Health Benefits of High Colonic Enemas

Note from the Future: I found I was washing a lot of very necessary minerals from my digestive track (probably calcium most of all), which was giving me extremely low blood pressure and Night Cramps in my legs. So don't overdo those High Colonics and try to minimize the amount of water used in your enemas. Aim at only evacuating the lower colon. For the higher colon and the small intestines -- let them do their job of absorbing nutrients and minerals.

I had written several essays previously, “Colonics vs. Enamas” and “Enemas Will Save Your Life and Ease Hemorrhoids”. It must be becoming apparent that I am still somewhat deep in my researches on this topic, and I am not quite finished with the subject yet.

Since the last essay I discovered that after one first enema, that if I fill up a second time with more water, that there is a significant production of more fecal material, something I had not expected. I had reloaded more water only to test for the kind of claims that are made for Colonics, that the bowels become clean and that the water begins to run relatively clear. That more fecal matter was produced came as a surprise.

Remember, originally I was using about 8 bottles of water, using a 7.5 ounce bottle which probably was only squeezing out roughly 6 ounces of water. That amounts to about a liter and a half of water. That was enough to make me feel full, or full enough, as I did not wish to go too far. But when I began to do second fill-ups, I decided I could use more water to make up for being relatively empty of fecal matter. Then it was that I realized that I could fill up with more water without really becoming full until about 12 bottles, or significantly more than two liters of water. I found that when one is really full, one knows it, as there comes the natural urge to expel the water. Now, usually I try to measure the feeling and stop just before being completely full so that I can have time to lean over and let the water wash about in my insides a bit. Anyway, I have found that by using more water, up to about the point of having the urge to evacuate, that more material is evacuated. What I suppose is happening is that the water is reaching up past another bend in the colon.

Also, previously I had been taking the enemas once every two days. At first I was feeling clean for both days. But as my experience with cleanliness increased, apparently I became more sensitive to it and I was soon able to discern the difference between the first day and the second day, and began to feel that there was ‘product’ collecting, if not in the lower colon, then somewhere in my bowels. So I began experimenting with daily enemas and found that on almost every occasion a significant amount of material washed out.

Now, the daily enemas using more than two liters of water describe slightly differently then I had described before, in my previous essay. Firstly, the lower bowel is generally completely clean, as the first evacuation spasms produce only relatively clear water, a bit rusty, but with no fecal material. Not everything comes at once. Typically there are about 4 main spasms with some time between each. The first, as I said, is usually entirely of water, the second from a higher section of the bowel will be a mix of water and some fecal material, the third spasm will contain the largest part of the fecal material, and then a last spasm of fecal material, and maybe a small last spasm. Often, during or between the water and material spasms, there will be a significant amount of air being expelled – more air than I would have expected from the air bubbles and air spaces from the enema bottle and nozzle, so perhaps it is a good deal of methane.

Anyway, the daily enemas have had no adverse effect upon me, and the feeling of being perpetually clean is a welcome feeling. Also, there is the absolute certainty that one can go about one’s daily business without ever having the unexpected interruption of having to find a bathroom. A daily enema requires about 20 minutes. I have found that time can be saved by taking the little rubber one-way valve out of the bottle nozzle. It is there to prevent the water backing up into the bottle, but it does slow down even the forward flow. It would really save time if one had one huge bag, or a water hose, but the bottles work.

Now, everyone needs to remember the main points, and that is NEVER to strain, and never to message the lower abdomen, to help push the material down. As far as I can see messaging the abdomen only serves to push the fecal material solids into the linings of the colon and to cause bleeding. If one does not strain and does not message the lower abdomen then there will not be any bleeding. Straining causes the colon to distend out of the anus – that is, if you strain you will literally begin to poop out your guts. However, that is not the end of the world. If one applies a desiccant such as witch-hazel and alcohol to reduce the swelling, then one can easily push the intestine back up where it belongs. Ordinarily people are squeamish about this portion of their colon distending out (they don’t want to touch the ‘dirty thing’), and they leave it out, where it swells up, making it uncomfortable to sit, and it becomes rather subject to bleeding. Scarring develops and I suppose this is what we come to refer to as hemorrhoids. It is all very preventable.

Now even after a careful enema with no straining, there may sometimes be a very slight distention at the anus, but if one wipes with witch-hazel, all that is required is to press on the area slightly and it all flattens out and there is no subsequent swelling, tenderness or bleeding. Oh, even the most gentle paper is more abrasive then cotton, and so it is probably best to simply pad off the most part of the soil with paper soaked in witch-hazel, and then to finish the cleaning with cotton soaked in witch-hazel, assuring that any distention is pushed back into the anus. The cotton can be saved after first soaking in a strong water-bleach solution and then washed in soap and water and hung to dry. Again, I am rather convinced that this procedure of Enemas can save one a good deal of medical trouble, if one has even the least concern regarding hemorrhoids. Also, I have almost forgotten to mention the greatest danger involved with straining, that it is perhaps the most prolific precipitating cause of heart attacks and strokes – old men were never intended to push out huge bricks of impacted material out of their tiny little butts, and live. The reason I forgot to mention it was that it has now been months since I experienced any straining, thanks to this regimen of enemas. I may well live to be one of the few old men that aren’t found dead on the pot.

Furthermore, I had recently read that capsaicin, the hot stuff in hot peppers, turns on the genetic Death Signal in cancer tumors which make the tumors die as though from old age so that they subsequently just wither away. Now you would think that it would have been long ago noticed if people who ate a lot of hot peppers had a significantly lower incidence of colon cancer, but the way science works nowadays, nobody wants to say anything until somebody is willing to issue a grant for a full study, so real world anecdotal evidence is tossed out since nobody is getting paid to notice it. In science as in everything else, it’s all about Money. Nobody does anything without a Pay Day. Anyway, the point I wish to make is that a clean colon is probably a healthy colon, or perhaps more healthy then a colon that is forever packed full of old decaying impacted fecal matter. But additionally, if one can tolerate the taste of hot spices, then a sprinkle of cayenne pepper powder in one’s daily meal might also be a good additional prophylaxis against colon cancer.

Profit Motive Media and Culture Collapse

Remember such famous books as “1984”, “Brave New World” and “Atlas Shrugged” that united in the shrill proclamation that Government control of the media would debase us all and cause the immediate collapse of Civilization. The books were very effective in making their point, as, nowadays, we are all almost entirely convinced that the only danger that could possibly address Culture and Civilization would have to come from the direction of Government.

Yet, if we were to seriously take a real hard look at the weight of influences on our Culture, then the role and influence of Government would be almost miniscule. The Government produces no books, no movies, no music, no television, and no news. All these influences come from entirely private sources – the Private Media.

Now, we could speculate on whether or not the Private Media may have some horrifyingly awful personal agenda and is intentionally laying the propaganda seeds that could facilitate some sort of take-over, or we could simply wonder whether our worst worry need only be regarding the effects that the Profit Motive could have on all of this. As they say in the movies, it may be nothing personal at all, but could be purely a matter of business.

Ordinarily when the Profit Motive is defended, we hear that it is all about people buying exactly what they want. What could be wrong with that? Producers are rewarded as high sales generate high profits. It is all perfectly just as they describe it. Yes, but that is only one end of it, that money is made from higher sales. But what they rarely brag about is that more money can also be made by selling a cheaper product at the same rate, that is, increasing Profits by cutting expenses and overhead costs. This is called increasing the Profit Margin, the differences between the cost of production and what is being charged to the Public.

