There is presently a Mormon candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Yes, it is almost certain that a Republican cannot win, and especially that a Republican cannot win who raises the suspicions of the Southern Baptist Convention that had elected the previous Republican Presidents. Mormons are not Southern Baptists, and visa versa.
Yet, still, there is now a leading candidate who is in fact is a Mormon. What if that Mormon did win?
Well, two things worry me. The first is that Mormons have set up elaborate study committees to ascertain the specific genealogy of everybody in the World. Everybody, not just Mormons. I suspect that this may be a prelude to some form of ‘ethnic cleansing’. Secondly, every Mormon family is being instructed to hoard at least 18 months of food and supplies. Now, what does this mean? Well, obviously, it means that the Mormons are attempting to arrange a total shut down of the American Economy, which they must be anticipating to last at most 18 months), long enough to starve out the ‘gentiles’ (when its been estimated that 80% of the Urban Populations would starve out in just 6 months). Yes, like the Jews, the Mormons have adopted the same dismissive and patronizing epithet with which they can designate everyone outside their group as effectively non-human – the word ‘gentile’ is their version of the ‘n’ word. Then, even among the survivors, Mormons or not, the genealogical records can be examined to determine a final culling. I suspect, that the Mormons, so used to an Economy of exploitation, even if left to a World of their own, would soon need to exploit other Mormons, and so out would come the Genealogical Records to justify a distinct and solid social hierarchy, and so even if you are now a Mormon, if your Great Aunt Sally was known to take a drink or flirt with a sailor, then you will become the slave to all those whose families were so dull that they were never known for anything. This is perhaps some odd way that the ‘meek shall inherit the earth’.
You may ask how the Mormons could bring about a total economic collapse. Well, it would be easy, if they had a President in place. All that would need be done is to alienate the OPEC Countries into opening their sales to other World Currencies besides the dollar (as it is now, the U.S. Dollar is accepted as the only valid petro-currency, and this is for no other reason than that some tacit gentlemen’s agreement was made years ago in some smoky room somewhere. There is no supporting Treaty and the OPEC Countries could easily enough renege anytime they would like to). Also, the Asian Countries that now carry huge dollar reserves; if they also were alienated, they could dump their dollars for Euros or even set up a Pan-Asian Monetary Unit, as like what Europe did with their Euro. If OPEC would suddenly take any World Currency for oil, and if Dollar Reserves were dumped to make place for an Asian ‘A-Yen’, then overnight the Dollar would become almost entirely worthless on the World Market. What’s more, the dollar would become worthless in America. You see, Capitalists, being capitalists, would sell all moveable American assets for export abroad, for currencies that would have some real value. The American Businessman would simply abandon America. “Nothing personal. Its just business”.
And if the President were Mormon and certain high cabinet officials were Mormon, than any Emergency Measures that could mitigate the misery would simply be side-stepped and the disaster would be left to unfold naturally. As with the Katrina Hurricane and President George Bush and his FEMA Director, leaving Democratic New Orleans to rot because they had not voted Republican. Politics can be a deadly weapon. You know, already there are a great many Mormons infiltrated into the American Criminal Justice Departments. They are already there, just waiting for their opportunities. The Death Camp Guards are just waiting for their call, but they are already on the payroll.
America would be allowed to decline into ruin, and it would be made to look like some huge colossal accident (just as the Depression is recorded in History as being some huge accident, when really the English Government intentionally pulled gold off the international markets in order to destroy America because it regarded America’s rising influence in the World as a threat to its own continued ascendancy – America was seen as a threat and England pulled out the gold supply to wreck the American Economy. It worked. Well, because there are so many Anglophiles in high American positions, while I also suppose that the powerful American Free Masons and the powerful English Free Masons, who make it a point to control their Governments, are chapters of the same Secret Society Club, and so this devastating English attack on America has never been spoken of aloud although everybody who knows anything knows it all very well. It was surprising, then, that America then fought a war for Britain, when actually, if justice should have been served, America’s war should have been first against the British. You know, they used to say that if we did not beat the Germans then we would all be speaking German. Well, we are all now speaking English and we don’t find that a problem?).
Anyway, Americas Mormon-induced apocalyptic catastrophe would be made to appear like just another accident of History and then that the lopsidedly high Mormon survival rate would be seen as because Mormons had just coincidentally been better prepared. They would tell the story of the Wise Ant who worked and saved as contrasted with the prodigal grasshopper who played away during the good days and gathered nothing against the winter, and no one would examine for the possibility that the Wise Ants were the ones who deliberately engineered a famine that would kill their friends the grasshoppers so that the Ants could conquer the World.
But yes, the Mormons are deliberately planning for a War by Siege. They have hoarded their stuff and they are just biding their time until they can shut off the lifeline that keeps the rest of us of the World alive… preventing the Mormons from realizing their God-granted Destiny, as the Mormons see it.
Now, some of you may think that I am dreaming up all of this, that Mormons are after all very Religious People. Really? Actually not. You see, the morality that they respect is very selective, very narrow. They think it enough to get haircuts, to dress prudishly and to wait for marriage before they take any number of sex partners (oh, but yes, they did go in and edit their Book of Mormon so it no longer says what it used to say about polygamy. That, also, is another subject, that is, how the Mormons have often simply gone in and changed the actual text of their Holy Scriptures, for whatever political convenience they recognize from moment to moment. It is as though they are fully aware, at the highest levels, that God never really had anything to do with it at all, and that their Book of Mormon was always, from the first, just an artificial tool of opportunity). Simply examine Mormon Behavior as regards to non-Mormons and then you can determine just exactly what their Morality is, or isn’t. For instance, Mormon Corporations and Mormon owned Businesses are famously exploitative and have terrible relationships with labor and unions. Mormons are best described as predatory. Think about it, that while there are liberal Jews, who has ever heard of a liberal Mormon? So while our stereotypes of Jewish greed must be considered as relative to this obvious trend toward Morality in popular Jewish Political Behavior; our view of Mormon predatory behavior must be absolute. We must be open to Jews because there are obviously very good and very enlightened Jews. But this can’t be said of Mormons who are monolithically set to enslave all non-Mormons. Mormons supported Slavery in the 19th Century and then, since, they have endorsed wage slavery and the exploitation of ‘gentiles’.
Also, it is worrisome that the Mormons see themselves as the New Jews. Why? Well, because the old Jews, their models, are seen as exemplars because they reported that God explicitly told them to invade Civilized Nations and commit total genocide so that they could confiscate all lands and property free and clear.
Well, if that is God, then I would not want to hear about the Devil.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Saturday, June 9, 2007
UFO People and a Model of a Viable Civilization
UFO People and a Model of a Viable Civilization
The Rise of Civilization
I was impressed when reading Toynbee, that History shows us so far that Civilizations decline and fall, about the same way each time. No Civilization has ever sustained itself, and even our own Civilization is well marked by the milestones of decline. A new Dark Ages awaits. It is all quite inevitable at this point.
But then Toynbee points out that in geological terms our efforts toward Civilization are all still relatively recent, going back less than 10,000 years. Civilization for us as Human Being, Homo Sapiens, has only just begun.
So this begs the question of older Societies. Well, of course the Earth does not know of any older societies, unless of course we count the UFO People. These advanced Technological Societies could very well be extremely old in terms of when they first started their practices toward becoming Civilized. Instead of our 10,000 years, they may have been Civilized for some 10,000,000 or even 100,000,000 years. Since the Big Bang was over 4 Billion years ago, that gives a great deal of leeway regarding how much sooner some intelligent species may have evolved ahead of us.
Now, all of this is not just idle speculation. Intelligence Agents get drunk in bars and they come out with some interesting stories. This is what I have picked up by listening over the years. A number of years ago the UFO people crashed one of their ships in Roswell New Mexico, a small town in one of the dry almost uninhabited sections of the United States. There were survivors – living but injured UFO People. They were taken to the Navy Department Building in Washington D.C. The UFO People contacted the Washington Authorities and negotiated a ‘prisoner exchange’, substituting their own Ambassador-Grade personnel for the flight crew personnel that originally had been captured. These UFO Ambassadors were asked to comment on their Society and so these UFO prisoners requested a blank notebook so that they could respond in writing. Well, the notebook given to them was yellow, and so the book came to be called the “Yellow Book”. It described their Civilization.
Well, rumor has it that the reason why the World Governments still insist upon keeping the UFO People classified as secret, so that no Freedom of Speech can ever freely discuss their existence, the reason for all this secrecy is because the Governments are conscious that the highly evolved and viable Civilization of the UFO People is remarkably different from our own model of Civilization. And our Governments are afraid that many intelligent people might begin asking that we consider the successful options being offered to us, especially as our own Civilization shows increasing signs of decline and collapse.
Anyway, one of the points that the UFO Ambassadors made was that what we call Civilization really isn’t Civilization. While Society still oscillates between rise and fall, success and failure, it still fails to meet the basic definition of what they would consider a Civilization. Unless it is doing the job it is supposed to do, it is not really much of a Civilization, is it? It is only a Civilization when it is both viable and sustainable. Well, what makes a Civilization viable and sustainable?
