Preferences

The universe is always giving us something in every moment. What makes the difference between being happy and being unhappy is that we have preferences. The world offers pain and pleasure, joy and sadness. We cannot escape what we are given. We cannot change the way the world is in any given moment. Our having preferences only adds suffering on top of our experience of what is given. When we get what we prefer we suffer that we may lose it. When we get what we do not prefer we suffer over what we believe we should have gotten.

The truth is that we can experience pain without suffering and pleasure without worry that it may end. But we must be willing to live in the moment. We must be willing to fully experience what we are given without thoughts of the past or future. It is only then that we can truly experience being alive.

Living in the moment is a practice that we take on so that we can fully experience being alive. The past is gone there is no life there. There are only fleeting memories of moments that are no longer real. The future is yet to be created. What we seek to create in the future is given by how we are in the present moment. It makes no sense to live in the future. It makes no sense to live for the future.

The Phenomena of Religion & Spirituality

Religion & spirituality
are a phenomena.
They must be making
a living at it;
they're still going!

I learned more about spirituality
digging a septic-tank hole, 9' X 16',
at 15 years of age
in the Outback of Australia.

Knowing nothing
creates wonderment.

I live a wonderful life.
My world is
full of mySelf.
Good fortune to me
that I love mySelf.

I understand
you might want
to help people.
Better to help
yourself.

Does the EU Have an Expiry Date?

A veritable re-engineering of the entire planet has been taking place in front of our eyes for many decades now. However, since it is gradual, most people do not notice or understand what is happening. Just like the proverbial frog that if thrown into boiling water painfully jumps out and survives, but will be cooked and die if thrown into lukewarm water where the heat rises one degree every 5 minutes…

What goes under the name of “New World Order”, “Globalization” or (my favourite) “World Government” describes the long-term objectives of a highly powerful Global Power Elite embedded inside every country, notably the US and Europe, that owns, operates and channels every country’s resources – oil, finance, economic strength, military prowess, natural resources – from inside to promote their supranational agenda. This highly complex, holistic and extensively planned process helps explain much (if not all) of the on-going violence, chaos and injustice we see in the realms of finance, politics and the economy. But good strategic planning also requires experimentation, trial and error, scenario building and war games.

My native country, Argentina (and Latin America as a whole), have been repeatedly used for such “experimentation”, as happened here ten years ago when the international banking cartel aligned to the IMF/World Bank, US Treasury Department, rating agencies and the “qualified” mainstream media, worked together to collapse Argentina’s financial and monetary system, but at the same time managed to save all their banks that operated in the country. Argentines saw their money locked up in the banks, their Dollar deposits were arbitrarily changed into local devalued pesos at fraudulent rates of exchange as local Caretaker Governments (to this very day) take measures always aligned to local and international banker interests. The results for Argentina? GDP fell by 40% in 2002; 50% of our population fell below the poverty line (most never made it back up again); violence and death on our streets, foreclosures, bankruptcies, full-fledged social war (that stopped just short of civil war) and yet…. not one single bank folded!

There is Only Oneness, Tao

Enlightenment is the acceptance that there is no one to be enlightened and as the seeker dissolves so too that which was sought is no longer separate. There is only oneness, Tao.

• Biologically it could be the time delay that the front brain requires to perform its operations that causes humans to be so self conscious and to feel strong separation.
• Linguistically it could be that as we grew up everything we learned was in a language of duality and so we can not think in concepts or explain idea that are not dual.
• Culturally it could be that generations before us have lived in suffering believing they must fear an almighty, that life is preparation for afterlife, that choices are made and reward or punishment ensue.
• Socially it could be that we act in hierarchies, groups, pairs or alone and in all of these roles we reaffirm the false belief that we are a separate part in the greater whole.
• Philosophically it could be that we echo ideas that "I think therefore I am" but fail to question how there seem to be two I's in the same sentence. We trap ourselves in Noun does Verb even when the active and the passive are one.
• Politically we are told that you can drag a cart with two opposing horses and make valuable progress.

For whatever reason they feel it, feeling separate, people will seek reconnection. There is only oneness, there is only Tao, appearing as whatever it appears to be and it is nothing more than an appearance seeming to happen. All that comes goes, nothing that arises in mind has any permanence or reality. All arising will dissolve as the the source is an apparent arising too.

~Tawan

Asbestos Head Chapter 12 - Paradise Found

Bed Head

-Paradise Found-

Asbestos is released from jail in the morning.  After a meal of fresh baked bread and squeezed grape juice from his favorite restaurant he heads toward his friend Bed Head's House of Dreams gallery.  The large country-style cabin contains three courtyards and almost a mile of winding corridors stretching the maze-like exterior in and around the surrounding forest.  Due to the nature of the exhibits it's under constant construction but still maintains a completed appearance with each addition.  Bed and his wife Vanessa Head are known in these parts as onieronaut artists.  Explorers of the dreamworld manifesting fantasies into reality through their multi-media art gallery experiences.  Having become dissatisfied with the lack of immersion achieved by standard singular mediums, they fully design and build each room in their gallery to be a macro-medium in itself, providing thematic backdrops for dynamic compositions consisting of everything from painting and furniture making to computer animation.  All their ideas come from dreams and their art from a passion to experience them in waking life. 