Now, considering that everything in The Private Sphere is done entirely in view of the Profit Motive, while we could charitably assume that some concern is going toward providing us with a product that we truly desire and wish to pay for, still it is impossible not to acknowledge that all those dedicated businessmen would consider it as some kind of a crime of malfeasance against their Shareholders to not do everything possible to extract the last possible squeak of Profit from every deal they make. We have to assume that they are edging the Profit Margin against us. Would they intentionally and deliberately debase, cheapen, and even pervert our Culture to make a fast buck? Well, no, not perhaps consciously. But with their eyes only on the Money, it may be simply a matter of Culture obeying the laws of a kind of Gravity, whereby if it is not lifted up then it must inevitably fall. Well, continuously cutting back on the Quality of the various Medias in order to increase the Profit Margins on all the books, music, art, News, and Movies can certainly not be expected to be much of a wind beneath the Wings of our sagging Culture, can it?

Well, they tell us that Savings are always passed on, but really? Every newly published book costs about $25. CD’s cost $15. I haven’t bought a DVD yet, but I am willing to wager that a DVD of “Gone with the Wind” probably costs the same as “Stupid Comedy II”. Everywhere we look it appears that Prices are fixed, while the Producers are looking for two clear avenues for expanding their Profits – either selling more or producing the same amount but at a reduced expense. We can expect them to pursue both angles vigorously or they never went to Business School. Things get cheaper cheaper cheaper, not just in cost but in quality. It can almost be a definition of Modernity, a progressive cheapening of everything. The best example here is perhaps with architecture – the buildings that encompass us. Weren’t they all better a hundred years ago, with stone and style. Buildings are all just cheap boxes now. But really everything is in decline.

I wrote essays before about the decline of the Music Industry. Allow a short review – inside of a hundred years we went from the Highest and Most Ethereal Orchestra and Opera Music down through Big Bands, and then Swing Bands, to scraggly rock and roll bands to the point where we have no Bands at all anymore, but single individuals who replace Music with blathering profanities against a background of techno-rhythms -- Rap. The Producers’ costs are as minimal as conceivable, not to mention that almost no time and trouble is involved anymore in Production. Simply consider the amount of work it takes to assemble and coordinate the workings of a great orchestra, against the effort of finding some solitary young man in the Inner City willing to take pay in exchange for cussing in rhyme. Simply as a matter of Business, it was inevitable that there would be such a decline. Indeed, the same decline can be traced in every area where Culture was placed at the mercy of the Profit Margins.

I once heard a story about one of my favorite authors, Raymond Chandler, one of the founding deities of American Tough Guy Detective Fiction, that he had gone broke in the Depression and was looking for a new means of making money, and while he had written for pleasure, decided to write for money. He considered writing Fine Literature but went to a bookstore and noticed that while he stood there nobody bothered to disturb the Fine Literature rack, already a few customers had made purchases from the Detective Crime section. In the interests of sating his hunger, he decided that the better business plan would be for himself to write detective fiction. Now, as an aside, Chandler wrote detective fiction much as though it were Fine Literature, but let us take my point to be that an otherwise fine man took a purely businesslike decision to take a Cultural Step Down simply in order to make more money. Multiply such decisions by a million and one gets a Cultural Collapse.

But this does raise the point as to whether people are indeed getting exactly what they want. Yes, they are. But we need to consider the perhaps sinister angle of this wanting in the General Public for lesser and lesser levels of quality. Remember, it took Music almost a full hundred years to achieve its utter collapse into primitive Rap, that is, where the money spending Public ‘wants’, that is prefers to buy Rap before all other genres and qualities of Music. Literature also did not fall in a moment. Decadence in Painting has not been straight down, but has been on a slope. What is happening is that Public Tastes can only be gradually debased, and only so much can be done with each Generation. Every child grows up seeing in his own home and schools the levels of appreciation shown to the various Arts, and he is given the kinds of exposure and education in these arts so that he can understand and then enjoy them. High Culture requires this kind of exposure and then is sustained by it.

Certainly there can be moments of Cultural Disaster, such as the French Revolution and the Great Depression, when the Class of Patrons for High Culture were greatly diminished or terrible distracted. When this happens we may have one or two Generations that are stifled in their Cultural Educations, and then the result is a general decline in Taste. When this happens then the Media Businessmen must see it as a huge opportunity as it is so much cheaper to please debased Tastes then the Best Tastes. No Businessman would ever fight against the lowering of Standards but would see it as an opportunity of expanding his Profit Margin.

Of course no businessman would wish to be seen exactly in the guise of pushing a cheaper product, but remember that Businessmen have virtually mastered the psychologies and sciences of Public Relations and Advertising. To facilitate the rollouts of cheaper debased cultural products they have several avenues open to them; they can attack the higher culture as elitist and snobbish, or associate High Culture with whatever Ethnic Group is currently in the least favor, or they can present the new Cultural Low Point as some important popular innovation or expression… a People Pride sort of thing.

I remember how the Jazz and then the Rock and Roll Culture used to ridicule anybody who still patronized the Orchestra and Fine Music Scene. Was this ridicule entirely genuine, that is, rooted in any true mean-spiritedness of teenage boys and young men, or was it engendered from some well considered and well placed Media indoctrinations. A Generation of young people who first see Movie Characters ridiculing high culture, and then there favorite TV characters ridiculing high culture, might eventually think it quite normal and even expected for themselves to ridicule the same high culture. Then, while this Generation still secretly understands High Culture perfectly well, and could even enjoy it in private, they have effectively been made ashamed to admit it, and could never buy anything in a store that could not pass Public Scrutiny which would decidedly frown upon anything of the old High Culture as being ‘square’, ‘un-hip’, ‘un-cool’. I am sure I am not the only person who remembers keeping certain records aside, so that when visitors looked over my collection I would not have to answer questions about my elitist and snobby tastes or whatever. So it is that Cultural Decline can be enforced by this kind of fear of social pressures. I wish I could entirely blame the businessmen for this, but suspect that the dynamics of Group Identity may have something to do with it, but, then again, I wonder to what extent businessmen have gone in deliberately packaging and marketing these various Group Identities. For instance, the Black Trench Coat Killers at Columbine High School… didn’t they buy their entire wardrobe down at the Gap right off the rack?

Oh, there is one more consideration concerning the decline of Culture, and that is that among the poorest and most uneducated classes there was never much culture to begin with. Now, generations ago, these poorest and most uneducated classes were simply ignored by the Businessmen, largely because the costs of any kind product was out of the range of such profound poverty. Well, books have been cheap for sometime now, but the lowest classes had trouble reading and illiteracy rates are still higher than they should be. But nowadays costs for most cultural products are at an unprecedented low. Indeed, nobody even bothers to pay anything for music anymore. Online piracy makes it effectively free.

What we have is a paradoxical reversal of the influences of Rich and Poor. Centuries ago only the Rich could pay for Culture, and they were very demanding about the standards they set for. It was very expensive and they insisted they got what they paid for. But now that every book, record, CD and whatnot is being sold at the same low prices, the multitudinous numbers of the Poor and Uneducated wield a huge advantage over the so very few educated and cultured customers that pay the same price as anybody else. It does make me wonder that the Rich don’t once more decide to patronize the best artists as they had before, irregardless of the illiterate and uncouth masses, but I suspect that the Cultural Propaganda that debased the Masses had overshot the target and that the Modern Rich are as ignorant and boorish as any street punk. I could even guess that in the finest Ivy League Universities, the young men and women are practicing Rap and their hip-hop dancing, that is, when they are not reading Hemingway. It had taken Europe, France in particular, a thousand years to ascend to some level of Culture. Unfortunately a great deal of Culture was murdered in the Revolutions. Culture came to America but obviously never took deep root, not in any field as far as I can see. The Masons who took over, New World and Old, after the heads rolled never pretended to be anything more than simply bourgeois and allowed the Money Dealers to dictate Culture to them, letting Art Dealers set Prices and Tastes, listening to Hemingway when he declared that stupidity of expression was all that literature would ever need in our brave new world, and listening to self appointed Music Critics talk up cheapness instead of relying on high bred Tastes that had taken generations to develop. Mozart and Beethoven were paid only when they pleased, and their success probably has as much to do with the developed Tastes of their Age as any personal talents of their own. They were understood – that is the remarkable thing about it all. For instance, we can only guess what kind of garbage Mozart or Beethoven would now have to resort to in order to be successful on the modern scene. Nothing great today would even be understood. They would hoot them off the stage, wouldn’t they? Or maybe I do not give Beethoven or Mozart enough credit, as perhaps they might be especially good at finding words that rhyme with ‘bitch’ and … ‘truck’ and could be wonderful at pleasing the modern audience. But it still remains that it would all just be perfect crap.

