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Dear Readers,
Season’s Greetings to each of you! For the last few days, many of us have given thanks more than we usually do. The warmth of friends surrounding me deepens since we’ve not been able to stop contemplating how wonderful the nature of life is. We gawk at being alive, at comprehension itself, or at best, we enjoy presuming an understanding even for an instant.
By spreading news of the latest theories about Universe and the Cosmos, mathematical cosmologists launch us grounded Earthlings into the next worlds of wonderments with fascinating curiosities worthy of a gawk.
The Big Bang may be explained as a violent event in a pre-existing Universe, and not the beginning of time… All of the details of the laws of physics are actually determined by the structure of the Universe; specifically, by the arrangement of tiny, curled-up extra dimensions of space.
~ Neil Geoffrey Turok (b 1958), Chair of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University, founded African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Africa; refer TED dot com
The unseeable energies in life on Planet Earth are everywhere around and inside us, and are best described by this presumptive artistic creative as conspicuous awareness. Aren’t some of us Earthlings just too curious about what creates consciousness, nanosecond to nanosecond? It’s approximated that eyes evolved forty different ways before perfecting the eyes (we) animals have today. What in all of creation wanted to see; or to hear, touch, smell, or taste?
I am thankful for a healthful body that’s more intuitive than ever, a man who gives thanks for family, friends, and clients, all of whom are awake to helping and enjoying others in their circles of family, friends, and clients. While writing this ezine, that’s just about all I feel grateful for—that’s a cluster-full when given a moment to ponder.
What to Say
Not unlike today’s global world, humankind’s history is peppered with armed battles, many times performed in the same old ‘conquer thus divide’ peoples in the name of one’s certain deity.
Many times I throw up my hands hardly knowing what to say anymore. However, it appears the patriarchical method of monopolizing information is fading into information abounding on Internet. Pyramidal structures of information seem flattened as more populaces see what’s happening between present aristocracies ruled by scandalous masters of nations.
Our frequently adjusted yet endless hopefulness sees our progenies’ balanced cosmologies a result of great work engaged in the early 21st century. Hope springs eternal remembering some prose I’m grateful for…
I hardly know what to say; my heart keeps fluttering from one to the next thing without uttering a word of goodbye.
The new world catches me by surprise when I give a moment to ponder it. I can’t even imagine right now—too much of the old is still apparent.
Too much of the new world has already entered; I intuited its memory between others from youth. Someone predicted Earth’s cobalt cascade when I was only fifteen. Who cared?
My world feels tightly wrapped like a cocoon of cellophane. The body wants to stretch, to sing tunes and moan and laugh as before; I’m waiting for the next wave of creation.
It’s again time to trust the heart’s rhythms; listen to a friend, feel the waves of tones in Mozart, be with the winds, stare at the lighted candle. The tongue hardly knows what to speak… this language is hardly mine any more.
It’s all about love, truly madly deeply shared. Fear stands no chance, and change is only a shell left behind for the next—it is you and I who care.
© 2005 David Moorhead; revised 2007.
Who Were We?
During these next several weeks of seasonal greetings, I’ll be remembering with delight and thankfulness the moments when ‘who were we?’ wasn’t a question light-hearted friends and family asked. Since 9/11, we’ve awakened to and are annoyed by a tenacious, invisible egregore that has surrounded us and our global sisters and brothers since WORLD WAR TWO. ¹
Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
~ Henry David Thoreau (b 1817), American author, naturalist, transcendentalist
Better explanations cannot be written but by someone who has apparently known of physical and psychical carnage left behind by powerful men; beastly headed corporations caring only for what can be psychically tainted, and leading other men to debauch as did their familial ancestors. Alice, a blogger, reminds us to ask a question.
“[T]here’s nothing ‘normal’ about these people, and the problem, as I see it, is that neither they nor most of USA fully appreciate the horror of what we are making, either through our actions or through our inaction. [...]
“Believe me, I am not trivializing the evil that men do. [...] Allow me to speculate that many of these people are driven by a deep anguish and despair, tortured by their own thoughts and frightening emotions, that leave no room for altruism or sympathy for the victims who happen to get in their way. [...]
“[T]heir ruthlessness, the sheer magnitude of their crimes and their lies, the breathtaking hubris of their projects (dominating the globe, enslaving humanity, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people, conquering space), leave us trembling, as we must struggle first to overcome our own disbelief and unwillingness to see what is right in front of our eyes.
“As I see it, at this point, three paths open before us: one leads to madness, one leads to despair and bitterness, and the other leads to freedom and true power. [...]
“The point is not to be so ambitious that one is inevitably disappointed and then possibly defeated. I suspect that the success of one’s progress depends more on the quality than the quantity of the means that we find to express the best that is in us.
“And as we become more ourselves, we become harder to break, harder to deceive, and we become efficient conduits for the kind of power against which those poor, lost souls are truly helpless.
“All of us will die. The only question that matters to us, in the end, is who were we while we lived?” Refer unabridged blog entry.
Noxious Gratitude
Staying Awake ezine makes itself available to aid the success in one’s progress. The appropriateness for giving thanks is first to ask ‘who were we?’ as a nation ruled by an egregore, a ruling group mind, and to frame that question in the most recent six years’ erosion of USA Constitution.
In these very days, clear thinking for knowing when and why to express gratitude has become important: it’s not uncommon that what we are thankful for progresses into what we stand for, indeed, in times of war. I’m grateful to have found this quote just in time for this ezine. It rather distinguishes when thankfulness may be apropos…
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
~ James Kern Feibleman (b 1904), psychiatrist, author, philosopher
If I hadn’t been reared in evangelical circles, then I wouldn’t be so sensitive to the functional neuroses that comes out of being trained literally ‘in every thing give thanks.’ That toxic, noxious platitude of gratitude was reportedly an instruction from the apostle Paul to the early church in Thessalonica. Refer King James 1611 version.
The group mind, which represses citizenries’ feelings and wants for peace, continues today by many good natured and well trained christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, robotically repeating scriptural platitudes and bearing smiles, spreading noxious gratitude for all things to (godly) friends and partners within enterprises and organizations that embrace an armageddon. It seems the evangelist Paul was as much a role model for neurotic pious ideas as today’s virulent religious types in offices of USA governance.
Ruling Group Mind
Dr. John McMurtry was one of the first academics to analyze 9/11 and the aftermath of wars for world dominance. Follows are highlights from a panoptic address for the International Citizens Inquiry into 9/11, May 30, 2004, Toronto, Canada. ²
There’s something at work within and across people’s consciousness, as citizens and consumers, which has not yet penetrated. The problem of denial runs deep into USA collective psyché. Those who believe the administration’s in-group running the USA national security state could not possibly have been involved in 9/11 are by self admission no longer connected to the issue of fact or truth.
In the 9/11 term, one stigma phrase has held the group mind in a set point of compliance that asks no questions: conspiracy theory, the term of art for the silencing operation—fear of ridicule does the rest.
This is the dead silence operation of the ruling group mind that locks out all thought and evidence, which do not fit its baseline presupposition: that 9/11 was an attack from the outside, and that Earth and its creatures are not sacred.
Their program is being played out in Iraq against heroic resistance, while elsewhere in the empire the regulating group mind demands complicity. This is the ordering framework of consciousness in terms of which coherence and meaning are found in whatever is selected for attack, however false the justifications or defenseless the victims might be. Even the doomsday bombing of innocent poor peoples on a constructed pretext is perceived, through the prism of the ruling group mind, as a war for goodness and freedom.
In short, we confront here the primeval world group mind, which harnesses the global market juggernaut of a bottomless consumer maw that only desires more.
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