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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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7:22 pm
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Well, goodbye everyone. If you haven't yet, find yourself some PLUR. You'll thank yourself.
Adios.
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| Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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12:41 pm
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THE RAVERS' MOTTO : P.L.U.R.
Peace, Love, Unity and Respect
* Peace - Letting go of fear and living at peace with oneself, one another, and the planet for a greater good.
* Love - As one learns to love oneself, one is able to love everyone else unconditionally.
* Unity - A mutual, corporate bond is formed resulting from the love and peace experienced with one another.
* Respect - Because of peace love and unity, one can accept others regardless of their beliefs or background
A Ravers Manifesto
Our emotional state of choice is Ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be.
You may hate us. You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be unaware of our existence. We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would never judge you. We are not criminals. We are not disillusioned. We are not drug addicts. We are not naive children. We are one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical geography, and time itself. We are The Massive. One Massive.
We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the thunderous, muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother's heart soothing a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring. We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we are all equal. Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music slamming into us and passing through our souls: we are all equal. And somewhere around 35Hz we could feel the hand of God at our backs, pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and uplift them by sharing the uncontrollable joy we felt from creating this magical bubble that can, for one evening, protect us from the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside world. It is in that very instant, with these initial realizations that each of us was truly born. We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left for naught, and we bring life to them for one night. Strong, throbbing, vibrant life in it's purest, most intense, most hedonistic form. In these makeshift spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us. We seek to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles and restraints you've put on us for your own peace of mind. We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to indoctrinate us with since the moment we were born. Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient pigeon hole possible. Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster wheels. Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our own capable hands. Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open them.
Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the dystopian reality of a world you've created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom, Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression, Responsibility and Respect.
Our enemy of choice is ignorance. Our weapon of choice is information. Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence. But know that while you may shut down any given party, on any given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire party. You don't have access to that switch, no matter what you may think. The music will never stop. The heartbeat will never fade. The party will never end.
I am a raver, and this is my manifesto.
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| Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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5:59 am
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Kill The Elephants! Don't, really, just click the link, read the story, get a little outraged, right? OH NO! The elephant population is burgeoning and expanding and potentially killing other species. We should kill it.
It sounds really familiar. What other species do we know of that has a tremendous population and destroys the habitat of other species? Think really, really hard.
Is that why there is so much war, then? Maybe? Asinine, right.
This other story made me really happy to see
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| Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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11:22 pm
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10 Ways YOU Can Fight Fascism Around the World
I wrote this for Nick Pell at Key 64. I’m very glad he asked me to write it, because it did me a lot of good to get my thoughts organized, and the response to this piece has been huge. I’m backing it up here because I like my formatting more, plus I fixed a number of typos.
This is the best guide I can offer for proactive, prolonged, independent and effective resistance against the overwhelming direction towards greater warfare, poverty, and fascist control we see around the world in 2007.
I was asked by a weirdo I have a lot of respect for to write on this specific subject. I want this article to be as useful as possible, so I’m just going to lay things on the table as quickly and as clearly as I can.
Let’s begin by shaking off bad language—we tend to discuss politics using old metaphors, which are useless today and actually make understanding the problem more difficult. There is no Left and Right, there is no “inside the system” because none of us are “outside” of it, there is no change “from the bottom up” because there is no “top” to bring the change to.
We find ourselves up against an entrenched power structure composed of a relatively very small group of wealthy elites. They seldom rule directly or even visibly, and maintain their power through building huge armed bureacracies who enforce power for them. The global power structure is a decentralized, constantly shifting network of organized crime and national control systems, representing many different races, nationalities, religious dogmas and cultures.
However, there are common threads in all systems of social control: They do not have a sense of humor, they are bitterly opposed to Art, and they are unable to handle bizarre and confusing situations. These systems are built upon enforcing conformity, turning nature into consumer goods, and controlling information. These systems require enemies and they create criminals.
Because of these common threads, these systems all have common weakness that we have the power to exploit to incredible effect. If you take nothing else away from this, please remember: you are exponentially more powerful than you think you are.
The simplest summation of the overall strategy I propose is this:
1. Destabilize Existing Structure
2. Minimize Destructive Backlash
3. Establish Robust Communication
To this end, I propose 10 steps which form a conceptual toolkit. Perhaps that’s a euphemism for “disorganized pile of shit,” but I feel strongly that these are all relevant and useful:
1. Practice is repetition is preparation is power.
Can you win a fight? Can you control a situation enough to escape? Can you outrun police? I’m not saying you need to be able to knock someone out like Brad Pitt, but I am saying self-defense is a core life skill. Without it, you’re not effective. I recommend Aikido and Tai Chi to all living humans, unconditionally.