Anyway, Culture and Taste need to take a progressive climb, with generation after generation coming to higher levels of understanding and appreciation. It’s not something that money can buy, or even wants to buy. Sometimes Big Money is just coarser and more vulgar because it can afford to be.

Well, now that we know that Culture is in a sure decline, should anything be done? We have Private Individuals who are making all of the Cultural Decisions in Society based on no further understanding than the ease and convenience with which they can make the fastest money. It may be that tastes are being deliberately debased which would be the worst and most vicious exploitation of people. And not only are the arts affected, but morality and ethics as well. For instance, I went to the movies this weekend and saw not just one but several movies that cast slacker degenerate characters in the lead roles, probably so that the slacker degenerate Generate could go the movies and be able to feel good about their worthless derelict selves. Oh, and then there is Hollywood casting more fat people simply because so many people are obese nowadays… it is all makes for so very unhealthy an example, but Hollywood wants its sick and disgusting audience to feel at home.

Every Western Capitalist Society is caught deep in the grips of this decadence and irreversible Collapse. China is appalled by it and is making efforts to draw some kind of line in the drifting sands, but while they are encouraging more and more the same Profit Motive that had corrupted the West, they will see the same kind of decline in their own Cultural and Moral Views. Islam, while it has its own problems with the infighting between tribes and sects, can’t help but to see the spread of Western Decadence as a huge problem. And the West pretends to be surprised that Islam does not want its daughters to be just as slutty as Madonna, or its young men to spend all their lives chasing speed-freak strip-dancers in Clubs owned by the worst scumbags imaginable, where the worst people make the most money. The West argues that Freedom’s Vices must be taken with its Virtues, but somehow the Vices seem so much more in evidence.

Honestly, I don’t think anything can be done. Civilizations collapsed before. The Decisions of Private Wealth are almost always against the Common Good, and in the late phases of Civilization too much power is always in the hands of Private Wealth. Never before in History has a Civilization in its late phase been able to rally behind its Government enough to take power back from Private Wealth and assert some responsible and well considered controls in order to back the return of Culture and Education. As I said at the preface of this Essay, we are now too broadly and deeply conditioned into always always always seeing the Government as our enemy, so that it becomes almost impossible to consider even for a moment that Government might be the only institution that could stand even the least little prayer of offsetting the all powerful influences of Private Wealth.

Yes, yes, Government is sometimes corrupt. But that is only sometimes. But Greed is ALWAYS corrupt. History shows us that it is not impossible for Government to sometimes work in the interests of the People, that a Public Servant might actually sometimes do his job. But Greed is always, well, Greedy. The very nature of Greed, a declared an unrepentant Vice, is, well, Evil, and it doubles itself in Pride. Greed has never been anything else but selfish, self-seeking, and ultimately debasing, and entire Civilizations are swallowed by its Profit Margins.

What the Second Amendment Really Says

The American 2nd Constitutional Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

Notice that the Second Amendment has absolutely nothing to say about any individual right to bear arms. Yet, every time we hear some Right Wing spokesman talking to the press on this particular point, they are emphatic about presenting the 2nd Amendment as guarantee for every individual to bear arms. The logic behind this is the logic of repetitive propaganda, that if it is said often enough, and not really countered by anybody, then everyone will assume it is true. And thus far the strategy seems to have worked, for, whenever the Media speaks of the 2nd Amendment, it seems to be in the context of supposing that they are speaking of an absolute right for each citizen to bear arms.

But the Second Amendment only speaks of the Right for a Militia to bear arms. Even then there are two provisos. The first stipulation is that the Militia must be well regulated. The second stipulation was that the primary focus was to be the maintenance of the Free State, which we can take to mean the duly constituted Government.

In the 18th Century the word ‘regulated’ meant ‘disciplined’. Any reasonable Court could render the reasonable opinion that a Militia could be considered as “well regulated” only if it were officially constituted under Government Control. If this was not clear when the Constitution was written, it has ever been made clear since, as there have been so many instances where not well regulated private militias did so much more harm than good concerning the security of free states. We only have to consider that almost every terrible revolution and dictatorial regime was put in place by gun toting Militia groups.

Indeed, America’s own Civil War was a product of what could be described as out of control and undisciplined Militias. What else can you call it when half of a Nation’s Army takes up arms against the other half. Certainly somebody is not obeying orders.

Then we need to wonder about how Might of Arms figures in a Free State where one would expect the Power of the Vote to be the all powerful arbiter of the Free State. Yet, it is more likely that Militias take up their arms when they are not pleased with how the voting had gone. The South rose up in violent rebellion because they lost an Election. Is that really how the American Constitution was designed to work?

It perhaps would not be so bad if Militias were the expression of Individual Liberty, that is, of each of its members well held political convictions. But again History shows us a darker seamier side about Militias. The truth is that whenever unemployment among young men becomes significant, then Militias become hotbeds for easy recruitment. If young men have a choice of sitting around going hungry and doing nothing, or getting one meal and a free drink with the chance of carrying a gun, then he will chose the one meal, the free drink and the gun, that is, he will join a Militia, and often enough the first Militia that will take him.

So, how are we to interpret the Second Amendment? Well, what it says is that the States and the Municipalities have the right to arm their Police Forces, just as long as these police forces recognize the ascendancy of a Chain of Command going up to the Federal Government. They may have guns to fight FOR the Free State, but not against it. Discipline must be maintained.

Yes, the second clause of the Amendment, after the two stipulations concerning Militias and the Free State, says that the rights of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. Well, we have only to refer to the Second Amendment as a product of Political Compromise to see how we can reconcile such contradictions. We always need to remember that the 2nd Amendment does not come to us from the Bible, written down by Saints and Prophets. Instead the 2nd Amendment comes to us from committees of divided politicians, even then split in party faction, with the distinction that every single one of them acted to murder British Peacekeepers employed only to protect property and the Public Safety. These Founding Fathers would only be Terrorists if we could see them only in the contemporary light. But even then the 2nd Amendment was not an unqualified right to wield weapons for the purposes of Sedition and Treason, as they had wielded them, using the euphemism “freedom” to justify the slaughters they committed, but obviously a sizeable delegation of cooler heads were able to hold out for those stipulations concerning well regulated Militias and the service to the State. Even in the earliest most naïve days of the American Experiment in Democracy, it was realized that there was a danger in allowing the broad and unqualified distribution of weapons to unauthorized and unaccountable individuals who could be expected to sometimes use them to defy the appointments and decisions of duly appointed Government. Guns could not be permitted to become the effective veto against the Vote. There is no unqualified right for any individual to engage in Political Murder, no matter how much money his lobbyist is able to funnel online.

