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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Random Insight - 1

The more people that are focused on the same thing at the same time, no matter what that thing may be, gives it power. 

I wanted to write a poem about the lunar eclipse that occurred a week ago, but no words would come. Though I did manage to see it, went outside a couple times after midnight, but it was partly cloudy and pretty cold outside, so I did not observe it for very long. 

One notable observation that came to mind while I watched the lunar eclipse, was that there's probably thousands of people all around the world looking up at the moon at the same time. So if you happened to catch it, there is a real possibility that you may have been looking at the moon at the exact same second that I was. 

Could it be that the more people that are focused on the same thing at the same time, generates power by way of a sort of collective group meditation, which energizes the experience and object of attention, giving it more power, inspiration and influence over the minds of all those sharing in that experience?  

The same thing happens with holidays, they have power because people give them power by way of popular consensus (collective observation and mutual agreement; or people focusing on the same thing at the same time). The fact is that even if I don't celebrate Christmas, it's next to impossible not to be effected by this holiday in some way, simply because so many people do celebrate it. 

The more people that are focused on the same thing at the same time, no matter what that thing may be, gives it power. 

What events in nature are visible to the greatest amounts of people at the same time? 

Astronomical events. The sun, sunrise, sunset, the moon, the stars and constellations, and meteor showers. All other natural events are pretty much localized events. For example, if you see a rainbow, that is something that only a few people in your area are going to see. But if the moon is full, that is something that can be observed by people all over the world, or at least half the world who happen to be in the same hemisphere, and in a time zone that is not too far apart. 

Anyway, the insight I obtained from observing the full moon lunar eclipse of 2010, was the realization of the fact that such an event is collectively experienced. I mean of course you know this right, but did you ever stop to really consider it while actually watching the moon, especially if you are alone or only with a couple other people? To really soak in the awareness that thousands of people located in different cities thousands of miles away from one another, are looking at the very same thing at the exact same time as you? 

This is most likely to occur on a more widespread scale during special (rare) astronomical events that occur at an exact time, such as a lunar eclipse, comet, or meteor shower, rather than the typical monthly full moon. Sure they'll be people watching that too, but when the event is of a greater magnitude, especially when receiving a great deal of publicity, that's when you know for sure that there are a larger percentage of people watching it at a given time. 

What else holds that sort of power, to attract the attention of thousands, and possibly millions of people, all over the world at the same time? 

Television. Radio. The internet. Newspapers and other media outlets. But nothing else compares to television, in terms of making it possible for great numbers of people to be focused on the same thing at the same time. And if you look at the TV, what types of programming dominate the airwaves? Idiocy. Dumbed down entertainment. Excessive violence. Glorification of greed and immorality. Lying, stealing, cheating, betrayal, adultery, jealousy, envy, pettiness, immaturity, superficiality, impulsiveness, undisciplined weak minded behavior. 

 I'd rather watch the full moon than a television that is full of shit.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Nature Solitude

I find it very therapeutic to spend at least a few minutes outside everyday, just listening and observing nature, without uttering a single sound.

No talking, no conversation, just listening to the sounds of nature, and observing whatever is within your field of space, be it a leaf, a flower, a rock, a bug, the birds, the trees, the sky. Just spend some time with it, taking note of everything, soaking it all in, noticing what thoughts and feelings it triggers. Therein lies the fruits of nature's inspiration.

Observing nature without speaking is important, because when you are speaking you are not listening. It's good to take a break from human speech from time to time, and the same can be said of the intrusive noise of machines, take a break whenever you can.

That's the one thing I dislike the most about computers, is the noise they make, that annoying hum, it surely must have some kind of subconscious influence on your bodies brainwaves and biorhythms. There's got to be a study somewhere on it, if not, there should be.

I try to sit outside in silence in a mindful eyes-wide-open meditation of nature on a daily basis. Sometimes it's hard for me to find some peace and quiet. The people I live with talk incessantly, sometimes I have to wear earplugs just to get a bit of peace of quiet around the house. Which is another reason why I often stay up well past midnight, because its the only time when the house is quiet.

In order to be able to hear more clearly my own inner voice of wisdom and intuitive insight, I have a profound need for solitude, silence and nature. We all have access to intuitive insight, it's our birthright. Problem is, many people out of habit and distraction, have conditioned themselves to block it out, to such an extent, that this ability calcifies and the connection is lost.

There are all kinds of distractions in our world that interfere with psychic perception. To me, the sound of machines, especially those of an electrical nature, create a sort of artificial fog, made up of noise pollution and electromagnetic fields, that interfere with and obscures our capacity for intuitive insight.

