Time For Change
Time is a lie, or at least the perception of time, as we know it.
It is a commonly held notion that “time” is a linear concept with all things having a beginning, middle and end. Time tells us “when” things happen, or are supposed to happen and give us a reference point for nearly all we know. Time gives us dates to align to and measurements to go by. Our world revolves around time and it is all a lie. What we know as time is actually “change.” From now on you will substitute the word “change” for the word “time” in your reality expression and here is why.
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Fukushima – ELE?
The radiation from this mess cannot be stopped - ever.
The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster is quite a serious catastrophe. Before I go on about it you’ll need to answer these questions:
What are the levels of radiation that inhibit the ability of a Human Souled Being from expressing itself in the body it has agreed to express itself in? Natural radiation is very different the man made, so how much exposure to man made cesium, strontium, uranium, polonium, plutonium etc. can a Human Body take before it is unable to properly express itself as it was mean to be?
Science views this question as irrelevant, but I do not.
Next Question. How much man made radiation can Earth take before deciding not to allow Earth to be inhabited by Human Souled Beings any longer?
Science views this question as irrelevant, but I do not.
Final Question. At what point does all the radiation, toxic waste, GMO food, chemicals included in all forms of human life and Wi-Fi, cell tower and others EMF exposure become to much for either Earth, or Human Souled Beings to live with?
Science views this question as irrelevant, but I do not.
Consider the questions this way. Have you ever seen a person taking radiation and chemotherapy treatments performing as a high-level profession athlete? No, but I’m sure many of you have seen someone taking those treatments vomiting uncontrollably and wanting to die.
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How I Learned To Hate Music
Music is something I love, or loved. I was one of those kids who was drawn to music right from the get go. While my family was not a great music family in that my parents didn’t buy albums or wax poetic about the classic phrasing of James Taylor’s lyrics, it was still a part of our lives. In Los Angeles there was no shortage of radio stations on the AM or FM dial and the radio was always on in our cars and quite often in the house.
Over time I began to see music as something more meaningful, more intimate and something worth exploring. By 13 music was as integral to my life as my family was. I was fortunate to live in Los Angeles where finding music was easy. There was half a dozen record stores that specialized in used rock music, jazz music, world music and the all-important “cut-out” albums. Cut-out’s were promotional albums that had a hole punched in them which meant they were used for promotional purposes only and most of the industry companies dumped those albums at these stores and getting these albums was seen as a score. I picked through stacks, bought, listened and traded-in often.
As I grew older my taste expanded with each year. I found Bach to be a favorite as well as classic Country music. I found electronic music to be quite interesting as well as the New Age genre. I loved discovering Count Basie’s work as well as Leonard Cohen. While in New Orleans, possibly the music capital of the world, I found all manner of music to interest me, as the radio stations there was very eclectic indeed. In my head I figure there are some one hundred thousand songs and compositions rattling around. From Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. From “Frere Jacques” to “Happy Birthday.” From Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” to “How Deep Is Your Love” by the Bee Gees. I can’t play any of them myself, but my head is like some neuro-wired jukebox. As a quick aside, a local musician named Jon Brion does a performance were he mashes up several songs shouted to him from the audience and plays them together, by himself – one can hear “Kashmir” with “How Deep Is Your Love” with “Happy Birthday” and it is remarkable.
Recordings from vinyl to MP3 to live music in clubs to stadiums, I have listened in all the ways possible. I have had my life soundtracked by the music from the s the Gregorian chants to the theme from the Godfather. And it was all great until 2010, as that’s when it died for me.
Music was something special and then something happened in the world. Music became a syringe designed to open a revenue stream from my soul. Music, and the same damn songs, was being played at the gym, in the convenience store, at the hardware store, at the doctor’s office, on telephone hold music and even on websites - everywhere. In early days of my life you made a choice to listen to music or you heard Muzak – the non-threatening, non-confrontational versions of songs piped into elevators. Muzak was there simply to make waiting a wee bit more tolerable but not to rip open your soul to sell you crap you don’t need. Other then Muzak there was only radio and folks new that blasting radio during surgery wasn’t cool.
Then something happened. Madison Avenue realized that music would sell anyone anything at anytime. So The Who went from the soundtrack of my youth to the Marketing Soundtrack Used To Selling Cars To Upscale Men Feeling a Midlife Crises. Suddenly some horrifying, poorly pieced together Rap song was lovingly broadcast to make my stay at the carwash more pleasant, “and I said, fuck you bitch take that uh huh” made my most recent fifteen minute carwash a pleasure. Suddenly the gym was blasting music, the massage spa was blasting music, and the damn gas station was blasting music! The gas station, when it wasn’t showing the TV, was blasting music to what end? And worst of all, the music being blasted at me for my pleasure is not music that is good, but music that is cheap!
