Hmmm, Greg Allman has aged well - I *like* the crucifix!
NIGHTMARE last night: riding bareback on a talking horse through an apocalyptic nightmarescape, bodies wrapped in plastic, some still moving a bit in footballfield-size mass grave. Horse was telling me how this happened, but I have forgotten the words.
There was corruption and buildings full of people who tolerated the situation.
I told the horse to take my friend to safety and leave me behind.
With a heavy heart, I watched the horse gallop away, and was left on the street, fending off a guy who looked just like Greg Allman. He had both my hands gripped & held fast with one of his huge hands.
With the other hand, I thought he was trying to choke me but he was doing some weird manipulation of my throat chakra. I don’t know what he was doing, but it didn’t hurt, and it felt as though he was doing something to the energy there, the way an energetic healer might… or maybe some kind of energy-vampire….
Woke up and my entire body was cold as ice.
Woke up with a conscious thought: if you have your hands free, punch them right in the trachea; if your hands are not free, head-butt them & get your hands free.
This youtube is for you to listen to while you read the post below:
Something so weird happened to me last night – I just fell into a heavy sleep all of a sudden and woke up feeling … somehow *enlightened*.
It’s about resignation – in a good way!
So many of us struggle and rage against REALITY! or THE PAST!
You CAN’T – LOL!
You cannot fight against the way it *is* or things which have already happened from *this* position in time (but wait – I figured out how to change the past by creating a specific future!).
That’s another reason (other than the obvious) that Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and most religions teach resignation. I always thought that it was PURELY/obviously to allow the elite a better tool for social control of the commoners, but I have just realized there is another benefit of resignation: peace and the ability to move forward with a positive attitude.
And that is not to be confused with passivity. That is not to say that we should approve of or condone the SHITTY way that things *are*! But we CAN change the FUTURE, and it behooves us to do so.
We need to do all we can in our sphere of influence to promote love, justice, peace, harmony, sustainability, and all good things.
It is WE who are creating the future, so that details of the past will fade away. The past is like the particles observed in those quantum physics experiments… depending on who is watching or if they are watched, they *are* different. People interpret the past differently, based on what they are doing, experiencing, feeling, at a particular moment.
Things in the past which used to enrage me just give me a smile now… because I have already rewritten or reinterpreted the facts as they were. The facts behave exactly like those particles under observation … or not.
We can only CHANGE REALITY OR CHANGE THE PAST BY ACCEPTING IT NOW AND MOVING FORWARD TO CREATE A GREAT FUTURE.
I just felt that a weight had been lifted off me this morning when I realized for the first time that I have wasted energy raging against things that only be changed by the act of resignation, acceptance.
Back to the fact that you cannot fight reality.
BUT … you can work around it to follow your dreams!
I think that will be the title of my autobiography:
“Working Around Reality”
The Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
I saw an utterly stupid flier for some ‘relationship educators’ and thought to myself, I could do better than that!
So I spent 15 minutes banging this out and I think I’ll start a BS relationship workshop (high end, very expensive!) based on my revolutionary PARTNERS(TM) System:
P-A-R-T-N-E-R-S
P lay fair: no ad-hominem attacks, no deceit, be constructive and remember you are a TEAM, not opponents
A ccept: all people are a mixed bag of good & bad qualities; you can search forever to find a “perfect” partner… good luck with that
R emember the relationship has to be sustainable, so you need to stand up for your rights and respect your partner’s
T ry: make your best effort to keep the ship afloat – it’s not just the other person’s job; it takes effort on both partners’ parts
N ever take your partner for granted. Yin & Yang benefit each other, and together they are greater than their sum. It’s magic
E quality: when partners are ‘unevenly yoked’ the oxcart goes in circles, so share tasks and responsibilities as well as rights and privileges
R enegotiate as necessary: there are more solutions than problems – and a deal can always be struck if both partners have remotely compatible values
S hare a common goal: if you are both looking at the same destination in the distance, you will walk the same path
In the old days the elite used to brainwash the people to believe that they should be satisfied with their poverty, for it was God’s will or some such tommyrot.
