23 May 2022

BIM 72

Ballantyne’s Inspired Musings

July 2012

Vox Clamantis in Deserto

 

 

The Mount Everest of spiritual, philosophical and random publications

 

Your primary duty is to know your very own Self and be free.

Vishnudevanand

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New interminable subscriptions $25 or more. The more you send the more you get. I attempt to elucidate ahead of the curve ideas and notions to an intelligent audience. A prime example is my 2005 declaration that the US Empire was over AND beginning about a year ago that we live now in a Fascist state. Tell me I’m wrong!

 

Carlos Ballantyne      carlosjii@gmail.com      https://twitter.com/#!/carlosjii

 


Nothing is so reckless as waiting for certainty

Nothing is so reckless as waiting for certainty—that’s a game we are sure to lose. … We cheat ourselves when we try to reduce the risk. What’s critical, what makes a difference, is to be left with a choice. And to be left with a choice means to be left fully at risk. Stimulating those risks is inseparable from living.

http://landmarkinsights.com/2013/06/stimulating-risk-is-inseparable-from-living/ Jeff Willmore, Landmark Forum leader. EVERYONE should do the Landmark Education Forum

Charles Darwin, co-founder of our understanding of natural selection and evolution: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change." The Rise and Fall of Great Powers 

Charles Evans Hughes, Of Two Minds blog, 6/29/13

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun13/rise-fall6-13.html

 


A bit more on health

I have encountered a few healing modalities you should be aware of. These are hyperbaric oxygen treatment and cranial-sacral massage or cranial osteopathy.

        Hyperbaric oxygen treatment involves spending time in a pressurized chamber with a higher than normal level of oxygen. It has had remarkable results for a wide variety of maladies and was referenced by someone with my girlfriend's malady – antibiotic, specifically Cipro, toxicity. I finally talked my girlfriend into a two hour treatment by one of the few practitioners in LA. $300 and when it was over my girlfriend was walking with her balance much improved and she did not need her cane. A lot of her aches and pains were gone. Although she had these seemingly remarkable results she has so far refused to go back for more treatments as they are “too expensive”. There has been plenty of $$$ for a facelift and other stuff but not for non-Medicare covered treatments.

        I first found out about hyperbaric treatment from an M.D. in Mammoth Lakes. He was practicing in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit and his brother sent down a private plane to get the doctor and his family out of town when the airports were closed. His brother flew the doc to his vay-cay home in Mammoth Lakes, a ski town in the Sierras where I was living at the time. http://www.hbot.com/  is Dr. Harch’s website. He’s in New Orleans. Hover over the HBOT tab at the top and a list of problems treated drops down.

These include:

Traumatic brain injury including blast induced

Autism

Brain injury

Central retinal artery occlusion CRAO

Cerebral palsy

Childhood encephalopathy

Chronic carbon monoxide poisoning

Chronic fatigue

Decompression illness

Mitochondrial cytopathies

Multiple sclerosis

Near drowning

Neurology

Post concussion syndrome

Stroke

Wound healing

 

I know, it almost sounds too good to be true BUT many people have gotten remarkable results from HBOT. For reasons I cannot fathom, except perhaps no Medicare reimbursement, HBOT has just never garnered the press it deserves. The practitioner in Beverly Hills touts the treatment for beauty, anti-aging and also wound healing. My girlfriend took quite a while to heal from the facelift and the one HBOT treatment she had seemed to greatly speed up the remaining healing.

        You don't need to go to New Orleans to see Dr. Harch to get talked into the efficacy of the treatment, just get in the bag or chamber OR buy your own - http://www.chinookmed.com/cgi-bin/item/06001/s-high_altitude/-Gamow-Bag-Hyperbaric-Chamber,-Civilian-Model---  about $2500.

        Disclaimer – I have not yet tried HBOT myself.

        The main reason I take CoEnzyme Q10 supplements, 100 mg/day, is to increase my oxygen uptake – ie. get more oxygen in my blood. Don’t forget – I am also hiking at a fast pace and elevated heart rate up to 16 hours per week.

