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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Two years have passed. Am I ok? Not really.<br />We're both still here. Different now, since mahasamadhi.<br />Beloved Amy 8/30/74 - 1/26/15<br /> </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Still recalling that first moment:<br />Oh...There you are!...You're right here on Earth, and right now!<br />You came...You heard the prayers...You noted the surrendering!<br />Spontaneously, each put their hands together in<br />two-hand blessing, but there is no word "Nam..."<br />There can be no word or words. Only perfection and awe.<br />"I see you" passes from one to the other, and again.<br />They have no clue of what should follow.<br />How many lifetimes?....and now arriving at uncharted territory.<br />We heard tell of this, in ancient legends.<br />Oh yes, the love itself makes its own way, with no mind.<br />Later she writes "who is this I and you....when love is speaking it is love speaking of itself to itself". And "how we witness unimaginable magic disguised as ordinary". <br /><br />The always-wordless two-hand blessing gesture forever became one of vastly greater meaning (infinitely beyond "I salute..."):<br />In this stunned silence, heads bowed but eyes locked, we together hold this timelessness out of time, and remember all that is and ever will be, in this moment of eternal recognition of inseparability and infinite momentous grace of awaited shared presence, and our hearts expand in excruciating joy to encompass all the universes. This simple hand mudra initiated first waking moments of every day thereafter, followed by hands touching feet, tears falling. <br /> </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Dearly Beloved Holy Angel, Eternal Soul Mate, brightening all time and space - know all who love you have come together in your honor and affirm their love on this holy day, and blessedly continue to support me through these difficult hours and 730 days. We gather in spirit and celebrate the many wondrous love-teachings you brought to we relatives in this plane of our/your Mother Earth.<br /><br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />And, Her blessing me with the gift of being seen, shortly after meeting - <br /><br /><br />"owl man snake handler<br />‘oh,shit!’ and goddammit!<br />hopi shifting into old chinese<br />he is walking<br />an astrologer an animal talker<br />a graceful stone vast<br />thin dry bones he is solid tender<br />his every-colored eyes flash deep<br />he is true from where we are from<br />at home everywhere and nowhere<br />holding me in steady presence<br />every breath aware and honoring<br />watching, adoring, accepting<br />invisibly when he shows up the room<br />elevates, why does who not see? he is<br />asking tracking conspiracies and flaws<br />animal gatherings preserving what is<br />love-space he is a love-space being<br />he makes pancakes for us and feeds<br />birds always himself a man-woman<br />child-star he’s the deep red jewel burned<br />repeatedly each time coming through shinier<br />he’s weary ever-hopeful he’s the space<br />the boat cradles tossed by waves ever-held<br />by the dark arms of the universe he’s the tapping<br />drumming rhythm pulsing under through<br />the pulse of contact raindrops dancing<br />he is pure appreciation for what is true<br />he rants anger erupts mountains of love<br />ever-hoping, he is the metals the density<br />the interest in what is alive he is stunned by what<br />is not<br />he is the dense dark silence of circling<br />relating the spinning rhythm of orbit"<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />Offering this gift of music, recently performed at the premier institution for <br /><br />North Indian Classical Music: </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the time before this time <br /> when intimate connection with all <br /> was all there was, <br /> embedded in an infinite matrix <br /> of change and transformation, <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> married eternally to that <br /> and constantly bowing in<br /> love with the passing of seconds<br /> with every light particle <br /> of the mysterious beingness <br /> of one's physicality,<br /> bursting forth unimagined treasures<br /> just to keep up with the downpouring <br /> of divine grace intended to flow <br /> through hands to the world-altar <br /> container of love and oneness <br /> with no beginning or end <br /> condensed into a form <br /> of unconditionally loving femininity <br /> appearing before one's eyes, <br /> ….and giving it no mind, only awe</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This is how I grew younger <br /> and older, in each moment <br /> filling up with more life-force <br /> the more it was spent <br /> and we sang Mirabai's words <br /> of assurance that no thief <br /> could ever steal this treasure <br /> and we cried at our inability <br /> to adequately describe this love.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> And now<br /> time collapses into itself<br /> all memory being present <br /> in every moment <br /> encompassing a lifetime <br /> all joy and ecstasy once lived <br /> shadowed over, <br /> the treasure-house looted, <br /> the young man can't be found, <br /> and the moment of separation<br /> re-creates itself as if <br /> there is no other reality <br /> other than this devastation <br /> of the world </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This 'I' is not alone, separate <br /> sorrowing at the soullessness <br /> of make-believe child's play, <br /> the narcissism of sacred business <br /> in a world we allow to die <br /> We know in our hearts <br /> an immense beauty <br /> is so close we can taste it <br /> and every blade of grass, <br /> every star and galaxy <br /> shines with holy fire <br /> in its desire to witness <br /> our collective remembrance <br /> of the truth of our eternal <br /> and immortal oneness.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br />Feeling crazier than hell<br />Got this time on my hands<br />I got you on my mind<br />And nowhere else to go<br />The fires burn hot and cold<br />That's some place in between the melt and the freeze<br />This need for reaching for you<br />You were all I could be<br />Now I'm here where I'm alone<br />We were one, now I'm a ghost<br />Falling from my place in the Sun<br />This dizzy is out of control<br />The world keeps spinning<br />I heard a vibrating echoing<br />Sounded they lost one of you<br />Amongst the truths I sought<br />You were the one I found<br />Now I need the remembering<br />The memories of you holding my hand<br />Remembrances of laughter, singing<br />Songing the nights with belonging<br />Sweetness the shelter of each other<br />Reality, the reality of safe, peace<br />With all these times of missing you<br />I'm not going to love these days without you to hold my hand<br />Feeling crazier than hell<br />This crazy just goes on and on<br />And this confusion of me<br />Crazy together or crazy apart<br />When crazy is crazy, it's not always in our heads<br />Sometimes it's in our hearts<br /><br />This man knows Love, and always, like now, I never cease crying from <br />his words. I can barely type these lines..... </span> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gB0IipdYA-E" width="560"></iframe>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Kindness"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">by Naomi Shihab Nye</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before you know what kindness really is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you must lose things,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">feel the future dissolve in a moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like salt in a weakened broth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">what you held in your hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">what you counted and carefully saved,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">all this must go so you know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">how desolate the landscape can be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">between the regions of kindness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How you ride and ride</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">thinking the bus will never stop,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the passengers eating maize and chicken</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">will stare out the window forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">lies dead by the side of the road.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must see how this could be you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">how he too was someone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">who journeyed through the night with plans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the simple breath that kept him alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must wake up with sorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must speak to it till your voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">catches the thread of all sorrows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and you see the size of the cloth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">only kindness that ties your shoes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">only kindness that raises its head</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">from the crowd of the world to say</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is I you have been looking for,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and then goes with you everywhere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like a shadow or a friend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanking everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers. These are the only things holding me up in this time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also, as my bro, Sanjay, says - my drum is my life raft. I played for the community on Shivaratri night for 4 hours. Full power and emotion offered. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">O God, please help me. O Goddess, please help me....over and over, all day and night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Still weeping continuously within and without. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She only....saw me and knew me to the depth of my soul. She only....loved me unconditionally in this life. Now I am ruined, fully in the realm of, and dependent on, divine grace. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She is everywhere, but my hand longs for her touch. I can only touch the drum that she too played on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How can I make this passage? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is all I can say as the words come to form in their own time. For now, one small instant in this eternal mystery......</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I thought my work was to come here to try to find her, <br />and then to love her, <br />and that that love would <br />be strong enough to overcome the forces that sought to deny the world of <br />her divine gifts and her divine presence<br /><br />I feel as though I've fallen into a hallucinatory dimension of one's worst <br />imaginable nightmares. It doesn't feel like reality any more. I'm not in the same <br />creation. Thinking I was not disciplined enough, not remembering enough, not <br />impeccable. Although the words ring in my mind - her saying I "was perfect", <br />just before she turned irrevocably inward, not to re-emerge, despite my desperate <br />pleading with the angels and all divine beings<br /><br />In the first days of our being together our love went nova. <br />In wonder and awe, we shared/felt/whispered our remembrance.<br />We have waited eons and yugas, but never forgot<br />and, we are finally here, together<br />to hold and cherish and maintain this sacred love<br />to heal, to create ever more exquisite beauty<br />in the world. <br />There was never any question of what we were serving.<br />With her natural Virgo nature and power, she surrendered wholly <br />to this holy service,<br />and worked, sometimes silently, sometimes roaring <br />to share this highest calling with all those around her. <br /><br />Maybe I failed to remind her enough, of her divine goddess nature, <br />and she often was reluctant to accept the fullness <br />of what I could unquestioningly see with my own eyes. <br />I never felt like being insistent, since I knew she was coming and would come to know<br />in herself her own true nature, as one can only do. <br />So now she knows,<br />and I am on this side of the veil, a mad-man, <br />like Shiva dancing the tandava dance.<br /><br />What do the angels want me to know?</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hen the sun within speaks, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">when love reaches out its hand</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">any fears you can muster can</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What one heart can do for</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">another heart, is there any beauty</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the world that can match this?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We took that as an auspicious omen of Ma Kali's/Kwan Yin's divine grace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And, bringin' it all back home..Situation here on the home front had recently gotten pretty emotionally intense. Some good and powerful angelic messages closely followed by a sudden symptomatic crisis found my beloved at 3am (with me) in the ER between the holidays.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I guess in the grand scheme of things, what we're dealing with is probably not so different from what a lot of the Love Tribe of true human beings around the planet are facing. Life and death issues. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have this friend/partner/spirit-companion who, previously unbeknownst to me, happens to be one of the most astonishing hidden contemporary mystic bhakti poet/writers I have ever read, seen, or heard. A year and a half after meeting, I became the first person ever to whom was shown her work. Hell, I thought she was just a super present, intelligent, spiritual young lady, who by some crazy stroke of luck I had the privilege to be with for a moment. Her talents are numerous, and still awakening. We inhabit a world of continuously expanding mutual respect, love, and shared re-membering, which I can't even begin to describe. Each new day is an absolute blessing and miracle. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We have been managing (for last 14 months) a situation that requires utmost attention to diet, pure medicine, energy, spiritual practice, and other considerations in order to continue to stay alive here in this crucial time of the current Yuga. Neither are we fearful of the inevitable event of our transitioning, whenever that time might come. But that appears not to be our determination as to "when". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So the medical-industrial-complex white-coated 'experts', seriously, sadly, with long faces, inform us that if she declines to take their chemo-rad poison (which 10-years previously precipitated the situation), they will now refer us to the hospice org. so that they can begin to "manage" the surely impending death with their morphine and all, and "help" us with necessary paper-work and preparations. So "go on home and die". Get the picture?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[Fortunately, she's not 17, like the girl who recently got tied down and forcibly given chemo by the 'child-protective' legal system.]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This healing is no different from the healing which we all need to engage in, for all the sufferers and holy beings desiring to free our world from the depredations of the parasites and predators who have ravaged our bodies and the Earth simultaneously. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span>bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-38370583723688486902014-12-21T22:26:00.001-08:002014-12-22T12:48:02.699-08:00Solstice Love<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sending out some Solstice blessings, felicitations, and big ups to all who come here, all beings known and unknown, of all forms and formless, in this precious world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whether one thinks of this moment in astrological terms, as a primitive religious concept, a designated celebratory date of the 'evil ones', or just another day of no consequence, you might just, with a little research, be able to grasp the auspiciousness of a marked turning-point in one of the major cycles of <i>motion</i> taking place perpetually in our reality matrix of intimately-connected-movement-and-time, an unceasing, defining quality of all that exists. <i>Nothing</i> stands still. All is in motion. And everything is turning. It's where we live.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today is when the time-keeping clock-hands of the Sun-Earth story-dance cycle strike midnight.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's not to love?....and celebrate?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This 'year'! This one that just went by....I think the most difficult, personally, of all in my lifetime. Certainly the most stressful, the most mind-wracking, the most crazy-making, and the most faith-testing of any I can remember. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the last 4 days of this one were the most intense testing ones of the whole year!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only on this very day - Solstice 2014 - was my mind and remembered self restored fully. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I feel I can begin again. With certainty of grace and protection renewed. It's been one helluva ride, once again, that terrifying solo descent into and back out of the underworld. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not alone here, am I right? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today's newsflash is: there are angels, in the purest sense, located closer than breath, that are unceasing in their support and protection. Yeah, we freely make those 'choices', for better or worse....Yet one could even say the <i>angels are us</i>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Divine work is going on on unimaginable levels and scope. And we, ourselves, are affecting vast numbers of life-forms with every prayer, thought, word, and action, though most of it remains invisible to our mundane awareness. We are not powerless, though we have been made to believe so. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will say that I am intimately aware of a number of embodied angelic beings with whom I have had encounters in this life, and who continue doing what they do and check-in occasionally (heh). I will not name, describe, nor say any more on this here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With an open heart and love-expanding perseverance you will meet similar ones in resonance with your own needs. This is assured, though it may seem to take forever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now it's 8 hours into the new cycle, and another certainty is that we don't know what will happen next, but let's join in collectively dropping fear, and embracing the unknown in this moment and knowing that Love is the strongest thing in the universe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK, well...here's a bonus - the debate rages, between the lovers and the scientists...is it tortoise altruism or not, respectively? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">13 December, 2014</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style113">N.</span> A.