They begin by drafting blue-prints of the rooms Bed builds in accordance with appropriate acoustics, spacing and lighting for the exhibit.  Then Vanessa usually floors, paints, stencils, wallpapers or however readies the rooms for their intended atmosphere.  They’re filled with her furniture, rugs, paintings, sculptures, and other still life displays handmade for the exhibit.  Speaker systems are installed to play anything from white noise to original theme music written and performed by Vanessa.  Some exhibits include flat screens with looped video art, animation or cinematics.  Then all exhibits include short stories and poetry written for the rooms by Bed Head.  The latest is a spacious bedroom with giant picture windows, behind which concave plasma screens stream video of an apocalyptic seventh story city view.  The only sounds are muffled screams and distant roars of fire.  She models it after a dream of Bed Head’s, which he has just finished turning into a short story for display on the nightstand.

Essential Reading Regarding Iran

As the rhetoric for war with Iran begins to mount, first with the staged DEA-Saudi bomb plot, and now with an upcoming IAEA report supposedly "exposing" Iran's nuclear arms ambitions, it is important to re-read through the signed confessions by the corporate-fascist interests behind this drive for war where it is admitted that:

1. Iran poses no threat to US national security - even if they acquired nuclear arms- rather Iran threatens US interests throughout the Middle East, half-way across the planet.

2. Iran desperately wants to avoid armed conflict with both Israel and the West and would use nuclear weapons merely as a defensive deterrence.

3. The US and Israel are actively looking to provoke Iran into war with a combination of covert support for destabilization within Iran, supporting listed terrorist organizations, and limited unilateral military first strikes to provoke an Iranian response needed to justify a wider military confrontation.

All of this is shockingly spelled out in extreme detail within the pages of the corporate-financier funded Brooking Institution report, "Which Path to Perisa?" It is essential that every American, European, and Israeli read just how malicious, callus and eager the globalist elite are to trigger a catastrophic war with the Islamic Republic for the sole purpose of protecting Wall Street and London's hegemony throughout the Middle East.

The Lost People of Atlantis - Dubay Family Research

Eric Dubay - Gyana Mudra

This is a continuation of my first post “Manipulation of History” which began as my own personal journey to find the truth that has been buried deep within the pile of lies and deception that prevails in the world. As a writer I prefer to write the truth, and when you only find lies and deception all around, a writer can't help but find the truth to show the people of the world.

In my own personal search for truth, I came across a post made by Eric Dubay about Manipulation of History which made my journey a lot more interesting. Though I would say my approach is not the correct one generally, as I am a very impatient person when I get excited about a topic and I can definitely get on people’s nerves which is generally to test people for understanding their level of tolerance along with their true agenda.

Converts Life Force into Power of Knowledge

One of the points that I had made on that post was about his name which particularly struck me and stayed within the confines of my mind. His name kept nagging me for a long time, and it made me keep coming back to his blogs over and over. I am a very highly opinionated kind of person because I generally reach to a conclusion after looking at all the evidence to prove a point.

I became aware of things I was never aware about in the world through his blogs, and I was able to learn about things that many of us Indians would not know about. It is a general habit of any person to remain within the personal circles of comfort which helps them feel safe about themselves, even though it may not be the safest way to live. After many of our conversations, we came back to the origins of his name which had bothered me for a very long time. Hence, I began searching for the original roots of his family line which led me to a great discovery which can not only help his family realize the truth about their origins but the world as well.

The Compassionate Model of Happiness

Compassion is proven scientifically and in real world cases to be the root of true happiness. All other sources of happiness, such as material goods, activities or relationships, can be taken away and the result is sadness. Compassion cannot be taken away, but it can be ignored. It can be ignored and replaced by selfishness - but we can be compassionate to selfishness too.

A lady sits home alone and the door-bell rings. She is not expecting visitors so she ignores the bell. From the window she sees a man she does not know and she decided for safety to ignore the bell for 20 minutes of ongoing ringing as she selfishly protects herself. Compassion may say that she should answer the call as this person may need help. Compassion for her says she may well be right to ignore the bell as he may have other plans. Compassion for him, even if he has evil intentions, would see that he has a past leading him to such behavior.

Beyond Imagination

Turn away
from the world
& have a look.

You can't make a word
out of one letter.

What is coming
is beyond man's
imagination.

When you are looking
for something
you need a world
to look for it in.

Staying open to the unknown
in life
is the formula
for living life to
its fullest.

Once you fill up
all your time,
you're out of it.

In my life,
anything that
isn't positive
has to go.

Debt Crisis? What Debt Crisis?

Ever wondered what 114.5 Trillion looks like? This puts it into perspective:

$100 - Most counterfeited money denomination in the world. Keeps the world moving.