 

Crainial-sacral massage is, very simplistically, head massage. My girlfriend has had a number of head traumas in addition to other stuff so I reasoned that since regular medicine was not working for her that perhaps osteopathy would work. I researched a type of cranial osteopathy and saw that the originator, Dr. Upledger from Florida http://www.upledger.com/ , trained normal massage people in his technique which I reasoned was much less expensive. In any case I came up with Gloria in Burbank in the LA area who has great hands and whose treatment appeared to be very efficacious for my girlfriend. http://www.yelp.com/biz/burbank-craniosacral-therapy-burbank-4  

I have not had a cranial sacral treatment myself yet. I normally do about 30 minutes of yoga daily and finish with a headstand and normally I do not like people touching me as it can disrupt my energy flow.

 

Devil's claw is an herb that my girlfriend has found to be the only thing that alleviates her lower back pain [other than Oxycontin]. I think she heard about it on Dr. Oz's show. The girlfriend is very reluctant to take any kind of pain meds as several members of her family have died from overdoses of painkillers.

 

Amazing Meal – ‘a potent blend of organic protein, greens, fruits & veggies’ is a green powder supplement that includes probiotics and digestive enzymes. My girlfriend was having a bout of stomach problems and unable to eat so I prayed about it and went into a large health food store and let myself be guided around until I came to this product which I bought. It immediately cured some of the GF’s stomach problems – she reported a month after taking Amazing Meal daily that she had not had a single case of diarrhea – a world record for her. I recommend this as a supplement for anyone looking to add some high quality all-plant based protein, minerals and probiotics to your diet.

        I take another Amazing product daily, when I can afford it. Amazing Grass wheat grass powder. This has multiple benefits including a substantial immune system boost, creating an alkaline balance [vs. acidic] in the system, and adds a bunch of green stuff to your diet. I further believe the green stuff boosts my hemoglobin oxygen absorption capacity.

 

Niacin reduces cholesterol and can reverse arteriosclerosis. Additionally, it is known to reduce depression. Research it yourself [by Googling “niacin depression”] AND start taking at least 500 mg. daily while you’re “thinking about it.” [“All suffering is caused by ‘thinking about’.” Not sure of the reference but it may be Gerald Jampolsky]

My last two readings were 117 and 127 total cholesterol – haven’t been able to afford a reading recently. From all I have seen the niacin form is much more effective than the niacinamide or the ‘no flush’ inositol hexanicotinate. If you are concerned about the flushing try a time release version.

http://vitaminb-3therapy.blogspot.com/

 

I see a lot of bodies daily [I have been attending a food addict 12 Step program for 37 years in addition to now being in LA walking and taking the bus]. From all my observations:

·       What you weigh and how healthy you are is 90% what you eat

·       Exercise is only secondary to your health. Without proper diet you can NEVER be healthy long-term, meaning say, from age 50 on.

·       Many people are ADDICTED to certain foods and do not know it. Many who are and DO know it are unable to generate the emotion and surrender – see Damasio, James, Jung in this BIM – to be able to stop.

·       Without a food plan and constant vigilance the unconscious is too powerful to control your eating.

·       From age 50 on to be healthy; NO sugar or refined carbohydrates; no caffeine; no fats except olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, banana;

·       no eating after 6 pm

·       Eat foods in as natural a state as possible – no juices, eat more raw foods

·       You need to eat about 1% less for every year older you get just to stay the same weight.

·       Don’t eat anything white.

·       Don’t eat anything with a face.

 


Sailing down my Jupiter line

 

The overlaying of your personal horoscope on a map showing energetic patterns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocartography  is called astro-cartography.

You can look at your own lines at the www.astro.com website. I suggest you create an account and put your own birth data in your personal file there for easy access.

        From the home page of www.astro.com on the top of the left side click FREE HOROSCOPES. From the menu that drops down below that click HOROSCOPE DRAWINGS & CALCULATIONS. From the sub-menu that drops down click EXTENDED CHART SELECTION.

This opens a new page in the middle of the screen. Near the top is a banner

I CIRCULAR CHARTS I  SPECIAL CHARTS I  PULLEN/ASTROLOG I

 

Select SPECIAL CHARTS. A new screen will come up. Select the person from your database whose map you want in the upper box/menu. Select ASTROMAP WORLD in the lower box. Click CLICK HERE TO SHOW THE CHART.