Naseer is a wildlife photographer par excellence....His photographs show the serene bond
between him and the animals. He has wandered through the forests for
years together <i><b>without</b></i> camera in hand and has become a part of the
forest as the animals, birds, reptiles, butterflies and insects are.
Only after being a part of it, he started to photograph the forest and
its children.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now he has published a wonderful book in Malayalam titled <i>Kaadine Chennu Thodumbole</i> (When we Touch the Forest).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Naseer, who can rightly be called the Rachel Carson of
Kerala, says in the book: "Everything should change and change is needed
for everything. But the only thing that should not be changed is
forest. I don't know how we can call those who kill trees and mountains
and marshes humans…."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his long years of forest life, he has encountered almost all animals
and reptiles, in the wild, face to face. But no animal (the carnivore or
herbivore) or reptile has ever attacked him. He says that the wild
animals can perfectly differentiate the humans who are their friends,
who see them with reverence from those who come to kill them, who see
them as something dangerous. “If the wild animals come just in front of
us and if we reach very close to them, it is because of an intimate
language, the language of heart, which is recognized by both the
photographer and the photographed animals. We commit grave mistake when
we consider it as adventure.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it's happened before, and seems to be getting more frequent, but animalliberationfront website has been down again for last 3 days at least. No surprise, since they, of course, are the most dangerous terrist threat to our great nation under god and, actually, all life on earth and everything good and wholesome and righteous. So it's probably for our own protection by those who care so very much about all us proles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's a great article I'd like to share today about the emotional life of bees, and that is the sort of thing which I would always prefer to post in this space, but unfortunately there is a bit more of this little problem of all-pervading bullshit on the internet....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know almost nobody reads my scribbling rantings, and I seem to have run out of things to say these days. I may have had some relevant, maybe even original, things to say in the past, and I was doing this for certain reasons, but I find now I can do no more than just repeat things I have written way too many times already, and I will probably only continue this blogspace with linking other writers and bloggers who have much more original things to say and are more articulate in getting crucial information across. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://timster-howdarei.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-are-you-telling-me.html" target="_blank">Here is one rant that you shouldn't miss.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">See, this morning I had to bust a forum/blog because one of the admins posted a fake article from a fake "news" site regarding an environmental issue in the Amazon. He answered that "he had no idea the site was fake". It took me about 2 seconds to determine that the article and site linked was fake. Who the fuck are these people? I don't think they are even real in the identities that they project online. I believe there is a huge amount of this covert misdirection going on in these "open", "free", "truthseeking", "progressive" sites and blogs. Readers now have to be extremely vigilant and investigate what <i>appears</i> to be the above. The 'alternative' web is now way worse than mainstream media and way more voluminous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The above mentioned forum is closely associated with the wacko JimStone. He's the guy who posts shit like 'the 43 student-teachers murdered and incinerated in Mexico were communist thugs', and then this and more of his crap is picked up by VT, Rense, Truthseeker, and others. Then you get the shit about the fake 'oathkeepers' who claim all the protesters are "communists and muslims". It beats the crap outta me why anyone would want to be associated with these conscienceless and totally compromised characters with all the horseshit right-wing mind-fuckery that they push. These assholes, posing as 'alternatives to fascist mouthpieces'/'exposers of evil'/'supporters of culture' should all be incarcerated at the very minimum. A good portion naturally have spook or military 'backgrounds' too, duh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nobody, in this day and age, with a strong such 'background' should be trusted as far as you can throw them. This is called "authoritarian follower" syndrome. It is a subset/symptom of WETIKO, plain and simple, hello. Actually they are equivalent. And it's not just limited, obviously, to the males with their hyper-masculinity cop-and-military 'culture', but includes the women who are attracted to those in <b>uniforms of brutality</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The western world, and indeed the entire world, is now full of these 'adult children' posing as adults. But let's not gloss over the fact that amerikka truly leads the way in being the most evil collectivity/empire ever to exist in the last 9000 years. One good thing is that there's no racism or misogyny - just ask <strike>a racist or misogynist</strike> anyone. Actually, 'evil' or 'horrific' or 'monstrous' doesn't even begin to come close to describing what needs to be utterly wiped from the face of the earth. If it were up to me, I'd nullify all laws and ownership, and just turn the whole damn thing over to a few generations of indigenous grandmothers to sort out. There are no words in any language to describe what the anglo/'murrkin/israhell/canadian/australian whatever-you-call-it is. All politicians, corporate execs, and spook/military heads (and all who even minutely support them) need to roll off the guillotine platform into the bucket asap for the extremely slight possibility of preservation of life on the planet. (And that should include the 'scientific', 'medical', and 'legal' establishment perps too.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">We still have no idea how anything like that might possibly come about, short of a 'miracle'. But, miracles do happen. Our own lives can attest to that. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I still don't know if I even want to continue keeping this site alive, but I do acknowledge that, even if those un-compromised are a tiny minority, they have done and continue to do great work and service. I would include, among others, the previously linked Timster, A Peasant, Nina, Chris Floyd, 'willyloman', KulturCritic, easyidler, R. Sauder, Desdemona, Aang, Vivek, DublinMick, Zoner, and probably others I'm forgetting right now. These lovely folks have truly been an inspiration and comfort these past years. 108 thanks and praises!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please read this fascinating study about the bee situation. It is not the usual or like what we're all familiar with. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/science/bees-have-feelings-too-we-should-respect-them/" target="_blank">THE SORROW OF BEES</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the last couple of posts, I thought maybe I should acknowledge or at least for balance sake throw out a little human sanity...what the hell. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If that vile imaginary-entity-propitiation shit happens again in 5 years, I'm gonna sign up for the full human extinction program.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It be waaaay past time for shit-canning those sentient-being sacrifices for propitiating ANY "gods". Not to assume the non-existence of gods/goddesses/angels/elementals, but, hey, a real goddess', say Mother Earth's, absolute LAST desire would be some kinda pointless, sicko death ritual of Her beautiful animal children. <i>Beauty, </i>on the other hand,<i> </i>is always the preferred offering in every situation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I brought that thing up because I was tracking it 5 years ago, trying to get the word out, especially within the India-phile communities. I was horrified then because throughout all the years in India the water buffalo was my most loved animal - so gentle, shy, sensitive, beautiful in form and motion, lovely to swim with in the river, I was always drawn to their intelligent and humble gaze of their pretty eyes surrounded by the longest eyelashes ever seen. A wonderful feel to their skin. To me, they were as "holy" as anything else there walking, flying, swimming, or rooted. Still feeling a heavy heart. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Been one helluva week here in ol' usa. Mostly I feel speechless. Nuthin' new, been this way as far back as I can remember. Guess a lot of folks younger than I think this is a recent development. The post-racial thing, and all that. Just a matter of diversity-fatigue. I have nothing to say; it's all been said too many times before with less than agreeable reception. Fuck it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My only point here today is to share the words, <i>and the vibe,</i> of this gentleman - a <i>man</i> who takes responsibility for his knowledge, position, and all that he is connected to. In 1975, Frank T'Seleie was Dene chief in Canada's Northwest Territories, university-educated and in his 20s. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/rights-freedoms/the-berger-pipeline-inquiry/my-nation-will-stop-the-pipeline.html" target="_blank">1975 PIPELINE INQUIRY - CBC ARCHIVES</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-43567728532948861572014-11-24T19:30:00.002-08:002014-11-30T20:44:55.460-08:00UPDATE - Courage<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">UPDATE:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from a Facebook post by Animal Welfare Network Nepal (AWNN) - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The organizers said this would be the “biggest and most spectacular”
Gadhimai Festival ever. They projected there would be 500,000 animals
sacrificed. So confident of numbers, they sold in advance the carcasses
of 10,000 buffalo to a meat contractor for US$160,000. This contractor
has now backed out after counting only 3,266 buffalo carcasses, with an
estimated 15,000 goats and 5-10,000 pigeons. The carcasses are being
left to rot in the ground, whilst the organizers are facing a huge
financial loss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This is the first Gadhimai Festival since our
Stop Animal Sacrifice campaign began, and already we have reduced animal
sacrifices by at least 70%. For five years we have been conducting mass
sensitization in all 99 villages of Bara district, and we have reached
every single adult in the five villages surrounding the festival area.
