AMENHOKIT was invoked in a match with PBA star Ross Packard. Ross
is or was the PBA REGIONAL LEADER IN VICTORIES. He is phenomenal,
a wizard, simple, effective, repetitive and high scoring.
Ross dominates PBA regional action.
He is a sportsman extraordinaire.
Ross has a hairline that looked to this writer as a pharaoh or Egyptian high priest look.He goes about his business with a religious insanity the Pope would die for. Ross bowls like Sinatra sang. He works the pins to submission with unrelinquishing accuracy, tremendous strike carry, precise adjustments, resulting in consistent high scoring.
He is not a large man, intimidating, snobbish, or unfriendly in any manner. He is a gentleman with great humor and empathy for all. Marsha, his wife, is wonderful and supportive to
everyone, especially good bowling. Bowlers and spectators all love her.
Spring and summer 1997 were my best tournaments to date. I won on Mothers Day at Rocklin coming from third place in the final position round and shooting 279 to pass John Habien and Sam Carter.
Two weeks later I led the tournament at Auburn for 23 games before Ross overtook me. I had been doing an Egyptian Pyramid meditation as a focusing point. Leading by 160 pins, something about me, the BOSS ball, and the lanes changed. I shot 160, 200, 200 and finished third behind Ross.
Next, at Tracy, California I again made the finals and before my match with Ross I told him I was writing an esoteric history of bowling. I had experienced the ancient Egyptian God of bowling, AMENHOKIT, and that I was using him as a role model. "Roos", I said, "Your hair looked so Egyptian’s I think it's like Amenhokit looking the mirror.
It was the best PSYCHE ever. I won the match 257-236. Aoss still won the tournament.
“AMENHOKIT was sure here today,” I said after the match.
I don't think Ross knew the power a divine being can have over a match, but I gained a lot of respect that day, for Amenhkit and the power of divine distraction.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Amenhokit Channelling
With millions of bowlers worldwide, and few baby boomers in America who haven't bowled I began pondering the question of bowling's source.
I took on a viewpoint that either the game had descended from a higher source, or the collective consciousness of millions of bowlers contacted or created a bowling God.
A chicken of egg question.
In a world where 'there are no accidents.' A random creation of such magnitude seemed as unlikely as the creation of consciousness, questions and alarm clocks. (I digress with alarm at awakening with fear, an wonder where is the Opportunity clock that awakens possibilities).
Did the bowling habits of millions create a bowling God, or did a bowling God create millions of bowlers? As with a great deal humanities insanities there seemed only to interest in scoring. It seemed the map was greater than the territory. I found no one interested in this question until one day,
“I met an elderly Boccie player at the Valona courts in Crockett. He told me of the league of AMENHOKIT. He became my link, my channel to AMENHOKIT.”
He spoke to me one warm afternoon’ “AMENHOKIT rarely visits commercials lanes. He, like the great god Pan, maintains his grace and love in the simple places. The revival of non-commercial bowling in the form of Boccie, where no ball returns can be kicked, outbursts of anger are unimaginable, and excellence is rewarded with the feel of the AMENHOKIT’s presence.
"Those of us who have gone away from the game have returned with new eyes. Our ages do not matter. The strength required feels like that of a butterfly. The bowling feels effortless and the ball returns never get stuck. We do not ask favors, or take his name in vain. We are thankful to play and have the opportunity for perfection.
“To have that which is round and smooth in my hand, travel by my stroke, and strike that which I aimed at, becomes like rolling my soul to god. I am one.”
How could I make contact?
I took on a viewpoint that either the game had descended from a higher source, or the collective consciousness of millions of bowlers contacted or created a bowling God.
A chicken of egg question.
In a world where 'there are no accidents.' A random creation of such magnitude seemed as unlikely as the creation of consciousness, questions and alarm clocks. (I digress with alarm at awakening with fear, an wonder where is the Opportunity clock that awakens possibilities).
Did the bowling habits of millions create a bowling God, or did a bowling God create millions of bowlers? As with a great deal humanities insanities there seemed only to interest in scoring. It seemed the map was greater than the territory. I found no one interested in this question until one day,
“I met an elderly Boccie player at the Valona courts in Crockett. He told me of the league of AMENHOKIT. He became my link, my channel to AMENHOKIT.”
He spoke to me one warm afternoon’ “AMENHOKIT rarely visits commercials lanes. He, like the great god Pan, maintains his grace and love in the simple places. The revival of non-commercial bowling in the form of Boccie, where no ball returns can be kicked, outbursts of anger are unimaginable, and excellence is rewarded with the feel of the AMENHOKIT’s presence.
"Those of us who have gone away from the game have returned with new eyes. Our ages do not matter. The strength required feels like that of a butterfly. The bowling feels effortless and the ball returns never get stuck. We do not ask favors, or take his name in vain. We are thankful to play and have the opportunity for perfection.