Establish meaningful and beneficial routines. Our culture is a constant pulse of imposed rhythms and rituals that we need to actively fight against to maintain clarity and effectiveness. Learning any skill set is amazingly simple: learn about it, then try it out until you get it. That iron-clad formula will guide you through anything, from juggling to fellatio to meditation.
2. Create situations that cannot be controlled.
I don’t propose that because it’s punk rock, but because I believe it’s a solid strategy. Ideally, in any confrontation, you want control of the situation. However, we’re talking about us, you and me as individuals, taking on the global power structure of Earth in 2007 for control of our planet. We are not in control of the situation, it is dumb to assume we could be. So go for the next best thing—be totally unpredictable, escalate chaos and noise, and create a situation that nobody could possibly control.
This is basically an unspoken bet with your opponent: “I am giving up control of this situation because I am faster, smarter and stronger than you.” Embrace chaos and leverage chaos, because what cannot be predicted cannot be controlled. Only a lawyer would pretend otherwise.
3. Do not allow yourself to be controlled by situations.
What do you do if someone puts a loaded gun in your face? Sure, that’s a heavy situation, but do you panic? I propose you remain calm and ask the human with the gun what they want. There is never any reason to panic. Self-assembling nanotech hunter-destroyer clusters swarming thousands of feet high, raining down human blood and internal organs, is still not a valid reason to panic. Panic is helpless idiot fear. In high stakes situations, you need to be calm and focused.
Horrible and amazing things will happen in the next five years, but you’re going to survive and maintain, just like humans always do. You yourself should make peace with death. I mean that honestly, not being sarcastic or macabre—it’s important for psychological health to keep your death in perspective. Avoiding it always leads to complications, and as I will discuss later, denial of death has been shown to make people more suggestible, afraid, and prone to violence.
4. Seek information, avoid arguments.
The only person responsible for getting you trustworthy information is you. This involves a great deal of work. Am I seriously advocating that you spend hours a day just sitting around learning stuff? Absolutely yes, I am. The wonderful Jennifer Bowen introduced me to the phrase “good company is kept discussing good ideas—not people.”
The internet is insanely effective for rapidly accessing high volumes of high quality information. It’s also a great way to spend four hours checking your email, watching porn, or getting into pointless arguments with total strangers. We all have egos, we all get pissed off occasionally, but don’t do that online: get up immediately and use that anger to lift some free weights.
5. Seek predictive models, avoid explanatory models.
I propose that it’s more important to have a general sense of what’s coming up next, than to have a precise picture of what’s going on now. The global power structure is not a monolithic, static object: it is constantly shifting, and while we focus on one tentacle, seven more will be taking advantage of our ignorance. An accurate history of this power structure is far less valuable than knowing how they operate, and what their assumptions are.
Remember, we’re living on the same planet. No amount of secret insider knowledge will spare you the consequences of catastrophic storms, toxic pollution, solar and lunar cycles, space weather radiation, etc. The global power structure has to respond and adapt to the world it claims to control, use the cycles of nature against them.
This is a massive source of power that few activists seem to be aware of: for the past three centuries, governments, militaries and corporations have been waging a very literal War Against Nature, attempting to control what they cannot understand. Recent documents like the UK Ministry of Defense report “Global Trends 2007-2036” make it clear that those in power cannot predict the short-term consequences of worldwide toxic pollution. They are scrambling to prepare for a future crisis they cannot plan for. You can, though.
6. Become an autonomous cell.
Do you realize that most of what “intelligence analysts” do is just read through publicly available media and look for patterns? Are you familiar with the concept, technique and theory behind “asymmetric warfare?” What do you think military analysts mean when they predict a future of “constant low-intensity urban conflict?” Is it signifigant that the US government has a long track record of inflitrating, subverting and murdering counter-culture icons and revolutionary leaders?
As Peter J. Carroll observed in Psybermagick: “In practice the power of any conspiracy rises and falls in inverse proportion to the power of its internal conspiracies. Mutual guilt and bribery mainly hold together conspiracies whose ideologies command insufficient loyalty, but this makes them vulnerable.” Take advantage of your opponents paranoia, use their need for control against them.