Now, the UFO People do not think we here on Earth are all so hopeless. Indeed, it is widely thought that by giving us the blueprints for microchip technology that they gave us a huge push forward toward developing a computerized information society, an important key to achieving the Civilized State. With computers and the automated collection of information it becomes increasingly easier to know every economic interaction and dynamic within a Society, and then to impose an effective level of planning upon that Society, at least enough planning to sustain a Civilization that would otherwise decline and collapse.
The Rise of Civilization
I was impressed when reading Toynbee, that History shows us so far that Civilizations decline and fall, about the same way each time. No Civilization has ever sustained itself, and even our own Civilization is well marked by the milestones of decline. A new Dark Ages awaits. It is all quite inevitable at this point.
But then Toynbee points out that in geological terms our efforts toward Civilization are all still relatively recent, going back less than 10,000 years. Civilization for us as Human Being, Homo Sapiens, has only just begun.
So this begs the question of older Societies. Well, of course the Earth does not know of any older societies, unless of course we count the UFO People. These advanced Technological Societies could very well be extremely old in terms of when they first started their practices toward becoming Civilized. Instead of our 10,000 years, they may have been Civilized for some 10,000,000 or even 100,000,000 years. Since the Big Bang was over 4 Billion years ago, that gives a great deal of leeway regarding how much sooner some intelligent species may have evolved ahead of us.
Now, all of this is not just idle speculation. Intelligence Agents get drunk in bars and they come out with some interesting stories. This is what I have picked up by listening over the years. A number of years ago the UFO people crashed one of their ships in Roswell New Mexico, a small town in one of the dry almost uninhabited sections of the United States. There were survivors – living but injured UFO People. They were taken to the Navy Department Building in Washington D.C. The UFO People contacted the Washington Authorities and negotiated a ‘prisoner exchange’, substituting their own Ambassador-Grade personnel for the flight crew personnel that originally had been captured. These UFO Ambassadors were asked to comment on their Society and so these UFO prisoners requested a blank notebook so that they could respond in writing. Well, the notebook given to them was yellow, and so the book came to be called the “Yellow Book”. It described their Civilization.
Well, rumor has it that the reason why the World Governments still insist upon keeping the UFO People classified as secret, so that no Freedom of Speech can ever freely discuss their existence, the reason for all this secrecy is because the Governments are conscious that the highly evolved and viable Civilization of the UFO People is remarkably different from our own model of Civilization. And our Governments are afraid that many intelligent people might begin asking that we consider the successful options being offered to us, especially as our own Civilization shows increasing signs of decline and collapse.
Anyway, one of the points that the UFO Ambassadors made was that what we call Civilization really isn’t Civilization. While Society still oscillates between rise and fall, success and failure, it still fails to meet the basic definition of what they would consider a Civilization. Unless it is doing the job it is supposed to do, it is not really much of a Civilization, is it? It is only a Civilization when it is both viable and sustainable. Well, what makes a Civilization viable and sustainable?
Now, the UFO People do not think we here on Earth are all so hopeless. Indeed, it is widely thought that by giving us the blueprints for microchip technology that they gave us a huge push forward toward developing a computerized information society, an important key to achieving the Civilized State. With computers and the automated collection of information it becomes increasingly easier to know every economic interaction and dynamic within a Society, and then to impose an effective level of planning upon that Society, at least enough planning to sustain a Civilization that would otherwise decline and collapse.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Global Warming As a Weapon Against China
When America was caught up in the Cold War and considered Russia to be its primary enemy, it made every effort to achieve rapprochement with China. It was thought that if America befriended China, then it would deprive the Russians of a friend. It was a cynical and convenient friendship. Then, under Clinton, it was simply assumed that Peace was better than War, and that since America would have nothing to gain by war and since China would have nothing to gain by war, so it would be that genuine Friendship could became the policy goal of both World Powers. But this ended when the American Right Wing Religious Conservatives forced their coup in 2002 and took over America. Soon we had any number of books flying out of the American Publishing Houses, astounding the World that no state secrets were being violated when it was openly announced that every American Military priority was being concentrated upon planning some ultimate war with China. It amounted to little less than an official declaration of war. There were many rationales offered, but we could place them all basically into two families, the first being that while China was growing and America was declining, then America could only protect its lead by destroying China; and the second reason for planning War against China was that China offered a large enough threat to qualify for the highest level of Defense Spending, that is, that the vested interest in Defense Spending, established during the half century of the Cold War, simply needed a New Big Enemy, and since France was not quite large enough to stand in for the role, China was targeted simply because it met the profile qualifications. With every other industry being outsourced away from American shores, Militarism was the last Big Business left.
But America must certainly have discovered by now that Wars are iffy at best. The dogs of war could bite both ways. A generation ago tiny Vietnam handed America a resounding military defeat, and that just little more than a decade after China and North Korea fought America to a draw on the small battlefield of Korea. Then, America has found that it can’t even enforce its will upon Iraq, an undeveloped country that had been weakened by 20 years of war and sanctions. Well, yes, it can win the War, but finds itself losing the Peace. America, while thinking of itself as a Giant, is aware that it has had great difficulties fighting with those it thinks of as midgits, and while America is puzzled by this perceived inconsistency, it acknowledges the difficulities nonetheless. So now their are even Republicans clamoring for peace, no doubt hoping to destroy the rest of the World by other means.
America had come to realize that it had not so much won the First and Second World Wars as that the rest of the World had lost them much more badly, and America, by fighting the least, by loosing the least, won by default. No American cities had been bombed out, but, instead, the plundered wealth of the World went into building shiny new American Factories from coast to coast. Thinking itself the Grand Winner, America became proud and took on some fights of its own, but possibly may have learned its lesson. America would attempt to achieve its ends by different means.
And so it is that it may be that America has tacitly settled upon the policy of pushing forward the devastations of Global Warming. Just as with the Great Wars of the 20th Century, America may suppose that while it would suffer some inconveniences and losses from Global Warming, they anticipate that the remainder of the World, and especially China, would be devastated.
So we see Americans still advocating and investing in economic models that pump out the most greenhouse gases, while opposing any remodeling of social plans that could effectively decrease the buildup of fatal and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases. Even Al Gore never mentions nuclear energy power plants. Why? Well, simply because Nuclear Power Energy Plants would be the key to solving the entire problem.
Also, America’s insistence that alcohol should be a viable replacement for petroleum could also be a subtle weapon in its arsenal for global genocide (Americans are good people at heart and don’t want to enslave anybody. So American World Dominance is not envisioned as imposing Slavery on the rest of Mankind. Without anybody overtly saying so, it is just hoped that the rest of the World will simply go away and stop impinging upon American Happiness. Well, that means genocide, whether anybody admits it openly or not, especially if the Genocide can be made to look like some huge accident, such as is the case with AIDS, Global Warming, Energy Prices, etc). Alcohol, while being just as bad a greenhouse gas culprit as petroleum, would divert crops ordinarily intended for Food Production into the highly inflated fuel markets. Indeed, the ever increasing starvation levels we now see in Africa can be closely correlated to the price of Ethanol. Western Economies no longer consider diverting the surpluses of their grain harvests to famine stricken economies, not when the price of grain is now almost directly linked to Oil Prices. Grain was never really ever given away for Humanitarian concerns alone, but only because by giving grain away to worthless markets, the price of all of the remaining grain was supported… it boosted prices. But now that the price of wheat rises side by side with the price of oil because it too has become an energy commodity, there is not a grain left to be given away. World grain supplies will inevitably be diverted more and more to the ethanol distilleries, leaving less and less food to eat. As Oil Reserves are depleted and the price of grain alcohol soars, hungry people will be allowed to starve as thirsty automobiles are allowed to drink. While wealthy Americans could still pay perhaps $7or $8 dollars a liter for their gasoline and ethanol blends, there would be billions of people throughout the World who could never hope to pay those same high prices for a slice of bread or a small bowl of rice. And Americans could assume it was nobody’s fault that millions were left to starve, but simply blame the impersonal and inescapable economic laws of supply and demand – the types of thing that no Free People could possibly do anything about.
And so it is that though America might fear an open and overt War with China, these same Americans might look forward to destroying China with the rising sea levels caused by the Global Warming it had effectively engineered, and then starving China by the imposing impossibly high food prices it advanced by converting the Oil Economies over to Ethanol.
But America must certainly have discovered by now that Wars are iffy at best. The dogs of war could bite both ways. A generation ago tiny Vietnam handed America a resounding military defeat, and that just little more than a decade after China and North Korea fought America to a draw on the small battlefield of Korea. Then, America has found that it can’t even enforce its will upon Iraq, an undeveloped country that had been weakened by 20 years of war and sanctions. Well, yes, it can win the War, but finds itself losing the Peace. America, while thinking of itself as a Giant, is aware that it has had great difficulties fighting with those it thinks of as midgits, and while America is puzzled by this perceived inconsistency, it acknowledges the difficulities nonetheless. So now their are even Republicans clamoring for peace, no doubt hoping to destroy the rest of the World by other means.
