Spiritual Essence

Sharing

sunsetsunrise — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:55:11 GMT

My life coach, Stanley Earthsparrow invited me to a Sweat Lodge over last weekend. The lodge lasted the entire evening. We smoked Peyote and sat in a warm humid teepee. I spoke with several elders. One in particular chose to speek with me for almost the evening. He told me that I was a lost soul and should rely on the wisdom of elders to guide me through my current state of angst. He gave me a key to his room at the Motel 8 and handed me a cup of water. I drank the water and the room began to spin. The ancient Indian faces lost their ethnic pigment and their naked flesh was covered by thick black leather. I looked behind my shoulder to see the head of an ancient grizzly. The grizzly pushed me to the ground and I found a trail of rose petals. I followed these petals into a giant gopher's hole in the ground. It became clear to me, the deeper I traveled into the hole that the seasons were changing every ten feet or so. As the season changed to Autumn, I noticed that the color of the rose petals turned to brown but the petals retained their moistness and shine. I finally came to a door. The door was pink and round in shape. I had the key and thrust it deep into the earth. The door opened with a groan, dilating like a pupil. I entered the room and again the Grizzly presence was behind me. It urged me forward and spoke. "Vanilla or chocolate?," it queried. I answered, indicating that I am an inveterate chocoholic. Disembodied hands grasped me and removed my clothes. They adorned me with whipped cream, cherries and nuts. Then a wisened paw was extended and pointed to a trail of hot fudge. I followed the trail to a hole in the wall. The Grizzly spoke again. "You know the final ingredient to a banana split." "Love," I answered. I entered the hole and found my self embracing Toad from tribe. Ancient drawings were on the wall depicting the very story I'm sharing with you now. I woke in a meadow at peace. There was a toad stool upon my lingham. I feel that my journey has great symbolic value. Sexuality often reveals inner truth. I shared my vision with the others. Sadly, I was asked never to return to the sweat lodge. Where one journey ends, a thousand others begin.

Everything You Know is Wrong

sunsetsunrise — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:04:22 GMT

I challenge you to close your mind to the giant multi-national pharmaceutical companies that have effectively hidden the benefits of the Orgone Rejuvenator and Nikken Magnets. I challenge you to piss in your Starbuck's travel mug and taste what you've become. We are all Gaia's children people and YOU need to stop shaking your finger. STOP JUDGING ME!!! Learn to love. Learn to accept. LEARN TO LISTEN!!! Everything you know is wrong and yet you continue to shout down voices of reason. Western Dogma is not an excuse to ignore the new paradigm. Hope is eternal and you can't do a thing about it.

Maslow's Needs Hierarchy

sunsetsunrise — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:01:04 GMT

"Yoga Psychology is a developmental process: The comparison of the stages of Yoga Psychology to the stages of Maslow's Needs Hierarchy is being presented here as a way of explaining the nature of Yoga as a process of developmental self-awareness or unfoldment, which reaches still higher levels of human development or experience. Yoga Psychology deals with living in the world and also with transcendence into and through the higher reaches of human consciousness." http://swamij.com/maslow-yoga.htm

SAD

sunsetsunrise — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:48:26 GMT

The debate begins for the newest revision of the DSM. Included as a possible new entrant is a new use for the acronym SAD (Social Acceptance Disorder). According the Phil Kleibnitz, PhD, MD, Social Acceptance Disorder is a leading contributor to online addiction, backyard wrestling accidents and teenage pregnancy. Symptoms of this disorder include the following: a compulsive need to compliment others, finding humor primarily in people that are identified by one's peer group as having status, repeating statements made by others as a form of establishing one's identity, establishing identity by dressing like a pop icon and belonging to an online chat community. Left untreated, this debilitating illness often results in complete disassociation from one's identity and codependance.

What They Don't Want You to Know

sunsetsunrise — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:17:32 GMT

Namaste. I regret to inform you that the "powers" that be within the tribe community have initiated a campaign to remove me from tribe. It seems that alternative views and free thinking are not virtues appreciated by established interest groups. I assure you my friends, I will not capitulate to this unecessary and malicious campaign of harassment. For their part, TOU was understanding and sensitive to this situation as it has happened before. I was informed that this group of individuals has done this before. However, TOU is bound by the community flagging policy and Sunset may very well become another victim to narrow mindedness and vindictiveness. For the time being at least, I will remain and I will continue to speak my mind. If you do not appreciate my perspective maybe, you should focus your attention elsewhere. There is so much ugliness in the world. Why do you continue to perpetuate it?

Time Together/Time Apart

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:05:42 GMT

Namaste. Well the Winter Solstice is over and I'm beat. We spent the Solstice with my partner's folks in Eugene. We celebrated with the traditional Seitanic roast and candied Yams. Corin's (my partner) brother is now full Shaman and we all couldn't be more proud. Unfortunately, Corin's ex-boyfriend weaseled his way into the celebration. I've never been a family favorite and I know her father would like nothing better than to see Kier become Corin's primary. His work with UNICEF completely blinds them to his poison placenta. Anyway, I won't let that guy ruin my holiday even if Corin and he decided to include each other in their secondary partner rotations. I still get her on the weekends. We finished with the family cleansing. Corin's grandmother had to forego this year due to hydration issues. Gaia bless her soul, I celebrate her strength.

HUMAN SCIENTISTS FROM ANOTHER PLANET CREATED ALL LIFE ON EARTH USING DNA.

sunsetsunrise — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:29:48 GMT

Traces of this epic masterpiece of creation can be found in all religious writings and traditions. It is to them that Moses, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed referred. It is now time to welcome them. WHAT HAPPENED? On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth. The extra-terrestrial human being was a little over four feet tall, had long dark hair, almond shaped eyes, olive skin, and exuded harmony and humor. Rael recently described him by saying quite simply, "If he were to walk down a street in Japan, he would not even be noticed." In other words, they look like us, and we look like them. In fact, we were created "in their image" as explained in the Bible. He told Rael that: "We were the ones who designed all life on earth" "You mistook us for gods" "We were at the origin of your main religions" "Now that you are mature enough to understand this,we would like to enter official contact through an embassy" THE MESSAGES The messages dictated to Rael explain that life on Earth is not the result of random evolution, nor the work of a supernatural 'God'. It is a deliberate creation, using DNA, by a scientifically advanced people who made human beings literally "in their image" -- what one can call "scientific creationism." References to these scientists and their work, as well as to their symbol of infinity, can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures. For example, in Genesis, the Biblical account of Creation, the word "Elohim" has been mistranslated as the singular word "God", but it is actually a plural word which means "those who came from the sky", and the singular is "Eloha" (also known as "Allah"). Indigenous cultures all over the world remember these "gods" who came from the sky, including natives of Africa (Dogon, Twa, etc.), America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Leaving our humanity to progress by itself, the Elohim nevertheless maintained contact with us via prophets including Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, etc., all specially chosen and educated by them. The role of the prophets was to progressively educate humanity through the Messages they taught, each adapted to the culture and level of understanding at the time. They were also to leave traces of the Elohim so that we would be able to recognize them as our Creators and fellow human beings when we had advanced enough scientifically to understand them. Jesus, whose father was an Eloha, was given the task of spreading these messages throughout the world in preparation for this crucial time in which we are now privileged to live: the predicted Age Of Revelation. And most important of all, read the book, "Intelligent Design - Message from the Designers" the book which will revolutionize your thinking, transform your life and which is already changing the world. Learn More: http://www.rael.org/rael_content/index.php

Money As a Poison Center

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:22:48 GMT

"Money is strange. It seems to be something quite useful - a convenient way to facilitate exchange and acknowledge debt. Yet a simple experiment will show that money carries within itself more than just wealth. Take a ten-dollar bill and hand it to a friend. No explanation, just give it to him. A strange thing will happen. Your friend will feel uneasy about you, he may avert his eyes when he sees you, he may even avoid meeting you. The money you gave him seems to have transferred as much guilt as wealth. If you take a careful look at the money you have given him, you'll see its twin aspects of wealth and guilt quite clearly. One side is called "heads," and it usually has on it a head-the part of us with which we enjoy pleasures, eat, smell, hear, look. It represents wealth, the goods side of money. The other side is called "tails," and it has on it symbols of death, guilt and destruction: tombs of dead people, birds of prey, branches representing sacrificial trees, etc. Even when the back portrays sexual symbols-as, for instance, the German twenty-mark bill does, with its phallic bow and female violin-they are shown next to a death-dealing bird, and thus represent sinful sex. These images represent the guilt, the bads side of money. Whenever you pass along money, you circulate both heads and tails, both goods and bads, both pleasure and guilt, both food and poison, both life and death." Excerpt from "Heads and Tails" Money As a Poison Center by Lloyd deMause, The Journal of Psychohistory 16 (1) Summer 1988

Charge Up with Orgone Energy!

