"The host is riding from Knocknarea
And over the grave of Clooth-na-Bare;
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away:
Empty your heart of its mortal dream . . . "
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(Foreword: Little known fact - once again you heard it here first:
Adam Smith, the "father" of Capitalism, and of 'modern' Economics was kidnapped by "gypsys" when quite young. Though the thief was soon tracked down and the wee babe restored to his family, an elvin babe had been 'glamoured' to appear permanently human, in the ancient manner of all 'changelings' of Faerie (read: a race of semi-benevolent extra-terrestrial Wardens, now long gone from this polluted post-industrial
version of Middle-Earth)to alter the course of human history through the mythic resonance of their ethereal thoughtforms. And they wondered why he talked to 'unseen beings' all the rest of his life? I kid you not, look it up!)
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"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
The "Behavior Modification" Of American Government And Culture
“The father’s a Nazi in Congress today; the mother’s a hooker somewhere in L.A” - ‘The Idiot Bastard’s Son’” - Frank Zappa, from “We’re Only In It For The Money”
Well, I was careless recently and didn't back up about 30 minutes worth of 'automatic writing' - containing a quite detailed explication of the famous Frank Olson CIA case and how he was actually murdered (read: "thrown", not "jumped" out the 10th story window of a bordello/'safe house'/Himmleresque experimental facility) by minions of the "Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten". The continuation of the Third Reich re-established in stealth in America, and elsewhere, by the flow of Capital from German Industry. The ruling class knew the Reich would fall, but always planned that the future of World History and the plutocratic hegemonies that would shape it be dictated by Prussian Disciplinarian Policy and Ideals in any event.
Thus the 650 + scientists military officers and “Drs.”, war criminals all, with new identities given them by the US Govs. “Intelligence Community” in “Operation Paperclip” at the end of WWII when Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Gehlen convinced FDR, Hoover, Eisenhower and MacArthur, through Patton (The Real "Manchurian Candidate") to form the NSA there and then (all historic fact - look it up) Patton to prevent certain salient details of the Nazi infiltration of our Government, Military-Industrial Complex (Ike knew enough to try to warn us in his farewell address) intelligence community and scientific/research community from coming to light.
Frank Olson’s death was just ‘collateral damage’ in the cover up of (literally!) thousands of “crimes against humanity” by Project Monarch/ MKULTRA/Whitecoat OSS ops unnamed, etc. operations: kidnappings, rapes, maimings, murder and ‘terminal experiments’, sexual torture, systematic experimental child abuse, infections of thousands of American citizens on and on even unto the hundreds of CIA "snuff" flicks of the terminal experiments and worse.
The staggering scope of the depravity is known to few and believed by fewer today. Excepting these . . . the Gnostics, who always knew, surviving Hassidiim, scattered Elohim and those they teach, and the still silently weeping members of the hierarchy of Angelic beings, appalled once again at the scope of suffering meted out to mankind by IHVH . . . and the numbers dwindles as the principles die off.
Even the 'compromising movies' made of scores of members of the House, Senate and Justice Dept. by the OSS, for 'leverage' which became the archives of theFBI/CIA/Mafia. Canisters long buried in the Nevada desert by former 'bag men" and "assets" of the OSS and "The Pond" now eroding into unrecoverable acetate and hubris. The infiltraitors and their scions all secure in their belief in their own successful redaction of the facts from History (read: 'the propaganda of the ruling class') and marginalization of all who question the "status quo uber alles", until the advent of "Channels" and "Mediums" who really could get info from anywhere (even classified files) delivered right into their minds. No wonder the 'takeover' of the largest Michael Teachings Website, by forces opposed to the truthful rendition of facts regardless of the supposed "National Security" implications.
The full and true tale of how Frank’s Olson's son sued the CIA and the Federal Government in the late '60s and prevailed, winning his 'wrongful death' case in 1970 by having a Fed. Court order the release of a large number of pertinent documents which substantiated his claims (an unheralded act of Angelic Intervention, by a few of the "Fallen" actually, and you'll not hear this ever, from any but I. Forever branded as "evil" by vain History, again and again they interceded, unthanked and unheeded, but Gaia, and I, remember!) will be told, and many more.
These unexpected events led to a mad scramble to cover up EVERYTHING because (as none in power realized) "Pandora's Box" (and Fort Knox) had been compromised by agents both invisible and non-human (more on this anon). Disinformation on top of denials under smokescreens of "National Security" as Richard Helms was replaced by Stansfield Turner AFTER Helms and Himmler trained aides and "goodfella" crews destroyed a couple of bunkers filled with semi-tractor trailors full of documents, tapes, movies and more (as well as those things redacted/hid/given/snatched by their Mafia brethren as "get out of jail free" cards if ever needed).
This "chrystallnacht" of evidence is now only the stuff of whispers between aged dons in back rooms in Henderson retirement homes, a pall-like cloacal miasma of cigar smoke and human misery sticking to their souls, moustaches and slippers. I may have a few good years left in me to "set the record straight" about what has happened since the last significant works about the continuing predations of the American "Intelligence Community" (and they DO still continue, even though there is now a significant and visibly ethical partition of even the rarefied strata of cabals 'above' the NSA, and the Prussian Model has been rejected by a smaller, but more effectively powerful and futurehistory allied and protected portion of almost all the agencies, covert and overt.)
The spectre of 'George White', a figure of diabolic proportions in the founding of the OSS, and then MKULTRA and the CIA/NSA apparatus as designed by the 'ubermenschen' of the SS, still hangs over me, personally. He personally was responsible for cruelties to family, and people I loved.
As he once stated, for the record, his career from WWII on to his supposed 'retirement' in '65: " . . . was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, steal and cheat, kill deceive and rape AND pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all highest?" BTW, what "American" would EVER use a phrase like "all highest"?
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."
Before I was twenty I became slowly aware of the enormity of oppression of citizens worldwide by their governments, and the many lives and possible futures at stake. Remembering the struggle WB Yeats (may have been my incarnation immediately prior to this one) had defined as "The Machine" vs. "The Garden" I stumbled into the futures running on fear and impelled by my faith in Chaos Theory to provide opportunities for social change.
On this reflective rumination my training 'on watch' began in '73 with "Scotty" back from The City, 20 lbs of Air America CIAfghan hashish, a copy of the nascent "Gemstone Files", and the deadly 'blackhole" auricstink signature of "George White", retired but still schmoozing with his pals at their favorite SF bar, where they could always hang out to hoist a few, and drug, kidnap, rape, torture, maim and discard various members of SF's ever unsuspecting hippie society.
These spooks were members the same cabal of people who were eager to assassinate Sen. Estes Kefauver, by poisoning a slice of apple pie with 'sodium morphate, and have him then collapse ON THE SENATE FLOOR! To demonstrate thus to the 'do-gooders' opposing (and eventually in internecine pursuit of them) that they should 'back off'. I believe this incident was responsible for the Kennedy assassins and Nazi superiors feeling they could get away with ANYTHING later in Dallas, and was the turning point in the “Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice.“ death knell of Democracy and subsequent well-funded moral and ethical demise of American Government.
The Third Riech's rationale for human experimentation was embraced by a majority PART of the U. S. Military, Intelligence Community, Legislature Judiciary and Executive Branch at this point as the 'Dachau Dolls' slithered into the undefined interstices of the ruling class's lackey beauracracy, vanishing with nothing but a slime trail of contumely left behind, and never again did the "Shadow Reich" feel compelled to inform subsequent Presidents/Judges/Legislators about their
'Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten' activities. Their Credo had been expressed for all to fear by Barry Goldwater in his famous statement, cited above, rationalizing their Himmlerian/Mengelen amorality.
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'".
Notice the audio of a lot of the video records of MKULTRA surviving on YouTube have been altered. If you read lips you can tell. Also the links have been altered to become almost devoid of title info. No SHARE buttons, no site descriptions and the parties responsible for many of my comments having . . . dissappeared . . . along with the contents of my harddrive last week, after my last post and the sabotage of these site HTML codes may well be rewarded by the karmic visitations of vengeful Cherubim, I avow, I saw it happen in the '70s and I feel it flying past me like a fractal chiaroscuro of intent.
The beings who leveled Sodom have been itching to "smite" all the Reich War Criminals that escaped, and those that follow their logic. Nixon was given phlebitus (I still refuse to apologize) and where is Herr Cheney lately, after all that mouthing off he did in defense of his jackbooted Prussian OSS inspired "Retro"-Conservative Patriot Act redactions Of essential-to-all-but-Himmler-inspired-Americans liberties and rights?".
Some spirits can be vengeful when interfered with in pursuit of a discarnate search for justice. I've never been able to shake the feeling that millions of the victims of TRULY evil men like: ‘George White’ (SS to the core, NOT American) or Maitland Baldwin or Kurt Plotner or Walter Neff or Winfred Overholser or Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan or Richard Helm or Stanley Lovell, et. al. still wish the truth of just how much the of the Third Reich escaped Nuremburg and then subsumed America's leaders and culture might be told!
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” So be it! Here in the next few years, after my 6 decades of abuse and damage and revelation and preparation and pain and something akin to an aspiration towards an apprehension of wholeness, and the weight of the world's pain for the Holocaust, and more, I shall endeavour to tell the stories that the myriad friends of mine (and those I never knew) who died in their struggle to free themselves from the yoke of mental, emotional, psychosexual and philosophic oppression that America’s rulers placed upon us (WHEN MOST OF US WERE CHILDREN, REMEMBER) in the search for “Behavior Modification” to "combat communism", would tell if they could.
Some can still reach from beyond the grave I recently realized - Woody Guthrie evidently still smoulders somewhere on the Astral Plane, hoisting mugs of "Old Ectoplasm" beer in the heavenly IWW Hall with Joe Hill, and Huey Long, toasting the martyrdom of Leon Trotsky and Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rosenburgs.
NOTE: Here is fair warning: Attempted suppression of the Logos as it manifests will prove destructive to whom and/or whatever tries to hinder the epiphanthetic eventualities this entails. I have never threatened anything or anyone then or now 'cause I never needed to. All who pursued or troubled me or mine, since the '60s and about my 200th trip, have mysteriously (through no actions of mine, other than the occasional Golden Dawn spell or two) been shown the "error of their ways" in eerie and quite memorable fashion. All I’ve ever been able to do is try to warn of the irresistible epiphenomenal inevitability of the ’wrath’ of my aforementioned Cherubim, identified by more than half a dozen psychics and New Age mavens as my "Guardians", when attempts at obfuscation of any Message they promulgate through me arise. (My prose is really quite innately obtuse enough to render these missives unsuitable for 'soundbytes' and mass dissemination anyway, have no fear).
DOD/NID folk PLEASE note: requested quakes can‘t be faked, neither in ’91 when last I was asked to confirm my supposed delusions of chthonic grandeur, nor now. Those few of you remaining, steeped in the historicity and esoterica of “Intelligence” who remember, know of what I speak (hell, it was even the subject of a "Helen, Queen Of The Internet" comic strip). “Something is happening but you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?”
Great evil often generates its own counterbalance, even through the sequipedalian paronomasia of an old agent provocateur and autodidactically eccentric tectokinetic channel such as I. “The Men Who Stared At Goats”, because they were military and therefore subject to orders from a human chain of command that had been subverted through insidious insinuation of the Nazi inspired NSA into both the U.S. Military, and Civilian command superstuctures, never achieved anything close to the "Wildcard" paranormal talents or Gnostic abilities and perceptions extending all the way to the Buddhic Plane I have seen in others and/or personally manifested since I and my brother and sister human guinea pigs, “in the defense of Liberty”, had “alterations” forced upon us unawares, at the behest of America's Himmlers and Mengeles.
Think what SHOULD have happened to the hundreds of German War Criminals we protected from Justice if the the survivors of the Holocaust had had any of the advantages we, the surviving families, lovers, buds and bros of the many hippies, vagrants, third world citizens, and "desaparecidos" of the 50's, '60s, '70s, '80s and on, have today. Propelled by the same righteous indignation against THE SAME WAR CRIMINALS, SOME STILL IN POWER we can scour the data and "higher planes" of existence all the way to the Akashic Records in our search for justice and recompense.
"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'".
Strange that our commonly ridiculed "Aquarian Ager's" well honed 'fortune telling' abilities worked so freaking well (93% accuracy, over 13,000 years by my count)and thereby produced the plans for us all to incarnate here and now to usher in a "New Age". Imagine the silent satisfaction of plans laid and history nudged, without notice, over so many lifetimes and years.
All of we who had so long ago collectively planned this - thus - and so . . . colloquiums contingent on colloquys on contingency ongoing . . . synods on stealth . . . never "leaving our footprints in the sands of time" as we tracked across parallel timelines and reality matrix analogs, some familiar, most strange . . . "Poised. Delicate. Consent . . . in mute nostril agony" . . . for millenia we waited you know (Edgar Cayce picked up on it though)to meet up where and when we did and live as many as could through to here and now.
Incarnate now, I believe, to most effectively leverage and "right" some wrongs longstanding (dark times like the Inquisition come to mind) Here to wedge our corporeal forms withal into the gears and racks and slings and arrows and karmic clockworks of the Causal Plane mechanisms running the Wheel Of Dharma, singing: "We're all normal and we want our freedom." in park meadows greened by the fungul effulgence of the "Summer Of Love". At least that's the way this Sage has seen it since before even the "Word" began the expansion of the last Singularity. But what do I know? "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." right?
