For most of us, how we perceive, and conceptualize reality leads to delusional perspectives. Our senses lie to us, and even when we know better we reinforce the falsehood in our conceptual modal of reality.
Lets take the idea of sunrise.
Even though most of us know the earth is spinning we still think of it as the sun coming up. This might not seem important, but does this point to a fundamental disconnect between reality, and our perception of reality?
When we hold delusional views we will seek out those that support our delusional thinking. The idea that continue after the physical body is a good one.
We divide ourselves into groups based on conceptions of an afterlife. How about the idea that the earth is 5000 years old, and evidence to the contrary was put in place by a god wanting to test your faith, don't laugh to hard this view is reputed to be held by a few in the american government.
If you start from the stand point that everything goes back to one, then you have to hold some basic illusions to even have an individual experience. It just may be that it is our delusions that define our reality vary more effectively then our truths. Can you have anything real if the foundation is a lie?
Currently Russia supplies most of the natural gas to Europe, it also has a navel base in Syria.
The world has been making new trade agreements cutting the dollar out of the loop. For 50 plus years we have been exporting our inflation, and importing the wealth of the world. It seems the world has had enough, the brics nations have already formed a bloc that signaled the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency. In 2008 we entered the end of the dollar, QE infinity, and interest rates kept artificially low. I can only see this as buying time to allow for the new system to be introduced, and the impact of the transition to be lessened. The desire for war by the U.S. is due to it being the last tool of what has become an empire.
Lucky for the world it seems other leaders are aware of this. Avoiding the all out conflict, and allowing the U.S. to die of it's own devices.
The other day my house mate Matt made an off hand comment that we as a group were really still playing fort, just we did as kids.
This off hand comment led us to the simplistic notion that we are all really still playing childhood games that we just take more seriously.
We came up with 3 main interactions, fort, house, and sleepover. Keep in mind these are obviously over simplifications of complex social interactions. That being said lets goof off a bit.
Fort: When people are wanting to play fort, it's a grouping together for protection.
The idea being that outside the fort is dangerous territory, and people outside the fort are not to be trusted. Primary activities are planning raids into "enemy" territory. Improving the fort, this takes many forms.
Examples of groups playing fort are: gangs, corporations, governments.
Sleep Over: People who's primary mode is playing sleep over are generally looking for emotional support. Main themes include physical beauty, sharing of innermost feelings in a place of safety, and commiseration. Primary activities include physical appearance improvement, gossip, generally aimed at improving the self image.
House: This is the one most played by "adults", an odd twist being it also the one most mistaken for another. Those playing house often switch to fort, or sleep over mode to hide their true desire to play house. A person playing the masculine role will often drink the kool aid of sleep over hoping it will morph into playing house. Likewise a person playing the feminine role will often show great adroitness at playing fort, while pushing the game toward house.
To close this is a superficial division, we all have a desire to play all aspects at differing points in our development.
Disappointment is the word that most accurately describes my feeling toward humanity. When I look at where we are developmentally, I can't help but feeling saddened. With all the advancements made across the board we are still like children. Our drive for illusionary security, and control have led to a world most of us would be ashamed of. We lie, cheat, steal, and kill indiscriminately.
I see us at a crossroads, we have made the world a very small place. Now we have to learn to live together. Remembering the words of Ronnie Raygun, how quickly would we put aside our petty differences to face an non terrestrial threat. Are we like the frog with the water temp being slowly increased? Are we approaching a tower of babel event? Where we either make the leap to a new understanding of ourselves and our place in creation, or we will need to be slapped back a few developmental steps so we don't have the ability to destroy ourselves.
We've studied our drive for continuation of species, why has this drive stalled? Wouldn't our next goal be multiple planets settled? Wouldn't this be the next logical step to ensure our version of humanity survives? How many times will be at this point before we learn?
The basic idea for the doubters is this.
