Month: November 2013

It is hard to accept the discipline of granting that ALL the themes and characters one sees within dreams are parts of a larger Me.  We want the good stuff, and want to deny the bad stuff.  We want the clear stuff, and to deny the incoherent, dark, misty stuff.

It is of course a commonplace that we forget most of our dreams.  Most people, in my understanding, have three periods of REM sleep a night, and most of us are doing well if we can remember one dream.

The last two nights I have been having dreams sort of “on the other side” of this giant block standing in the way of my awareness I have just become aware of.  This itself constitutes an expansion of awareness.

And to the point of this post’s title, I last night had a dream of a contentious but non-violent assembly, in which all the parts sought to negotiate a modus vivendi, a peace.

So often we have dreams of people chasing us, of falling, of a gap between what we want and what we get; between comfort and experienced reality.  We fear.  We fight.

But is the logical end of psychological growth, of psychological integration not more or less the development of harmony among our various “parts”, between our shadow and our normally acknowledged self?  Is the logical end not a sort of unity, which can become a unity of purpose–a true unity, not one in which some major but unrecognized “self” dug deep in our unconscious is constantly creating friction and conflict?

And it occurred to me that there is a homology between the negotiations, the mutual recognitions and acceptances, necessary for individual harmony, and that of the democratic process which–when unmolested by radicals refusing to join into the social fold, the social field–ends with a deeper peace than would have been possible in a situation of coercion.

Democracy, self rule, negotiations between people who differ in values in lifestyles, true Liberalism: these are tools for social growth.  To the extent we can grant the existence of something called “Society”, it is built in this way, and destroyed by the authoritarianism of the Socialists, who, having failed to individuate, having failed to achieve any degree of personal psychological integration, see in the realm of abstraction–of intellectual violence to reality–the only possible solution to their mental problems, and who thus make the primary reality something which does not even exist, the Society.

Buddha famously posited Anatta, or Anatman, which is that the self does not exist.  This is self evidently true, if we want to think of the self as a unitary, unevolving, block.  But with individuals you at least have a singular body, and a singular mind, even if it changes.  With regard to society you don’t even have this.  It is an utter fiction.

We might say that growth is decreasing the number of selves by increasing the overall complexity of the Self, the underlying informational richness.

Likewise, social growth that matters is increasing diversity of behavior–which is something Socialists actually detest, even if they gladly accept social deviance because it acts as an acid which helps to dissolve remaining non-ironic cultural traditions.

When it is said that Leftism is a mental disorder, it truly is.  It represents an emotional inability to handle complexity, a lack of capacity to integrate primitive emotions like anger and fear, and a following behavioral rigidity tied closely to the process of rejecting reality by interacting only with reified lies.

Do you think when he looks out of the window of his eyes that Obama sees actual people?  Of course not.  That is how he can joke about murdering them.

It is hard for me to believe that a nation as talented at intelligence gathering as Israek is has not dug up some dirt on Obama. If so, I woyld encourage them to release it. How much worse can it get having the shots called by an Iranian, their secret missions publicized, and deals cut wirh Iran with no strings?

As long as Obama is in office he will be working–secretly and not-so-secretly to further an anti-Israel, Islamist agenda.

Other than the fact that he makes Nixon look like an icon of moral rectitude–Nixon was, after all, just trying to prevent the Left from losing the Vietnam War, and failed only due to what amounted to a legislative coup–and that propaganda apparatus of the complicit media is working FOR him–where for Nixon it was a constant, vicious, and utterly ruthless opponent, we can usefully compareObama and Nixon.

In that spirit, I would submit we need a new question for a new age: what DIDN’T Obama know, and for how long didn’t he know it? And why?

Buddhists recognize three types of pain: physical or emotional (or even intellectual) pain; the pain of change and adjustment; and the pain of “conditioned existence.”

This evening, after a good Kum Nye practice, I had this extremely pleasant sense of emotional omnipotentiality, which felt like magic.  All of us live conditioned lives, lives dictated by what we fear and crave, by profit and loss, by honor and dishonor.  In large measure, we are defined by and constrained by what we avoid and what we seek.

But behind this, there is the possibility of getting past all that, of feeling like you have simultaneously realized all your life’s dreams.