Yet, if one is to believe most arguments made for the 2nd Amendment, we would have to believe that these people assume that Political Murder, decided merely in terms of individual conscience, is perfectly justified and constitutionally condoned. One has to wonder why any murderer is in jail, when all they would have to plead is that they killed for purely political considerations, exercising their 2nd Amendment rights to carve out the Free State according to their own idiosyncratic reasons. After all, if we are free to bear arms, does it not follow that we are free to use them as we see fit? Yes, we hardly ever hear the argument taken this far, though that is exactly where it goes, but there are enough people living by such logic to keep us all dismayed and appalled. One might not have overly loved the Kennedy’s or Dr. King, but their murder should hardly have been equated with Free Speech as the 2nd Amendment is supposed to so construe it.

What is really bothersome is that Second Amendment cases have gone to the Supreme Court on several occasions before, and everything was decided exactly on political grounds, kowtowing to the gun toting Special Interests. Even the liberal judges shied away from discussing and then implementing the actual wording of the Amendment. You see, the National Rifle Association funds almost a greater proportion of election campaigns, of both parties, than even the Zionist and Health Care Lobbies put together, and so everybody in Washington, to keep the money flowing, pretends to a greater or lesser extent that the Individual Right to bear arms is absolutely guaranteed. And yet after a careful reading of the Amendment a Judge with any real balls could order the disarming of every private citizen in America without un-dotting a single ‘I’ or uncrossing a single ‘t’ of the 2nd Amendment.

Social Dynamics: Priests Vs Warriors Vs. Money

(forgive me for the rusticity of this first draft…)

Firstly, Civilization is impossible without morality, or at least a very comprehensive application of social controls designed to protect food surpluses and stored seed grains. These come down to us from the Priestly Castes.

Explaining the existence of Warriors is far easier. Bullies with weapons learn that they can steal, and if they partner up with enough other bullies, they can largely get away with it, losing out, when they do, only to other bullies, or, as they prefer to be called, other gallant warriors. You see, we are often compelled to call them as they like, or they will beat us up. It makes it difficult to speak directly and honestly of a group that traditionally wields so much duress and menace. One must resort to big words so that they do not detect the criticisms.

Looking at History we can perhaps be a bit surprised at how successful the Priests, and Religion, had been in being able to manage the Warrior Classes. In India the Aryans placed the Priestly Brahmins at least nominally above the Kings and the Warriors. In Egypt, Rome and Japan the heads of State expressed their role in Religious Terms, either taking on the mantels of Chief Priest or even that of God. In Medieval Europe, struggling to re-civilize itself, the Warrior Knights could take up the sword only after a religious initiation, that is, certification.

History shows us some colossal failures in this regards, where the Priests had utterly failed to control the Bully Element. For instance, Islam. Islam is an instance where the Warriors themselves tossed out the Priests and effectively wrote their own Religion, espousing Conquest, Pillage and resort to the Sword to solve every little problem, and then only for the guys that wield the sword. And so it is that while Islamic Societies may struggle toward Civilization, enlisting Scholars and creating Schools that do their utter best to submerge and sublimate their Anti-Religion’s core doctrines, doing their best to make a Religion out of it all, still, while the original texts exist, any Barbarian can easily make the Fundamentalist Appeal to return to the Roots of Islam and Kill Kill Kill. And so it is that Islam is doomed to forever struggle in the Sea of Barbarism. A Religion of the Sword, while it may never completely die, will ever be in the throes of death. This is both sad for themselves, as they are their own worst victims, but also for anybody who must have any dealings with them. They will always have some excuse to whip out their swords. Yes, while other cultures are often violent, few other cultures have gone so such a great extent as Islam to so completely give violence a Divine Endorsement. But to be fair, Modern Zionism is doing its utmost to catch up. Why, we hear on the news that Israel supposes that their Zionist Soldiers are the most Moral Solders in the World, and that is because they only kill people who obviously deserve to die, that is, non-Jews.

Anyway, to be fair to everyone, all Religions have some mix of Barbarism, that is, some surrender or compromise the Bullies that inevitably shoved their way into the process of establishing Doctrine and institutionalizing Tradition. No, we do not have to necessarily have to put on our Theological Hats and comb through the Doctrines themselves. We can simply look at the Societies and Civilizations involved, asking ourselves two questions – what was the highest Population Density that this Civilization was able to achieve, and how long did the Civilization last. If a Civilization can last for more than several hundred years while maintaining stable urban populations, then it has what must be a moral religion with some actual influence with the people.

Now, there are Social Systems that are great at getting started. For instance, China has a tradition of imposing enough Law and Order to protect property rights, and so Wealth accumulates quickly, as well as population, but then it quickly erupts into severe Concentration of Wealth at the top and full blown rebellion at the bottom, culminating in Barbarian Invasion, as the Mongols never fail to sense when things become vulnerable on the other side of The Wall. Paradoxically, China, as a territorial jurisdiction has benefited from these cycles of Boom and Bust, as each new wave of Barbarians effectively annexed their Barbarian Territories in with China as they found it, making China larger every time it was ‘conquered’. Oh, remember, Barbarians effectively have no culture, but as a rule accept the culture, even the Religion, of the People they conquer. So it is that Jesus may have been correct about turning the other cheek, as it may just be better not to put up a fight with these Barbarians, but to let them in and then just conquer the Conqueror – swallow them up with Social Assimilation. Oh, but remember that it only works if you happen to be more Civilized than they are… that is, be sure you are not the one who is a Barbarian. Culture rushes into a Vacuum, and More flows into Less. If your Invader has more books than you do, then you need to worry.

Now, talking about China, it is a process of development, and we cannot positively stipulate that they will never innovate enough of a Moral Component in their Culture that they can give some longevity to their Civilizations. Indeed, we might be hopeful that now, after their Communist Revolution, that they might be able to guard enough against what had always spoiled them before, the extreme concentration of Wealth. You see, their Government is still very strong. Remember, despite what the Conservative Libertarians say, no Society has ever collapsed from too much Government, but always from not enough. You see, what happens is this, that when Wealth Concentrates too much in Private Hands, then private individuals in effect override Government or even act to bankrupt and incapacitate Government, exactly the way Republicans behaved so recently in America. A few Rich People acting only in regards to their own interest allows for the collapse of all other systems and institutions of Social Infrastructure, and Civilization collapses. If China can only keep its Government one notch above and in control of its Wealthy Oligarchs, then it is possible that the World may see the most enduring of any Chinese Dynasty in History.

It would be so much easier, though, if they had a compelling Moral Religion, that is, if their Rich Oligarchs were co-opted into Moral and Ethical Belief System that they simply complied with voluntarily.

There are 3 very powerful factors involved in the mix that makes up a Society, and one can hardly point to the strongest or the weakest, as in the course of History each has had its rises and falls. The Three Factors that contend for influence are Moral Religion, Force of Violence, and Money. Ordinarily we would suppose that Force of Violence is the ultimate trump card, but Violence has so often been either seduced by money or converted by Religion. It becomes like the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game. We could dream of the day when Religion would be more influential than Money, but so far in the History of Civilization, a History in which no Civilization has ever yet succeeded, but all have fallen into ruin, the mechanism of Collapse has been identical throughout, that is, Concentration of Wealth. Civilizations rise as Religion sublimates and manages Violence, but fall as greed undoes all the Good.

