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.

I have in recent weeks been getting to some very deep emotional places.  I have recovered feelings from very early childhood, before I could walk, which I have reconciled in the manner of a detective solving a crime with notes from my baby book.   I have been tracing, watching, my development from an emerging emotional place which can put distance on it, which can see a line between then and now, points of transition, inflection.

As part of this process I checked a couple comic books–I will likely never stop calling them that, Peking Peking, Bombay Bombay, and the  Koran the Koran–and have been reading one over the last day.  It takes me back, because I used to read a lot of them, as well as science fiction and fantasy novels.  It is, for any nerds out there, a graphic retelling of the stories of Fafrhd and the Gray Mouser, by Fritz Lieber.  I read him, and Fred Saberhagen, and Roger Zelazny, Heinlein (of course), Asimov (of course), and many others.

And in the same spirit that I try to do Movie Yoga, I am watching what reading this thing is doing to me, and what I am seeing is that it is activating what I have proposed be called the Innocent Self.  It is the part that feels, that reacts behind the defensive shield even when I don’t realize it.

What comic books do is give voice to this self, which is particularly needed in people who are awkward, socially sensitive, and thus unable to process experience, and especially social experience.

What are kids (and no small number of adults, apparently) doing when they play Dungeons and Dragons?  Are they not creating a forum for the interaction of their Innocent Self with others, all while retaining the normal emotional walls outside of the games?  Are they not creating the space for the feeling of emotional movement, without the risk?  They are saying that part of their self is out there, not in here.

And here is what I wanted to say: Communism is nothing but Dungeons and Dragons for people who want to remain in the social sphere, but not be of it.  It deals exclusively with fantasy, with abstraction, with things and processes and histories that are not real.  It is a self contained, solipsistic system, which, again, permits the feeling of engagement and connection without the emotional risk of ACTUAL engagement and connection.  There is no there, there.  I have used that line often, because it is apposite.  It is apposite for all narcissists–who are roughly the same people who used to be called ego maniacs.

And here is a vaguely interesting tidbit that may or may not be relevant: the God Fafrhd prays to is Kos.  I know Markos Moulitsas got his nickname in the Army, but I wonder if he is not also secretly aware of this.  I have always assumed the actual name of the blog was a play on Cause, and certainly I think giving emotionally empty people, whose heads are filled with precisely the sorts of fantasies I am describing here, something daily to obsess about, gripe about, or celebrate is both a primary purpose, and a reason for what success they have seen.

Again, the people there CLEARLY want to entertain fantasies.  That is why they have to kick dissidents off: they risk shattering some very congenial, and very NEEDED, pipe dreams.  I’m sure there is a fair amount of literal smoke hovering above many of those keyboards, but the rest are simply Dungeons and Dragons players who grew up just a little.

That these doctrines, these fantasies, have caused incalculable suffering is just one more thing it is hard for me to grasp, to truly get.   How does insanity propagate?  It seems clear it can only propagate in the absence of feedback, of connection with external ideas and influences.

True Liberalism is about ideological diversity.  It is about different sorts of people, who believe different things, who behave in different ways, figuring out how to live in peace with one another.

That is not at all the project leftists set themselves.  They want conformity.

I have more to say, but need to do things out there.

Actually, I will add one more thing: I think–because I am intelligent, have made a study of the process of organized and effective thinking, and because I have over a long period of time exposed my ideas to critical scrutiny–that my ideas are useful.  At the same time, I am not as different emotionally from the denizens of the Daily Cause as I would like.  I used to spend 3-4 hours every day debating/arguing on the internet.

Are ideas important?  Of course.  Everything we see and touch outside the natural world was once an idea.

But I also increasingly believe that this website, both my websites, and all the other voluminous writing I have put out there, or kept to myself, is simply symptom: that of an inability to process and reside in primary experience. In some respects, even when I post “deep” things, go deep places, this is STILL my version of Dungeons and Dragons.

Self evidently, I am working to change that, and frankly having some success.

When imagination is not being used as a means for the creative solution of problems, in most cases it substitutes for the capacity to process present experience.  You can avoid what is in front of you by existing somewhere else.  The problem is that if you never “are”, you can never become.
 
I had in mind here comic books, and dungeons and dragons, and science fiction and fantasy; but this applies equally to leftwing utopianism.  They don’t count death as real.  They don’t count suffering as real.  They don’t count people as real, and they don’t count themselves as real.

Edit: I would actually add some forms of “right wing” utopianism.  In principle, is John Galt’s mountain hideout that different that varying iterations of a society founded on “reason”, or “science”, which is the claim made for Marxism?