Autonomy also implies economic freedom, good health, and secure access to food. Shelter can of course be communal and improvised—in many climates, shelter is barely nescessary most of the year. Although I’m essentially advocating that we take the Army recruiting slogan, “an army of one,” further than they themselves ever will, I’m not avocating turning your back on anyone. I’m advocating that you work for your community, independently and perhaps invisibly.
7. Don’t be a dickhead, and love thy neighbor.
It’s the only rational approach to life: do your best to be nice. By doing so, you make life easier for those around you, you reduce physical stress that wears on your own body, and you will often find yourself reaping rewards at random. Some people call this “karma,” other folks call this “emergent properties of complex networks.”
Be nice to your neighbors. Help them out for no reason, refuse to accept money for doing so. Partly because real charity is subversive these days. Also, in 2007, you do not want the cops called on you, period. You truly do the world a favor when you purge yourself of terms like “sheeple” and “the herd”—I’ve also learned, through hilarious personal experience, that referring to taxpaying citizens as “slaves” will never work out for you.
There is nothing wrong with being selfish, only being dumb. Dumb selfish people look for simple self-benefit, smart selfish people look for open-ended, mutually beneficial situations. If you can improve your community, you have also improved your personal power base and your chances for long-term success. That’s not “public service,” just science, math and common sense.
8. Invest in tools and share them subversively.
The old Industrial Revolution plan for social control was simple. Wealthy families owned all the “capital goods”—the machines and factories that make consumer goods. So they used that power to hire poor people to work for them, in exchange for being able to purchase some of the “consumer goods” they themselves made. Things have changed a lot in 2007, because the line between capital and consumer goods has blurred almost completely. You can launch a record label with about $5000 and be pressing your own CDs, for instance.
Technology is magick. I think that’s become clear enough to just leave that as a statement. We now have the tools for invisibility, weather control, human cloning and burning entire cities to the ground with a single missile. We will soon have the tools for universal translation, undoing one of Jehovah’s major curses as chronicled in Genesis 11. It’s vitally important that us fringe weirdos get ahold of all these amazing future toys before they get turned into future weapons against us.
Sharing is subversive. Communal access to important tools is subversive. Growth is a sign of a healthy economy, profit is a sign of a sick one. Break the profit cycle everywhere you can. Nobody will go pay for a service or tool when they can use an equally good one locally, for free. You would be amazed how low overhead can be when maintenance is your only expense. You would be amazed how well you can maintain tools and facilities if you’re willing to put in work.
9. Become a Beacon of Insane Hope
Yeah, perhaps I’m reaching with this one, but I mean it emphatically. There is no shortage of people telling me how fucked I am, but I’ve spent the better part of a year tracking down people who are talking about solutions, comparing technique, and putting in work towards something better. I want to talk to people about seed bombs, quantum microdots, urban farming, water purification, anything that can improve reality, here and now.
There’s strong evidence that fear and anger are actively used as tools of manipulation and social control: the White House spent $1.6 billion dollars in 2006 on “public relations.” This is a signal that needs to be counteracted, becacause based on psychology experiments, evoking the concept of death alters human perception. People become more dogmatic, nationalist and likely to support violence. This is based on the research of Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski, and you can find more information searching for the phrase “Terror Management Theory.”
I am not advocating violence to any extent. Perhaps this is the strangest concept in my toolbag, but for what it’s worth: violence is actually not your weapon. Sure, you can throw rocks at cops, shoot cops, and blow up police stations, but you’re actually not accomplishing anything. In fact, you’re doing Their Job for them, which is why undercover police officers around the world try to start riots at peaceful protests. Violence is not a weapon we can control, so it’s not a weapon we should use, either.
10. Please, be fearless.
The stakes are beautifully high, the enemy is unbelievably strong, the fight looks completely hopeless. It’s too perfect, it’s ridiculous. How can we be bored on a planet as deliciously dangerous and insane as Earth? I can only conclude that my entire generation is living inside an open-ended video game that we’ve been training for since birth without even realizing it.
So keep pushing, stay calm, eat healthy, seek novelty, breathe deeply, take risks, think slowly, move quickly, speak clearly, fight dirty, dream crazy and please, be fearless.
If you’d like to contact me, feel free. I am friendly, honest and generous.
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| Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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2:32 pm - they live!
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"We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others, we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery."
"They use their tongues to deceive,
The venom of snakes is under their lips,
Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses,
And in their paths nothing but ruin and misery,
The fear of God is not before their eyes,
They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders,
They have recruited the rich and the powerful,
And they have blinded us to the truth,
Our human spirit is corrupted,
Why do we worship greed?
