golden stars, and begun to sing.
- "But this is outrageous!", the vicar exclaimed, "Look! they have chosen an opera singer for Lucia. It should have been an innocent looking young girl! Look how she moves, what faces she is pulling!!"
- "Yes", I admitted, "she is really expressing the pathetic human ego."
- "Precisely, precisely", the vicar approved, now his index finger raised.

I happened to see the aforementioned archbishop a few days later on the same screen. He had a kind round face, and when he took the Holy Communion, surrounded by many important officials, you could clearly hear that the bread was crunchy despite the playing of the organ. His mitre and crosier seemed huge and closing the service he beamed to the people in dialectal colloquial words: "The world might appear shabby, but walk out in peace into sleet and slash, because God is with you!". The arch bishop tells us to believe the proposition that something exists the nature of which we neither can understand, nor escape, that is, we would be contained in what seems to be the world. And who can escape the universe? Now, however plausible this might seem, serious books on algebra tell you that even the seemingly plain obvious needs to be proven. But how do you find a proof of that which is as great or greater than you, how do you ever embrace its totality? You cannot prove the archbishop´s proposition, no system managed by you would ever hold it. This means that you really do not know anything fundamental about your existence at all. Late in his life our modern correspondence to the medieval great Doctor of the Church, C.G. Jung, wrote in a letter to Mr Cornell on the 9th of February 1960:

"Wherever and whenever the collective unconscious (the basis of our psyche) comes into play, the possibility arises that something will happen which contradicts our rationalistic predjudices... So far as we can see, the collective unconscious is identical with Nature to the extent that Nature herself, including matter, is unknown to us. I have nothing against the assumption that the psyche is a quality of matter or matter the concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that ´psyche´ is defined as the collective unconscious."

This brings up the thought that we cannot separate the psyche neither from a conceived or experienced world. According to the life work of C.G. Jung the number Four is a psychic aspect of wholeness, and expresses the universe.
In legends, myths, dreams, and fairytales the Three always form a homogenous sequence, whereas the Fourth step implies a problem, a contradiction as it were. Man toils with understanding his world. But this is not possible. At the same time he does not understand it. He understands and understands not. That is really the fundamental human condition. In the collective unconscious there errs an ego notion, or several, depending on how many people you know excluding yourself.
But what about Qi-energy, or the precious wicwifkin? Yes, the "alternative" doctor uses his pendulum and herbal preparations, and he understands or understands not. Maybe his patient will be cured. The patient himself understands and understands not. He is an expression of the psyche, just like his doctor. In archaic Ladonia this wicwifkin was gained from extatic feats. It would seem possible to refine ones psyche is such a way that precious substances begin to flow. The more you claim from the unknown, the more precious and miraculous substances you would find when trying to expand the limits of your consciousness, be it through extraordinary feats or otherwise. This has no end. There will always be the unknown. Going back to the 1, 2, 3, many parable, it is probably no coincidence that man only sees three dimensions, and needs to experience whatever else there might exist through his journey in the apparent flow of time. This is probably the way his mind works, and outside his mind other conjectured dimensions would appear to make little sense, they might be deflected from his vision or folded tightly together into zero extention, not to be bothered with any further, if it were not for amounting evidence of physical phenomena related to each other without dependance on space and time. Man understands and understands not. But he can act, and strive, and possibly find as much wicwifkin as he needs. We cannot prove that it exists, but we can observe our world, and listen to tales told by them who have lived before us. Space is nothing but a scene made up by the mind, where the dramas of our lives unfold.
The Ladonian Health Ministry has set out to find large amounts of wicwifkin for its House of Health. This quest is our current drama. We have good reasons not to give up believing that we can find enough for all who want to visit our future House of Health.

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