Brow of Calm

This past year I have had many discussions and conversations with friends and watched various docu's and googlevids about conspiracy theories. During that time I discovered that one of my neighbours was a freemason and a member of the Amsterdam lodge, a friend pointed out chem-trails to me, I learned about the power of mass mind-control and all about the fear-mongery of the dark forces of the world. Quite sensational and enthralling I assure you and worth taking into consideration too but all rather hopeless and gloomy aswell.
It's all "mind" as far as I am concerned and a means of distracting you from the truth and immobilizing you with fear.
The following text is from The Shattered Realm blog and it sums up my thoughts on the subject perfectly. Read the whole post now here: Conspiracy Theories

...By Afagddu
Whatever the nature of a Conspiracy Theorist’s faith, whether based on the belief that the world is run by lizards from another planet; that the pure-bred, Aryan descendants of the Europids are held hostage in an underground network beneath China; that an unholy alliance of Freemasons and Satanists are sacrificing 13% of American newborn baby boys to Elvis; that the American Government and the Catholic Church are locked in a bitter struggle over the ownership of the Holy Grail (which the Americans tried to cover up by catapulting gliders into some of the buildings where it could have been kept, thus foiling a raid to free it by John Dillinger and the Secret Masters of Tibet in the eleventh hour); or whether it is any one of the numerous other countless, less spectacular - but still unbelievable - conspiracy theories that abound, they all have a few things in common.

They’re the product of Paranoid thought.
They have a thick air of delusion woven about them.
They appeal to a sense of fantasy.
They are usually connected in some way to a hatred of the traditional enemies of Christian (more specifically Protestant) society. Be they the Illuminati, the Jews, Freemasons, Satanists, Catholics or anyone else other than those who could really be responsible for some of the events attributed to them.
Those interested in them are often far removed from the events in question, which in reality will only have a minimal or distant effect on their lives. Opinions will have largely been shaped by the media, whether mainstream or underground .
The accused rarely take the accusations seriously. Buckingham Palace has yet to issue a statement in response to David Icke’s claim that Queen Elizabeth II is a lizard. Scientific or historical data is often deliberately skewed by the leaders and formative members of such movements and attempts to correct their data by the better qualified is refuted or ignored. Margaret Murray’s deliberate doctoring of trial data relating to the supposed ‘burning times’ and the formative mass belief of the made-up accounts of 19th Century ‘historian’ Lamothe-Langon for instance, led to an entire generation of Wiccans forming opinions about the history of religion, tradition and Initiation that are completely laughable to anyone who studies such things objectively.
They favour the over-complex and under-realistic over good sense and applying Occam’s Razor.
Their adherents all believe that they are indefatigably right about their chosen cause. Yet how can every single conspiracy theory possibly be true?
They’re never about good or pleasant things. Like certain elements of the media, those who form and deliberately propagate Conspiracy Theories magnify their attention on sensationalist, horrific or ‘evil’ phenomena.
They manipulate evidence and fabricate information as a means of creating scare tactics to assume psychological or ‘memetic’ control over people.
They're in the same category, memetically speaking, as chain letters and urban legends.
They’re all bullshit.

I dislike Conspiracy Theories for the same reasons that I dislike any other single-issue cause or pressure group; they tend to require a blinkered, limited, biased view that becomes unshakable leading to a devotion equitable to that of any religious cult.

None of this means that people shouldn’t doubt ‘official’ versions of events, which are also usually biased to a specific agenda. To question things and to wonder – or even doubt - whether we are being told the truth by politicians and the state are natural things for an intelligent and inquisitive mind to do. But to assume the polar opposite must be true to any statement that you don’t quite agree with is unhealthy, as is allowing fantasy and paranoia to assume too large a grip over one’s views and opinions.
The Shattered Realm

whats the matter?

Nothing really matters until it matters to us, and once it matters then it becomes matter.

Pholus

05/02/2008

relax in the higher vibration

At this stage in humanity we are still very much connected and living through the mind and we definitely still need it but we are approaching a time in which we will start to connect more and more through the heart and seek to re-connect with the earth and with the cosmos.

There will be a new way of communicating and expressing our love and gratitude because this is the only way we will save the planet and ourselves. It is the next step, we have come this far.

We will get to this place soon because we want to learn, we want to grow and we want to experience more. We can be in that place now anywhere.

Once we start living through the heart, we become more accepting and more "at home", we strengthen our connection with ‘source’ and we attract more, we experience more but we are content with what we have and this is a higher vibration.

End duality. Enter unity.