Because, outside the limit of our sight, feeding of us,
Perched on top us from birth to death,
Are our owners, our owners,
They have us,
They control us,
They are our masters,
WAKE UP!
They are all about you, all around you."
Yeah, it's a cheesy science fiction movie starring a wrestler from the '80s, a quirky little flick, but it definitely touches on some kind of reality here. Do you want to be obsessed with things and out of tune with the natural cycle, living in an artificial hell, removed from the sacred womb of nature? Go for it. Have fun. I'm out.
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| Friday, November 23rd, 2007
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2:05 pm - giving thanks
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thank you for the cold. thank you for the numb toes and frozen nose. thank you for the blankets. thank you for the potatoes. thank you for the toilet. thank you, light-bulbs on this bush. thank you wires. thank you keyboard. thank you for the time. thanks for all the laughs. thank you for the disappointment. thank you for my thumbs. thank you for my eyes. thank you for my self. thank you for you. thanks for all the fish. thank you for the wine. thank you for the confusion. thank you for the job. thank you for the car. thank you for the bottom bunk. thank you for the roomie. thank you for the television. thank you for the free will. thank you for the source. thank you for the distraction. thank you for the Truth. thank you for the words. thank you for the actions. thank you for the smile. thank you for the frown of disapproval. thank you for the flashing lights. thank you for the nervousness. thank you for the turkey. thank you for the dating system. thank you for the starlight. thank you for the magnetic field. thank you for the static charges. thank you for the lightbulbs. thank you for the lowball glasses. thank you for the puppies. thank you for this cat. thanks for the hugs. many thanks for the kisses. thank you for the honesty. thank you for the annoyance. a thousand thanks for the pain. a million thanks for the joy. endless thanks for the friendship. thanks for the water balloons. thanks for the nicotine fingers. thank you for this. thanks for everything.
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| Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
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4:38 am - Quotes from the end of Zeitgeist, The Movie (2007)
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"As long as people continue to see themselves as separate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved. The men behind the curtain know this, and know that if people ever realized the truth of their relationship to nature, and the truth of their personal power, that the entire manufactured Zeitgeist they prey upon will collapse, like a house of cards"
"The whole system that we live in drills into us that we are powerless, that we are weak, that our society is evil, that it's privative et cetera and so forth. It's all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason that we cannot understand who we truly are, where we are going. There is no reason why the average individual cannot be fully empowered, we are incredibly powerful beings."
"You know I think I spent thirty years of my life... in the first thirty, trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things. I wanted to be good at tennis I wanted to be good at school and grades, and everything I kinda viewed in that perspective: I'm not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things... and I realized that I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was."
"Now in our culture we've been trained for individual differences to stand out. So you look at each person and media kid is: brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer. And we make all these different dimensional distinctions put them in categories and treat them that way. And we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves, in the ways in which they're separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you, not different from you. And experiencing the fact: that which is essence in you and which is essence in me is indeed one. The understand that there is no other. It is all one. And I wasn't born Richard Alpert, I was just born as a human being, and then I learned this whole business of who I am and whether I'm good or bad or achieving or not, all that's learned, along the way."
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will be at peace - Jimi Hendrix"
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored. And it's very loud, and it's fun for awhile. Some have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered and they come back to us and they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride".
And we KILL those people.
"Shut him up I'm INVESTED in this ride! SHUT HIM UP!" Look at my furrows of worry. "Look at my big bank account, and my family, this has to be real". It's just a ride. But people kill those good guys that try and tell us that, you ever notice that?
And let the demons run amok? But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride, and you can change it any time you want.
It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money, just a choice right now, between the eyes of fear... and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world right now to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it on feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world which it would, many times over. Not ONE person excluded...and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." - - - How the late Bill "Off The Ride" Hicks often ended his shows
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| Friday, October 5th, 2007
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5:14 am - a message to you larry
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yesterday/today was my first day as an employee of an inventory firm. basically we get assigned to a certain store, at a certain time, meet up with other employees and scan bar codes. last night we were taking inventory at a super-store chain from 10pm until 3am (or whenever the job was finished). mapquest gave my crappy directions and i got lost, had to stop at a gas station with ten minutes until start-time. the clerk gave me directions to the store in the town i asked for and i was supremely happy, as i thought for sure i would be late and risk losing my new job on the first day. when i got to the store, however, i found that i was the only employee from my company present. i was sent to the wrong one, and now it was 10:15pm. one of the clerks at that store told me how to get to the other one. it was a lot of directions and i struggled to remember them as i ran to my car and cruised off at high speeds.