What does this say about Religion? First I would suggest that Religion needs to focus upon its most important enemy, that is, Greed. You know, I suppose it is all a part of some vast conspiracy that the Wealthy Classes assume control over Religion just to focus Religious attacks upon questions of Sex and Lifestyle. But when you think about it for even a moment, how do questions of Sex and Lifestyle have any impact at all on the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. People will say that Family is the basis of Civilization, but really this is not true. The Civilizations that had been most successful before were not based upon the tiny little Nuclear Family, that is Mommy, Daddy and the Kids, that we hear of so much today. The Nuclear Family is just one step away from treating everybody as discrete individuals. In prior Civilizations people were organized in Extended Families, even Clans, where no mere father had much of a say in anything while Granddad was still alive and kicking. Indeed, some of the older Chinese Regimes had made quite a good use of the strong tendency for the Chinese People to organize in Extended Families and Clans, where they quite frank about imposing Collective Responsibility upon the Families, that is, if they could trace a theft or any crime to any particular family, they would not fuss about which particular individual was responsible, but would exact a toll against the entire Clan. So it was that the Chinese Families learned to more or less police themselves. It was good for the entire family that nobody became a chicken thief. Now, how does that compare to our nation of self serving individuals. Yes, we have only ourselves to worry about, but look how all the crime has added to our worries.

But all of the modern discussions of morality and family values has nothing to do with any useful moral enforcements. Crime and Greed are left on the sidelines, laughing at these useless battles that are probably only served up to be distractions. While we are whipped up into a frenzy to combat sexual peccadilloes, Greed and Crime are given the Blessings of Protestant Predestination, the Doctrine of the Wealthy Classes that say that anything that makes a person wealthy is evidence of Divine Grace, and that an All Powerful God reserves Worldly Wealth as the Reward for His Elect, and that Poverty is the first sign of Damnation for the Reprobate. Remember how Islam was doomed by its attachment to Violence. So it is that the Protestant West is likewise doomed by its marriage to the notion that any success with predatory Greed is the sign of Divine Election, as nothing is more sure to throw Civilization on the rocks of Ruin, as the most recent global economic troubles may be seen to indicate of. Just as we cannot allow the Warriors to make up their own Religion, extolling Violence at every turn and for their own exclusive advantage, so it is that we cannot allow the Wealthy to design their own Religion, as the Calvinists and Republicans have done.

But when we look for any sign of a Moral Priestly Class in this modern world, that could possibly exert itself, do we see anything that could possibly fill those boots?

I know that we are all conditioned to suppose that the Modern Enlightened Scientific Skepticism is supposed to be our Salvation, but remember that this Modern Scientific Skepticism has now been with us for almost 4 centuries now, and has rather pointed the milestones of our Civilization’s collapse than stirred us toward any calmer waters. As reasonable as I ever wish to be, I must concede the point to the Atheists that God cannot be proven, not, that is, by any scientific method, with its double blind studies and control of every variable. The Atheist will win that argument. But what the Atheist does not plan for is that Morality and Ethics rest on just such a foundation as did God. In Logical Terms, Ethics and Morality are no better than Aesthetic Preferences. Everybody KNOWS of some distinction between Right and Wrong, but only as mere preferences – with all things being equal, then people will do the Right Thing. But in every case that MATTERS, things are never equal. Where Self Interest is involved, when Ethics and Morality are only based upon Aesthetic Preference, then people will choose to do wrong to achieve their desired ends. We can see this in America’s choice to use torture and to toss out rule by Law. As a Preference, America knows the difference between Right and Wrong, but as soon as something really matters, than they are as strict in their Pragmatism as the very Devil himself. Even Obama is siding with every War Criminal in History as long as it serves his own purposes.

So, Enlightened Scientific Skepticism is hardly leading us to any Golden Age. But that is still the most powerful Social Current at our avail. My sad conclusion, then, is that this Civilization is doomed.

Now, we could be optimistic that a New and Better Civilization will arise out of this ruin, but remember the example we have of the repeating Chinese Civilizations, that is, quick successive pops with each New Civilization perhaps being only fractionally better than the one that preceded it, and therefore declining just about as quickly. It does no good to suppose that People Learn by their Mistakes. After all, the Great Depression had just happened to us. There are people still alive who remember it directly. Yet, all those lessons had been tossed aside… almost by the very next Generation. No, people do not learn.

What we need is a New Belief System. Yes, a Superstition that we will all agree to agree upon. We need a Religion, that is, a Moral and Ethical System that will make Civilization achievable and then durable. As for the most important Doctrine, well, I am stuck between whether it is more important to suppress Violence then to suppress Greed. Without suppressing Violence, Civilization cannot commence. Without suppressing Greed, Civilization cannot last.

Susan Doyle, The Soloist, and Modern Music

Even in America we were hearing so much about Susan Doyle that I went to Youtube and searched her up. Yes, she was good, but after so much buildup, I was expecting something of a Full Archangel and was disappointed to get only an angel. Really, on the Ten Scale, everybody was talking as though she were perhaps about a 9.8, and the actual performance was only like a 9.2. She knew how to sing, and she enjoyed it, but her actual ‘pipes’ weren’t really so perfect. Or maybe they actually are. In such walk-on auditions, people don’t have the opportunity to really warm up. I know for myself that it takes 15 minutes before I am sure of my ‘feel’ and it really takes a bit more than a half an hour before I can count on being somewhat inspired. It is probably the same for Voice as for anything else.

The really wonderful thing about Susan Doyle is what it bespoke of the audience and the English Public who received her so enthusiastically. It seems that people may be ready for some real music again. So ready for real music that they extended Susan perhaps more credit than she deserved. But that might be some indication of how tired people are of Rap and all that other crap. If it will help in anyway to bring us back real music again, even I will agree that Susan Doyle is the most perfect singer of all time. Jesus, I hope so.

Remember, about a decade ago… I have spoken of this movie before… “Hear My Song”, an English Movie. It threw to the forefront several very good baritones, singing popular songs and sentimental ballads. The movie really depended on people not turning away or being embarrassed to listen to what may have been seen as old fashioned, dated, passé. And the movie wasn’t a total failure… just the good vibes of that movie lead to a series of other English Feel Good movies. But I suspect that the young people stayed away in droves, feeling too superior to give yesterday’s music much of a chance. But maybe “Hear My Song” would have taken off better today. I think it would be the kind of movie Susan Doyle and her fans would enjoy. Maybe they need to put the picture into re-release.

Oh, and today I went to see the movie “The Soloist”. It’s a movie about a journalist who knows nothing about music who writes about a musician. It’s a movie made by film people who also know nothing about music. You think that journalists or movie makers would at least bother to look into their subject matter a bit. Instead they rely only upon their uninformed assumptions and baseless opinions … and if ignorance is good enough for themselves, then it is good enough for their audience.

For instance, the writer was surprised that the musician went from cello to violin without any training. Duh! Both the cello and the violin are 4 string fretless instruments with bows. The difference is only that one is bigger. Indeed, violins come in about 5 sizes, and they all play the same way. Beyond getting used to the different feel, there is nothing to learn at all in going back and forth between them all. I would think even a retard… oh, I mean even extremely special people could figure that out! Well, since they look so similar! But I suppose a writer would think formulaically that we all would be impressed with a musician who picks up an instrument without a single lesson. I think that is what they refer to as shameless manipulation.


Anyway, they probably hired a few consultants because movie didn’t get everything wrong. For instance, the violin family of instruments, with the curved bridge and the straight bow, well, only one or two strings can be played at a time… well, more if one strums down hard and fairly high up the neck, forcing a third string into the alignment. But the violins mostly play melody lines, and harmonies are done by orchestrating entire string sections together. So the movie included the orchestration in the background to give context to the melody line that The Soloist was playing. That was good.