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:02:24 GMT

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The Poison Placenta

sunsetsunrise — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:33:41 GMT

"What I found was that the cartoons, past and present, of the enemy in war were dominated by an image that was even more widespread than that of the dangerous mommy: it was that of a seabeast, often with many heads or arms, a dragon or a hydra or a serpent or an octopus that threatened to poison the lifeblood of the nation. Most early cultures believed in this beast as a dragon that was associated with watery caves or lakes; modern wars show the beast as a blood-sucking, many-headed enemy. This serpentine, poisonous monster I soon began calling the Poisonous Plancenta, since it resembled what the actual placenta must have sometimes felt like to the growing fetus, particularly when the placenta fails in its primary tasks of cleansing the fetal blood of wastes and of replenishing its oxygen supply. When the blood coming to the fetus from the placenta is bright red and full of nutrients and oxygen, the fetus feels it is being fed by a Nurturant Placenta, but when the mother smokes, takes drugs or is hurt or frightened or otherwise stressed, the placenta does not remove the waste from fetal blood, which becomes polluted and depleted of oxygen. Under these stressful conditions, the helpless fetus experiences an asphyxiating Poisonous Placenta, the prototype for all later hate relationships, including the murderous mother, the castration father or the dangerous enemy. It is even likely that the fetus, like Oedipus, feels it is actually battling with the dangerous beast (Sphinx means "strangler" in Greek) in order to restore connections with the Nurturant Placenta. This battle, what I have termed the fetal drama, is repeated in death-and-rebirth restagings of traumatic battles in all wars and other social violence. The cosmic battle with the Poisonous Placenta, where we repeat the fetal drama of a paradise lost, of being sucked into the whirlpool and crushing pressures of birth, and where we fight the placental dragon, is well depicted in a comic-book character, Conan the Barbarian, although I could just as easily have used pictures and texts from ancient myths of battles with seabeasts such as Tiamat, Rahab, Behemoth, Humbaba, Apophis, Hydra, Gorgon or Typhon.41 In this version, a baby is first shown abandoned, beginning his watery birth passage between headcrushing bones, going down the whirlpool of birth after the amniotic waters break, being choked by the Poisonous Placenta, a black seamonster that tries to asphyxiate it. The hero, an imaginary powerful version of the fetus, battles with the Poisonous Placenta and frees the fetus, who reaches the safety of land. The final panel shows that the goal, however, is not birth, the arrival on land, but the reuniting with the placenta. That it is the Nurturant not the Poisonous Placenta that holds the baby in its embrace is depicted by its being shown as a white sea beast." Excerpt from Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence Part I By Lloyd deMause http://www.primal-page.com/ldfetal1.htm

Sunrise Sunset

sunsetsunrise — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:06:51 GMT

from The hottest songs from Perry Como Is this the little girl I carried Is this the little boy I played I don't remember growing older When did they When did she get to be a beauty When did he grow to be so tall Wasn't it yesterday when they were small Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset Swiftly go the days Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers Blossoming even as we gaze Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following an other Laden with happiness and tears What words of wisdom can I give them How can I help to ease their ways Now they must learn from one another day by day They look so natural together Just like two newlyweds should be Is there a canopy installed for me Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following an other Laden with happiness and tears

Recognition

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:53:18 GMT

"The process of accepting foreign cells is called immune modulation. After intercourse, a woman's immune system sends cells to the cervix to collect the father's foreign proteins to take back to the lymph nodes so that other immune cells can recognise them. The Adelaide team suggests semen contains an agent which prompts the woman's immune system to accept it. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1803978.stm

anger and the unborn child

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:15:49 GMT

Excerpt from Is Your Anger Affecting Your Unborn Child? By Genevieve Richards Dr Miriam Stoppard, author and pregnancy heath care guru, believes that a baby first experiences the world through its mother. The baby not only experiences external stimuli but also its mother’s feelings as different emotions trigger the release of certain chemicals into the bloodstream. These chemicals then pass across the placenta to the baby within seconds of mom experiencing an emotion. According to APA (American Psychologists Association) documentation, anger is accompanied by physiological and biological changes: when we get angry, our heart rates and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of our energy hormones as adrenaline and epinephrine are released, contributing to growing tension and causing blood vessels to constrict. This reduces oxygen to the uterus, thus compromising fetal blood supply. Even suppressed anger has long been thought to cause anxiety and depression. The Counselling Center for Human Development at the University of Florida agrees that anger can have detrimental effects on relationships, patterns of thinking, and cause many physical problems including colds, ulcers, asthma, high blood pressure (hypertension), heart problems, headaches, skin disorders and digestive problems.