Music isn’t free, so folks who work in the business of creating music to make your Home Depot shopping experience more profitable for Home Depot wants something that is cheap or free, and will help them tap into your pocket. So the same songs play over and over and over again in the Lowes, the Home Depot and every other store that subscribes to the idea that a shopper hearing “Paved Paradise To Put Up A Parking Lot” will buy five extra snickers bars at the check out counter (that song’s irony is priceless when played at the home improvement centers). It isn’t bad enough I am no longer allowed to think while getting gas or buying a toilet, I have to hear the same 500 royalty free songs everywhere I go! The once innocuous Muzak’s webpage logo is “multisensory branding,” which translated into English is, “how we destroy music one track at time.”
To make matters worse, the folks controlling the auditory hell are doing so without regard the music itself – such as music has become. The speakers used are almost always defective, the sound is always way too loud to be clear and in many cases that Celine Dion song I can’t stand (but is one of the 100k in my head) is being constantly interrupted by some in-store announcement. I went to a major league baseball game and the blown out speakers, brand new speakers I might add, produced so much distortion that the wrecked song was apparently a song used to open the game was a song I used to favor. Every stadium, every used car lot, every taco stand has music blasting. I was walking down the street and a tanning salon set speakers outside the salon and was blasting music at the 6-lane highway, at nothing in particular just the highway!
I went to a restaurant a few weeks ago, a very expensive restaurant I might add, and the music was so loud I simply stopped talking, as I just couldn’t shout loud enough for anyone to hear me. And the reason for this posh restraint blasting the music was???
I now hate music. Once music was done to express, to entertain, to record experiences and now it has become some vile auditory nightmare used to get me to buy more stuff. At some point a musician wanted to simply play. Times changed and a musician wanted to sell records. Times changed and a musician wanted to sell a lot of records and perform in front of a lot people. Times changed and musicians just wanted to be famous with or without the music. Times changed and now musicians want to be featured in an add selling tampons. Even more horrifying, folks will buy a song off iTunes because it was featured in a tampon add!
The most painful part of this insane alteration in the human expression of something beyond marvelous is the destruction of the personal boundary. Not only has the world of marketing decided I must have music blasting at me at all times, so has everyone else. While sitting at a signal I am forced to listen to that same horrifying rap base-line (nearly all rap songs have the same or similar underlying base-line) whether I want to or not. The guy in the car next to me with the blown-out speakers has them turned up to eleven for my listening pleasure so I can not only enjoy his pedestrian taste in music but his rattling doors too.
Worse yet, my home isn’t protected either. I kept track of how many times I heard music that wasn’t coming from my speakers for one week. Each week I listen to three minutes and thirty seconds of someone else’s music as they pass by, some folks are passing by two or three blocks away. Last weekend a grandmother who was throwing a birthday party for 6-year-old granddaughter needed a two thousand watt stereo blasting rap music for the child to fully enjoy the day. What is two thousand watts mean you say? It means in my neighborhood everyone in a 4 block radius got to hear the music whether they liked it or not – because otherwise the party would have not be worth having!
I hate to say I hate music but I cannot find another way around it. Should I decide to listen to the majesty of the Brandenburg Concertos, actually sit down like I did 30 years ago, I will be interrupted by some car passing by letting me know that the new JZ record is worth blasting at number 11. The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” the antiestablishment anthem for a generation now sells cars to me while I pump gas. AC/DC gets the fans rockin’ for a relief pitcher and Celine Dion, god bless her, sells more crap at Target then anyone else. Chopin makes people weep as the watch and add for a smartphone.
If you asked me 35 years ago if I thought music would ever die I would have punched you rather then answer.
(And this; It would seem the government has used certain music to torture, or maybe they do not call it torture, prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.)
So, why is this important to you? If you were not aware that music is being used to manipulate you in a myriad of ways you should know this. That playlist in the store has been created to make you, yes make you, buy, buy, buy. That music purporting violence, gangs, guns and “telling it how it is in the streets” is being created to make people violent. The music added to movies, ads and websites is being added to manipulate you. It is all a seemingly chaotic, but well crafted system designed to get you to hand over your Freewill because you heard a classic love song played over a travel commercial for Hawaiian vacations. Stop and listen now… with this information in mind.