This will bring up a world map with the person's prominent chart lines displayed using glyphs for the planets. Once at this map you can easily display other person's lines by simply selecting them from the upper box. One should probably expect to spend say 3 hours to get proficient just to get to this step of displaying world maps. As you can see from clicking the box ASTROMAP WORLD you can select other more localized maps such as North America, etc.

 

In any case, my girlfriend, a Pisces, has 3 lines that cross on the east coast of Florida, a Pisces state, near North Palm Beach. The lines are relatively auspicious; Chiron for healing, Uranus for unexpected changes, and the Sun for your masculine side identity/energy. Soooooo I mentioned this to her and she’s quite open to taking a trip there to see what happens.

        Do not neglect the power of astro-cartography just because you do not know about it. I have had some remarkable occurrences, mainly negative, being in places where my Saturn line is prominent. A friend of mine wanted my advice [for free] about moving out of the US to South America. I researched it for her and unfortunately did not tell her my first hit on it looking at the map -- there was NO PLACE in South America good for her. She moved to Panama, built a house and stayed for 4 years until getting into a bus accident where she was trampled by people trying to get out of the overturned bus. She later said she went back and looked at the map she had had done by an astro-cartography service and she saw she had moved to an auspicious Venus line but she had a Pluto line about 100 miles east and a Saturn line 100 miles west of her. I picked her up at LAX upon her return to the US and she was quite sick, couldn't breathe well. She moved to Mammoth Lakes and all her maladies cleared up immediately as did her dog's.

        I looked again and recommended to her to move to the boot of Italy as a perfect place but for now she's stuck in Reno and has some plans to go to the Czech Republic which I have dis-recommended to her. CHECK IT OUT!

        Many years ago when I tried to marry into the Nepal Royal family I ended up in a small town in central Nepal way up in the mountains. I was stuck there for a few days and had to spend 2 days solid on buses getting back to Kathmandu. Some years later I saw I had an important astro-cartography line running right through the village. It was my destiny to go there even though nothing happened.






Sharon’s Jupiter line is the blue line leaving the coast north of San Francisco and swooping southwest down through the Pacific off the chart at the lower left corner. After crossing the Equator it goes through the most exotic part of the south Pacific. Her idea was to get a sailboat and set sail down the Jupiter line. See also her line running through the boot of Italy then up the leg and the French/German border.


My girlfriend’s three lines crossing north of Miami and west of the Bahamas at about Jupiter, Florida. These lines are; Uranus/Asc [blue], Jupiter/MC [the Rx symbol, line in magenta], and Circle K/DS [Chiron].

 

If you do bring up your astro-cartography map look for several lines crossing in the same place. If you have questions write me and I can answer them and explain the maps.

 

Here’s an astro-cartography map of someone born 10/9/52. Two points of interest are the Mars line crossing the Sun line west of the line between San Antonio and Dallas, TX. This is the point near San Angelo/Midland, TX where, in fact, the person was born. However, the crossing lines indicate a lot of energy there particularly on their masculine side, their father and family. Fiery masculine energy.

        Also note the green and blue lines crossing north of New York City. This is the area of about Litchfield, CT also Kent, CT/Pawling, NY. Venus crossing Uranus – unexpected romantic or Venusian affairs, Venus being the ruling planet of the Libra native. Potentially very auspicious.

 

 

Here’s a map of someone born 1/15/55. A few things to note are the red line crossing the black line at the Canadian/US border south of Regina. Powerful death aspects. The broad fuchsia line running through Cuba and up the Florida coast at about Ft. Lauderdale then south of Charleston SC is two co-incident lines, the Sun and Jupiter. Very auspicious especially as there is a Uranus line nearby to the east one or two hundred miles away.

The two green lines crossing north of Victoria, BC are auspicious and I would suggest maybe an Alaska cruise And staying for a time south of Juneau where the two reddish lines and the blue line cross the coast through the islands. The area around Petersburg, AK and Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park, BC.

 

Astro-cartography is powerful stuff.