America had come to realize that it had not so much won the First and Second World Wars as that the rest of the World had lost them much more badly, and America, by fighting the least, by loosing the least, won by default. No American cities had been bombed out, but, instead, the plundered wealth of the World went into building shiny new American Factories from coast to coast. Thinking itself the Grand Winner, America became proud and took on some fights of its own, but possibly may have learned its lesson. America would attempt to achieve its ends by different means.
And so it is that it may be that America has tacitly settled upon the policy of pushing forward the devastations of Global Warming. Just as with the Great Wars of the 20th Century, America may suppose that while it would suffer some inconveniences and losses from Global Warming, they anticipate that the remainder of the World, and especially China, would be devastated.
So we see Americans still advocating and investing in economic models that pump out the most greenhouse gases, while opposing any remodeling of social plans that could effectively decrease the buildup of fatal and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases. Even Al Gore never mentions nuclear energy power plants. Why? Well, simply because Nuclear Power Energy Plants would be the key to solving the entire problem.
Also, America’s insistence that alcohol should be a viable replacement for petroleum could also be a subtle weapon in its arsenal for global genocide (Americans are good people at heart and don’t want to enslave anybody. So American World Dominance is not envisioned as imposing Slavery on the rest of Mankind. Without anybody overtly saying so, it is just hoped that the rest of the World will simply go away and stop impinging upon American Happiness. Well, that means genocide, whether anybody admits it openly or not, especially if the Genocide can be made to look like some huge accident, such as is the case with AIDS, Global Warming, Energy Prices, etc). Alcohol, while being just as bad a greenhouse gas culprit as petroleum, would divert crops ordinarily intended for Food Production into the highly inflated fuel markets. Indeed, the ever increasing starvation levels we now see in Africa can be closely correlated to the price of Ethanol. Western Economies no longer consider diverting the surpluses of their grain harvests to famine stricken economies, not when the price of grain is now almost directly linked to Oil Prices. Grain was never really ever given away for Humanitarian concerns alone, but only because by giving grain away to worthless markets, the price of all of the remaining grain was supported… it boosted prices. But now that the price of wheat rises side by side with the price of oil because it too has become an energy commodity, there is not a grain left to be given away. World grain supplies will inevitably be diverted more and more to the ethanol distilleries, leaving less and less food to eat. As Oil Reserves are depleted and the price of grain alcohol soars, hungry people will be allowed to starve as thirsty automobiles are allowed to drink. While wealthy Americans could still pay perhaps $7or $8 dollars a liter for their gasoline and ethanol blends, there would be billions of people throughout the World who could never hope to pay those same high prices for a slice of bread or a small bowl of rice. And Americans could assume it was nobody’s fault that millions were left to starve, but simply blame the impersonal and inescapable economic laws of supply and demand – the types of thing that no Free People could possibly do anything about.
And so it is that though America might fear an open and overt War with China, these same Americans might look forward to destroying China with the rising sea levels caused by the Global Warming it had effectively engineered, and then starving China by the imposing impossibly high food prices it advanced by converting the Oil Economies over to Ethanol.
Cooperation: An Evolutionary Leap
Since there has been so much discussion of Evolution, it is often wondered by many who argue such things in the debate forums just what the next evolutionary leap might be.
Well, what might really be the next great evolutionary leap is Civilized Cooperation. Oh, we might think that we are already well established as Civilized People, but really we are only just actually one the very verge of that leap. It has just been only 10,000 or so years ago or so that the Human Species arrived at its first Civilization, that is a level of cooperation that could support economic surpluses and urban development. Yet trends of barbarian individualism and urges for 'freedom' have consistently eroded and then destroyed every developed Civilization. Within the Human Character and Psychology at present are the conflicting influences of social cooperation against the impulses of a more primitive impulse for predatory selfishness. The Social Human and the Individual Human are waging a War for global supremacy. Now, the Media and certain Political Parties go on endlessly praising the advantages of Barbarism -- Freedom, Greed, War, etc. But when one examines the economic models, Barbarian Regimes are only feasible in situations of low population densities. High Population Densities are only possible when Social Cooperation is at its Civilized Maximum. And so it is that Barbarism essentially relies upon Genocide of excess population levels. Simply refer to any period in History when Barbarism succeeded Civilization, when Selfishness conquered Cooperation, then there followed not a coincidental but a necessary drop in population levels... often by more than half. In this sense America's call for universal Freedom is a call for what is tantamount to mass and even global Genocide. We can have a World where tens of billions of people can cooperate in a civilized manner, or where a relative few Americans can survive in their Freedom.
And the genocide need not be particularly overt. All that is required is that Civilized Institutions be opposed and stifled. The best example here is the effort Americans are making to both advance Global Warming by advocating and investing in economic models that pump out the most greenhouse gases, while opposing any remodeling of social plans that could effectively decrease the buildup of fatal and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases.
Also, America’s insistence that alcohol should be a viable replacement for petroleum could also be a subtle weapon in its arsenal for global genocide. Alcohol, while being just as bad of a greenhouse gas culprit as petroleum, would divert crops ordinarily intended for Food Production into the highly inflated fuel markets. Indeed, the starvation we now see in Africa can be closely correlated to the price of Ethanol. Western Economies no longer consider diverting excess grain harvests to famine stricken economies, in order to support powerful Farm Constituencies, not when the price of grain is now almost directly linked to Oil Prices. Well, we can easily anticipate what will be the ultimate result – as Oil Reserves are depleted and the price of grain alcohol soars, hungry people will be allowed to starve as thirsty automobiles are allowed to drink.
Though America might fear an open and overt War with China, these same Americans might look forward to destroying China with the rising sea levels caused by the Global Warming it had effectively engineered, and then starving China by the impossibly high food prices it advanced by converting the Oil Economies over to Ethanol.
And so it is that the Barbarians need not assemble themselves into filthy lice-infested hoards to do their damage to Civilization. They only need to be able to obstruct the implementation of institutions of social cooperation. And so it is that the establishment of some model of liberal Democracy has become such an important matter for these Barbarians. These Capitalist Predators know from hundreds of years of experiment in the West that Liberal Democracy is too inherently weak and disorganized to offer any effective opposition to Predatory Capitalism, that is, to the forces of Barbarism. When they claim that the ‘checks and balances’ of Democracy are the protectors of ‘Freedom’, well, that is exactly what they had counted upon. Democracy weakens the institutions of cooperation while assuring the predatory forces of predatory barbarism, that is, ‘freedom’.
Well, what might really be the next great evolutionary leap is Civilized Cooperation. Oh, we might think that we are already well established as Civilized People, but really we are only just actually one the very verge of that leap. It has just been only 10,000 or so years ago or so that the Human Species arrived at its first Civilization, that is a level of cooperation that could support economic surpluses and urban development. Yet trends of barbarian individualism and urges for 'freedom' have consistently eroded and then destroyed every developed Civilization. Within the Human Character and Psychology at present are the conflicting influences of social cooperation against the impulses of a more primitive impulse for predatory selfishness. The Social Human and the Individual Human are waging a War for global supremacy. Now, the Media and certain Political Parties go on endlessly praising the advantages of Barbarism -- Freedom, Greed, War, etc. But when one examines the economic models, Barbarian Regimes are only feasible in situations of low population densities. High Population Densities are only possible when Social Cooperation is at its Civilized Maximum. And so it is that Barbarism essentially relies upon Genocide of excess population levels. Simply refer to any period in History when Barbarism succeeded Civilization, when Selfishness conquered Cooperation, then there followed not a coincidental but a necessary drop in population levels... often by more than half. In this sense America's call for universal Freedom is a call for what is tantamount to mass and even global Genocide. We can have a World where tens of billions of people can cooperate in a civilized manner, or where a relative few Americans can survive in their Freedom.
And the genocide need not be particularly overt. All that is required is that Civilized Institutions be opposed and stifled. The best example here is the effort Americans are making to both advance Global Warming by advocating and investing in economic models that pump out the most greenhouse gases, while opposing any remodeling of social plans that could effectively decrease the buildup of fatal and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases.
Also, America’s insistence that alcohol should be a viable replacement for petroleum could also be a subtle weapon in its arsenal for global genocide. Alcohol, while being just as bad of a greenhouse gas culprit as petroleum, would divert crops ordinarily intended for Food Production into the highly inflated fuel markets. Indeed, the starvation we now see in Africa can be closely correlated to the price of Ethanol. Western Economies no longer consider diverting excess grain harvests to famine stricken economies, in order to support powerful Farm Constituencies, not when the price of grain is now almost directly linked to Oil Prices. Well, we can easily anticipate what will be the ultimate result – as Oil Reserves are depleted and the price of grain alcohol soars, hungry people will be allowed to starve as thirsty automobiles are allowed to drink.
Though America might fear an open and overt War with China, these same Americans might look forward to destroying China with the rising sea levels caused by the Global Warming it had effectively engineered, and then starving China by the impossibly high food prices it advanced by converting the Oil Economies over to Ethanol.
