Introduction
If you are ready to wake up, you are ready to wake up. And if are not ready, then you are going to spend your time pretending to be some ‘poor little old me’ … Since you are here at this point and time, reading this text and engaging in thought, I assume you are all in the process of waking up. Or else, you are teasing yourselves, with … some sort of flirtation with waking up. Which you are not serious about. But I assume that you are not serious but sincere … that you are ready to wake up.
So, then. When you are in the way of waking up, and finding out who you really are … what you are doing, is what the entire universe is doing, at the place you call ‘here and now’. You are something that the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is what the whole ocean is doing. The real you … is not a puppet, which life pushes around. The real, deep down you is the whole universe.
So … when you die … you’re not going to have to put up with everlasting non existence, because that is not an experience. Almost everyone that I have encountered on this planet is afraid, that when they die, they are going to be locked up in a dark room forever. But, one of the most interesting things in the world … is this: Try to imagine what it would be like, to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that … For it is one of the great wonders of life … what would it be like to go to sleep and never wake up. And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you.
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You will find out (among other things) that that question will then impose another question: What was it like waking up, having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born … You see? You can’t have an experience of nothing … So after you are dead, the only thing that can happen is the same experience (or the same kind of experience) as when you were born. In other words, we all know what happens when people die. It is simple. Other people are born … and they’re all you. Only you can experience it one at a time.
Everybody is I. All of you are you. And whether beings exist outside of our world or not, it doesn’t make any difference. You are all of them. And when they come into being, that is you coming into being. You all know that very well …
Doesn’t it amaze you that you are this fantastically complex being … and you are doing all of these things … You are breathing, you are loving, you are caring, you are knowledgable, you are curious and so and so forth … you all of these things, and you never had any education of how to it?
We are the universe. The universe is we. We simply … are.
Culture is our operating system
What civilization is, is 7 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us- the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
The culture is a perversion. It fetishes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood and what have you.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I ever want to have any part of. It’s some kind of Gnostic demon. It’s some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected. By putting the art pedal to the metal, we really, I think, maximize our humanness by becoming much more necessary and incomprehensible to the machine. We’re playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not.
It’s an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we’re talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. Not built on some con game spun out by eunuchs, but based on the symbiotic relationship that was in place for our species for fifty thousand years before the advent of history, writing, priestcraft and propaganda. So it’s a clarion call to recover a birthright. The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears.
And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. You don’t have to be the victim of your culture. Its not like your eye color, or your height, or your gender. Its fragile. It can be remade if you wish it to be.
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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation. Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.
Culture and language tend to become traps, and yet they can be the platforms for enormous freedom if you understand what it’s all about. And what it’s all about is you. You are the center of the mandala. You are not marginalized in any way. And the message that the culture gives us is that we are marginal. It’s really yourself that is the final arbiter. And if you keep yourself as the final arbiter, you will be less susceptible to infection by cultural illusion.
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.
Fear Itself
If we were to pinpoint the one pervasive emotion in society today, it would be fear. People all around you are fearful of almost everything. They fear the police. They fear the IRS, ATF, TSA and all the other “alphabet police”. They fear losing their job. They fear losing their house. They fear their city or town government. And they fear the mother of them all – fear of continuing life without enough money to maintain their current lifestyle (or at least the one they remember from a decade ago).
Most people rationalize these fears as normal because “everyone has them”.
We are trained from a very early age to act out of fear. We fear our teachers wrath, so we do our homework. We fear clergymen, for they decide if we go to heaven or hell, so we say all the right prayers. We fear older children who may bully us so we cross the street to avoid them. Later on in life we fear the cost and hassle of a ticket, so we fasten our seat belts. We fear losing our house so we work in a job that means nothing, offers us no personal satisfaction other than just enough money to keep us trying to reach the carrot on the stick.
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Try this experiment . . .
List all your obligations for the next 30 days – work, social and financial – then place a star beside those that cause you any concern (fear).
Most people who do this discover there are multiple things in their immediate lives that cause them fear.