Together with our friends from Humane Society International, we have
moved the Supreme Courts in Nepal and India, and we worked so hard on
the ground to save as many animals as possible, despite much adversity
and great personal risk (due to the political and corruptive forces
behind Gadhimai). We mobilized hundreds of volunteers, confiscated
thousands of animals, and convinced countless pilgrims not to sacrifice
their animals. At the last, we held an all night protest within the
heart of the temple itself and convinced the butchers to release over
300 buffalo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The whole event has been a disaster for the organizers and has exposed the total incompetence of the Nepalese authorities. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Manoj Gautam, President AWNN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This......is also Planet Earth, November, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Many pray it is the last time ever. May it be so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next weekend - the most massive religious animal sacrifice on the planet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It happens every 5 years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is an alcohol-fueled demonic hell-realm.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A million people will show up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">India outlawed animal sacrifice, and is manning the border, but it is still planned to go forward despite last 5 years of activists' efforts and petitions to Nepal govt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Below is kickstarter page for one courageous young man, wildlife activist, whom a film-maker is attempting to document.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will not post more links.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If interested, you can search "Gadhimai festival", but be very aware of horrifically disturbing images from the search.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the 4 min. film : </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gabrieldiamond/all-living-things-manoj-gautam-and-jane-goodall-in" target="_blank">ALL LIVING THINGS </a></span></span><br />
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<br />bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-72531000657999500292014-11-19T16:31:00.000-08:002014-11-19T19:53:35.004-08:00Some Human-oriented Reality-Checks Would Be Helpful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm listening to the <a href="http://2014.indigenouswisdomsummit.com/" target="_blank">Indigenous Wisdom Summit</a> and one elder is speaking about the danger of listening to false information that claims to be true. We need to talk about that, but first....back after a brief endorsement:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last weekend we discovered our new favorite eatery in the world (though we can only seldom afford to eat out). <a href="http://www.jambocafe.net/" target="_blank">Jambo Cafe</a>. African and Caribbean cuisine. Irie, magical, dreadie chef- and wait-staff. Reggae music and indigenous art enhanced atmosphere. Stunning, local photographer's archival photos of Ras Bob lining one wall that brought us to tears. Part of every dollar spent supports schools and communities in Kenya. And of course, every dish indescribable and ecstasy-invoking. We fall in love once again. [disclosure: not strictly I-tal] Sorry, but it's only in Santa Fe...damn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, one <a href="http://icewisdom.com/" target="_blank">Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq</a>, elder from Greenland, was speaking of "the melting of the big ice", how he lives near glaciers which were 5 miles thick and now are 2, how for the first time in thousands of years there are TREES - 15 ft. tall, how his people are walking on EARTH in many areas for the first time in tribal memory. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You see, this is information sourced from a true human with no agenda. Does this have anything to do with Al Gore? See, maybe I'm gonna come up with my own "litmus test". What's up with these fucking web-writers and bloggers who are so rabidly insistent with their denial and obfuscation and agenda-driven narcissistic need to be 'authorities' and obsessed with arrogantly flaming anyone who questions or disagrees with their pronouncements? "No, no, no, goddamnit, it's gotta be <u>global cooling</u>", there can't be any warming!!!" Sheesh! Get a clue. Do any of them give a shit that they are playing stupidly right into the corporate-matrix mind-fuckery, and the wetikos are laughing all the way to the bank? It's called <u>complexity</u>, what else is new? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SotT's big into this shit, as well as "no human involvement" (and absolutely no such thing as <i>geoengineering</i> - so shut the fuck up, you nutty conspiracy theorists!). Oh, please! But so are many others, those claiming 'propaganda-free', but they will be named here too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Swallowing that shrill shit about open borders and hordes of alien terrists? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have a look at the new film featuring Ed Harris and Michael Peña - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2510028/" target="_blank"><u><b>Frontera</b></u></a>. Simply a well-done human story that cuts through a good portion of the BS. Yeah, it's what many of us have always known, but...for the confused, or anyone appreciating natural human reality as well as the complexity of the situation, it's a great film. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's another thing that has bothered me for several years. There was some bad publicity regarding PETA a while back which blew up into a big "news item(s)", especially on the so-called alternative media, and was duly repeated and commented-on ad nauseam by the usual suspects. It had to do with "PETA kills animals". The usual suspects include SotT, Rense, Truthseeker, Huffpo, Visible's blogs, and many others who like to jump on opportunities to spew cool-sounding cynicism to bolster their impressive credentials of how they are our best source of information on the all-pervasive, wall-to-wall corruption everywhere all the time. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, sorry to burst the hate-PETA bubble, but the whole story was a bullshit, cherry-picked distortion of the facts, promoted by a wetiko-corporate-funded, astro-turf, ag-gag-law-promoting scam called "Center for Consumer Freedom", and another demented wacko named Nathan Winograd who obsesses over his idea that no-kill shelters are the only answer to animal overpopulation, and who put up "peta-kills-animals-dot-com" and similar facebook pages.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another example of a complex situation. But don't just take my word for it. You can read the whole detailed story <a href="http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Practical/Shop--ToDo/Activism/CuriousCaseOfWinograd.htm" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. The way humans are capable of self-compromising is truly fascinating, both those who live the lies and those who repeat the lies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ingrid Newkirk, director of PETA has spoken about "killing", when she started out in a municipal animal shelter. She made it her business to personally euthanize daily before the rest of the staff came in, because they were so incompetent, cruel, and unfeeling. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Funny, that's exactly what I had to do for 3 years in what was truly a 3rd-world shelter in this small city. She said she had to kill a thousand animals. I didn't exactly do the injections (a compassionate vet was there for that), but I personally held each one of 2000 animals as they were humanely euthanized. Anyone who's worked at a shelter know what that's all about. I spoke to them, sang to them, stroked them, cuddled them, thanked them, praised them, and prayed for them all; and wept for each and every one of them. My associate and I did cut the euthanasia numbers by half in that period, doubling the adoptions. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, if you want to know the authentic human-reality version of events, and not the sensationalizing bullshit hate-mongering version, read the above tale.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One more thing on the "human level": if anyone's unsure or confused about <u><i>transhumanism</i></u> or <u><i>'the singularity</i></u>', you might check the following essay - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=156&contentid=11493&page=1" target="_blank"><u>Transhumanism: the Anti-Human Agenda</u></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[I have read Dowbenko's stuff for years and find him trustworthy.] </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I only bring it up because there are bloggers who promote themselves as "human", but seem to buy into various aspects of this trend. (They also talk up the militarist and exceptionalism crap, so...just...beware.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On a completely different track, I have to say, I love this guy's complexity. I just found the blog. It's maybe the best sacred geometry site I've seen. This is a subject close to me for last 40 years, since I first discovered Indian temple architecture, and soon after, John Michell and Keith Critchlow. Here's a link to one posting, but there's much to explore (and, wow, no 'authoritative' <i>ANSWERS, </i>just brave curiosity<i> </i>with disciplined research<i>): <a href="http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/2014/07/18/tripolis/" target="_blank"><u>Secrets in Plain Sight. </u></a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is kind of strange and wonderful, a human/animal story, enjoy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Grandfather look at me, I am standing here struggling, I am defending grandmother earth and I am chasing peace."</span></b> </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I guess I feel a rant coming on today. If you're not in the mood, maybe scroll to the bottom, where I'll try to put up some cute photos, and leave the rest for another day. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In both a local sense as well as world-wide, I see amazing, positive, conscious cultural creativity arising and appearing unexpectedly every day, and true humans exhibiting extraordinary response-ability in this time of mass spiritual degradation....but, Is anyone else thoroughly disgusted with the 'landscape' of the blog/alternative media world at this point in the Age of Purposeful Insane Misdirection? Is this just an absolute taboo subject, something continuously un-noted because it's "not cool to do something that creates divisiveness" among "our side", who simply want to 'spread truth, disempower the psychopaths, make the world a better place, save the earth, and bring about a return to sanity'? Ok, I'm talking about the biggies here, the "popular", the million-visitors-attracting blog-sites that dominate the coverage of news and trends on the alternative end of the web (as well as the thousand-visitors sites that aspire to, and worship, the biggies, and regurgitate said sites' misdirections and propaganda). Do I have to name names? What would you do if I spoke 'out of line'...."would you stand up and walk out on me"? I see the overwhelming majority being agencies of narcissistic, historically-challenged, life-experience-challenged, non-earth-connected megalomaniacal individuals. Much expression of humility, but transparently not authentic. Much touting of their 'awakened state', even though admittedly of "recent occurrence". Disseminating of 'spiritual advice', but sourced in book-learning, not life-relationship disciplined hard practice. Personal social history of limited associations within exclusive, group-mind cult milieus (religion/business/military/commercial arts/academia/MSmedia/science/pharma-med/etc. Whatever, there's the ever-present dumb-ass amerikan "rock-star" mentality running through it all. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You say, well, I don't have to go looking at some shit if it annoys me. Problem is, it's all that we have as 'alternatives' to the bullshit Matrix media. Tee-vee and radio went totally in the toilet long ago (except for some tiny pockets and web-radio here and there). What we have is inundation with ancient reactionary mind-numbing fear-mongering, scapegoating, tavistock/intel-sourced misdirection, erasure of the true stories of events experienced by real people in real time, monotonous references to exceptionalism, all-out efforts at demonizing the actual diversity of human and non-human culture in our world, and other time-honored traditions of insane political verbal diarrhea: all those trainloads of foreign children streaming through "our" porous borders with their diseases; amazon feminists and queers ravaging our social fabric with their 'agendas'; hypocritical environmentalists and drugged-out hippies and their marijuana destroying our 'way of life' and prosperity; Islam- the religion of violence; the war on christianity; white genocide; the scourge of race-mixing; all-bad-jews-all-the-time; Hitler and the third reich were cool - 'scientifically' and 'spiritually' advanced*; all our iconic historical revolutionaries were violent psychopathic murderers; vegetarianism is killing everyone and bacon cures cancer; 'commie' Obama's drones/Obama's this/Obama's that; the cool wise military/intel vet dudes (*hi, VT and JackHeart!) who know what's what and will save us (some day in the future); young black thugs who deserve to get shot; [addendum: chemtrails only exist in nut-cases' minds; humans have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with climate change -Gore's delusion], on and on and on and on....I think I gotta go puke, and that's just the short list. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Alright, I don't give a shit if anyone wants to pollute their mind with misdirecting, confusing, half-assed social, political, or spiritual word-smithing that </span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">sounds <i>brilliantly</i> <i>intelligent and</i> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> authoritative. Knock yourself out. Talk to me in 10 years, after you've realized you've been taken for a ride down a bad road to nowhere. And you find these 'heroes' of the intertubes are no more real than tee-vee and screen characters. Or better yet, make an effort and go actually meet these 'heroes' and observe their demeanor, inflection, body language, eye movements, interaction with other normal human beings. And let me know how that works out for you.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sometimes some real history squeaks through in film, for instance, like </span></span></i><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Cesar Chavez</b></span></span></u><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, easily accessible through any of the usual outlets. And pay attention to the embedded old news clips of Ronnie Raygun's comments on the events over which he presided. Other featured politicians' and officials' words, too, will clear up any confusion one might have regarding the veracity of the exact same misdirection and bullshit being propagated today on alt and mainstream media 24/7. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Raygun, btw, is the hero, "last legit president", to the VT crowd; but now they've 'awakened' to become supporters of Obama and Hillary. [You've come a long way! Praise Jeezus!] </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[As Chris Hedges calls it, "the sickness of hypermasculinity which lies at the heart of military and fascist 'culture'..." (I don't know if "heart" is the correct chakra here.)]</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Another film, of course, to bring one up to speed as to the historical reality of past and current conditions is </span></span></i><a href="http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/10/kill-messenger-gary-webb-story.html" target="_blank"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kill The Messenger</span></span></b></u></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, just released. From all accounts, also a must-see.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I get so mixed up, damn, don't know if we got a fat ball-head full-blown fascist police state, or is there just too many colored youth thugs runnin' aroun'? Too complicated, and there's a new game app out I need to download. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe you missed this little historical perspective essay on the Ferguson scene: </span></span></i><br />
<a href="http://prospect.org/article/making-ferguson-how-decades-hostile-policy-created-powder-keg" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Making of Ferguson</span></span></b></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">. More reality, actual history, exposing the ugliness of the ubiquitous ongoing racist misdirection. (or maybe you should just dismiss it - the author has a jewish sounding name...)</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wanna go back a little further? How about Watergate? Bet you didn't know a lot of the stuff spelled out in this little piece: </span></span></i><br />
<a href="http://mileswmathis.com/watergate.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Watergate Unstoppered<i>.</i></span></span></b></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you don't understand that ALL propaganda, everywhere, is vetted and flows through the INTEL complex, and always has, you need to dig a little deeper, as the above researcher has.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">About that ISIS crisis thingy (and amerika's "friends") - summed up in one sentence:</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"There </span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">are</span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> no moderates; there never </span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">were</span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> any moderates." </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ok? </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We should all know by now that's how shit rolls. Excuse me, I meant the empire, same thing. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You see, actually I am an <b>amerika-hater</b>.<b> </b></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Proud, card-carrying, and all that...and goes without saying, an israhell hater too. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Neither entity has any "right to exist". Not that most so-called "nations" should be considered exceptions either...well, maybe Kanata and Lakota are two off the top of my head. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All I got to say on the recent "election", and 'merkin elections in general (I don't need no stinkin' voting machine):</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or maybe someone like this would get me out to the polls - </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the past, she did - </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And she did - </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A: They have changed nothing.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week, a certain individual having access to my residence grounds, someone considered by the 'cool people' to be just about the coolest dude ever, a 'hip' reggae-lovin' manly jack-of-all-trades type - decided to lay out <u><b>d-Con</b></u> in the shed near my house. Seems he has a critter problem. I only got to the second tray to remove it. Do you know what that shit is? I had to school the sumbitch quite forcefully. Mouse/chipmunk eats it, suffers from ebola for up to 10 days, owl eats mouse, coyote eats owl, vulture eats coyote...or my cat, our neighbors' dogs get in the food-chain...this thing has finally been outlawed (this fall!) after <b>many</b> <b>decades</b> of battles and campaigns by just about every environmental org that exists. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is wrong with (supposedly smart) peoples' brains? Sheesh! So yesterday I find a dead Brown Thrasher bird in the shed with no marks. Yesterday also found glue-traps all over another neighbor's yard. Fucking humans. Sometimes I just want out.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But....I have a most beautiful friend who depends on me. And I finally just found my tribe - a bunch of Cuban/Haitian drum maniacs. And I just began working with an amazing horse trainer and her horses. And I have new students from around the world. And I need to scan 40 years of rare traditional drum comps to make available on the web. And, and, and....</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think I'm losing it. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shit, all I wanted to do was go on the net today and see if there was any straight-up crucial info that I and the love-tribe needs to know....well, it's definitely not the worst day of this life so far.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope yours goes as well, or a lot better!</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's about time, and way past, that we are getting beyond this <span style="font-size: small;">Columbus Day</span> crap. The despicable and psychopathic nature of said historical personage has been well exposed and extensively documented, even by his own contemporaries and associates. Truly memory-hole material. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It makes many of us sad, unfortunately, that locally we have to put up with daily reminders of a similar individual in this New Mexico town which has a rich heritage of Native pueblo people as well as Earth-loving non-native refugees. A main central commercial street is Kit Carson Rd. (with the Carson home and museum). The main city park is Kit Carson Park where all public festivals and outdoor concerts are held (located next to the Kit Carson cemetery with his grave, which frequently smells of urine, LOL). The public utility is Kit Carson Electric Co-op. And so it goes. It's a tradition in USA to honor as many big wetikos as possible in every locale, and our town is by no means special. Carson liked to burn fruit trees. Ask a Navajo. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[The next town down the highway has lots of "Oñate"-named monuments and such. He was famous for chopping off feet. A few years back a Native with a sawzall removed one bronze foot from his statue, mailed it back after a couple years.]</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz141014.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mickey Z. interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz</span></span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz141014.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">author of the new book <u>AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES</u></span></span></a><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The whole country is a crime scene and should be marked with yellow tape."</span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"As the first chapter in the book, “Follow the Corn,” lays out, the
multiple forms of democratic governance and social relations developed
by Indigenous peoples in North America are breathtaking. For one thing,
they are all rooted in matriarchy. Matriarchy is not the opposite of
patriarchy, nor simply substituting female people for male people.