This is an oldie but a goodie:

There are two novels that can transform a bookish
14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a
childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially
crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing
ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book
about orcs.  Raj Patel (who based on the title of the book where this quote apparently occurred, is likely a leftist despite the 50 year failure of socialism in India.)

Be here, now.  Solve problems here, now.  If you are somewhere else, until you come back, no one needs you.

http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/10/27/the-war-on-us/

In the same manner that large Wall Street banks wrote the so-called “Wall Street Reform”–which plainly was intended to strengthen and make more secure large banks, at the expense of small banks and the taxpayer–large insurance companies from what I can tell in large measure supported Obamacare.

I have long wondered about this.  It seems clear to me and most that Obamacare is intended to put them out of business.  Certainly, some of them, like United Healthcare, the biggest insurer, may be counting on taking over most of the market, then getting contracted by the government to provide ALL services in a single payer-like scenario.  Or maybe the top five.

Certainly in terms of enrollees they are only picking up between them perhaps 10% of the overall market, and Obamacare puts caps on how much profit they can make relative to revenues.

What now occurs to me is that at least for the next five years–and most CEO’s of large corporations seem unable to think beyond that time window–most Americans will be required by law to buy health insurance policies of a grade and price beyond what they were buying, and those who are unable to buy them will now get subsidies from the government to pay for their insurance, which means that even the poor will be picking up expensive policies.

This means that net revenues overall will increase a LOT.  Not only are they bringing new people on, but they are able to force people, by law, to buy policies that are more expensive than they otherwise would have chosen.

When these insurance companies are sending out cancellation notices, they are thrilled.  Most normal middle class Americans will take the hit and pay the higher rate.  They are forcing people into more expensive and more profitable policies.  They may be constrained in profit percentages, but overall revenues will increase enormously; and in any event I don’t think what is being forced on them is all that different than their historical norms, and certainly more than they would expect to see in an actually competitive market, where all carriers could sell all products in all States. I think most big insurance carriers have considered a 5% net profit an extremely good year for some time.

So the CEO’s of Wellpoint, and United, and Humana and the others may have just said “fuck it.  Who knows what the future holds?  We can sure as hell make hay now.”

Certainly, I am in a position to know that these companies have been expanding steadily for two years or more.  Now it makes more sense to me.

Again, if a leftist is talking, he or she is lying.  Here, they claimed to be socking it to the insurance companies.  And they may yet–to our collective detriment–but not until after a lot of us get fleeced, and a lot of executives get richer.

Can we discard out of hand the notion that Saudi Arabia is to Islamism what the old Soviet Union was to Communism?  Can we reject out of hand that at the same time it is publicly condemning extremism that it is privately funding it?  Certainly, they seem to be funding the Syrian Islamists, and to be funding Muslim Brotherhood operatives the world over, who could usefully be compared to Communist International agents in the previous Cold War.

Can we hazard a guess that the co-conspirators on 9/11 were not in fact Americans–or not acting as Americans–but rather private mercenaries contracted by the Saudis in order to create a reason to invade Iraq, and to expand the scope of the American government?

Communists think on 50 year timelines.  Why can’t Islamists?  Why could they not fund through illegal campaign contributions and outright bribes a government which was all-powerful, which they could then in turn buy, as seems to have happened with Barack Obama?

Why could they not have a 100 year plan to convert the world through SUBVERSION first to leftist tyranny, then to imposed Islamism?  Why could they not employ the same tactics that Communists use?

Could it be that they rejected their non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council precisely to be LESS public in their opinions, so as to make their private actions less subject to and open to scrutiny?  Or was it a fit of pique that Obama wasn’t even honest enough to stay bought?

I don’t know.  I am missing a great many variables.  Good answers start with both good and numerous questions, though.

I was reading through my last couple of posts, and I use this word almost as a mantra.

Here is the thing: anyone who is not thinking practically in terms of the logistics required to accomplish specific, desirable outcomes, is between useless–and more often–damaging.

Most of us can likely agree that global peace and prosperity are desirable goals, but anyone who is proposing means without evaluating if those are likely to be effective means, anyone who thinks that merely having a goal constitutes morality, is being self indulgent.  It is narcissism, infantilism.  It betrays a lack of moral and emotional maturity.

And with regard to Leftism, even a casual student of its history knows that it is crooked and rotten at its core.  It is IN PRINCIPLE a rejection of the common sense morality and decency that makes it possible for human beings to live happily in harmony with one another, as I have repeatedly argued at length, particularly on my other website.