i did eventually get there, around 10:30 and was more flustered than i needed to be. they don't mind if you get lost and are late, as long as you still make it. humans make mistakes, and the tools they use don't always work as well as they could, after all. i got situated in and started my job, scanning -beep-scan-beep-scan-beep-scan-beep paperwork next area scan-beep-scan-beep and so on. the job apparently has a drug-free policy, zero tolerance, so i used my break to try to get a feel for how strict it was and if i should suspect a random piss test. lots of talk about ozzfest; not my scene, really. break over, back to scanning. at one point there was so much beeping from every angle that i thought to myself, "a bunch of people awake at 2am, listening to beeps and clicks.. am i at a rave?". the work went fast, and faster nearer to the end. we had between fifty and a hundred people there, all from their differing backgrounds, working towards one common goal: a locust-like appetite for scanning bar-codes.
shift ended, store was done, and we were set free. the frustration at being lost and late had long since faded away. a guy about my age (later found out he was 20) came up to me and asked if i could give him a ride to downtown minneapolis. i agreed instantly and we clocked out and headed to my car. in the car i asked him if he had to take a piss test for the job, and he said nope, he's been working for them for two weeks and still no urine has been asked. after this he gave me directions to the backbeat of black sun empire while we rapped on about our lives, our worries with work (getting lost on my part, missing an assignment by going in during pm hours instead of am), the females in our lives, and, naturally, the chemicals we choose to self-medicate with. he talked about coke, ecstasy, buds, i talked about lsd, ecstasy, 2c-b, mushrooms. he told me his age, that he had two kids, didn't have a car of his own so he had to take the bus to his assignments (and would have had to wait until 5am for the next bus if i didn't give him a ride home). he thanked me again but i let him know my stance on it: people help people, people treat people how they themselves want to be treated. a lot of people apparently want to be treated like dirt, but personally i'd like to have one more friendly face in my world, especially an unexpected one. that's why i have a job, really. the money is nice, the money is useful to certain ends, but what really makes it, or any aspect of societal living worth it, for me, is the human connections we form every day. here he and i are, our lives running parallel for these moments, two human beings who had no idea they'd ever meet or speak or smile or share, and here we are, smiling, speaking, sharing. similar worries, similar joys. so alike within our differences.
we got to his place and he gave me directions to the highway i needed to get to. then i packed up a bowl and he thanked me again, saying he hadn't smoked all day. he complimented my buds as we wheezed, hacked, and laughed. we talked about this and that for a bit more, different areas of the cities, getting mugged, and people in the metro area. we both came to the same conclusion about the majority of folks: if you don't bother them, they won't bother you, though there are some asshole exceptions to that rule. i said that i had met some cool crackheads for all of the freaky ones i'd met, at least, and that basically it's all about respect. we're all just people, none of us are really right, and we all, for the most part i suppose, just want to be treated nicely, and with some respect, dignity. one teach one! after a bit he made his leave, thanking me again and giving me his last five dollars which i graciously accepted (as i was broke, and not expecting anything in return. for a second i thought about telling him to keep it, but i figured he liked to give as much as he received, as i do. he went for a handshake but i pulled him in for the real thing with a hug and then off into the night he went.
i started to drive home and realized 35w was closed where i was going. i sent a text message to a friend of mine in the area a few minutes before asking if he wanted to smoke a bowl, and he responded, so i called him. it was at that point that i realized the 35w detour was already taking me directly to his new apartment (helped him get moved in last week, had to deal with a SOFA FROM FUCKING HELL not fitting through a doorway by two inches before we altered it with knives). i recognized the area immediately and parked at the bottom of a curved hill by the parking complex to his building. there was a squad car parked on the same side of the road as me about 20 meters away or so. it was raining moderately hard, so i put my hoodie up. i put my bud and my pipe in my pocket and figured i'd go ask the police officer if it was okay to park there, on the curve, since i was somewhat unsure even though there was no sign indicating that it was not okay. i half suspected them to ticket me as soon as i got out of sight (unlikely, since it was raining, and cops don't much like to get wet; remember kids, the best time to smuggle drugs is during nasty weather!). i sauntered over to his (i could tell they were a male by now) side of the car, about six feet away. he was fiddling with stuff in the passenger seat, alone, and i stood waving to get his attention. when he finally turned around and saw me he donned a shocked look and visibly jumped, which i smiled at, and which in turn set him off laughing jovially. he rolled his window down and i apologized, telling him that i really didn't mean to startle him, and that i was just trying to verify if it was acceptable to park my car there. he asked, still smiling, what the sign said. i told him there wasn't one, and he said it should be okay for me to park there then, and that he'd make sure there wasn't any trouble with it. i thanked him, and started walking to meet my friend.