Rather it is a profound comprehension of the biological factors that can
lead to domination and authoritarianism."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> "Native peoples built cities, towns, federations of towns, based on the
common good. Indigenous socialism, as Evo Morales calls the phenomena,
can provide both a goal and a practice, for survival and for defeating
empire and structures of domination."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is also relevant to our topic today:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu141014.htm" target="_blank">"Before Columbus: How Africans Brought Civilization to America"</a> - extremely fascinating and an important part of our 'hidden history'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I would like to acknowledge the passing of a celebrated and inspirational 4-legged being, photos and videos of whom gained world-wide attention in the Athens riots of 2008 against "austerity". </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is LOUKANIKOS, beloved "riot dog", who passed peacefully last week at the home of his caretaker after living in comfortable and well-deserved retirement. Unforgettable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am a musician. I am not a scientist by any stretch of the currently accepted definition. However, from my studies and researches within several traditional musical lineages, ones going back thousands of years, it is well known that the traditions involved many generations of intense experimentation and examination of what became standard principles guiding the evolution and development of the arts. Some of this has been codified in texts, but mainly it is carried through the oral transmission. <br />These principles were viewed as a "sacred science", sacred not because they connect to a particular religion, but because they involve matters of energetic mediation between human beings and elements of the planetary natural world as well as with other non-human beings. <br /><br />There were generations of lineage ancestors who devoted every waking moment, from childhood to old age, to rigorous physical, mental, and psychological testing and self-examination in ways that are almost non-existent today. I say "almost" because there still remain a few rare examples living even in this century. But the point is that those pursuing such paths consider their approach to be a type of disciplined scientific study, though it is arguably not within the currently accepted definition of "science". And it would not be considered scientific by many today because it was based on different experimental protocols and other ways of perceiving and understanding human physiology, vibration and harmonics of the natural world and its elements, and the very purpose of the music/dance arts themselves - being a healing and balancing modality requiring the utmost sense of responsibility and self-discipline over a long period of apprenticeship. <br /><br />The stories of 'miraculous' feats accomplished by our master-musician ancestors are passed down to us still to this day. Some were recorded by the scribes of the time in still-existing manuscripts. <br />But these scientific arts, practiced by yogic adepts of the past and present, make use of the knowledge of the human chakra system, of pranayama, of deep meditation practices, of knowledge of the natural overtone series of our earthly atmospheric environment, of the vibratory nature of all matter animate and inanimate, of the shruti-division of the octave, of the mathematics of time-cycle subdivision, of mantra, of mudra and archetypal human postures and magnetic directionality (in sacred dance), and many levels of other esoteric aspects which are not apparent to the casual listener or viewer (nor even the self-styled "aficionados"). All of these subjects are easily dismissed by contemporary 'authorities' of the scientific world as being a load of woo-woo new-age bullshit. Never mind the fact that most normal human beings with a degree of discipline would be able to be trained over time, by the traditional teaching process, to at least begin to perceive, understand and even demonstrate some of the basic principles of the arts, for example: with a tanpura and voice or unfretted instrument sitting one-on-one with a master for a few years. My own generation, and subsequent ones, of Westerners/non-Indians have demonstrated ample proof of this. <br /><br />Maybe the problem is that there's nothing to measure. Sure, there is a slew of "sacred sound" scammers who even write books, sell DVDs, and give expensive "sound-healing" workshops, who might point to some heart-rate or biofeedback studies with various musics, but they're all based on Western tempered (castrated) scales (a melodically-challenged "classical" pseudo-art culture), and a vague misunderstanding of ancient Greek incomplete musical knowledge, and a load of pop new-age pulled-outta-the-ass weekend workshop fantasies. Some westerners and South Asians have done some research, but nobody's really interested, or the work gets buried in some obscure ethnomusicology journals. I think that this subject is another taboo that, if seriously examined, would pull the rug out, reveal the house of cards and the sand foundation of the entire edifice of modern "culture", possibly creating a cascading effect on too many universally accepted belief systems and world views, not to mention academic positions. So basically, no one is interested. It sounds too mental to the 'cool' poser people, and too flakey to the PhDs. <br /><br />So what if the master singer of the royal court of Akbar created so much internal heat with the Fire Raga that he succumbed to his injuries, or that the master drummer calmed a herd of stampeding wild elephants with the 14-beat rhythm, or that musicians were (and are) creating rain on a regular basis with witnesses (like this writer)? Yeah, like, so what? This stuff all ends up relating to consciousness and the projection and interconnections thereof. People have different opinions on whether this consciousness business is even worthy of the attention of the scientific world in this day and age. There are more important matters, like restoration of things destroyed, slowing extinctions, millions of preventable deaths, new energy technologies, bringing down the pathocracy, etc. (Unfortunately, all these issues are unsolvable by the same "scientific"/intellectual consciousness level that created them, and would require a mass transformational shift of awareness.) So, maybe it's a matter of personal choice, or destiny. I don't know. <br />I am just not ready to slam or demonize everyone who, with a scientific background, feels drawn to explore these areas of inquiry. Sort of in the way that I have to refrain from judging MDs who are attempting to be open about alternative medical modalities. I've personally seen a fair number of changes and transformations in people on an individual level in my lifetime. Some of these are glacially slow and some overnight. But I can't live preoccupied with what others do with their precious human birth, because such obsession inevitably leads to one's own dis-ease, and I'd rather pass on, as long as I can, what has been so generously given to me by my mentors.<br /><br />We have to pick our own battles. I see the ones dealing with our own egos and programming as being of primary importance. All other battles I would have to say I have lost. Most aware people live with this same discouraging reality, where the powers of mind-fuckery and violence appear so-far unassailable. [I remain strangely positive, though I can't explain why. It's neither optimistic nor pessimistic, just somewhere in the realm of the unknown. (Unknown unknowns?)]<br />Science today (and for a couple centuries) seems to be not so different from a religion. It doesn't result in any final 'answers', though some still cling to the idea it will. The concept of the scientific method also seems to have boundaries that prevent it from discovering anything definitive regarding what we term 'consciousness' and 'sentience' though some are attempting this. In the long view of history the very term 'science' (regarded as rigorous objective intellectual and practical inquiry/study of the world for the purpose of revealing knowledge) has clearly mutated through times, places, and cultures. Where would the cultural explanations of "plants revealing their properties to the herbalists" (but not by 'trial-and-error') fit into the current scientific view? Again, maybe someone could answer this, I don't know. I am just not particularly schooled in that world. I can only go on my own experiences and gut feelings as I have encountered various people's personal approaches to self-knowledge. I have known people who have absolute self-confidence in their own world-view, and who spend their days working in labs at Los Alamos and question nothing as regards the effects of their "contribution" to society as a whole - both foreigners and Americans. (I recall one of these 20 years ago claiming his atom-smasher was a search for "god") I can clearly see the "walls" that make reflections into different directions impossible. It's merely serving the demonic Cheney-esque dark side, but self-benefit always outweighs benefit-to-the-commons, as in every aspect of contemporary ponerized life. Not to discount the very same feature being at play in the "art" world too.<br /><br />On a personal level, my recently-begun studies of the African-Cuban Orisha [Bata-]drumming-song-dance tradition has been revealing astonishing parallels with the similar aspects of the Odisha culture of Eastern India. Many of these parallels can only be perceived through the actual practice of the art-forms, and likely go un-noticed by the ethnomusicological world. These are in the subtleties passed in the oral transmissions between musicians, and from teacher to student. I am probably the only person in the world who has even swam in these two streams and realized that there's a hidden historical puzzle involved, going way back in time. <br /><br />But I digress. Point is: I don't put much value on the whole "scientific free inquiry" bit. A fun playground for the pathologically hubristic. There are reasons why traditional societies tended to have various controls on this "free inquiry" business. Wisdom related to natural balance, walking softly, respect, doing no harm - took precedence over this imaginary "freedom". What the hell does our world look like today? The result of "freedom"? Not to mention our totally distorted, ideologically censored, and deeply hidden history under the control and propagated by narcissistic power freaks for centuries. <br />Yeah, I know, so what else is new? Nuthin. Same shit in every field of 'civilized' human endeavor, fields which have been tiresomely listed by others infinite times. <br /><br />The first mystic I met when I was 22 told me "you have to kill your scientific mind". He was correct in the sense that the scientific mind, overall, has led less to life-enhancement and peace and liberation of all beings, and more to death, denial, and ignorance. That's how it looks from where I sit. Science has fed the death-culture as much as, if not more than, the monotheistic program. It's pretty much in service to the death culture across the board. Omnicide? Sixth extinction? Gaiacide? Any sane use of science today amounts to slinging pebbles at a army of mechanized doom and horror advancing everywhere over the horizon. We're at a place where there's not even the time nor energy to wonder how it all began, where will it end….<br /><br />In the 80s and 90s I performed or lectured at over 30 major US universities. Every institution I entered I knew (some of) what evil shit their "science" departments were up to. I decided long ago I would not set foot again in those places. Hardly anyone I know feels there is any moral or ethical imperative to boycott or shun such places of higher ignorance, even though they are the key element in the mil-ind-edu-agro-pharm-med-media-entertain-arts-energy-transit-communication-trade-empire-complex. "Oh, but we want our children to get that piece of paper so they can get ahead in the world, and besides, THEY'RE not involved in the 'bad' stuff." Actually, bottom line, it's ALL 'mil'. <br /><br />This is the sound of the scientific mind coming out of its ultimate orifice: "The possibilities of DDT are sufficient to stir the most sluggish imagination….In my opinion it is the War's greatest contribution to the future health of the world." - Brigadier General James Simmons, 1945<br />Wow, its only a short leap from there to the recent verbal excrement by the wolf-hater cult: "Wolves are wildlife terrorists….their [re-]introduction was a criminal conspiracy by a bunch of pot-smoking, wine-sucking, vegetarian lawyers to end blood sports...I want to see these people in prison for the rest of their lives." -- Montana gubernatorial candidate Bob. <br />Anyway, I was tempted to continue my rant on Veterans Today, and some of their recent vile spewings (whining about the sordid wartime conditions of the Vietnam grunts, vile slander of those who eschewed 'serving' because we had our wits about us to see the systemic cracks to slip through and serve life instead of death, etc. etc.), but I'll save that for another time.<br />I was also going to describe how the modern "health" system put me into bed sick last week for seven days, but again, for another time... <br /><br />So, back to our subject. I don't know if I'm really making clear what I mean in regard to this matter of 'science'. I'll leave off with some more articulate quotes from a volume titled "WILD, An Elemental Journey" by Jay Griffiths:<br /><br />"All of this land, everything in it, is medicine", says an old Shoshone woman of the Nevada desert. To Western eyes, medicine, law, land and song are entirely separate, but to many indigenous people they are aspects of a single ordered entity, call it harmony or health or law. They cocreate this deep order inherent in nature, through ritual, through song."<br /><br />"People talk of the reciprocal relationship between themselves and land as if it is a resonant frequency, so the land sings, people resonate with it, and it makes them feel rung to a sung pitch. That sound is sung by humans, and is in turn picked up by the land, which "hears" human pitch and resonates to it in turn, in a round of song where each voice echoes the one before."<br /><br />"And when the songlines are silenced, a conceptual wasteland is all that remains."<br /><br />Sounds pretty much like what we got - a spiritual wasteland, an imitation 'knowledge' devoid of conscience, consciousness, spirit, and livity.<br />The other is what I perceive to be the real. There's no convincing me otherwise, in this universe or any other, see? <br /><br />When I hear the word 'science', a few examples come to mind. I think of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen" target="_blank">Galen of Pergamom</a> - 2nd Cent. AD ["father of vivisection"], of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard" target="_blank">Claude Bernard</a> - 1800s ["father of modern physiology", wetiko monster], <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow" target="_blank">Harry Harlow</a> - 1900s ["father of psychology", of "pit of despair"-fame], <a href="http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Animal%20Testing/JentschHarmsPeople.htm" target="_blank">J. David Jentsch</a> - 2000s [monkey-drug-addiction freak, pro-vivi fanatic spokeman], <a href="http://www.peta.org/features/uw-madison-cruelty/" target="_blank">Tom Yin</a> - 2014 [cat deafness freak, wetiko sub-human]. <br />I guess I would have to agree with a former associate of Bernard's who wrote that Bernard's lab had made him "prepared to see not only science, but even mankind, perish rather than have recourse to such means of saving it."