 


Feeting the vicissitudes of human affairs


That N word SOB Holder should be indicted! And stop horse-shitting around in Syria when we have MORE PRESSING problems in the US. what are we going to do - invade Syria to "help out" like that drug addict slimeball Bush did???????? shape up JMcC - don't bother writing me back - I'm not an AZ and the last person I voted for was Goldwater - remember making the fucking post office private????? Carlos” My recent email to AZ Senator John McCain


Thomas Jefferson– “Where the people fear the government, you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-23/culture-fear-and-intimidation

 

Recent [6/17/13] email to Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Like I’ve said my hope is the get through this incarnation without being forced to kill myself like Socrates – or worse. Only 47 of 100 Senators showed up for a huge briefing by EVERYONE in charge of NSA, et. al on Thursday before Father’s Day weekend.

 

"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" is the Presidential oath NOT protect the American people. We the people are capable of doing that ourselves. That’s why we have the 2nd amendment.

"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."

So!!!! Where were all the Senators at the NSA/FBI/DoJ/Clapper/Prism presentation last Thursday????? Congress and the septuagenarian pussies in it are largely the cause of this illegal spying. You – you’re an Aunt Jemima for the lying N-word asshole in the White House.

We want Congress on Medicare and Social Security

My email to Glenn Greenwald

Glenn.greenwald@guardian.co.uk

 

What if Barack Obama were not Barack Obama?

As in, he makes speeches etc but what if someone else, a cabal, as it were, actually set policy and ran things? Look at the Petraeus thing. It was clearly known BEFORE he got the CIA job of his affairs. He was set up and my guess is when he found out about the background power and spying and began to not go along with it he was dumped.

Who – if you are willing to entertain the question – really is in charge? One hint is that Gen. Alexander MUST be part of it. Who could the others be? Someone(s) at the Fed.

Remember Obama saying “remember what happened to Dr. King” He’s afraid.

This is even bigger than Snowden.

 

Carlos

I must pass beyond the reach of human events and cease to feet the vicissitudes of human affairs

 

Andrew Jackson’s farewell address is quite good and his warnings about money have all come to pass. See what he says on the life of freedom in America living under the constitution of sages and patriots of the Revolution. This from a time where America and Americans revered living under the rule of LAWS as opposed to living under the rule of MEN who think they know better than the LAW.

 

The paper system being founded on public confidence and having of itself no intrinsic value, it is liable to great and sudden fluctuations, thereby rendering property insecure and the wages of labor unsteady and uncertain. The corporations which create the paper money can not be relied upon to keep the circulating medium uniform in amount. In times of prosperity, when confidence is high, they are tempted by the prospect of gain or by the influence of those who hope to profit by it to extend their issues of paper beyond the bounds of discretion and the reasonable demands of business; and when these issues have been pushed on from day to day, until public confidence is at length shaken, then a reaction takes place, and they immediately withdraw the credits they have given, suddenly curtail their issues, and produce an unexpected and ruinous contraction of the circulating medium, which is felt by the whole community. The banks by this means save themselves, and the mischievous consequences of their imprudence or cupidity are visited upon the public.

 

Nor does the evil stop here. These ebbs and flows in the currency and these indiscreet extensions of credit naturally engender a spirit of speculation injurious to the habits and character of the people.[1] We have already seen its effects in the wild spirit of speculation in the public lands and various kinds of stock which within the last year or two seized upon such a multitude of our citizens and threatened to pervade all classes of society and to withdraw their attention from the sober pursuits of honest industry. It is not by encouraging this spirit that we shall best preserve public virtue and promote the true interests of our country; but if your currency continues as exclusively paper as it now is, it will foster this eager desire to amass wealth without labor; it will multiply the number of dependents on bank accommodations and bank favors; the temptation to obtain money at any sacrifice will become stronger and stronger, and inevitably lead to corruption, which will find its way into your public councils and destroy at no distant day the purity of your Government…

 

These views alone of the paper currency are sufficient to call for immediate reform; but there is another consideration which should still more strongly press it upon your attention.

Recent events have proved that the paper-money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions, and that those who desire to engross all power in the hands of the few and to govern by corruption or force are aware of its power and prepared to employ it. Your banks now furnish your only circulating medium, and money is plenty or scarce according to the quantity of notes issued by them. While they have capitals not greatly disproportioned to each other, they are competitors in business, and no one of them can exercise dominion over the rest; and although in the present state of the currency these banks may and do operate injuriously upon the habits of business, the pecuniary concerns, and the moral tone of society, yet, from their number and dispersed situation, they can not combine for the purposes of political influence, and whatever may be the dispositions of some of them their power of mischief must necessarily be confined to a narrow space and felt only in their immediate neighborhoods.