But there was really vapid section of the movie which tried to present some idea of what Mental Ideation of Music might look like in the mind’s eye of some musical genius. They showed pulsating blotches of color. Honestly, how is one supposed to arrive at the ordered and precise and yet beautiful arrangement of music through shapeless blobs and random colors. That is not Ideation at all. Now, that is my criticism, but I must admit that I would have trouble presenting any better representation of Ideation. You see, ideation is not just a kind of visual thing, but it is also a shadow of the kinetic… mixing sight and sense of movement – feeling it in one’s mind’s eye as much as seeing it. The colors are not vivid, unless one is doing some particularly strong hallucinogens. But one thing the ideations are is exact. If one has a good understanding of the music… knows what one is listening to, then the ideations will be an exact representation. Good ideation provides for good improvisation, that is, if a musician has a good feel for the ongoing pattern of the music, then he can easily jump in and supplement the pattern without clashing with it. The ideation is ornamented without being changed in its essentials. So, really, the movie producers only had to present any kind of really exact imaginary representation of the music… even just presenting the musical notations in dynamic flashes… follow the bouncing balls of an entire orchestra… would have been better than the blobby pulsing arbitrary colors. They wanted to present the visualizations of a musical genius, but instead we got what a doper probably sees just before passing out in his own colorful vomit. Honestly, I can’t imagine why they did not edit that blobby crap out. The producers daughter must have come up with the idea or something like that. How many bad movie scenes are Production Holy Cows which can’t be touched for one reason or another?

Oh, here is another problem with Music and Hollywood. Why has Hollywood been lately seeming to do its best to correlate any particular genius with music with some kind of mental dysfunctionality. “Autumn Rush” was also about some musical nut-case, wasn’t it? Then there was the parade of movies about musical drunks, and musical drug addicts. Can’t we see a movie about a talented, successful, sane and socially well adjusted musician ( yes, I know, we would have to find one first!). Oh! I think they did… “Music and Lyrics” with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It was a charming movie about music and musicians, and hardly a hint of any dysfunctionality at all. But, being about Popular Music, I suppose they intended for the audience to be dismissive of the whole thing… to just laugh at it… after all, it was just a comedy.

I suppose it leads us to wonder why it is so important for the American Media to project in almost a solid front that Fine Music is out of reach of the Normal, the Sane and the Healthy. Maybe they wish to discourage children from taking music lessons, although one can hardly imagine that the rate could fall any lower. The Public is being conditioned to suppose that sane and healthy children can hardly dare to hope to develop any talent, since they aren’t properly delusional or adequately troubled. And if they can’t play music, maybe the American Media People think the kids will buy more music, and if they know nothing much about music, then appealing to high levels of taste and discernment won’t be a problem for the Music Producers. Music Producers have never had it easier than they do today as far as worrying about overcoming the barriers of high taste and educated sensibilities. After all, Rap Music is the rejection of all that, isn’t it? Indeed, I can’t possibly be the only one to notice that music has gotten more and more primitive, simplistic and, well, cheap, over the last hundred years or so. It went from Orchestras and Opera, to Stage Bands and Vaudeville, to Big Bands, that weren’t really quite so big, to Swing Bands that were paired down even more. Then Rock and Roll came along which fired everybody, sent all the musicians packing, saving only a few guitars and a drum. Then even that got too much for Music Producers to want to pay for, and now every kid who can cuss in rhyme, to a depersonalized synthesized track operated by a mere technician, can be a Modern Music Rap Star. I guess the Music Producers pick which ever kid will work the cheapest. They charge the same for the product, the same as they used to charge for Music, but it costs nearly nothing to make… no chairs to set up… no acoustics to worry about… no drawing up sheet music for horn and string sections. No phone calls have to be made. Nobody gets hired. All the same money is made selling rhyming cuss words. They couldn’t get away with that kind of crap if good music ever became Normal again.

Oh, but that brings us back to the Susan Doyle phenomena. Isn’t she exactly the perfect blend of Good Music and Normalcy? And the Public loves her! Wow! The Public is finally coming around to defy their Media Conditioning, to feel their own true feelings. I wonder how the Media will fight it. I suppose they will try to get Susan Doyle to perform rap music…that Britain won’t really have any talent at all unless she can string together rhyming sequences of profanity just like all the rest of the Big Talent that is allotted to us in this modern day and age. It is a good thing that we all love this brave new world or it would all be rather sad, wouldn’t it?

Kicked Out of Hinduism

Dear Angela,

I had an occasion for a good deal of dreaming this last evening. You see, the Cable had been cut off. At first I thought it was a general outage, but when I called it in I was taken aback when the Service Technician told me he was unaware of any outages in my area. Ah oh! So I went outside to look at the wiring box. Wiring boxes in Guam are open to the world and it is usually easy enough to check on the condition of one’s own cable, provided on knows where to look. But since everything is open to sun and the weather, marking tags can get blown off or bleached out. Anyway, now it seems that suddenly they decided to become modern and put a metal door and lock on the Wire Box. Walking back to my apartment this nice gentleman who probably sits outside all day long informed me that the Cable Truck had been there earlier and he had gotten the distinct impression that they were untangling a bunch of illegal splices and splitters. The horrifying suspicion came upon me that these minimum wage imbeciles had disconnected my cable during all of their enthusiasm. I called the Cable People back with this insight and they confirmed it… that it was likely that that is exactly what might have happened, but that it was perhaps too late to call back any trucks when Friday evening was already somewhat advanced. So I went to sleep… it couldn’t have been later than 7 o’clock. And I slept until about 8 the next morning… remembering a few dreams.

There was one dream in which I was participating in a Bus Tour of Hinduism (let us pretend that that makes any sense). Now, remember that I have been something of an outside expert on Hinduism, having been initiated into several forms of Yoga, studied the philosophies even in the Universities, and having lived under the disciplines of several Gurus. Indeed, I have forgotten the meanings of more Sanskrit words than most people will ever learn. Anyway, a subject came up with which the Tour Guide was only thinly familiar and when I began to speak up to elucidate it in more detail and color, the Tour Guide slowly and discretely waved her finger in a negative way, to quiet me, while pointing with her other hand to a ring on my left thumb. Apparently this Left Thumb Ring was my Hindu Membership Status Ring, and the thin slot that was supposed to contain a small metal stamped seal of authentication, well, it had been chiseled out. I was no longer ‘approved and certified’.

Well, I did not have to think about it long. I simply took the ring off and threw it away, making it do a loud ‘clunk’ in the nearest trash can. If Hinduism did not want me, then I did not want it. Good riddance!

The dream did not fixate there, however. It turns out that there were some really nice ladies on the bus. One tall thin lady with an intelligent and benevolent energy was interested in me, but for a moment I was distracted by this one little high energy blond girl who was somewhat remarkable for having some odd facial hair (only in a dream can a girl be both attractive and have odd facial hair, but the hair was long and straight like hair from the head). Anyway, I realized that the intelligent and kind lady was more my type. Since I was no longer a welcome member of Hinduism, I made a gift of, well, this strange little statue that was apparently some favorite thing – it was some representation of some funny looking little sacred animal, more like a South American lama or alpaca than any Indian animal that I know about. Anyway, not without some slight misgivings, I gave this little sacred idol to the nice lady. Although it was the weirdest little thing as to its form, when just looking at it, somehow I knew that substantially there was something to it, in its essence there was some spirituality or magic, and that the lady would be lucky to have it.