as i was walking, he called me, and i told him about startling the police officer. we laughed, i turned the corner of the sidewalk and made visual contact with my friend, who was walking towards me. met up with him, went up to his place while telling him about my sour night turned very groovy night, got to his apartment, went out to his deck, packed up a bowl, then smoked and shot the breeze. there were two more police officers parked six stories below on the street. one had been there all night, apparently. no citations so far! eventually i sped off into the night. on the drive home, there were times between the streetlights of 35w when my headlights shone in such a way as to produce a rainbow of colors on the freshly rained upon highway. it was so utterly beautiful and moving that all i could do was talk to myself, recap my experience tonight. i'm hungry now, and i'll be tired soon. good night.
current mood: in high spirits
current music: That Handsome Devil
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| Thursday, September 13th, 2007
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1:18 pm - Hump Jones
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"I’m struck by how many people don’t see the dark side of Majority Rule. That concept seems reasonable to most folks because they assume everyone else is as reasonable as them. This is the most dangerous assumption anyone can make. Majority Rule is putting your decisions into the hands of the least capable people among us: namely, the majority.
Hump Jones to America: none of you are qualified to make any decisions for yourselves, let alone tell me what drugs I can and cannot do. Your problem with public nudity is your problem, not mine. Your primitive superstitions about God and Jesus are adorable but hold no power over me. Your total ignorance about the world you live in does not qualify you to discuss reality with me or anyone else. Your glib acceptance of being treated like herd animals is proof that you’re either unwilling or unable to function independently. Most of you can’t even read through a high school textbook without getting lost—not only should you not be making decisions about my life, you shouldn’t even be allowed to reproduce."
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| Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
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1:12 pm
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I had a dream last night, and in it, I died, and died, and died. I became used to the crushing blackness of death. I came back each time, eager to try again (only to die again). I woke up in tears.
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| Monday, August 20th, 2007
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11:30 am
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I spent the morning reading The Tao of Pooh which is a neat little book that explains the tenets of Taoism by showing how the Tao effects the lives of characters in the Winnie the Pooh novels.
From nowhere, to nothing. Onwards!
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| Sunday, August 19th, 2007
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12:45 pm
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Future:Perfect was bomb! We only stayed for the first night, camped out with lots of beer, fire, dancing and electric music people glowing softly in the deep of the woods. No injuries on site, no deaths (always a plus), no real bad freak-outs, everyone took care of everyone and we all just had a really great time :). The first night a man with glasses, who said he had been in the army, came by and sold me sugarcube. His name was Winston (or that is what he called himself). Our neighbor bought 60 dollars worth of bud from him for 50 bucks, because they were both Veterans of American Conflicts. Then the neighbor just gave us the buds because he didn't smoke. They were all really good. Some Skunk Nugs, some AK/AT, and some Silver Point. The Silver Point was my favorite; very high energy, mental high, great for raving.
Can't wait to go back next year!
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| Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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3:46 pm
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To be understood, the Bible must be read and digested both in the narrative fashion and in the poetic fashion. It must be taken in a strict, literal sense as well as in the infinite, metaphoric sense. When people take it too poetically they falter, the same as they do when they take it too literally, to serve their own desires.
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| Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
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4:02 pm
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There was a huge thunderstorm last night. Lightning constantly for hours upon hours, crazy mad amounts of rain, hail, fast winds, downed trees and blackouts. It seemed to me like the perfect weather to take acid and drive around in, and I did just that, laughing with comrades in tow. I have to say I was an excellent driver, despite having absolutely no idea where i was going half of the time.
If only I would have found the beach, the night would have been perfect : )
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12:17 pm
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss
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| Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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5:00 am
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Ascension & The Dimensional Paradoxes of Reality
Planet Earth is Ascending into the form of a star and we as humans are ascending into bodies of light. Planet Earth is transitioning to the 10th, 11th & 12th overtones of the 4th dimension, eventually embodying the 5th dimension, and we are here to assist with this transition. In this article I will explore a part of this process, the Paradox of reality in the third dimension, as we transition to this Ascension.