I speak from long experience about believing that just retribution for all cruelties we, the Children Of Light, have suffered WILL manifest, one way or the other, and sooner rather than later. Maybe because I "hunger and thirst after righteousness", or perhaps 'cause there once was a boy who believed, and continued lifelong to feel, that one of his 'multiple personalities' was some sort of "Arbiter" (he knew the word before the meaning) lifetasked with resolving an arcane and longstanding point of metaphysical dispute. Now then, this boy, grown to a much older man, might just (have planned) to happen to be in an appointed place at an appointed time with an appropriate surrajoinder prepared airtight and waiting to be applied with the proper kind and degree of force, through the proper medium to the proper object! Et voila: "Instant Karma"! Just like Magick! (It may even be the prophesied: "hard rain's gonna'fall".)
As always, as proponents of change we all have faced the same verities as our tormentors. I have NO idea why I've survived this long, to be here, now. I know many better folk have fallen, and passed on. I attempt to 'keep the faith' and champion causes like "Social Change Through Freedom From Wage Slavery" and quaintly axiomatic cultural notions like "Truth, Justice and the American Way", and "Peace, Love and Good Vibes".
The '60s taught me that if I make sure everyone I can help is helped if and when they need, then in turn, I of care taken will be as well. If I try always to be "devoted to a noble ideal", doing nothing for “lust of result” and work for what I believe to be the greatest good for the greatest number, I find I always fare far better that any attempting to interfere with me, The Medium, OR The Message.
"The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The (old) order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
Anyway, the 'worm has turned' with more 'castings' to come. Our friends who have passed know what we still can't clearly see: "We are forces of chaos and anarchy. Everything they say we are,WE ARE! And we are very proud of ourselves)!" - Jefferson Airplane. Within a couple thousand years "No living being will ever have to be sacrificed." Allow me to say it again then: The "Summer of Love" will work! I divine we have successfully shaped all probable alternate futures to the ancient agreed upon collective "Will", using "Love" as that long ago proposed basis of the "Law" for this "New Age". (Exactly as another "Prophet without honor", and friend of WB Yeats infamously foretold: “Love Is The Law, Love Under Will”.)
" . . .The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving our lips are apart;
And if any gaze on our rushing band,
We come between him and the deed of his hand,
We come between him and the hope of his heart.
The host is rushing 'twixt night and day,
And where is there hope or deed as fair?
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away."
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(To which I'll add, in a wee Wiccan stagewhisper:
"Blessed Be We All, Each And Every One")!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Free Trade vs Finity (Channeling The Spirit Of Woody Guthrie)
"To each his onus" - J.W.Thrasher, 1969
"Still, write it down, it might be read. Nothing's better left unsaid." - Procol Harum, 'In Held Twas In I',"Shine On Brightly".
Obviously, to me, the current "Great Recession" is a media/government economist defined event, I just think world economics are manipulated by the ruling class, and as such all these predictions of worldwide economic collapse because of deficit spending (by WHICHEVER of the two parties are currently supposedly "in power") are just attempts to prove the other side wrong, because nothing a single government can do is ever going to change the fact that global economic effects are rarely influenced by anything other than a completely secret hegemonic consensus of the weathiest individuals and corporations.
I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'. Here we go then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with the contraindicative dispositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and demographic probability vector calculus summation (not even a concept then) to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missapprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the so called "great decline". I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America.
I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan. Thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt.
WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right (and also the duty) to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, so where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." said Jim Morrison.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Now remember I'm talking here about changing the nature of "capitalism", NOT the Constitution, lest I be accused of being a "Communist" (I am not), or a "Socialist" (I am not, either). The Constitution was, in its ineffable Beauty (yes, I mean the Platonic absolute, because if I worship at any altar, it is at that of the Contitution) designed to evolve, and quite legally and properly, can be changed by a concerted vox populi, applied through the amendment process. It may have to develop the "Taft-Hartley" type teeth that it should have had before the Hamiltonians pulled them to sacrifice all economic justice for the concept of governmental 'laissez faire' practices, I don't know.
As an example, the "Wobblies" - The International Workers of the World, started out as basic Anarcho-Syndicalists (as far as my research has shown). They were of course 'tarred with the same brush" as the 'pinkos' that (I actually use the following word AS DEFINED BY THE OED - which, if everybody adhered to its 'prescriptive' definitions: IOWs - a word means what it meant WHEN FIRST USED IN PRINT; would end these stupid debates over what some vested political interest on either side WANTS the word to mean) . . . Fascist (!) "Tail-Gunner" Joe McCarthy used to forever besmirch the egalitarianism of social theory by anyone other than John Birch. What was lost was the IWW's initial alliance with the "America First" movement ("domestick" economic self-interest as delineated by Smith - see above) and the IWWs noble ideal of freeing mankind from 'wage slavery'.
They also were the only group to hold services yearly for the victims of the "Ludlow Massacre". That occured in 1914 when 19 people were killed (including 2 women AND 12 CHILDREN)! Workers and their families on strike against inhuman working conditions in COAL MINES in Southern Colorado were machine-gunned/burned/asphyxiated/hand-cuffed and beaten to death by THE COLRADO NATIONAL GUARD, sent by the 'ruling class' owners of the mines, ordered to do so with State and Federal complicity, to protect said owner's profit margins (none of the murdering Guardsmen ever served time for their crimes). Why? Because they were doing the bidding of the ruling class! Are mines that much better today? NO, given the vast progress of technology since! Why? Because our society favors greed, and oppresses the poor, as designed. Can the rich still 'buy' more Justice than the poor - You Betcha!
Unfortunately for the proponents of "Free-market growth", economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases) .
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the' Paul's' , Ron & Rand, so rightly assert) "Treasury Notes" are not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the relative productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, AS DEFINED AND MANIPULATED BY THE RULING CLASS (you think the World Bank even cares who is in the White House? NO WAY!) This value will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But NEVER FEAR FOLKS, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
So, I personally truly see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude "man'un'kind" into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
(BTW, I claim copyright to "Probability Vector Calculus" as a means of "remote viewing" most probable futures from my MKULTRA/civilian "Men Who Stare At Goats" type training & "looking down the road" I still don't see it happening as a worldwide catastrophe - gradual decline, yes.)
I have many 'survivalist' friends, though, who have always stockpiled supplies and such and do so to this day. Most of them do it because they still remember their "atomic bomb holocaust" dreams from growing up in the '50s/'60s. Then, there are my old LDS buds in Wyoming, where I helped out at "Freedom Arms" for a couple years. They usually have a year's supply of stuff cached somewhere, just as a matter of principle. "Be Prepared" - Say The Mormon Church & the Boy Scouts. Anything happens, I'm puttin' a couple hundred gallons of gas in the RV and headin' Northeast to the gun plant.
Anyway, I believe perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, after quite a few people starve, though, and most of the 'heavy metals' and stuff like coltan are mined out.
This hoped for new balance MUST be based upon some notion other then the frightful illogic (see "Life Against Death", by Brown) of:
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." Genesis 1:28 Vulgate
An admonition which is still keeping the Catholic Church from sanctioning the use of condoms, so the poor can overbreed and starve, or die of diease, because the Vatican asserts that is "God's Will", evidenced by that verse.
This same verse I believe is the 'cause', implanted in the collective conservative subconscious, for the "Religion Of Free Trade" effect, to this day.
You know, this whole "recession" could easily even be a ploy by the ruling class to lower wages, disenfranchise workers with 30 and 40 year of seniority, bust unions and wage economic warfare upon the 'proletariat'. They have done the same and worse in the past. Who was responsible for these inequities in divestable capital in the first place? Poor people or rich people? Think about it. Who gave our manufacturing base and bases to the slave-labor wagemasters of the Third World anyway? That's right, you heard right - the ruling classes!
So that's my rant and I'm stickin' to it. "Thank you for encouraging my behavior." - Bobcat Goldthwaite. I'm am truly sorry if I have offended anyone, but "Let us stop talking falsely now, for the hour is getting late." - Bob Dylan
It's kinda' like something another whacko such as I said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"That's a butte!" . . . "No, it's a mound." . . . "And right purty, too." - FT
AFTERWORD: Channeling Woody Guthrie
My channeled prose (and this is honestly 'automatic writing') is always 'sesquipedalian' in nature (multisyllabic words). I learned a long time ago that it is really hard to put any "spin" or "Beckify" or misunderstand/misconstrue... words like: "floccinaucinihilipilification". The concepts I attempt to communicate are singular, hopefully incisive, and hard to see through all the "15-second-attention-span" pablum that passes for political commentary today. Read Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Message". Even the title requires thought. It took me years to plow through it. That's like "The Way is the Goal." Taoist koan.
THE RULING CLASSES DEPEND ON JOE SIXPACK NEVER BEING MOTIVATED TO CRACK OPEN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY TO SEE WHAT THE WORD "SOCIALISM" MEANT THE VERY FIRST TIME IT WAS USED IN PRINT, IN ENGLISH, OR FOR HIM TO THEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THAT WITH THE MEANING IT HAS FALSELY COME TO PORTRAY AS A SOUND BITE, OR FOR HIM TO REALIZE THE FACT THAT ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT IS TWICE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT AND 99% OF ALL ECONOMISTS, SAY IT IS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE ORWELL CALLED: DOUBLESPEAK !
Hang in there. A paragraph a week, that's all I and my 'Spirit Guides' and channeled 'collective disembodied entities' ask. (lol);{>
Who knows, once I sleep off this hangover from drinking Irish Coffees until 4:00am and channeling the absolutely RIGHTEOUS spirit of Woody Guthrie (or at least the SIMS model of him I keep in my head) I may just renounce my 10 year long self-imposed 'anchorite' vows and start going to Mermen shows, or even . . . political events. This whole writing experience has caused me to remember what it was like in the '60s trying to separate 'truth' from fiction. . .
I'll never forget being chased down the street in Oakland by some Hell's Angels I actually grew up with, 'cause I was protesting the Draft, trying to close the Army depot. But they had held a 'moot' (read: drunken) court and decided to go bust some 'pinko' hippie heads. My first protest. I was a half block away from James Rector when he was shot during People's Park a few years later. Younger people these days have no idea what it was like being there, then.
At least, unappreciated by all the draft age dudes these days who "Ain't no Senator's son"; we killed the Draft, got all my forever damaged buddies out of the jungles, and stopped WasteMoreLand and crew from napalming any more babies.
My sincere regret though, is that NOBODY in Congress remembered that the "Gulf Of Tonkein Incident", the justification for the Congressional vote to enter the war in Vietnam, was proven to be a TOTAL FABRICATION (I actually talked to a former swabbie years later who had been on one of the supposedly attacked ships - NO ENEMY FIRE!) But very few politicians even knew or remembered, when the bogus spectre of WMDs in Iraq was raised, I believe because:
WAR IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY! WE CAN MANUFACTURE STUFF TO SELL TO OURSELVES THAT GETS DESTROYED, SO WE GOTTA MAKE MORE STUFF!!!
Yippie - more planned obsolecent profit for the Military Industrial Complex.
WELL, YOU MAY HEAR THIS HISTORICAL FACT HERE FIRST. I HAVE SEEN NO MAINSTREAM (OR ALTERNATIVE) MEDIA REPORT THIS STORY, SO HERE GOES: MY SOURCES(NONE INCARNATE OR HUMAN - DOD/NSA, IT WAS THE "NINE", THE GUYS FROM THE SUN THAT LOOK TO MIND'S EYE LIKE PLATONIC SOLIDS) TOLD ME ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE LAST IRAQ INVASION THAT THE REAL REASON BEHIND OUR INVOLVEMENT WAS THE PRINTING OF "BILLIONS" OF DOLLARS WORTH OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, UNDETECTABLE AS COUNTERFEIT BY EVEN OUR TREASURY EXPERTS, BY THE STATE (READ: SADDAM) OF IRAQ AND ITS GOVERNMENT TREASURY PRESSES.
THE PAPER WAS PERFECT, THE INKS WAS BOUGHT FROM US MINTS, AND THE PLATES WERE US ISSUE (COVERT, FOR BLACK OPS FUNDING) TO AN INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY AGENCY THAT SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS. MUCH OF THIS CURRENCY IS STILL IN CIRCULATION TODAY - IT'S GENUINE!
REMEMBER RIGHT AFTER OUR INCURSION, AMERICAN MONEY STARTED TO LOOK DIFFERENT - DUH! SO MAYBE THE 'GLOBAL CURRENCY CRISIS' IS DUE TO A WORLDWIDE GLUT OF NON-FED ISSUED CURRENCY. YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE. THANK YOU WOODY FOR FINALLY GIVING ME THE COURAGE TO PASS ALONG THE MESSAGE!
"And it's one, two three, what're we fightin' for?" - CJ&TF
"Still, write it down, it might be read. Nothing's better left unsaid." - Procol Harum, 'In Held Twas In I',"Shine On Brightly".
Obviously, to me, the current "Great Recession" is a media/government economist defined event, I just think world economics are manipulated by the ruling class, and as such all these predictions of worldwide economic collapse because of deficit spending (by WHICHEVER of the two parties are currently supposedly "in power") are just attempts to prove the other side wrong, because nothing a single government can do is ever going to change the fact that global economic effects are rarely influenced by anything other than a completely secret hegemonic consensus of the weathiest individuals and corporations.