Today, in 2012, there is plenty outside of our daily lives to fear: Will the world end on December 21st? Will WWIII start in Iran? Will the economy collapse? Will the poles shift position? Will the sun (or another country) send an EMP that knocks out the electrical grid? Will martial law be implemented? Have we foolishly given the President of the United States so much power that he can become a dictator? Will food supplies run out? Will the weather continue to be abnormal? Will chemtrails ultimately poison us? Will GMO crops take over all others?
Are you scared yet?
Many of these fears are constantly and purposely reinforced by what I like to call “the pop culture”. Television is the greatest purveyor of fear, usually by embedding feelings of inadequacy. I recently read that the average American watches 34 hours and 39 minutes of TV per week. That’s a good deal more than it would take to participate in a college course. Like the college course, you are being instructed and trained by the TV. Edward Bernays coined the term “television programming” and his rationale was crystal clear – television was designed to program people into becoming happy consumers. These happy consumers are being motivated to purchase garbage by an external force that exploits feelings of inadequacy. Every time we watch a commercial that shows the handsome man with a real “babe” sitting next to him in his shiny new car, in our minds we feel inadequate for not having a new car, too. These feelings of inadequacy open the door to fear, especially when we are given nothing of real value to replace those desires.
Fear is the toolbox of “the powers that be” (TPTB).
Fear is the lowest vibration humans can be affected by or give off. It impedes our path to higher (vibratory) levels of consciousness and ascension as human beings. People who live in a constant state of fear are very manipulable. TPTB understand that if they can make people fearful, they can make them do anything.
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It is fear – manipulated fear – that makes us compliantly stand in line to be groped before embarking on a plane, regardless of the fact that no terrorist plot has ever been discovered nor stopped by such action! Although some who suffer through the TSA’s groping express anger, the real motivation for compliance is fear.
The manipulators, TPTB, are fostering fear of everything. The intensification of this fear began as a full-frontal assault in the days immediately after 9-11. It was fear that caused Americans to lay down – not once, not twice, but 3 times – and approve and abide by the Patriot Act and now NDAA. It was fear, not patriotism that caused many of us to cheer the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It is manipulated fear that allows a once free society to accept such a campaign such as “See Something, Say Something” – fear your neighbors, fear those who think the Constitution was a pretty good document before it was overruled by executive orders, fear those who are not dependent on “the system” for their lives, fear those who have a different opinion than you do. It is fear that keeps us from opening our mouths and saying “No” to those actions that we know are not right.
TPTB know this music very well and play it long and hard for all it’s worth. They are congratulating themselves, patting each other on the back for causing 350 million people to be so fearful that they consistently act against their own self-interest – and against the last vestiges of freedom. Their jubilation is caused by knowing that 99.9% of you are easily controllable and predictable. Hitler’s “final solution” required countless numbers of troops, Gestapo and SS to carry it out. Today it is done with a TV ad campaign, shown in the aisles of Wal-Mart. Today TPTB brag that most will walk into what they know is their execution without even having to be told the lie that they are going to be de-loused.
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How do we overcome this fear that has been instilled in us? When I was a child and afraid of lightening and thunder, my mother got out the encyclopedia and we read about thunderstorms, about how the lightening was 1 mile away for every 5 second delay before hearing the thunder. I was never afraid of a thunder storm again.
Look at the reality of that which you fear. Do we need to fear Al-Qaeda because of 9-11 to the point of fearing any Muslim person? It wasn’t they who planned it out, they were simply stooges who were blamed for an evil action against 3000 innocent Americans, which action was at its essence an excuse to take Americans’ freedoms away. There has been no secondary attack in the 11 years since that horrific event. If they wanted to destroy us, wouldn’t they attack when we were still reeling from the first one?
Do we need to fear a neighbor who might be having an agitated conversation on his cellphone in a Wal-Mart to the point of calling in a SWAT team? Not if we take the time to take a walk past our own house to our neighbor’s to introduce ourselves and thereby learn who he or she is.
Do we need to fear an 83-year-old grandmother taking her final flight to see her grandchildren to the point of humiliating her before allowing her on a plane? Or a 4-year-old child screaming in terror? Or a business executive? Or YOU? What do they have to fear from you that they need to grab your genitals as you run the gauntlet of TSA “agents”, wherever they set up shop?