 

and more - In presenting to you, my fellow-citizens, these parting counsels, I have brought before you the leading principles upon which I endeavored to administer the Government in the high office with which you twice honored me. Knowing that the path of freedom is continually beset by enemies who often assume the disguise of friends, I have devoted the last hours of my public life to warn you of the dangers. The progress of the United States under our free and happy institutions has surpassed the most sanguine hopes of the founders of the Republic. Our growth has been rapid beyond all former example in numbers, in wealth, in knowledge, and all the useful arts which contribute to the comforts and convenience of man, and from the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons. It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

 

and the final paragraph is sweet -

My own race is nearly run; advanced age and failing health warn me that before long I must pass beyond the reach of human events and cease to feet the vicissitudes of human affairs. I thank God that my life has been spent in a land of liberty and that He has given me a heart to love my country with the affection of a son. And filled with gratitude for your constant and unwavering kindness, I bid you a last and affectionate farewell. ANDREW JACKSON.

 

Washington’s Farewell Address makes the same point about America having nothing to fear from foreign powers but internal powers of corruption and partisan politics – think Cheney’s Project for a New American Century.

I got to Andrew Jackson from a few comments to the following piece warning about the gold market. It too is well worth reading - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/guest-post-geopolitics-gold

 


I don’t see no problems here! (until after the 2014 election)

 

and more at

http://brucekrasting.com/on-the-social-security-annual-report-to-congress/

 


I’ve had enough time on my hands to sit around recriminating about parts of my life that I think I should have done better. And I’m also wondering why I have not accomplished more - actually why have I not gotten more worldly acclaim? And for all of what I think are my intellectual potential and education what I am left with is my physical accomplishments, the last thing I ever thought I would be known for as I was sickly when younger - overweight, sluggish, than a serious case of polio, then almost 16 years of very active alcoholism.

 

I got rescued from my negative thinking when I idly picked up the Upanishads I had on a back corner of my desk and randomly turned to the Taittiriya Upanishad.

 

9.1 Realizing That from which all worlds turn back

And thoughts can never reach, they know

The bliss of Brahman and fear no more.

No more are they oppressed by the question,

“How did I fail to perform what is right?

And how did I perform what is not right?”

Those who realize the joy of Brahman,

Having known what is right and what is wrong,

Are delivered forever from this duality.

 

James Thurber once responded to a New Yorker editor’s memo that the word ‘that’ was being used too much by replying – “I consider that that "that" that worries us so much should be forgotten. Rats desert a sinking ship. Thats infest a sinking magazine.”

 

“Good and bad deeds are not the direct causes of the transformations of nature, but they act as breakers of obstacles to its evolutions - as a farmer breaks the obstacles to the course of water, which then flows down by its own nature.” The Aphorisms of Patanjali, from Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, paperback edition 1982.

In other words, our actions such as meditating do not get us rewards from God and elevate us spiritually. We are already perfect. What we think are good deeds free us from our own barriers to expressing the perfection that already exists within us. All “spiritual advancement” is, at heart, negative work – removing barriers not acquiring ‘goodness’.

 


I’m back to the burning library from a few BIMs ago. This is the library of my astrologer former friend who went blind and whose library I secondhandedly ended up with. My former friend expired in March 2013 and I went to a nice Memorial service for her and spoke not at all, nor was I asked to. I was told by my friend’s last caregiver how often my friend had spoken of me. It was quite shocking as I had not seen her for almost 5 years before her expiration. We had a heavy falling apart of our friendship concluding with her accusing me of breaking into her house and stealing her jewelry. Ah well. It was a ‘Battle of the Titans’ thing. It was actually her daughter who stole the jewelry and who later died of a drug overdose but my former friend never came and apologized to me.

        I am finally getting to put some of the books back onto shelves after months in boxes from a flooring project. Just putting the books into shelves was interrupted by lots of browsing.

The Rediscovery of the Soul

 

I have returned, I am once again there-

I am with you-after long years of long wandering

I have come again to you.

Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, drunk into myself?

Or don’t you want to hear of all the inner noise

and the world?

