Being Number 1, and A Clue for Sports Fans

"Humans...of all natural beings are the only ones to be able to efficiently survive with no wisdom." - Martin Prechtel 

So freakin strange to me how all the narcissistic too-cool-for-school kool-aid drinkers, writers and bloggers and radio commentators, most of whom give big rec to the anti-'politically-correct' whiners, the anti-diversity crowd, the anti-race-mixing crowd, the anti-immigration crowd, the pro-occidental-culture crowd, pro-nationalistic crowd, the pro-capitalism crowd, the anti-affirmative-action crowd, etc, now - because he famously and humorously verbally shreds the sick-ass zionists and their enablers - embrace the French-Cameroonese comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, because he 'pisses off the Jews'.
But, nevertheless somehow, commie pinko leftists and political correctness are still the greatest problems facing humanity on earth, apparently. So, everybody on board with demonizing Pete Seeger? OK, good. [ahem, sarcasm]
I hung with him in Benares in '07 at my guru's house. He sang "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram" for the Indians (Gandhi's fave tune). He was there to meet with the Mahant, who initiated the Clean Ganga Movement, and my good late friend. Just found this photo of Mahant with the Muslim mufti of Benares - top dudes of the Hindu and Muslim communities chillin' together:

Everything's so goddamn clear-cut, neat, and tidy, I can hardly stand it (cough).
Civilization is such a catastrophic mistake. So far gone beyond any redeeming value.

100 million dumfuk 'merkins tune into super-shitter-bowl. A celebration of a level of ignorance never before achieved in the history of the galaxy. All over the land major rivers and water sources fill up with the most toxic substances ever created, at home while, in their names and with their oblivious apathetic approval, children freeze to death by the hundreds in Afghanistan and children eat dogs and cats as they die of starvation in Syria, courtesy of 'merkin/euro-created-and-supported fanatic psychopath armies of christ and allah, spread throughout the world like an evil wind, which it is. Study: Estimated that 30-50% food produced in the world is either thrown away or never makes it to market. Hell, native people are freezing to death on the rez, but who gives a shit?
"We're number 1!" The number one sickest, most vile, most ponerized, most anti-life, most violent, most destructive, most innocence-hating, most un-natural, most forgetful, most useless, most culture-less empire of insanity ever to exist on Earth. Since everything's about "winning", well, this "thing" has reached the finish line.

Homs, Syria - 2 yrs ago and now

Aleppo bazaar - 2 yrs ago and now

Some stats on good ol' No 1's winning achievements, since WWII:
Korea, 'Nam, Eyeraq 1 &2 - 10-15 million dead
Af-Pak, Angola, DRCongo, E. Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sudan - 9-14 million dead
Plus ~10x those numbers of wounded

How many on the planet are NOT infected by the Wetiko virus, and/or not under the spell of inevitability of mindless drudgery-and-inane-distraction from cradle to grave, with underlying desperate effort against incessant boredom? Two percent? One percent? Meaning artists, poets, musicians, mystics, shamans, misfits, gypsies, uncompromising self-inquirers.
And, whatever the numbers, what is the real work to be done, done in the moment, in the moments from awakening to rest? Trying to creatively come up with ways to neutralize the "other one percent" at the top of the Wetiko epidemic, while simultaneously aware of immanent probability of extinction and/or total destruction, or surrender to trust in forces greater than we can know or imagine at work, and living each moment in awareness and love and reverence with that trust? Holding the trust seems to be the essential work, and all the great teachings, scriptures and guide-books basically leave it in one's own hands to know the authenticity of each person's source of knowing. It's beyond "figuring out". How deep can your meditation go? How much can you "get out of the way", and let creation happen?

Speaking of these mysterious numbers, I've learned that the animal communicator woman, Anna, who since having the leopard video go viral has received over 10,000 requests for help in participating in that type of work by folks around the world. That's ten thousand who actually sat down and wrote her about workshops, etc.  What does that number mean? How many considered it, but didn't quite follow through? What actually IS GOING ON?
If you need a break here, have a listen to something that came out 43 years ago. And really check out the words behind the insanely magical grooves of the Funk Brothers. Could every single line of these tunes have been written this morning?

 

I saw those photos of Putin famously calming the leopard cub, saying how he has "a feeling for animals", and thought maybe I should move to Russia (LOL), then he goes and gives the go-ahead to poison thousands of street dogs and feral cats for the Olympics. OK, scratch that idea. Everywhere is the same, the message that keeps getting pounded into my head.