The truth is, they do fear you. They fear that too many of us are waking up, thinking for ourselves and replacing that fear with self-determination. TPTB fear anyone who claims their own birthright to live the life they choose that does not harm another, without fear. They need you to fear them, or their plans won’t work. You can’t control 7 billion people with a whip, but you can control them with fear. It has worked since the days of Nimrod, who convinced his people to store all their grain in his grain bin to keep it safe from imagined attackers “lurking” outside the city walls.
Shed the fear. Be kind to each other. Help each other. Love each other. These actions leave less and less room for fear to take hold of you. If this is a new concept for you, start small. Start with your family, expand it to your co-workers, and then to people you don’t even know. Once you feel how good it is to not live in fear, it may become a habit. And wouldn’t that foil their plans?
I actually grown up … by accident
There are a bunch of milestones I can think back to that made me feel very mature at the time. I remember when I first moved out of my parents’ house, when I first got my own place, when I first got a nice place. My first ‘real’ job, my first ‘real’ promotion. When I first realized that I could eat junk food whenever I wanted, and when I first realized that this is a
terrible idea. But the one that really sticks out for me and isn’t mentioned here is this:
When I was a child, the entire world’s population was divided into two groups: Kids and Grown-ups. The line between the two wasn’t ever especially clear, because I never
really thought about it. I lacked the self-awareness, I suppose; I only knew that as an eight year old, someone who was ten or twelve was a Kid in my mind, where someone who
was fifteen or sixteen was a Grown-up. Grown-ups had money and jobs and didn’t have to go to bed when their mom told them to. Being a Grown-up was awesome, and was forever
closed off to me.
As I aged, this line persisted, though the age at which the delineation occurred changed to reflect my own maturity. As a twelve year old, eighteen seemed impossibly grown up.
When I was sixteen, my twenty-two year old cousin seemed very much an adult. When I hit twenty, thirty year olds seemed like the ones who’d gotten their life on track.
Mentally, I’d always assumed on some level too deep to merit conscious thought that there was some secret. There was Us and Them, and They all were part of some exclusive club. I figured that eventually I’d sort of figure out the secret for myself, but I never really did.
Only somewhere along the way, the line disappeared. I look at a fifty year old now, and I see a fifty year old. I don’t think of him as being more mature than me, or knowing
more, or having something I don’t. He’s older, sure, but I’ll be there before long anyway. Fifty is only a little over twenty years away, after all. But then I look at people
younger than me; I see a nineteen year old, and I think that she’s just a child. College students are just figuring out how the world works — they’re children too, right on
the cusp of moving into adulthood. There’s still a line, but somewhere along the way I ended up on the other side of it without ever realizing it happened.
So that’s it, I think. I have aches. I have a job and a retirement plan and responsibilities. I have matching flatware and a nice living room set. I make my bed. But the thing
that made me realize that I’m no longer a kid was when I realized that somewhere along the way, I’d ended up becoming a grown-up by accident.
Journey down the rabbit-hole
As soon as you realize that the world isn’t quite as it seems, you begin your journey into unknown. While searching for answers you come across lies telling you to go back, assuring that there’s nothing to it or half-truths leading you to dead ends. And just when you think you have it all figured out, something new comes along that changes everything. This is known as the rabbit hole. If there’s a lesson to it, then it teaches you to question everything and not to take anything for granted. Therefore I am not asking you to accept my thoughts as truth and without questioning, but to consider the ideas presented and use them to your own likings. If you think it’s crazy, I am fine with that because I know it’s crazy. Think of this as a thought experiment where we are going to discuss interesting possibilities simply for the fun of it.
My own journey began long ago when I was met with a hard choice whether I should take hard road or the easy one: the path of honesty and righteousness or to live by my own rules. By experience I knew that the world supported lies, deceit and selfishness while constantly beating down those who were out to do good deeds. But then, something peculiar happened: I asked myself “why?”. And so began my descent into the rabbit hole. That was over 15 years ago.
Funny how long after, I realized that the search of truth is, in fact, the hard road. I noticed that there were a lot of strange things about the society and that it kept pushing people down into ignorance, lies and suffering. I held strong and simply continued my search for truth, trying to understand the reasons why we are in this situations so that I could do something about it. I end up studying every scientific field, leaving nothing without consideration and scrutinous study. One interesting thing I discovered was that most scientific fields have a grand important question to which no answer is provided. Here are the big questions:
Biology: Where did life come from?