And so it is that the Barbarians need not assemble themselves into filthy lice-infested hoards to do their damage to Civilization. They only need to be able to obstruct the implementation of institutions of social cooperation. And so it is that the establishment of some model of liberal Democracy has become such an important matter for these Barbarians. These Capitalist Predators know from hundreds of years of experiment in the West that Liberal Democracy is too inherently weak and disorganized to offer any effective opposition to Predatory Capitalism, that is, to the forces of Barbarism. When they claim that the ‘checks and balances’ of Democracy are the protectors of ‘Freedom’, well, that is exactly what they had counted upon. Democracy weakens the institutions of cooperation while assuring the predatory forces of predatory barbarism, that is, ‘freedom’.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
The Ongoing Saga of Ram Bomjon, the Buddha Boy
Ram Bomjon’s fame had been hitting its peak back in the spring of 2006 when it became generally publicized that he was commencing a six year fasting meditation, that is, that he would not eat anything for six years, and that he would meditate sufficiently to attain to something of the highest status that any mere mortal can attain within the metaphysical expectations held forth by the Buddhist Traditions. He was found to be meditating in the jungles of Nepal, but close enough to the roads so that his meditation site became a very popular pilgrimage destination. Many Westerners were able to visit the local and return with their versions of his story. It became a fascinating enough human interest story that many news services and blogs picked up on it.
But things started going sour for our young man. Well, they started well enough when the Government of Nepal insisted upon investigating the Buddha Boy. The Nepalese Government is a Buddhist Regime and would not wish that the Buddhist Traditions be made a hoax of. Also, they may have feared that the Maoist Guerrillas, so popular in the rural districts of Ram Bomjon’s neighborhood, were somehow involved. Well, this Marxist connection would seem on its face to be absurd, since it is the most basic of premises within Marxism that their view is utterly materialistic and atheistic. Marxists are not known to be very thorough-going Spiritualists. But on the practical level, it was found that some local Marxist Thugs and Gangsters were extorting a percentage of the moneys from those who were passing the collection baskets among all of the many pilgrims. Marxist Doctrine being one thing, but the money was too good to ignore and they exploited Ram Bomjon. Yes, it has been construed against the Buddha Boy that he has arranged these collections, and so it is being assumed by many that the Buddha Boy himself is some corrupt and scheming predator. Well, not necessarily. You see, in the Far East and South Asia, as well as in our own New Age Movements, there is an ingrained tradition of supposing that one must make offerings at places of pilgrimage, shrines and to the Saints and Gurus and such. People expect to drop off money and so they will drop off money. So of course there will be people setting up tables to collect it. One can hardly blame a sixteen year-old boy who is meditating, that is, actively attempting to ignore the whole business. He can meditate, or he can try to manage all the business going on in this vast campground, but he can hardly do both.
Anyway, the Government’s investigation went forward, and they found that the Buddha Boy’s religious and spiritual complains were quite genuine. They determined that he really was not eating anything, and that he was indeed deep in continuous meditation, exemplifying a level of expertise that they had not seen, and they had seen plenty. They had also found connections between the Maoist Gangs and those who were collecting ‘offerings’ to Ram Bomjon, but that the boy himself had not been involved beyond being the center of attraction. So the Government froze the bank accounts involved, and was probably somewhat influential in having Rom Bomjon abandon his popular roadside meditation site and then to go back further into the jungle.
You think people would appreciate that the Buddha Boy had been vindicated by such a powerful investigatory entity, but, no, the skeptical materialists had many of their own committees and they resented that they had been chased away by the Buddha Boy’s security team. You see, after having passed the very intrusive investigation conducted by their own Government, they did not see the point of repeating the process over and over again for every new group that came by. After all, the young man was trying to meditate, and each new group of skeptics wanted to poke and prod and cause their own volume level of noise and disturbance. And then there was the matter of these skeptic groups being skeptical, that is, that they had no respect for what was going on, and they discerned small victories for themselves in any case where they could prove to be a bother to the young man, that is, if they could rouse the Buddha Boy out of his meditation, then his meditation was not much of a meditation, etc. Well, who needs such people. After they proved to be rude and offensive, well, they were kept away, and that is what they should have published regarding the situation. But instead they published very self-serving accounts of the transactions, claiming that the Buddha Boy’s people were afraid of repeated scrutiny. But the truth is that repeated scrutiny is redundant, and that the Government Investigation, conducted by a government that has no compunction about arresting and imprisoning people of whom it does not approve, should be seen to be sufficient, at least for the present time.
But after last spring, the Buddha Boy picked up and left everybody and everything behind and went back further into the jungle to be alone. Yes, I suspect that the government may have asked him to try to be more private in his spiritual practices, his Sadhana, but there was also the matter of the repeated snake bites. Even while the crowds were surrounding him, roped off some number of meters from his sitting, still, it was reported that he had been snake bit on 3 separate occasions. Ouch.
Anyway, since last spring there have been 3 reports that I know of. First, some of his old friends had found Ram Bomjon new meditation site back a few more kilometers in the jungle. Apparently the jungle is quite thick. A second time a group of hunters encountered Rom Bomjon, seeing him with a sword. Apparently the young man was not meditating, as he was engaged in worldliness enough to explain that “even the Buddha had to protect himself”. I can only suppose that our young man is still being bothered by snakes and perhaps the other wild things of the jungle. But this is most disappointing in regards to what potential he may have had as a future Spiritual Leader and Moral Exemplar. After all, the taint and downfall of Islam has been so much mention and rationalization for violence, that is, there had been so much mention of swords this and swords that in that particular Religion that swords had become an integral part of the Religion, much to its detriment. And so what is the first thing this Buddha Boy does but to be seen with a sword and then to defend its use. Well, what sense does it make? We certainly don’t need a new generation of Spiritual Leadership to justify violent militancy, as we certainly have plenty of that already. Anyway, the Buddhist Community was perhaps the one group that the World could depend upon not be a bunch of cut-throat murderous fanatics, and then the Buddha Boy jumps up with his sword and so far the only Doctrine that can be attributed to him is that, and this is how it might be understood, that ‘Buddha Himself had to commit genocide in order to advance his agenda of interests’. This is a very dad development. We are find that this young man is less and less very special, but is in fact much the same as most young men – he is a fool and will have to live down the mistakes of his youth. What was his mistake? Well, he should have told these people that he had no ‘sword’ but rather that he thought of it as a really long ‘snake-rat knife’. But that would be to expect a level of wisdom from even the most promising sixteen year old – which would have been a rather unique event in history, now that I think about it. We have prior prophecy that states that “swords will be beaten into plough blades”. Well, the first sword that will need such a transformation is this faux pas ‘sword’ of the silly Buddha Boy’s.
Also, his fast has been called into question by his admission that he had been ingesting “medicinal herbs”. Huh!? Why would somebody who apparently has no need for nutrition to have a crying need for medicines? It makes no sense. The last proven faster I have heard of, Pralad Jnani of Sterling Hospital fame (the old man had been known to have not eaten anything in the last 60 years, and so the Sterling Hospital investigated and found this claim to substantially plausible, having observed him for 10 days not eating or drinking a thing, and not loosing body weight or deteriorating in function) simply did not eat or drink, and so it was the unexceptionality of his claim that was remarkable. But now the young man, our Buddha Boy, has tossed aside his most important claim to exceptionality, and now he can only be seen as just one more of what we must suppose are so many others who practice relatively serious levels of expert meditation. I can’t help to be a little disappointed in him, although I certainly can’t claim to be any better.
But we need to remember that the young man never claimed any absolute statuses for himself – rejecting the notion that he would be the Matraiya or another Buddha, and supposing that at most would be of some secondary rank. There, we should still be wishing him luck.
The last we heard of this young man, he had persuaded one of his followers to dig him out a meditation cellar, that is, an underground shelter. Perhaps this will finally resolve his issue with the snakes and whatever else he believed he needed a sword to protect himself from. Perhaps he will now be able to buckle down to his serious meditations and dispense with his need for ‘medicinal’ salads.
Meditation holes in the ground may have a promising past. Old Sai Baba of Shirdi, one of the most illustrious Saints of the 19th and early 20th Centuries was purported to have spent a number of his childhood years meditating in a sealed off cellar situated under the roots of a tree.
Now, perhaps we should all contemplate exactly what benefits may be hoped that one could acquire from meditation, especially from the meditations of the Buddhist Traditions. Shutting down the mind. Quieting all desires. Fine, but so what? In the context of our present situation, we are seeing the collapse of our own amoral, and materialistic Civilization and the rise of a ruthless and nihilistic Barbarism in its place. Well, we can hardly expect that six years spent mindlessly could be of much constructive use. What might be useful would be to see Meditation less in the perspective of being absolutely beyond quality and attribute, and to allow that Duality may have a worthy role to play in Meditation – that Meditations may be of more benefit if they are permitted to be Visionary and Prophetic. Any Saint worth his salt must have some moral perspective, but moral perspective cannot come from simple mindlessness. What we need is some deep and true connection to a genuine Collective Consciousness – a consciousness that is necessarily moral and cooperative as it is inclusive of all Living Things. So, I really hope that our Buddha Boy does not waste every moment of the next five or six years in some empty mindless void, however free of pain that state of mind might be, but spends enough time in the Collective Consciousness to return to us with some valid moral insights, and what we have not seen much from him yet – some actual evidence of wisdom, and discernment. But in this regards, perhaps every sixteen year old could benefit from being locked away, and then not turned loose until they are 22.
Oh, I anticipate that there might be many Buddhists coming forward to defend the Buddhist cosmology and philosophies. But allow me to argue that Buddha might have benefited more from thinking than from eschewing thought. His notion that all suffering resulted from desire is simplistic and incomplete, even after only a minimal reflection. One can quickly understand why Buddhists are encouraged to stop thinking, since that seems to be entirely necessary so that their philosophical premises might be allowed to continue to stand. What makes much more sense is a Maslow-like conception of an ascendancy of needs – the recognition that people are confronted with real necessities, both physical and emotional. Telling people not to desire food and money does nothing to solve the real problems of hunger and poverty, but would even aggravate the situation. So what was Buddha thinking? Well, he had been a spoiled Prince raised in a palace who thought it was a novel lark to learn how to meditate and it was easy for him to come out with such “let them eat cake” philosophies – to blame desire because he had never known need. I guess that I have not been the first person ever to notice this discrepancy between basic Buddhist Philosophy and the most elementary common sense, but, then again, the Buddhists all tell themselves that they mustn’t think about it. Shut up and meditate!
Anyway, despite this Buddha Boy not being entirely perfect, and despite his mixed record – making substantial mistakes as well as some public relations mistakes causing misconceptions which can often be even more seriously damaging, still this young man may be worth some degree of hope. We should wish him well. And here I should point out an old historical example, referring to the best and most powerful Saint in well documented history, Vincent Ferrer of the 14th Century. He was known to heal thousands of people each day, as well as being surrounded by a plethora of other supernatural miracles. But what distinguished Vincent Ferrer from every other Saint in history is that Vincent Ferrer engaged a large troupe of 10,000 fasting flagellants who accompanied him on his Tour of Miracles. I can only suppose that these people, with their active atonements and ascetic sufferings, contributed some kind of spiritual energy toward the miracles of their leader Vincent Ferrer, and that they were effectively the battery of power that enabled him and made his mission possible. Likewise, our own limited ascetic practices may be dedicated, at least in part, toward the success of Ram Bomjon’s Meditation and future career of Spirituality. Granted that he is not perfect, but looking around I can’t see any better candidates. If anybody should be a focal point of our spiritual and ascetic energies, well, who better than this Buddha Boy, who, while being flawed, is still perhaps one of the least flawed among us.
But things started going sour for our young man. Well, they started well enough when the Government of Nepal insisted upon investigating the Buddha Boy. The Nepalese Government is a Buddhist Regime and would not wish that the Buddhist Traditions be made a hoax of. Also, they may have feared that the Maoist Guerrillas, so popular in the rural districts of Ram Bomjon’s neighborhood, were somehow involved. Well, this Marxist connection would seem on its face to be absurd, since it is the most basic of premises within Marxism that their view is utterly materialistic and atheistic. Marxists are not known to be very thorough-going Spiritualists. But on the practical level, it was found that some local Marxist Thugs and Gangsters were extorting a percentage of the moneys from those who were passing the collection baskets among all of the many pilgrims. Marxist Doctrine being one thing, but the money was too good to ignore and they exploited Ram Bomjon. Yes, it has been construed against the Buddha Boy that he has arranged these collections, and so it is being assumed by many that the Buddha Boy himself is some corrupt and scheming predator. Well, not necessarily. You see, in the Far East and South Asia, as well as in our own New Age Movements, there is an ingrained tradition of supposing that one must make offerings at places of pilgrimage, shrines and to the Saints and Gurus and such. People expect to drop off money and so they will drop off money. So of course there will be people setting up tables to collect it. One can hardly blame a sixteen year-old boy who is meditating, that is, actively attempting to ignore the whole business. He can meditate, or he can try to manage all the business going on in this vast campground, but he can hardly do both.
Anyway, the Government’s investigation went forward, and they found that the Buddha Boy’s religious and spiritual complains were quite genuine. They determined that he really was not eating anything, and that he was indeed deep in continuous meditation, exemplifying a level of expertise that they had not seen, and they had seen plenty. They had also found connections between the Maoist Gangs and those who were collecting ‘offerings’ to Ram Bomjon, but that the boy himself had not been involved beyond being the center of attraction. So the Government froze the bank accounts involved, and was probably somewhat influential in having Rom Bomjon abandon his popular roadside meditation site and then to go back further into the jungle.
You think people would appreciate that the Buddha Boy had been vindicated by such a powerful investigatory entity, but, no, the skeptical materialists had many of their own committees and they resented that they had been chased away by the Buddha Boy’s security team. You see, after having passed the very intrusive investigation conducted by their own Government, they did not see the point of repeating the process over and over again for every new group that came by. After all, the young man was trying to meditate, and each new group of skeptics wanted to poke and prod and cause their own volume level of noise and disturbance. And then there was the matter of these skeptic groups being skeptical, that is, that they had no respect for what was going on, and they discerned small victories for themselves in any case where they could prove to be a bother to the young man, that is, if they could rouse the Buddha Boy out of his meditation, then his meditation was not much of a meditation, etc. Well, who needs such people. After they proved to be rude and offensive, well, they were kept away, and that is what they should have published regarding the situation. But instead they published very self-serving accounts of the transactions, claiming that the Buddha Boy’s people were afraid of repeated scrutiny. But the truth is that repeated scrutiny is redundant, and that the Government Investigation, conducted by a government that has no compunction about arresting and imprisoning people of whom it does not approve, should be seen to be sufficient, at least for the present time.
But after last spring, the Buddha Boy picked up and left everybody and everything behind and went back further into the jungle to be alone. Yes, I suspect that the government may have asked him to try to be more private in his spiritual practices, his Sadhana, but there was also the matter of the repeated snake bites. Even while the crowds were surrounding him, roped off some number of meters from his sitting, still, it was reported that he had been snake bit on 3 separate occasions. Ouch.
Anyway, since last spring there have been 3 reports that I know of. First, some of his old friends had found Ram Bomjon new meditation site back a few more kilometers in the jungle. Apparently the jungle is quite thick. A second time a group of hunters encountered Rom Bomjon, seeing him with a sword. Apparently the young man was not meditating, as he was engaged in worldliness enough to explain that “even the Buddha had to protect himself”. I can only suppose that our young man is still being bothered by snakes and perhaps the other wild things of the jungle. But this is most disappointing in regards to what potential he may have had as a future Spiritual Leader and Moral Exemplar. After all, the taint and downfall of Islam has been so much mention and rationalization for violence, that is, there had been so much mention of swords this and swords that in that particular Religion that swords had become an integral part of the Religion, much to its detriment. And so what is the first thing this Buddha Boy does but to be seen with a sword and then to defend its use. Well, what sense does it make? We certainly don’t need a new generation of Spiritual Leadership to justify violent militancy, as we certainly have plenty of that already. Anyway, the Buddhist Community was perhaps the one group that the World could depend upon not be a bunch of cut-throat murderous fanatics, and then the Buddha Boy jumps up with his sword and so far the only Doctrine that can be attributed to him is that, and this is how it might be understood, that ‘Buddha Himself had to commit genocide in order to advance his agenda of interests’. This is a very dad development. We are find that this young man is less and less very special, but is in fact much the same as most young men – he is a fool and will have to live down the mistakes of his youth. What was his mistake? Well, he should have told these people that he had no ‘sword’ but rather that he thought of it as a really long ‘snake-rat knife’. But that would be to expect a level of wisdom from even the most promising sixteen year old – which would have been a rather unique event in history, now that I think about it. We have prior prophecy that states that “swords will be beaten into plough blades”. Well, the first sword that will need such a transformation is this faux pas ‘sword’ of the silly Buddha Boy’s.
Also, his fast has been called into question by his admission that he had been ingesting “medicinal herbs”. Huh!? Why would somebody who apparently has no need for nutrition to have a crying need for medicines? It makes no sense. The last proven faster I have heard of, Pralad Jnani of Sterling Hospital fame (the old man had been known to have not eaten anything in the last 60 years, and so the Sterling Hospital investigated and found this claim to substantially plausible, having observed him for 10 days not eating or drinking a thing, and not loosing body weight or deteriorating in function) simply did not eat or drink, and so it was the unexceptionality of his claim that was remarkable. But now the young man, our Buddha Boy, has tossed aside his most important claim to exceptionality, and now he can only be seen as just one more of what we must suppose are so many others who practice relatively serious levels of expert meditation. I can’t help to be a little disappointed in him, although I certainly can’t claim to be any better.
But we need to remember that the young man never claimed any absolute statuses for himself – rejecting the notion that he would be the Matraiya or another Buddha, and supposing that at most would be of some secondary rank. There, we should still be wishing him luck.
The last we heard of this young man, he had persuaded one of his followers to dig him out a meditation cellar, that is, an underground shelter. Perhaps this will finally resolve his issue with the snakes and whatever else he believed he needed a sword to protect himself from. Perhaps he will now be able to buckle down to his serious meditations and dispense with his need for ‘medicinal’ salads.
Meditation holes in the ground may have a promising past. Old Sai Baba of Shirdi, one of the most illustrious Saints of the 19th and early 20th Centuries was purported to have spent a number of his childhood years meditating in a sealed off cellar situated under the roots of a tree.
Now, perhaps we should all contemplate exactly what benefits may be hoped that one could acquire from meditation, especially from the meditations of the Buddhist Traditions. Shutting down the mind. Quieting all desires. Fine, but so what? In the context of our present situation, we are seeing the collapse of our own amoral, and materialistic Civilization and the rise of a ruthless and nihilistic Barbarism in its place. Well, we can hardly expect that six years spent mindlessly could be of much constructive use. What might be useful would be to see Meditation less in the perspective of being absolutely beyond quality and attribute, and to allow that Duality may have a worthy role to play in Meditation – that Meditations may be of more benefit if they are permitted to be Visionary and Prophetic. Any Saint worth his salt must have some moral perspective, but moral perspective cannot come from simple mindlessness. What we need is some deep and true connection to a genuine Collective Consciousness – a consciousness that is necessarily moral and cooperative as it is inclusive of all Living Things. So, I really hope that our Buddha Boy does not waste every moment of the next five or six years in some empty mindless void, however free of pain that state of mind might be, but spends enough time in the Collective Consciousness to return to us with some valid moral insights, and what we have not seen much from him yet – some actual evidence of wisdom, and discernment. But in this regards, perhaps every sixteen year old could benefit from being locked away, and then not turned loose until they are 22.
Oh, I anticipate that there might be many Buddhists coming forward to defend the Buddhist cosmology and philosophies. But allow me to argue that Buddha might have benefited more from thinking than from eschewing thought. His notion that all suffering resulted from desire is simplistic and incomplete, even after only a minimal reflection. One can quickly understand why Buddhists are encouraged to stop thinking, since that seems to be entirely necessary so that their philosophical premises might be allowed to continue to stand. What makes much more sense is a Maslow-like conception of an ascendancy of needs – the recognition that people are confronted with real necessities, both physical and emotional. Telling people not to desire food and money does nothing to solve the real problems of hunger and poverty, but would even aggravate the situation. So what was Buddha thinking? Well, he had been a spoiled Prince raised in a palace who thought it was a novel lark to learn how to meditate and it was easy for him to come out with such “let them eat cake” philosophies – to blame desire because he had never known need. I guess that I have not been the first person ever to notice this discrepancy between basic Buddhist Philosophy and the most elementary common sense, but, then again, the Buddhists all tell themselves that they mustn’t think about it. Shut up and meditate!
Anyway, despite this Buddha Boy not being entirely perfect, and despite his mixed record – making substantial mistakes as well as some public relations mistakes causing misconceptions which can often be even more seriously damaging, still this young man may be worth some degree of hope. We should wish him well. And here I should point out an old historical example, referring to the best and most powerful Saint in well documented history, Vincent Ferrer of the 14th Century. He was known to heal thousands of people each day, as well as being surrounded by a plethora of other supernatural miracles. But what distinguished Vincent Ferrer from every other Saint in history is that Vincent Ferrer engaged a large troupe of 10,000 fasting flagellants who accompanied him on his Tour of Miracles. I can only suppose that these people, with their active atonements and ascetic sufferings, contributed some kind of spiritual energy toward the miracles of their leader Vincent Ferrer, and that they were effectively the battery of power that enabled him and made his mission possible. Likewise, our own limited ascetic practices may be dedicated, at least in part, toward the success of Ram Bomjon’s Meditation and future career of Spirituality. Granted that he is not perfect, but looking around I can’t see any better candidates. If anybody should be a focal point of our spiritual and ascetic energies, well, who better than this Buddha Boy, who, while being flawed, is still perhaps one of the least flawed among us.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Thoughts on Kundalini Yoga and Shakitpat
I had found another blog that had an essay on Kundalini vs. Jnani Yoga, and it suggested the following essay:
Dear Harsha,
You posted an excellent essay. When I first got into Kundalini Yoga some 30 years ago, I thought much the same thing, regarding the close relationship between Tantra and Kundalini, as well as the Chinese Tradition of Qi or Chi. And I recognized the somewhat opposite traditions of Vedanta or Jnana Yoga. I’m glad to see that someone else has been thinking along those very same lines.
But there are several things that I might add, coming from my practical experience with the Kundalini. First, it is not necessarily a linear process – starting from the bottom before one can go to the top. Indeed, in many of the Shaktipat Traditions, where the Kundalini Energy is passed along by a Guru to the new Initiate, it is easier to simply open the Forehead Chakra. Yes, without all the lower chakras below being open, as well as the entire central channel, the effects won’t be quite so spectacular, but neither will they have the danger involved that we often hear about regarding the Kundalini practice.
Secondly, while it is easiest to acquire an initiation from a Shaktipat Guru, from whatever branch or school, it really isn’t necessary. I once read in a translation of one of the Upanishads that “in the presence of a God or Saint, the Agna Chakra will blossom”. Well, it does. If it opens in a very big way, by the concentrated efforts of a very good Guru, one will experience a certain amount of bliss and light. But if one simply walks into the same room as a person who already has their Agna Chakra open, then one will feel a slight pressure in one’s own Agna Chakra, that is, in one’s forehead, a bit above the brows and about an inch inside the head. In most every case, where the person is not looking to feel this sensation, the sensation is dismissed as an incipient headache, and the feeling is ignored until it goes away. However, if one is searching for such an experience, and then latches onto the feeling and concentrates upon it, then the attention given to that ‘feeling’ will serve to fix it so that it may take root in one’s energy system.
Of course, the Shaktipat Gurus have a great deal of experience to impart, but the problem there is that they often charge more money than is easily affordable, and so the aspiring Initiate may feel obliged to take his ‘Initiation’ for free as detailed above.
Well, once the self-made initiate feels the energy in his forehead, then how should he or she proceed? For the first few days one should concentrate on that energy spot very often. Rub the spot with one’s finger. One can use the simplest and best of all ‘pyramid powers’, that is, any pointy object, ballpoint pens work the best, and point them into the chakra. Magnets are also good. Also, reading inspirational spiritual literature or poetry will serve to energize one’s higher centers.
But after a week or two, the Chakra may acquire so much energy that it gives one a headache. Many unexplained migraines may indeed be this very thing. In this case, one should discontinue thinking of one’s forehead and rather think it down to one’s tailbone, the very bottom of one’s spine. A simple visualization may help in doing this – one can take a drink of water and as the water goes down one’s throat, one can imagine that the energy is going down with it, to the bottom-most tailbone. If one can leave the energy down there, then the danger of these headaches will discontinue.
To acquire greater control over this energy, then one should find the key location for just such control, that is, the swivel point at the top of the spine, inside one’s head, just up and behind one’s pallet. It is easy to locate that swivel point simply by swiveling one’s head around and noting the point in one’s head where the swiveling occurs. Then one should focus the energy in one’s Forehead Chakra and visualize that energy coming back, along the roof of the mouth, to that swivel point. At first the Swivel Point will energize and feel about as large as a large grape, but it really must be focused upon until it is much smaller. It won’t take long, but just only a few minutes, concentrating on the energy as though one is peeling off the layers of an onion until one is at the very central point of the Swivel Point Center. It will be as small as a housefly and you will feel it pulsating, about in time with your heartbeat. Once you can feel that, then you have the Key to your body’s energy system, and you can send the energy up to your Crown Chakra, or even up over your head to create halos for yourself, or you can direct the energy down through your body. The remarkable thing, at this point is that you become aware of your body as an energy system. Before I could do this, I was conscious only of feeling in my skin, or within my body only when there was a pain, or in certain other regions when there was some stimulated pleasure. But for the most part the volume of my body was a void in regards to sensation and feeling. But once one had gone through the Swivel Point Chakra, then one becomes aware of all of the various energy flows.
Regarding this point, once I was able to discern energy flows, I was able to develop an easy and effective exercise. I had read of Huong Po’s ‘one finger’ exercise and tried to research it out, but couldn’t find a thing about it, but in my experiments I found that by rotating my thumbs, one clockwise, the other counter-clockwise, for only a few minutes, until they got tired, then, once the thumbs were stilled, the energy would flow into the central channel and rise up into the head.