Speaking of sports, ahem….here's some words from Martin Prechtel's 2012 masterpiece The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic, speaking about the indigenous practice of prayer via RUNNING in the Pueblos of northern New Mexico:

[The tourists ask,] "how do they know who wins? How do they know when to stop running? Why do they run at all?"
"If someone actually broke the rules of tribal secrecy and told them that the Sun and the Moon and other beings that move in time and give us life are kept strong by the boys who run, and because the Sun annually runs his own race and helps the animals to thrive by doing so, and that the Sun tires, and when he tires, the world and all the animal beings begin to flag, and die, and without the animals we would die, and the running of the boys helps the Sun to keep moving and strong and the visible world strong, and that the Moon runs even harder but in a different pulse and by doing so keeps all the waters flowing, the plants growing and maturing, without which we and everything else, especially the animals, die, and because for both the Sun and the Moon in the sky there are no finish lines; they must keep moving or the world dies; for if there were a finish line the world would cease, so the beauty and strength of the boys' helped lift again these gods back into their eternal continuum so the world wouldn't die….so the world revived by the boys' running would be the winner."
" ...Civilization's spiritual fear of being left behind insists that its constituents unquestioningly race to survive, running only to ambitiously outstrip their neighbors instead of competing together to sustain Nature by feeding the beauty of human racing to the Holy."
"...Everything in Nature ran according to its own nature; the running of grass was in its growing, the running of rivers their flowing, granite bubbled up, cooled, compressed and crumbled, birds lived, flew, sang and died, everything did what it needed to do, each simultaneously running its own race, each by living according to its own nature together, never leaving any other part of the universe behind. The world's Holy things raced constantly together, not to win anything over the next, but to keep the entire surging diverse motion of the living world from grinding to a halt, which is why there is no end to that race; no finish line. That would be oblivion to all."
"…the entire devastating and hideous state of the world and its constant wounding and wrecking of the wild, beautiful, natural, viable and small, only to keep alive an untenable cultural proceedance is truly a spiritual sickness, one that will not be cured by the efficient use of the same thinking that maintains the sickness. Nor can this overly expensive, highly funded illness be symptomatically kept at bay longer by yet more political, environmental, or social programs."

There's so much more deep wisdom here, but that's a taste.

In the realm of deep cultural wisdom and ancient musical traditions, I leave you with the excellent Tony McMahon, traditional Irish accordion maestro - a 1/2 hour music-filled exploration of the true artist philosophy, spoken by one of the greatest musicians I've had the pleasure of hanging with, back in late '70s for a couple weeks of hitting the Irish pubs while he was in the country.
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My 'mental problem' with 'tradition'

Grieving mother calling

So. The world, or a relatively large collectivity of its population, has just experienced an elevated focus and an interactive communicative expression around the recent phenomenon of what we might call "the Cove Experience". Actually, only about a dozen of "us" were really there 'on site', but undoubtedly millions were 'there' in some way. 

There were, interestingly, some articles in major media which quoted various pundits of the Wetiko death culture saying that those who 'connected' to the event (especially those on-site) are individuals who are suffering from certain kinds of "mental and emotional problems" and/or "problems in their personal lives". That's always predictable. And interestingly enough, this came up this morning in a post by R.J. Burrowes - Open letter to soldiers with 'mental issues' - very appropriately:
"Human beings have a brilliantly diverse and complex array of emotions and hence potential emotional responses as a result of the evolutionary pressures that shaped the emergence of hominids over millions of years. An extraordinary emotional capacity is one of the defining features of our humanity and, I would argue, far more important than any other feature such as our intellectual capacity..."

We have not all experienced war-zones in our lives, myself included, but we all live on a war-planet and a slaughterhouse-planet (and pretty near police-state-planet), and that reality effects every cell of every being. 
Ok, see here's my 'mental problem': 
I used to sit on the banks of the Ganges doing my practice, playing my drum, for days, for years - for the dolphins - who were my dancing, chirping, and attentive audience; who also accompanied my daily baths in the river (it was cleaner then), chirping at me, playfully swimming between my legs, circling me while I swam, and generally making my time there ecstatic.
It has grieved me intensely to see how they have almost completely disappeared from Varanasi during the last 4 decades - after being present for millions of years - due to pollution, where you still see the posters hanging in chai-shops of MaGanga-goddess-riding-on-her-dolphin calendar art. 
In later years, I experimented with playing on the cliffs of Point Reyes (Calif.) for the migrating whales. Similarly, they would pause and hang out, tuning in to the rhythms as I attempted to tune into them with prayers for their health and safe journeys.
Around 1979 we heard about the slaughter going on at Iki Island, Japan - similar to the present situation in Taiji - and there were strong protests. That's fucking 35 years ago! My thing was to spend all one night painting dead dolphins on the sidewalk the entire way around the Japan Embassy in San Francisco. 
Hello! Good morning!

Here's the deal: Whales and dolphins are running the Song Lines, in the same way various aboriginal cultures have done for tens of thousands of years. Whales and dolphins have been considered holy animals, very close to human beings in spirit and body, forever in most traditional cultures, and some whales only killed by those whose lives depend upon it, and with interspecies communication and arrangement. I don't know of any culture that consumed dolphin meat. [A few years back, in Taiji, that horrid little demonic town, a dolphin was caught who had vestigal "leg" flippers - thought by some indicative of their ancient 'land-form' from whence they returned to the sea.]

Well, I'm not even going to get into the "emotional capacity" of the cetaceans, since a mountain of evidence is readily available, but it's as huge, if not exponentially huger, than human levels. But what happened this week is, in part, a result of the massive exposure of the film Blackfish in screenings, on the web, and repeated broadcasts on TV. The crucial and defining scene in Blackfish depicts the mother Orca wailing for her child. This is what took place - livestreamed, and replayed, and described in extensive media (CBS, CNN, NBC, BBC, etc) and through SeaShepherd.org sites - a mother dolphin, captured in the Taiji net-pens, bobbing out of the water, calling and calling for her baby who was taken FIRST, on account of his/her being a rare spirit white animal destined for lifetime slavery/imprisonment for entertainment somewhere in dumfukistan, and then just submerging and never resurfacing, as witnessed by the Cove Guardian crew on-site. [Rick O'Barry, of 'Flipper' and 'The Cove' film fame, had 'Flipper' commit suicide right in his arms, so they're fully capable of it.] The now-captive baby has been named "Shoujo" by Capt. Watson, and "Angel" by others.

Shoujo/Angel -SeaShepherd.org

See, these demons are very fucking SCIENTIFIC, so they know that dolphin calves stay next to the mother FOR YEARS. These a-holes and their mafia politician mouthpieces are very fucking TRADITIONAL too, don't ya know. Well....
Sakae Hemmi of the Elsa Nature Conservancy in Japan said the claim of tradition is false.
"In fact, the history of dolphin hunting in Taiji is short. According to The History of Taiji, edited and published by Taiji town in 1979, the first recorded dolphin drive was in 1933, with subsequent hunts occurring in 1936 and 1944. It was not until 1969 that dolphin drives have been conducted on a large scale. The history of the dolphin drives spans not so-called 400 years, but a mere 45. Furthermore, in 1969, the main goal of the dolphin drive was to capture pilot whales as prized showpieces for the Taiji Whale Museum. In other words, the dolphin drive was purely for profit, having nothing to do with cultural history."
So, it's purely another instance of psychopathic lying bullshit, like everything that comes out of the mouths of death-culture defenders. Btw, captives are sold for $quarter-to-half-million a pop to SeaWorld-type parks around the world, but I'm sure that's not a factor...

Anyhow, "the whole world is watching" is not just an old 60s phrase. Viewers on all major media were given, repeatedly, a detailed description of just how 'humanely' the dolphin beings are 'put down' (up to 30 minutes to die), they were shown image after image of the color RED, a deep vibrant red, of the water of the bay in which two hundred [50 others previously captured for sale over 4 days] exhausted, traumatized, starving beings swam for hours in the blood of their relatives, they were shown the 'fishermen' driving over and over with their outboard motors through the tightly-packed, thrashing, bleeding, panicked pod, they saw the metal hooks grabbing the beings from the blowholes, ramming them against the skiffs....
Thousands around the world spread messages, called embassies, voiced their disgust and HATRED for the entire Japanese nation and culture for several days. Big hollywood and music 'stars' weighed in (incl. Japan-born Yoko Ono, etc). Caroline Kennedy (US Japan ambassador) was 'disturbed at the inhumaneness', but, I hear, later swallowed the false "tradition" kool-aid (or was it the mafia Dallas-style sniper-rifle hint?). 
And the group "Anonymous" hacked and shut down the provincial government's web-site, and warned of further, larger attacks if the "drive hunt" isn't stopped in next few weeks.

I should mention, for those not familiar with the scene 'over there', but perhaps now a lot more exposed: In Taiji, the mercury-embedded dolphin flesh is sold as "whale meat" and served in school lunches; the government is fully aware of this. Not only that, but (this is for real, you can't make this shit up) in Taiji they have a "whale museum"-and-dolphinarium where they keep some of the surviving from the slaughters, make them do tricks for the same "trainers" who just killed their relatives, so the idiot morons of the lesser human species can watch the 'family entertainment', then lunch on dolphin burgers. No, really.

The Cove film has been out since 2009 - 5 years. This week's Taiji round-up of 250 dolphins was maybe the biggest score for the soul-less butchers since that time. The combination of the numbers and the albino white calf probably just pushed the issue over into mass awareness. It has now finally spilled over into mainstream Japanese media too, bigtime. People there are becoming aware of the anger directed at their culture. But they're also a complete nation of sheep/robotic-and-programmed-slaves, like the vast majority of humanity. I have no expectations of "change" regarding anything to do with the infinite wrongness and insanity of everything the human species does to life and the Earth. I can only stand in awe of the people of SeaShepherd 'Operation Infinite Patience' witnessing and documenting this shit.

Been basically in an existential funk for days now, triggered by the 'event', but connected to very broad trends of events over my 67 years in this here Yuga...as I look at the Ganges dolphins I included in my 1980s tantric art piece on the wall.....
The question of why the dolphins don't warn other pods to stay away keeps coming up more recently, and the same in the matter of Faroe Islands "grind" of pilot whales. I've been trying to meditate on it. This is definitely different than 'beaching' due to various toxicities affecting health. Communicators say the cetaceans are supremely aware of our fucked-up-ness, and at the same time they are under enormous stresses, some of which we (and they) aren't even aware of the source (they're piling up wasted on Florida beaches and practically everywhere). Pods off Taiji, even in recent days, have out-run the 'banger boats', so they surely aren't trying to self-sacrifice. Maybe they just want a peaceful death somewhere, because THEY ARE LEAVING this stupid, human-destroyed realm/density FOR GOOD. Some 'channelers' have said as much recently.

Anyway, btw, I'm not a believer in the "avatar" meme - any of them, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and all the rest, especially the "ones to come" - about 'fixing' shit for the stupid, failed human species, fixing human madness. The stories all seem like social control mechanisms concocted by religions, based on a-holes who heard second-hand stories about mystic individuals' entheogenic journeys, and got the idea of a business model plan. Sure, I've had direct experience of non-physical energy beings, including our Mother planet Herself, and various powerful entities that assist shamanic travelers and cultural creatives. But, nothing even close to convince me that anyone or anything is going to show up, knock everyone to their knees, and display just exactly how we are gonna have to get our shit together, step by step. I think anyone promoting this type of scenario is self-deluded, and/or just running another age-old scam to stroke their narcissistic ego and keep from working at contributing something of beauty for the larger world of living beings.

What I see is that most everyone has forgotten what "culture" actually is. "Tradition" has become just another form of cover-up too. 'Why are we here?', Where did we come from?', Where are we going?' - these can only be answered in the deep silence within, never spoken. What people have known in their indigenous wisdom for millenia is that we humans have our instructions, like all sentient beings - to embody what "culture" actually is: creating beauty to feed the mystery/the holy by our actions, creations, expressions, and our very being-ness every day of our lives. 
Is there more? Perhaps if we followed our original instructions everything else would perfectly follow/fall into place, and be revealed, and no absurd desperate 'search for meaning' and 'way out of suffering' would be necessary or even exist. 

The final word on our madness of destruction of all life, running toward some imaginary 'finish line', and about what matters and what we should care and feel for, how we regard other sentient beings is: DO THEY SUFFER? 
If the answer is 'yes', then we are response-able. Can we respond with beauty? Can we apply our energy and resources to ending the pointless, stupid, and unnecessary madness of total destruction? Perhaps, even by any means necessary? These all become personal questions; there is no 'general' answer. 

I am making an amendment to what I previously wrote regarding the book Dispelling Wetiko. I still think it is an extraordinary and important book and subject. 
However, I have begun reading Martin Prechtel's latest - The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic. What I will say is that in the very first chapter, there is more wisdom on the subject of humanity's root disease than in anything I've ever heard or read in my life. Then, the most extraordinary tale follows, which will blow the reader away completely. 
Martin's previous book, Stealing Benefacio's Roses, was a life-changer for me, and I anticipate the same for this volume, which I've only begun. I can't recommend this enough.

Coming back around to where I began here - an example of the ones with "mental problems" who are so feared, standing in witness, in silence:

We Will Remember from Animal Rights on Vimeo.

"We're not going to change Sexism until we address how we live with the Mother Entity, the Earth, and that's the reality of it. And we're not going to change and deal effectively with Racism until we change how we live with the Living Plants and Animals and World that is the Earth. And if we ignore these two things, then no matter what the people do and create for themselves, there will always be Madness and Chaos, because they're only Pretending to be connected." - John Trudell

          

     

Sacred White Dolphin Calf Taken by Psychopathic Japanese POS - UPDATE: SUICIDE AND SLAUGHTER

HAPPY MLK DAY!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said the following:

“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

THE MOTHER OF THE SPIRIT SACRED WHITE DOLPHIN CALF HAS COMMITTED SUICIDE.

THE SLAUGHTER OF 200 REMAINING BEINGS IS BEGINNING RIGHT NOW (2PM PT).

Do what you must. We are with them. They are us.

http://livestream.seashepherd.org/

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING 

A sacred white dolphin calf has been taken by the Taiji pieces of shit to sell for hopefully millions $$$ to one of the despicable sea mammal "entertainment" crime corporations. He/she is part of 5 pods of bottlenose captured 2 days ago of up to 250 individuals, now awaiting slaughter (one of the largest captures in years).  
The calf was separated from the mother, loaded onto a truck, and taken to the Taiji "dolphin park" for holding. An albino calf will probably not survive without the mother, even less so than a normal calf. So the assholes won't end up making a dime.
JesusFchrist, every real culture in the goddamn world knows an albino animal is sacred. What the fuck is wrong with these subhumans?...oh, right, never mind. We know the answer.
US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy has issued a statement condemning the practice, and this instance in particular. 

Don't know what anyone can do, but it is an urgent issue being followed by millions on social media, etc. 
Now's the time to contact Japan consulates and embassies, support SeaShephardSociety, and spread word to boycott, shut down all Sea World type facilities forever, as well as tell everyone you know to watch BLACKFISH film. 

I will be exercising my communication skills as suggested by Anna Breytenbach in my last post. 

Here is one link of many, if one merely uses a search engine:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/japan-dolphin-hunt/
also the whole thing is being livestreamed at SeaShephard.org or Cove Guardians

 

Do Animals Remember What We've Forgotten?; Some encouraging signs for the new year

   

Writing about animal issues and not being a vegan (but mainly vegetarian) may seem strange to some. That's how it is though, and will likely remain so (too much time in India?). I have played instruments made of animal skins for 40+ years, and have always tried to track the source if possible - it's important and should be an integral part of our lives. We were recently gifted by a native Alaska woman with her smoked salmon that was the most exquisite medicine/food I've ever tasted. A small amount was savored over many days. On top of that came a neck/head-warming strip of sea otter pelt that heats up one's skin significantly in an instant in the sub-freezing weather here. This has nothing to do with 'fashion', and involves certain traditional ways of hunting, that we'll get more into later. Just wanted to put that out there fwiw. 