“To have that which is round and smooth in my hand, travel by my stroke, and strike that which I aimed at, becomes like rolling my soul to god. I am one.”
How could I make contact?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
How Bowling Was Driven Underground
The scrolls tell of higher levels of competition raising the
levels of consciousness.
The better the bowler the fewer laws and limits were placed on them, thus raising those bowlers to god likeness. This may have been where AMENHOKIT troubled Pharaoh and the game became outlawed, and was forced indoors and underground or into alleys.
Bowling removes limits, it teaches letting go, affirms goals, and acknowledges success.
In bowling the unacceptable must be accepted.
Perfection is possible.
Sportsmanship & teamwork is universal.
Its all an investment in attention.
Anyone who has ever thrown a strike experiences a type of power. To be able to create an outcome from sixty feet. To obliterate the foe. To clean to deck. To jump up and down for joy as the fallen pins are swept away, and then automatically reset. Then the ball returns, usually.
Bowling teaches the magic of numbers.
Bowling is a lesson in visualization, coordination, timing, practice & forgiveness.
The winners were not always the strongest, quickest, youngest but those who could feel the subtle energies.
Finesse
Touch
Stroke
Swing
Release
Observe
Reinitiate
The adherents of Amenhokit entered the Zone.
levels of consciousness.
The better the bowler the fewer laws and limits were placed on them, thus raising those bowlers to god likeness. This may have been where AMENHOKIT troubled Pharaoh and the game became outlawed, and was forced indoors and underground or into alleys.
Bowling removes limits, it teaches letting go, affirms goals, and acknowledges success.
In bowling the unacceptable must be accepted.
Perfection is possible.
Sportsmanship & teamwork is universal.
Its all an investment in attention.
Anyone who has ever thrown a strike experiences a type of power. To be able to create an outcome from sixty feet. To obliterate the foe. To clean to deck. To jump up and down for joy as the fallen pins are swept away, and then automatically reset. Then the ball returns, usually.
Bowling teaches the magic of numbers.
Bowling is a lesson in visualization, coordination, timing, practice & forgiveness.
The winners were not always the strongest, quickest, youngest but those who could feel the subtle energies.
Finesse
Touch
Stroke
Swing
Release
Observe
Reinitiate
The adherents of Amenhokit entered the Zone.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
THE FINDING OF THE AMENHOKIT SCROLLS
7,000 YEAR OLD LEAGUE SHEETS FOUND.
What can only be described as an ancient bowling bag with
shoes(two tone sandals) granite ball and league sheet were uncovered in
a quarry south of the site of the ancient city of Memphis. Preserved
under sand for over 7,000 years the ‘league sheets’ chronicles the ideals
of AMENHOKIT, described as the Egyptian God of balls or bowling.
The bag contained the Egyptian symbol of mastery.
A press conference ensued:
How did the master ‘grip’ the ball?
Did they hook the ball?
Did they have sponsors and were their names of their shirts?
Did they wear bowling hairstyles?
Was the bald style of the eunuch to look like their favorite ball?
Were the shoes two toned?
Was the bowler right or left handed?
What was the dimension of the alleys? Were there standards?
(No, It was one of the biggest adjustments the masters had to make. Length of lanes, size of pins, pin cage all varied.)
The pin dimensions were equal in all layouts. The ball was ½”
larger than the space between the pins. The longer lanes were where the
obsidian balls were used.
The balls came from rock quarries. The rarest were made of
obsidian. Pockets or bubbles of gas escaping the granite left fissures
in which lava flowed in and cooling rapidly form the black or smoky
Glass balls.
When the quarries were worked the fissure lines became fault lines opening and exposing the obsidian. Craftsman shaped the glass balls for use on quarry lanes where friction was greatest. These balls had great length on the lanes whereas the granite unpolished balls
over reacted on the rough quarry surface where friction was premium.
The lanes of Memphis, used olive and almond oils to ease the
friction smoothing and speeding the lanes were the favorite of the
rougher granite balls.
Caravans were commissioned to go and search for the heartwood
of the Ebony tree. They traveled as far as Siam. Woodsmen shaped the
pins from the trunk and limbs. The wood was hard and heavy and
finished with gold gilt.
Pharaoh chose the players. All Egyptians were given there
position, as Pharaoh gave lives to them. Scribes, priests, carpenters,
musicians, physicans, astrologers, masons, cooks, poets, warriors all
were guided by their talents into the apprenticeship of pharaohs choice.
Those chosen to be bowlers were initiated into the rites of
imitation, competition and magnetism. They were taught how to learn
and how to teach others to learn.
Each of the crafts, talents and skills were a metaphor for making
their work into love made visible. The masters taught a channeled piece
called innergy. It was imitative, modeling behavior, using ‘image-feel’,
to attain mastery.
