self-willed cataclysm

topic posted Wed, November 3, 2004 - 3:34 PM by  dimi3
Today, November 3rd 2004, marks a wake-up call for the world. One cannot help but wonder if current events are not all happening by design. Well... I certainly don't need some "news" agency to tell me what's UP. No, don't need them to tell me what to think or try keeping me from being profoundly disappointed that our rebellion didn't succeed in de-troning the evil lord and his gang of blood thirsty corporate trolls. I certainly have no use for them 'trying to protect me from myself'... or 'them' from me ;-). All in all, it didn't come as a surprise that the Bush cartel is in for a second term as their roots seem to be running quite deep. Americorp shares are up... I know in some way, we allowed this to happen.



Not to be a total pessimist or anything, but I think modern materialist society has entered an accelerated period of transformation and self-destruction, and that it will not continue in its present form for much longer (that would be the good news). The environmental consequences of globalized capitalism and mass consumerism make the perpetuation of this 'suicide system' impossible. When we hit the wall in the next few years, people are going to have to systematically reevaluate the entire delusional ideology driving them and their culture. The only possible way forward for our species is to turn inward - what the alchemists meant by their injunction to "visit the interior of the Earth". I think it is a premonition of this that is leading so many Westerners deep into the Eastern schools of thought such as Buddhism and Yoga. A revival of shamanism and intelligent use of sacramental substances is another aspect of this apparent inward turn.

Personally, I believe that through shamanism it is completely possible to work with 'Elemental Beings', other forms of sentience involved in the natural world. Learning to work with these other levels is going to be necessary in order to put the Earth back together. In other words, the rational scientific and the intuitive shamanic mindset are going to fuse, a kind of dialectical synthesis that is necessary for the continuation of the human species.

I see the current biospheric crisis as a self-willed cataclysm designed to force human evolution to a higher level of consciousness - what Gurdjieff called a 'higher octave'.

So my friends, here's to a higher state of being.

Are you in?


d.

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dimi3
  • I'm in dimi3 !

    This possibly my sound crazy, but this will actually speed up the process, which I believe is a good thing.

    The TransHuman will emerge as a evolutionary response to the ossification of the current materialistic worldview.

    The current dysfunctional disconnect is also very much in accordance with the Piscean mythos, where one fish is now swimming, oblivious of all else, in closed religious waters,
    mocking the true christian faith,
    while the other fish is equally oblivious, wreaking ecological havoc with the living membrane on Gaia's surface.

    Rather than opposing the abuse, and soon dissipation of the Piscean archetype, we can choose to embrace the fledgling Aquarian evolutionary impulse.
    What is needed in this perspective, for the Aquarian worldview to grow in a healthy transhuman way, is for us to also stay clear
    from the shadow aspect of Leo, and avoid all Brand Me, all I, Me, Mine - temptations to come, and instead rely as much as possible on the emergent noosphere, our own cocreated, collaborative, co-intelligent evolutionary upgraded sentience,
    a multidimensional sentience, a sentience embracing other types of sentience, eventually a fully embodied, fully immanent sentience.
    • Re: self-willed cataclysm -> future politics

      Sat, November 13, 2004 - 10:44 AM
      Hey, I knew we could count on you ;-)




      John, it doesn't sound crazyat all. It makes loads of sense.
      Your Zodiac angle is original, and perfectly sound as well.

      I had the pleasure of sitting with a renowned astrologer last year who went by "Zip". She did all the charts for our 'world players'. The dots she connected were thought provoking to say the least. She confirmed my sense that there was a whole lot of Fire at play, an excess of Fire... burning away.

      There's an asteroid that's currently of relevance as well. GWB sees himself as the prophetic embodiment of the energy which it returns. I believe I remember Zip mentioning something about the position of this object correlating with Hitler's rise to power...


      Just smart enough to be dangerous I say!








      future politics

      DEMOCRATIC TRANSHUMANISM (?)



      Abstract


      "Democratic transhumanism stems from the assertion that human beings will generally be happier when they take rational control of the natural and social forces that control their lives. This fundamental humanistic assertion has led to two intertwined sets of Enlightenment values: the democratic tradition with its values of liberty, equality, solidarity and collective self-governance, and to the belief in reason and scientific progress, that human beings can use reason and technology to improve the conditions of life."


      Technoutopianism and the Left

      "The other strain of the Enlightenment, the belief in science, reason and human progress, has been a natural complement at the philosophical level to the democratic tradition. Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what Marx called the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. The advances in science helped delegitimate the rule of kings and the power of the church."


      www.changesurfer.com/Acad/De...nism.htm



      Changesurfer Radio - www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/

      "transmitting a sexy, high-tech vision
      of a radically democratic future..."