$10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car. Approximately one year of work for the average human on earth.

Nobel Peace Prize-President Quietly Opens 8th US Battlefront

While America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, wages covert war on Pakistan, conducts drone attacks on Yemen and Somalia, bombards Libya, and positions for a wider confrontation with Iran and Syria, Nobel Peace Prize Laurette President Obama has now quietly, without much fanfare, sent 100 US troops to help Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni crush rebels threatening his 25 year dictatorship.

In what is essentially a "reverse-Libyan-style" intervention, the US is sending troops to crush, not assist rebels rising up against their despotic ruler. Ironically, just as with Libya's rebels, Uganda's rebels are also listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department. Instead of the corporate-financier contrived International Criminal Court issuing fictitious warrants for Uganda's head of state, as was done with Qaddafi in Libya, it is the Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony, who is being targeted.

Both the Ugandan government (with US assistance) and the rebels, known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), are accused of perpetrating heinous atrocities against their enemies and civilian populations in their decades long conflict. In particular, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has just recently presided over the mass murdering and displacement of 20,000 of his own people on behalf of British corporations who sought to construct tree plantations on their land. US and British military assistance and business deals with the Ugandan government have been a ubiquitous feature throughout Museveni's perpetual, unending term as president.

The Origins of Goddess Britannia in Celtic Europe

Celtic Goddess Britainia - Not Roman

Before I start my analysis and final conclusion, there are a few questions everyone should ask themselves about this Goddess of Britain.  How much do you know about her?  How much of it is the truth and is the rest deception?  What are her true origins?  Is she really a Roman Goddess?  Why does she have a trident and a lion when “Roman” Christianity demonizes the trident with the devil?

It is a proven and known fact that Britain used to be a “Pagan Celtic” country before the advent of Christianity and the people of Britain were assimilated into Christianity through various traditional “assimilation” techniques used by the Christian missionaries around the world.  And we all know the level of atrocities such missionaries' missions involve.

As the official story goes, the name of Britannia comes from “Latin” and comes from Greek language Prettanike or Brettaniai.  If we trace these two names – Prettanike or Brettaniai – they have no image of their own and lead back to the image of Britannia. Hence, there is no way to trace the real roots of the claim that she used to be a Roman or a Greek Goddess whatsoever.

Asbestos Head Chapter 11 - Capitalist Manifesto

Dead Head

-Capitalist Manifesto-

Asbestos smokes Pot Head's present on the walk to his next appointment.  He enters the city police station and an officer leads him to jail.  In the corner he notices a malnourished, scruffy, dirty and completely naked cell mate who looks overly happy to see someone.

"What are you in for, friend?"

"I increased the amount of truth being told by a park statue and got charged with defacing state property."

"They're very protective of their possessions, aren’t they?"

"The government takes tax money and builds war monuments to promote patriotism and military allegiance as an easy means to marble immortality.  But isn’t war hero a paradox?  The only war heroes I know are draft dodgers, protestors, and people who place peace over purple hearts.  Where’s their statue?  That's what I want to know.  But anyway, I'm stuck in here overnight to keep the wheels of justice in rotation.  Let the rehabilitation begin!"

"Exactly.  Prison's Our societal time-out.  Go stand in the corner with your head down and think about what you've done until We say come out.  And of course the corner's only for poor kids.  Rich kids get their allowances taken away instead.  Meanwhile We've got millions of trained psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, spiritualists and teachers twiddling their thumbs.  Why send your society's kids to the corner or take their money away when you can educate them?  Caging criminals with other mentally unstable felons has never helped a person on this planet. And think, all the money that's saved from not enslaving one percent of the population can be used to create jobs, promote education and mental health. No one experiences a lifetime of unconditional love then rapes and kills.  These are expressions of misguided emotion, as is the revenge taken against them.  I forgive everyone everything.  For many people justice is equality, an eye for an eye.  But increasingly, humanity is realizing that there is no justice in retributive punishment.  True justice is positive change.  An eye for an eye means committing the same act you're condemning while calling it the solution.  It may sound rational to Our government, but it sounds like insanity to me."

God's Plan

I had a friend named Ernie, when I was 20, who was several years older than me. I enjoyed Ernie because he often asked philosophical questions of me that really made me think. One afternoon I had dropped over to talk and he said. “Michael, what is it you really want to do with your life? Do you have a plan for your life?” I thought for a minute and I said, “I want to be able to go anywhere, and do anything with anybody.

After a few seconds Ernie looked at me and said “It sounds like you want to be like a sailor who sails the world with a girl in every port.” His response was not a surprise because Ernie and I often talked about girls. “No Ernie”, I said, “It’s bigger than that, I meant it exactly as I said.”