Of course machines and computers have their useful purpose, but their usefulness comes at a price to our health.

How many people look closely into the depths of their soul, the depths of their heart, the depths of their mind? How many people spend hours of the night looking up at the night time sky without naming what they see, just simply observing it as if it were the first time they beheld it, having no preconceived notion of what lies out there, just looking, listening, and feeling the star filled sky with your eyes?

There are many benefits to be gained from this. Inspiration. Clarity of Vision. Insight. Foresight. Depth of Perspective.

When two objects meet, there is an instant communication, an exchange of energies. When you look up at the sky, in a way, the sky is also looking back down at you. Everybody is communicating with everyone and everything they encounter, even if there is no exchange of words, or direct touch, whatever your senses apprehend there is a mutual exchange of communication occurring.

So make it a point to spend some time alone with nature, listening without speaking, observing without teaching, soaking in the psychic healing, that comes from tuning in and realigning yourself with the resonance of the earth and the sky.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Lonely Road to Enlightenment


Knowing that this blog most likely will be obliterated someday, I feel that I have free reign to write anything here at all, anything. Imagine that, such open-ended freedom, such unlimited potential and possibility, to create anything you can imagine, or at least to create the idea of anything, if not the actual thing itself.

So I sit outside in my courtyard, though it's not mine really, I'm just a squatter here, occupying this space on borrowed time. But it is a courtyard nonetheless, which may as well be the courtyard to a royal palace, where I sit in relative peace and quiet and comfort, reposing amongst the cactuses and flowers and hummingbirds and statues.

I sit out here at different times, both day and night, but lately I've come to prefer the night, because it is cooler and quieter outside, and I enjoy being alone with the night under a star filled sky. Watching the stars inspires all sorts of philosophical thinking, and triggers many more questions than answers. I wonder if I will ever transcend my human limitations, and evolve into a more enlightened being, someone who is no longer controlled by feelings of selfishness, or held back by negative thinking and emotions.

So let's just say, what if? What if you were enlightened?

To put it bluntly, let's say that just when you think you've gotten your shit together, in terms of personal growth, psychological maturity, self-knowledge, and self-mastery, that you have become an enlightened being. That you see and understand everything with crystal clear lucidity. You know yourself, you know other people, you know the world, and you know exactly what you want, what needs to be done, and how to do it and why.

You have a clear vision. You see the problem and you know the solution. Not idle speculation. Not a theory. Not maybe this will work, but knowing that this will definitely work, that this is what needs to be done, and it is the best course of action to take. There is no hint of selfishness. No personal ambition. No lust for personal wealth, power, or recognition, just a selfless act of charity, of providing a solution to a problem, that would benefit the entire world.

Let's say this is the case. What happens next? Then the reality may sink in that you suddenly find yourself an enlightened being living in a very unenlightened world. Most of your fellow human beings are not enlightened, and they are not receptive to your message. You have the solution to their problem, but nobody is willing to listen. It's like in that movie Idiocracy. The idiots won't listen to reason. It's an upside down world, where the fools rule, and the enlightened are either ridiculed and dismissed as fools, or they're assassinated.

So what does an enlightened person do in this situation? How does the wise person relate to the foolish? How does the reasonable person reason with the unreasonable? How does an enlightened person communicate their message to an unreceptive audience? What do you do when you give excellent advice and wise council, but your words go unheeded? Or when you know exactly what to do to improve the lives of others, and yet nobody will listen?

Obviously I myself am not enlightened, because if I were I suppose I would have the answer to these questions.

But I do experience temporary moments of lucidity, enough to know that the more you know, the more you see that other people do not know. That the wiser you become, the more foolishness you see around you. That the less selfish you become, the more selfishness you see in others. And that the more you perfect yourself, the more aware you become of the world's imperfections.

In other words, you are where you want to be, but the rest of the world is not up to speed. So what do you do? You've perfected yourself and attained enlightenment, but you still have to deal with an imperfect and unenlightened world. How do you manage in this situation?

Are you a kind hearted person, having removed all traces of hatred and maliciousness from your heart? What happens when you are confronted with someone who is filled with cruelty and hate? How does that affect you? How does it affect you when you show someone compassion, when you show them loving kindness, and they spit in your face?

What happens when you have purged yourself of all your lower qualities, removed all traces of selfishness, hatred, jealousy, dishonesty, only to encounter these qualities in another? What happens when you are doing everything right, acting perfectly noble, kind, loving, truthful, and just, but you are treated like shit?

