philosophy of mass control, that ultimately aims at dictating every aspect of human life

Agents of the world's elite have been long engaged in a war on the populace of Earth. Greed is the motivation for this war, a greed so pervasive that it encompasses the planet and all of the beings on it, but in recent times a philosophy has been used to justify that greed. It is the philosophy of mass control, that ultimately aims at dictating every aspect of human life - even remolding man's perception of reality and himself. [Jim Keith,Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness]

free will zone??

Ra points out that there are “many upon your so-called inner planes which are negatively oriented and thus available as inner teachers or guides and so-called possessors of certain souls who seek [to control or manipulate others].”

In addition to the philosophy of manipulation, the negative hyperdimensional controllers also pass technical information to their third-density agents. This technology includes various means of control or manipulation of others. Through this technology, the Controllers of the Matrix began to set up conditions in our world whereby the masses of people will be enslaved by their free will.

http://cassiopaea.org/2012/01/28/the-wave-chapter-56%E2%80%A8-intolerance-cruelty-and-the-economics-of-intelligence/

shift in global culture and consciousness

by Daniel Pinchbeck

My view is that “2012” is useful as a meme if it helps us to catalyze a shift in global culture and consciousness. Rather than fretting about what may or may not happen on that date, we should concentrate on the work that needs to be done now, on an inner as well as outer level. My recent focus has been the outer level, studying social theory and political philosophy. If we were to have an opportunity to transform society, what could that transformation look like in a practical sense? How could it be carried out? I have been reviewing the ideas of thinkers like Macchiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt, seeking insight into the nature of politics and power.

How do we bring awareness gained through shamanic practice or yogic discipline back into the gritty realities of political struggle and the fight against global inequity of wealth and resources? It seems there is still a lot of denial among Western mystics and “New Agers,” as well as elitism and spiritual materialism. Whether someone does a flawless series of asanas, drinks ayahuasca with 20 different shamans or visits hidden monasteries in Bhutan has no value as a sign of spiritual attainment. How they live day by day, what they do with the psychic energy and time available to them and how their work helps to liberate others is what matters.

I see this tendency to ignore the social and political struggle in the works of wildly popular writers such as Eckhart Tolle, who has repackaged Vedanta for the masses. In Tolle’s recent book, A New Earth, he writes: “We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems.” According to Tolle, the creation of the “new earth” needs no change in social practices as long as you make “the present moment… the focal point of your life.” Tolle exhorts his audience to “enjoy what you are doing already, instead of waiting for some change so that you can start enjoying what you do.” Whether you are an artist, teacher, Fox News executive or currency speculator doesn’t matter: “The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness.” For Tolle, the effort to change our society’s inequitable and unsustainable practices has no particular value compared to the paradise of presence.

The popularity of this message is unsurprising. Some political thinkers argue that the adoption of Eastern thought in the West has given people a way to accept capitalism, and “Empire,” by finding detachment from it. For the critic Slavoj Zizek, Western Buddhism and Hinduism “enables you to fully participate in the frantic pace of the capitalist game, while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it, that you are well aware how worthless this spectacle really is — what really matters to you is the peace of the inner self to which you know you can always withdraw…” Zizek goes so far as to propose, “the onslaught of New Age ‘Asiatic’ thought… is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism.”

The shift of “2012” could mean that Eastern mysticism, the earth-based shamanism of tribal people and the West’s pursuit of philosophical and scientific knowledge about the world come together to create a new form of consciousness. I suspect the West still has to realize its spiritual destiny — its dharma — in the transformation of matter and the creation of a truly equitable and sustainable world. As the design scientist Buckminster Fuller wrote, “No human chromosomes say make the world work for everybody — only mind can tell you that.” We may not need “ideology” any more, as Tolle says, but we still need good ideas about how we reinvent our society and its institutions to become ethically transparent and sustainable. Rather than escaping from society’s problems by embracing pure presence, we can use the awareness gained from spiritual practice to become more effective agents of social change.

Source: Common Ground

poetry meme

I got meme-tagged by Stu on A Collection Of Thoughs, this meme originated at They Shoot Poets - Don't They?