Now, we are accustomed to hearing wonderful stories of bliss and light. Well, unfortunately, as far as I know, such experiences, for the most part, are reserved for those in deep trance, or in dreams. Once when I was dreaming, a Dream Guru told me that a few seconds of meditation in a dream was worth thousands of hours of waking meditation, and he was right. What in waking is felt as a slight pressure will be experienced in a dream as Bliss and Light. It is as though the sensations of the waking self and the dream self are placed along a continuum, with the Dream Self being much more sensitive to those things. And so it is that one should encourage oneself to do one’s meditations during one’s dreaming. Every morning when one wakes up, if one did not meditate during one’s dreams, then it is sufficient to simply note that one regrets the fact and to take a moment to resolve that one will remember to meditate the next time one is dreaming. Eventually it will have its effect, and one will have a dream of blissful meditation with white light and all that. Now, remember that this is not all imagination, and that dreams are more collective than many materialists would wish to admit, and that one’s dreams, no matter how well planned, will come with surprises from some Higher Source.
Oh, and this reminds me of a dream I had in which my deceased father came to me and showed me a spiritual trick, that if one hisses out one’s breath, making what one supposes is a noise very similar to the ‘white noise’ sound, then what in fact happens is that one’s brain lights up with the actual spiritual White Light. If one is sensitive to such things, then it also works during one’s daily meditations, though instead of feeling the White Light, one simply feels the sensation throughout one’s cranium.
Well, that should be enough for now.
Dear Harsha,
You posted an excellent essay. When I first got into Kundalini Yoga some 30 years ago, I thought much the same thing, regarding the close relationship between Tantra and Kundalini, as well as the Chinese Tradition of Qi or Chi. And I recognized the somewhat opposite traditions of Vedanta or Jnana Yoga. I’m glad to see that someone else has been thinking along those very same lines.
But there are several things that I might add, coming from my practical experience with the Kundalini. First, it is not necessarily a linear process – starting from the bottom before one can go to the top. Indeed, in many of the Shaktipat Traditions, where the Kundalini Energy is passed along by a Guru to the new Initiate, it is easier to simply open the Forehead Chakra. Yes, without all the lower chakras below being open, as well as the entire central channel, the effects won’t be quite so spectacular, but neither will they have the danger involved that we often hear about regarding the Kundalini practice.
Secondly, while it is easiest to acquire an initiation from a Shaktipat Guru, from whatever branch or school, it really isn’t necessary. I once read in a translation of one of the Upanishads that “in the presence of a God or Saint, the Agna Chakra will blossom”. Well, it does. If it opens in a very big way, by the concentrated efforts of a very good Guru, one will experience a certain amount of bliss and light. But if one simply walks into the same room as a person who already has their Agna Chakra open, then one will feel a slight pressure in one’s own Agna Chakra, that is, in one’s forehead, a bit above the brows and about an inch inside the head. In most every case, where the person is not looking to feel this sensation, the sensation is dismissed as an incipient headache, and the feeling is ignored until it goes away. However, if one is searching for such an experience, and then latches onto the feeling and concentrates upon it, then the attention given to that ‘feeling’ will serve to fix it so that it may take root in one’s energy system.
Of course, the Shaktipat Gurus have a great deal of experience to impart, but the problem there is that they often charge more money than is easily affordable, and so the aspiring Initiate may feel obliged to take his ‘Initiation’ for free as detailed above.
Well, once the self-made initiate feels the energy in his forehead, then how should he or she proceed? For the first few days one should concentrate on that energy spot very often. Rub the spot with one’s finger. One can use the simplest and best of all ‘pyramid powers’, that is, any pointy object, ballpoint pens work the best, and point them into the chakra. Magnets are also good. Also, reading inspirational spiritual literature or poetry will serve to energize one’s higher centers.
But after a week or two, the Chakra may acquire so much energy that it gives one a headache. Many unexplained migraines may indeed be this very thing. In this case, one should discontinue thinking of one’s forehead and rather think it down to one’s tailbone, the very bottom of one’s spine. A simple visualization may help in doing this – one can take a drink of water and as the water goes down one’s throat, one can imagine that the energy is going down with it, to the bottom-most tailbone. If one can leave the energy down there, then the danger of these headaches will discontinue.
To acquire greater control over this energy, then one should find the key location for just such control, that is, the swivel point at the top of the spine, inside one’s head, just up and behind one’s pallet. It is easy to locate that swivel point simply by swiveling one’s head around and noting the point in one’s head where the swiveling occurs. Then one should focus the energy in one’s Forehead Chakra and visualize that energy coming back, along the roof of the mouth, to that swivel point. At first the Swivel Point will energize and feel about as large as a large grape, but it really must be focused upon until it is much smaller. It won’t take long, but just only a few minutes, concentrating on the energy as though one is peeling off the layers of an onion until one is at the very central point of the Swivel Point Center. It will be as small as a housefly and you will feel it pulsating, about in time with your heartbeat. Once you can feel that, then you have the Key to your body’s energy system, and you can send the energy up to your Crown Chakra, or even up over your head to create halos for yourself, or you can direct the energy down through your body. The remarkable thing, at this point is that you become aware of your body as an energy system. Before I could do this, I was conscious only of feeling in my skin, or within my body only when there was a pain, or in certain other regions when there was some stimulated pleasure. But for the most part the volume of my body was a void in regards to sensation and feeling. But once one had gone through the Swivel Point Chakra, then one becomes aware of all of the various energy flows.
Regarding this point, once I was able to discern energy flows, I was able to develop an easy and effective exercise. I had read of Huong Po’s ‘one finger’ exercise and tried to research it out, but couldn’t find a thing about it, but in my experiments I found that by rotating my thumbs, one clockwise, the other counter-clockwise, for only a few minutes, until they got tired, then, once the thumbs were stilled, the energy would flow into the central channel and rise up into the head.
Now, we are accustomed to hearing wonderful stories of bliss and light. Well, unfortunately, as far as I know, such experiences, for the most part, are reserved for those in deep trance, or in dreams. Once when I was dreaming, a Dream Guru told me that a few seconds of meditation in a dream was worth thousands of hours of waking meditation, and he was right. What in waking is felt as a slight pressure will be experienced in a dream as Bliss and Light. It is as though the sensations of the waking self and the dream self are placed along a continuum, with the Dream Self being much more sensitive to those things. And so it is that one should encourage oneself to do one’s meditations during one’s dreaming. Every morning when one wakes up, if one did not meditate during one’s dreams, then it is sufficient to simply note that one regrets the fact and to take a moment to resolve that one will remember to meditate the next time one is dreaming. Eventually it will have its effect, and one will have a dream of blissful meditation with white light and all that. Now, remember that this is not all imagination, and that dreams are more collective than many materialists would wish to admit, and that one’s dreams, no matter how well planned, will come with surprises from some Higher Source.
Oh, and this reminds me of a dream I had in which my deceased father came to me and showed me a spiritual trick, that if one hisses out one’s breath, making what one supposes is a noise very similar to the ‘white noise’ sound, then what in fact happens is that one’s brain lights up with the actual spiritual White Light. If one is sensitive to such things, then it also works during one’s daily meditations, though instead of feeling the White Light, one simply feels the sensation throughout one’s cranium.
Well, that should be enough for now.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Angel’s Lesson in Morality: Black Sin, Red Sin
Angel’s Lesson in Morality: Black Sin, Red Sin
Once an Angel came to me in a Dream and lectured me upon the two sorts of Sin (the Angel had even come with a chalkboard and a pointer) -- there is that kind of Sin that damns one to Hell, and there is the other kind of Sin that attaches only to the body and dies away when the body dies. These two types of Sin are called, by the Angels "Black Sin" and "Red Sin".
The Black Sins are premeditated evil – Evil done in cold blood, Evil done for profit. The intentional and deliberate crimes that victimize and exploit others is Black Sin. And so it is that Black Sins can be identified as primarily driven by egotistical individuality. Black Sins set against Community and Collectivity and defy Social Cooperation. Black Sins are the blows that bring down Civilizations.
The Red Sins, on the other hand, are the crimes of passion and appetite. Red Sins are the sins of the flesh. Every Red Sin is somewhat akin to that of a hungry man stealing a loaf of bread. If the appetite could be removed, so would be removed any impulse to commit such a Sin. And this is exactly what happens when the body passes away, the soul is liberated from the Red Sins.
The worst that can be attributed to the Red Sins is that Souls can become habituated and identified with such behaviors – as in the case of a man who makes a hobby of sex or gluttony, and takes pride in such things, to the point in which such behaviors become integral to his definition of ‘self’. The soul who leaves the body and transitions toward a spiritual existence will feel lost if all of its priorities and sense of identity had been aligned around these bodily appetites that had of necessity dropped away when the body dropped away.
If the Soul should identify itself with these old carnal appetites, then they will survive as something of ghost-like remnants – thought forms, or karmic contaminations. These will weigh upon the Soul, or cloud the soul’s clarity. The Soul much stained by Red Sin, clinging to the old appetites, will find itself too dense, and to dark to tolerate the Light of Heaven. You see, to the Pure and Clear Soul the Light of Heaven is a Pure Joy. But to the Dark Soul, the Light is absorbed and turns to Heat. Well, this heat is both a Blessing and a Curse for the impure Soul. It Purifies but it does so painfully. The Higher an impure Soul can ascend into the Spiritual Realms, by sheer Spiritual Ambition, then the more Light it can then absorb, creating the heat that can burn away any trace of the Red Sins. This is Purgatory. But the Heat does indeed ‘burn’ – it is uncomfortable. The Soul requires a degree of positive motivation to tolerate such discomfort. The Soul needs to be reassured that the same Light that comes at first as Heat will eventually become Pure Bliss once its Purgative Functions have been completed.