   Recently we watched the documentary "Dakota 38", and a couple days later found out our firewood guy down the road is a student and sun-dance participant with one of the elders who organizes and rides every year at Christmas time. There's an important and fascinating addendum to the story written on New Years day by John Kane (Mohawk) regarding Amerika's Greatest Emancipator Executioner. Not that it's any big shock and surprise what isn't known by the most historically ignorant population on Earth. (More on that point later, too.)

   Good stuff happens: On Dec. 30, as a result of collaboration between Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the University of Illinois Press, the Global Guide to Animal Protection was just published. The Global Guide includes more than 180 articles that survey the extent of worldwide human exploitation of animals from a variety of perspectives. It is a tremendous accomplishment and a permanent resource reflecting the "growing worldwide sensitivity to animals and a developing sense that - as a matter of justice - they deserve our compassion and respect. It has my warm support," writes Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his forthright foreword to the book.   

   This video was just uploaded New Years Eve by probably the greatest animal rescue-and-sanctuary organization in the world, Animals Asia: an artistic creation-in-motion by the sand artist Yuon Baolong, and singer Yang Yinglan, in support of the Asian Moon Bear rescue-and-rehab efforts - If Only I Could Speak. This needs a million hits.



   Following up on the video of Leopard Diabolo/Spirit (1/4 million hits in 1 month), we listened to a 1-1/2 hr. interview with the animal communicator Anna Breytenbach (HERE). Worth the listen, especially for the connecting guided meditation at the end, but if you haven't time in your life (I know), these are some of the astonishing and crucially important revelations that Anna has received in her communication experiences:

   "Animals are willing companions on the communication journey.

   "They are very aware of the general illness that humankind is suffering from. They have immense compassion for how we humans have lost the plot and what we're doing to ourselves, immense compassion for our disconnection. Animals' primary concern seems to be for us humans.

   "What animals really want is to be seen for who they are - seen, known, and supported energetically. 

   "One of the greatest gifts of nature is [She] being a huge mirror to show us what we're doing individually and collectively.

   "Despite what they are going through, they hold us in everlasting compassion.

   "All animals are always busy in their roles, gifts, and sacred purpose, which we have become blind to discern. So many layers of what they are doing, way outside of ordinary human knowing, and literally doing things as important as stabilizing the planet....whales' migratory paths in sea, elephants' paths on land match ley and magnetic grid lines...(and the fencing and walls of both human environments and arbitrarily designed 'sanctuaries' have drastically screwed up most species' migratory abilities).

   "Animals are connected with deep knowing that physical death is a transition in a state of being, not an ending.

   "Ancient hunters promised good clean, honoring death the night before a hunt, asking the species for a clear sign of which individual would be willing to sacrifice for the human tribe's survival."

That last quote is a far cry from the throw-back-some-beers, get-in-the-pickup, blast-away-at-the-first-thing-that-moves bullshit that today's fake hunter morons engage in throughout the 'civilized'-and-dumbest-empire in the history of the world.

   Recently, our latest 'reverse-litmus-test' word was "commie" - anyone making frequent use in today's world is an idiot.
This week's idiot word (and I don't care what the hell anyone thinks) is this:
"politically correct/PC"! Yeah, that's right. Sorry to break it to those who feel disappointed, but you need to stop being historically ignorant like the rest of the population and the popular bloggers. Here's the history, though I doubt the facts will change the mind of those suckers who have been thinking they're soooo cool guzzling the kool-aid (with the excuse that most justice movement orgs have been co-opted and infiltrated by the usual shit-disturber suspects):
Political Correctness - intended "to insinuate that egalitarian democratic ideas are actually authoritarian, orthodox and Communist-influenced, when they oppose the right of people to be racist, sexist, and homophobic" etc...(I guess we may as well include speciesist in there too.)

  

Very glad to see the story of Esther the wonder pig. Bacon jokers are long overdue for some whacking from the universe, like the fake hunters...
Some of that may be coming in 2014! It may be the year of fed-up, at least, if not 'waking up'.    

 



    

Spiritual Revolution Interrupted

   

Last week I mentioned the 50th year return of 11/22/63 - the JFK hit - which was last month, if anyone was off-planet and missed the days of regurgitation of the half-century of lies and obfuscation. Some people also think that the JFK thing is unimportant and irrelevant to today, medieval history or something.
    The problem with that is: because of the lack of a clear impression of the context - what led up to, and followed that event - in most 'historical' sources available, and/or you weren't there and aware, as it was going down, then you'll have no idea of the depth of the rabbit hole connecting that time to our present.

    Astrologers even interpret the time '66-'69 (approx.) of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction somewhat according to the common impressions that have been propagandized to the public for almost 5 decades. Mostly, people just don't "get" how what exponentially expanded was the fully-committed and fully-funded majorly-focused War-on-revolutionary-mass-consciousness-expansion - BOTH spiritual and political - a 'necessity' which had long been anticipated and planned for. 