Nowadays, we are supposed to believe that with every exhalation we are destroying the Earth and we should be satisfied with less, so as not to destroy-the-environment or some such tommyrot.
Here is the truth: humans are born with the same kind of life-force that powers plant-growth. We want. We want more. It’s normal. It’s natural. It’s good. It leads to progress.
It is abnormal to desire less. If you do not want more from your life, or worse still, if you harm or deny yourself, in order to “save the Earth”, then you have a psychological problem.
The elite always try to reign-in the progress of the commoners, because they crave control. Think about it. Think like an elite, but refrain from the controlfreakism…
Seriously, why do they care if I have a religion or not … is it their business?
Are they trying to *convert* me to their belief? And yes I consider Atheism a *belief* that there is no God.
I find atheists all over the place, bashing & bashing on religion, religious people, and even agnostics who are in some way open to the concept of a man-in-the-sky type of god, but not convinced.
Actually agnosticism is the only intelligent approach.
We CANNOT KNOW about the existence of god at this time.
We can argue endlessly, but we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god.
We can look back in time and say, wow, look how the intelligentsia has always used religion to rule over the less-informed.
That’s obvious.
But just because humans are always interested in grasping power in the name of god, that doesn’t mean that god does not exist.
Atheists, can you please RELAX and stop ranting about how there is no god?
You sound just as maniacal, irrational, and deluded as any religious nut, and in the same way as them, you sound SCARED OF THE TRUTH.
NICE!! A good thing about English is that it evolves with us. English has no equivalent of La Sourbonne, which treats the French language like Apple software. In English, usage which was incorrect 30 years ago is now ‘accepted’ – and what makes it ‘accepted’ is common usage – not its approval by a bunch of academic snobs! English is like open source, extendable code. Sorry France, sorry Steve Jobs… there are rewards attached to pulling the cork outta ur ….
And when you find yours, tell me where and how you find it… I need to find mine!
Here are some questions we can ask ourselves to narrow it down:
When you drift-off mentally during work or whatever you are *supposed* to be doing, what are you thinking of?
Think of something you would really like to accomplish before you die – do you need to start now?
If you had ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, what would you do (after the novelty of *nothing* wears off!)?
What are your hobbies? If one of them *is* your passion but you can’t figure out how to make $$ with it, think again!
Once you have a few ‘passions’ written down – if you are like me, you will have a very zany-looking list:
Sex – everything about it is interesting, complex, and important – would love to do research on the topic, and I’m not being facetious! I mean serious studies!
Food/ cooking - would love to have a successful cooking / recipe blog and help the world to cook a good meal!
Aquaculture / aquarium stuff / my fish & frogs – as with the food, would love to have the time & space to do some serious aquaculture. I believe it is the NEXT THING in food, and as a hobby, it’s a blast.
Survivalism - I find myself wondering what will happen as we humans kind of hit the wall with regards to our ‘habitat’. We just don’t live in a sustainable way. At some point will be forced to run to the hills or at any rate do without the infrastructure (electricity/water/telecom/etc)? I think a lot about what one would need in a backpack or in a bunker in the woods to make it out there in the winter for any period of time if the shit ever really hits the fan in the cities/’burbs.
Sustainability – comes from the same observation as #4 but wouldn’t it be nice if that could all be avoided? What if i could design & build some kind of sustainable ‘pod’ like the things they are building in the Middle East (I remember some pyramid-shaped thing that had gardens & living accommodations and claimed to have a neutral or low carbon footprint).