Space being a virtual vacuum offers nothing for a force to be applied to, as the expanding gas can expand infinitely with no resistance. This makes a situation where no work can be done.
Offered as rebuttal are newtons laws of motion. if you are unfamiliar with these.
While I agree it is newtons laws of motion being applied, the only thing I found that gave me a reasonable picture of what is happening was the idea of a balloon being inflated, and released. Rockets are a series of explosions, the combustion chamber can be thought of as the balloon. As the gases expand inside the chamber they exert pressure or force on the walls of the chamber. When the chamber is vacated the force is given direction creating trust. So no work is being done against the vacuum, and newtons laws are still being adhered to.
I've seen so much trying to answer this question, much of it garbage. I've worked at becoming detached enough, in an attempt to see myself not from my perspective. Not even from your perspective, as I get I can never really see myself, as others see me. The best I can hope for is a view from the collective ambiguous we.
Body, Mind, Spirit am I the area of conjunction between these highly amorphous concepts? Leaving huge gaps in my perceptions, portions of all 3 like submerged icebergs. Lurking below and above my awareness. Plumb a little deeper, and all Three start to show themselves to be divisions in name only.
That in all likely hood I no more have my own mind, body or spirit then I have my own planet. If all that is comes from one source, and returns to one source, how does that leave any of us with our own anything?
I may very well be a delusion wrapped in a delusion, piles of lies to give comfort. For me the problem has come down to persistence, the best game worlds are those that are still going even when your not paying attention. I've played and played in other realms, no matter how far I might get in mind, or spirit my body is right where I left it. No matter any of the 3 I delve into the other 2 are waiting right where I left them.
So what am I? I'm not sure it really matters anymore.
The other day someone pointed me to the Alex Grey picture of Jesus.
At the bottom of this image were these excepts from the gospel of Thomas.
Jesus said "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same...then you will enter the Kingdom of God."
I've come to think of this as the balance of the anointed one. I'm come to see these in my own way, being an eclectic mix so is my take on this concept.
First I'd like to look at top to bottom, This one has been covered all over the place.
There are few who have heard of the chakra centers. These are what I see as the top to bottom, This is where we get the idea of being heart centered. Here is a video, and you can find as much info as you want with a search
What is meant by making the male, and the female one? For me it points to the hemispheres of the brain. The left hemisphere is very outwardly focused male aspect, driven by logic. While the right hemisphere is an inwardly focused feminine aspect, driven by intuition. There is a twist on a very simple meditation that many people use on a regular basis. The candle meditation, where you pick a spot beyond a candle flame, and see the flame while looking at the spot. This will cause the flame to appear double. I also sometimes do this with just holding my finger out, and looking beyond it while seeing my finger. This double vision causes both hemispheres of the brain to be active simultaneously. The male and female become one. Here is a nice binural to help in maintaining this balance
Lastly, only because for me this one has been the toughest. Balance your internal and external realities. We all carry around two realities, internal, and external.
For most of us these remain relatively close, meaning the line up fairly well.
When these don't line up very well all sorts of odd effects manifest. We all run around and make assumptions about the world we see based solely on dialogue running in our minds, this is a form of projection. We all project all the time, we are also projected on by the external world. For me this is where the being as little children is very handy. Children accept things as they are, they have no preconceived notions, they lack the experience to project.
please keep in mind I profess no religion, or do I say I actually know anything.
I'm a liar, I can't help it. I lie to you, and I lie to myself. My own senses lie to me all the time. Nothing I see is really how I perceive it. The colors I see are never the color of what I'm seeing. Even allowing the senses their foibles, my mind will erase, and paint in items.
Everything about the place we find ourselves is designed to make me believe it's the end all be all. So I'm going to lie to myself by default, and lie to you the same way. Lets forget about the fact that our being here together has to be a lie.
Instead how about we take a look just at my own internal processes. Most of us are incapable of being honest even with themselves. We have trouble taking responsibility for our part in the events of our lives. We tell lies to make ourselves feel better. We tell lies to protect others feelings, which is still just to make things easier on ourselves.