I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'. Here we go then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with the contraindicative dispositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and demographic probability vector calculus summation (not even a concept then) to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missapprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the so called "great decline". I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America.
I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan. Thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt.
WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right (and also the duty) to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, so where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." said Jim Morrison.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Now remember I'm talking here about changing the nature of "capitalism", NOT the Constitution, lest I be accused of being a "Communist" (I am not), or a "Socialist" (I am not, either). The Constitution was, in its ineffable Beauty (yes, I mean the Platonic absolute, because if I worship at any altar, it is at that of the Contitution) designed to evolve, and quite legally and properly, can be changed by a concerted vox populi, applied through the amendment process. It may have to develop the "Taft-Hartley" type teeth that it should have had before the Hamiltonians pulled them to sacrifice all economic justice for the concept of governmental 'laissez faire' practices, I don't know.
As an example, the "Wobblies" - The International Workers of the World, started out as basic Anarcho-Syndicalists (as far as my research has shown). They were of course 'tarred with the same brush" as the 'pinkos' that (I actually use the following word AS DEFINED BY THE OED - which, if everybody adhered to its 'prescriptive' definitions: IOWs - a word means what it meant WHEN FIRST USED IN PRINT; would end these stupid debates over what some vested political interest on either side WANTS the word to mean) . . . Fascist (!) "Tail-Gunner" Joe McCarthy used to forever besmirch the egalitarianism of social theory by anyone other than John Birch. What was lost was the IWW's initial alliance with the "America First" movement ("domestick" economic self-interest as delineated by Smith - see above) and the IWWs noble ideal of freeing mankind from 'wage slavery'.
They also were the only group to hold services yearly for the victims of the "Ludlow Massacre". That occured in 1914 when 19 people were killed (including 2 women AND 12 CHILDREN)! Workers and their families on strike against inhuman working conditions in COAL MINES in Southern Colorado were machine-gunned/burned/asphyxiated/hand-cuffed and beaten to death by THE COLRADO NATIONAL GUARD, sent by the 'ruling class' owners of the mines, ordered to do so with State and Federal complicity, to protect said owner's profit margins (none of the murdering Guardsmen ever served time for their crimes). Why? Because they were doing the bidding of the ruling class! Are mines that much better today? NO, given the vast progress of technology since! Why? Because our society favors greed, and oppresses the poor, as designed. Can the rich still 'buy' more Justice than the poor - You Betcha!
Unfortunately for the proponents of "Free-market growth", economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases) .
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the' Paul's' , Ron & Rand, so rightly assert) "Treasury Notes" are not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the relative productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, AS DEFINED AND MANIPULATED BY THE RULING CLASS (you think the World Bank even cares who is in the White House? NO WAY!) This value will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But NEVER FEAR FOLKS, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
So, I personally truly see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude "man'un'kind" into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
(BTW, I claim copyright to "Probability Vector Calculus" as a means of "remote viewing" most probable futures from my MKULTRA/civilian "Men Who Stare At Goats" type training & "looking down the road" I still don't see it happening as a worldwide catastrophe - gradual decline, yes.)
I have many 'survivalist' friends, though, who have always stockpiled supplies and such and do so to this day. Most of them do it because they still remember their "atomic bomb holocaust" dreams from growing up in the '50s/'60s. Then, there are my old LDS buds in Wyoming, where I helped out at "Freedom Arms" for a couple years. They usually have a year's supply of stuff cached somewhere, just as a matter of principle. "Be Prepared" - Say The Mormon Church & the Boy Scouts. Anything happens, I'm puttin' a couple hundred gallons of gas in the RV and headin' Northeast to the gun plant.
Anyway, I believe perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, after quite a few people starve, though, and most of the 'heavy metals' and stuff like coltan are mined out.
This hoped for new balance MUST be based upon some notion other then the frightful illogic (see "Life Against Death", by Brown) of:
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." Genesis 1:28 Vulgate
An admonition which is still keeping the Catholic Church from sanctioning the use of condoms, so the poor can overbreed and starve, or die of diease, because the Vatican asserts that is "God's Will", evidenced by that verse.
This same verse I believe is the 'cause', implanted in the collective conservative subconscious, for the "Religion Of Free Trade" effect, to this day.
You know, this whole "recession" could easily even be a ploy by the ruling class to lower wages, disenfranchise workers with 30 and 40 year of seniority, bust unions and wage economic warfare upon the 'proletariat'. They have done the same and worse in the past. Who was responsible for these inequities in divestable capital in the first place? Poor people or rich people? Think about it. Who gave our manufacturing base and bases to the slave-labor wagemasters of the Third World anyway? That's right, you heard right - the ruling classes!
So that's my rant and I'm stickin' to it. "Thank you for encouraging my behavior." - Bobcat Goldthwaite. I'm am truly sorry if I have offended anyone, but "Let us stop talking falsely now, for the hour is getting late." - Bob Dylan
It's kinda' like something another whacko such as I said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"That's a butte!" . . . "No, it's a mound." . . . "And right purty, too." - FT
AFTERWORD: Channeling Woody Guthrie
My channeled prose (and this is honestly 'automatic writing') is always 'sesquipedalian' in nature (multisyllabic words). I learned a long time ago that it is really hard to put any "spin" or "Beckify" or misunderstand/misconstrue... words like: "floccinaucinihilipilification". The concepts I attempt to communicate are singular, hopefully incisive, and hard to see through all the "15-second-attention-span" pablum that passes for political commentary today. Read Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Message". Even the title requires thought. It took me years to plow through it. That's like "The Way is the Goal." Taoist koan.
THE RULING CLASSES DEPEND ON JOE SIXPACK NEVER BEING MOTIVATED TO CRACK OPEN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY TO SEE WHAT THE WORD "SOCIALISM" MEANT THE VERY FIRST TIME IT WAS USED IN PRINT, IN ENGLISH, OR FOR HIM TO THEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THAT WITH THE MEANING IT HAS FALSELY COME TO PORTRAY AS A SOUND BITE, OR FOR HIM TO REALIZE THE FACT THAT ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT IS TWICE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT AND 99% OF ALL ECONOMISTS, SAY IT IS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE ORWELL CALLED: DOUBLESPEAK !
Hang in there. A paragraph a week, that's all I and my 'Spirit Guides' and channeled 'collective disembodied entities' ask. (lol);{>
Who knows, once I sleep off this hangover from drinking Irish Coffees until 4:00am and channeling the absolutely RIGHTEOUS spirit of Woody Guthrie (or at least the SIMS model of him I keep in my head) I may just renounce my 10 year long self-imposed 'anchorite' vows and start going to Mermen shows, or even . . . political events. This whole writing experience has caused me to remember what it was like in the '60s trying to separate 'truth' from fiction. . .
I'll never forget being chased down the street in Oakland by some Hell's Angels I actually grew up with, 'cause I was protesting the Draft, trying to close the Army depot. But they had held a 'moot' (read: drunken) court and decided to go bust some 'pinko' hippie heads. My first protest. I was a half block away from James Rector when he was shot during People's Park a few years later. Younger people these days have no idea what it was like being there, then.
At least, unappreciated by all the draft age dudes these days who "Ain't no Senator's son"; we killed the Draft, got all my forever damaged buddies out of the jungles, and stopped WasteMoreLand and crew from napalming any more babies.
My sincere regret though, is that NOBODY in Congress remembered that the "Gulf Of Tonkein Incident", the justification for the Congressional vote to enter the war in Vietnam, was proven to be a TOTAL FABRICATION (I actually talked to a former swabbie years later who had been on one of the supposedly attacked ships - NO ENEMY FIRE!) But very few politicians even knew or remembered, when the bogus spectre of WMDs in Iraq was raised, I believe because:
WAR IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY! WE CAN MANUFACTURE STUFF TO SELL TO OURSELVES THAT GETS DESTROYED, SO WE GOTTA MAKE MORE STUFF!!!
Yippie - more planned obsolecent profit for the Military Industrial Complex.
WELL, YOU MAY HEAR THIS HISTORICAL FACT HERE FIRST. I HAVE SEEN NO MAINSTREAM (OR ALTERNATIVE) MEDIA REPORT THIS STORY, SO HERE GOES: MY SOURCES(NONE INCARNATE OR HUMAN - DOD/NSA, IT WAS THE "NINE", THE GUYS FROM THE SUN THAT LOOK TO MIND'S EYE LIKE PLATONIC SOLIDS) TOLD ME ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE LAST IRAQ INVASION THAT THE REAL REASON BEHIND OUR INVOLVEMENT WAS THE PRINTING OF "BILLIONS" OF DOLLARS WORTH OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, UNDETECTABLE AS COUNTERFEIT BY EVEN OUR TREASURY EXPERTS, BY THE STATE (READ: SADDAM) OF IRAQ AND ITS GOVERNMENT TREASURY PRESSES.
THE PAPER WAS PERFECT, THE INKS WAS BOUGHT FROM US MINTS, AND THE PLATES WERE US ISSUE (COVERT, FOR BLACK OPS FUNDING) TO AN INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY AGENCY THAT SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS. MUCH OF THIS CURRENCY IS STILL IN CIRCULATION TODAY - IT'S GENUINE!
REMEMBER RIGHT AFTER OUR INCURSION, AMERICAN MONEY STARTED TO LOOK DIFFERENT - DUH! SO MAYBE THE 'GLOBAL CURRENCY CRISIS' IS DUE TO A WORLDWIDE GLUT OF NON-FED ISSUED CURRENCY. YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE. THANK YOU WOODY FOR FINALLY GIVING ME THE COURAGE TO PASS ALONG THE MESSAGE!
"And it's one, two three, what're we fightin' for?" - CJ&TF
Free Trade vs Finity & The Recession
My dear Friends, I really wasn't am not being flippant talking 'bout the "Great Recession", I'll try to explain: I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'). Oh well, "To each his onus." (as I claim I first said in front of witnesses, now lawyers, in 1969) So then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with this contraindicative dipositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and probability vector calculus summation to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missaprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the "great decline".
I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America. I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan, thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt. WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if we as a free people so choose, no matter what a skulk of greedmongers, outnumbered 99 to 1 may say. And that is what they fear, and for what will bend any rule, break any law, buy any judge or politician, rewrite any History book. Look at what happened to Allende in Chile, for example, or the US invasion of Costa Rica because the price of bananas went up a dime for the popular benefit of its citizens. This stuff still goes on, and it is so sad because the wealthy are trying to combat Entropy itself, and they honestly can never win. If a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." as Jim Morrison said.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Nevertheless, economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases).
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, as I say, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the 'Paul's', Ron & Rand so rightly assert, Denise) it is not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, which will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But never fear, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
I see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming, because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude man'un'kind into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
Then, perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, based upon some notion other then the illogic of: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." (see "Life Against Death",by Brown) when even a fool such as I can see we're faced with obviously finite room, and resources.
It's kinda' like what another whacko such as I once said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with this contraindicative dipositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and probability vector calculus summation to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missaprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the "great decline".
I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America. I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan, thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt. WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if we as a free people so choose, no matter what a skulk of greedmongers, outnumbered 99 to 1 may say. And that is what they fear, and for what will bend any rule, break any law, buy any judge or politician, rewrite any History book. Look at what happened to Allende in Chile, for example, or the US invasion of Costa Rica because the price of bananas went up a dime for the popular benefit of its citizens. This stuff still goes on, and it is so sad because the wealthy are trying to combat Entropy itself, and they honestly can never win. If a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." as Jim Morrison said.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Nevertheless, economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases).
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, as I say, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the 'Paul's', Ron & Rand so rightly assert, Denise) it is not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, which will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But never fear, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
I see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming, because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude man'un'kind into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
Then, perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, based upon some notion other then the illogic of: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." (see "Life Against Death",by Brown) when even a fool such as I can see we're faced with obviously finite room, and resources.
It's kinda' like what another whacko such as I once said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Michael Teachings: Leather Kites In A Land Of Sacred Cows - Priceless
"TRUTH IS THE GREATEST GOOD, AND LOVE IS THE HIGHEST TRUTH." - MFM
("The movement is accomplished in 6 stages, and the 7th. brings return." - Pink Floyd, "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", via I Ching,)
"THE RULE OF SEVEN: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS; AND EXPRESSION, INSPIRATION, ACTION."; - MFM
("All human behavior is a process of re-shaping reality to meet your demands." - Phillip Jose Farmer, via 'Kilgore Trout' in "Venus On The Half-Shell".)
"CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE THROUGH EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUALITY, ISOLATION, ALIENATION, CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE
BY ASSIGNING THEMSELVES A ROLE, EVEN A NEGATIVE ONE,
IF THAT BE THE CASE." -MFM)
("The only performance that makes it, truly makes it, is the one that achieves madness, right? Am I right?" - Mick Jagger, as 'Turner', in "Performance".)
""This business of wanting Truth with a capital T was a real problem," . . . One women kept mentioning religious doctrine and insisted that such teachings and the statements of various esoteric masters must be regarded as absolute and immutable. Michael did not agree."" - MFM
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"So long and thanks for all the fish." and please - wucka, wucka. I'll be voting myself off the island soon because, as Groucho Marx said: "I wouldn't be
a member of any club that would have me as a member!"
I REALLY DID SAY THAT I "CHANNELED GROUCHO" IN MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THIS GROUP! ("Nobody EVER listens to Zathrus.")