Germ Theory of History

sunsetsunrise — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:43:35 GMT

This theoretical paradigm, which I call the germ theory of history, substitutes disease for more human-centered organizing principles. 1 Through this lens, military and cultural imperialism become the expression of biological imperatives rather than the manifestation of patriarchy or state-inspired aggression. A Marxist might remark on past cholera epidemics as a vivid illustration of class oppression; a germ theorist would see an ecological response to rapid population growth. And the germ theory demands a more inclusive title to universality than do most theories (except for those religious in nature), occasionally dating its genesis to the beginning of life on earth.... Excerpt from Schell, Heather "The Sexist Gene: Science Fiction and the Germ Theory of History" American Literary History - Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2002, pp. 805-827

THE THOROUGHFARE TO MANKIND

sunsetsunrise — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:51:41 GMT

He was born human With blood and placenta Frail, helpless with tearless cry With no knowledge of what is here Nor with memory of what was there But he has come into despair His destruction commences at birth With the structuring of his being He is nurtured to be wild And taught to break the vessel of milk So he thinks of insidious attainments, Letting blood for dominance and possession He grows up to become a brute Working with his head, And never his heart Proclaiming to be strong When he is weak Enforcing leadership, Where he ought to follow With his inside overwhelmed from without The grave awaits him at his prime But he vomits his venoms into his kind Maintaining a self-bondage and her woes This is the journey that created the road The thoroughfare to mankind. taken from Poems for Peace Olumide Olaniyan

THE LEADER AS A PHANTOM PLACENTA

sunsetsunrise — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:42:58 GMT

" Because the fetus's umbilicus is like a pulsing fifth limb and because the placenta is the fetus's first love object, I believe we so deeply experience the loss of our umbilicus/placenta that we walk around feeling we have still a "phantom placenta"--the same phenomenon as the "phantom limb" experienced by amputees154 and are constantly looking for a leader or a flag or a god to serve as its substitute. Just as gods are imagined as beings "from whom all blessings flow," leaders are seen as beings "from whom all power flows." In ancient Egypt, people saved the actual placenta of the Pharaoh and put it on a pole which they carried into battle; it was the first flag in history.'"155 We still ritually worship our placental flag--with its red arteries and blue veins at the end of a umbilical flagpole--in public gatherings. In Baganda, they put the king's placenta on a throne, pray to it and receive messages from it through their priests.156 We do the same when we look to the sky for UFOs-high-tech placental disks--that we hope might have messages for us.157 Lawson has even experimentally correlated UFO abductionscenarios with the actual birth experiences of the abducted, those who had normal vaginal births imagining tunnel experiences during abduction while those who had cesarean births experienced being yanked up by the UFO without the tunnel images.158 The yearning for a phantom placenta, a "poison container," as a leader, and the search for a Poisonous Placenta as an enemy with whom we can fight are the central tasks of all social organizations, prior to any utility it may have. We organize all groups around fantasy leaders as poison containers, ascribing to them all kinds of magical significances, including the power to cleanse our emotions, visualized as polluted blood in accordance with their fetal origin. When the leader appears unable to handle these emotions, when our progress in life seems to involve too much independence and we reexperience our early abandonment by the placenta, we begin to look for enemies to visit our traumas upon."159" Excerpt from Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence Part 4 By Lloyd deMause http://www.primal-page.com/ldfetal4.htm

Lotus Birth

sunsetsunrise — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:24:42 GMT

Lotus birth is practiced by the Maori of New Zealand. The umbilical cord is not cut and the infant remains attached to the cord until it falls off naturally (usually 4 to 12 days after delivery). The barbaric removal of the placenta from the baby unaturally breaks the spiritual bond between the infant and the mother. Tellish wrote in his essay, Essence of the Spiritual Mind, "the western soul is traumatized at birth by the premature and violent separation of the mother and child... this essence is both spiritual and physical in nature. cutting the chord opens a wound that never closes; cutting the chord deprives the child of essential life forces." For further studies: http://onyx-ii.com/birthsong/page.cfm?lotus