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"[he] has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of <b>our</b> frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions [sic]."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure y'all remember that, right? It's right there under the bullet-proof glass, in fine India ink on that hemp scroll somewhere in some rotunda or whatever in the District of Cannibals. Ok, maybe you were asleep that day in class. Yeah, me too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spent last weekend with my friends and their beautiful dog, Gracie, who was rescued from Bosnia or Kosovo (I'm forgetting). After many years have passed, we're talkin' about an animal that still suffers from PTSD, though she has made great progress. Religious intolerance, racism, materialistic greed, militarism, leading inevitably to war on the innocents is ever-present in the observable state of such a being. And one naturally turns to thoughts of the human children similarly affected. "Insanity" is just not a strong or comprehensive enough word. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take five, and listen to this gentlman's words:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This leads me to the core of what I wanted this post to be, what has been on my mind for last few days, what in essence, is a collision of universes, or whatever, yes, <i>metaphor</i> you want to use.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was not aware of the decade-long feud between Dawkins and Chopra; maybe you have been. I'm going to go ahead and speak my thoughts on this. I have a new-found respect of Deepak Chopra. My partner has been reading and raving about his book "Quantum Healing" for many days now. Then we watched the video linked below. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To me, this is one of the most important and revealing debates of our time. It was new to me to discover the extreme hatred toward Chopra by Dawkins and his huge army of cult followers. And not only do they hate Dr. Chopra, they rabidly foam at the mouth about everything alternative and 'Eastern' in esoteric science and philosophy. They are enraged about Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chi Gong, Vedic Science, Shamanism, all Indigenous wisdom traditions, Homeopathy, all spiritual traditions of the world, and in Dawkins' case, there is extreme Islamophobia and hate of all 'feminists' of every stripe. He is one sick puppy, and his followers are pure "science" fascists, violently asserting that Western "science" is the one and only true religion and ultimate truth-source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The video is from a famous debate in Puebla, Mexico. It has over 4,500 comments. 99% of them are hateful toward Chopra "the charlatan". This is what we are faced with in this so-called "civilization". There is no hope of ever changing the white-knuckled grip of ignorance exhibited by the brainwashed delusional narcissistic know-it-alls whose lives literally hinge on a myopic world-view, that we can only hope will eat them alive from the inside out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of the 4 or 5 intelligent commenters, I found the following to get to the root of what cannot be faced by those with such a deathly fear:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Dawkins and his moronic cult go on and on about 'what is sentience, consciousness, awareness'..ad nauseum. They insist "we don't know" about the sentience of other life forms because there's "very little research". It all comes down to arrogant human refusal to FUCKING LOOK!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My life has been saved by Avurveda, Tibetan Medicine, Acupuncture, Curanderismo, etc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My partner is alive today because of being treated by Ayurveda, after she was nearly killed by the Western "scientific" oncology protocols. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Don't know what else to say, except I'm just as pissed off as Dr. Chopra admits he is. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c_CrQzUGw" target="_blank"><b>HERE IS THE VIDEO DEBATE</b></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is about one hour - HOWEVER, <u>definitely</u> skip over the Spanish introduction with acrobatics, etc. to <u><b>11:40</b></u>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since I'm on the subject of arrogant narcissists, I will say one more thing. This is my opinion. It is regarding know-it-alls on the web, which is littered with the type. In particular, I'm referring to Veterans Today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Who they are, in Duff's own words:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"we are nuclear weapons officers, NATO nuclear commandos,
weapons assemblers, and the editorial home for America's top nuclear weapons designer.We are
intelligence agents, nuclear weapons experts, academics, spies,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, jeezus goddamn kryste, that's exactly the type of dudes whose take on all things political, philosophical, moral, spiritual, and mystical I totally resonate with. Fuckin' A!!! Especially when I know that a whole slew of 'em are Repugnantans (grand-ol-pedophile associates), voters for McInsane and now promoting Obumfuck and Hellary. Gosh, you've come a long way, baby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yeah, and I really can't wait till these great patriotic hero veterans of psychopathic wars come around to protect us mere humans when (as they say) "the bullets start flying".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I guess they confab in boardrooms, smoking cigars and patting each other on the back, priding themselves on how cool and bad-ass they are. I have about as much belief in them as I do for the white-pride, caucasian-traditionalist, anti-white-genocide, diversity-hating, multiculture-fearing yahoos who scream all day long about the terrible threat "we" are all under - sharia law, hajibs - it's never been about Islam (or "illegal, undocumented criminals"); it's always been about BROWN-SKINNED PEOPLE. Geez, get a clue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As I walked outside this morning this little friend had something to say about "metaphorical quantum leaps"...and sentience, heh:</span></span></div>
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bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-75060639522711243592014-08-26T17:11:00.000-07:002014-08-26T17:11:57.348-07:00The Yazidi and the Peacock Angel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5kJSlqOKcLjymP6budJYM2M0fv8KljQH-3hKiVubTS0_5-frCsSUj4qiH5-jZTOxZ62Kf87DmUP0llAFO-mvrh63qvhfr8uP-9TkVdJ5bzTsuSmyXn9ANapen0qw9yoEHDzR3GRQAPV4/s1600/Yezidismardino.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the pace of genocide of indigenous groups and cultures continues around the world (unabated for <strike>centuries</strike> millenia), and focus always varies depending on both the level of destruction and some seemingly arbitrary "importance" to the media scum and their "intelligence" handlers of the individual locale, much of the devastation barely gets noticed. Lately, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine occupy headlines and tee-vee sound-bites, but we have to depend on the internet for any background information, which always involves the scum-of-the-earth fascist monster psychopaths of the CIA, Mossad, NSA, etc. and their made-up, created and funded proxy terrorist armies/death-squads. <br />The latest 'brand' being ISIS - a sick-ass reference to the name-variation of Sophia, the Earth Goddess - we are hearing of all the mass deaths, beheadings, burying-alive of numerous victims in the Kurdistan area of Iraq. Sometimes it's 500, then 80, then 800, whatever. Though the targets include Shia Muslims, and other tribal groups, one community has garnered some attention, though the stories are often filled with falsities and disinfo, and that is the people known as Yazidis (or Yezidis), said to be trapped on their holy mountain Sinjar. <br /><br />I was curious as to who these people are, and did some digging about what is known regarding this obscure (to the West) group, and why they were being singled out for destruction. It's actually not difficult to find info. There's a Wikipedia page, various YouTubes, and some extensive articles. Here, then, are some interesting facts about a people who have spent centuries trying to survive as a maligned culture in various parts of the Middle East:<br /><br />Some say they came from India around 6000 years ago. If this is true, I guess they could be compared to the tribes from Indus area who eventually became known as "gypsies". <br /><br />Total numbers vary from 70,000 to 500,000. They inhabit Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, and Germany primarily, with some in Sweden and other European countries. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKH6QT8fjr0GMONfpaVRyhGXMoJYGDf5lXok31Vd9343ybWtLXiAUxOL9lu1VZuL0igtg19va1ZVCtoiuftl49l6uNDojRZg9HOhT98nM-2vrRwSjam8pQHKe2omUnA16y8UHubYVT7So/s1600/CAEIPDS0.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKH6QT8fjr0GMONfpaVRyhGXMoJYGDf5lXok31Vd9343ybWtLXiAUxOL9lu1VZuL0igtg19va1ZVCtoiuftl49l6uNDojRZg9HOhT98nM-2vrRwSjam8pQHKe2omUnA16y8UHubYVT7So/s1600/CAEIPDS0.jpg" height="294" width="320" /></a>Their religion has been considered related to Persian, Mesopotamian, Assyrian religions, as well as pre-Islamic Sufi traditions, also Paganism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Their calendar begins in 4,750 BC.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yazidis are called "monotheists", who believe the 'one god' entrusted the world into the care of Seven Holy Beings/Angels/Mysteries, the primary one being MELEK TAUS (or TAWSI MELEK) - THE PEACOCK ANGEL. <br /><br />Melek Taus, the "first-born son of Sophia" [of SEVEN SONS], has been somehow identified with Moloch by Christians and Moslems, and "Shaitan"/Satan. Sounds to me like a reverse-projection, as usual, from psychopathic deviates/ monotheistic freaks of said fake "religions", especially the ugly "Judaism" fake 'religion'. </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5kJSlqOKcLjymP6budJYM2M0fv8KljQH-3hKiVubTS0_5-frCsSUj4qiH5-jZTOxZ62Kf87DmUP0llAFO-mvrh63qvhfr8uP-9TkVdJ5bzTsuSmyXn9ANapen0qw9yoEHDzR3GRQAPV4/s1600/Yezidismardino.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5kJSlqOKcLjymP6budJYM2M0fv8KljQH-3hKiVubTS0_5-frCsSUj4qiH5-jZTOxZ62Kf87DmUP0llAFO-mvrh63qvhfr8uP-9TkVdJ5bzTsuSmyXn9ANapen0qw9yoEHDzR3GRQAPV4/s1600/Yezidismardino.JPG" height="215" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Core teachings are of oral tradition and called QAWLS. [Hmm….the great Sufi songs (possibly of pre-Islamic origins) of Hindukush mountains, etc. are called QAWWALI.]<br />Yazidis also believe in reincarnation, of both humans and the Angels.<br /><br />The Peacock Angel is not just the possession of the Yezidis, he belongs to the entire world. The Yezidis believe that they possess the oldest religion on Earth, the primeval faith that features Tawsi Melek, and that all other traditions are related to them through the Peacock Angel. They contend that Tawsi Melek is the true creator and ruler of the universe, and therefore a part of all religious traditions. He does not, however, always manifest within these diverse traditions as a peacock. Tawsi Melek has taken on many other forms throughout time. <br /><br />Yezidi prophecy maintains that Tawsi Melek will come back to Earth as a peacock or rainbow during a time of intense conflict, poverty, famine and distress on the Earth. He will then transmit some prayers to a holy man, probably a Faqir, who will then take them around the Earth and give them to representatives of all religions. Tawsi Melek may manifest in a variety forms, including a bright light, a rainbow, a boy, a young man, a snake, and, of course, a peacock.<br /><br />The Yezidis honor the goat because, like the Hindus’ cow, it sacrifices itself and supplies many of their needs. It gives them milk, wool, etc.<br /><br />The Yezidis maintain that Tawsi Melek is manifest in all religions, although not always in the form of a peacock. The following are just a few of the various manifestations of Tawsi Melek in religions worldwide:<br /><br />Murugan/Skanda/Sanat Kumara of the Hindus<br />Al-Khadir, the “Green Man,” of the Moslems<br />King Melchizedek of the Jews<br />St. George of the Knights Templar<br />Enki of the Sumerians<br />Dionysus of the Greeks<br />Osiris of the Egyptians<br />Quetzlcoatl of the Mexicans<br />Masaw of the Hopi Indians<br /><br />In the Gnostic tradition (which the Yezidi religion is closely aligned with), Tawsi Melek is analogous to the first son of the Goddess Sophia, who in the process of creating and governing the universe divided herself into seven rays or “sons.” Her seven sons were coeval with and governed one of the seven colors, tones, planets, etc.<br />Through his manifestation as a snake, the Peacock Angel is also analogous with the Gnostics’ understanding of the Serpent on the Tree in the Garden of Eden. As opposed to the Christian viewpoint, the Gnostics recognize the Serpent of Eden to be their primal instructor and savior. They claim that the Serpent was specially sent down from Heaven to the Garden of Eden by Sophia in order to help awaken Adam and Eve to their divine nature. According to the perspective of the gnostic yogis of India, the Serpent on the Tree is a metaphor for the inner serpent (known in the East as Kundalini) that coils around the Tree of Life, the human spine, and brings a seeker knowledge of his or her divine nature as it climbs up the tree and awakens the inner centers of gnostic wisdom, the chakras.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the religion of Sumeria the Peacock Angel was manifest as Enki, the Lord of the Earth, who was also the Lord of Wisdom and the Serpent on the Tree of Dilman, the Sumerian Eden. The Sumerians may have adopted Enki from Yezidi emissaries from India who played a role in the fledgling Sumerian civilization. Or they may have received him from the gnostic sect of Mandeans who were also assimilated into Sumerian civilization after migrating from the East, specifically Sri Lanka, the island patronized by the Peacock Angel as the Hindu Murugan or Sanat Kumara.<br /><br />The Hindus know Tawsi Melek as Murugan, the legendary son of Shiva and Shakti.<br /><br />The rainbow serpent (as among the Australian Aborigines) that encoded all energy with the seven colors, tones, etc.<br /><br />The Peacock Angel is perceived differently by many different factions within Islam. Amongst the enlightened sects of Islamic Sufis, Tawsi Melek has been known as Al-Kadir, the “Green Man.” The Sufis’ Al-Khadir, who is currently worshipped in many corners of the world, has one of his premier temple sites at Kataragama in Sri Lanka right next to a temple of his Hindu counterpart, Murugan.<br /><br />Like Tawsi Melek, Al-Kadir assisted in making the world green, and he can also lead a seeker to both enlightenment and immortality. The Sufis, who refer to him as “The Initiator,” are visited by Al-Kadir when they are ready to commit themselves completely to an intensive spiritual life.<br /><br />In the Maya tradition the Peacock Angel is known as the spirit of Quetzlcoatl, the “Plumed Serpent.” In the Quiche Maya cosmology found in the Popul Vuh there is a passage very similar to that found in Genesis (and no doubt has the same origin) which states that the Creator moved upon the face of the waters. In Genesis this creator is recognized to be the synthesis of a group of creator spirits (usually counted as seven) known as the Elohim. Similarly, in the Popul Voh the creator is a blue-green plumed serpent, or “Quetzlcoatl,” comprised of SEVEN creator spirits.