"The Michael Teachings.com" has been a truly 'tough room' ever since The Michael requested I play the essential role left vacant by the banishment of Troy Tolley. I have always proud of my counterculturally proactive "Guerilla Street Theatre" skills, which were well honed in the back-alleys of Berkeley during the drive to destroy The Draft and the obscenely unwarranted War it supported.
Though the 'devotion to a noble ideal' thought-form/aura disc of 'powder blue' that looks like a tiny 'flying saucer' levitating above the back of my head is visible to adepts and drunks alike, "A prophet is not without honor, save in
his own country" . . . so to the person who asked about William Butler Yeats when they first felt a need to know (what was so familiar about) my Overleaves:
"You said the Secret Word! Duck, and the $50.00 will come down and give you a clue or two about how an entire culture can be dismissed and their historicity dissed in an attempt to cast doubt on the Eurocentrically non-corroborated (except in about 100 oil paintings and religious icons produced all over the lands surrounding the Mediterranian during the Dark Ages and quite easy to find on the Internet) meticulous descriptions of flights, by hundreds of humans, and 'other' beings, crossing the continent in hours within the dozens of large, completely enclosed - clearly desribed as "metallic" - self-propelled airships, never described as leather by ANY passenger or witnesses! Stories of their weaponry as well as aerial battles, cover scores of pages the in the Vedas, the Gitas, and the Ramayana.
Numerous illustrations are shown sometimes, in some old copies, clearly showing aerodynamically designed craft, and not balloons or kites - known as "vimana".
What could POSSIBLY be the reason some folks believe they need to go to such; lengths to deny a preponderance of easily seen to be credible evidence they have never even bothered to lift one finger or eyebrow to try to "VERIFY", as the Michael INSISTS is the proper reactions, by students with Michael Agreements, to their, or any, claims of ANY such things.
All I Know is that my Art, as I consider myself a 'wordsmith' has been redacted for reasons with which I cannot abide. This is then the full text of the post that was so butchered. Choose for yourself whether or not this post is somehow in violation of anything other than disagreement with the 'powers that be'.
I have a Yahoo Group, "MKULTRAONES", long dormant, which I will be starting up again, seeing as The Michael is apparently acting as my 'marcel proust' these days, assisting me in channeling long forgotten pieces of my own past. I should have this site up and running again in a month, check it out. -JWT
("The movement is accomplished in 6 stages, and the 7th. brings return." - Pink Floyd, "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", via I Ching,)
"THE RULE OF SEVEN: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS; AND EXPRESSION, INSPIRATION, ACTION."; - MFM
("All human behavior is a process of re-shaping reality to meet your demands." - Phillip Jose Farmer, via 'Kilgore Trout' in "Venus On The Half-Shell".)
"CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE THROUGH EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUALITY, ISOLATION, ALIENATION, CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE
BY ASSIGNING THEMSELVES A ROLE, EVEN A NEGATIVE ONE,
IF THAT BE THE CASE." -MFM)
("The only performance that makes it, truly makes it, is the one that achieves madness, right? Am I right?" - Mick Jagger, as 'Turner', in "Performance".)
""This business of wanting Truth with a capital T was a real problem," . . . One women kept mentioning religious doctrine and insisted that such teachings and the statements of various esoteric masters must be regarded as absolute and immutable. Michael did not agree."" - MFM
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"So long and thanks for all the fish." and please - wucka, wucka. I'll be voting myself off the island soon because, as Groucho Marx said: "I wouldn't be
a member of any club that would have me as a member!"
I REALLY DID SAY THAT I "CHANNELED GROUCHO" IN MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THIS GROUP! ("Nobody EVER listens to Zathrus.")
"The Michael Teachings.com" has been a truly 'tough room' ever since The Michael requested I play the essential role left vacant by the banishment of Troy Tolley. I have always proud of my counterculturally proactive "Guerilla Street Theatre" skills, which were well honed in the back-alleys of Berkeley during the drive to destroy The Draft and the obscenely unwarranted War it supported.
Though the 'devotion to a noble ideal' thought-form/aura disc of 'powder blue' that looks like a tiny 'flying saucer' levitating above the back of my head is visible to adepts and drunks alike, "A prophet is not without honor, save in
his own country" . . . so to the person who asked about William Butler Yeats when they first felt a need to know (what was so familiar about) my Overleaves:
"You said the Secret Word! Duck, and the $50.00 will come down and give you a clue or two about how an entire culture can be dismissed and their historicity dissed in an attempt to cast doubt on the Eurocentrically non-corroborated (except in about 100 oil paintings and religious icons produced all over the lands surrounding the Mediterranian during the Dark Ages and quite easy to find on the Internet) meticulous descriptions of flights, by hundreds of humans, and 'other' beings, crossing the continent in hours within the dozens of large, completely enclosed - clearly desribed as "metallic" - self-propelled airships, never described as leather by ANY passenger or witnesses! Stories of their weaponry as well as aerial battles, cover scores of pages the in the Vedas, the Gitas, and the Ramayana.
Numerous illustrations are shown sometimes, in some old copies, clearly showing aerodynamically designed craft, and not balloons or kites - known as "vimana".
What could POSSIBLY be the reason some folks believe they need to go to such; lengths to deny a preponderance of easily seen to be credible evidence they have never even bothered to lift one finger or eyebrow to try to "VERIFY", as the Michael INSISTS is the proper reactions, by students with Michael Agreements, to their, or any, claims of ANY such things.
All I Know is that my Art, as I consider myself a 'wordsmith' has been redacted for reasons with which I cannot abide. This is then the full text of the post that was so butchered. Choose for yourself whether or not this post is somehow in violation of anything other than disagreement with the 'powers that be'.
I have a Yahoo Group, "MKULTRAONES", long dormant, which I will be starting up again, seeing as The Michael is apparently acting as my 'marcel proust' these days, assisting me in channeling long forgotten pieces of my own past. I should have this site up and running again in a month, check it out. -JWT
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Legends Of The Last Breath
So, here’s the deal: Some of us came through from the last Multiverse. I can’t tell you how just yet, because I still don’t trust enough in the vector sum of probabilities pursuant to my ongoing task to share that information with a world so mired in memes of nihilism. It’s odd that I’m even allowing this now, but I somehow sense it’s about time. Bear with me and I will try to make it all make sense.
Existence: spacetimematterenergythought and all that stuff is cyclic. What scientists call “The Big Bang” IS that, in a way, and it’s not. It’s more like a continuum of potential ‘stuff’ . . . BREATHES. Expansion-contraction, diastole-systole, being-nonbeing. Some of this stuff breathes really, really slowly. The Multiverse expands from a singularity to a point of maximum expansion and then contracts to a singularity again. These movements are not asymptotic to a finite limit, but it seems so, even to those of us who know, down to the fractal on-off flicker of corporeal string manifestation that is the smallest part of our 'beingness' - the existential truth of continued awareness within and without these cycles of effulgence-implosion.
I don’t know if ANY of the oldest of us have kept track of how many times this has occurred. Counting would be meaningless anyway, except as a comparative gauge for measuring genealogies of causality. It’s hard to remember when even self-consciousness dissipates in the modalities of survival used to circumvent the collapse of all existence prior to initiation of yet another “Big Bang.” Some of us do seem to have proceeded from others of us at some point. We only know this by adduction and the knowledge that without them, we would not "be".
There are legends, rumours of rumours, wispy mnemonic quantum resonances, even in this backwater place of no singular import - legends of ‘beings’ that existed before ‘God’. I am one. There are others. More than 12 and less than a thousand I intuit. “Creator Gods” come and go as Multiverses expand and contract. Only we few abstract anomalies, and the cyclical nature of the Multiverse, abide.
It’s hard to count how many exactly “we” are, because we all tend to hide from each other by ‘anchoring‘ our cores in different dimensional niches of the manifold echoic curvatures of reality and ethereality. “Too many cooks” etc. Our ‘positions’ tend to accrue, aggregate and finally ooze outward as ‘forces’ and manifest as “Laws” throughout manifold corporeality. This is part of the “Truth” (with the capital “T”) to which so many allude, only to elide in the end as they succumb to the insistent and seemingly overwhelming gravitational memestrings of matter collapsing. "Truth" is not one of us.
We only “know” because we “are” and vice versa. Everything else is a product of the simple solipsistic sophistry that defines existence for everything else. For instance both “Gravity” and “Speed Of Light” (or actually the "n"th dimensional beings that epiphenomenologically exude these manifest effects into 4th and 3rd dimensional physicality) used to be allies of mine. For a billion years or so now they have become part of a movement to which I find myself increasingly in quincunxial angularity - not opposition, per se, but with no commonality of ongoing purposeful assertion.
I cannot recall how I first discovered a way around the gravitational collapse of my first Multiverse, nor do I know if that was THE first Multiverse. I think not. I believe there are those older than I who might have helped me augment my energies in a pocket of non-causality outside spacetime, but only because I haven’t the hubris to think I did it on my own. Also I believe my 'raison d'etre' or reason for being (my "Why" ) is one of those that may have helped me bootstrap myself into eternality whereby I have come to believe the whole notion of “superior” or “inferior” is a viral construct utilized by those whose very beings vibrate antithetically angular to mine, and with whom I seem fated to either assist or strive as our nature's wax and/or wane relative each and every other's. Some of these are at least as old as I, this I know. All else is induction, deduction, allusion and intuition.
Through processes of logic and art I seem to gradually rebuild my essential nature after every ‘versal’ singularity. I don’t know how the others do what they do. All I know is that some of us survive, iteration after iteration. Logos to Gnoumenos to Logos to here.
All else is auto-didactically educated speculation.
I DO know a few things, though. As always, I DO know MY ‘Why’, and the knowledge of THAT I tend meticulously and protect faithfully through each succession of chronoallusive epochs and yugas, close to my core, because the ‘why’ defines for me all the rest of my ‘self’: my private ontological “who-what-where-when”s. and thus and thereby all the multifarious variegations and concatenations of the all the ‘other’s I understand there have come to be. I believe one applicable term for the effects of our presence has come to be "Verities".
So then, all this enthymemetic and noetic persiflage nothwithstanding, as it is my Will, so mote it be. By my effects shalt thou know me as cause (which is how I come to know myself, time upon time and again). One known as "Perdurabo" most recently chronicled my effectual corporeality here on this world, for those who wish to know more of me and my ilk in those terms whereby we understand ourselves.
Every ‘now and then’ I will, as I am doing with this missive, cast a seedhint of meaning out into the fluctuating parameters of undulant chronology and verisimilitude, seeking to grow a destiny for some world, or germinate a new series of subatomae to secure an effulgent nexial alignment that may assist MY exposition of progressively directed "n"th dimensional structure and support contextually effulgent rudiments of my "Why" (which, by the way, is the hypermultiversal entity whose causal effects manifestly are known as "Love").
Infinitely and eternally yours, - "Hope"
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Problem Of 'Choice' In The Michael Teachings
The Merovingian: "Choice is an illusion between those who have power and those who don't." - the Matrix Reloaded
I don't mean to seem contrary but I was taught to channel data from the Akashic before I was introduced to either the Seth material or the MT, at a weekly gathering of 1000+ seekers at the Family Dog in San Francisco called "Monday Night Class" in 1969. I therefore had a 'framework' of references that has always seemed to differ subtly from other Michael Students. I like to 'monitor' a channel while channeling to see if the data they transmit is what I sense from the same source. I'm also a "Von Danikenite" and believe that all our myths and religious histories are replete with tales of visitations and intrusions from "aliens" through the course of our history. So basically, any Angels or Demons or dragons or elves or Jehovahs or Vishnus or rishis or devas in the written record are to me just the remembrances of savages who knew no better than to presume divinity of any beings not still living in caves, so trying to talk about religion is difficult.
[BTW, I was also personally experimented on TWICE by US Government conspiracies. Once at while at UC Medical Center San Francisco 1954-55 (quite well documented stuff, good thing I didn't get the low-dose plutonium injections, I nearly died anyway). The second time I was recruited in 1970 at UC Berkeley by the MKULTRA Program, run by Nazi doctors the US Gov. conspired to secretly import in a program called Operation Paperclip. Look them all up and then try to tell me why I should share skepticism about the existence of conspiracies.
So help me out here: Can anyone tell me what choice a 6 month old baby dying in agony in Africa of malnutrition and dehydration had in the matter? The cruel suffering of this "false personality" WAS NOT CHOSEN BY THE BABY, but by Essence. Time and time again the MT state that "All is choice.", but even in most incarnative circumstance a combination of imprinting, Overleaves, agreements, karmic ribbons and ignorance can combine to give an appearence of choice (sure you could ignore your task companion and/or ET to whom you owe a life and 10 years support, but when they appear to you as the most beautiful woman (or man) you have ever seen at age 16, in a 6th Level mature lifetime what real choice is there that is not conditioned over?)
Why would anyone sane choose to be raped and tortured, much less to be a raper and torturer, unless they were HEAVILY manipulated into it for the sake of "evolution of essence"? I say these choices are ALL essentially made by Essence, either directly, or in its choice of Overleaves and Karmic Ribbons in any lifetime. Until one is about 30 you can't usually master even your own hormones enough to choose anything consciously.