Later in the dream I realized that I was again back in College, but that I was well advanced… a junior or senior. I was on a walk, going for a visit to that nice lady, who, like myself, had regenerated into a College Student. At first I wondered that I had spent so long without any interest in the fairer sex, but then remembered my actual college days where that had not been the case at all. Now, in comment, I wonder whether it is really typical to mix up Dream Reality with Actual Reality? Probably. Anyway, I arrived to her room, and there was some other company present. While I mingled, my lady left with a friend of hers, another young lady. I saw her as she left and she looked back at me with an inquisitive look. Was she wondering whether I would wait for her return, or was she wondering whether I would follow. Of course I didn’t follow her. I wasn’t invited. Even in dreams one has to behave like a responsible gentleman. Oh, that reminds me. I had been conditioning myself, while awake, to remember in my dreams not to look for lost things, or go after things that are gone… that I should simply move on. Never backtrack in dreams! So it seems that my resolution has come to fruition and I am acting just as planned! When the object of my fancy left the party, I hung around for maybe five entire seconds before leaving to pursue whatever would happen next. If I would see that nice lady again, it would have to be in another dream.

Now, what did such a dream mean? Regarding Hinduism, well, I have noticed that I have been subtly distancing myself from it lately. I have begun to speak of Philosophical Hinduism as opposed to Religious Hinduism which anymore has become synonymous with the Chaste System and racial bigotry, and the apartheid traditions of Untouchability. Yes, outsiders might suppose that all Indians are racially of the same stock, but the truth is that the Brahmin Class is, or used to be White – the Aryans… the same Aryans that Hitler used to boost so much about. Indeed, the Racism is deeply embedded even in the oldest Hindu Religious Epics. For instance, in the Ramayana we learn that the Tribes of Aryan Invaders were confronted upon their inroads into Southern India by a Civilization of what they referred to as “Monkeys”. Walking, talking ‘monkeys’ that were wearing cloths, living in buildings, paying taxes, holding Court, that is, behaving exactly like People, only they were being called ‘monkeys’. Indian art draws them as real monkeys, with fur and tails, but honestly we should simply just admit that this Civilization of “Monkeys” were the actual People of Southern India, and that the appellation of ‘Monkey’ was not a well thought out zoological designation at all but a denigrating value judgment, a racist epithet! That’s Hinduism at its core.

Hinduism as it comes down to us wishes us to believe that the Aryan Barbarians brought Hinduism with them. That would be odd considering that these same Aryans had invaded other areas of the World without bringing anything close to that same culture or religion with them.

Geology tells us that there had been a Civilization in India prior to what the Aryans would later put claim to, as Hinduism. There was what we now refer to as the Indus Valley Civilization, which we know of from the diggings at the ancient City of Harappa. They think this Civilization even had ties to the ancient Sumerian Civilization. Perhaps even Egypt. Anyway, from what they have found at Herappa, it is likely that the Aryan Brahmins did not bring Religion to India, but that they found it there when they arrived.

We need to remember what the great Historian Arnold Toynbee used to say, that Culture rushes into a vacuum – that while Barbarians may be the conquerors, that does not necessarily make them the Leaders of Culture and Influence. Often the Cultural Influence of even a decayed Civilization will win out in the end. In most cases Barbarians are glad to forget their old ragtag ways, and even their old ragtag languages, and take on the customs and languages of their more cultured and knowledgeable slaves.

So I suspect the Aryans took on the Religion of the Indus Valley Civilization. However, the Aryans did retain the bedrock of their Aryan Language, Sanskrit, which is the root language of many of the European Languages. The Aryans apparently considered it a priority to preserve some separation from the Native People of India, the people they considered “Monkeys”. Obviously they discouraged intermarriage. The Chastes that they established could not mix. Their Racism was thoroughly institutionalized early on.

The Brahmins of Hinduism were opportunistic above all and became adapt at absorbing and calling their own any religious innovation that came along which could serve their purposes. Originally not much more than witchcraft spells and incantations (i.e. the Rig Vedas) Hinduism would later incorporate Western Stoicism, probably from Alexander and the Greeks, as well as Buddhism (which also probably owes most of its content to Western Stoicism… an cosmopolitan and educated Buddha probably would have been able to read all of his own teachings as taken from the original Greek).

Later on the Hindus also absorbed a great deal of Moral Ethical Sufism, influences from Persia and Zoroastrianism (another domain that had experienced Aryan Invasion, but had gone in a different Religious direction). Hinduism became a wealthy collection of a great many philosophical and religious points of view and perspectives. Yes, there were a great many internal contradictions, and while people took these concerns seriously, no one school ever arrived at any so solid position of political power that they could enforce Orthodoxy and Unity of Belief. Some would say this was a virtue of Hinduism; however, we have only to recall that the same Hindu disunity allowed for a mostly successful Muslim Invasion of India, and then the predations of the Mongols. Chronic disagreement is only a mixed virtue.

So Hinduism, while it was inclusive of many ideas, was rather committed to none. Now, with the rise of Nationalistic and Conservative Right Wing Hinduism, much of the Philosophy has been forgotten. Where India had been very welcoming to the West in the sixties and seventies of the last Century, now more and more Hinduism is closing its ranks and making the Westerner feel unwelcome, even untouchable.

Apparently the influence is even being felt within the Collective Consciousness, where Western Dreamers such as myself are getting the message that the Hindu Mind is turning itself away from affiliation with the greater part of the Human Race. Where Love would be inclusive and welcoming, Hinduism would rather exclude and go into its own Brave New World alone. How often is Pride a euphemism for Hate?

While I can regret such a huge rupture within the branches of the Human Family, and while I am saddened that I am being turned away by a people I was willing to a large extent to adopt as my own, I must admit to myself that I have no practical choice then but to heed the dream and distance myself from Hinduism… even ‘Philosophical’ Hinduism. As I said earlier about being a Gentleman – one cannot go where one is not invited.

Now, about the women of my dream…What on earth do women signify in a Dream? In my younger days an answer would be more easily arrived at, but these days there is really no sex in my dreams. Women are only a social connection, and so I suppose they represent some kind of affinity, or maybe even an Identity – a mirror image of myself – myself only inverted.

In the case of my recent dream mentioned above, I gave the lady something that I valued highly but which, really, I realized I had no further use for. Now, in retrospect, I can suspect that by giving the Thing to this lady with whom I so much wished to be close, that I was in effect using her in order to retain some connection with the Thing. To truly give the Thing away, I would have had to walk away from the Lady to whom I gave it. That seems to be what happened. She went away with another lady, that is, another influence. The lady will never return as she was, but maybe she will return in some expanded way, richer from these other influences.

Now, I can remember that this friend of hers seemed decided upon getting her away from me. When my lady friend had looked back, there was a hand on her arm pulling her along, guiding her away. Her friend also looked back at me, with her cold hard eyes warning me away.

Perhaps there is an aspect of some character development within myself that needs to grow in isolation. It will need to come back to me mature and fully formed. My character as it now stands would overpower any new budding tendencies. If a new aspect of character is to seriously make a difference, then it will have to arrive fully formed and able to stand up to the Old Me.

Oh! The Little Animal Thing is a kind of Seed, a nucleus for some Character Development. From the moment the Lady received the Little Animal Thing she was destined to grow and transform. I had already been transformed by the Thing, when it had been mine, but it would effect this lady differently from how it had effected me. She really did need to get away from me, just so she would know that the effective Influences were coming out of Herself and the Thing, and not coming from me. Even if my Influence was the Very Same, she needed to know that she could trust in the same Influence coming from Within herself.

But her growth would be different, simply owing to different accidents, different conditions, a different crystal matrix forming a crystal substantially the same but of a different shape. My personality is perhaps ineradicably colored by all of my crowded and complex history in the real world, but this lady in my dream is gone off to develop – hopefully in the Higher and Purer Planes of the Dream World.