03/02/2008

this passing delusion

The protective layers that vibrate around me, the shields that cover my back, I would have left them all for you. I would have replaced them with you, I have broken loose now. Even now I tremble, resembles ecstasy in my gut, the man in me silent in bliss because you passed by and awoke yearning for bridging of the separation. I would have crossed the bridge, I am the bridge. If this delusion were to dissipate I would still be living in illusion allowing your presence close to mine and sending forth strong arms with which to hold you closer to me. I express gratitude through music, because this is real in so far as that I have felt love.

new Guardian

While passing through these marshes of somewhat unintended living, wading through this ever present identity of secret sexual mystery and that body of fear, some would certainly name this: the shameful expression.

I cannot deny the life-force rising.

Because of my negation, I miss this presence of confidence in my life, this force that is honorable, I miss this conviction and yet here it is rising from the submission, that area so grey that it cannot be defined, impenetrable, stubborn wasteland of orgiastic indulgence.

The life-force is the guardian.

02/02/2008

This message marks my return to the realm of blog and the evolution of Brow of Calm.

15/11/2007

Tears of Humanity

Yaggi from Finland recently posted a piece of my writing on his web-log: Tears of Humanity. Read his post on 'The Middle Road' here.

I look forward to reading more of this blog.

Atomic Moment

Buddha was searching for how to regain purity of consciousness, how to be free from the past, because unless you are free from the past you will remain in bondage, you will be a slave. The past is heavy on you and because of the past the present is never known. The past is known; the present is a very minute atomic moment. You go on missing it because of the past, and because of the past you go on projecting into the future. The past is projected into the future and both are false. The past is no more, the future is yet to be. Both are not, and that which is, is hidden between those two which are not.

Buddha was in search; he went from one teacher to another. He searched, and he went to many teachers, all of the known teachers. He consulted them, he allowed them to work upon him, he cooperated. He disciplined himself in many ways, but he was not fulfilled, and the difficulty was this: the teachers were interested in the future, in some liberated state somewhere beyond death, after the life is over. They were interested in some God, some Nirvana, some Moksha - some Liberated state - somewhere in the future, and Buddha was interested in the here and now, so there really was no meeting. He said to every teacher, "I am interested in the here and now." And they would say, "Apply 'this' method, do 'this', and if you do it rightly, someday i the future, in some future life, in some future state, you will attain."

Sooner or later he left every teacher, and then he tried by himself alone. What did he do? He did a very simple thing. Once you know it, it is very simple and obvious, but when you don't know it it is so arduous and so difficult, it seems impossible. He did only one thing: he remained with the present moment. He forgot his past and he forgot his future. He said, "I will be here and now. I will simply exist." If you can exist even for a single moment, you have known the taste - the taste of your pure consciousness. And once it is tasted you can never forget it. Then the taste, the flavor, remains with you, and that flavor becomes a transformation.

Osho -The Book of the Secrets Part 3

Techniques to Witness the Flux-Like Film of Life

Self created reality in which consumption is necessary

by JPAB

Thanks to development we can have it all these days; there doesn't seem to be many desire left which can not be fulfilled via consumption! But do we actually need these desires, are they truly ours? No, they are not! To sell commodities artificial desires are provoked, and slowly spin a web full of false needs which maintain each other. A popular technique for companies is to first create a problem due to products, but than offer the solution in the form of another product.

For example, companies like Nestle and Unilever advertise their unhealthy products such as chocolate and ice cream. People eat it and become fat, but than both of these companies also have for you the solution to become thin again: a product to lose weight! Slim-fast and Jenny Craig. If these unhealthy products are not sold in the first place, than the weight loss products wouldn’t be necessary either.

Large industries like the music business and fashion, helped construct an artificial beauty ideal via their products. An ideal which is so unreal hardly anybody can live up to its standards. But than different industries offer the solution for you in the form of more products to help you actualize this beauty ideal, namely anti wrinkle lotion, more fashion, hair products, plastic surgery etc. And for what? Too live up to the standards of an ideal which is only a cultivated illusion of the mind.

What about healthcare? It is proven that many of the additives in food and drink create illnesses, ranging from ADHD to cancer. We know this and we could do without additives and most of the goods which contain them. But additives make sure transport costs stay low, food doesn't expire and it looks smooth and pretty. No additives would be less profitable for companies. Even sadder is that the products which contain the most unhealthy ingredients and additives are the ones which are promoted the most, because they provide the highest profit margine. Illnesses are created; people get sick or allergic, what to do? No worries, there is a solution. Spend more money by buying medicines for all these created problems. Because there is a massive industry to make sure you can be helped. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to make sure food and drink stays healthy and pure, so scientists can use their brains to develop medicines for diseases which are harder or impossible to prevent.

Do we really need an Ipod? When I received a Discman it didn’t make me happier than when I received my first walkman. Are we actually becoming more satisfied, or are all this newer versions fulfilling the same (mostly artificial) desire over and over again by making you believe you need this newer version as well? Can one ever be content if the entire surrounding tells a person he or she needs more, more and more.

