{"id":428,"date":"2022-02-03T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourteenformsofmelancholy.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:55:02","slug":"e-c-c-o-john-c-lilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourteenformsofmelancholy.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"E.C.C.O. (John C. Lilly)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">There exists a&nbsp;<em>Cosmic Control Center&nbsp;<\/em>(C.C.C.) with a Galactic substation called&nbsp;<em>Galactic Coincidence Control<\/em>&nbsp;(G.C.C.). Within which is the&nbsp;<em>Solar System Control Unit&nbsp;<\/em>(S.S.C.U.), within which is the&nbsp;<em>Earth Coincidence Control Office<\/em>&nbsp;(E.C.C.O.). The assignments of responsiblities from the top to the bottom of this system of control is by a set of regulations, which translated by E.C.C.O. for humans is somewhat as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To all humans<br>If you wish to control coincidences in your own life on the planet Earth, we will cooperate and determine those coincidences for you under the following conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) You must know\/assume\/simulate our existence in ECCO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) You must be willing to accept our responsibility for control of your coincidences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) You must exert your best capabilities for your survival programs and your own development as an advancing\/advanced member of ECCO&#8217;s earthside corps of controlled coincidence workers. You are expected to use your best intelligence in this service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4) You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute, every hour of every day and of every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5) You must be able to maintain conscious\/thinking\/ reasoning no matter what events we arrange to happen to you. Some of these events will seem cataclysmic\/catastrophic\/overwhelming: remember stay aware, no matter what happens\/apparently happens to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6) You are in our training program for life: there is no escape from it. We (not you ) control the long-term coincidences; you (not we) control the shorter-term coincidences by your own efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7) Your major mission on earth is to discover\/create that which we do to control the long-term coincidence patterns: you are being trained on Earth to do this job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8) When your mission on planet Earth is completed, you will no longer be required to remain\/return there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9) Remember the motto passed to us (from GCC via SSCU):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Cosmic Love is absolutelely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent:<br>it teaches its lessons whether you like\/dislike them or not.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exists a&nbsp;Cosmic Control Center&nbsp;(C.C.C.) with a Galactic substation called&nbsp;Galactic Coincidence Control&nbsp;(G.C.C.). Within which is the&nbsp;Solar System Control Unit&nbsp;(S.S.C.U.), within which is the&nbsp;Earth Coincidence Control Office&nbsp;(E.C.C.O.). 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