And I want to be clear: we assume that achievement, or sensation has to precede certain emotions, like pride, or wonder, or the sense of magic, but why?  Can we not treat emotions as self originating, if the person is sufficiently skilled enough at “conjuring” them?

No Buddhist gets fully beyond the pain of loss.  They don’t want to feel physical pain any more than anyone else does, but their path–when taught properly, and in my view it devolves often into simple masochism or empty ritual–offers an alternative.  You can choose between this and that.

I haven’t heard anything new about nuclear fusion reactors in some time.  Either the technology is not being developed for political reasons–since many Greens, being misanthropes, want humanity to be poor–or technical reasons.

Presumably part of the problem is finding a way to create power without something going BOOM.

Well, just daydreaming a bit this morning after my shower, it occurred to me you could build rooms in granite a mile under the surface and just set bombs off.  You could attach those chambers to hundreds of escape valves with turbines in them that generate power.  These would, in some quantity, dissipate the blast.

You could also fill many underground reservoirs with water (or some other material) that would boil, let off steam in the manner I understand fission reactors do, and also drive turbines.

We likely already have 1 kiloton bombs.  We could more or less drop them down a chute, and bang, immediate and sustained power.  Since the power output would be in units–since there is no minimum critical mass to start, and no need for cooling rods to stop the reaction–power could in this scenario be fitted to actual needs.

As things stand today, it takes more power to create a wind turbine than it will ever create in its lifetime.  Quite literally, even if it does its job well throughout its lifespan, humanity as a whole has lost, even if Obama donor and Federal Reserve Board member GE does a very tidy, very profitable business in the process.

Over some period of time, though, solar might become viable, and in some localized instances wind may make sense too.  Both are highly dependent on the environment, though, so some equivalent of a coal or wood fire would be good, in which if the fire is dying down, you just add bricks or logs.

We could have dozens of “kilns” (I will call them), and keep only those occupied for which there is a need.  Power output could be scaled real time to power demand.

Who knows?  Perhaps even small communities could one day have such arrangements, perhaps even houses, with microton bombs.

I am a staunch opponent of the idea that humans are having a significant, or even measurable, impact on global temperatures as a result of using plentiful and easily deployed fuels.  At the same time, I do not oppose efficiency per se, and this might be a step in that direction.

As I said in a previous post, “Allahu Akbar” can mean “I am getting ready to shit on God and curse the righteous”.  It can also of course mean “I am grateful for my existence, made possible by the only God there is, and intend to serve the cause of righteousness diligently.”  This latter is never the meaning when someone is preparing to commit, or celebrating, murder, particularly of innocents.

All phrases–all “gestures”, to use a term common in Kum Nye for both physical and emotional movements–mean what our inner reality projects into the universe.  This is already in, I guess, Wittgenstein, or perhaps Korszybski, one of whom I  believe said that the meaning of a communication is what is understood by the recipient.

But this goes beyond that.  Let us posit a universal recipient, an omniscient God, or perhaps merely angels who at our level are functionally omniscient.  What are you saying?  What would be heard by a Being capable of comprehending the entirety of that “gesture” which is your incarnation in this world, and what you have done with it?  This is the question we need to ask when dealing with questions of sin and redemption. 

One of my favorite books, although I have not taken it up in some years, is Idries Shah’s “Wisdom of the Idiots”, which is a collection of Sufi teaching stories.  I have long felt an emotional affection for, and attachment to, the Sufi Way.  It is not to be my way in this life: I am much too far afield culturally.  But they offer many useful truths. 

One of them is that Sufis hide in many disguises, and that of “profane” can be one of them.  It is your inner gesture that matters.

I forgot a very important element in the previous post: all blessings flow from God, through high level teachers we may call angels, in declining grades, until they reach us, and if we do our job, that water flows to those below us. It is the same energy, but simply in much lower quantities, if we can speak of quantity when quality is what matters.  God is infinite–and God is both feminine and masculine, in the sense of comprising as a small element of His/Her being all the possible emotional attributes of humans; actually, what we have are receptors that receive certain frequencies of an infinite spectrum–but there is something beyond God.  God is all the potential and actual energy and form in the universe.  But God exists within an infinite space, about which we can know little in this life.  This was a vision I saw the last time I did Holotropic Breathwork.  We talk about our experiences in those sessions, but there has been much I did not share.

