Ya Can’t Have Too Much Stuff

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(orig. published) November 19th, 2006

I am still moving my heap ‘o stuff from my old house, and doing the stuff meditation as I go. Went to the new Bond movie, Casino Royale (Mick LaSalle’s review which I vibrate harmoniously with is at http://tinyurl.com/whyqs). Tho’ the film rocks in a major fashion, and I remain a staunch admirer of Daniel Craig, the newest incarnation of JB, my feelings on leaving the theater were of an overwhelming sadness for Bond, the Urban Spaceman Killer Machine. When he says he’s ready to quit Her Majesty’s Mercenaries to save what’s left of his soul, I was sensing the doomed poignancy of his desire to get off the treadmill, metaphorically of contemporary ego-driven materialistic culture. In the end he’s left with a steely resolve to press on with a broken heart.In my email client, I somehow got into a message from Oct. 1 which contained a link to an excellent piece by Paul Craig Roberts, one of the few people of conscience who have emerged from the captive media monolith in the last few years. He writes about the transparent propaganda lying to us about the strength of the U.S. economy based on the mythical conversion from manufacturing to high-level intellectually skilled sectors – it can be found at: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302006.html . Well, I’ve spent time I didn’t have simply posting SOMETHING. Peace.
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“Awakening” – Posted to the Rigorous Intuition message board 9/9/06

(orig. published) November 9th, 2006 (http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/)

Just Wake Up…


Hi, I just want to dip my toe in here – I’m at work and can’t wax too eloquent, but will take a trial stab at what I’m seeing in the face of the apparently WAY DIRE situation we’re all facing in the world now.

The US Bi-election has gone off pretty much as expected, and in all the talk of a sea-change, I see no indication that any alteration in our descending spiral will eventuate. I see speculation on this board that the American Sheeple seem cowed (to mix metaphors), but that some final straw could awaken a sleeping rage within them (us) and bring about something to confound the puppet masters feverish drive toward ultimate control.

But from my POV it seems that another kind of awakening is more realistically potential in the foreseeable future, one that could really start a movement toward global (in multiple senses) healing. Eckhart Tolle, particularly in his most recent book, A New Earth (which I can’t recommend too highly) speaks of two simultaneous movements occuring in human consciousness now – a ratcheting madness that I think no one on this board would dispute, and a countervailing exponential flood of awareness, an unprecedented awakening. In some sense, this awakening may be driving the desperation of the madness, as the self-styled ruling elites sense that the jig is up for their programs of domination.

This awakening, which is possible individually in each of us, involves bringing our awareness into each moment, to each problem that arises, to every thought that arises in our minds, to everything in our perceptual field. Tolle’s A New Earth describes in practical detail the functioning of the ego-structure each of us lives, and tends to totally misidentify, with. Only by seeing the operation of this structure in its gritty detail, and beginning to release what can be characterized as an addiction to feeding it, can we begin to uncover the formless, timeless, peaceful, alert beingness that is at the core of each of us, as it always been. Even while seemingly entirely drowned out by our habitual mental noise.

This is our mission, should we choose to accept it. This calm, peaceful awareness, brought into each moment, can radically change our responses to the challenges we face.

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The Mechanical Nature of the Powers That Be, part deux

SOTT Logo(orig. published) November 3rd, 2006

This is a second post to the Our Orwellian World forum at SOTT in reply to one by Anders to the
post from yesterday. As a sidenote, this was apparently removed from the forum thread by a moderator:

Anders wrote:
I noticed that you wrote that it is not conscious on the part of the self-identified elites. Being conscious is linked to knowledge, as I understand it. So just as knowledge is necessary to move ‘up’ on the creative STO path, so is knowledge equally necessary to move ‘up’ on the entropic STS path. Graduation from 3rd D STO/STS to 4th D STO/STS
depends on knowledge.[end quote]

Hi Anders,

IMO, it is possible to spend an endless amount of time studying the array and strategies of “the enemy,” i.e. those darn STS entities, particularly those of “higher densities.” My point would be that they couldn’t/can’t do what they do if they were aware of the whole of their actions, and the implications for their “small selves” therefrom. As to their “moving up” in knowledge and control, as the Grateful Dead put it:

When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said “Son, you’ll never get far,
I’ll tell you the reason if you want to know,
’cause child of mine, there isn’t really very far to go” (Dupree’s Diamond Blues)

Lester Levenson, an American spiritual teacher, now deceased, after discovering how to heal his own body and mind, posited that the habits and misidentifications of the ego-structure were driven by the repression/resistance to the innate energies of the deep Self which he experienced as flowing from “within” his body from the gut-heart-solar
plexus region. He taught that by learning to release these energies we can disarm our misidentifications with thought forms trapping this energy and creating a reality in which we need the illusory ego-structure trapping the energy to defend ourselves and to fight against/resist external dangers. From this viewpoint, observing the operation of the structures in us that are empowered to trap this energy by our activation of them through mechanical misidentified actions (i.e. addiction to thinking), enables us to awaken from the egoistic dream-like state.

I don’t think that working with this approach obviates understanding the pathology of entities busy using stolen and toxic energies to feed their illusions and to trap and control others. Ultimately, I suspect it may be the key to effective solutions.

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