There is a creation myth that tells us how before there was anything, there was only Oneness. In the myth Oneness is alone. There was nowhere to go, nothing to do and no one to do it with? So Oneness thought, I will make a plan, I will create an endless universe of infinite wonder and fill it with beings of infinite curiosity. I will endow each of those beings with the power to create unlimited possibility. I will create a game of hide and seek and hide myself in every corner of the universe and in every being in the universe. I will pretend that each of those beings is not me. I will make love and connectedness the goal of the game. And to make the game seem absolutely real I will forget where I have hidden myself. The game will play out through eternity until all the pieces, through seeking love and connectedness, have again found that they are all just me playing a game of separateness with myself. Then I will not feel alone.

Several eons passed and Oneness thought, what if I make a mistake?

Several eons passed and Oneness thought, if all is Oneness and Love there cannot be a mistake.

Several eons passed and Oneness declared, "Let there be a universe where I can go anywhere, and do anything with anybody."

Several eons passed and it was so.

 

~Michael Jenkins

Chemtrails & Chemclouds Over America

I just put together this video of chemtrail and chemcloud pictures sent to me from Uhland, Texas, featuring the chemically-aware music of Trillion, Luca, and Sick Since. Special thanks to Grandma JJ for the great pictures. I hope you all enjoy the video and help spread the word by sharing it with everyone you can. Peace

~Eric Dubay

Guru Om Meditation Music

~Guru Om

Assaulted by Police for Asking a Question

Last night I was assaulted by two police men and am now in a state where I can not move at all without pain. I'll keep the details scant in case I am able to have them held accountable for their actions and I do not wish a blog post to spoil any official statement I make on the case. This story is told then without prejudice to the case.

For a few weeks now as we approach the train station together after work on Fridays a friend and I have enjoyed debating the power and roles of Transit Officers. These people wear a Police-like uniform and enforce train tickets. We were quite certain that there was no law regarding train tickets and these people were not able to enforce a law even if there were one. I had stood on a couple of occasions asking these people, politely and inquisitively, what powers they had and how they were to enforce them. Last week even I had a very fun chat with two of them as I travelled on the train. Partly I was attempting to see if they believed they had actual power and the force of the law and partly I was trying to get their side of the story where they have a job as well-liked as parking wardens and tax collectors. They were simple and friendly and really did not know much of the rules they were upholding or have any idea if there was a law or if they had the power to enforce it.

Last night as we approached the station our conversation naturally veered to the subject and, tickets in pockets, we walked through the open gates on to the platform area. Two police men were standing together and as their role is to 'Serve and Protect' and they are public servants I approached them to get perhaps a final clarification on our investigation.

The Money Masters Behind the Global Debt Crisis

In the US, we see untold millions suffering from the impact of mass foreclosures and unemployment; in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy, stringent austerity measures are imposed upon the whole population; all coupled with major banking collapses in Iceland, the UK and the US, and indecent bail-outs of “too-big-to-fail” bankers (Newspeak for too powerful to fail).

No doubt, the bulk of the responsibility for these debacles falls squarely on the shoulders of caretaker governments in these countries that are subordinated to Money Power interests and objectives. In country after country, that comes together with embedded corruption, particularly evident today in the UK, Italy and the US.

As we assess some of the key components of today’s Global Financial, Currency and Banking Model in this article, readers will hopefully get a better understanding as to why we are all in such a crisis, and that it will tend to get much worse in the months and years to come.

You'll Never See These Ads Again

Atlantis Conspiracy - Manipulation of History

My journey has been a long one, and I am finally putting down all the information I have collected in the last few months since my “Reawakening.” I will make this story a bit precise and I will begin the story that started this year in my life.

My educational specialization is MBA in (Marketing and Sales) and since I graduated I was not happy with the jobs I got in the related field. I started to wonder if I was really meant for this line, as I am more of a recluse and don’t really like dealing with people much. Such a conflicting personality trait made me realize I was not really meant for this line of work.

A friend of mine had been working as a writer who gave me the idea to start working as a writer. I joined an IT company which basically dealt with Language translation, Web design, Search Engine Optimization, Travel and Tourism. They had over 23 sites which were incomplete hence all of them required web content. I started with language translation sites and I had to write about different languages as well as the qualified professionals that come from each specific state.

When I began my work, I started studying all the states of India and I saw how our history was completely warped. How many Hindu/ Sanatan Dharma monuments were still claimed by the Islamists as their own like the Taj Mahal. Many prominent places of Hindu/ Sanatan Dharma pilgrimage like “Prayag” were renamed as “Allahabad.” This is the reflection of demonic war tactics to make the natives dissociate with their own history and for the invaders to take over completely. I also noticed that Christianity had also played the same game like how “Ram Setu” at Kanyakumari has been renamed as “Adam’s Bridge.” It is the same dissociation war tactic played by the Abrahmic religions to assimilate the “Pagans/Kafirs.”

Guru Om's Songs & Poetry

Path with a Heart

I was re-reading several of my Carlos Castaneda books from the ‘70’s and I came across the passage below:

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks.

My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor’s question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it does not, it is of no use.

Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart the other does not. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path.