<br /><br />In Tibet the Peacock Angel appears to be manifest as Amitibha, the peacock-riding dhyani buddha who sits upon his Peacock Throne in the heaven of Sukhavati and occasionally takes a physical incarnation as the King of the World in legendary Shambhala, the land of immortals that flies the Peacock Flag. According to one legend, the Peacock Angel not only spread his colors around the globe but additionally merged his spirit with that of the Earth and became the world soul. Thus, his physical body is the Earth and his will is reflected in the actions of all creatures that live upon the face of the Earth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Hopis know the Peacock Angel as their Masaw, the King of the World during this era of the Fourth World. According to their tradition, Masaw, whom the Hopis address as the “Great Spirit,” was ruler of the Third World but then fell from grace because of his pride. He subsequently lost his position as planetary ruler but was then reinstated to that exalted office at the beginning of the Fourth World.<br /><br />In the history of the Hopis it is said that they came from the East by “island hopping” across the Pacific. It appears that they may have acquired their knowledge of the Peacock Angel as Masaw during the earliest years of their existence in the East.<br /><br />The Peacock Angel figures prominently in the Holy Grail legends as the primal Fisher King. This is most evident in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, where the seeker of the Holy Grail, Parzival, encounters the Fisher King Anfortas wearing a hat or crown of peacock feathers. Anfortas was the latest of a long line of Fisher Kings, each of whom reflected the Peacock Angel, the first and archetypal Fisher King, the primal Guardian and Embodiment of the Holy Grail. The power of the Holy Grail is the life force, the power wielded by the Fisher King. Through his life force power the Fisher King, who is thus a manifestation of the Green Man, would annually make his kingdom green with prolific vegetation. <br /><br />The above is excerpted from http://www.greatdreams.com/blog/dee-blog60.html</span></span>bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-91793684770932983892014-08-15T16:20:00.000-07:002014-08-15T16:20:13.154-07:00Robin Williams Lived in the Empathosphere<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robin Williams no doubt would have appreciated the news that India has banned vivisection and experimentation in colleges and universities, <a href="http://www.petaindia.com/blog/victory-ugc-bans-animal-dissection/" target="_blank">"to save precious lives"</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">India's University Grants Commission (UGC),
which ordered an immediate end to training methods lethal to animals in both
undergraduate and postgraduate programs, says the decision came about over
concerns that too many animals were being taken from the wild.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robin was both an animal advocate and a vegan, contributing to campaigns for rescues, dolphin activists, humane societies, and wildlife conservation. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He also contributed generously to a food bank in Seattle and demonstrated his empathy for fellow beings in numerous other ways, which readers can find easily by searching. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a dude! These are the crucial qualities that define a true human being. As such, he, like many of us, dealt with current conditions in the world (and a genius-level creative gift) through a professional life within a corrupt, degenerate, psychopathic and evil milieu - an almost impossible challenge. He can't be blamed for human failings and not finding the strength necessary to attain victory over the demonic/archontic forces, working without extraordinary level of awareness, discipline, and spiritual alliances. As John Trudell says, "isolation is the enemy".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I simply wanted to post this vid today, for those who haven't seen it, as a tribute to Mr. Williams:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/05/374201/trauma-pushes-gaza-kids-to-silence/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gazan Kids Reduced to Silence by Trauma</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Unimaginable restraint"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Tomorrow there's no school in Gaza, they don't have any children left"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Yo, 'mericans, how's that for yer tax $$ at work? Can't help those kids runnin' from the Salvadoran death squads, but no problem funding this POS. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schools, hospitals, soccer games, playgrounds, ambulances, open-air markets....clear for all the world to see: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are witnessing an altogether new dimension of psychopathic evil, which has played out historically in the past in various instances of deliberate slaughter of civilians, specifically women and children. However, what we now see is an <b>unprecedented focus on militarily murdering children</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"With the images of murdered children in Palestine, there is the memory of one of the most brutal massacres in the US, at Sand Creek in Colorado, where Cheyenne and Arapaho toddlers were shot and pregnant women were bayoneted by US soldiers.' - Brenda Norrell, Indigenous Resistance</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Collateral damage" - the killing in wars, economic or religious, usually ~80%, has been part of western "civilization's" devolution for 1000s of years. But this is a new time, the time of <b>war on children</b>. Make no mistake, this is deliberate 'religious' policy. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is the most articulate examination and description of the phenomenon that I have found. I think this is important. Something here needs to be <i>seen</i>:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/07/29/373194/childkilling-sociopaths-of-israel/" target="_blank">Child-killing Sociopaths of Israel</a> </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Kevin Barrett</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is wrong with Israelis?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Every time Israel embarks on a new round of wholesale slaughter in
Gaza, polls show that more than 90% of Israelis support the butchery.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">For Israelis, mass-murdering children is a spectator sport. When the
IDF starts dropping cluster bombs, white phosphorous, DIME munitions and other horrendous weapons on Gaza, crowds of Israelis pack the hilltops to barbecue meat, drink alcohol and cheer as they watch Palestinian children being blown to bits.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Every day in Israel’s major cities, mobs of Israelis gather to hunt
down and brutalize Arab children and teenagers. Police stand by as they beat their victims into unconsciousness. According to Israeli blogger Elizabeth Tsurkov, the mobs’ favorite chant is: “Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Israelis proudly tweet their desire to murder children: “Kill Arab
children so there won’t be a next generation,” “Stinking Arabs may you die, amen,” and “Arabs may you be paralyzed and die with great
suffering” are some representative tweets exposed by Israeli journalist David Sheen.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Israeli parliamentarian Ayelet Shaked has announced that she wants to kill not only Palestinian children, whom she calls “little snakes,” but
also the Palestinian mothers who raise them. Recently Shaked openly called for the genocidal murder of every Palestinian. Instead of being sent to the Hague, prosecuted, ejected from government, or even rebuked, she was lionized by Israeli society.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel “Butcher of Sabra and Shatila” Sharon,
agrees with Shaked. In an op-ed published in the Jerusalem Post, Sharon advocated using nuclear weapons to exterminate the Palestinians. He wrote that Israel needs to “flatten all of Gaza,” adding that “The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">While they enjoy slaughtering children and their mothers, Israelis
take special relish in killing pregnant women. A T-shirt popular in the
Israeli army shows a pregnant woman with a target on her belly. The
legend reads: “One shot two kills.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Killing children is the de facto official policy of the Israeli
military. In his article “Gaza Diary,” Chris Hedges wrote about watching Israeli soldiers hunt Palestinian children for sport:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">“Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of
whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered—death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo—but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">An October 2004 study by British Medical Journal confirmed that this
is a common practice, and never punished: “Two thirds of the 621
children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the
street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest – the
sniper’s wound…Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to
kill children in situations of minimal or no threat.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">During its onslaught on Gaza, Israel has been systematically
slaughtering children in schools, emergency shelters, and even as they play soccer on the beach. Under the headline “Israel’s offensive in Gaza has ‘killed more children than fighters,’” The London, UK Telegraph reported that Israel is "waging war on children.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Again I ask: What is wrong with Israelis? What has produced this nation of demonic child-killing monsters?</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">In his book Goliath, Max Blumenthal – a young Jewish American from an influential family – lays bare Israel’s genocidal mentality. Blumenthal discusses the wildly popular Israeli best-seller Torat Ha’Melech, which advocates the wholesale murder of non-Jews.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Torat Ha’Melech is not a marginalized radical screed; on the
contrary, it is an authoritative guide for Israel soldiers. Its authors
are two of Israel’s leading rabbis, Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef
Elitzur.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Blumenthal explains:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">“Drawing from a hodgepodge of rabbinical texts that seemed to support their genocidal views, Shapira and Elitzur urged a policy of
ruthlessness toward non-Jews, insisting that the commandment against murder ‘refers only to a Jew who kills a Jew, and not to a Jew who kills a gentile, even if that gentile is one of the righteous among nations. ‘The rabbis went on to pronounce all civilians of the enemy population ‘rodef,’ or villains who chase Jews and are therefore fair game for slaughtering.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">The Israeli child-killer personality has much in common with the
psychiatric term sociopath: “A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke like a sociopath when he said that the Palestinian resistance “uses telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause.” The expression “telegenically dead” is a stunningly insensitive euphemism for the corpses of little children with their body parts blown off; and of course it was Netanyahu himself who killed them, and then tried to blame the victims for his actions.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">What can be done about the sociopathic Israel?</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">One of America’s leading experts on sociopaths is Dr. Robert Hare,
who works with the FBI’s Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center. Since Israel is the biggest child abductor and child serial killer on the planet, perhaps we could send the whole Zionist entity to Dr. Hare for treatment.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, as Dr. Hare admits, sociopaths are usually impossible
to cure. The best we can do is detect them, using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and then protect ourselves from them.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">A sociopathic individual can be arrested and imprisoned. A
sociopathic nation poses a much bigger problem. So how can we protect Palestinian children from the Israeli serial murderers?</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">The international community needs to completely ostracize Israel,
indict its leaders for war crimes, and use the combined diplomatic and military force of the world’s nations to peacefully dismantle the
genocidal Zionist entity. But that cannot happen until the Zionists’
death-grip on the West’s media, finance and politics is broken once and for all.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">In the mean time, all individuals of good will must help the
Palestinians defend themselves. As Italy’s leading philosopher Gianni Vattimo recently said, Europeans and other decent people around the world “should raise money to buy Hamas better rockets.” Vattimo also urged Europeans to form international brigades to fight along with Hamas, in the same way that foreign volunteers fought Franco during the Spanish Civil War.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">If there are any decent, non-sociopathic Israelis left, they too
should join those brigades, just as novelist Breyten Breytenbach and