The Present Moment
If It Is Happening, It is Happening. Everything Else Is Irrelevant
What is the Present Moment? The Present Moment can be best described using two key phrases: “What is actually happening,” and “What is not actually happening.” This defines what the Present Moment - everything else is not the Present Moment: What If, Should Be, Could Be, Hope To Be, Some Day Will Be, This Can’t Be, Shouldn’t Be, Supposed To Be, This Is What Was, This Should Have Been – I Wish It Was Like This, I Wish It To Be Like That. These phrases tell you that you are not in the Present Moment – nowhere near it in fact. I find the two worst phrases are “what if” and “hope” as both stick one way out into a future that does not exist. “What if I never fall in love?” “What if I loose my job?” “I hope someday to loose weight.” These are all phrases that serve no purpose as they define things that are not happening and may never happen. Your life will improve exponentially if you never utter the phrase – “what if” again.
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Smart Phone Dehumanizer
I am no fan of the cellphone. I had one back in 2000 and did not like what it was doing to me. When one watches the behavior of people on a cellphone they can only come to one conclusion: this really not healthy.
It is interesting that if you ask 100 people if they think those using cellphones are rude the will all raise their hands, and all will be holding a cellphone so when you do the math things just don’t pan out.
I truly to feel it is rewiring the human brain and not in a good way. There are others who agree but, oddly enough, none who work at any of the major telecommunications companies or in the government.
In the Smart Phone Dehumanizer article you will might learn a few things you did not know.
At end of the article you will find a link to Dr. Deopp’s 2 minute technique to reset the brain, as well as more information here: link
I Am Spoiled
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. This gave me privilege I never really understood. In fact the area I lived in was special even by special standards. A friend of mine who was raised 20 miles or so north said that he desperately wants to hang in our area. Due to my location in the world I had access to nearly everything, dozens of radio stations, countless great restaurants (a types of food) a dozen TV stations, countless film and live theater venues and the great physical attributes CA had to offer.
But this post is not about the area it is about how I perceived things. I knew certain people and places existed in the world that were not as evolved as my world. But these things were abstract. When I was a 7 my mother said to me “who do you want to invite to your party” and I said, “the kid with the red sweater on” and she was surprised I didn’t say the “black kid.” I saw differences in people but those differences were simply differences in the way they expressed themselves, the idea of some giant social class division was preposterous to me. A British friend once tried to describe the class system that still exists there today and I was lost as this just seemed beyond stupid.
A few months back I drove through a small town where few friends I once had were from. As I drove through the small town I wondered where they got their music from? I had dozens of retail stores, dozens of radio stations to find music but they had none. It struck as I remembered them telling me they bought things from the Sears catalogue at a lot, while had an infinite number of retail stores selling things from all over the world to buy things from. I have never known what it was like to live in a cultural void.
I lived in New Orleans for a while and I noticed that people were different. It seemed to me they had heard there was a pacific ocean but they didn’t know it existed; there is a difference. But I shrugged it off as that was just how they were and most of the folks were fine to me.
For years I’ve heard the rhetoric of politicians on the topic of middle America and the bible belt etc. I chalked all that up to politicians needing to find some way to reduce the people they will fleece to bumper sticker memes. I dismissed all of that silliness, as it seems to me that people were pretending to be ignorant and stupid just to be voted for.
Then this:
I have no way to verify the veracity of this “document.” I found it in the vast wasteland of the Internet. At first glance this test made no sense to me, as the questions were without reason and the answers were even worse. I couldn’t see how the answers were “right” under any circumstances. This examination of intelligence was a foreign language to me, a language I could not understand.
Upon seeing this document I was silenced, yes I was stopped in my tracks. Even through the appalling educational system I went through I was never exposed to anything like this. Even the handful of times something this preposterous was presented to me I laughed it off and dismissed the entire effort. But what if I was limited in my connection to the outside world? What if I had no way of going to the UCLA research library, the Los Angeles Library, or even speaking with people from 50 countries in my area? Right now my the guy who cuts my hair is from Hong Kong, my neighbor is from Australia, my good friend is from France, the guys who moved me recently were from Siberia, and another good friend is from Siberia via displacement from Poland during the war! My gardener is from Mexico City, my best friend growing up was Japanese-American (or Asian/European) and my dog’s breed is from a small Korean island called Jindo. This is my world, for good or ill.
What if this test, and the information leading to it, was all I knew? And what if through the process of this education I was discouraged from seeking anything beyond this? What if someone during this education told me, “Chinese people can’t cut hair?” What if they told me that, “Mexican’s can’t do landscaping?” What if they told me, “people who lived in Siberia were criminals?”