Uplift humanity*somehow*:
open some big garbage-processing centre and hire lots of poor people at fair wages in a drug-free, positive environment (dorms – my friends accuse me of wanting to set up a garbage-gulag for the poor, but it comes from a place of love, honestly!)
self-esteem & intellectual stimulation & hope & motivation for children – Let’s face it, so many kids are nothing more than the byproducts of sex (see #1) and have a crap-upbringing. Soooo many of society’s ills could be avoided by either birth control (FFS – if you don’t want a kid, don’t create one!!!) or a positive upbringing. I would like to see a *fair* situation for children, where the children of incompetent people are not *punished* for being born to the wrong people. It’s such a shame. The genes are sometimes rather good and shouldn’t be wasted.
possibly work at the higher levels of society, rather than with the poor and with the children. That may be where the most change can be effected
Imagine yourself as a kind of ultra-successful celebrity in your field (try this with each of your passions) – being interviewed for TV. What would you say to the interviewer? I would say something like, “Yeah, I remember back in 2010, I was broke and had no idea I could ever be so successful at this, but one day I just had an epiphany, cleared out a whole end of my living room, bought myself a few good-sized tanks and started breeding ____[some kinda fish]____ which led me in a pretty direct path to being a major shellfish supplier to the major grocery chains… .
Yeah… something like that!
OK, off to find my passion – now you find yours too!
Interestingly, both lions & elephants are a gaggle of grrrrlz who hang out together in a group. The lionesses let a guy hang around on a regular basis as long as he makes himself useful and keeps hyenas away from the babies while the grrlllz go off hunting.
Elephants as I understand it, prefer a kind of one-night-stand… approach with the males. The boy elephants don’t get to hang with the grrlllz on a regular basis.
It’s really weird, the wold of gender perception is upside down… or perhaps it just seems that way – I see the world through goddess-goggles….
I am compiling a list of BS lies which are accepted unquestioningly all the time by almost everyone around here:
Fat-free yogurt is NOT healthy – just look at the damn ingredients.
Working out will NOT make you live longer.
THE PILL has led to the breast cancer epidemic, not ‘high-fat diet’.
Straight, non-dirty-needle-using men do NOT get AIDS.
The Federal Reserve is NOT part of the U.S. Federal Government.
Canada is A MAJOR polluter.
Israel has NO RIGHT to oppress Palestinians.
There is NO economic recovery in sight for the Western World.
Buying a Toyota Prius will NOT save the Earth.
Your Blue Recycling Box is NOT helping at all.
Oh yeah, here are some facts – but check them before you believe them!!
Seriously, are we going to make it as a species?
I think I will not see the extinction of homo sapiens sapiens in my lifetime, but we are seriously PUSHING it!
STOP OFFSHORE DRILLING!!!
I just got the news that one of my friends has breast cancer at a pretty young age.
I was just ranting about breast cancer the other day, because of the ridiculous BULLSHIT that is passing for ‘research’ or ‘information’ regarding breast cancer.
ANYTHING which raises your estrogen level for a sustained period of time will increase your breast cancer risk.
That includes:
as little as one drink of alcohol per day
being overweight
deliberately taking pills every day which contain synthetic estrogen. HELLOOOOO.
I remember being in my teens and 20s and having everyone lean on me to take the pill (guess they didn’t want me to reproduce LOL). I said no thanks to that.
The doctors never mentioned elevated breast cancer risk. OK they give you the sample pack with the absolutely blood-curdling list of possible deathly side-effects but does anyone (except me) read them?
Anyway, just in case you believe the BS that the media is putting out there, the skyrocketing rates of breast cancer are NOT a mystery. They are due to the popularity of birth control pills, and obesity I guess, but that’s a whole ‘nother wave of it coming down the pipes.
I get my satisfaction. It’s up to me, and nobody else but me. If everyone could clear this concept, then the world would be a better place.
Seriously, there are so many unhappy people who are looking to SOMEONE ELSE to satisfy them in one way or another…. It causes a lot of frustration and antipathy.
OK – here is a Satisfaction-Set going out to y’all – DJ IdeazGuy Is In Da House:
Excellent metaphysical book from the 1800s – makes perfect sense. I suspect “The Secret” was based on this, even though it is not meant to be kept a secret:
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UPDATE: found a link where you can listen to all the chapters continuously: