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There is an old Chinese Taoist curse: "may you live in interesting times". In this there is allot to learn, above all Taoists value simplicity and modesty. A person who lives in interesting times easily looses both simplicity and humility both which are believed by Taoists to be essential for good fortune and happiness.

Today we live in a chaos of individuality, balkanization of ideology, gender conflicts, ethnicity conflicts, socioeconomic conflicts, political intrigue, distrust of government and its citizens, religious wars, and an existential crisis in each of us that is spanning across the nations of the world. People are questioning the status quo, rejecting old ways, demanding new customs, or reviving old ways, proclaiming new ideas, finding new sources of collectivity and unity, while others are rejecting any questioning of it thereof. Some are waiting for the end of the world, and others scoff at the idea entirely. Some believe in technology some believe in God while others seek to destroy everything in the name of it. Indeed it can be said today we "live in interesting times".

Now is a time of expanding knowledge and increasing stress on this planet, national or cultural independence is altogether dissolving. As time continues we find that working together is the only way to survive in the current global situation. Communication is increasing while time and space is decreasing, as we each get busier and live in smaller plots of land. Our foods are being re-engineered by geneticists to the dismay of some, and to the great benefit of others. Information on what is good and what isn't - are surfacing from one corner of society contradicting the other corner. Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, bias, and the uninformed reduce information circulating to the level of rumor and gossip. No longer is there a consensus or an agreed upon imperative, all while there appears to be a deepening crisis.

On the surface "may you live in interesting times" seems neutral or benign. However the Taoists found that it is in these times that the tumult in society and turmoil within the person is at it's highest. The seductive draw of interesting times pulls a person into a sea of chaos of conflict and contradiction. Such a fate to befall someone at the wishes of another is indeed a wish for harm. Interesting times bring many choices and many things forward to consider; to be in such times is to have many occasions for choice and opportunity. While we value our freedom to choose in the modern world, a plethora of choices can swamping and stunt the clarity of a person for what would be otherwise simple even progress.

This is the challenge however that my and recent generations has inherited, to live in strange and interesting times of ever increasing complexity. We indeed face more harmful influences and pitfalls than conceivable by a person of just two generations ago. Furthermore while young and most vulnerable we are fated to make our way across this raging river of these new arising novelties. As we walk in uncharted territory the challenges before us are unlike those of our ancestors. With more to inherit from our elders, more distractions, and more complexities to sort through ere recorded history, the generations of late face pressures nearly incomprehensible - especially amongst themselves. Obliged to carry on the momentum of change and progress - what is it we are to advance towards? With humanity up to our necks in dangers from all corners, what is the imperative?

Everything appears to be being knitted together: cultures, nations, ethnicities, old and new ways, religion and ideologies. No longer can we stand divided over superficial differences in the person. While it is important to maintain our heritages and what makes us individuals, the beauty of diversity can only be preserved and maintained in the context of unity. Thus what is needed is a deeper connection to what is essential to all mankind, independent from all political or social structures. “While the political structures change, as do nations, the life of man with its needs remains eternally the same - this cannot be changed” (I - Ching or Book of Changes, Wilhelm/Baynes Translation). While each nation brings forth their own forms, the fundamental foundations of what nourishes all cultures and all nations lies in common.

This alone can reorder the disunity and folly amongst the peoples. For those who have superficially not considered the deepest needs of all peoples cannot serve them. Dividing oneself into yet another small ideological group has run its limit - we've got divisions within divisions. We must for future generations prepare a more penetrating and profound model - not a model of superficial divisions, but one of a panacea of human diversity. Those separate factions dividing the fellowship of men must be alternately united at a stronger and deeper level. Only by tapping the source of our own nature to the real roots of humanity beyond the murmurs and the tumult of the times, can we go forth into the future without causing greater estrangement.

Therefore in these times of uncertainty, estrangement change and dissolution of the old boundaries what we must do is move towards a commonality that is not based on any race, religion, gender, national identity, class, ideology, age, or ethnicity. Indeed without need to destroy these diversities we can unify the people by finding what is most essential in all human beings. What is common in all people spans all ethnicities, all nationalities, all professions, genders, the old and the young, without undermining those proper differences themselves. Thus diversity and complexity while brining us into a crisis can also be an opportunity for reaching the essential. Good can come of it, and is up to generations of late to make this finally happen.

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Wed, October 1, 2008 - 1:23 PM permalink
Have you ever noticed how each little compartmentalized sector of society (small group) uses methods of control? For example in order to go to another country and attend a university student. You may have to contact the University which will tell you to talk to a representative in your own country. That representative will tell you that you must do this and that in order so that they will help you. Indeed instead of everyone being open minded and accepting & working together. Every small group is shut off and down, does not communicate between one sector of society from one to another outside the pre-scripted modulated channels of rigid rules and structure. Terrence Mckenna called this the Balkanization of ideology.



But it’s not just ideology that is balkanized it’s everything and everyone. Every small group with a name will fence itself off and simultaneously open it self up to the world to attract people. On the surface everything is simple. But the simplicity of the surface is only a deception. Because beneath that friendly marketing there are endless knots of controls and limits. These limits are the hidden dragons of control that make the world the chaos it is. The simplest things are made impossibly complicated. When things are complexified the person’s vital energy is reduced. This energy goes to the institution, the person is reduced, and gives up his or her ability to make their own decisions. Your decision is to go to a distant land. Well fortresses of control must be overcome in order to get there. Passports, applications of temporary residency, exchange of money, permit to work, permit to study. And you can’t even tread one millimeter outside what is written on that page. My good friend you are in a prison!



Go to eat an apple? Go to the grocery store. How will you get there? Take a car or bus? Got gas? Got coin? What time is the bus coming? Which grocery store? What time does it open and close? Can you shop there, are you a member? Ok once you get the apple - go pay for it. What kind of currency will you use? Credit, Debit, cash, check? Each one a universe of limits and controls. Ok you finally get the apple

god knows what kind red or green for after all these damn hurdles you have to jump who really CARES by that point? OK paper or plastic?



But hey you got something now. Do you want to eat it now? Well you’ve got to figure out a culturally acceptable way to eat it. Go sit at a table. Thats where people are supposed to eat food. At a table. Inside or outside? Maybe you just want to eat it now?



No wonder so many people have so much unexpressed and suppressed emotion. Every part of your experience is under the control of someone else. All contingencies are manipulated by a complex of rules and codes. The way you feel about it? Well that used to be how we made our decisions. Now the way you feel about it really does get in the way and threatens the institutions of control itself. Therefore they do subscribe to your freedom of emotional expression. Hence all the psychological pathologies of modern technocratic first world dominator culture.

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Mon, September 22, 2008 - 9:29 AM permalink
It is occurring to me that what the world is and has ever been. Is a battlefield of good and evil. The evil people are the governments throughout all time. The government is always evil. Even if the government is run by philosopher kings and sages. They will soon be evil in time afterward.



The people are good. The people of the people that is. Citizens are evil as well - they collaborate with government and extend their locus of control throughout the land.



But the people of control are people of power. People of power in occult magical knowledge and spiritual warfare. They have many gods, there isn’t one icon of demonic control, but there is a infinite resource of demonic power that evil people can tap into for their contracts and purposes.



The old myths legends faerie tales and magical stories of heros and magical creatures are all true, they are simply the past paradigms... These times are not just fantastic stories but a remberence of a time when our world was more in conctact with the parallel universes of spiritual dimensions and power than it is now.



Indeed all the quests and tasks of heros of the past were valiant but not enough to stop the relentless conspiracies of ruthless humans in robbing the people of everything they ever had and ever could have and taking it for themselves.



They took our spiritual access, they took our time, they took our space. We now live in a prision planet. And while in past times there were noble heros who could charge into the fortress of the conspiring evil and slay the witch king or queen. Those times have slowly evolved to nowadays situation. People be-rift confused lost and stupefied by the powers of control and deception.



The word spiritual itself has been hijacked and deluded into some sort of representation of their power - their institutions of control - the church - be it buddhism, taoism, christianity, or what have you. Each is a conspiracy of control set in motion by different sectors of the world and spiritual dimension. Each offers truths in order to pervert and manipulate the minds of the people. And each agrees on one thing and one thing alone: Access to the spiritual dimension is not for common people and is prohibited.



By taking the trivial truths of reality and weaving them into a tapestry of spiritual complexity they create a path for all the people who would seek such powers of their birth right. They channel our inherent divine birthright given to us by the universe into worldly plans and rob us of our virtue of being and existence.



One thing is however convenient about all this. And also one thing they can all agree one. Is that you cannot be a person of two spiritual paths. You have to be one or the other - each church of control can agree on this. Because they each are threatened by the one who dissolves the boundaries of one institution. Therefore using the walls of the prison to our advantage.



We go from one to another - taking what we can use from this and that, and putting together our own paradigm - we return to source that being the origin of all knowledge and truth, and use whatever gets us to it.



It’s a like a Castle on a hill, with many small residences around it. You want to get to the castle on the hill you set of straight towards it. But along the way there are deviating paths ever so slightly which when followed lead to the surrounding residences. These surrounding residences are the Churches. While the Castle on the horizon is the cosmos.



It’s not just humans either. There are occult powers manifesting themselves in the world through weak minded people. These occult powers take on a vehicle and posses the person and direct their life to suit their ends.



We are now living in a time where this knowledge has been robbed of us. All resistance is quelled and all our powers are usurped even our very biological vital energies are being constantly leeched and extracted by the various curses of control.



What these spiritual systems of control ever do. Is to tell us to not engage the opposition. Not fight back, surrender. Just follow our path we’ve made for you. Believe what we tell you. Have Faith. Retreat from the world. Do not get involved. Attain enlightenment. Don’t seek power. Magic is evil. All power is for those who are evil. Good people are powerless and do what their told. etc etc...



Every system of spiritual control and organization tell us to stay away from spiritual experiences, and instead focus on what these people have written down for us. Focus on the institutionalized dogma - therein lies all your answers and your happiness.



They weave tapestries of half-truths twisted illusion and flat out lies. From their place of all seeing on high. Down below we endlessly feed off the poisons they pitch over the precipice. And our power drains out of our psychic channels into their spire of domination.



Even now with all the talk going on. We are still as clueless as mayflies as to what is really going on. We may have deciphered a few talismans and psychic curses, but that is nothing in the way of uprooting the thorns in the foundations of our being.



Why are we all here? How come there are 7 BILLION people on this planet right NOW? SOMETHING is happening - and is about to happen. And i’m not going to believe anyone tell me what that is - nay that is up to me and me alone. And the same goes for you - I’m finished being kept in a state of enforced infantilism. Not even infantilism, but mutilated oppression and designs of impotence.

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Mon, September 22, 2008 - 5:21 AM permalink
What is happening on this planet is a story we are all chosen to tell. We are all in the midst of it, each is apart of the main a piece of the whole. After seeing the truth of the light I have fallen into dark places...



Unable to find my way through my walking the path came to a standstill. Unable to face the power of the truth before my 3rd eye, I receded woefully into the material consciousness.



Indeed as Terrence Mckenna put it. There is ever a tension between the mundane and the transcendental. Taking on your transcendental self - anything is possible in the mundane. Tying yourself in knots from the confinement of the mundane - a misfortune i’ve faced and still wrestle with.



Slowly penetrating back into the path of the cosmic warrior. I slowly have my questions on the nature of reality answered. With my third eye shut it was a painful experience to uncover...



May it be opened again? Yes. Wandering through the muck of dross humanity, I may have darkened my light and become injured but I can still brighten - like the rising sun.



When changes hit you so fast and so hard. You are blown apart by them. When the world does this it seems to be able to dominate your consciousness and your dreams. The world so powerful now and ever growing ... I lost sight of the light at the end. But It has been recovered...



Never loose hope. Hold to the center.



Questing and searching wears itself down. Once you’ve found the way to the 6th sense - it is indeed up to you to not give it up. For the world mindlessly desires your innocent destruction.



I am a alchemist. I deal with various sorts of alchemy. But if you give up the highest alchemy and use the lower. It looses it’s power and meaning.



Terrence Mckenna’s Novelty wave has indeed revealed this as a time of final decent into novelty. So while many things of the past have wounded us. It is now the time to mend those wounds. Against all the oppositions and the lies and insults from the masses. Indeed someone you may trust dearly can betray you. But we can forgive them because we know that were all in the same game. And when they play like that it’s only because someone else has perverted them.



Indeed you would think that after a point you would become immune to the same old tricks. Indeed you do. Yet the process continues. The tricks can still change and alter their strategy to become dangers again.



It appears indeed there are two kinds of humanity and only two.



1) Humanity that follows humanity. Humanity that follows humanity is one that is out of the flow of nature and the rest of creation. It follows it’s own whims and does not hold to the creation of food and nourishment of the whole. It has run rampant throughout the world and dominates it completely. In flight from the truth - it attempts to find nourishment in things that are worn down and a perversion to nature and the cosmos. It avoids the simplest acts of dignity in order to save itself the dissolution of self into the whole. That being a painful experience of death. It is the only way to life. For while humanity is ephemeral the cosmos and nature are eternal and never die.