When I grew up I was exposed to theater, film, the ocean, the mountains, every sport available, and every nationality. Concerts came to me. There wasn’t any substantial limitation in my world. Hell, one of my classmates in second grade was gay and it wasn’t worth considering as remotely important. I was a spoiled brat and I didn’t know it. Don’t get me wrong, as it was not about money, we were not rich at all, but more about the geography that gave me access to so much I never saw as special. Look up the great Bob Baker Marionette Studio and know that in the 60’s I went there often. I once saw a replay of the 1972 NBA All Star game and realized I was at that game as child. I have skied and surfed on the same day, Christmas day no less.
This test hit me in a way nothing recently has. What we do to each other is appalling, indescribable on some many levels. It is easy for me to say, “these hicks and their religion” but that isn’t about this. I can see in that test that there will be no inclusion of life beyond the little world that test represents. There will be no “hey, get out there and see the world kid because it is huge.” And most difficult for me to take is the fact that there will be no, “kid, did you know you are Freewill, a timeless being of immense power?”
After leaving Earth I would not know how to begin my report: Well, you’re not going to believe this but it seems that those in charge of “education” deliberately make people ignorant of the whole of the Earth plane, forget about the rest of consciousness and they do this because the few in charge think controlling others is good, or cool, or something. And it gets worse, way worse…
What Animates The Body?
Do you know that animates the bodies you see all around you? You should as if you are reading this you are probably in a body and something is going on there.
What animates the body? If you are a person that believes that a body is a body and there is nothing more to us, then that I am about to suggest will not be relevant. But if you are a person that knows you are part of something more then your body, part of a complex system of awareness, then this might be interesting.
CS Lewis quote fits nicely here: “You do not have a soul, you are soul, you have a body.” The animating energy is that which allows the body to exist on Earth, in the form you see in the mirror.
Most people believe that every “Soul” is the same. They figure that if a body is walking around on the planet, the energy that animates it is just like all the other bodies. Sadly this isn’t true. Before we get into that, we first have to establish what is going on with a body.
A body is a temporary condition as many of you know. You are born, you live, then you die – we all do it. Prior to arriving on Earth you agree to terms with Earthly parents, some folks who agree to do the biological deed needed to create an Earth body for you. One conception has happened, the body is created for you by mom, taking some nine months to happen.
There are two things to note about this experience. The first, the body isn’t yours until you occupy it, and that does not happen until you are actually born onto the Earth-plane, the moment of birth.
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The Flat Screen TV Is Our Undoing
Television “programming.” One “programs” computers, one “programs” robots, and one “programs” the human mind, so why are the shows on television called “programming?” But I already digress. On with the rant.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good visual yarn, be it TV, Film, Play, or even a YouTube video. I don’t even dislike the reality TV creates so much as pity those who immerse themselves in it in any meaningful way. Marshall Mcluhan spoke, early, and often about the perils of Teevee so I’ll not wax poetic about the sociological factors here. And most know that the flickering light of the TV itself, yes even that flat screen, puts one in a hypnotic state moments after watching it turning most into mindless zombies. You can read more about the connections TV and celebrity have on my article here. My gripe here is the ubiquitous nature of this beast due to the introduction of flat screen television.
Prior to the invention of the flat screen TV, the idiot box was a bulky unruly thing. The first were x-ray cannons that required space, power and commitment to see a program all the way through. Then in the 80’s they got better, but not much smaller as they eliminated tubes for the world of solid-state components and sleeker designs. This physical limitation meant the TV was pretty much relegated to home and a few other locations.
Then the flat screen nightmare began. Cheap LED components meant a TV cost no more then a pack of cigarettes to buy and could be put anywhere. Anywhere, no I take that back, everywhere. I can’t get away from the damn things. In some Orwellian nightmare somewhere there are fewer TV’s attacking the sensibilities of the population. The gym – every cardio machine has it’s own, plus dozens more, the bus, every waiting area on the planet, every bar, every restraint, a whole lot of cars, CARS! Some have them in every room of their home, they are in offices, stadiums, urinals (god damn urinals!) – screw this they are everywhere, period. Everywhere.
The constant flickering lights of images hitting me at every turn is just awful. In a great majority of cases no one is watching! It seems some sort of law was passed while I was sleeping that simply mandated if you have people near you, ever, you have to have a TV on. “If you have a bar, you have to have at least one TV (dozens are best),” “If someone comes to you for something you must have a TV,” must be the entire text of the law.
Dystopian is the word to describe this assault. There is not down time, there is no personal time in the world at large, there is only time where the TV isn’t right in front of you as much. On and on the droning of meaningless nothingness. A hellish brand of visual attack and symbols designed to make one feel worthless, pointless and useless except when it comes time to buy things.