It is odd that Republicans have not done a better job of seizing on the fact that all of Obama’s “decisions” are seemingly first vetted by an Iranian Communist.

Obama can be attacked on so many fronts I have literally lost count.  This, however, is a big one.  Put her picture out there.  Make it an issue.

I will offer my postscript up front, as I do periodically, that I am well aware my posts are all over the place.  My view is, fuck it, this is my blog.  I’ll say what I want to, even if it makes no sense to other people, and even if my tone is “uneven.” or people think I’m nuts.  I’m like a box of chocolates.. . .

I was reading a Tibetan cookbook the other day, and the author spoke of a Tibetan monk she once hosted who insisted on offering a prayer of gratitude.  He put a pinch of tea in a cup, and filled it to overflowing with water or tea from the teapot, and said something to the effect that his blessings, too, were overflowing.  This is also of course a Bible verse, the only part of which I remember is “my cup runneth over” (we read the King James Bible).  I’m pretty sure David said it.

So I do this when I think about it.  And I was doing it yesterday when this image suddenly appeared to me of water flowing downward.  I exist in a line of spiritual beings, who upstream are vastly superior to me, and it is my job to transmit their knowledge to those downstream from me.  People do not become “spiritual” so much as learn to allow spiritual energy to flow through them unimpeded.  It is not what I do, but what I am able to allow.  An analogy would be with electrical lines: the thicker ones can carry more current.

So a proper blessing is to thank your teachers for their love, and to be granted the wisdom and grace to transmit what you have been granted downstream, in an unbroken chain of spiritual energy.  Being me, I have countless ways of saying this, and I think if you really approach it with the proper spirit, some variation is both inevitable and desirable.  Robots are not needed.  And words are not actually needed either.  This is very much a case where what you are looking for is best described when it is seen as THAT. 

But I like this image, and thought I would pass it along. 

Alex Jones assumed that the “loose” nukes, which were moved without paperwork, were being moved at the request of the Administration, for unclear reasons.

But is it not also possible that those Generals were trying to get their hands on nukes to use for various purposes in the event the American people have to launch an insurgency against a government which has rejected the law of the land, and overstepped its lawful authority to an extent no other option remains?

Obama is clearly trying to eliminate people capable of individual thought, people with the backbone to directly oppose policies whose intent is more or less obviously to degrade our armed forces, all while creating Billion bullet inventories, tanks, and other assault weaponry for the Committee for Public Safety.  Scratch that, the Department of Homeland Security.

Clearly, purges are going on: http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/10/top-generals-obama-is-purging-the-military/#S4bUxH6gDrybhsXA.01

These are Stalin-style purges, where anyone even suspected of disloyalty is being removed. 

But here is the thing: this is America, not Russia, and we have breathed the air of freedom now for several centuries, and even the biggest pussy on the block cannot be counted on if Obama launches a full blown coup REGARDLESS of the circumstances, which we can assume will be severe (epidemic, economic crisis, nuke, all originating with Obama’s backers).

Obama–and more importantly Valerie Jarrett–cannot know how our military will react when facing unique circumstances.  They cannot assume they will stand idly by while Einsatzgruppen scoop up political opponents and make them disappear.  They cannot assume individuals will not attack their own units.  They cannot assume all units will obey orders to fire on dissidents.

To my way of thinking, the best, most useful course of action for true patriots in the military is to shut up, not make noise, and outwardly act obedient.  There is no point complaining and letting them identify you.  You know how this thing works.  Don’t post negative comments ANYWHERE.  Don’t talk openly with any but your closest friends.  Don’t scowl when you salute pictures of Obama (if this is something people do: I know his picture is in most buildings as being at the top of the chain of command).  If you have to take lie detectors or loyalty oaths, figure out how to beat them.  Play poker.

Wait and see.  If we are lucky, we get Rand Paul or Ted Cruz in the White House in 2016, and are able to start dismantling this machinery of oppression.

If we are not lucky–if Jarrett feels too desperate–then you will be positioned in the places where you can do the most good. 

The goal is to make the risk so high that it is never taken.  Looking in as well as looking out, the goal is deterrence through potential strength.