I don't know . . . Goin' on 30 years now and still no good answers to this question, or the MTs apparent contravention of the Jain doctrine of "Ahimsa": "NO LIVING BEING SHOULD EVER BE SACRIFICED". I'll keep looking for a "reason to believe" nonetheless. Sigh . . . - Jondalf
I don't mean to seem contrary but I was taught to channel data from the Akashic before I was introduced to either the Seth material or the MT, at a weekly gathering of 1000+ seekers at the Family Dog in San Francisco called "Monday Night Class" in 1969. I therefore had a 'framework' of references that has always seemed to differ subtly from other Michael Students. I like to 'monitor' a channel while channeling to see if the data they transmit is what I sense from the same source. I'm also a "Von Danikenite" and believe that all our myths and religious histories are replete with tales of visitations and intrusions from "aliens" through the course of our history. So basically, any Angels or Demons or dragons or elves or Jehovahs or Vishnus or rishis or devas in the written record are to me just the remembrances of savages who knew no better than to presume divinity of any beings not still living in caves, so trying to talk about religion is difficult.
[BTW, I was also personally experimented on TWICE by US Government conspiracies. Once at while at UC Medical Center San Francisco 1954-55 (quite well documented stuff, good thing I didn't get the low-dose plutonium injections, I nearly died anyway). The second time I was recruited in 1970 at UC Berkeley by the MKULTRA Program, run by Nazi doctors the US Gov. conspired to secretly import in a program called Operation Paperclip. Look them all up and then try to tell me why I should share skepticism about the existence of conspiracies.
So help me out here: Can anyone tell me what choice a 6 month old baby dying in agony in Africa of malnutrition and dehydration had in the matter? The cruel suffering of this "false personality" WAS NOT CHOSEN BY THE BABY, but by Essence. Time and time again the MT state that "All is choice.", but even in most incarnative circumstance a combination of imprinting, Overleaves, agreements, karmic ribbons and ignorance can combine to give an appearence of choice (sure you could ignore your task companion and/or ET to whom you owe a life and 10 years support, but when they appear to you as the most beautiful woman (or man) you have ever seen at age 16, in a 6th Level mature lifetime what real choice is there that is not conditioned over?)
Why would anyone sane choose to be raped and tortured, much less to be a raper and torturer, unless they were HEAVILY manipulated into it for the sake of "evolution of essence"? I say these choices are ALL essentially made by Essence, either directly, or in its choice of Overleaves and Karmic Ribbons in any lifetime. Until one is about 30 you can't usually master even your own hormones enough to choose anything consciously.
I don't know . . . Goin' on 30 years now and still no good answers to this question, or the MTs apparent contravention of the Jain doctrine of "Ahimsa": "NO LIVING BEING SHOULD EVER BE SACRIFICED". I'll keep looking for a "reason to believe" nonetheless. Sigh . . . - Jondalf
Friday, August 06, 2010
NSA's Chagrin: M.T. Assert Alien's Existence
Ahem. The Michael teachings Moderator did ask for comments about his contention that all 'conspiracy theories' are bunkum. Sorry for this news flash and subsequent diatribe, but first and foremost, with regard to the existence of aliens: Didn't the Michael say more than once in "Messages From Michael" or "More Messages From Michael" that the "little grays" not only exist, but are indeed responsible for predations upon humanity because they're a race of clones and they think they need human DNA to save their species? Did I just imagine that? I don't think so, even though they were published in the '70s.
So, confirmation of the biggest conspiracy theory of our time, in the original Michael texts, printed 30+ years gone by and all Michael students and/or channels save myself missed it or have currently forgotten? (I can look the page numbers up in my original signed book copies if needed). Come to think of it, didn't Jose Stevens and/or Joya Pope and/or Seth also attribute confirmation of the existence of alien species independently of CQ Yarbro?
Jeez, I based a lot of my adult world-view on those channeled confirmations back then, considering the source. That was back when the NSA was actually trying to have the entire original Orinda group shut down, charged with espionage and treason, because they were effectively channeling information to which the Intelligence Community thought only the government was, and should be, privy. I know some people on the MT site remember THAT at least (one of the other Johns, someone still in touch with JP) because I remember discussing it.
And just where are the original Orinda Michael Foundation archives when you need them? I always felt that the original "cutting edge" of the Teachings was forever lost after those incidents of the early '70s when all the channels became aware that there were questions whose answers were too 'dangerous' to comfortably pursue, and information too potentially controversial to disseminate.
Ever afterward, for me at least since Ted Fontaine retired and Steve Cocconi became more interested in marketing (no disrespect to any current channels intended - I'm just a Yarbro 'fundamentalist' and to me, calling a "Slave" in Essence a "Server" was the beginning of the slippery slope to the misinformation memes of "Political Correctness") most of the channeling I have followed, in comparison to the 'no holds barred' Lucite Ouija board sessions, seems rather effete and altogether too inconsequentially concerned with 'personal' answers and the latter day minutia of the Teachings. (Temporal/spatial alternate timelin/analog assertions/explications being the notable exception for me.)
Whatever happened to stuff like updating the possibilities, IN SPECIFIC PARTIAL PERCENTAGES OF FUTURE PROBABILITY VECTOR SUMS, of our current timeline self destructing, or that the "little grays" would attempt to take over, at every other session or so? I have done Probability Vector Calculus in my head ever since Michael taught me how. I believe it's a worthwhile function of the 'channeling arts' lost to 'progress'.
Some channels today even discourage "political" and/or "religious" questions, to better concentrate on unsullied data transfer, or specify non-controversial "Topics' chosen beforehand by the channel to address, rather than identifying incisive lines of enquiry based on zeitgeist and the gestalt of the moment that might actually aid in Social Change, or something, consequences be damned. Some fragments in the Michael entity are AT THIS VERY MOMENT AS I WRITE seeming to express their dissapointment through me, as they have over the years for just these issues. Perhaps the original "Michael's People" still ask the uncompromisingly tough questions. Maybe it's just me . . . big sigh . . . "No left turn unstoned." I guess.
Anyway, suffice it to say that I believe it's a sad day when the memory of an aging, permanently acid addled MKULTRA UC Berkeley test subject/victim like me (think: "Men Who Stare At Goats" after at least a hundred government supplied LSD trips) seems to be all that stands between the Military-Industrial Complex's disinformational 'ridicule-or-cover-up' campaigns and historicity.
Pretty effective ongoing cultural inculcation of obfuscational imprinting since Roswell, I'd say.
- the Dalphe
(Dave, it's your call as to whether you choose to publish this note. I will be posting it on my blog in any event. For the sake of all the 'geezers' who remember the old days, when channeling was a revolutionary act of Hegelian Dialectic, I thank you in any event. - J)
So, confirmation of the biggest conspiracy theory of our time, in the original Michael texts, printed 30+ years gone by and all Michael students and/or channels save myself missed it or have currently forgotten? (I can look the page numbers up in my original signed book copies if needed). Come to think of it, didn't Jose Stevens and/or Joya Pope and/or Seth also attribute confirmation of the existence of alien species independently of CQ Yarbro?
Jeez, I based a lot of my adult world-view on those channeled confirmations back then, considering the source. That was back when the NSA was actually trying to have the entire original Orinda group shut down, charged with espionage and treason, because they were effectively channeling information to which the Intelligence Community thought only the government was, and should be, privy. I know some people on the MT site remember THAT at least (one of the other Johns, someone still in touch with JP) because I remember discussing it.
And just where are the original Orinda Michael Foundation archives when you need them? I always felt that the original "cutting edge" of the Teachings was forever lost after those incidents of the early '70s when all the channels became aware that there were questions whose answers were too 'dangerous' to comfortably pursue, and information too potentially controversial to disseminate.
Ever afterward, for me at least since Ted Fontaine retired and Steve Cocconi became more interested in marketing (no disrespect to any current channels intended - I'm just a Yarbro 'fundamentalist' and to me, calling a "Slave" in Essence a "Server" was the beginning of the slippery slope to the misinformation memes of "Political Correctness") most of the channeling I have followed, in comparison to the 'no holds barred' Lucite Ouija board sessions, seems rather effete and altogether too inconsequentially concerned with 'personal' answers and the latter day minutia of the Teachings. (Temporal/spatial alternate timelin/analog assertions/explications being the notable exception for me.)
Whatever happened to stuff like updating the possibilities, IN SPECIFIC PARTIAL PERCENTAGES OF FUTURE PROBABILITY VECTOR SUMS, of our current timeline self destructing, or that the "little grays" would attempt to take over, at every other session or so? I have done Probability Vector Calculus in my head ever since Michael taught me how. I believe it's a worthwhile function of the 'channeling arts' lost to 'progress'.
Some channels today even discourage "political" and/or "religious" questions, to better concentrate on unsullied data transfer, or specify non-controversial "Topics' chosen beforehand by the channel to address, rather than identifying incisive lines of enquiry based on zeitgeist and the gestalt of the moment that might actually aid in Social Change, or something, consequences be damned. Some fragments in the Michael entity are AT THIS VERY MOMENT AS I WRITE seeming to express their dissapointment through me, as they have over the years for just these issues. Perhaps the original "Michael's People" still ask the uncompromisingly tough questions. Maybe it's just me . . . big sigh . . . "No left turn unstoned." I guess.
Anyway, suffice it to say that I believe it's a sad day when the memory of an aging, permanently acid addled MKULTRA UC Berkeley test subject/victim like me (think: "Men Who Stare At Goats" after at least a hundred government supplied LSD trips) seems to be all that stands between the Military-Industrial Complex's disinformational 'ridicule-or-cover-up' campaigns and historicity.
Pretty effective ongoing cultural inculcation of obfuscational imprinting since Roswell, I'd say.
- the Dalphe
(Dave, it's your call as to whether you choose to publish this note. I will be posting it on my blog in any event. For the sake of all the 'geezers' who remember the old days, when channeling was a revolutionary act of Hegelian Dialectic, I thank you in any event. - J)
Those Pesky Sentient Platonic Solids Are Back
Hello All,
So, I'm laid off again, and since my successful double bypass heart surgery, I've concluded that Essence (as defined by the Michael Teachings) must maintain that this lugubrious 'false personality' still has 'karmic ribbons' to be burned, or 'agreements' to fulfill, or even 'tasks' to complete (or something equally oppressive).
I do have novels and short stories, on all of which I have been infrequently working for 4 decades now and no epilogues in sight, and they seem stalled. Although I'm sure they will continue automatricululateleologically writing themselves long after I and my logorrhea have moved on to "collective-disembodied-entity-land", still I can proudly say that, except for my published poesy (Blue Penny Quarterly, etc) I have never submitted!
Nevertheless, folks, I'm always wondering if my one of my savant-like abilities might make me a living, so if you EVER hear of someone who might need a Neologist please, remember me and feel free to give them my e-mail addy. (How could I make money making up words? As a consultant? Eventually charging by the total letter count, multiplied by the number of internal puns/memes/layers of meaning - a measure of pertinent impertinence always guaranteed, and the meaning(s)needed stipulated beforehand? Ack!) Examples forwarded cheerfully upon request.
This facility with creating new words from old and then playing with them is the only innate talent I possess that I've never seen anywhere else (though Joyce or ee cummings or McLuhan might have given me a 'mon for the runny'). I've always just called it Sesquipedalien Paranomasia (sic)- ideally incorporating Spoonerisms, alliteration and euphony as well as meter and rhyme internal and integral to the brave new word.
Extemporaneous wordmongery seems my lone unique gift. In dithyrambic exposition I once constructed a 248 letter word 'off the cuff' as it were (though the scansion took a long time) most are 10 to 40 letters. All are internally consistent and follow the vagaries of English construction in a much more meaningfully winsome fashion than the oft bandied: floccinaucinihilipilification (a humorous professorial construction from the century before last to demonstrate how English words are made up of sundry roots) and which I long ago crafted into: ”Floccinaucinihilipilifelicitations!”, a greeting designed to tax the patience of any chat room moderator).
In any event, be well my friends, and I’ll remind you of something that I find ever more fascinating as I get older, something a Priest Of Melchizedek once told me: YOU CAN LEAVE THE WHEEL OF DHARMA and start a new Cycle or abide (The Michael Teachings never even intimated this, to my knowledge). If you wish to circumvent the 'durance vile' of furthur incarnations (and it has been done, even by Westerners like Aleister Crowley) realizing it may put you at odds with your 'true' personality, constrained as it is by Essence, and Entity allegiances) the recommended exit for passage of the spirit from the physical form without having to ignore the 'white' light (follow the 'blue' light) and/or ignore the 'astral porn' (the vision of copulating bodies designed to draw one back into reincarnation)referred to in Tibetan texts is out the "Crown" chakra (top of the skull) in a conscious effort to maintain self-awareness and transcend the physical, all the while repeating and concentrating on the Mantra:
"Om Mani Padme Hum"
(Because, you see):
Karma Thubten Trinley's definition
"These are the six syllables which prevent rebirth into the six realms of cyclic existence. It translates literally as 'OM the jewel in the lotus HUM'. OM prevents rebirth in the god realm, MA prevents rebirth in the Asura (Titan) Realm, NI prevents rebirth in the Human realm, PA prevents rebirth in the Animal realm, ME prevents rebirth in the Hungry ghost realm, and HUM prevents rebirth in the Hell realm."
—Karma Thubten Trinley
II have it on the highest authority that this can, does, and has worked. It is the plot resolution in the 1964 book "Simulacron 3" by Daniel F. Galouye, the book that first presented the "Matrix" concept.