2) Those who seek nourishment from nature, are the true human beings are returning to the source the truth and the dignity of eternal life. There are very few of us. Indeed however we alone are the people who seek the cosmos and it’s infinite glory in order to find real human dignity and place in the life of the whole. While we seek this unity the condition of being human holds us back, we are in constant conflict. There is the dark humanity which only wishes to follow it’s appetite. And there is the Light humanity - minor in number we follow the truth the good and the beautiful of all creation - knowing there is a place for each of us. In the dark world there are no places for us. The dark world indeed tries to keep us tied up in their fancies, every day the make it harder and harder to escape. The boundaries they put on themselves for their own are the ones they will eventually have to dissolve - They have not the courage to do so. Do you?



Can you be a partner of Nature?

Or can you be a partner of mankind?

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Sun, September 21, 2008 - 4:12 PM permalink
Spiritual Experience is not just a spiritual experience. But experience in things spiritual, meaning wisdom. If you don't do spiritual practice you will not gain spiritual experience, and not know how to channel spirt in your life, or through your body. The only way to gain experience is to have it. Then once you have experience you have wisdom and that gives you power. Self empowerment that is. As power nowadays is only profanely recognized as the hands of usurpers.

    

    The common spiritual experience was put together by spiritual leaders, who's role is to lead and to manage things spiritual, giving them mastery over some people's spiritual lives. This kind of relationship is impeding true spiritual realities from maturing humankind.

    

    Perhaps one of the reasons spiritual practice has been so uncommon in the past has to be because the institutions which act as overlords over the spiritual plane of humanity are threatened by spiritual movements not emanating from their base of power.

 

    Perhaps On the spiritual plane those who do not seek are easily manipulated, by spiritual parasites - gurus basically. Their lives are defined by their inert gaseous existence, a sharp solid point doesn't even grace their experience in a lifetime, they may be successful, they may have riches, but they have no immediacy to them, because they sold that to the highest bidder in some long past life.

    

    It is possible suburb-shamans are breaking through the succubus-cultural veil of illusion, right through the virtual reality veil of suburbia and right through the blight crust of the broadcast network, shopping center formula, and right through the propaganda. Even through the diluted and trivialized pretentious frames that once served as doorways.

 

    It is possible indeed, possible why nearly unfathomable as a real thing, right? Because there is nothing after all to pierce, things are the way they are because thats what they are - right?

 

    Many could read this, and it may have utterly no impact upon them, it evaporates off their skin like cheap alcohol. ;)

 

    Emotion is power, if you can push emotion around you were born with great ability to manipulate - and “lead” others.

 

   Parasites, auraic devourers, perhaps their days are numbered... the illusion may be broken like the soft sprouting leaves through asphalt. The only problem for them then would be the boundaries are dissolving and the masterminds are being trapped in and by their own schemes.

 

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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 8:58 PM permalink
originally published at My Blog
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An old mix I put together spontaneously, I now regard as one of my best and favorites, it gets nasty towards the end and cuts of, but the rest is very much a cyber-hyper alien futurescape of the dark utopian imagination.

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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 3:21 PM permalink
4/20 One love. Boom shiva.

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Fri, April 20, 2007 - 4:12 PM permalink
This mix, I made for my precious grandmother, I now share with the world... May it be a sailboat through the deep waters of the unknown.

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Sun, April 15, 2007 - 7:03 AM permalink
My most ambitious work to date. This was mixed and perfected using the latest audio mixing software. Then added on top of this 2 hour floor-filler, earth stomper, Was composed a 2 hour Motion 2.1 video composition of samples, to reinforce the power of the sound with audio imagery, synced to the gestalt of the emotion. Thus a complete transcendent mode of communication beyond language from imagination to imagination. Indeed visual language, or telepathy. Indeed to see, hear, and feel, wh

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Sat, January 20, 2007 - 6:08 PM permalink
This mix was made weird. Get down and boogie. Special Thanks to (for the artwork) the artists of elfwood: Alistair Hamilton, Andrea J. Brummund, Gluseppe Borrelll, Indigo Halverson, Jolyn Radich, Kara T Carpenter, Manda Maggs, Sarah M. Demel, Stephanie S. K. Marbach, Uta “Freawn” Hesse, Vanessa Galloway, Sandra Annett, Spencer Keala Bowden & Philip K. Dick.

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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 2:13 PM permalink
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Well i'm an artist. Deep introverted Thinker, Athlete, martial artist. I can also be extroverted but this sometimes wears me down. Like in athletics i've always been a sprinter... and in social situations... I sprint as well. When I go to the mall I leave as soon as possible... I'm not totally introverted, when I was young I was kinda loud in elementary school. I know how to have a good time, with another person. I know how to joke around. I consider myself better one on one than in groups. I'm better going deeper into things than skating on the surface. I quickly get board of the plain average surface. But the depths also can be overdone. Moderation above all.
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