Chemistry: How did the basic molecules of life form?
Psychology: What is society, intelligence, memory and human mind?
Neurology: What is consciousness?
Astronomy: How did the Universe begin? Is there life out there?
Physics: What is the smallest particle and how did it come to be? What is time? What is the fourth and fifth dimension?
Mathematics: What is zero, what is infinity and is there any significance in mathematical constants?
Philosophy: Why are we here and does god exist?
If you really think about it, you can notice vaguely that all of these big questions are somehow related. I began to search for these connections and try to find as many pieces of the puzzle as possible. All of these questions have strange consequences: If we find even one answer, it is very likely that many of the others questions will collapse as well. However, there is one contradictory exception: alien life.
Surely finding alien life wouldn’t affect our understanding of what is consciousness, where did life come from, how did the universe begin and why are we here? Or would it? Furthermore we can ask why haven’t we discovered alien life? If we look into the matter further, we notice that things make no sense; From the scientific point of view we shouldn’t be here and our existence is beyond all probabilities, for all time in existence is not enough to put together the building blocks of life in the exact sequence to create life. On the other hand, accidental formation of life would imply that the Universe was, in fact, designed so that life would form in it. If life indeed is formed because structure of the Universe encourages it to, then is birth of intelligence also an aspect of this phenomena and why we don’t we see alien life all over the place? Once again we arrive to the grand questions of science and their relations to one another.
I learned that best tools for discovering the unknown were not to be found in any books, but had to be developed independently. So I began thinking of abstract contexts and naming things that had no name. This method produced amazing results which I could not foresee, creating to my disposal completely new tools of reasoning. I’ll try to explain this as simply as possibly, but this part might get very philosophical and technical. I began tackling the problem from a completely new angle and tried to understand what is consciousness. From a metaphysical point of view I realized that our existence here is an important variable on solving what is consciousness. I began by specifying what is ‘nothingness’ and ‘somethingness’ and what differences there are between these two. I also took consciousness into consideration and got interesting results. Consciousness exists and yet we can’t physically measure it. Even more interesting is that consciousness, or the mind, can form new things by rearranging old ones and seemingly even creating new ideas out of ‘nothigness’, which in non-physical terms is same as pulling things into existence out of nowhere. This means that we have the potential of the gods: we can create something from nothing. If indeed we have the power of the gods, then how come we can’t rearrange molecules with our minds? Answer to this question is the final piece in the puzzle, the critical point that makes all of the grand questions collapse. Before I provide the answer, let’s go back a little. I want you to read an allegory (I didn’t even realize that it was very similar to Plato’s cave until I had already written the whole thing) that I wrote before all this and decided not to post for it coming out sounding crazy:
“I want to believe that life is precious and that the minds it holds is a special thing. I want to believe that there is a whole another unseen aspect to everything – that everything we see around us is only a small fraction of things. I want to believe that mind, as we know it, is much more than just a complex clockwork ticking onward, predetermined to make ticks and tocks, to make choices and decisions presented to us. I want to believe that each one of us holds the potential to create and to co-create, together, but that for some reason we are isolated from one another and everything else. That somehow we are limited to interact with the Universe and other minds only via certain rules and ideas that chain our existence to suffering and struggle. It’s really as if we are in a prison and that no one of us can remember a thing before we came here or even verify if anything exists outside our cold prison cells. It’s like the world is fake and the only real thing is our voices trying to reach one another from behind the walls that separate us. Imagine that we are all receding in dark chambers with all our memories erased. At first we understand nothing what is going on, but slowly we began to feel floor, understand the voices and remember where the walls are. Our company is the most important thing in here and so we cling to one another. However, once in a while our precious friends and cellmates are unexpectedly taken away and no one of us can tell whether we will ever hear from them again. Whether they get free, go into a more horrible place or end up back here with their memories erased, we do not know. It’s no wonder that some of us go mad and end up shouting evil things to those around them. Here the words feel like real fists, leaving those addressed traumatized. Some few of us wander around their chambers back and forth, studying the grooves on the walls and searching for new ways to loose a brick, while others study how to build clever devices or to carve other things from rocks. Me, I listen. I listen to the cell-wanderers as well as to the rumors going around. Sometimes when I listen carefully I can hear other things echoing from beyond the corridors and from behind the walls. I try to imagine the world beyond and learn from it. I can imagine myself out there walking in the light instead of lying here in the darkness, bound by these shackles. But it’s not me I’m really worried about: it’s the rest of you who cannot hear any of this. I want you all to stop for a while and listen.”