    While other, secret and foreign, wars had been going on, the JFK hit was the opening shot for this new domestic-and-universal war. It was also the triggering wake-up gong for a segment of a particular generation. After all the other hits, on Malcolm, on King, on RFK, the Manson case was the final deadly blast to fully and permanently traumatize the expanding minds of a young generation - destined to be relegated to the ('official' historical) status of 'lost failures'.
    Power proceeded to be consolidated in the hands of fascists through further events, social engineering and propaganda. But even the most observant and aware of us don't completely have the full picture of the connections-and-players throughout ALL the psy-operations that went down and are still going down, by the same players and play-book.

    Mae Brussell greatly rounds out this picture in one of her archived radio broadcasts from 1971. Brussell began researching the JFK hit from the day after it happened. Over years she compiled a wall-covering time-line of all the characters' movements and meetings, up to, during, and after the event. As she worked she kept adding and following through months and years the comings and goings of the same characters and their networks, eventually covering all the major psychopathic events of 3 decades. She passed in '88 (likely poisoned). 

   She and I were two out of thousands of the folks at the Monterey Pop (she lived there) - where so many of the musicians were bumped-off in the next following years (no co-incidences). She knows of what she speaks. She was there in the middle of it all. So was I, working at the LA Freepress, where the visionaries gradually overcame the old Marxist/socialist limited paradigm initially setting the vibe, and it joined with the larger exquisite collective vision that solidified briefly for anyone with eyes to see. 

    Back in the 70s-80s I tried to catch as many of Mae's radio shows as I could, from those small South Bay stations, but missed many. This one I had never heard, and it's a mind-blower. What comes out clearly is the major role of language in creating the mind-fuckery and basically the illusory 'powerlessness' we experience against all the atrocious bullshit we're subjected to on every level in our slaughterhouse-planet reality.  
    Listen to just one one-hour broadcast of Brussell from '71, which encapsulates the energy level and intensity of this interrupted revolutionary phenomenon, and just a basic good history lesson you didn't get in school. Sayin' it like it is:
CHARLES MANSON WAS A PATSY

 
 

Best Christmas Movie ever, and falling apart and keeping it together in this time

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 They never told me there would be so many ways to be broken open in this time in one short incarnation. Breaking open coming by way of feeling and witnessing, experiencing the incontrovertible truths revealed along side the rigid, white-knuckled clinging to ignorance, the astonishing beauty and the incomprehensible horrors, the infinite depths of love in close proximity with sheer hatred, the ecstasy of aliveness and the twisted worship of death, the monumental collective mystical visions revealed followed by the crushing obliteration of all possibilities. But that's the way it is, and I've somehow grown to almost welcome the totality of it, even the tears and paralyzing periods of hopelessness and confusion, as it all somehow invariably leads to another deeper level of contemplation and expanded awareness - often feeling like a rebirth into still another universe of unknowns. Ok, bring it on, damn it!

    Awareness of death is the constant, whether its closeup in our personal world or on the other side of the planet, whether related to a friend or an iconic personality of the world stage, of a whole species/tribe or a single creature. Either in the present moment or in some past memory, so much death seems pointless and 'un-natural', meaningless no matter how one views these events through whatever spiritual practice, reflection, teachings, scriptures, cosmologies, or profound utterances of revered sages and enlightened masters. And yet there is clear knowing, truth be told, that its not those man-made mythical 'gods/lords' who are the ones that possess "immortality" [this knowing requires severe perseverance of inquiry].
    Still I have yet to achieve any level of abiding psychological equanimity around the reality of this apparently near-total condition of a death-culture planet. I can only take the dualities in, and let my beingness assimilate and process the strangeness as it's able. I often contemplate transitioning/crossing over to the other side, just to end the disturbance of continuous incomprehension. I also know my time/window could be one minute from now.

    Besides being broken open on a daily, if not hourly, basis by the fact of living fully in the moment with my beloved, on a razor's edge of managing a mysterious affliction (which is btw a 1-1/4 billion dollar/year Wetiko-controlled death-and-greed-business), there are all the elements of the death-culture insanity which inevitably creep in from the larger Matrix to our nearby environs and hit us up with constant reminders of the micro-macro interplay.
That being said, the other side of the coin, so to speak, is the equally inscrutable  phenomenon of 'saving graces' which appear in the midst of overwhelming thoughts of throwing in the towel. [Yes, we do have an incredibly beauty-filled life!] The graces can come in the form of uplifting creativity by like-minded individuals, known and unknown, by convergence of wild natural elements arising in our presence, friends bringing our attention to astonishing corroboration of truths we know in our hearts and guts but whose exposures/acknowledgements are vehemently opposed and obstructed and obscured by the death-culture and its mouthpieces…there are uncountable ways and forms of Grace's appearances.
    How challenging and mind-expanding is caretaking for a loved-one with a potentially "terminal" illness? There are no words. Try it sometime. The ultimate exercise in stress-management. The ultimate in self- and love-discovery.