Helen of Goy

Helen Thomas the aging White House Journalist was asked to retire following her unwelcome comments to a Rabbi interviewing her. He asked her what she thought about the situation in Palestine, naturally assuming she was on board with his propaganda version of events, when she said: "They have to get the hell out of Palestine... they have to go home... back to Poland, Germany ...wherever they came from." His jaw hit the floor. She was made to resign immediately. And was labeled as an anti-semite and anybody who publishes her work is warned in advance etc. etc. etc. The Israeli lobby runs the White House and was not expecting that kind of outburst from anyone whom they thought was one of their own. The Rabbi was caught on one foot the other being stuck firmly in his mouth.

We need more journalists like this one who is not afraid to tell it like it is. There was one who, like Helen, decided to tell it like it is, unfortunately he's been dead for over 100 years and nothing much has changed in his chosen craft in all that time. His comments on the supposed Independent press still hold:

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours my occupation would be gone.

"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

John Swinton, pre-eminent New York journalist, when guest of honour at a banquet given for him in 1880 by the leaders of his craft, or crafty leaders. A gaggle of supreme lying hypocrites sipping champagne and living the lie. Did his speech have the desired effect? Obviously not. "Money talks bullshit walks" and in today's world, as it was back then, the truth is Bullshit.

This is why the world needs blogs without which no one would ever know the truth and never know about the likes of John Swinton. It's not something the press are going to inform you about that's for sure. Good on you Helen.

~Sean Casey

Brilliant Colorings and Nature Photos

Libya: The Greatest Betrayal

First - let's not labor under any delusions. Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy are heads of state in name only. It is the depravity and megalomania amongst the banks, corporations, and the institutions they have contrived, that are responsible for the most egregious betrayal in Western history. For 10 years the West's leadership have stirred up hatred and fear amongst their populations to justify a lengthy and very costly global war that has sent US, British, Canadian, German, French, and many other troops, around the world, into dangerous adversity, and ultimately to their graves to fight "the forces of terror."

Now, almost as if savoring the irony, the New York Times, on behalf of the corporate-financier oligarchs that presume dominion over the Western world, fully admit that Al Qaeda terrorists, men who literally killed US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan are now in Libya and are the benefactors of billions of dollars in Western aid, diplomatic recognition, training, weapons, the lending of intelligence assets, the full unwavering support of the West's "media," NATO-member air support, and even graced with Western special forces fighting side-by-side with them on the ground. This timely confession is also in response in part to revelations that the Libyan rebel commander now filling the streets of Tripoli with indescribable horror is a hardcore Al Qaeda leader, reported first in the Telegraph months ago, and again this week on RT and covered in depth by respected geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley.

Guru Om - The Catalyst

Asbestos Head Chapter 10 - Competitive Education

Pot Head

-Competitive Education-

Pot Head’s a rural area high school teacher who does drugs with his students.  He holds degrees in education, sociology, and psychology and has been using marijuana, opium, and psychedelic mushrooms in the classroom for years.  He argues that many teenagers are experimenting with even harder drugs in a destructive manner, distracting them from schoolwork, causing them to skip classes, fail and drop out.  However, when introduced correctly in an educational context, certain plants can provide a passion for knowledge and introspection.  They create an open, fun, and loving atmosphere in which true communication can be built between fellow students and teachers alike.  99% of Pot Head’s special life skills class graduates go onto college; all other teachers see improvement in grades, behavior, and notice a genuine love for learning among his students.  His classroom approach is simple but unorthodox: Comfortable swivel seats in a circle.  No tables, textbooks, boards, papers, pens or other distractions from true education.  Just many young minds perfectly aligned glancing excitedly with curious eyes.

Pot Head closes the door and takes his equal seat in the circle.  “Welcome to Life Skills.  As you all know We’re going to be taking drugs and talking in this class.  We’ll be going on mushroom field trips, writing opium poetry, smoking pot and discussing Our thoughts, and that’s about it.  No notes, no syllabus, no homework but books you choose and only one rule: Truth.  Everyone must swear they’ll only speak their true feelings in this classroom.  Education is not memorizing information; it’s knowledgeable exploration of yourselves.  What I want to teach you here is the truth about yourselves, so if you lie to each other or me, it disadvantages Us all. Speak honestly and if We touch on subjects you wish not to talk about, simply say so and We’ll move on.

First of all you’ll notice We’re sitting in a circle - the one, and only suitable seating configuration for a classroom. Sitting in rows facing front takes focus off each other and places it on fantasy objectives.  Switching to rows of separate desks came about during the industrial age with motives focused not on education theory, but toward creating a populous pre-accustomed to a factory-like setting. Nowadays nothing has changed and it can’t because there are too many students, too few true teachers, and too little funding.  So it serendipitously happens that the state enforces banker-hour school days, five days a week, with standardized testing, textbooks, and curriculums designed to compete students against all others for high grades and praise from the boss at the black board; then after school are often required to continue their competitive development in the wonderful sports programs, universally allocated more money than the arts. 