But one thing you must know, one thing I have learnt,

that one must live this life.

This life is the way, the longest sought after, the way

to the incomprehensible, which we call divine.

There is no other way.

all other ways are false paths.

I found the right way, it led me to you, to

my Soul.

I return, tempered and purified...

From the beginning of chapter Two of Jung’s Red Book, from Jung’s Last Years and Other Essays, Jaffe, pg 155-6. Jaffe had exclusive access to Jung’s Red Book until it was published in 2009. This is sort of how I feel now that I’m standing on my head again after a 10 year layoff. LOL

 

“Life seems to be an interlude in a long story. It has been long before I was, and it will most probably continue long after...” C.G. Jung from Jung’s Last Years, Aniela Jaffe, cover

 

I have had much trouble getting along with my ideas. There was a daimon in me, and in the end its presence proved decisive. It overpowered me...I had to obey an inner law which was imposed on me and left me no freedom of choice. ...A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon...This lack of freedom has been a great sorrow to me.” Jung, Memories dreams, reflections, pg 356-57

 

“I compose as a cow urinates.” Mozart, implying, in my mind, that cows MUST urinate, Mozart’s daimon DEMANDED he compose.

 

“The search is finished. It seemed to begin innocently enough. I had no idea that losing my life in the search was the only way I could keep my life. Only now have I begun to understand why I had to go. I am left with a world weariness and lack of caring for most normal affairs.”  From the epilogue of my yet unpublished book now titled Indian Tales

 

The question of circumstances propitious to synchronistic phenomena offers special difficulties. Empirically, it has been established that they occur (in the form of prophetic dreams, premonitions, psychokinesis, etc.) with greater frequency in the vicinity of archetypal events, such as death, illness, crisis, the onset of mental diseases. Since in archetypal situations man usually reacts with strong emotions, it would seem that emotion itself favors the occurrence of synchronistic phenomena. And, in fact, during or because of emotion, the threshold of consciousness is lowered, and the unconscious and its contents-the archetypes-gain the upper hand. In other words, man falls into the relative space-timelessness of the unconscious where he experiences synchronistic events more easily than he would in a state of calm and sober consciousness. For this reason paranormal phenomena play a much greater part in the life of primitives, with their still feebly developed consciousness which has not yet sharply divided from the unconscious, than they do in ours, hence, also the highly developed gift for extrasensory perception occasionally observed in children diminishes when they grow up and their consciousness has become firmly established… Jaffe, pg 34

 

…it was shown that most spontaneous parapsychological phenomena were observed in connection with dying and death. …Death is an archetypal situation of immense numinosity.[2] Here the unconscious breaks through into life, and no one in the vicinity can escape its power, which in many cases affects even animals. The emotion with which the psyche reacts causes a weakening or a loosening of the structure of the unconscious: prophetic dreams, premonitions, apparitions step through the gaps as heralds of the mighty archetype Death.

…Jung inclined to the view that so-called “genuine magic” as practiced by medicine men is based on the scientific still-unexplained capacity to rouse oneself to a pitch of extreme emotion by an act of will, thus creating the necessary conditions for synchronistic events. Jaffe, pg 35

 

He preferred to let things develop in their own way. “Don’t interfere!” was one of his guiding axioms, which he observed so long as a waiting-and-watching attitude could be adopted without danger. …This attitude of Jung’s was the very reverse of indolence; it sprang from a curiosity about life and events that is characteristic of the researcher. They happened and he let them happen, not turning his back on them but following their development with keen attention, waiting expectedly to see what would result. Jung never ruled out the possibility that life knew better than the correcting mind and his attention was directed not so much to the things themselves as to that unknowable agent which organizes the event beyond the will and knowledge of man. His aim was to understand the hidden intention of the organizer, and, to penetrate its secrets, no happening was too trivial and no moment too short-lived. Jaffe, pg 103

 

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The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, Penguin books

 

Invested with an invincible courage, filled with an impassioned desire to suffer for its God, the soul then is seized with a strange torment—that of not being allowed to suffer enough. James, pg 414 from St. John of the Cross describing the plight of some who have mystical experiences.