People talking on and on and on and on about nothing – seriously nothing. There are dozens of sports channels covering a handful of sports, showing people talking on and on about what? What are these people talking about, does any of it matter? Would anyone listen if they weren’t on this damn thing?
No person on TV actually says anything true for fear of being called on it, so they talk in circles about nothing, except they say it with force to imply it is meaningful. Talking heads going on and on and all in glorious High Def. High Def is another disaster. At least prior to Flat Screen/High Def combo the folks on the programming box seemed unlike us, marginally perfect in some way we we’re not. Now I can see every pimple, bag and wrinkle and the plastic surgery horrors clearly visible now serve as a public service announcement of what not to do to your face.
When does it end? I would rather they just tattoo one on my forehead and get rid of all rest as it would be less of a visual issue. But instead the new OLED’s are coming, which will make it possible to not only put one on my forehead, but on everything that doesn’t have one now. There is nothing to look forward too.
This can only end badly. I fear if the TV’s go dark the addicts will revolt. Yet if the TV’s do not go dark soon the addicts will be lost forever. I wonder, when you see random acts of vandalism, why do you never see a TV being bashed to pieces? People will bash or graffiti anything and everything but the god box.
Death - I can't wait
Dying is the easiest thing you do, everyone does it and everyone does it perfectly. Suffering is the hardest thing nearly everyone does, everyone would rather suffer then die. This is inexplicable.
What is death and what happens? Well, when you took on your body you knew damn well it was going to die. To get onto Earth you have to have a “body” made up of her components and when you die you agreed to leave those components behind. You have also seen people dying all around as you lived so the whole idea is cannot be a surprise to you. In fact, nothing about it should, I say should, be a surprise.
You need to be taught to be insecure about death. Most people who have known children who have died young, but old enough to know they were dying, know that children are not insecure about leaving the body behind. No, you get all of your insecurities about death from the institutions of government, family and religion. This begs the question, how can something as natural as death be turned against us?
To understand that you need to understand that a “fear of death” which is really “insecurity surrounding the process of death” is the only tool the powers in charge have to control us. You may think it is money, or guns, or threats of some sort but it is death. They need you to think that death is sudden, random, beyond your control, accidental, unfortunate, full of uncertainty, fraught with danger and of course tragic. Nope, for you death is none of those at the core, it is a part of life and nothing more.
Consider this, everyone on Earth could leave tomorrow. Yes, we could all decide we’ve had enough of wars, poverty, famine, fiat currency, TV and the like and just leave. Just like that there can be no Human Beings expressing their energy on the planet in bodily form anymore and that would be just fine for almost everyone. For a select few this would be tragic, as there are a few unscrupulous beings that need us here. As a compliment to that notion Earth could toss us all of in a heartbeat if she wanted to. Yes she too could say, “ah, you know what I have had enough” and just like what we are all gone but she too has a vested interest in the Souled Human Being presence.
Knowing this empowers you. Why? You are here by choice and you leave by choice. You leave Earth when you choose to and not a minute before. “But what about people who die in plane crashes and kids with cancer?” Choosing. “But what about innocent people who die young, or old people who have so much to live for?” Choosing. I have no idea why someone would choose to leave via a plane crash, nor do I car as it is their choice and for some reason they liked the idea. You use your Freewill to get onto the planet and you use it to get off. And you are free to leave anytime you like. Of course to get onto Earth you have to find a pair of folks who will help created a body for you.
So what happens when you choose to leave? Nothing and everything, as it all depends on what you want to do next. What happens when you leave high school? What happens when you leave a job? What happens when you leave a relationship? When you drop the body you can go worship some guy who is pretending to be your lord and savior. Or you can visit the Sun, or you can simply stand where you are and do nothing. Have assisted folks in this arena in several ways I suggest you program this into your head: Upon death I am heading straight for me. You should simply intend, intention is key here, to drop everything you are “doing” and head right for the truth of you, the Soul-Self, The Creator-Self, the Higher-Self or whatever you want to call it. Simply intend to go home to you to see what you want to do with you next. It will all become really clear after that.
What can you do to help someone who is leaving? This is a great question. If you are a family member, “let them go,” stop holding on. Playing on a dying person’s emotions for selfish reasons is appalling, so stop being selfish. Next thing to do is help make that person feel comfortable and that can be a whole host of things from helping them get of medical chemicals to helping make a nice soft, quiet area for them to reside in. Suggest to them, either verbally or psychically, that they are cool to move on and that they should go seek out their Soul-Self as soon as possible. Lastly, recognize that leaving the planet is just that, leaving and it is one of the coolest things we do.