Now, let’s get back to the question of why seemingly we can’t reorganize matter with our minds (Also look up double slit experiment ).
To know why our minds cannot do, we need to know what our minds can do. Our consciousness affects other consciousnesses, for simple ideas can have a lot of influence on other people and presence itself has an effect. Our consciousness also effects on other things: our brain, which consequently affect the body. This means that our consciousness, in fact, CAN affect the physical matter!
How, I do not know exactly. As I said before, consciousness affects other consciousness, which could mean that the physical world as we know could and be viewed as another mind far too complex for us to understand and to affect in any significant way. Surprisingly enough, this is the same conclusion that Gottfried Leibniz, the inventor of calculator, decided upon. Explaining in these terms why we can’t move things with the power of our mind means that our consciousness is too weak and limited to affect anything beyond certain changes inside the human brain. But could there be beings our there whose consciousnesses are strong enough to actually affect the physical world? Such beings would have the power not only to manipulate matter, but to manipulate our weak consciousnesses a thousand times more efficiently. Such beings would also very likely know most answers to the ‘grand questions’. They would know that all life comes from what some scientists refer as “The Mind of God” and that every single particle is a part of that. They would know that consciousness is both an individual things and the sum of all. These beings could even hold the power to create new life. That brings me, as promised, to a thing I call The Hierarchy of Species.
The Hierarchy of Species is concept that stronger consciousness dominates over the weaker one. Consciousnesses that are approximately equal hold no significant advantages over one another. We, humans, are just a little bit above other animals, noticeably above insects and superior to simple organisms. We have the power to control our brains and via it we can control our body that somehow manages to controls the cells inside us. The cells hold certain power over molecules that hold certain power over atoms. It’s a hierarchical system that goes not only down but up as well. We, the mankind, form a single organism which forms an even higher consciousness. However, our minds are too selfish to form a single unified being: we disagree on too many things and have problems of learning to work together. This is partly because we deem ourselves as the pinnacle of all creation and generally do not know the answers to the grand questions. This makes us vulnerable not only to ourselves but also to the influence and dominance of other consciousnesses that are not so far above us. We are here weak and vulnerable so that others could take advantage of us so that we could learn to stand up to ourselves and to evolve stronger. The process may not be immediate but rather slow one. I can say this here because we are evolving and because we have developed the technology where I can express these thoughts to all of you regardless where you live. This is a result of learning to understand the Mind Of God and developing an ability to manipulate it indirectly just enough to build this technology. However, we need to evolve not only technologically but consciously as well. This may sound blatant like all the commercial go-green -crap trying to sell you junk, but the best way to start is from yourself: get rid of all the addictions, learn self-control, educate yourself and always, no matter what, search for the truth. I am open to entertain all but accept none as unshakable gospel.
Happiness Sucks
I’m sick and tired of these people who try to manutacture this false dichotomy between happy and unhappy. Yes, because human emotions are just this horizontal line, with vertical line drawn through it. On one side, there is happy. And on the other, there is unhappy.
Don’t these happy/unhappy people understand and realize that human emotions are a lot more complicated then that? Emotions are not just simple happy and unhappy, okay?
Emotions are 3D. They are like a giant, expansive nebulous orb, consisting of nuance and complexity. Emotions are a convuluted machine. Emotions are not like a line in the sand. We can feel so many things at once. We can’t simple just break everything down to happy or unhappy. It doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t have to work that way. Most people want it to work that way, simple because they want a world much more simpler than the one that they inhabit.
And I resent the notion that happiness and contentment are the goal of our lives. Because, if cavemen and neanderthals were content banging rock together for entertainment and hunting and gathering, then where would society be? It would be in a completely different place then it is now. And personally, I prefer where we are now.