From 1852-1918 state education was optional in the US. Then after that it was mandatory only for 9-12 year olds, 10-12 weeks a year, and even that was met with extreme opposition. They've slowly lengthened the time and age range until now 4 year olds are in preschool and 26 year old doctors are still being indoctrinated.

The Destroyer of Ignorance

If you don't want to resist
then you'll have to trust.
If you don't know
where you are going
you have 2 options.
Resist/Trust.

I do not need
another signpost.
You only need signposts
if you've left home.
They help you
find your way back.

You are either responsible for everything
or you are responsible for nothing.
Once you have made your decision
you will not be in need of help.

Only True
Human Beings
will survive.

What use is love
without lovers?

Shower me with love &
you'll get everything.
Inflict violence on me &
you will get nothing.

First Responders NOT Invited to 9/11 Anniversary

They risked their lives. They had no time or 'luxury' to ponder 'who done it' - whether it was Osama Bin Laden or an Inside Job, they had to act. Well over 343 first responders lost their lives, horrifically, doing so. Many have since, contracted cancers and other diseases, due to the toxic air and materials they had to be in contact with, and there have been deaths as a result, but neither the sufferers, nor their bereaved families, have received any compensation!  And this shameful treatment of these incredibly brave individuals continues, adding insult to injury (and deaths), by not even inviting the survivors, and their families, to the main anniversary of 9/11.

~Muzuzuzus

Corporate-Funded "People's" Movements

Surely a movement run by a man working with foreign interests against his own nation would be considered sedition in every sense of the word. And regardless of how well-intentioned followers of such a movement were, ultimately their efforts would be contributing to a future entirely removed from their genuine ideals of progress and change.

Progress is not only an attractive motivation for political participation, it is a responsibility for those who wish to leave future generations with something more than what they have now. However, danger arises when progress is pursued politically rather than pragmatically, where people, not solutions are hoisted to the pinnacle of our attention and efforts. This is precisely the case unfolding in Thailand, where a man, Thaksin Shinawatra, his party, and his agenda have taken to the driver's seat of a contrived social movement called the "red shirts" and ultimately threaten the destiny of the very people committed to this hoax.

Thaksin Shinawatra himself was a former adviser to the globalist equity firm, the Carlyle Group, and was literally standing in front of the CFR in NYC on the eve of his ousting from power in 2006. Since then, he has been represented by some of the largest lobbying firms on earth, including fellow Carlyle man James Baker and his Baker Botts law firm, the International Crisis Group's Kenneth Adelman and his Edelman Public Relations firm (also a corporate sponsor of the "color revolution college" Movements.org), and Belfer Center adviser and IISS trustee Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers.

The Terminal Stages of the US Dollar

This week I'm celebrating the anniversary of the greatest heist in recorded history; exactly 40 years ago yesterday, President Nixon severed the dollar’s ties to gold forever.  It was a government game so the politicians could easily pay off their debts with “cheaper dollars” for the foreseeable future.  In reality, this one decision effectively stole all our dollars’ value for decades to come. And you and I are the ones still paying for this mistake. Not the rich, us the ordinary middle class people.  Strangely this decision created the $4 trillion Forex market and eventually sent gold above $1,800 an ounce this past week.  Gold was $35 and ounce when Nixon made this decision.

You and I - (We) are now in the terminal stages of the worlds most gigantic pyramid scheme of all time: The US Dollar. It is set to vaporize the assets of the average citizen and level the life style of North Americians to a level of lifestyle more similar to the rest of the world (think Asia, South America and Europe).  So now is thew time to protect what's left of your nest-egg, before the dollar collapses fully, rendering your dollar-denominated assets almost worthless.

 

Letting Go

Hanging on is a painful process.
Letting go alleviates suffering.

All conversations
are with the Self.
Imaging otherwise
is delusion.

Everyone lives
in a world
of their
own making.

Victims are controlled
by their creations.

Go back to your first memory & then take one more step backwards and you will know what you are & where you come from. That's if you're interested. If not, dream on.

A projector projects
lights onto a screen.
When the light is intense
it burns out the screen.

Nothing
to project
pictures on;
That is I.

What the London Riots Can Teach Us

The reference to throwing stones at the bad man, you being a whore and a slave and the lemons used by rioters to counteract tear-gas, this song, decorated as a lovely flowery, alternative pop-tune is a subtle awakening to the power of mass revolt.



Whether the recent UK riots were the work of a bunch of idiots, a secret service lead plot to encourage higher police powers or whatever mixture you may like, we did see the power of the masses at work. Big Brother may seem powerful but there are only a few of them, and they don't like the idea of the masses waking at once to face them.

I do not see violence as a solution to anything but refer you to an ant. An ant can't push down a large tree, but he can with a team remove its foundations and witness it tumble. As you can't force out a government by replacing it, force then is useless, we can though on mass, remove the foundations on which it stands. We could for example, on mass, over the Internet, organize yearly days where we choose not to work, we choose not to pay tax. We could on mass stand against unfair laws, standing peacefully against bullshit statute "laws" and make a difference.