    Here we are again, with another Christmas showing up, just around the corner. This year, sit the family down in front of your favorite audio-visual-projection device and check out, to my mind, the best ever Christmas movie: Dakota 38. This short (1 hour, 18 min.) documentary is way more than it initially appears to be. Reality as it is, on so many levels.

    Anyway, much, if not most, of what's contemplated throughout any given day, as well as what gets written, revolves around and returns to the central issue of Sentience, for me, even if/when traveling through time and space on unreasonably wide tangents. For the last some amount of days, there have been really wide tangents due to various intense inputs, so there's likely to be some major wandering here today.

    A place to start would maybe be a new physics article brought to our attention by "aangirfan" - "In a Rainbow Universe…" Quite interesting in a "Shiva/destroyer-of-time" sense, but also about the other 'places' which one can go with this theory: "Some scientists believe that with 'different energies' ( or wavelengths or frequencies) we can experience different worlds (or space-times)"….the "universe consists of an infinite number of frequencies or dimensions of life that share the same space"…."particles with different energies will actually see different space-times"….Anyway, much food for contemplation.
    The day before seeing the above, I was standing in the snowy yard welcoming the sunrise with my coffee and tobacco, when a sense of clarity arose. Musicians/drummers can have a visceral understanding of how all creation is vibration, and how the infinite sea of vibration is everywhere with no beginning nor end, how it consists of an infinite spectrum of wavelengths and frequencies. It suddenly became clear to me that it's also possible that the "spectrum" of consciousness and sentience is equally infinite. Remembering Henry Beston's quote about the non-human beings: "they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time", I thought that it's more likely that in addition, they are simultaneously occupying overlapping consciousness frequencies with us as well as primarily being "home" in other "locations" of space-time. Perhaps species are strung out along the spectrum, some being closer, others farther, from one another. The point being: that there are no 'higher-and-lower' levels or hierarchies of sentience, including vegetable and mineral forms, even.
Then, the next day I read the Rainbow Universe article and one anonymous commenter wrote the following: "Our thoughts are our vibrational frequency, and LOVE vibrates at the highest frequency. This explains the sentience we recognize in our animal friends". Comforting synchronicity.

    Then, this morning I find this in my email: "The Incredible Story of how leopard Diabolo became Spirit…" , courtesy of amarynth.
I really can't comment on this, except that it completely broke me open. In a beautiful way. And that it's maybe the best little (13 min.) animal-communication vid ever. (Also…I had a feline friend in this life who told me profound things very similar to this transmission, and deeply life-changing.) 

    One more vid, a break-you-open piece by "michaeljohn": "Almost Home"  to accompany the same song by an artist named Moby. Description: "This is a simple story. It's not unique or fantastical. It's not clever or grand. It's a common story told from a different perspective.This video is dedicated to those who love unconditionally yet have been abandoned. May they find their home."
    For someone who worked daily for 3 years in a public animal shelter, this cuts to the core. Do I need to say again "every innocent creature is precious"?

    I notice that Uranus went direct on Tuesday, along with the Full Moon. More collective upheaval and anarchy may ensue, which may or may not be unwelcome at this stage. Also, as the town astrologer pointed out to me in the line at the Post Office - on New Years Day: the Sun will conjunct the Moon (New) conjunct Pluto!. Some kinda maha-reboot action there coming our way in 2014, as this sets the astro tone for the whole year. Or…it could just be, as Bob sang, "total destruction the only solution"…..

    The war on innocence proceeds at a feverish pitch and like a broken record, as we've become accustomed. The warriors seem to never sleep. This just in:
"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Companies in New Mexico and Missouri could begin slaughtering horses within a few weeks after a federal appeals court removed a temporary ban that was preventing domestic horse slaughter from resuming for the first time since 2007...The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver lifted an emergency injunction Friday that it had issued in November after animal protection groups appealed the ruling of a federal judge in Albuquerque…"
    You see, ranchers, slaughterhouse operators, politicians, and other Wetiko-plague-infested forces are "concerned" about "the most humane way to deal with the country's wild horse 'overpopulation', and the 'rising number of neglected and starving horses as the West deals with persistent drought'." Proponents say "it is better to slaughter the animals in humane, federally regulated facilities than have them abandoned to starve across the drought-stricken West or shipped to inhumane facilities in Mexico". Can't you just feel the genuine concern, compassion and empathy? I mean, there's just no other way to solve "the problem", right?
    If only someone would come up with a better idea, but, alas….absolutely NO ONE has a better idea, apparently (cough). Sort of reminds one of the "destroy the village to save it" days of the Vietnam war era. I'll have more to say on that shit too, but later.