Morality and Evolution

I was searching around the Web specifically looking for instances of exaggerated moral epiphanies arising out of pathological mental states and conditions. What I was thinking was that if Morality is self generated out of the minds of men, then it would be most noticeable when it is of exaggerated and insane proportions. I was really hoping to find some often repeated Moral Delusion, that is, some eruption of the Collective Consciousness out of which always the same Moral Content would spill (it would amount to the virtual Holy Grail of Collective Consciousness Theory). What I found, however, was that most reputable scholarly papers are password protected and available only on subscription. Nowadays, only the bullshit is free online. So much for the much celebrated Information Age. That didn’t last long, did it? Well, and of the bullshit, I found more than a few essays which were making the argument that Morality is now an innate factor, hardwired into our Humanity, owing to the workings of Evolution. The argument is that we are all Moral Beings, now, because Morality has had a strong correlation in Humanity’s collective survival.

I had to shake my head. You see, knowing a great deal about Archeology, Anthropology and History, well, one can speak of the evolution of some particular group dynamics, but these, in many cases can hardly be spoken of as instances of some Golden and Shining Morality. Of particular instance is that of Group Loyalty and Identification with the Group. The way this works in actual practice is that when Resources in a Territory become scarce, the Group that has the best cohesion through group loyalty and group self-identification is the group that survives because they are the ones who can most remorselessly kill off their competitors. But this is not Morality at all, is it? What we have here is the Barbarian Code, where the only Virtue that they find necessary is Loyalty to the Group. It is just this same Factor that now intensifies all of our Wars and makes Organized Crime proliferate as well as precipitating all the problems we have with Gangs and Gang violence.

Yes, we also hear of the survival benefit of altruism and cooperation, and, yes, I agree that there is such a thing, indeed, that the relatively few and relatively recent Civilizations could not have formed up without just such a Moral Innovation. But the problem in speaking of this in terms of Evolution is that many of the Ethnic Bloodlines that encompass our Humanity today have had very little actual intimate mix with any Civilization Blood at all. This puts me in mind of the NAZI boost only a few generations ago, that the German people were not part of some weak decadent Civilization at all, but had racing through their veins the blood of History’s worst, or in their terms, most successful maraudering Barbarians, the Aryans (when, if truth be told, actually the Mongols might have had more success on that score, that is, of being the Worst of the Worst). Here the Germans were basically correct, at least in regards to the point that Europe has had no long history of Civilization, or not enough to have solidly fixed some Moral Impulse by means of Evolution.

Indeed, another thing we should keep in mind is that, so far, every Civilization has failed. Oh, yes, and while our Species has been long evolving over millions of years, there has not been any evidence of a Civilization before only about 10,000 years ago. Of course, I admit that a lot can happen in a short time with Evolution. For instance, taking into account the most recent Ice Age, ending only about 13,000 years ago, which must have depopulated what we now think of as the Blond Countries, we can conclude that the Evolution of Blood Hair and Blue Eyes is therefore of the most recent event… so recent that we can almost count the individual generations. But then, for any comparison to be valid, we must wonder whether High Moral Social Systems are any more complex then a gene that controls a recessive pigment trait.

Also, we should find that it is of no little importance that Civilizations have been chronic failures. What does it do for us that there may be ten or even twenty Generations of Civilization that reinforce a Civilized Morality, but that when such a Civilization collapses, suddenly there is again a tremendous Survival Benefit favoring Small Group Loyalties and Group Against Group Warfare and Violence? If Selfishness always seems to win in the end, then how can we speak of an Evolving Morality?

So there doesn’t appear to me to be any Evolutionary Morality. Or perhaps they are defining Morality too narrowly. Maybe they are only arguing for why Human Mothers do not devour their young, so often anymore.

All the very comprehensive Moral Systems and Moral Cultures have been the product of Received Transmission, learning and teaching, customs and traditions. Indeed, if people would only study History they would find instance after instance of some very High Moral Cultures. But then these are ordinarily followed by a few generations of skeptics (honored for their intellectual innovations), then cynics (honored for breaking away from the dusty old Past) and then, well, rapid decline and decadence (High Culture replaced by Popular Art) followed by economic and social collapse and inundation by foreign barbarian invasion. You see, Civilization cannot exist outside the strictures of some rather high moral imperatives.

What are these High Moral Strictures? Well, at the most basic level, “Thou Shall Not Eat the Seed Grain”. Civilization’s first concern is to protect its ability to produce and then store a protected Surplus of Food Stuffs. Those who gather the food must relinquish it to those who store it, and those who store it must be able to return it when the land becomes barren. And at every Time of Planting sufficient amounts of Seed Grain must come out of storage and it must be viable. Any Selfish instance of Barbarism caught up in this Civilized Mechanism would cause it to fail – greedy producers, greedy distributors, hoarding. Civilization is fragile. Notice our recent Meltdown on Wall Street which quickly reverberated down to rock every Market in the World. It is clearly an instance where Barbarian Selfishness bubbled up causing Civilized Institutions to fail wholesale and completely. And even now on the sidelines we hear more than a small minority of Barbarians chanting that no rescue is necessary, that the Strong will Survive (that is, without saying so in so many words, “the Strong” being the very people who stole all the money in the first place), and that as far as they are concerned, there is no problem. They will be fine. And as for the people who won’t be fine, well, they don’t matter anyway – not to this elite core of Barbarians who now run our Western Societies.

Of course they are wrong about how “fine” it will be for them. What History shows us is that Collapses of Civilization are far more total than anyone ever expects at the time. The Rich always think they can weather whatever the storms that they create in order Concentrate all Wealth to themselves and totally disenfranchise the Poor, but it always goes way beyond their original intent. For instance, as an example, the Rich now think that they are safe with their gated communities and private security guards. But these things are all part and parcel of a still Functioning Civilization, where people go to work and get paid on Friday. When Civilization really collapses, and currencies become valueless, making Brute Force the Most Valued Commodity, then the Guards and Police would be the first to turn, would they not? Your own Guard is the first to come through the Gate. So far in History, the Rich People have never seemed to be able to think that far ahead.

In this great historical oscillation between Civilization and Barbarian Collapse, one can only wonder which Side evolution seems to be favoring. I think it would be better, in our short term anyway, over the millions of years it would take Evolution to come up with its own firm answer, for us to concentrate on defining a Moral System and establishing an effective and all encompassing Social Instruction. What I have noticed from History is that Civilizations fail from within, and usually because the most affluent and elite Peoples within a Civilization begin acting selfishly themselves, that is, those with the most to lose are the first to begin hammering away at their very own safeguards and protections. They have a lot, but only want more, and seem to be willing to risk everything, and everyone, to get it. They feel favored by Fate or Destiny and can’t imagine that they should fail. It all begins in Skepticism and then Cynicism, and, again, all of that starting in the very highest Social Classes. There is a chronic misunderstanding that Revolutions come from the impoverished Classes, but these Lower Classes are typically the most stable, being the very last to break, but just in time to receive the Blame from a too superficial look at History.

The Challenge for Civilization is to arrive at a Moral Social Consensus and then understand that the Poor Classes will adapt to it just fine, but that a Special Watch must necessarily be put upon the Rich and Powerful Classes, always ready to stomp out even the first trembling vibration of skepticism. If you still need an example, let’s say that should we ever again hear that Government and Economic Regulations only get in the way of our General Prosperity, then we can get some notion of what the first dangerous crack in a great Bulwark looks like.

Oh, no, I am not for entirely clamping down against every instance of Free Thought. We must keep innovating, we must keep adapting. Life does not hold still. But in coming up with a Moral Structure we need to arrive at certain Moral Guidelines even regards to the direction of our Thinking. Ideas whose only appeal is in Selfishness must be regarded as inherently Evil. A Line must be drawn between Civilization and Barbarism, and no Barbarian idea should be permitted to stand. Selfishness must be Exiled.