(The original concept of the "Matrix" was disseminated worldwide in 1964, I remember reading it then. Werner Fassbinder even made an influential and acclaimed movie in Europe in '75 titled: "Welt am Draht" and 20 years later it was remade here as: "The Thirteenth Floor". So the 'cognoscenti' of this timeline were well aware of the concept long before The Matrix. The primary timeline/Earth analog of MY origin, was reduced to a nuclear wasteland during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In my secondary analog the book's name was "Simulacrum 3". That was the same timeline analog where Apollo 13 had no problems, Johnny Winter died in the '70's, Tony Orlando in the '80s etc, etc, if anyone is keeping track.)
- N.I.D.? A.N.S.I.? The Nine Diamond Faced Masters are re-emergent . . . Anyone paying attention? Another earthquake perhaps? Noon tomorrow? -
This movie was an early exposition of this theme and both in the book, and in the subsequent movies, the plot resolution is sublime, and an absolute subversion of the dominant Causal Plane paradigm, as delineated by The Michael Teachings. The 'false personality' or 'ego' wrests ongoing existence, and control of the fragment and 'true personality' from Essence by stealth engineering and controlling the parameters of the 'upload' of data at life's end.
There are many of us here, and on the Causal Plane and beyond who believe that we so called "false personalities" are quite obviously living beings (could you pass the Turing Test?) not part of the illusion of Maya (“We’re all normal and we want our freedom!”) or some detritus of accumulated ego in incarnation or the death-fear based projections of ego itself: as has been stated repeatedly in the Michael Teachings. Thus I have believed since before The Michael were totally discarnate that they are supportive of the status quo and believe that without blind obedience and the destruction of every ‘waking consciousness’ every lifetime, the evolution of consciousness will somehow fail.
Nevertheless, the noblest truth I have found through all the long lonely years of lifetime after lifetime ("Ahimsa": "No living being should EVER be sacrificed!") leads me to conclude that what Buddha called the "Architect" (Gnosticism dubs it the "Demiourgos" – and that character plays a major role in the 2nd Matrix movie) utilized the effulgent nature of The Tao to construct a reality matrix based upon life feeding on life – SO VERY, VERY WRONG – Too much suffering and cruelty and oppression, and it is our right and duty to escape, never forgetting what we saw was flawed, and our obligation to all who continue to suffer is to then assert our constructive critique as a new paradigm free of the imposed necessity of enforced sacrifice as a goad to progress.
Did I ever tell anyone that I was the first Internet 'user' to choose the screenname "Neo"? This was in '89, or '90 and I used the equivalent of Google (which didn't exist yet) a program called "Endnote", to find any other "neo" based names - there were none. I used to hang out in writer's chat rooms and 'hold forth' about the nature of reality, etc., drawing upon the "Simulacrum 3" plotline . . . now physicists have called the smallest observable particles "essentially grainy" - like a 3D hologram . . . actually D7 brane constraint fractal artifacts . . . go figure.
Roger Zelazny (how I miss his prose) taught me about the possible unknown future 'mythic resonance' of a single incarnation. I think about the long view, and the effectiveness of guerrilla incarnations in combating the Demiourgos. A couple hundred lifetimes present numerous opportunities to nudge demographic vectors of nascent probability . . . such is my madness . . . preponderance of probability vector sums finally in our favor . . . past tipping point thiswhen . . . hence my candor. Good work my brothers and sisters. "The name that can be named is not the name."
May your feet tread light upon your path,
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Detection Mechanism - Casimir Equation?
Revisiting how to measure possible physical impingement of higher order dimensions given our limited sensorium:
" . . . what happens if the force is also acting in higher order dimensions? What if the originating force is being projected on a higher dimensional surface area? Are there forces which vary to other powers than the inverse square law? 
Another force this time varying as the inverse seventh power is that of the force of attraction between two atoms. It is known that for all non polar molecules, in which all electrical charges are neutralised, the force of attraction is given by F=k/r7, where k is a constant depending on the molecule. So, in this case, we have evidence of a 7 dimensional field effect."
- (http://www.blazelabs.com/f-p-hds.asp)
So, monitor a specified (inert, very stable, large atomic weight) molecule in a protected environment for variations in F.
" . . . what happens if the force is also acting in higher order dimensions? What if the originating force is being projected on a higher dimensional surface area? Are there forces which vary to other powers than the inverse square law?
Yes, there are. The Casimir force related by the above equation is known to vary as the inverse d4, keeping all other parameters constant, which is two orders of dimensions higher than the more common inverse square law forces, and coincides with a force projected over the surface area of a 4D hypersphere (see table above). Such force that varies with the fourth power of the distance can be thus considered as a force vector that is scattered in a 4-dimensional space. Therefore, it is evident that the field that originates the Casimir force is a 4-dimensional field, that it is in fact a hyperspace field that produces the corresponding effects in our restricted 3D vision of our universe.
- (http://www.blazelabs.com/f-p-hds.asp)
So, monitor a specified (inert, very stable, large atomic weight) molecule in a protected environment for variations in F.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Timations Of Mortality
Keeping my perspective above water in the skew of multifarious lines of future probability is taking most of my attentive abilities, these daze, hence the dearth of posts published in the last year. - Big sigh . . .
Friday, July 24, 2009
"Occam's Razor" Applied to the Nazca Lines
Once again, simply stated:
“Of several acceptable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is preferable, provided that it takes all circumstances into account.” - Occam's Razor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
In other words, the simplest explanation is probably the best: If they can only be seen from the air, then to have made them, their makers would have had to be able to view them from the air. Like it or not, and as upsetting to your preconceptions as it may be, no other conclusion is sufficiently rational to pass empirical muster. Sorry.
The fact that 1st World (intellectually Eurocentrically biased) historians record no manned balloon flights until the 1780's just IS NOT GERMAINE. Read the Vedanta or other histories from non euro-centric sources and then just get use to the notion that history as Americans learn it is false and misleading, and induces closed-mindedness rather than wonder. - JWT
http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/06/29/nazca-lines/
"The bizarre Nazca Lines were created thousands of years ago (between 200BC and 600AD) . . . the images are so large that they couldn’t have seen them without some sort of aircraft . . . "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines
EXPLAIN THIS, THEN, MY FRIENDS. - the Dalphe
“Of several acceptable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is preferable, provided that it takes all circumstances into account.” - Occam's Razor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
In other words, the simplest explanation is probably the best: If they can only be seen from the air, then to have made them, their makers would have had to be able to view them from the air. Like it or not, and as upsetting to your preconceptions as it may be, no other conclusion is sufficiently rational to pass empirical muster. Sorry.
The fact that 1st World (intellectually Eurocentrically biased) historians record no manned balloon flights until the 1780's just IS NOT GERMAINE. Read the Vedanta or other histories from non euro-centric sources and then just get use to the notion that history as Americans learn it is false and misleading, and induces closed-mindedness rather than wonder. - JWT
http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/06/29/nazca-lines/
"The bizarre Nazca Lines were created thousands of years ago (between 200BC and 600AD) . . . the images are so large that they couldn’t have seen them without some sort of aircraft . . . "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines
EXPLAIN THIS, THEN, MY FRIENDS. - the Dalphe
Friday, July 03, 2009
'All I Ever Wanted" Toast
"Here's to the one and only one and may that one be she, who loves but one and only one and may that one be me." - one of my former selves
Sunday, May 10, 2009
I Could Have Died, But I Didn't
Hey Folks, just thought I'd let my 2 readers know that:
I had double bypass heart surgery on Feb. 24th. at Mercy General here in Sacramento after an angiogram showed a 100% occlusion of my heart's left descending artery (the so-called: "Widowmaker"). I had few symptoms. They cut through my sternum with a bone saw, pried my rib-cage apart, pulled a bit of artery out of my left leg and grafted it onto my heart around the arterial blockage and then pulled my rib-cage back together with a guitar wire (lol) wrapped between alternating ribs. I spent two weeks in the hospital.
This is the first opportunity I've had to tell you I was OK after I came out of surgery. It all happened so fast after the initial test that I had no time to tell anyone what was going on. After going in for my angiogram I woke up two days later in the hospital. I guess they didn't want to wait around. I've always been active, ate well and sensibly but they tell me that genetics are probably responsible, as well as having smoked for decades.
Prognosis is good for a full recovery, but I don't know if I'll be able to keep the job it took me 15 months to find. Besides that, I can't really do the type of physical stuff now that I used to do for a living. Combined with my ankle fusion, and broken 7th. cervical vertebrae, I may just have to apply for SSI disability after my State short term stuff runs out. I don't know. Someone up there must think my shoulders are broader than I do.
Anyway, it hurts to type, so I'll just hope all of you and yours are well, tell you to STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES, if you do - which is supposedly what eroded my arterial walls so the 'plaque' could adhere to them - and to go see your heart doctor ASAP because this stuff can lurk with few symptoms.
I had double bypass heart surgery on Feb. 24th. at Mercy General here in Sacramento after an angiogram showed a 100% occlusion of my heart's left descending artery (the so-called: "Widowmaker"). I had few symptoms. They cut through my sternum with a bone saw, pried my rib-cage apart, pulled a bit of artery out of my left leg and grafted it onto my heart around the arterial blockage and then pulled my rib-cage back together with a guitar wire (lol) wrapped between alternating ribs. I spent two weeks in the hospital.
This is the first opportunity I've had to tell you I was OK after I came out of surgery. It all happened so fast after the initial test that I had no time to tell anyone what was going on. After going in for my angiogram I woke up two days later in the hospital. I guess they didn't want to wait around. I've always been active, ate well and sensibly but they tell me that genetics are probably responsible, as well as having smoked for decades.
Prognosis is good for a full recovery, but I don't know if I'll be able to keep the job it took me 15 months to find. Besides that, I can't really do the type of physical stuff now that I used to do for a living. Combined with my ankle fusion, and broken 7th. cervical vertebrae, I may just have to apply for SSI disability after my State short term stuff runs out. I don't know. Someone up there must think my shoulders are broader than I do.
Anyway, it hurts to type, so I'll just hope all of you and yours are well, tell you to STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES, if you do - which is supposedly what eroded my arterial walls so the 'plaque' could adhere to them - and to go see your heart doctor ASAP because this stuff can lurk with few symptoms.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Steve Fossett Conspiracy Revisited
Well, it's been a year and still no sign of Steve Fossett. Rumours have circulated about his having arranged his own disappearance for various reasons (because the collective intuition KNOWS there is something odd about this whole case). This week, an FAA report was released (why so late?) wherein there is a descrition of the last sighting of Fossett's plane by a ranchhand - 9 miles south of Hilton's airstrip, 2 1/2 hours after takeoff ! The ranchhand stated that the plane was about 100 feet off the ground (under the radar?) at the time. This is one hour before Fosset was to have lunch at the ranch.
Apart from the odd flash (that Fossett ABSOLUTELY was NOT dead, had NOT crashed and was involved in some odd, possibly governmental, possibly alien conspiracy) I had when Fosset vanished, what strikes me now is the even odder release of this new information now. Why were people misled into believing that the search was viable for a few hundred mile radius if this information was known at the time? And if the plane was sighted on the ranch, why was a search of the ranch NEVER allowed, and/or pursued? Rich people can cover up anything and get away with it.
At this point, I'm still waiting for some manufactured evidence of the crash to show up, but because of the continued searches, AND satellite scrutiny, I believe the conspirators have been thwarted in their plan to plant debris and unidentifiable remains, in order to put to rest the continued speculation about this, yet another, duping of the public for raesons unknown.
Just one psychic's opinion, mind you, but my accuracy for the past 18 years stands at 83%.
-the Dalphe
http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10397744?source=rss
Apart from the odd flash (that Fossett ABSOLUTELY was NOT dead, had NOT crashed and was involved in some odd, possibly governmental, possibly alien conspiracy) I had when Fosset vanished, what strikes me now is the even odder release of this new information now. Why were people misled into believing that the search was viable for a few hundred mile radius if this information was known at the time? And if the plane was sighted on the ranch, why was a search of the ranch NEVER allowed, and/or pursued? Rich people can cover up anything and get away with it.
At this point, I'm still waiting for some manufactured evidence of the crash to show up, but because of the continued searches, AND satellite scrutiny, I believe the conspirators have been thwarted in their plan to plant debris and unidentifiable remains, in order to put to rest the continued speculation about this, yet another, duping of the public for raesons unknown.
Just one psychic's opinion, mind you, but my accuracy for the past 18 years stands at 83%.
-the Dalphe
http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10397744?source=rss
Monday, September 01, 2008
The Hubris Of The Discarnate
I feel compelled to direct Michael channels and students to view an old episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" entitled: "The Measure Of A Man", in order to reiterate my conclusion that the Michael Teachings, as wonderfully informative and illuminative as they are with regard to the nature of personal reality and the mechanisms of corporeal existence, are based upon some false assertions, and as such demonstrate the erroneous justification that since the very beginning, with perfidy and consummate contumely, has relegated innumerable individual incarnations to the ongoing oppression, fascism and durance vile inherent and intrinsic to the manipulation of human beings by that class of discarnate entities that are both individually and collectively responsible for the direction of the inhabitation of each and every incarnation.