Give us at least 10 quotations pertaining to poetry - from 10 different writers &/or poets which best coincide with your philosophy vis a vis ars poetica. They can be posthumous or otherwise. The order is not important - unless it is to you.

"If the number ten is too daunting, go for less." Well this did seem kind of daunting, I love poetry but have not yet really dug in as deep as I would like, I do have my favourites though and have decided to give as many as I could think of and add more as they come. Some of the quotations are from the same writers and the order is important, I suppose.

. . .Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule of convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it.

Walt Whitman

. . .The great function of poetry is precisely this: to repair to the material of experience, seizing hold of the reality of sensation and fancy beneath the surface of conventional ideas, and then out of that living but indefinite material to build new structures, richer, finer, fitter to the primary tendencies of our nature, truer to the ultimate possibilities of the soul.

George Santayana

. . .It has been assumed, tacitly and avowedly, directly and indirectly, that the ultimate object of all Poetry is Truth.

Edgar Allan Poe

. . . No one expects a man to make a chair without first learning how, but there is a popular impression that the poet is born, not made, and that his verses burst from his overflowing heart of themselves.

Amy Lowell

. . .The stuff of language is words, and the sensuous material of words is sound; if language therefore is to be made perfect, its materials must be made beautiful by being themselves subjected to a measure, and endowed with a form.

George Santayana

. . .A writer at best is an artist. The artist feeds on his own mind and passions to prove to himself the something else that he creates. That thing, his art, is hard to define; it even works with this same principle in mind. A great artist gives from himself what is himself. The true artist and his work are inseparable.

William Sutton

. . . The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Walt Whitman

. . .They say, "Lies have taken office. "They say, "Decorate the streets with truth."

Stu Hatton

...Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion, poetry is not an expression of personality but an escape from personality, but only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

T.S Eliot

revolutionary movement

Here's an overview of some of the concepts that the revolutionary movement starting to take shape throughout the world have learned about, as well as the philosophy that many of the individuals behind this movement have in common:

There is a wide variety of energy currents flowing throughout the Universe — what some of these individuals call "the Force", just like in the Star Wars series — and that people can learn to manipulate it with their minds ("where attention goes, energy flows") as well as through breathing (which is considered by some as the foundation and the key to unleash many of our latent powers), and use it for various purposes, such as healing, replenishing their energy (by breathing more deeply), raising their own frequency, tuning in and perceiving stuff located in higher frequency bands, as well as many other things...

That there is also a huge mission currently underway to try to free the world, wake up humanity and bring to people a deeper understanding of the situation we're in and what's actually going on behind the scenes... According to some reports, many animal species on Earth (such as dolphins) also have a profound hope that humanity will soon wake up and hopefully put an end to all of the cruelty and horror they are inflicting upon other living beings, and upon the Earth itself...

That there are oracles in our world, people who have the ability to relay information from beings in higher dimensions, to guide people, sometimes do remote viewing, and even in some cases allow a being from an higher dimension to speak through them or even temporarily take control of their entire body in order to pass a message... (what is better known as "channeling")

That humanity carries quite an heavy heritage genetically, and that several great civilizations have flourished upon the Earth throughout history (such as Atlantis and Lemuria, among some others that are even more ancient), but that most people are not aware of them at the moment...

That even higher levels of evolution and enlightenment can be attained by purifying ourselves and progressively getting rid of many of the patterns and memories buried within our genetic code, thus having one's energy field progressively grow larger, glowing brighter, and eventually reach deeper states of pure compassion and unconditional love for all living beings... Apparently, the final and ultimate step of evolution in our world is then ascension itself, where a person's body turns into pure energy and gains the ability to move on to the next level, in other words, to disappear entirely from this world and pass on to the next level, in the parallel universe above ours... According to some reports, some humans will probably begin to achieve this huge feat in the next generations to come... 

Read this whole article - Overview of the moment - evolution today

Atlantis and Plato

According to Plato’s works the Critias and the Timaeus:

• The original Atlantis existed about 11.500 years ago was a huge island-empire stretched out across the ocean we now call the Atlantic.
• Atlantis was ruled by a king chosen by the Gods.
• Atlantis was first and foremost a civilization of sea folk and sailors that sailed west and east and had connections with lands on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean; North- and South America and Europe. The knowledge and history of Atlantis reached Egypt where it was kept by the priests of Solon.
• Atlantis sank into the ocean after an asteroid (son of Helios) hit the earth and caused enormous earthquakes and floods.
• The cause of this ‘punishment from the gods’ was the spiritual degeneration of the people who had lost their respect for the divine and were falling into materialism and immorality.