other white South Africans of conscience joined the armed resistance to apartheid. Where are the Israeli equivalents of Breytenbach? There must be at least one or two human beings left in Israel; we will learn who they are when they die in martyrdom operations against their sociopathic child-killing compatriots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not at all certain that this problem can be solved on a material, economic, or military level. We're looking at something much deeper and an upwelling of an ancient hateful disturbance. The Gnostics warned us about the Archon element, Toltecs about 'the Predator', Native Americans about the Wetiko, and it has been known world-wide for ages. Only its source and its remedy is yet to be identified or discovered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, who/what's gonna fix this?:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a must-read: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/atef_abu_saif_on_life_amid_the_bombing_of_gaza_israel_s_missiles_are_erasing.html" target="_blank">I Do Not Want to Be a Number</a><br /><br />I'm just going to mention again for the readers that I was the recipient of several clear and specific death threats (including my home address) around the time of Cast Lead, and that I was in the habit of keeping a loaded piece next to my bed for a period of time. Also, I submitted full evidence of said threats, as well as the source in California, to the FBI, and nothing came of it. It seems I had participated in some Palestinian benefits and stood up for artist friends also under attack from ZioNazis. <br /><br />Some jewish friends were unmoved and unsympathetic….just saying'. So, I don't really see the point in distinguishing between "jews" and "zionists", even though I still have personal and professional relationships with jews. It all comes down to the problem of deep brainwashing. The empathic function seems to have an on-off switch, and also these tribal members are incapable or unwilling to renounce the jewish identity and re-join the human race. Their problem, not mine. <br />My last trip living in India I spent 6 months in two villages and a major city surrounded by hundreds of Israelis. In the cafes, hotels, neighborhoods, shops, never once did any Israeli, man or woman, relate to me as a normal human, except ONE. In 6 months. The one who was normal was my age, and straight off told me he never consorted with any of his country-men, ever. The rest of the time I was witness to the extreme cliquishness, arrogance, cultural disinterest, racism toward Indians, and narcissistic mega-ego syndrome, as well as the transparent effort to look and act 'cool' with the clothes and dreadlocks and motorcycles and hashish, the affectations put on subsequent to their finishing serving in the IDF - more aptly know as Israeli War Criminal Occupation Forces(IWCOF). Am I painting with too broad a brush here? <br /><br />How many times have I said the world is fucking fed up with the jews and nazis? (I'm sure there's probably other violent group supremacists, but I can't think of any at the moment.) We learn from aangirfan and others (do the research, I'm not writing here for academics) that Ukraine is under NATO-installed rulership of an alliance of jews and nazis. A dual-citizen Ukie-israeli billionaire hires ex-IWCOF psychopathic goons to slaughter women, children and the elderly. Sound familiar? <br />The so-called neo-cons in usa corp-gov are 95% jews/zionists. They also set up the so-called ISIS zombies who are imposing FGM on all women in Iraq and wherever the hell else they roam, crucifying and acquiring billion$ and uranium too…lovely. The jews and nazis want to frack both Gaza and E. Ukraine…again, lovely, eh?. <br />The un-dead zio-zombies consume popcorn and espresso on the hilltops, and populate "war-rooms" of hundreds cranking out their hasbara asininity 24/7. They call themselves "Johnny Smith" and such, and whine that they're good "christians" and can't get any respect, and, geez, I just have a different OPINION, why can't you talk nice? I'm sure I don't need to point out that ALL media is inundated with this shit. <br />A child in Gaza is killed every hour. 40 children are being killed in Afghanistan every week for 13 years now. <br />That's about all I can say. The very elements of nature are weeping and heart-broken.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ya know what? This COULD BE THE FUTURE:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">see also <a href="http://rt.com/news/175792-jews-arabs-refuse-enemies/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br /><br />^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For last couple months we here have been getting fresh, hand-squeezed raw milk from the awesome neighbors down the road. Also, eggs, butter, yogurt, cream and eggs. <br />An identical co-op dairy in Michigan was just raided, with all products destroyed, by the state ag dept. There's a whole class of bureaucratic thugs that need to be exterminated…they too are just more 'rabid dogs' that, unfortunately, can't be rehabilitated or reformed. <br />At least we here can somehow afford to eat clean, organic produce and dairy, which is especially crucial with my beloved friend dealing with the big-C and following strict Ayurvedic protocols. Six months ago we had our food-stamps cut by 95% - from 300 down to 15. Makes sense, right, with that 3.1 billion going to the psychopathic crime syndicate of a shitty little country. <br /><br />I've been writing for I don't know how long about non-human animal sentience. I've also been aware of Sheldrake's 'morphogenic fields' (dogs knowing when their humans are coming home, heh). But I learned a cool new word today: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/814273-do-animals-have-esp-unexplained-stories-seem-to-show-animal-clairvoyance/?photo=3" target="_blank">EMPATHOSPHERE</a>. OMFG! Thank you, Dr. Michael Fox! See, Dr. Fox (not the actor, but he's cool too!) was my first boss in the wildlife rehab field in Seattle in the 70's (?). He ran/runs the first of such facilities (PAWS) in the country, and I got my first handling and vet-assisting experience there. He was also a consultant and activist with the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN), where I got my 'education' from. Goddamn it, there's some beautiful human beings in this here world!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />[Off-topic, this just in: Researchers find chimpanzees like listening to African and Indian rhythms much more than western rock-'n-roll and classical…LOL] <br /><br />My days are often filled with hours, in our paradise high-desert forested creek-filled oasis, marveling in awe at another life-form level, which I have previously neglected to observe at length: the insects. So wonderful we have such a proliferation of pollinators, and of infinite variety. Each one is truly magical. Extraordinary teachers. I guess it takes a helluva long lifetime to truly appreciate the many blessed aspects of life on this beautiful Earth to a degree where one achieves the level of 'natural mystic', even if that is one's main intention. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Addendum</b>: our pollinators haven't been Monsanto-ed to death, but for others 'they' have come up with their answer, real in-your-face sick science - <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-robobees-closer-to-pollinating-crops-2014-6#ixzz36z6e917" target="_blank">ROBO-BEES</a></i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I just passed my 68th year, day before yesterday, and actually it was the absolute best solar return ever! Such a paradox. I don't know how to explain it.<br />I hope each and everyone of your lives is subject to the same exquisite paradoxes. Light and dark. Grace and tribulation. Moment by moment. Ready for anything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I leave you with a link to an incredible documentary film which I feel everyone, ESPECIALLY all young people, should watch: <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz" target="_blank"><b><i><u>The Internet's Own Boy</u></i></b></a>, most excellent, mind-blowing and disturbing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and a powerful recent speech by Dr. Steven Best at 2014 US National AR Conference -</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, this Avatar walks into a bar.....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because she is an avatar, she has unimaginably unlimited powers (siddhis). She can simultaneously walk into every bar on every military base, mercenary "civilian contractor" and "intel" compound, every VFW hall, every legionaire's club, every VA facility and the like, in every corner of the world, in every land. She can simultaneously address every soldier and veteran of foreign campaigns from every colonial, imperialistic, and ideologically-driven war, past and present, and even the ghosts of "the fallen".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She captures every pair of eyes in her fierce gaze, and addresses each and every one thusly:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"OK, listen up, jack-ass sons-'o-bitches sissies, you fucking chicken-shit, unreflective, unrepentant, self-absorbed inhuman pieces of excrement - what the hell ever made you think you were deserving of 'support', respect, honor, thanks for 'service' - for serving the most base, disgusting, ignorant, demonic, reptilian qualities of your species and the worst, most psychopathic, sick fuck rulers,politicians, bankers, war-profiteering arms-dealers, and psychotic asshole frankensteinian weapons-"scientists" throughout millenia on this planet??! And for serving the most vile of environmentally destructive agencies on this, My beautiful Earth? WTF? Who the fuck are YOU??! What are YOU??!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You slaughter, bomb to pieces, serial-rape the most pure and virginal, and wade through the gore and blood of your brothers, your mothers, your children, the defenceless, the innocent, the human and animal nations, while delusionally calling yourselves "warriors", though you haven't even scratched the surface of confronting or combating your own inner demons and symptoms of psycho-spiritual Wetiko disease. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are absolute and total failures of My Creation, you have shit on and defiled every precious and sacred gift offered and given, and therefore will henceforth spend your next trillion yugas of lifetimes as fully conscious tapeworms in the intestines and assholes of rabid charnal-ground dogs in a far far universe of no sustenance nor beauty nor peace. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You have wasted this planet, her lifeforms, and her infinite beauty, for no reason, only because you were too chicken-shit to acknowledge your own inner truth, conscience, and intuitive guiding voice telling you loudly, every second, that your Thought Leaders'™ commands, patriotic bullshit propaganda, and exhortations were OBVIOUSLY AND CLEARLY INSANE! You were given the divine capacity of <u>discrimination</u> and you CHOSE to piss on it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I am done here, so you can just suck it up, and man up and reap what you have sown.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a day, muthafuckas."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Oh, PS - I have a special treat for those of you who swallowed the dumb-shit, toxic, and blasphemous garbage-concept of <u>racial-and-tribal superiority and supremac</u>y, and have been too cowardly to reject and renounce such evil, and instead <b>declared all-out war on my beloved humanity</b>...<i>But I'll let it be a surprise</i>. Don't you love my sense of humor!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So go ahead and pick up your guns <b>right now</b>, and remember the safety-rule: "never to the side, always in the mouth", and all pull the triggers, and let's get on with it."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's how Divine Goddesses roll. With class. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aahhh, a big dump always feels good, ahem, ok, back to <i>this</i> reality. Well, there is a so-called 'landlord' in this here 'property' we currently inhabit. But, actually this lady on the right, out the window, is the true <i>land-lady</i> of these sacred grounds. She comes periodically, with her young male friend, to visit us, trimming the alfalfa and the delectable columbine flowers. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, this concept of earth-ownership, whether by so-called man's "laws" or from some twisted, demonic fake-religion asserting a "chosen" ownership, is the root and origin of all this planet-wasting war shit. War is the natural consequence and logical outcome of the "propertarian" philosophy. It's really very simple and straightforward. Then, the diseased mind conjures up the principle that the "other", currently occupying "your" land, can be dealt and disposed with by any means because their "trespassing" renders them something less human or some such crap. Up till now, our current era, when all the stops have been pulled out and the volume of insanity is up to '11', there has been an effort to publicly mitigate the hate rhetoric, in the way that we hear Satanyahoo talk about "restraint" in the genocidal process. This is like listening to Temple Grandin explain her "happy slaughterhouse" - where one feels better going up the ramp, but the psychopathic group-supremacist fucks are feeling less and less inclined to bother with such niceties any more, since they - the chicken-shit 'proportionalists' - feel they've achieved the pinnacle of the dung-heap, "owning" all the full-spectrum vile-language narrative that humanity is subjected to from birth to grave. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just wish I could somehow summon a stronger level of speech to convey my utter disgust, as well as my infinite opposition and curse on the power-that-shouldn't-be, but we'll have to let this little song from 2009 inspire us a bit, knowing we are <i>definitely</i> not isolated and alone:</span></span><br />
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bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-58478046587681276702014-07-10T00:06:00.000-07:002014-07-10T00:06:22.901-07:00No catchy title<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I don't know if you noticed, but they've pretty much succeeded in getting us used to these ubiquitous headlines:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mostly Children, Women and the Elderly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">US-backed Regime Threatens Bloodbath</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's how they roll. I forget, is it 80% or 85% "civilians"? In 2 centuries of wars, it's somewhere in that range. I can't come up with any clever wordsmithing today, humorous ironic spin, or release-valve entertainment</span>. <span style="font-size: small;">There's only the images out there of children, women, and the elderly blown up into a million pieces of bloody meat, body parts strewn around for yards on a cell-phone capture, or today's Palestinian toddler with his legs blow off.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Syria/Iraq, lately Ukraine, and now Gaza - cast lead/pillar of fire 2.0 will be in your face momentarily.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Here's quintessential psychopathic/wetiko/archontic language:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpT-o4V4JHY" target="_blank">Netanyahu's remarks</a>, if you can stomach 3 min. 3 seconds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Want to know the numbers....of bottle-rocket deaths? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">2004-2012: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/dissecting-idf-propaganda-the-numbers-behind-the-rocket-attacks.html" target="_blank"><strong>Total fatalities in the history of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel: 26</strong></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right....twenty-six.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really, do we have to listen to/read any more group-supremacy mind-fuckery? Lately there's a trend of rehab-ing "brilliant german aryan scientific geniuses", and aryan euro "mystics". Nazis...Jews...take your pick. Where did it all begin? Where will it end?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, with the situation of plutocratic insanity ruling the western world and most of the rest of the planet, the ~80% ponerization of the 7 billion, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manifest destinies, samson options, </span></span></span>the 6th extinction, and the near total drowning out of the grown-up voices in the house, I would offer a modest proposal, a 'short' list of "ENEMIES", and "SOURCES OF THE PROBLEMS" which may, just maybe, <b>not</b> be the most crucial targets and focuses of attention to be spending time discussing or even listening to those voices calling out these subjects for either egoistic or emotional social engineering purposes.