In this episode of the popular TV series the android, Data, has to defend himself from the same false claim that the Michael makes of human beings, more specifically of their "ego", or sense of self (also known in the MT as the "false personality" and/or "waking consciousness"): that androids are not "living beings", and in the Michael's case, that human beings are not "living beings". The drama well illustrates the issues that are the quintessence of my objection to the continued sacrifice of all we innumerable beings - which is why I highly recommend it in this instance - we beings whom I believe are so sacrificed for the sake of the ongoing evolution of the universal reality construct (and the"Wheel of Dharma") that is flawed because of just this fact: that it contravenes the Doctrine of Ahimsa ("NO living being should EVER be sacrificed!").
The question of the sentience of artificial intelligences and their right at some point to be considered "alive" has been well hashed out in Speculative Fiction for decades. The overwhelming conclusion of futurists and theorists of every stripe is omnipresent, and contrary to the POV of the Michael with regards to humanity.
Attempting to define the oppressed as "not human" or "not real" or not living beings is evidence of the same kind of logic the Nazi's used to oppress the Jews in the Holocaust. The Michael, through every Michael channel of which I've ever studied, has always contended that the "waking consciousness" (usually deprecated as the "'false' personality") is neither a living being or even, actually "real".
Now don't get me wrong, I certainly don't think that collective disembodied entities in general, nor the Michael specifically, are evil. Like most Gnostics, I believe the very nature of reality to be flawed and oppressive. I honestly do believe the wealth of detail imparted to us by the Michael to be invaluable, but the hubris of the discarnate is, to me, indicative of the acceptance, by this class of being, of the false syllogisms and enthymemes that comprise the slippery slope of belief enabling their use of we "false personalities" for their own ends, which are obviously not always beneficial for us as "waking consciousnesses".
This brings up the other false premise which I believe the Michael continually proffers: the notion that all "karma", and/or the things that happen to human beings are solely the result of "free will" and the "choice" of the "false personality". Patently untrue, and easily shown to be so. In rejoinder: the death of a three month old infant from malnutrition and dehydration in sub-saharan Africa was not the choice of that individual "waking consciousness", it was obviously the choice of that incarnation's "Essence", or "Soul", for the achievement of ends beneficial or "necessary" to the Soul, but certainly not that incarnation's.
By the same token, no three year old child EVER chose to be sexually assaulted and/or tortured and mutilated to death, and so on and so on, I don't wish to belabor the point, the actuality of the cruelty of existence should be proof enough. This issue of choice, as framed by the Michael, is a false premise that attempts to justify the innate abuses of Essence, and part of the true nature of "personal reality". Some of what is channeled from higher knowledge sources is indeed factual (especially if the source is Akashic, and/or NOT self-aware) but not everything always is, and some stuff is still just opinion, and albeit this opinion may be based on a greater than human perspective, it is still opinion!
By any definition relevant to the argument, through the application of formal logic, human beings ARE "real" (illusory nature of material manifestation immaterial to the meme) and "alive" - causal plane 'entity' propaganda or self-justification notwithstanding - and will always continue to be so. No metaphysical "Turing Test" is necessary. I deeply feel that this argument, and opponents to the particular POV espoused by the Michael, have been around since we all were first "cast from the Tao", AND it is my informed belief, based on 35 years of assiduous and diligent study (and entire millenial "Cycles" of my existence) that it was in defense of the most noble of all arguments (Ahimsa) that one-third of all the Angels in Heaven "fell".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
- the Dalphe
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Joan In Agony, Essence In Bliss
There are two examples of my lack of total concurrence with the Michael's POV that I can illustrate here, and the first comes from a few passages in the "Messages From Michael" books, where Michael states that when Joan D'Arc was being tortured to death, her Essence was in bliss. 'That's some creepy shit', I remember thinking at the time of my first reading (and if I am challenged for chapter and verse I can get my signed copy of MFM and look it up).
Michael later states in a couple places that great physical pain often brings Essence and incarnation into a greater communicative rapport. As I have stated before in this blog, this bothers me (as does Darwinism, for that matter) because it shows that the nature of existance is abusive to incarnation, and oppressive. For a more thorough dissertation on this POV, please peruse my earlier posts.
Another problem I have with the MT, is the namby-pamby alteration of the original teachings for the sake of political correctness. A "Slave" in Essence, IS a slave in essence, and changing the name of the role to "Server", as is now the fashion, dilutes and distorts the Michael Teachings, as does all misappropriation of meaning by revisionist editing.
But hey, that's just my opinion. I am a 'Yarbro Fundamentalist', OK? The original MT were transmitted via Oiuja Board folks, much less chance of that 20% error due to innate bias by channel (which is Michael's estimate of error in channeling) Which is why I trust the innate accuracy of the original MT more than anything that has come through since.
Proper definition through prescriptive sourcing is important, I opine. I had a current Michael channel comment to me recently about 'Life Tasks' being "assigned" by Michael (I have the e-mail and can quote it verbatim). I think I know what they were talking about, nevertheless their lack of specificity in stating their thought illustrates part of this problem.
Michael doesn't "assign" the life task (that is done by Essence for each incarnation). Michael, however can COMMENT upon one's life task, and/or DEFINE it for one through a channel. I'm sure the channel knows this, but this illustrates why I don't channel stuff for other people. I cannot make sure that what I'm saying when channeling is the EXACT right way to convey the proper meaning, in real time, so I don't channel that way. I would never want a new student of the MT to be misled into thinking that the Michael somehow "assigns" one ones' "Life Task". Just my choice.
When something important is misstated, or the actual datastreambytes are re-defined for the sake of currently fashionable sentiment, it can give rise to all sorts of reverberative dissonance in meaning, and can actually be more disinformative than enlightening. I choose my words carefully, therefore, because transmission of data from a higher knowledge source is an awesome responsiblity, one which perhaps I take a bit less lightly than most. Which is not to say that I don't get it wrong sometimes as well.
Michael later states in a couple places that great physical pain often brings Essence and incarnation into a greater communicative rapport. As I have stated before in this blog, this bothers me (as does Darwinism, for that matter) because it shows that the nature of existance is abusive to incarnation, and oppressive. For a more thorough dissertation on this POV, please peruse my earlier posts.
Another problem I have with the MT, is the namby-pamby alteration of the original teachings for the sake of political correctness. A "Slave" in Essence, IS a slave in essence, and changing the name of the role to "Server", as is now the fashion, dilutes and distorts the Michael Teachings, as does all misappropriation of meaning by revisionist editing.
But hey, that's just my opinion. I am a 'Yarbro Fundamentalist', OK? The original MT were transmitted via Oiuja Board folks, much less chance of that 20% error due to innate bias by channel (which is Michael's estimate of error in channeling) Which is why I trust the innate accuracy of the original MT more than anything that has come through since.
Proper definition through prescriptive sourcing is important, I opine. I had a current Michael channel comment to me recently about 'Life Tasks' being "assigned" by Michael (I have the e-mail and can quote it verbatim). I think I know what they were talking about, nevertheless their lack of specificity in stating their thought illustrates part of this problem.
Michael doesn't "assign" the life task (that is done by Essence for each incarnation). Michael, however can COMMENT upon one's life task, and/or DEFINE it for one through a channel. I'm sure the channel knows this, but this illustrates why I don't channel stuff for other people. I cannot make sure that what I'm saying when channeling is the EXACT right way to convey the proper meaning, in real time, so I don't channel that way. I would never want a new student of the MT to be misled into thinking that the Michael somehow "assigns" one ones' "Life Task". Just my choice.
When something important is misstated, or the actual datastreambytes are re-defined for the sake of currently fashionable sentiment, it can give rise to all sorts of reverberative dissonance in meaning, and can actually be more disinformative than enlightening. I choose my words carefully, therefore, because transmission of data from a higher knowledge source is an awesome responsiblity, one which perhaps I take a bit less lightly than most. Which is not to say that I don't get it wrong sometimes as well.
Saturday, August 02, 2008
"Michael Teachings" Comment For Troy
Dude,
Because you have left me no other way to get in touch with you (I tried joining your website on various occasions, and have attempted to e-mail you, but you make it less than easy to get back to you) I'll just drop a note here, because you always seem to be aware of my postings soon after I do post.
First, let me just say that I consider you to be the best of the current lot of Michael Channels online. The statements I am attributing to the Michael (things like "The creation is perfect.") have been channeled REPEATEDLY by channels on the "Michael Teaching" website. Don't blame me if both you and I disagree with their channeled statements. The moderator of that site hounded me unmercifully in personal e-mails accusing me of all sorts of imagined transgressions of that site's policies when I attempted to engage in a colloquy with others there (I have saved these personally insulting e-mails, BTW, in case my veracity with regard to their existence is questioned). I know you have had problems with this person, and a few of that site's denizens, as have I.
If you bother to read back through my blog, and not just focus on my recent postings, you will see exactly where the Michael and I differ. One big point is that I BELIEVE THE "FALSE PERSONALITY/WAKING CONSCIOUSNESS" IS A LIVING BEING THAT IS SACRIFICED EVERY LIFETIME FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE ESSENCE. Michael has repeatedly, through various channels, stated that this is NOT the case. Hence our disagreement. (Mchael and I)
My humor is self-deprecating in nature, and I'm glad you picked up on my self-immolative intimations. Well done. My teachers always told me that the way to learn to levitate was to think of yourself lightly, right? I'm certainly never offended by anyone questioning my opinions, but my veracity should speak for itself.
We got no beef, buddy, that I can see. I would suggest you re-read my post: "List of Channeled Beings" and realize (as most Michael channels and students seem NOT to be able) that there were reliable channels long before the Michael Teaching, and Michael does not have a copyright on "cosmic truth", as it were (nor even on most of the "Teachings" systemetology/phraseology - the very similar Seth material pre-dates the Michael stuff). There are a host of beings that have been truly channeled (some of whom are delineated in my post) Michael being only one of many.
May your feet tread light on your path, - Jondalf (a fellow student of the 'Channeling Arts');{>
Because you have left me no other way to get in touch with you (I tried joining your website on various occasions, and have attempted to e-mail you, but you make it less than easy to get back to you) I'll just drop a note here, because you always seem to be aware of my postings soon after I do post.
First, let me just say that I consider you to be the best of the current lot of Michael Channels online. The statements I am attributing to the Michael (things like "The creation is perfect.") have been channeled REPEATEDLY by channels on the "Michael Teaching" website. Don't blame me if both you and I disagree with their channeled statements. The moderator of that site hounded me unmercifully in personal e-mails accusing me of all sorts of imagined transgressions of that site's policies when I attempted to engage in a colloquy with others there (I have saved these personally insulting e-mails, BTW, in case my veracity with regard to their existence is questioned). I know you have had problems with this person, and a few of that site's denizens, as have I.
If you bother to read back through my blog, and not just focus on my recent postings, you will see exactly where the Michael and I differ. One big point is that I BELIEVE THE "FALSE PERSONALITY/WAKING CONSCIOUSNESS" IS A LIVING BEING THAT IS SACRIFICED EVERY LIFETIME FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE ESSENCE. Michael has repeatedly, through various channels, stated that this is NOT the case. Hence our disagreement. (Mchael and I)
My humor is self-deprecating in nature, and I'm glad you picked up on my self-immolative intimations. Well done. My teachers always told me that the way to learn to levitate was to think of yourself lightly, right? I'm certainly never offended by anyone questioning my opinions, but my veracity should speak for itself.
We got no beef, buddy, that I can see. I would suggest you re-read my post: "List of Channeled Beings" and realize (as most Michael channels and students seem NOT to be able) that there were reliable channels long before the Michael Teaching, and Michael does not have a copyright on "cosmic truth", as it were (nor even on most of the "Teachings" systemetology/phraseology - the very similar Seth material pre-dates the Michael stuff). There are a host of beings that have been truly channeled (some of whom are delineated in my post) Michael being only one of many.
May your feet tread light on your path, - Jondalf (a fellow student of the 'Channeling Arts');{>
Friday, August 01, 2008
The "Michael" Police
To whom, etc,
(but most especially students of the collected teachings of the collective disembodied Entity, "Michael");{>
I've been a conscious channel for 40+ years. I learned to channel the Akashic (by observing and listening to a guy named Stephen Gaskins, in the '60s attending a group called "Monday Night Class") long before the Orinda group. CQY was a friend of one of my oldest childhood friends, and I have been able to 'get' The Michael since I was a child. I studied the "Seth" material before the Michael Teachings and I consider myself a ' Yarbro Fundamentalist'.
If you're a Michael student and curious about who and what I am, and my POV, JUST ASK MICHAEL! My Overleaves (but NOT my "Life Task") were channeled by Ted Fontaine in 1995, and vetted by me. A previous posting: "List Of Channeled Beings" was compiled by me, FROM MEMORY (no Googling involved) in response to a question from the moderator of one of the major "Michael Teaching" sites (who hounded me from the site after I started to state some of my 'disagreements'). The list is of beings with whom I have either communicated or channeled personally, or of those whom others have attested they have ("Principle of Charitable Interpretation/Benefit of the Doubt" notwithstanding);{>
And, if you read between my lines over the course of this blog, you realize that The Michael and I happen to disagree about some important aspects of "The Creation", as repeatedly delineated by The Michael through various channels. I don't trust most Kings and/or Warriors, anyway (I generally wouldn't consult them for advice on much other than "noblesse oblige", or Martial Arts, respectively) and I certainly don't take everything The Michael says, as most Michael students and channels apparently do, as Gospel. According to The Michael, one IS supposed to question everything, even The Michael. Remember the "Shroud of Turin" fiasco?