If you are reading this article you are a transition team member, a.k.a. light worker, and I'm sure you are quite aware of the paradox of all existence and reality, if you're not, you soon will be. As we continually approach Ascension the paradox of existence has ever increasing apparentness. As we transition to higher dimensions all parallel and alternate realities are converging. There is only one reality, but an infinite amount of ways to interpret it and experience it. This is determined by the amount of entities in the entire Creation of Universes including all parallel and alternate realities. Each being has an individual perception of the reality therefore each individual perception is actually an entire Universe in and of itself. The grand paradox is that we are all individual expressions of all that is - yet we are all one.
As we transition to the higher dimensions the direct experience of the paradox is more apparent. The veils between the dimensions are getting thinner and our perception is becoming more sensitive. It grows more and more difficult to make decisions with complete awareness of both ends of the paradox, including all realities in between. Previously we in the 3rd dimension, have made linear decisions based on good, bad, better, worse. Now as we enter the 4th dimension, the dimension of flow, there is less of an experience of the ends of the paradox, but more of an experience of the middle - the multidimensional realities of the middle. This reality has previously been thought of as being a binary, dualistic reality, when in fact it is a trinary reality. There is not hot and cold without there being warm.
Of course we want many things at once, we want our cake and to eat it too. The 4th dimension allows more of a direct experience of having your cake and eating it too - based on the flow and the instantaneous manifestation inherent in its reality. In the 4D manifestation is instant; if you want something it will instantly be in your face. Of course in the 3D this aspect of manifestation was and is much slower due to the density of the 3D and our tendency to live based on absolutes at the ends of duality, forgetting the middle. In other words excluding other realities, maintaining the illusion at all costs that this is how reality is.
As we transition to 4D, more aspects of alternate realities are allowed, another influence of 4D flow. Now 4D allows a wider degree of realities, this is obvious based on where planet Earth is now in regards to peoples tolerance for each others differing perspectives as well as beliefs. Allowance is an integral part of high overtonal 4D, exclusiveness was an integral part of 3D.
Decisions Decisions
So back to making decisions. In the old 3D world, knowing and being certain was an admirable quality. You are strong and smart etc. if you were able to make sure cognitive decisions; knowing what you want in life, and knowing how to get it. If you are active with your spiritual awakening and the planets awakening, you will have noticed that this type of decision making is now more difficult. You can't decide whether to stay in that relationship or get out; whether to get corn flakes or rice bubbles. In fact you realize that you want both equally - you really want your cake...., and you now allow for the possibility of this to be a reality. You realize that your problems can't be solved in a linear fashion just by making a decision. Most decisions in 3D old world were based merely on survival - will this help me to survive, will this make me happy etc. A simple decision as which cereal to get is solely based on lack and survival, if you were not concerned with survival or lack of money in your bank account, you would just get every single cereal that occurs to you to get.
In the old world you could not have your cake and eat it too, you had to make certain, absolute decisions, and that's how it was. Now you can't even decide what to get on the menu. If you're like me I want 4 entrees, 3 dinners and at least 5 different desserts, and I can't understand why I can't have them all. I am a divine being on a holy mission and deserve complete prosperity and abundance, so lack of money becomes increasingly frustrating. Now as survival becomes no longer part of the reality we can allow for alternative perceptions, allowing more divine qualities to manifest.
Survival will not be of any importance in the high overtones of the 4D. It will although still be an integral part of the lower 4D, and survival "problems" will manifest faster and faster, and eventually instantly. In 5D survival does not exist and cannot exist, survival is finally no longer an issue, but in 4D there is at least an option. In the 3D absolutes are an integral part, in 4D absolutes are totally mutable.
The Center of the Paradox
The center of the paradox is the middle road that winds and turns, and goes up the hill and down and around mountains, and flows like a river. Multidimensional awareness resides in the center of this paradox; maintaining awareness of infinite possibilities; allowing all realities and all perceptions of reality. This is the key to the transition, and is unavoidable as it is an integral part of the make up of the 4th Dimension.
