ALL ABOUT KIPPLE

My master’s philosophy is most concisely articulated in his seven CD deluxe boxed set manifesto, titled I, Kea. His teaching is that if we properly organise the outer world in which we live, then our spiritual inner world will take care of itself - an unusually practical world-view for a guru, I think you’ll agree. He put this with masterful precision in his famous maxim, “Out Is Good Then In Is Good”. Sometimes he would also refer to his philosophy as a kind of Neoplatonism, a term which until then I would have more readily associated with new trends in dinnerware.

Kea also introduced us to the concept of kipple. Kipple is the stuff that just always builds up around us, seemingly of its own accord. Mess, junk are other words for it, but kipple is the most precise and evocative, giving to this kind of accumulating stuff almost a life of its own. And let’s face it, it has one.

Kea told us the word and concept came from a science fiction writer called Phillip K. Dick. I had vaguely heard of him before, but had always been turned off by what I thought was a very obvious surname. But at the ashram I read all his books, which are the sacred texts of Kea’s followers, and really related to them. Their unrelenting drug-induced paranoia reminded me powerfully of my own feelings on returning to my messy hovel after a big night out. It was always full of kipple, of stuff that had just built up, on the table, benchtops, the bed, the floor. Papers, dirty cups, underwear, banana skins, crumbs alive with cockroaches, all of it.

I came to comprehend the notion of kipple on a profound level. Kipple is the dark matter of our personal physical realm.
My own world is full of kipple. Almost everyone’s world is overflowing with it. Kipple is eternal and omnipresent, just waiting for the tiniest opportunity to get a foothold from a few bits and pieces on the kitchen table, and spread relentlessly like a rogue virus until the interior of your entire apartment is reduced to nothing but kipple. And from there, it is not hard to imagine it spreading to take over the entire world. That is why Kea says it is up to every single individual to stop it in its tracks.