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In no particular order:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />multiculturalism</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">immigration and 'illegals'</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">political correctness</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gay marriage/agenda</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">abortion, birth control</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">environmentalists, regulations</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">animal rights/PETA terrorists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chavez, Castro</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">feminazis</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Islamist suicide bombers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the war on christianity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">white genocide, race mixing</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ACLU</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">communists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">black president</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">voter fraud</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hajib/burka</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AIM, indigenous activists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wealth re-distributionists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anti-americanism/semitism</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">climate-change hoaxers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gun-grabbers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no-growthers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">marijuana legalizers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pagans</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free-loaders, welfareists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hunt saboteurs </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">liberals, socialists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hippies</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unionists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">foreign aid</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bottle rockets</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ungrateful, ignorant Africans</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">insecure borders</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">conspiracy theorists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whistle-blowers, hacktivists</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anarchists</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to add your own favorite divide-and-rule buzz-words. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peace, out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">first of 7 lotus flowers in our irrigation pond opened up. The unfolding beauty of a late spring holds our attention a good portion of the time, along with daily diet and herb protocols. Hey, it's all medicine ways, and what almost no one can ignore in the times. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cat here has been getting a constant "what for" from one of the magpies from about 3 feet away (which he respects), and we finally saw 3 of possibly 4 chicks [ok, definitely 4, heh] which are getting their flying skills together, but still being fed by the mom, since worm dowsing basics are just being introduced. The chicks [see below] are plump, only minus the distinguishing foot-long tail feathers of the adults. Coyote Man stays mostly behind the tree line, and magpie mom also gives him shit if he shows up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With all the ongoing mainly-shit-media inundation with false-flag, cia-sponsored terror threat propaganda [ISIS], and [israeli-inspired] demonic projection onto the "evil" Persians, something veeeery interesting [nay, mindblowing] was brought to my attention by a good friend - <a href="http://realitysandwich.com/219826/ayahuasca-and-the-godhead-an-interview-with-wahid-azal-of-the-the-fatimiya-sufi-order/" target="_blank">THIS ARTICLE</a> regarding a recent fatwa [ruling] by President Rouhani, who is not only not a dipshit, but may be a mystic. The subject is entheogens and Islam, so, just check it out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about that war-on-everything real and sane? - that one waged for last 5000 years by those who serve the archons/demiurge/wetiko/yaldabaoth/imposter/predator/false-creator.... Would calling out every last one of the insane, mindless, soul-less, robotic servants and enablers, and somehow branding them, disable the omnicidal agenda? Letting it be known that anyone doing 'business' or lifting a finger in their aid could also expect branding? Just a fantasy thought-dream that runs through this mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each new atrocity, to human or animal, is just another page in the mind-fuckery playbook. After how many thousands of years of 'shock&awe'(?), another 50-100 oughtta just about finish Her off [and the humans too]. What does it make one feel to hear of the poaching of Satao in Kenya, the largest elephant on earth? [Was going to put a link, but I think not. The Guardian article has hundreds of comments. About 80% range from "elephants are useless, let 'em go extinct" to "it's the liberals and environmentalists and stupid Africans' fault". Do you know there are paid armies of morons to spew this mind-polluting meanness shit all over the web? It's part of the playbook of the ancient agenda, and still growing daily.]
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HOWEVER,...there is a new, long-needed site recently put together which offers a secure, professionally managed process to safely report <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/12/wildleaks-illegal-wildlife-crime" target="_blank">WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME - <u>WILDLEAKS</u></a> - targeting what is now a $20 billion/year 'industry'. And it WILL name names...and hopefully more. Numerous leads in the first 3 months.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if we could only shame every single asshole who works for the absurdly-named "Wildlife Services". They wasted 4 million (their figure) birds and animals in 2013. Birds: because they "eat too much". Is it ironic that HALF the food produced in the "civilized" world for humans gets thrown out, or what?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please spend some time checking out some of a decade's worth of photos taken by Jo-Ann McArthur and the accompanying texts from her book project <a href="http://www.weanimals.org/" target="_blank"><u>WE ANIMALS</u></a>. Below are two photos of "Ron", a chimpanzee rescued after <b>30 years</b> in a lab cage (mostly New Mexico). Here, with freedom in the sanctuary, he could never bring himself to touch the earth and grass, but till the end of his days he expressed peace, gentleness, deep wisdom and <i>forgiveness</i>. <i>SEEN?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something else - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It may be cliché to say "must see", but that's what this is, a <i>must see</i>: watch this 46 min. film produced by Smithsonian - <a href="http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/3406405/shark-girl" target="_blank"><u>SHARK GIRL</u></a></span></span>. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Exquisitely filmed, chronicling the work of 20-yr. old Madison Stewart.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are scenes of great beauty, and about 20 min. in, brought tears to my eyes. You will be inspired. Should be shown in all schools everywhere.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We could now circle back around into 'the mystic' (cue Van), but actually where is the boundary line of earth-bound mind and mystical? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dogen says, "Whoever told people that 'Mind' means thoughts, opinions, ideas, and concepts? Mind means trees, fence posts, tiles, and grasses". [from The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So much has already been said of the natural mysticism of "the old ways", so much, for so long. Gary Snyder touched deeply on the subject in his lecture/essay <a href="http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/poep.pdf" target="_blank">"The Politics of Ethnopoetics"</a> <b>in 1975! </b>[thanks to a contributor to <a href="http://deepintoartlifewest.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nina's blog</a>] Like, when will 'civilization' heed its poets? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again, I bring up a contemporary masterpiece, a work unparalleled in my lifetime, perhaps the most important book of our century, and maybe many many centuries, which should not only be heeded, but taken to heart by all real humans living on Mother Earth today. I'm speaking of Martin Prechtel's <u><b>The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic</b> - The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive</u>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't know of, or think there has ever been, any such minutely detailed, mystical, scientific, mythic, soul-grabbing, poetic, full description of what one intact indigenous Earth-Wisdom society, in particular, has/had held, preciously, for thousands of years in continuous cultivation and continuous re-birthing, ever written down and published. And that's not all of what it is. This work is also speaking of the phenomenon of a deep, unseen, process of our Earth's natural world to survive, preserve, and re-birth critical elements which, as we experience, get 'lost', get defiled, get disempowered, and even 'disappeared'. This process happens through the strange co-operation of all levels of plant life, animal life, elemental life, and human life too, in a combination impossible to anticipate or predict. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Astonishing evidential tales abound in this volume, for example the story of the Holy Flame Tree of Time - one in particular, the original of its kind on earth, so hated by the "christians" [of all stripes] for <b>many centuries</b> that they tried to cut, saw, dig, burn, chop, even <b>blow up with dynamite</b>, but it would never die, always coming back stronger than ever. This is not fiction or fantasy. Discovering what this tree really is is a revelation and delight, but that's only one small part of this immense teaching text.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prechtel gives a series of practices, from his tradition, which illustrate the types and levels of commitment we will have to undertake if we are going to preserve life on earth and "make the wasteland grow" for our descendants, and for us to become worthy of being descended from. In this there is no escaping the enormous, deeply heart-wrenching truth of the magnificence of what unimaginably beautiful human culture has existed here and the inconceivable level of spiritual ignorance that perpetrated and permitted its (and perpetrates and permits the ongoing) destruction. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"<i>Most of us everywhere descend several thousand years from people of great and amazing qualities, qualities no longer understood, or valued, much less recognized in this present citified world, but qualities of our ancestral past still encoded in our spiritual bones in which we know ourselves, as they did, to be the direct descendants of not only Holy animals but more so of plants. People who in some remote long-running era of our distant past before there was a Chinese empire, and Egyptian empire, a Sumerian empire, before there ever was a Europe, in eras of small, amazing, agrarian cultures in which our ancestors still knew how to proceed as humans are meant to, on an earth they would not simply mine or harness, pollute or domesticate without great consideration, people whose everyday existence was not dedicated to a fear of not surviving, and therefore not dedicated to production, paranoiac defense, scarcity, or milking dry the world, but to a spirituality that knew how to feed the beauty of human ingenuity, art, language, and physical presence to the natural world just as they would feed a suckling mother.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In some forgotten part of us all there yet towers the roofless ruins of a neatly made, tiny earth-and-timber palace of unconscious memory in whose thick walls these amazing ancestors have left for us to find a pot of precious seeds, indigenous seeds of still-viable knowledge and living vitality, seeds that could resprout into view the organic articles of the original treaty we humans promised long ago to uphold between ourselves and the natural world at the time we first began to manipulate the earth, her plants, and animals through agriculture and pastoral herding. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mudded into these forgotten ramparts of our Indigenous Souls, these seeds of how humans are meant to live have been passed unnoticed like recessive spiritual genes in our souls from grandparent to grandchild for millenia, waiting for each generation to consciously rediscover them, replant them into welcoming ground, and once again cultivate into view a real, liveable mythic origins and a small, viable array of ritual seed cultures worth descending from.....</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The truth is, the seeds do not need to be found because they are already found. We are the ones who need to be found, for the seeds are wherever we go." </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solstice blessings to all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Onelove, Oneheart </span></span><br />
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<br />bholanathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722069078428772316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555143780258227796.post-23109069037448653982014-06-03T13:54:00.000-07:002014-06-03T13:54:41.283-07:00Does a rhino die every time I purchase cheap Chinese crap?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A friend once said to me, "every time you fill up the tank, a Saudi sheik gets a blonde". So now I wonder about the question in the above title. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We've kind of been led to believe that it's the bullshit quack side of Traditional Chinese Medicine that's fueling the rhino extinction. No doubt that's part of the story, but what I found here is extremely shocking - shocking not in the sense of what's going on on the ground in Africa, but what's going on sociologically in China and the "new found" wealth:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.karlammann.com/pdf/rhino-bling.pdf" target="_blank">THE RHINO AND THE BLING</a>. Yeah, no shit....we're talking 'jewelry' here, and....swear-to-gawd, <i>prayer beads</i>! And the dollar numbers are outrageous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You or I might think: how can the 'consumer' of these items not wonder why the price tags are what they are? Well, we might think about that, but I see no answer forthcoming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Check out the real situation:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nation war against nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where did it all begin?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When will it end?..." and you know the next line....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in this local reality realm, I was unable to find the contact info for my good friend who gifted me with the tiny hand-made deities (above) from India last year. No luck, having gone through email lists, address books, etc., and I figured it would get resolved sometime in future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I had to catch a plane from a gig last week in Oakland to Burbank (hollyweird!) for the next gig. Someone calls out my name at the boarding gate - it's my very same friend, on the same flight! This synchronicity phenomenon is really something when you're in the zone. The whole freakin' week was like that. A sense of how that happens is starting to form, but I don't yet have the words. It's an energy thing, definitely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It also doesn't hurt to have love involved in your daily vibration.</span><br />
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