This transition to the 4th and 5th dimensions, this Ascension, our personal enlightenment & liberation from the illusions of separation and unworthy, is not about getting rid of anything. There is nothing wrong with you, you do not need to be fixed, you do not need to learn anything or be good spiritual people. Ascension is about embodying, allowing and loving all aspects of your beingness, all aspects ! All your bad habits, your addictions, your ego, your pain, your dramas etc. Because paradoxically you are all things; the master and the wretch; the genius and the fool; the chaste and the slut; you love and are love, and you created the illusion of hate. God is all things so you are all things, and of course paradoxically you are no thing.
What do you dislike about yourself? Your addiction to your ego; dramas; your intellect; lack; to avoiding being bored; your suffering; your patterns of control. We all have aspects of our beingness, that are unlovable, yet paradoxically all is love, so these of course are loved. But what is also loved and allowed by All That Is - is that place where we judge; and cause pain; and reject; and manipulate; and control - where we use lust, and pride, and envy, and sloth. These are allowed; they are part of the wholeness; so it's about allowing these aspects to just be - because the more you try to get rid of them the more they will be in your face - because they are where your attention is.
You are a divine being; a master; a spirit; perfect in all ways; and at the same time a human full of forms of separation: full of fear and ego; full of anger and vindictiveness. You care deeply about your friends, loved ones and relationships. You are faithful to them, and stick by them, yet you would abandon them for something more wonderful in a hot second. Money? - well we all have a love hate relationship with this one. You know that spirit provides everything, your life is abundant and money is no worry, yet you worry that you won't have enough, will run out and your survival will be threatened. TV, movies, entertainment? - good diversions, but in truth you're all tired of all the old world crap and are just dying for something truly new. Children? - you love them and there spontaneity, and another part of you couldn't be bothered with them for a second. You are a lover of truth yet you still lie. You respect the art of love making, but you still love a good f$#@. You love your mate and wouldn't want to hurt them by being "unfaithful", you know that exclusive relationship is really an illusion and you really would like to experience others. You're a vegetarian but sometimes you would like to eat some chicken or some lobster dripping in butter. You love to travel and see the world yet you love staying at home. You are excited about life and yet you really are bored to tears with life on planet earth, and couldn't be bothered with any of it anymore.
We are one and separate, and in truth, from the essence of love, all the same. We were all formed from the same essence of love, yet we are each individual unique expressions of the universe. Everything in our lives is in the hands of spirit yet we have the free will to say no to spirit, to our own beingness, this is the grandest of all paradoxes.
ZaKaiRan
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| Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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4:29 pm - snake mountain
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this moment. this simple everlasting moment of existence is the summit of our life. in this moment, our reality tunnels move about in an intricate web of possibilities. if we can perceive it, we can actualize it. the more we experience and learn, the stronger our belief systems grow... but there is a problem. two entities already monopolize the belief system market: religious institutions, along with political and economic ideologies violently compete between one another, each with the goal of spreading their interpretation of existence as the one true answer. always question the motives of an institution that so blatantly uses fear to maintain influence. you know, terrorist attacks and eternal damnation in a lake of fire. obviously, some are more clever than others. believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. we are limitless under the laws of free will and free thought. blind faith may appear safe, but i would encourage us all to discover our own distinct vision of existence. this simple everlasting moment of existence. there is no absolute reality - J.C. of SME
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3:45 am
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I played foosball for about five hours today, at two different houses, on two different tables. Life doesn't get any better than this.
current mood: sweaty
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| Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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2:18 pm
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"That’s how Philip K. Dick defined reality, by the way. I still say that’s the best working definition we have in the english language: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away.” In other words, $900 billion in debt is more real than Jesus Christ—which is hilarious, because money itself is a total lie, fiction, charade, and joke—and “debt” is just numbers on computers.
(As a side note, consider that if you actually did the Jesus Experiment, he would not “go away” when you stopped believing in him, because millions and millions of other people do still believe in him. They keep going to Church, they keep picketing abortion clinics, they keep passing out pamphlets, and they just keep on talking about him. It is precisely this phenomenon that interested Dick so much—the possibility that humans can make things real that simply aren’t, and the ability of irrational beliefs to become operational realities. Or something.) "
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| Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
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1:42 pm
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I couldn't sleep last night, and something in my head told me that I had to get naked in order to sleep. So I slipped out of my shirt, then my pants, then my boxers, and I still couldn't fall asleep. My mind was on overdrive and sleep was nowhere in sight despite being extraordinarily tired. Something in my head was STILL telling me to get naked and I could not, for the life of me, figure out why. I realized then that I was still wearing two plastic "Livestrong"-esque bracelets. I took them off, set them on the floor, and promptly passed out totally nude.
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