~Tawan

It's a Bird, It's a Plane... No, It's Super Congress!

This debt deal has given birth to a new “Super Congress”. A so-called committee of 12 that will formulate a plan to handle the deficit crises. This is a sham. The Congress has literally crumbled the Constitution into a huge paper ball and tossed it in the waste paper basket. 12 members are going to represent 435 Congressional districts and there will be no debate, no amendment and no filibusters allowed when the committee comes forward with its “recommendation”.

If, by some miracle, the Congress as a whole votes down the recommendation; then the OMB will slash the deficit on its own. Now, remember there is more than one way to reduce the deficit. If I were a betting man I would wager that tax increases rather than spending cuts will be the avenue of choice. Let’s talk about the constitutional problems with this legislation.

Asbestos Head Chapter 9 - Free Will Junkies

Machine Head 
-Free Will Junkies-

Machine Head is Cyborg.

Cyborg are collective and simultaneously subjective beings identical to humans in every way except for their brains, which are in constant data transfer with both one another and a computer-generated Mother Brain.  Through silicon technology and forced genetic mutation, all cyborg have comprehensive sense transceivers allowing any member of the collective to fully experience the epistemological, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory sensations of any other.  All information is instantaneously sent to each other and the Mother Brain - an outside server that stores their every experience, even after the death of their bodies. 

This eliminates the human concern for understanding and self-preservation because the entirety of their experience is remembered, maintained, and accessible to all cyborg at any time.  As a result most cyborg live alone and haven’t the slightest desire to procreate.  Survival, love, and understanding are all secondary to what they describe as the intensification and appreciation of the Now.  They are inherently emotionless and opinionless by human standards because of their complete disidentification with self and thought.  Feeling and bias are only expressed in the interest of aesthetics as they consider these things to be high-art happening in real-time.  Overall their behavior closely parallels humans except for a couple quirks like these and that cyborg are all artists of one kind or another; Machine Head is lead singer in a hard-core heavy-metal band.  Tonight's show is already underway as Asbestos enters the building.

Global Warning

My research into weather and climate has gone really deep and the fact that the media is persisting in reporting the problems with Co2 and warming could prove to be a huge problem in more ways than one. When one studies the history of climate change and compares it to current research using empirical information one can clearly see the error, or more the point, the con, of the IPCC and the obvious collusion of governments and politicians in supporting totally unreliable science to the point of suicide. It is a complex subject and needs to be simplified for a general audience. It's all about the 'Maunder Minimum' of the 17th and 18th centuries which was he coldest period of our history and included many great changes and shifting of power bases which can all be attributed to climate.

Wanting What?

The worldly man knows what he wants & gets it. I don't know what I want, therefore,
there's nothing to get, otherwise,
it would be nagging me to manifest.

All want
derives from
a sense of lack.

Trying to
fill the hole
with an abundance
of desires
is endless.

Any idiot can
live in the world
with desires;
try living
in your world
with no desires.

The desire to live
is the messenger
of death,
Longing to be happy
is the outline
of sorrow.

Next time a desire
starts nagging at you
ask yourself,
"Would I be prepared
to die for it?"

The Times

We are at a time of great change within our consciousness. People are beginning to see the illusion for what it is, which is control. Many of you are beginning to finally shed the ego which controls you, and live in your heart center. When you begin to live within the heart, the communication of 'divine thought-forms' will become easier and easier. Fear is the companion of the ego. When we live in the heart, and WE ARE controlling the ego, our possibilities become limitless.

There will be many changes in the next few months. Those who are heart centered will have the ability to go within and ask for guidance. You will be able to discern what is Love and what is Deception. You will be able to see cleansing, where others see disaster. Being within your heart center is what is needed the most at this time. It will allow you to see things as they are, not what you are told by another. Your heart center is your connection with the divine, and therefore will never lead you astray.

How do we get there? First we must accept we are far greater than we were told. You are an infinite amount of energy with limitless possibilities. It is up to you to fine-tune your personal awareness in the universe. You are the writer, the actor, and the producer of your life. Nothing would have been brought upon you in this life without your divine permission. It is never a 'curse' when things go wrong. God gives us what we need, not what we desire. The two (needs and desires) are almost never compatible while living in the ego. You are a divine being with a divine purpose.... Accept it.

The Rise of an American Dictatorship

The Congress, the people’s house and the states’ senate, is increasingly being transformed into a rubber-stamping body of the executive branch. The usurpation of power in the hands of the president is following a systematic surrender of US power to international organizations. The end result, if our current course continues, will be to have a president wielding all power of the state in conformity with international rules. The United States is being transformed into a manged dictatorship within the governmental framework of the New World Order; a world-wide league of dictatorships.

Let’s examine the Constitution’s Delegation of Powers to Congress:

Section 8 – Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have the power….

1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States:

This power has been eroded by fact that the IRS was established under the executive branch. Although its authority is supposedly granted in legislation I have yet to see the enabling legislation. It is further eroded by the Federal Reserve’s ability to manipulate the value of what we call money.