In the meantime you should live. Stop choosing to suffer in order to avoid death. Stop choosing to use your Freewill to give others power over you because they threaten you with death or demonize death. You are no stronger on this planet then when you say, “I’m choosing to be here and I’ll choose to leave and screw you nut jobs for suggesting otherwise.”
Our collective power lies in our Freewill and the biggest impediment to accessing it is the power the institutions have over the perception of death.
Dreams
What Are Dreams?
The world of dreams is something that has been a source of wonderment since the dawn of human time. What are dreams? Are they a useful tool? Learn more about the world of your dreams in this article.
The dream state, when one is “sleeping,” is not what people think it is. Once your head hits the pillow your body begins a process of “winding down” and shutting off. Assuming you are not an insomniac, the body will send a little jolt through your system to check and see if you truly are asleep - tossing and turning is how we experience it. Occasionally we will feel real electrical jolt. Once the body feels that you are asleep, you are tossed out of your body. Yes, once you are “sleeping” on the earth plane you are awake on another plane, as you vacate the physical body for realties beyond. Your primary consciousness leaves the body while soul matrix recharges the body with energy.
The body is a battery for energy, energy that comes from your soul matrix. The body is a very weak mechanism in and of itself. Without food or water it dies rather quickly. Without energy, which can only be garnered through sleep, you go nuts and die even faster then without water - try not sleeping for a few days straight and see what happens to your consciousness. You need the process of sleep to recharge the capacitor known as your body and this happens during the eight hours you sleep and at no other time. The rest of the waking hours you exist in the energy you collected the night before as it is spent manifesting the reality you interact with. Our pattern is energy going in at night, energy spent going out during the day - or the opposite if you are night person and sleep during the day.***
Once out of your body the body gets what is known as sleep paralysis. The body is kept in place, with a few moments of movement to keep circulation efficient, in order to keep the energy flowing into the body uninterrupted. Some folks have awakened during the sleep paralysis and find this disturbing, often freaking out because they can’t seem to move their body for a few moments while they are in the paralyzed body. This is rare, but it does happen as the system isn’t perfect. The other thing that can happen when waking up as the energy is flowing in is a feeling of being electrocuted, as the body feels the intense flow of energy while it is flowing rather then after the reloading is complete. While the body is locked in place, and the energy is flowing, you - your consciousness, is long gone. There is no reason to hang about why the body gets a fill-up, there are things to do, places to go, people to see. Note here, you, the you that is not your body, does not need sleep, it is solely your body, and all that this entails that needs the sleep and the energy provided during the resting period.
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Perception
Perception
In this article we’ll take look at our five senses and how they are really rather poor at actually helping us to perceive all there is to perceive.
We humans have a very limited system to perceive things. We use our five senses as our main tools for perception: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling. In spite of what we may want to believe, those systems area rather horrible at their job. What you can see of all there is to see is remarkably small. For example, one cannot see Infrared, or Ultra Violet spectrums at all. With a little myopia one cannot see street signs or a hyperopia one cannot see type face, or with both one cannot see much without an aid. What humans can hear is a tiny fraction of what there is to hear. My sense of smell is beyond horrible. Nearly of these senses can be knocked out with a simple common cold or other ailment and all can just cease working altogether for good. The senses are hardly uniform, as many people see colors in different ways and many find one sound pleasing when another finds it displeasing.
The five senses are our tools to perceiving, receptors of information. While they are tools, rather poor tools, they are tools that are meant to aid in the ability to perceive our reality. They are aids, they are not end all be all but we seem the as such, and here is where we have gotten lost. Humans have become so reliant on the five senses that they have abandoned all other means to perceive. Way, way back we used to find the so called sixth sense as a normal everyday feature of life. Then it became the domain of witches and weirdoes, and now it is seen a quaint novelty that cannot compete with science. Ingo Swann, noted researcher and interesting guy, has written about us having 17 senses in our arsenal. What? If true, it is clear we all agreed to quit at the standard five. His 17 range from sensors in the nose to smell emotions to skin sensors that sense the temperament of other beings. Ever wonder how the first person decided to eat a mushroom, given most are not edible? Maybe it was simpler when folks used all 17 senses, but because we can’t do anything without a dumbphone these days, I’d be hard pressed to take the average person on food hunt in the woods and figure out what to eat without a lab or google access.
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This Place Stinks
Continuing with the theme of things that assault the senses (music, TV) we are now going to look at how the world stinks.