What happens when your kindness is returned with cruelty? When your love is returned with hate? When you help someone, and they hurt you in return?

What should an enlightened person do in such instances? How does the wise person get through to the unwise? How does the enlightened person enlighten the unenlightened?

I suppose only an enlightened person would know.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Future World Metropolis of Hell

Here's a disturbing trend:

World's largest cities are morphing into overcrowded 'mega regions' defined by poverty and pollution, UN report warns

The report also says that by 2050 over 70 percent of the human population will be living in densely populated urban environments, and that this "urbanization is unstoppable", but will "not necessarily be a bad thing".

Oh really? Well you know what image comes to mind when I think of this future world scenario? I think of Soylent Green the movie.

Over-population poses a serious problem for our world, not just ecologically, but also psychologically. Despite the fact that human beings are social beings, I think that there is a point where a high population density actually negatively affects social relations. That instead of improving quality of life and bringing people closer together, it actually may drive people further apart, contributing to more feelings of social isolation, alienation, and depression.

It's difficult to find community in a sea of millions of indiscernible anonymous faces, all perpetually on the go, in a hurry to be someplace else, anywhere else but here. And this feeling of isolation will only be compounded by living further and further away from green natural open spaces, locked away in this endless gray concrete prison of a global metropolis, from which there is no escape.

Have you noticed how people tend to be friendlier to strangers in small rural towns, as opposed to big cities?

Personally I would much rather live in a rural setting, that is quiet, with clean air, and few people, than in an overpopulated concrete prison. I know of many people who rave about New York City. My cousin lives there. She loves it. Yes, it's culturally rich, with many very interesting, intelligent, and often very wealthy people, but at what greater cost to sanity and health, does such a life so removed from nature incur?

Life is probably much sweeter for the wealthy city dwellers, who can afford to get away to the rural countryside, having multiple home's and vacation getaways all around the world. But what about the cities poor, who do not have such an option? I don't know how many poor people actually live in New York City, being that it's one of the most expensive cities in the country and in the entire world, but how about Mexico City, or Bangkok, or Manila, or Beijing, or Delhi?

As these world metropolis's get bigger and bigger, they must accommodate the growing poor, and as more and more people are squeezed closer and tighter together, the quality of life diminishes, along with sanitation, clean water, and clean air.

What do people do when their world is ugly and their life is hell? They often look for an escape. If there is no physical escape, or no place else to go, they may look for a mental escape in artificial environments, artificial worlds. This is where drugs, television and the internet comes in. If the physical world loses all sense of beauty, people will look for beauty some place else, if not in the real world that you can actually smell, taste and touch, then in the surreal virtual reality world of artificial pixelated digitized and sanitized sights and sounds.

So as the human population continues to increase everyday, more and more people are forced into the cities seeking employment opportunities that do not exist any place else.

But I want to hear birds singing, not car horns beeping. I want to smell fresh flowers in the air, not putrid car exhaust. Problem is there are few jobs in the country, and even fewer higher paying one's. To live in the country you almost have to be independently wealthy, retired, able to work from home, or willing to commute long distances. This is why more and more people are moving into larger cities, for education and jobs. But I do not want my whole life to be about making money. Yes, you need money to live, yes you need a job to make money, but if it means giving up the beauty and serenity that a rural landscape provides, then that's almost akin to selling your soul for money. But for some people, its either that, or death.

The future sounds bleak. Overpopulation is a huge problem. More people means more mouths to feed, more garbage to contain, more pollution to control, and more natural resources consumed. Pretty soon there won't be enough resources to go around, and not enough space to safely contain and control all the pollution and waste. Then what? Wars. Disease. Natural disasters. Massive starvation. And incomprehensible suffering.

The elite know this. Who do I mean by the elite? The very intelligent and the very rich. Although it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Some conspiracy theorists speculate that some of the elite are planning a major population reduction, forced population reduction. Some say a massive poisoning, perhaps through vaccinations, bio-warfare, genetically modified foods, microchip implants, or other toxic exposures that will either weaken immunity, cause sterility, or just outright kill you.

I'm thinking that widespread sterility would have the most immediate, far reaching, and long-term consequences, and perhaps would be viewed as being more humane than murder. Only problem with that would be how would you contain it, so it doesn't make everything sterile, like in the film Children of Men, which would defeat the elite's whole objective, by getting rid of everybody, themselves included, through the eventual extinction of the human race.

Well I'm not having any kids EVER so they don't have to worry about me.