 

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphal mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences in clime or creed… Perpetually telling of the unity of man with God, their speech antedates languages and they do not grow old. James, pg 419

 

The highest resources of worldly wisdom are unable to attain that which divine leading comes to us of its own accord. James, pg 475

 

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William James

“About a century ago William James, whose insights on the human mind have been rivaled only by Shakespeare and Freud’s, produced a truly startling hypothesis on the nature of emotions and feeling. Consider his words:”

 

If we fancy some strong emotion and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no “mind stuff” out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains.

 

All from Descartes’s Error - Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio, Avon Books, pg 129. Damasio credits James for noting the strong physical component of emotion.

 

The three books I am reading and re-reading are

·       Wm. James – The Varieties of Spiritual Experiences

·       Damasio - Decartes’s Error

·       Zweig – Your Money & Your Brain – How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Make You Rich

 

Essential elements of a religious experience:

·       The central one is the loss of all worry, the sense that all is ultimately well with one, the peace, the harmony, the willingness to be, even though the outer conditions remain the same. …A passion of willingness, of acquiescence, of admiration, is the glowing centre of this state of mind.

·       The sense of perceiving truths not known before. The mysteries of life become lucid…and often unutterable in words.

·       ‘An appearance of newness beautifies every object,’ ... This sense of clean and beautiful newness within and without is one of the commonest entries in conversion records. Jonathan Edwards describes it in himself: - “After this my sense of divine things gradually increased, and became more and more lively, and had more of that inward sweetness. The appearance of everything was altered; there seemed to be, as it were, a calm, sweet cast, or appearance of divine glory, in almost everything. God’s excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, and trees; in the water and all of nature. …” James, pg. 249

 

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The living spirit grows and even outgrows its earlier forms of expression; it freely chooses the men in whom it lives and who proclaim it. This living spirit is eternally renewed and pursues its goal in manifold and inconceivable ways throughout the history of mankind. Measured against it, the names and forms which men have given it mean little enough; they are only changing leaves and blossoms on the stem of the eternal tree. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a soul, pg 244

 

The Self cannot be known through the study of scriptures, not through intellect nor from hearing learned discourses. It can be attained only by those whom the Self chooses. Katha Upanishad

 

This is a totally cute drone

 

Swiss made, electric motor, NICE design http://www.sensefly.com/home.html

 


On the US’s new Constitution

 

I haven’t had time to work on this but thought I should put down a few of the major elements of my ideas.

First, all democracies such as ours are aberrations in the human condition. They are unable to last long before becoming subsumed by people’s desires for goods and services from “The Government.” It’s likely we will not again see anything like our creative establishment of a truly free and unfettered democracy such as created at great risk and overarching intelligence by our Founding Fathers. We as a people are different than those of Jackson’s day. Note Jackson’s gratitude for living in a land of free people. Not us. We want government handouts and have been willing to give up our Liberty for them.

 

Second, the MAJOR element of my proposed constitution is a unique biometric identifier for each person in the country. This identifier would link a person to EVERY good and service such as taxes, health care, voting ID, state ID, driver’s license,. Essentially, it would be a meta-social security number for everyone in the country, citizen or visitor. http://www.zdnet.com/in/indias-biometric-id-projects-near-400m-people-milestone-7000014448/

 

Third, voting for all issues is done through your identifier. All voter rolls and qualifications disappear. Everyone has an ID and is associated with a legal address for voting purposes.

 

Fourth, all visitors to the US will be assigned an ID upon arrival if they do not already have one.

 

Fifth, obviously, many other details ensue but note that for Presidential Elections the Electoral College disappears – voting is done directly, nationwide. Note the Census disappears or, more accurately, is available in real-time. Congressional re-districting can be done at any time.

 

Everyone in the country is essentially monitored especially if IDing were done for many normal transactions.

 

Ehhhh, sometime I’ll maybe get around to the details but for now that’s the basics. Oh, you don’t like it? We essentially have this all going on now in terms of IDing and just check out the current level of surveillance going on.

 

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck  

 



[1] Think day trading, flipping houses and getting an MBA and working on Wall Street. Also going on disability, unemployment, etc.

[2] 1. Of or relating to a numen; supernatural. 2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence: a numinous place. 3. Spiritually elevated; sublime. 4. arousing spiritual or religious emotions 5. mysterious or awe-inspiring - Latin numen divine will

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