Imagine 5000 years ago and walking into the Yosemite Valley. Imagine how that might have smelled. You’ll have to imagine it as there is no way in hell you’ll ever get a real sense of it now. The world is one giant chemical stench of industrial chemicals in the form of things like gasoline and road tar and in the form of things like fragrance and beauty products, and it is all-bad.
When my dog rushes up to another dog to greet him/her they engage in an exchange of sniffing. That first action usually causes gasps from the owners but that first 15 seconds tells the dogs so much each other. The smells they pick up tell each other about diet, stress, living conditions, where they have been and mood. In those few seconds their olfactory systems tell them vastly more then the human fist bump, half-hug and secret handshake. And we Human’s used to do the same thing without our noses.
We humans used to be able to smell fear, smell health, smell impending death and even marital status through another’s scent and now all we can smell is toxic waste. In some misguided effort to rid the world of its natural smells we have given everything a scent. Everything needs a scent. Everything needs a signature fragrance. And we just soak ourselves in it simply because marketer’s tell is we have to in order to be human.
When you meet someone now instead of getting know all about them via their unique scent you smell; body wash, shampoo, hair care products, deodorant, chemically created fragrance, chemical scented gum/mint/mouthwash, cigarette smoke, chemicals used to created clothing as well as the chemicals used to create one’s shoes. Yes, when you meet someone you smell that cacophony of vile factory creations and countless other ambient smells depending on where you meet them. And believe it or not it confuses the hell out of you. You can no longer rely on one of your key senses to help you understand the reality around you.
I myself have learned to hate the smell of anything that can be recreated in a factory. The smell of roses in the garden is nice, but the smell of rose scented anything in a can, bottle, cream or candle sends me into a homicidal frenzy. It doesn’t soothe me like the label often says it pisses me off. And that goes for all the rest of the packaged scents designed to make me feel something special.
What confounds me is this: if I sniff glue for fun the cops will arrest me and charge me with a crime. If I load myself up with the standard morning cologne bath and all the rest of the scented beauty products I get the same high! And it’s legal! If I walk into the Bed Bath and Beyond to purchase a frying pan I am stoned out of my gourd 15 seconds after entering into the store, as the chemical smell from the potpourri, candles, soap and all the rest turns my brains into mush. By the time I get to the frying pan section the music has taken what’s left of my will to live.
Try taking a bit of your preferred cologne or perfume and spray a bit on a rag and “huff it” and see how you feel? Take a dryer sheet, hold it up to your face and “huff it” and see how you feel. Does one think that because one isn’t actively huffing the effect of an all day waft is any different?
Every time I leave the house I run the danger of picking up a mass produced scent. A 20-minute chiropractic adjustment can lead to a change of clothes after lying down in someone else’s scent while on the table. I now refuse to enter the Bed Bath and Beyond simply because anything I buy needs to be washed and my clothes do as well. I touched a gas pump handle last week, which led to me touching my face and my steering wheel, which led to me enjoying the benefits of “Polo, by Ralph Lauren,” in my life for the next five hours. One prolific hugger planted a new brand of perfume on me that lead to me having to toss the shirt because I couldn’t get the smell out on my own (there is no dry cleaner in town that provides a scent free cleaning – none). Sure it all sounds a bit prissy of me, until you understand how all of this scenting of the planet affects your consciousness expression.
This need to scent everything is a crime against humanity and it is turning people into zombies. Scents have a huge effect on the ability to express our consciousness. When I was in college I would take a scent and use a hint of it to associate it to the information I was studying. Then come test time all I needed to do was put a dab under my nose and could remember what I needed to. Even to this day, if I smell the now chemical version of Aramis Cologne I think of my parents going out for a night out. If I smell the smell of brandy on someone’s breath I think of my father being an ass… well you get the idea there. A hint of garden mint reminds me of my grandmother and her yard. Ms. Fields was made famous by gently blowing the scent of the cookies into the mall, enticing customers. Our sense of smell is no joke and marketers know that.
Scent is important and our ability to smell the world around us is important. The world now is some Disneyland of synthetic chemicals, which absolutely changes our ability to perceive. They affect our mood, they cloud our judgment and they do everything but make us feel better. I suggested once to a client that breathing in dryer sheet smell all day was causing some mental confusion and the response was that people loved the way she smelled, as they often described her as smelling as “fresh and clean.” What in the name of everything ever created as led people to think the smell of dryer sheet is “fresh” let alone “clean?” While working with clients many would come to home and leave their mass produced fragrance in my house, leaving my unique home smelling like one of millions. Even worse, quite often the scent was so overwhelming that it made my work so much harder as I needed to battle they effects of the chemicals on my brain.
