THE FLEA IN MY DREAM
Lobsang Rampa in “ Lobsang Rampa in “Chapters of Life” makes up a very poignant story of a scientist that studied the behaviour of fleas. He thought he could correlate the behaviour of fleas’ psychosomatic patterns with that of blood. After much expenditure and time, he trained a medium- sized flea to jump over a matchbox every time he said, “Go”. Then when the flea had the idea, the scientist pulled off two more of the flea’s six legs. “Go”, he said. The flea jumped again, and was able to repeat the performance although not so successfully as before. The scientist grunted with satisfaction, and pulled off two more of the six legs. “Go”, said the scientist. Feebly the flea did so, and the scientist nodded his approval. Reaching for the flea he pulled off the poor creature’s last two legs. Unfortunately now that the flea no longer had legs the scientist could shout endlessly and the flea would not move. The scientist, after many tries, nodded his wise old head, and wrot...