So I'm going to lie to you, and your going to lie to me.
Heyas, gonna talk a bit about free, and will today.
If you accept a creator deity that is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, it would follow that your "freewill" is an illusion. You really have no choice, if what your choice will be is known before you choose.
I'd rather not get stuck on this point, as it really doesn't get to the heart of freedom, or will. Free will is an amazingly oxymoronic idea. Free nothing that has a physical existence is free. The idea of for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction comes to mind. Free is never free, there is always a price, even if you have trouble directly seeing it. Within the bounds of a finite creation, we create nothing. We move things around, combine them in novel ways, but we take what is there already, and re-purpose.
As for will it might be the most expensive of "freedoms" we ever exercise.
Will is something that is imposed, it is violent by nature. In exercising will I am saying I am the instigator, I am the source, I know what has to happen.
There is so much to these concepts, I could tap away and never scratch the surface.
I'm going to impose my will on creation and see where it leads
I love this quote, it so clearly demonstrates the role our own perception plays in creating our experience of our reality. I sometimes like to stress this point with the idea "Hitler woke up everyday thinking he was doing the right thing". I'm not saying I endorse anything, your own moral compass must always be your guide, Just don't get it twisted into thinking that your perception of a thing makes it so. Jack aka PanseyBard
That little blue dot made so famous by Carl Sagan when this video came out.
How fragile is this little ball we find ourselves inhabiting. How precarious our existence, Even going more then a mile from the surface we come to an environment not conducive to our life.
Everyone you know, everyone you love. every song, every thought, every horror show has happened in this little carved out niche. We know with certainty our beautiful little home is going to die. It's not a matter of if, only a matter of when. Our destruction maybe remote in the terms most of think, I tell you in the grand scheme it's not even a blink. Ronny Raygun once talked about the need of an outside threat to bring humanity into unity. The thought that it would take someone else to fight before we are able to understand our unity pains me. I see so much wonder and joy waiting in potential for us. All we need do is recognize it.
The transience of existence is where I live. The idea that I have come from the void is a comfort. Vomited forth like one half of a particle pair in the reaches of space. Spinning through a so called life, front side seats to the burning of Rome.
This is the darkness in my soul, the insane burden I place on this thing I call self.
I know less and less with each passing moment, the sum of human knowledge growing exponentially, my portion shrinking in relation.
Still I wonder how can we have allowed this paradise to become so jaded, so lost in the idea of persistent reality. The comfort of illusory security locking out the boogyman. We hand over our power without a thought if the systems are really designed for our benefit. Even those that wake up enough to start asking questions rarely stop to think if they have enough information to even make an informed choice.
When was the last time most of actually read our constitution? How about asking the questions about our money. Ever ask where it comes from, how it's value is determined? Most of us never ask questions that may throw into doubt the life we are engaged in. Do you ever question your motivations? We have all to one degree or another invested into the existence we share. It is that very investment that becomes the trap. We can no longer question the validity of what we have invested in, or risk losing our investment.
I am insane, and stupid, I question everything, even my own existence.
Almost all of us have grown up the idea of 0, the empty set, nothing.
Fewer of us go any further then that, we don't stop to see where this concept came from, and don't get it twisted it's an idea. There is no such thing as nothing in nature. Zero may well be the greatest single achievement in recorded human history, it may well be one the least truly understood.
check out a few links for some background if your interested.
For me it's the concept of nothing, no where do we look do we find nothing.
Even things we describe as being empty are far from it. When you pour a glass of water, your not really filling it, your displacing one thing with another denser thing. Even the misnamed vacuum of space is only a relative vacuum.
I would take this even farther as I've explained in an early blog about the LoA .
That using the idea of the void is the trigger to to cause the machine like aspect of all that is to find something to fill it.