Some corporate fairy has run around the planet spreading scent all over the world in an effort to rid the world of that oh so offensive, “absence of fragrance.” While in Yosemite I enjoyed the smell of pine coupled with the smell of dryer sheet, the smell of water with the smell of Eternity by CK, the smell of diesel fuel with the smell of millions year old granite. In my mind I was simply overwhelmed by the conflict these scents were having on me and it wasn’t fun.
Soaps of every sort need a scent. Why does dish soap need a scent? Every room needs a scent? Every store needs a scent? Every car needs a scent car that gives the car that new car scent? Every holiday needs a scent? Every shampoo needs a scent? Every human needs a chemical scent on them at all times? Every candle needs a scent, which, when burned, creates some other horrifying chemically scented toxic fume? Next time you are out go into any drug store, any Bed Bath and Beyond even a Super Market and stop what you are doing and smell, breath it all in.
On of the most depressing parts of this is that once some folks did create things with real, genuine artistic fragrance. Many years ago I had a friend that made custom fragrances. She came over and smelled me, yes my skin - me, and put together something that didn’t cover me up and was a true artistic creation. Now some marketing guy contacts a globochem company and says, “gimme a scent to sell this damn candle” and one is rushed to them without regard to the end users consciousness expression. This kind of effort diminishes the true artistry of those who can craft something with soul. This ubiquitous scent thing has me disliking almost anything with smell at all at this point, as even those with some “spiritual” method seem to be just adding to the pile.
The worst part of all of this is we have lost the ability to smell others. Will a baby coated in baby wipe smell, diaper smell, dryer sheet smell and baby soap smell be able to smell his mom? Will a mother be able to smell when her child is sick? If your mom was in a line up with other moms could you pick her out by smell? Could you pick out your mate by smell or is your makes smell one of the CK signature perfumes? I know I have been so conditioned that the smell of another, without perfume, can annoy me. My mother is remembered by me for Este Lauder’s “White Linen” and not her personal scent.
Be aware how scent can alter the way you perceive your reality. Hours of breathing cigarette smoke is an obvious mind altering experience but so is breathing hours of perfume, or gasoline, or candle, or dryer sheet or anything else that is designed to stimulate the brain.
Celebrity Worship Article
The World Of Celebrity Worship
Someone recently asked me why people worship celebrities, even those with seemingly no talent at all? The answer probably isn’t what you think.
First off, we don’t worship celebrities, the celebrities are created by the worshiping action. Before there is a celebrity, there is a person, who may or may not have a talent others are interested in being a part of, and through the convergence of several factors you might not have considered something happens to transform that someone, someone just like you, into vision.
In this article I’ll show you why folks are obsessed with celebrity and give you some tools to expand your awareness about the whole world of entertainment, TV, movies, music and more. Hopefully this information will have you seeing the TV people in a whole new way.
Excerpt from the article:
I was looking a picture of a indigenous tribe in the amazon standing around the TV and wondered why they cared to look at it. Why did these people suddenly drop everything to stare a the flickering light? There are two parts, the first part is the vision part, the visions they once had in their head were suddenly in front of them, in a less “fleeting” fashion. The other component to their focus is the flickering light. The flickering light puts the brain into an Alpha brain wave state 8-12hz, usually within thirty seconds of viewing. What is the Alpha brain wave state? The Alpha Brain Wave State is the vision quest state of course, not quite the deep level where one is not cognizant of the reality around them, but more a waking vision quest state, a kind of modern hybrid state. See where things are going? The flickering light of the TV puts the viewer in the vision quest state, albeit a far cry from the original, more spiritual formula, and once in the state, the brain works to assemble the fleeting single frames into their vision just as they have done for ages. What used to happen in your head, is now happening outside your head. No wonder it seems so natural to us.
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Marriage - Never Do It
There is an awful lot of talk about marriage these days. Seems everyone wants to be a part of an institution with a horrendous failure rate. Sadly, no one, and I mean no one, knows what marriage really is.
Most believe marriage is a way to validate true love. That is most assuredly what marriage is not. Marriage is not a way to validate love, create love, or solidify love. It is not a symbol of love and it is not a way to define love. Marriage is a contract, a legally binding business contract. No where on the contract does the word love appear, no where in the process does anyone determine of love is present: love is not a part of marriage at all. Love is a part of a relationship, but not a marriage.
Marriage in the most countries, especially the U.S., is a legally binding contract in which two people engage in a corporate merger that the state (state being government) endorses.
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See my article on relationships for more relationship fun.