      -



      Electing a Future-friendly President

      "Bush and the Congressional Republicans have been unfriendly to scientists and science policy. One reason for the chilliness is that Bush administration officials correctly perceive scientists, and academia in general, as liberal and secular. Bush's political advisor Karl Rove told the The New Yorker that the definition of a Democrat was "somebody with a doctorate." Bush has half as many PhDs in his cabinet as Clinton did, and he moved the Office of Science and Technology Policy outside the White House and cut its staff."

      www.betterhumans.com/Feature...umn.aspx



      -



      Canadian Transhumanists Speak Out Against Bush
      Bioethicist's Pro-Death Agenda

      www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx









      Now if only the rest of the world had a vote.
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  • Definitely hear ya...



    "What we call evil is the instability inherent in all mankind which drives man outside and beyond himself toward an unfathomable something, exactly as though Nature had bequeathed to our souls an ineradicable portion of instability from her store of ancient chaos."
    --Stefan Zweig


    "Chaos and order indeed. I thought everyone had heard of fractals by now. There is no order. There is no chaos. There are only patterns of various levels of complexity."
    --From the Books of Magic graphic novel




    For your consideration, a compilation of words of wisdom, applicable now and at any given future time. May they speak to you, and inspire you... to pass them on so to speak to others, and inspire in turn.


    peace,
    dimi3






    "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
    --Charles DuBois


    "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
    --Eleanor Roosevelt


    "Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
    --Margaret Chase Smith


    "The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
    --Eugene Debs


    "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
    --Winston Churchhill


    "...We aren't soft, we aren't crying, and we aren't wasting our time on clever talk. There are things that can be talked about and things that can't, that just have to be done. We don't talk, we don't cry, we don't endlessly think on the one hand and on the other hand, we just do!"
    --said Nechaev


    "Excellent! You just do. But where do you get your instructions? Is it the voice of the people you obey, or just your own voice, a little disguised so that you need not recognize it?"
    --Dostoevsky inquired


    "Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."
    --David McNally


    "The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
    --Rollo May


    "Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down."
    --Olive Schreiner


    Don't use "circumstances" as a reason not to act:
    "Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
    --Napoleon Bonaparte


    "You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it."
    --German proverb


    "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
    --Franklin Delano Roosevelt


    "Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
    --Doris Lessing


    "Dare to be naive."
    --R. Buckminster Fuller


    "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
    --Agnes de Mille


    "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
    --Saint Francis of Assisi


    One step at a time: "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps."
    --Henry Ford


    "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
    --Vincent van Gogh


    "No one from the beginning of time has had security."
    --Eleanor Roosevelt


    "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
    --Bishop W. C. Magee


    "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
    --Winston Churchill


    "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
    --Mildred W. Struven


    Don't shy away from disagreement and conflict - use them for positive ends: "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
    --Edmund Burke


    " Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy."
    --Saul Alinsky


    "We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
    --Frank A. Clark


    "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
    --Seneca


    "If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."
    --Florence Shinn


    "Life is the sum of all your choices."
    --Albert Camus


    "Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
    --Anne Morrow Lindbergh


    Always think of your career as a work in progress: "There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."
    --George Crane


    Don't get mired in details when it's wisdom you're after: "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
    --John A. Simone Jr.


    "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
    --William James


    "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
    --Michel de Montaigne


    "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
    --Robert G. Ingersoll


    "A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
    --Rita Mae Brown


    "The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
    --Thomas Carlyle


    "There is no failure except in no longer trying."
    --Elbert Hubbard


    "The impossible is often the untried."
    --Jim Goodwin


    "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
    --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


    "We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
    --Thomas Fuller


    "Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."
    --Anatole France


    "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
    --Sally Kempton


    "Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely."
    --Kay Lyons


    Be alert to the possibilities in each new day: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
    --Henry David Thoreau


    "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
    --Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull


    "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
    --Mark Twain


    "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
    --Gail Sheehy


    "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
    --Jean-Paul Sartre


    "Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever."
    --Gail Godwin


    ". . . no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
    --Friedrich Nietzsche


    "Know thyself."
    --Delphic Oracle, cited by Plutarch


    "To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
    --Albert Camus


    "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
    --Charles Kettering


    "It is never right to compromise with dishonesty."
    --Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.


    "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."
    --John Henry Cardinal Newman


    "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
    --Robert F. Kennedy


    "The work praises the man."
    --Irish proverb


    "If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments."
    --Robert Townsend


    "Leadership is action, not position."
    --Donald H. McGannon


    "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."
    --Benjamin Lipson


    "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
    --Beverly Sills


    "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
    --Henry David Thoreau


    "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
    --Douglas Everett


    "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
    --Anais Nin


    "There is an ancient Indian (Native American) saying "that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it." Trust memory over history. Memory like fire, is radiant and immutable. Those who would douse the flame of memory, in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth, beware of these men for they are dangerous to themselves, and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth."
    --author unknown


    "The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle."
    --Dorothy Thompson


    "The thing we fear we bring to pass."
    --Elbert Hubbard



    COURAGE/FEAR

    An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

    One wolf is evil -- he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.

    The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

    This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."

    They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

    The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

    --author unknown


    FEAR
    F-alse
    E-xpectations
    A-ppearing
    R-eal


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