2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States:

This power is currently under attack by the McConnell plan to allow the President to raise the debt ceiling. Under this plan a super-majority vote would be required to over-rule the president.

US to Default on Credit Aug. 2 - Even if Solution Found Today

Yesterday, Moody's and Standard & Poor's both threatened to downgrade the credit rating of the United States of America. The threat of an official downgrade resonates with the real-time unofficial downgrade that is already underway in the market for credit default swaps (CDS).

(To review: CDS are a kind of "default insurance." The buyer of a CDS is buying insurance against default by a specific issuer of debt, whether that be a company or a country. The greater the apparent likelihood of a default, the higher the price insurance. That's why the price of a Greek CDS is 1,000 times greater than the price of a Norwegian CDS.)

This extreme pricing difference is to be expected. In absolute numbers, the national annual deficits of Greece and Norway are identical. But while the Greeks are running a budget deficit equal to about 14% of its GDP, the Norwegians are running a budget surplus equal to about 14% of GDP. Greece might default tomorrow. Norway is unlikely to default any time this century... or at least not until its North Sea oil runs out.

The Man of Peace

The Man of Peace is the most dangerous.
The Man of Peace can stop wars.
Wars cannot disturb the Man of Peace
So Sayeth I
The Man of Peace.

It's a disaster to be born.
Living is the challenge.
Live the simplest way possible.
You will never be the loser.
Losers are losers because
they have lost their simplicity.

If you really
want to help them,
leave them alone.

The only man who can help
is the one who has destroyed
all his concepts about helping.

The only one who can love
is the one who has destroyed
all his concepts of love.

'Lead me
not into
temptation'.

Leaving them alone
goes beyond do and don't.

God helps those
who help themselves
is absolutely true.

Asbestos Head Chapter 8 - Scenes From a Bar Scene

Mary Head

-Scenes from a Bar Scene-

Mary Head’s a little lamb whose fleece is white as snow.  But underneath her fleece she’s black as grease and thrice as slick.  Her eyes are narrow slits; her tongues prodded, poisonous, and flickers through fangs that suck the souls from lost spirits.

Asbestos enters the tavern and takes a seat at a corner booth.  He orders a glass of water, examines, sniffs, then sips it as though a fine wine.  Mary sits seductively in a red dress, cross-legged on a bar stool.  She lights a cigarette and downs a gin and tomato juice.  A modestly dressed middle-aged man slides onto the stool next to Mary simultaneously signaling the bartender with an inverse nod.

“How are you doing?”  He asks.

“However you’re doing Now, thanks.”

“What’s your drink?”

“I don’t identify myself with one.”

“I’m a whisky man.”

“Good for you.”

He flashes the bartender the peace sign  “So, are you from around here?” 

“As much as I’m from anywhere I’ve ever been.”  Two whiskies slide down.

“Well, have you spent much time here or just passing through?”

“If I told you right now I’d never sleep with you, would you leave me alone?”

“I . . . guess so, yeah.”  He stands.

“Do you feel alone, Whisky Man?”

“Sometimes.”

“You are alone.”

“I know.”

“Good.  Go away and deal with that until you die.”

Become a Skeptic and Transform Your Life

I believe most people do not know or appreciate what the word “Skeptic” truly means. The common vernacular has a connotation of cynicism and predisposition toward pessimism.

Skepticism

1: an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object

2a : the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain b : the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism characteristic of skeptics

Even the word doubt has gotten a bad wrap. I believe doubt is one of the healthiest things that one can have. If someone acts like they are insulted when you doubt what they say then I say they don’t really care about informing you, they want to impress you so that they can control or dominate you. It is subtle but it works. The result is that you stop being curious.

This shows up in your life as a kind of laziness. If someone gives you an answer and you don’t question it then you don’t need to research it out for yourself. But this leaves you open to every hoax and deception imaginable.

Awakening

~Irish Indian

The Protocols of Iron Mountain

It was 1967, the height of the swinging sixties when peace and love filled the air, hallucinogenic drugs filled young minds with psychedelic images and the Vietnam War was kicking in. JFK had been assassinated 4 years before and President Lyndon Johnson, President by default, was under pressure to escalate the war in South East Asia and commit the young lives of the youth of America to a hell on earth. It was, according to the American propaganda machine, a war against the evils of communism and the good, God fearing, people of America had to be protected from a philosophy that threatened their very way of life.

The people of Vietnam were minding their own business when the USA decided that their business was America’s business. It may have been half a world away but too near by half, for the American establishment that hungered for the blood of the commies, or so they said. The truth was there was big bucks to be made and “so what” if a little bloodshed was needed to make it. In that atmosphere of contradictions, “Peace and Love” and increasing bloodshed, on October 16th that same year a book appeared titled Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. It was, supposedly, a work of fiction published by Dial Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. It was a book about the problems that would confront the United States if it entered into a period of permanent peace. Heaven forbid.