Plato is known to be one of the greatest philosophers ever to have lived yet his account of Atlantis is rarely taken seriously and mostly seen as nothing more than myth. His pupil Aristotle not initiated in the mysteries or ideology of Plato later dismissed the Atlantis story as utopia fantasy.

Early Christianity saw Aristotle as greater than Plato and had no use for the accounts of Atlantis, for Christianity the mere fact of a civilization existing so many years ago was preposterous and in conflict with the story of creation found in the Bible.

The church no longer dominates history like it used to and Christianity is finding it harder and harder to defend itself against the searching mind, hence the return of Plato’s accounts of Atlantis and early civilization to the public.

These days a lot of research has been done about ‘pre-historic’ civilization and human evolution especially in the esoteric philosophy and Atlantis is rising, not back to the surface of the Atlantic ocean but back to the surface of world history.

Conscious Archetypes

Archetypes are patterns of energy that are easily recognizable and resonant to human beings, and become the unconscious frameworks that determine how/why people think and react. The name comes from Greek archetypos, "original pattern." Archetypes are universally familiar characters or situations that transcend time, place, culture, gender, and age. They represent eternal truths.

We identify and relate to archetypes as primary characters or personalities of the human condition. They are the "givens" in our psychological makeup, the patterns that shape our perceptions of the world—an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way. Some archetypes include the Mother, the Father, and the Child. Many archetypes are story characters. Probably best known is the Hero, usually engaged in fighting the "shadow" in the form of dragons and other monsters. Then there is the Witch who controls, manipulates, and casts spells—destroying connection with other people and with oneself. Or there is the Trickster, often represented by a clown or a magician, whose role is to hamper progress and generally make trouble.

To quote Jung:

"All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas, created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us."

—"The Structure of the Psyche" (1927), in Collected Works Vol. 8.

Thus, self-realization (sometimes called individuation) is partly instinctual. When you intersect with an archetype, you connect with an energy that mirrors your own energy. People contact their archetypes without even knowing they have. When we talk about someone "pushing our buttons" or "love at first sight," we enter the realm of archetype. When we hear inner voices, or our friends say, "that isn't like you," we are displaying an archetype. When we are beside ourselves with rage, or when we notice ourselves looking exactly like mom or dad, when we speak words we do not intend to say, or goof ourselves up in any number of ways, we are exhibiting an archetype. Jung says that when you are in the grips of the archetype, you don't have it—it has you. Jung further believed that “archetypes were, and still are, psychic forces that demand to be taken seriously, and they have a strange way of making sure of their effect.”

By exploring the archetypal figures you manifest, you can develop a more complete, whole sense of self. Archetypes are powerful for helping you notice what you are doing with your energy—or even to make your life a bit more exciting or relaxing, once you choose to manifest them consciously.

The Archetypes

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras represents the eternal Pilgrim for philosophia perennis -- the perennial philosophy of life. He is a seeker of truth par excellence. He staked all that he had for the search. He traveled far and wide, almost the whole known world of those days, in search of the Masters, of the mystery schools, of any hidden secrets. From Greece he went to Egypt -- in search of the lost Atlantis and its secrets.

In Egypt, the great library of Alexandria was still intact. It had all the secrets of the past preserved. It was the greatest library that has ever existed on the earth; later on it was destroyed by a Mohammedan fanatic. The library was so big that when it was burnt, for six months the fire continued.

Just twenty-five centuries before Pythagoras, a great continent, Atlantis, had disappeared into the ocean. The ocean that is called Atlantic is so called because of that continent, Atlantis.

Atlantis was the ancientmost continent of the earth, and civilization had reached the highest possible peaks. But whenever a civilization reaches a great peak there is a danger: the danger of falling apart, the danger of committing suicide.

