I and I

By Baktash Khamsehpour (Bahram Iranmand)

This work was written during the late 1980's. Sitting in coffee shops of LA "Baktash" interviewed himself on various subjects ranging from mythology to religion and history and from politics to philosophy and science. This work was completed during a course of a few years and it was written down on several notepads. In the early 1990's Baktash edited his notepad memos and typed them in Sweden. However it took 25 years for the publication of this work. It's out now, finally published after quarter of century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baktash Khamsehpour (Bahram Iranmand)
• Release date: Jan 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310477898

Baktash Khamsehpour (Bahram Iranmand)

"Baktash Khamsehpour" born 1965 in Iran started writing at early age. He was 13 when he left Iran. Since then he has been living abroad. Baktash who also writes under the pen name "Bahram Iranmand" has works in Persian and English. Among his works is "Humaname" published in 2020, comprising of a long continuous poem encompassing humanity, consciousness and the world. "2537; the Year Our Planet Changed" is another work by Baktash, published in 2016 where the author has tried his best to recall memories of his early teenage years returning back to his homeland enjoying a few months with family and friends. Three year later in 2019 Baktash writes and publishes the semifictitious "Back In My Homeland". Out of over 20 works authored and published by Baktash Khamsehpour (Bahram Iranmand) "Farazan" in Persian and its English translation "Paraphilosophy" could stand out as one of his masterpieces.

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I & I

Baktash Khamsehpour

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Copyright 2015 Baktash Khamsehpour

(Introduction)

I wrote this book during the hardest period of my life. In this book I have tried to interview myself and cover various subjects which will be useful to readers around the world. During the time I was writing this work, I was constantly living among the poor and feeling their pains and sufferings. As I wrote down my ideas and answered my own questions in my small pocket notebooks while sitting in coffee shops, I felt confident towards the future of humanity. It was this optimism that let me believe that eventually our planet will reach an era of unity, peace and love. The main aim of this work is to prepare the grounds for the expected great era, an era when we have freedom, equality and justice throughout our planet and an era when science, arts and progress flourish everywhere. We must dream, work and hope for that day to come and make it a sign for all mankind.

Baktash Khamsehpour

- My first question is when do you write?

- Whenever an inspiration is given to me, I can write.

- But if you are looking for inspiration and in such a land, you won’t get it.

- No, I have got it ok. It’s just that it’s not real.

- Well, that’s what I am trying to warn you about. It’s not just here that’s like this. Everywhere is the same. Wherever you go, you face the same kind of problems. See the pain is not out there, it is within you.

- But that’s what everybody is trying to tell me. I think the pain not only exists within me but within all of us and it is out there. We feel and think helpless towards it. The answer is not talking or planning anymore but action. We need to see results. Until results are not shown, we cannot proceed forward. How can I progress, seeing so many hurts and injuries?

- I guess you want us all to suffer.

- If most of us are, then yes, we not only have to but we will. It’s natural.

- And then?

- Then we know the value of life and when we do, we set new foundations, new systems, so we can all live better. Obviously when there are so many injustices throughout the world, we can’t expect to witness the birth of a new age. If we want to believe in a new world, where there is comfort, it has to be for every single person. Not one can be left out. What we see now is the majority of the population being left out. It is not because they don’t care. It is because the concept is old and near its death. We must learn from history. Our interpretation of history is wrong. Our ethics is so wrong that has created such dogma, it is essential that be broken. Inspiration is the driving force that can charge us. It gives us determination to achieve our goal. I know it can’t be found here, except the minority that holds the capital. This inspiration here is only linked to females. It comes from them. The minority controlling them has the power to use this inspiration in different ways, whereas truly this inspiration belongs to nature and has to come from there not from capital or materials. It is a spiritual height. Unfortunately in the framework of our system devising we have gone diagonally except going straight. That’s why we can’t figure out today where we are. Today we are lost. At least many of us who see and search in life everything that is connected with material. In life there is a part of materialism but if that exceeds its limit like here, then things mix up and we will face shortages. It has to come from somewhere and when a minority takes and uses and wastes more than its shares, we don’t see justice. We see injustice with people dying of starvation. So this is the major problem of the world today. We have been dealing with it for thousands of years and we still haven’t solved it. We think there is no solution. So let’s live like animals and whoever can, whoever is the fittest will survive. Is this our understanding of humanity? It is greater if a tribe without food shares a seed than its individuals run around for their own interests.

- The major point if I am not mistaken is social order and equality which has never been reached.

- Yes but we have reached it many times and over and over again but always it has been mislead later. Our comfort and happiness only comes when we know all of us are in harmony and are living happily. If I live in a palace, drive a big new car, have lots of cash in my bank account and own a company, travel couple of times a year but know that there are people who not only have no jobs or homes but are hungry, now, how can I be happy and enjoy all the things that I have. I only enjoy whatever I have when I know everyone else has them also, or at least does not lack them. This is what I call a social harmony. We need this harmony in society because if we don’t, I warn that society and its system will collapse. Besides if such a harmony exists in a society, that society shall continue to live in peace and happiness. It will go forward. This forward move is not linked with materialism, it is within us, within our thoughts and spirits. When we master that, then we talk about matter. This matter, no matter how limited or unlimited, but when it is misused we are faced with wastes and when we have wastes we have shortages and when we get there that’s not the last stop because after the shortages we reach rebellion.

- Well, come on, couldn’t you be more conservative? I mean, think about it, what is the point of all life? Shouldn’t we think about ourselves? Look deep into the mirror at ourself. We can’t have perfection and in reality everything differs. I know we have to keep on trying but it comes slowly, not with radical thoughts and moves and if happens and turns into reality once in a while, it concludes in anarchy in the negative sense of it. If you ask why I will tell you because you want everything to happen so fast therefore things get rough on the way. If we build a sense of great symbolism through everything we see or know, ok, fine but bear in mind its limits. The concept needed in today’s world of science and reason is closening the branches of knowledge and create the foundations of new awakening for human enlightenment and restoration. The new resurrection is here, so near, it’s happening in just a few days from now. Don’t you feel we are close to it?

- I think it’s happening alright and if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be so radical about it, making you so critical about this attitude of mine. Yes, I think radical and if we are going to get from a point to another point, we need potential to get there and action needs to be taken. The civilization of mankind has always awaited and searched for this drive, the will to do and achieve something great. We have searched for success and victory and have ended up with different meanings and interpretations. Our conclusions are different because our points of views are different. But it doesn’t mean we can’t reach a single