I have never claimed to be a professional, or even an accomplished Michael channel. I HAVE channeled Michael infrequently, but I get too much static in my 'tuning', as it were, and I don't channel for other people. I DO however, answer questions put to me, about esoteric subjects, to the best of my ability, and if that includes channeling Michael, The Nine Diamond Faced Masters, Groucho, Brother Bartholomew or the Akashic, so be it. Occasionally I'm even successful.
Sometimes I feel like one of those those folks who try to present an independent view of Scientology, from an informed POV, when I question some of the Michael Teachings doctrine/dogma, which I have studied for more than three decades. Especially when I'm challenged and asked questions like: "Who channeled that for you?"- as though I need to vette my own perceptions, or insights, or 40+ years of metaphysical studies. I reserve the right to have an opinion about everything, as should everyone else. Some opinions may just have a "mythic resonance" (as Burroughs said) like it or not. To each his onus, eh?
Hey, if it works for you, use it, if it doesn't, go do something else. - the Dalphe
(but most especially students of the collected teachings of the collective disembodied Entity, "Michael");{>
I've been a conscious channel for 40+ years. I learned to channel the Akashic (by observing and listening to a guy named Stephen Gaskins, in the '60s attending a group called "Monday Night Class") long before the Orinda group. CQY was a friend of one of my oldest childhood friends, and I have been able to 'get' The Michael since I was a child. I studied the "Seth" material before the Michael Teachings and I consider myself a ' Yarbro Fundamentalist'.
If you're a Michael student and curious about who and what I am, and my POV, JUST ASK MICHAEL! My Overleaves (but NOT my "Life Task") were channeled by Ted Fontaine in 1995, and vetted by me. A previous posting: "List Of Channeled Beings" was compiled by me, FROM MEMORY (no Googling involved) in response to a question from the moderator of one of the major "Michael Teaching" sites (who hounded me from the site after I started to state some of my 'disagreements'). The list is of beings with whom I have either communicated or channeled personally, or of those whom others have attested they have ("Principle of Charitable Interpretation/Benefit of the Doubt" notwithstanding);{>
And, if you read between my lines over the course of this blog, you realize that The Michael and I happen to disagree about some important aspects of "The Creation", as repeatedly delineated by The Michael through various channels. I don't trust most Kings and/or Warriors, anyway (I generally wouldn't consult them for advice on much other than "noblesse oblige", or Martial Arts, respectively) and I certainly don't take everything The Michael says, as most Michael students and channels apparently do, as Gospel. According to The Michael, one IS supposed to question everything, even The Michael. Remember the "Shroud of Turin" fiasco?
I have never claimed to be a professional, or even an accomplished Michael channel. I HAVE channeled Michael infrequently, but I get too much static in my 'tuning', as it were, and I don't channel for other people. I DO however, answer questions put to me, about esoteric subjects, to the best of my ability, and if that includes channeling Michael, The Nine Diamond Faced Masters, Groucho, Brother Bartholomew or the Akashic, so be it. Occasionally I'm even successful.
Sometimes I feel like one of those those folks who try to present an independent view of Scientology, from an informed POV, when I question some of the Michael Teachings doctrine/dogma, which I have studied for more than three decades. Especially when I'm challenged and asked questions like: "Who channeled that for you?"- as though I need to vette my own perceptions, or insights, or 40+ years of metaphysical studies. I reserve the right to have an opinion about everything, as should everyone else. Some opinions may just have a "mythic resonance" (as Burroughs said) like it or not. To each his onus, eh?
Hey, if it works for you, use it, if it doesn't, go do something else. - the Dalphe
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Backstory To Thislife: "Life Task"
What is your "Life Task"?
My life task: First transcend (for perspective's sake) then subvert, the dominant paradigm. (A 7th Level Mature Lifetime demonstration/performance evidently intended to be somewhat ancillary to the alchemical maxim: "Solve et coagule".)
The backstory: Approximately 250,000 years ago, our planet and 27 others close to us in this spiral arm, seceded from the "Galactic Union" in a movement dubbed the "Luciferian Rebellion" (by the Bible and the Urantia Book). The "bone" of contention in this disaffectation of allegiances was hubris. A charge leveled by each side at the other.
Without re-hashing the arguments of each side, for the sake of brevity, suffice it to say that I believe I was one of the original human rebel theorists. (I'm a Gnostic, not a Satanist, by the way. I believe that the "creator" - the "Demiurgos" - is evil because there is so much suffering in this Universe. Gnostics hold IHVH in contempt for contravening the "Doctrine of Ahimsa": That NO living being should EVER be sacrificed!)
I remain loyal to that rebellion, as I understand it, to this day. Most all of my incarnations seem to be predicated upon the notion of the effectiveness of a long-term multi-temporal struggle to achieve success over millenia with carefully executed stratagems and influences. A vector-sum calculus of probable timeline nexial convergences and permutatively efficacious interventional material manifestations. A guerilla war fought on through entire Cycles of incarnations, chronologically speaking.
Thislife, I was selected by the CIA in 1970 at UC Berkeley to be part of an infamous "Black Op." named MKULTRA. I was subjected to a decade long series of tests and attempts at behavior modification by covert agents and agencies. A lot of people at the time (unbeknownst to them) were. My second "handler" went "native", BTW, and left the CIA, defecting to the counterculture he was sent to infiltrate (hippies) and in the process bringing a bunch of documents called "The Gemstone Files" with him - but that's another story. This was the "transcend the dominant paradigm" portion of thislife's task.
Even before, and since then, I have in been influencing people in the "subvert the dominant paradigm" portion of thislife's task. I grew up on the California coast (Pacifica) started surfing in 1959, built sufboards and skateboards for a living for many years, became something of a legend ("Thrasher" magazine capitalized upon my semi-infamy) and engendered a "tribe" of devotees that ignore gravity and are hardcore anti-establishment types: skateboarders.
This is the way my incarnational influence manifests, usually unbeknownst to me. If I knew what I was doing, I'd probably blow it (or, as William Burroughs states in 'Naked Lunch' - a book about the beginnings of MKULTRA when Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs were given drugs by the CIA and paid to write about their effects - : "The best agent is an unconscious agent.") I only become aware of my influences in hindsight.
Anyway, that's the condensed version. Also, IMNSHO, I would generally take "The Michael's" (of "The Michael Teachings") pronouncement of one's 'life task' with a 'grain of salt', as it were. The Michael is a spokesentity for the Universal status-quo, I believe. Witness The Michael's frequent contention that: "The creation is perfect."; and juxtapose that thought with MY contention that no creation that allows the agonizing deaths of thousands of less than 6 month old infants from dehydration and malnutrition daily could EVER be considered "perfect" by any rational being!
I have been able to tune my brain to the frequency of the 'Entity' "Michael" since I was a child, but my "inner truth sense" always alerted me to the fact that a lot of pronouncements by this collective disembodied being were a Causal Plane Entity's OPINION, and not necessarily the 'ultimate' truth. Such an Entity, self announced as being comprised only of former incarnational Roles of Kings and Warriors (not the Roles to which I personally would apply myself were I asking for metaphysical advice or "truth", ya' know?) is not one whose corporeal track record of truthtelling recommends it as a source for unsullied data.
Well then, I hope this rather narcissistically prolix diatribe ("This is your Department of Redundancy Department");{> answers your question. I learn a lot of things in hindsight, it seems, so I have no choice BUT to stay interested, you see. In any event, be well. And, as usual, I admonish: ALWAYS speak "Truth to Power"!
- Jondalf
7th. Level Mature Sage (w/Priest ET)
Goal of Growth
Passion Mode
Attitude of Spiritualist
Moving Part Of Intellectual Center
Primary CF of Self-Destuction, Secondary of Stubborness
My life task: First transcend (for perspective's sake) then subvert, the dominant paradigm. (A 7th Level Mature Lifetime demonstration/performance evidently intended to be somewhat ancillary to the alchemical maxim: "Solve et coagule".)
The backstory: Approximately 250,000 years ago, our planet and 27 others close to us in this spiral arm, seceded from the "Galactic Union" in a movement dubbed the "Luciferian Rebellion" (by the Bible and the Urantia Book). The "bone" of contention in this disaffectation of allegiances was hubris. A charge leveled by each side at the other.
Without re-hashing the arguments of each side, for the sake of brevity, suffice it to say that I believe I was one of the original human rebel theorists. (I'm a Gnostic, not a Satanist, by the way. I believe that the "creator" - the "Demiurgos" - is evil because there is so much suffering in this Universe. Gnostics hold IHVH in contempt for contravening the "Doctrine of Ahimsa": That NO living being should EVER be sacrificed!)
I remain loyal to that rebellion, as I understand it, to this day. Most all of my incarnations seem to be predicated upon the notion of the effectiveness of a long-term multi-temporal struggle to achieve success over millenia with carefully executed stratagems and influences. A vector-sum calculus of probable timeline nexial convergences and permutatively efficacious interventional material manifestations. A guerilla war fought on through entire Cycles of incarnations, chronologically speaking.
Thislife, I was selected by the CIA in 1970 at UC Berkeley to be part of an infamous "Black Op." named MKULTRA. I was subjected to a decade long series of tests and attempts at behavior modification by covert agents and agencies. A lot of people at the time (unbeknownst to them) were. My second "handler" went "native", BTW, and left the CIA, defecting to the counterculture he was sent to infiltrate (hippies) and in the process bringing a bunch of documents called "The Gemstone Files" with him - but that's another story. This was the "transcend the dominant paradigm" portion of thislife's task.
Even before, and since then, I have in been influencing people in the "subvert the dominant paradigm" portion of thislife's task. I grew up on the California coast (Pacifica) started surfing in 1959, built sufboards and skateboards for a living for many years, became something of a legend ("Thrasher" magazine capitalized upon my semi-infamy) and engendered a "tribe" of devotees that ignore gravity and are hardcore anti-establishment types: skateboarders.
This is the way my incarnational influence manifests, usually unbeknownst to me. If I knew what I was doing, I'd probably blow it (or, as William Burroughs states in 'Naked Lunch' - a book about the beginnings of MKULTRA when Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs were given drugs by the CIA and paid to write about their effects - : "The best agent is an unconscious agent.") I only become aware of my influences in hindsight.
Anyway, that's the condensed version. Also, IMNSHO, I would generally take "The Michael's" (of "The Michael Teachings") pronouncement of one's 'life task' with a 'grain of salt', as it were. The Michael is a spokesentity for the Universal status-quo, I believe. Witness The Michael's frequent contention that: "The creation is perfect."; and juxtapose that thought with MY contention that no creation that allows the agonizing deaths of thousands of less than 6 month old infants from dehydration and malnutrition daily could EVER be considered "perfect" by any rational being!
I have been able to tune my brain to the frequency of the 'Entity' "Michael" since I was a child, but my "inner truth sense" always alerted me to the fact that a lot of pronouncements by this collective disembodied being were a Causal Plane Entity's OPINION, and not necessarily the 'ultimate' truth. Such an Entity, self announced as being comprised only of former incarnational Roles of Kings and Warriors (not the Roles to which I personally would apply myself were I asking for metaphysical advice or "truth", ya' know?) is not one whose corporeal track record of truthtelling recommends it as a source for unsullied data.
Well then, I hope this rather narcissistically prolix diatribe ("This is your Department of Redundancy Department");{> answers your question. I learn a lot of things in hindsight, it seems, so I have no choice BUT to stay interested, you see. In any event, be well. And, as usual, I admonish: ALWAYS speak "Truth to Power"!
- Jondalf
7th. Level Mature Sage (w/Priest ET)
Goal of Growth
Passion Mode
Attitude of Spiritualist
Moving Part Of Intellectual Center
Primary CF of Self-Destuction, Secondary of Stubborness
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Darksnarkeyness
Hofmann's Potion (1/6) (On YouTube)
One thing Hofmann's potion taught me long ago was that any belief system that posits causality for any "evil" as existing only on the material plane (as in Politics) is way erroneous, and is only chasing epiphenomena - effects, not causes.
People like Stephen Hawkings, Bayes and Hilbert have since proven me, and most Gnostic Sages like me (even though most Physicists and Cosmologists don't quite realize it yet) to be correct in our conclusion that there is SO much suffering on the physical because the "Demiurgos" constructed it that way, and any discussion of repressive forces in corporeal existence that ignores such a conclusion is basically simple sophistry!
IOWs: Bush and Cheney and their Neo-Con ilk are just puppets for the true forces of Darksnarkeyness, whose real existence is 'beyond' physical.
- the Dalphe
One thing Hofmann's potion taught me long ago was that any belief system that posits causality for any "evil" as existing only on the material plane (as in Politics) is way erroneous, and is only chasing epiphenomena - effects, not causes.
People like Stephen Hawkings, Bayes and Hilbert have since proven me, and most Gnostic Sages like me (even though most Physicists and Cosmologists don't quite realize it yet) to be correct in our conclusion that there is SO much suffering on the physical because the "Demiurgos" constructed it that way, and any discussion of repressive forces in corporeal existence that ignores such a conclusion is basically simple sophistry!
IOWs: Bush and Cheney and their Neo-Con ilk are just puppets for the true forces of Darksnarkeyness, whose real existence is 'beyond' physical.
- the Dalphe
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