We can see how certain Catholic Practices incline toward speeding up the process of diminishing the Red Sins. Catholics are encouraged to entirely discontinue sins of passion and appetite. Fasts are common, and in the Religious Orders, celibacy is insisted upon.
When the strength of appetites and passions are beyond the power of the Will to contain them, than remorse, repentance, and atonement are expected. It is hoped that by this, that after death, the Soul will gladly let these appetites simply fall away and not clutch at them – not allowing them their downward pull into the realms of the ghosts and the demons. A Soul only has to sincerely regret his Red Sins and feel relieved that the motivating physical appetites are gone, that is, transcended, for the “Red Karma” to drop away at death.
Therefore the Red Sins are not necessarily impediments to Heaven, or what we would call the Higher Spiritual or Angelic Realms.
Oh, by the way, there is a type of Dream that prepares us for dealing with our Red Sins. Reoccurring Dreams in which we are aware of being lost or having lost some desired possession. The ‘trick’ which we must learn from such Dreams is to let go of what was Lost. We must move forward and not look back. We must forget what was “lost” and look forward to new things. This practiced ability for Transcendence will become useful at the moment of our Death when we will by our engrained practice not look back, not feel ‘lost’ for having lost our lives, lost our bodies, lost our life-long acquaintances, friends and family, and that we will not search for our lost appetites and lost habits of the body. Not looking for what was Lost, our Souls will be untethered and free to Rise to the Higher Spiritual Levels. Indeed, even before our Death, we can use our Dreams transcendently, and we can infer the quality of our Afterlife by the quality of Our Dreams.
What makes the Black Sins so much more worse? Well, there is the inherent Individuality. Intentional Predators are simply unfit for Company. Anti-Social Beings are spun out from and rejected from Spiritual Society. The completely different ‘vibration’ of these predators would resolve into separate levels – different stratums. It reminds me of the difference between Song Birds and the birds that give harsh and ugly calls. All Song Birds are seed eaters and they respect each other’s nests and territories irrespective of species, but consider each other friends and neighbors in their Songs, and in the early morning meadow one can hear each different song bird take its turn as the songs go round and round. But the predatory birds sound the alarm against even themselves. Their voice marks them as devils. And so it is in the Astral Worlds where the predatory devils can no longer hide behind lies, but are revealed by their very vibrations. If they can keep any company at all, they must enjoy the company of other Predators.
This brings us to the discussion of what Hell must really be like. The predatory souls would have to have something much like a Metaphysical Jungle which could only be a ‘Paradise’ for the most powerful and dominant of the Predators, in the same way that we understand that ‘lions’ are the Kings of the Jungle. In Hell only the most efficient and effective Predators could have any margin of ease or comfort. So it is that we know from legend that there must be some Chief of Hell, a Satan, a Lucifer. not because of any special Dispensation from God, but because Satan, by his own skill and abilities is simply equipped to be the most effective and triumphant Predator. In the same way that we can assert that all Barbarians are Evil, but that some Barbarians are better at being Barbarians than others, so it is that we should expect that those such as Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun might be enjoying their “Hell” a great deal more than those less potent and expert in their capacities for Evil.
Once an Angel came to me in a Dream and lectured me upon the two sorts of Sin (the Angel had even come with a chalkboard and a pointer) -- there is that kind of Sin that damns one to Hell, and there is the other kind of Sin that attaches only to the body and dies away when the body dies. These two types of Sin are called, by the Angels "Black Sin" and "Red Sin".
The Black Sins are premeditated evil – Evil done in cold blood, Evil done for profit. The intentional and deliberate crimes that victimize and exploit others is Black Sin. And so it is that Black Sins can be identified as primarily driven by egotistical individuality. Black Sins set against Community and Collectivity and defy Social Cooperation. Black Sins are the blows that bring down Civilizations.
The Red Sins, on the other hand, are the crimes of passion and appetite. Red Sins are the sins of the flesh. Every Red Sin is somewhat akin to that of a hungry man stealing a loaf of bread. If the appetite could be removed, so would be removed any impulse to commit such a Sin. And this is exactly what happens when the body passes away, the soul is liberated from the Red Sins.
The worst that can be attributed to the Red Sins is that Souls can become habituated and identified with such behaviors – as in the case of a man who makes a hobby of sex or gluttony, and takes pride in such things, to the point in which such behaviors become integral to his definition of ‘self’. The soul who leaves the body and transitions toward a spiritual existence will feel lost if all of its priorities and sense of identity had been aligned around these bodily appetites that had of necessity dropped away when the body dropped away.
If the Soul should identify itself with these old carnal appetites, then they will survive as something of ghost-like remnants – thought forms, or karmic contaminations. These will weigh upon the Soul, or cloud the soul’s clarity. The Soul much stained by Red Sin, clinging to the old appetites, will find itself too dense, and to dark to tolerate the Light of Heaven. You see, to the Pure and Clear Soul the Light of Heaven is a Pure Joy. But to the Dark Soul, the Light is absorbed and turns to Heat. Well, this heat is both a Blessing and a Curse for the impure Soul. It Purifies but it does so painfully. The Higher an impure Soul can ascend into the Spiritual Realms, by sheer Spiritual Ambition, then the more Light it can then absorb, creating the heat that can burn away any trace of the Red Sins. This is Purgatory. But the Heat does indeed ‘burn’ – it is uncomfortable. The Soul requires a degree of positive motivation to tolerate such discomfort. The Soul needs to be reassured that the same Light that comes at first as Heat will eventually become Pure Bliss once its Purgative Functions have been completed.
We can see how certain Catholic Practices incline toward speeding up the process of diminishing the Red Sins. Catholics are encouraged to entirely discontinue sins of passion and appetite. Fasts are common, and in the Religious Orders, celibacy is insisted upon.
When the strength of appetites and passions are beyond the power of the Will to contain them, than remorse, repentance, and atonement are expected. It is hoped that by this, that after death, the Soul will gladly let these appetites simply fall away and not clutch at them – not allowing them their downward pull into the realms of the ghosts and the demons. A Soul only has to sincerely regret his Red Sins and feel relieved that the motivating physical appetites are gone, that is, transcended, for the “Red Karma” to drop away at death.
Therefore the Red Sins are not necessarily impediments to Heaven, or what we would call the Higher Spiritual or Angelic Realms.
Oh, by the way, there is a type of Dream that prepares us for dealing with our Red Sins. Reoccurring Dreams in which we are aware of being lost or having lost some desired possession. The ‘trick’ which we must learn from such Dreams is to let go of what was Lost. We must move forward and not look back. We must forget what was “lost” and look forward to new things. This practiced ability for Transcendence will become useful at the moment of our Death when we will by our engrained practice not look back, not feel ‘lost’ for having lost our lives, lost our bodies, lost our life-long acquaintances, friends and family, and that we will not search for our lost appetites and lost habits of the body. Not looking for what was Lost, our Souls will be untethered and free to Rise to the Higher Spiritual Levels. Indeed, even before our Death, we can use our Dreams transcendently, and we can infer the quality of our Afterlife by the quality of Our Dreams.
What makes the Black Sins so much more worse? Well, there is the inherent Individuality. Intentional Predators are simply unfit for Company. Anti-Social Beings are spun out from and rejected from Spiritual Society. The completely different ‘vibration’ of these predators would resolve into separate levels – different stratums. It reminds me of the difference between Song Birds and the birds that give harsh and ugly calls. All Song Birds are seed eaters and they respect each other’s nests and territories irrespective of species, but consider each other friends and neighbors in their Songs, and in the early morning meadow one can hear each different song bird take its turn as the songs go round and round. But the predatory birds sound the alarm against even themselves. Their voice marks them as devils. And so it is in the Astral Worlds where the predatory devils can no longer hide behind lies, but are revealed by their very vibrations. If they can keep any company at all, they must enjoy the company of other Predators.
This brings us to the discussion of what Hell must really be like. The predatory souls would have to have something much like a Metaphysical Jungle which could only be a ‘Paradise’ for the most powerful and dominant of the Predators, in the same way that we understand that ‘lions’ are the Kings of the Jungle. In Hell only the most efficient and effective Predators could have any margin of ease or comfort. So it is that we know from legend that there must be some Chief of Hell, a Satan, a Lucifer. not because of any special Dispensation from God, but because Satan, by his own skill and abilities is simply equipped to be the most effective and triumphant Predator. In the same way that we can assert that all Barbarians are Evil, but that some Barbarians are better at being Barbarians than others, so it is that we should expect that those such as Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun might be enjoying their “Hell” a great deal more than those less potent and expert in their capacities for Evil.
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