So much has been written about the idea of a global take over by the banking cartel. I've written several posts about the problems with our global financial system. Seeing we're already in what most people consider fantasy land. Why don't we indulge a bit farther, and see what would have to happen for the citizens of the U.S. to submit to a global government.
If you do a little research it starts to look like time for end game.
There are very few states left that haven't privatized their banking.
The big ones would be Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Kinda nice how that lines up with the most demonized countries in western media.
Makes for great story telling.
So barring a global cataclysm, or an external global threat. How would you go about breaking the spirit of the people who view themselves as being on the top.
Keeping in the mind that it's bankers plot we are cooking up, how about this.
The power of the dollar has been maintained not through sound policy, but through being the global trade currency, and the global empire of the day. Many might say the U.S. is not an empire, but the 200+ bases all over the globe beg to differ.
So what would happen if say BRICS were to make a new global currency?
What would happen to the dollar?
The U.S would go the way of the Weimer Republic and hyperinflation, or deflation.
I see things a bit differently, we have recently seen arguably the greatest transfer of wealth in history. So, we've had fiat debt traded for real world wealth. Now Imagine what would happen to the already fragile world economy if the U.S. began to default?
I kinda like this one, the chaos caused would be perfectly well suited for a new shining global currency to save the day.
I guess it's not if, but when, and how the dollar fails.
The NWO is already here, they are actually almost done.
We as humans are in a very odd predicament. We accept our reality because of the information our senses provide us. This is where we get start to slide a bit sideways. We know our senses can not only be tricked, they can lie to us. We know that the fundamental forces that shape our reality are to a large extent invisible to the very senses we are using to try to describe our reality.
A fairly easy analogy is our computers.
Think of this scenario. Joey is playing world of warcraft, or any game really.
Billy walks in the room, motions toward the screen, and asks the question,
"Whats that?".
Joey answers "that is a monitor"
Billy responds "asshole"
Of course we know the answer Billy wants is the name of the game. not the actual object he is motioning toward.
Many of you might even be saying this is nit-picky bs.
But lets take a quick look a bit deeper.
Even as Joey most of us even knowing that the monitor is merely the output, It's the flashing lights, and color to keep you mesmerized. It's the computers version of Maya, the illusion being played out before your eyes.
It's the end product, the input is else where, the processing is else where.
Most of it isn't even happening locally, it's happening in some magical remote place you will more then likely never see.
This isn't so different then how we deal with the world.
We are so dazzled by our senses we don't stop to understand the reality we observe is like the images on the screen. Most of what shapes it below or above our awareness. We have been dazzled by the colors.
We are looking at the output, and labeling it the thing itself.
So right there we can show a state of war existed almost immediately as WW2 ended. If we scratch a little deeper the roots of this new conflict were in place well before.
So here we can see pretty clearly the seeds for the new conflict were sown far earlier.
If your not familiar with The Bretton Woods agreement take a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
In 1971 when Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold fully, causing currencies pegged to the dollar for value to become free floating.
This set the stage for currency wars, which are numerous and ongoing.
Here are a few links if you need some examples of currency wars.
As long as we have a belief in direct opposition, we will always have conflict.
These are wars of ideology in the end. The desire to tell other people how to live.
No matter the type of global conflict, the real losers will always be the ordinary men, and women swept along by the tide to be dashed against the rocks.
Heya Folks, Today I'm gonna play with my own mind a bit.
So many people today have heard some version of the conspiracy theory "New World Order", or something similar involving a one world government.
Lets suppose it's true, that we have groups that have been working toward this end.
Is this really such a bad idea?
By our own scale we are still a stage 0 civilization.
In order to progress to stage 1, global resource management is a must.
The real question isn't do we need a single global government, but who is going to be running it.
I end up asking myself, As a world, how long would it be before the next chance at global unification.
So even though this may be an attempt to turn the worlds population into slaves, can we afford to stop it?
If we stop it will our civilization survive?
I don't really have any good answers.
maybe someone else does