Pharaohs system turned those who failed into quarry workers,
builders of pyramids, farmers, eunuchs and donors of body parts. It was a system that gratefully exhorted play, the power of the game, and the importance of relaxing and excelling.
Amenhokit was the God who ran this school. The one who balled. The roller. The striker. The spare one. Who taught the apprentice. Who channeled the lessons. It was he who established the perfect game.
The apprentices worked shaping the pins and the balls. They built the lanes. Then watched with awe as the masters displayed the rhythm, grace, effortlessness, eye and touch achieving the zone of perfection. They became one with the pins.
***
What can only be described as an ancient bowling bag with
shoes(two tone sandals) granite ball and league sheet were uncovered in
a quarry south of the site of the ancient city of Memphis. Preserved
under sand for over 7,000 years the ‘league sheets’ chronicles the ideals
of AMENHOKIT, described as the Egyptian God of balls or bowling.
The bag contained the Egyptian symbol of mastery.
A press conference ensued:
How did the master ‘grip’ the ball?
Did they hook the ball?
Did they have sponsors and were their names of their shirts?
Did they wear bowling hairstyles?
Was the bald style of the eunuch to look like their favorite ball?
Were the shoes two toned?
Was the bowler right or left handed?
What was the dimension of the alleys? Were there standards?
(No, It was one of the biggest adjustments the masters had to make. Length of lanes, size of pins, pin cage all varied.)
The pin dimensions were equal in all layouts. The ball was ½”
larger than the space between the pins. The longer lanes were where the
obsidian balls were used.
The balls came from rock quarries. The rarest were made of
obsidian. Pockets or bubbles of gas escaping the granite left fissures
in which lava flowed in and cooling rapidly form the black or smoky
Glass balls.
When the quarries were worked the fissure lines became fault lines opening and exposing the obsidian. Craftsman shaped the glass balls for use on quarry lanes where friction was greatest. These balls had great length on the lanes whereas the granite unpolished balls
over reacted on the rough quarry surface where friction was premium.
The lanes of Memphis, used olive and almond oils to ease the
friction smoothing and speeding the lanes were the favorite of the
rougher granite balls.
Caravans were commissioned to go and search for the heartwood
of the Ebony tree. They traveled as far as Siam. Woodsmen shaped the
pins from the trunk and limbs. The wood was hard and heavy and
finished with gold gilt.
Pharaoh chose the players. All Egyptians were given there
position, as Pharaoh gave lives to them. Scribes, priests, carpenters,
musicians, physicans, astrologers, masons, cooks, poets, warriors all
were guided by their talents into the apprenticeship of pharaohs choice.
Those chosen to be bowlers were initiated into the rites of
imitation, competition and magnetism. They were taught how to learn
and how to teach others to learn.
Each of the crafts, talents and skills were a metaphor for making
their work into love made visible. The masters taught a channeled piece
called innergy. It was imitative, modeling behavior, using ‘image-feel’,
to attain mastery.
Pharaohs system turned those who failed into quarry workers,
builders of pyramids, farmers, eunuchs and donors of body parts. It was a system that gratefully exhorted play, the power of the game, and the importance of relaxing and excelling.
Amenhokit was the God who ran this school. The one who balled. The roller. The striker. The spare one. Who taught the apprentice. Who channeled the lessons. It was he who established the perfect game.
The apprentices worked shaping the pins and the balls. They built the lanes. Then watched with awe as the masters displayed the rhythm, grace, effortlessness, eye and touch achieving the zone of perfection. They became one with the pins.
***
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The First Balls
The stones descend with friction
Arriving on the flats.
There they are rolled by man.
Induced by the stones,
the men rolled them.
Water descending down hill,
the stone too,
flowing down to round.
Matter IMITATING Motion
The creation of the ball
(Without the ball)
The Grip
The Swing
The Release
(Have no Purpose)
Who’s Channeling?
Arriving on the flats.
There they are rolled by man.
Induced by the stones,
the men rolled them.
Water descending down hill,
the stone too,
flowing down to round.
Matter IMITATING Motion
The creation of the ball
(Without the ball)
The Grip
The Swing
The Release
(Have no Purpose)
Who’s Channeling?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Where the GAME began
Large stones
Fell from high
on the mountain
finding paths of ease and distress
where by gravity
chosen stones
fall upon the path.
L
O
N
G
F
A
L
L
S
S
L
O
W
M
O
T
I
O
N
The stones descend with friction
Arriving on the flats.
Induced by the stones,
the men roll them.
Water descending down hill,
the stone too, flowing down to round.
it became the game to roll.
Fell from high
on the mountain
finding paths of ease and distress
where by gravity
chosen stones
fall upon the path.
L
O
N
G
F
A
L
L
S
S
L
O
W
M
O
T
I
O
N
The stones descend with friction
Arriving on the flats.
Induced by the stones,
the men roll them.
Water descending down hill,
the stone too, flowing down to round.
it became the game to roll.
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