Due to this large web of artificial desires many people are under the impression they actually need everything which is offered and should be so thankful we reached a state of development where we can manufacture all of them. Of course there are products in healthcare, architecture and other areas which are useful, but that is a rather marginal part compared to all the not useful. Most of these products do not contribute to anything; they fulfil created necessities in order to keep us consuming. It keeps us distracted from the things that really matter in life and it also clouds our judgement.

In the mean time nature is being destroyed to produce all of this. Rainforests are cut down, destroying the lungs of our planet. Eliminating still undiscovered ingredients for medicines and leaving hundreds of tribe’s homeless. Soil gets impaired resulting in erosion, oil and recourse reserves are sucked dry. All over the world huge amounts of trash start to pile up and contaminate earth. Millions of people are being exploited and hundreds of thousands of children became disabled while cleaning up trash full of intoxicating chemicals, like I pods, laptops, mobile phones etc.

If we learn to deconstruct this self created reality, we can realize that we are better of without most of what is offered. We could than shift focus to developing the few commodities which are actually useful, and spare nature and exploited people a lot of harm.

Source: JPAB

i am elusive but never far away from you

In this omnipresence you may feel the ambience of remote landscapes and secret dwellings. Move closer to the earth.

You may linger in streams of the divine; there is animation in my aura.

I would not have you doubt yourself. I would not shake that which you have laboured on for many years; I would not let that crumble.

Experience this; let it awaken a spontaneous remembrance within you.

It is but natural for you to deny, it is probable that you will try a defense but this is the present, you will not forget this for many days.

Know that this is how the world has always looked; this is how we have always been. There is always this light around you.

20/10/2007

500

This is post 500 after more than a year on blogger.

See nothing but what lies before you, feel nothing but this present spirit. Be a vessel, carry this freedom. Be in peace, consume no evil. Find your shelter, welcome others. Take your time… and pass it away. ( by wastedwalrus on Bluelight)

Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog, added comments, given support and helped me through this last year. I have enjoyed this creative experience. the inspiration and the entertainment and most of all the interaction with myself and others. Peace.

It takes time to assimilate the theories, to sort out the wisdom from the brainwash. Without patience I'd cast pearls before swine, they listen, often eager to point out the mistakes I've made but they seldom encourage and approve. They tell me of things (material things) that I might lose. I am alive from now on.

It takes time to learn, death can take so long, purification can be so bitter. I can promise you I'm getting wise but I won't speak of it no more. We don't communicate with sounds, we don't scan apparel, we don't despise poverty, after all we are poor and we were blind. We are a new generation, we learn from them; the brotherhood of light, seeking to find.

One life with each other, my sisters and my brothers. One life but we're not the same - we get to carry each other. We carry each other. One love.

05/10/2007

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ~Satish Kumar

29/09/2007

Guardians of the Forest

Source: BBC Tribe

The nomadic hunter-gatherer Penan are one of the last such groups in South East Asia. Out of the 10,000 Penan living in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Borneo, only 200 nomadic people are left. Small groups of nomads move through a land of dense forest, narrow steep-sided valleys and fast flowing streams in the north-east of the state. Penan material culture is changing (western clothing is dominant, everyone has plastic tarpaulins), but the nomads still rely on the forest to provide most of what they need, from blowpipes to flour.

The Penan are a gentle and softly spoken people with a highly egalitarian society and little gender division. There's a headman, and respect is given to elders but there is no real hierarchy, just a strong communal bond, which manifests itself in a meticulous process of sharing. Nomadic Penan move in groups of up to 40 people, but groups form and split regularly as sago palm flour and game is sought from different areas in their territory (roughly 100 sq miles on average).

The nomadic Penan have been greatly affected by large-scale selective logging, in the late 1970s. More recently the creation of palm oil and acacia wood plantations has caused concern. Since the 1980s various Penan groups, both settled and nomadic, have campaigned against the logging - erecting blockades and sometimes being arrested. A well-orchestrated media campaign, originally led by passionate activist Bruno Manser (who went missing in Sarawak during 2001) meant that their plight was raised at the UN General Assembly and the Rio Earth summit. Penan leaders have also met Al Gore and Prince Charles.

A few concessions were made, but as the media spotlight moved on the logging continued. It's been estimated that at least 70% of Sarawak's primary forest has been licensed for logging and in some places there have been two or three logging passes in 25 years. The forest to which the Penan are perfectly adapted, has been radically altered. They have a deep emotional response to the change in light, sound, smell and temperature of the forest, nuances that outsiders over look. Everything from hunting to collecting medicinal plants and clean water is becoming much more difficult.