Humanity is facing that same danger again. When man becomes powerful, he does not know what to do with that power. When the power is too much and the understanding is too little, power has always proved dangerous. Atlantis was not drowned in the ocean by any natural calamity. It was actually the same thing that is happening today: it was man's own power over nature. It was through atomic energy that Atlantis was drowned -- it was man's own suicide. But all the scriptures and all the secrets of Atlantis were still preserved in Alexandria.

All over the world there are parables, stories, about the great flood.

Those stories have come from the drowning of Atlantis. All those stories -- Christian, Jewish, Hindu -- they all talk about a great flood that had come once in the past and had destroyed almost the whole civilization. Just a few initiates, adepts, had survived. Noah is an adept; a great Master, and Noah's ark is just a symbol.

A few people escaped the calamity. With them, all the secrets that the civilization had attained survived. They were preserved in Alexandria.

Pythagoras lived in Alexandria for years. He studied, he was initiated into the mystery schools of Egypt -- particularly the mysteries of Hermes. Then he came to India, was initiated into all that the brahmins of this ancient land had discovered, all that India had known in the inner world of man.

For years he was in India, then he traveled to Tibet and then to China. That was the whole known world. His whole life he was a seeker, a pilgrim, in search of a philosophy -- philosophy in the true sense of the word: love for wisdom. He was a lover, a philosopher -- not in the modern sense of the word but in the old, ancient sense of the word. Because a lover cannot only speculate, a lover cannot only think about truth: a lover has to search, risk, adventure.

Truth is the beloved. How can you go on only thinking about it? You have to be connected with the beloved through the heart. The search cannot be only intellectual; it has to be deep down intuitive. Maybe the beginning has to be intellectual, but only the beginning. Just the starting point has to be intellectual, but finally it has to reach the very core of your being.

He was one of the most generous of men, most liberal, democratic, unprejudiced, open. He was respected all over the world. From Greece to China he was revered. He was accepted in every mystic school; with great joy he was welcomed everywhere. His name was known in all the lands. Wherever he went he was received with great rejoicing.

Even though he had become enlightened, he still continued to reach into hidden secrets, he still continued to ask to be initiated into new schools. He was trying to create a synthesis; he was trying to know the truth through as many possibilities as is humanly possible. He wanted to know truth in all its aspects, in all its dimensions.

He was always ready to bow down to a Master. He himself was an enlightened man -- it is very rare. Once you have become enlightened, the search stops, the seeking disappears. There is no point.

Buddha became enlightened... then he never went to any other Master. Jesus became enlightened... then he never went to any other Master. Or Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra, or Moses.... Hence Pythagoras is something unique. No parallel has ever existed. Even after becoming enlightened, he was ready to become a disciple to anybody who was there to reveal some aspect of truth.

His search was such that he was ready to learn from anybody. He was an absolute disciple. He was ready to learn from the whole existence. He remained open, and he remained a learner to the very end.

The whole effort was... and it was a great effort in those days, to travel from Greece to China. It was full of dangers. The journey was hazardous; it was not easy as it is today. Today things are so easy that you can take your breakfast in New York and your lunch in London, and you can suffer indigestion in Poona. Things are very simple. In those days it was not so simple. It was really a risk; to move from one country to another country took years.

By the time Pythagoras came back, he was a very old man. But seekers gathered around him; a great school was born. And, as it always happens, the society started persecuting him and his school and his disciples. His whole life he searched for the perennial philosophy, and he had found it! He had gathered all the fragments into a tremendous harmony, into a great unity. But he was not allowed to work it out in detail -- to teach people he was not allowed.

He was persecuted from one place to another. Many attempts were made on his life. It was almost impossible for him to teach all that he had gathered. And his treasure was immense -- in fact, nobody else has ever had such a treasure as he had. But this is how foolish humanity is, and has always been. This man had done something impossible: he had bridged East and West. He was the first bridge. He had come to know the Eastern mind as deeply as the Western mind.

He was a Greek. He was brought up with the Greek logic, with the Greek scientific approach, and then he moved to the East. And then he learnt the ways of intuition. Then he learnt how to be a mystic. He himself was a great mathematician in his own right. And a mathematician becoming a mystic is a revolution, because these are poles apart.

Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Volume 1, Number 1