    Also, a lawsuit has just been filed by WildEarth Guardians to disband the infamous USDA  "Wildlife Services" (formerly "Animal Damage Control"), annual killers of ~3.4 MILLION wild animals [2012], unaccountable to no one, with no oversight. Example of their handiwork: Coyotes: by arial gunning - 26,000; by sodium cyanide [illegal M44s] - 14,000; trapped - 23,000… probably bogus figures, but you get the idea.
    While that's the constant background noise in our public lands and commons, we have an Idaho parallel to our own recent New Mexico coyote-killing contest insanity: a competitive "Wolf Derby" put on by "hunters' rights organizations" [Idaho For Wildlife] for the week after Christmas (kids' division too!), wherein prizes will be awarded for the largest wolf and most female coyotes. Not making this up. Stated purpose is: "to show the world that no one can stop us from killing wolves" – not you, not me, "and especially not the federal government". (Wanna bet they're all good 'christian patriots'?)
    Um, maybe I should mention the famous "All you animal activists, Fuck You!" video of the horse slaughter advocate here in my state (you didn't see it?) - the one that made the evening news and went viral: dude leads a beautiful healthy pony from his barn toward the camera, strokes the horse on the head, turns to the camera, flips the bird and says the above obscenity, then proceeds to pull out his handgun and shoot the horse in the head. Yeah, its on Youtube, and uncensored HERE (warning: awful).
    All you can do is realize there is no "WHY?". Such a level of hate, mental derangement, and spiritual depravity and emptiness cannot be comprehended by the non-Wetiko-ized consciousness.  Our so-called civilization is so wetiko-ized that it's taken till now to expose what finally has come out with crystal clarity in Rolling Stone magazine's extensive essay "Belly of the Beast".  It's now the situation throughout the industrialized world…and about time.

    This whole argument/debate over 'animal rights'/ sentience is nothing but pure bullshit, philosophical mind-fuckery, and archontic time-and-energy wasting programming to keep the human slaves distracted with personal material pursuits.
It's about soul, nothing more, nothing less. The 'indigenous soul' as Martin Prechtel refers to. It's either intact or absent/lost. Enough said. Get over it, and get on with it - total liberation. Support the liberationists any way you can - "terrorists" who have NEVER harmed a living being - they are the warrior heroes of our time.
Note: ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT WEBSITE HAS BEEN DOWN FOR 4 DAYS! I guess they've been reporting too many successful raids/releases/rescues around the world, as people are slowly, finally waking up everywhere. 

    I notice that the local health food store now carries the "Paleo diet" magazine, and local restaurants carry "Paleo-burritos". What freaking insanity. It's fuckin 2013, not 20,013 BC. More confusing bullshit. This kind of shit is also promoted on websites like "Signs of the Times" (Sott.net), with their arrogant smug holed-up-in-their-ivory-mansion idiots constantly telling us "whole grains are poison", and making continuous "bacon jokes". What pieces of shit, along with their total denial of anthropogenic climate change (google: conservatives pump 1 billion a year into climate denial…), their denial of existence of chemtrails, insistence that Boston Marathon was real, marijuana is bad, etc etc. Most "conspiracy/progressive" websites and radio are full of shit these days, run by former right-wing, barely-waking-up self-described "truth seekers", that are massively promoting racist, misogynist, homo-phobic, right-wing, fundi-christian ideologies. I would be wary of ANY blogs or websites associating IN ANY WAY with these assholes. I'm talking biggies Rense, Truthseeker, Rappaport, Jim Stone, and a slew of others. LITMUS TEST: anyone whose articles, or who link articles containing the word "COMMIE" is an idiot, moron, ignorant loser, and probably a fascist-in-denial.

This last month was really wacked, with the 50th JFK thing and then Mandela. Re: JFK - you had to have been there. More than "a president" was blown away….more like possibly a million real changes that 'might have happened', of which visions we let ourselves entertain for a moment. Gone in a moment! Everything that followed led us to this moment today. People still believe some 'commie' did it. There is a mountain of evidence that points to both Nazis and Zionists. Do your own research. It was most likely all of the above plus many more - but, no 'commies'. Just like there were no Arabs on 911. But you all probably know all that. I'm just ranting. It was a tough month. Just trying to move on, trying to accept that things are the way they are. We do what we can, and spread the love a bit every day. Justice seems not to be in our hands. Maybe we'll see when we cross over, who knows?

Said there would be some wide wandering here. I wish everyone peace and safe sanctuary in this trying time.

That's what I'm talkin' about

INDIA'S ELEPHANT GIRL TAKES ON THE HERDS

"Fourteen-year old Nirmala Toppo has become something of a minor celebrity in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

In June, panic gripped the industrial city of Rourkela one night when a herd of wild elephants entered residential areas from dense forests nearby.
Nirmala, forest department officials say, acted as a real-life "pied-piper" when she managed to drive the herd back to the forest, much to the relief of the residents."
"First I pray and then talk to the herd. They understand what I say. I tell them this is not your home. You should return where you belong," says Nirmala who is a Roman Catholic."
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So, how many more examples do we need to keep bringing up to make the 'connection' in the human consciousness about where we need to go, and be?

You'll notice that one brainwashed, intellectual wetiko-enabler (obviously proud of the fact, or hopeful, that he won't be identified with the "backward castes") weighed in by saying, "there is no scientific evidence that wild elephants can understand what a human says. Mr Pradhan says the girl claims to talk to the herd in her own tribal language, but there is no basis for the elephants to follow what she says".
Maybe Indians, as well as the rest of the human race, should look closely at this term "backward" and all the implications thereof. This sickening mindset has continued for too many thousands of generations. Can't we just blow it off, for good, like now?

May every living being enjoy this pristine universe.