INTRODUCTION: 21st Century
Schizoid Man
OF MINDS
AND REALITIES: The
Psychological Universe
A SENSE
OF THE SACRED: Indigenous
Spiritual Cosmologies
OUR SPACE-TIME
COORDINATES: Kali
versus Ahau
KOYAANISQATSI: “Crazy
Life” and the “Day of Purification”
DOMINANT
TENDENCIES: A “civilized seasonal
disease”?
EINSTEIN’S
PROPHECY: The “Scientific
Dictatorship” and the “Technosphere”
INFOTOXIN AND (mc)2
: Communication and the
Information Disorder
WE’RE ON THE BRINK…but of what?
“I
MUST CREATE A SYSTEM, or be enslaved by another man’s.”
NOTES ON
THIS WEB-SITE
RECOMMENDED
TOP “INFOTOXIN”
MIND BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION:
21st Century Schizoid Man
We are brilliantly conceived living bio-technologies
inhabiting a planetary spaceship of improbable beauty and diversity. We travel together as passengers/crew
on an unending journey through a vast and largely unknown universe
of at least infinite expanse.
We have been blessed with countless gifts of creativity; we have everything
we need to be truly happy, healthy and whole.
So what is the problem?
Why does it seem that so much is wrong?
Why are we on the brink of killing off everything, including
ourselves? It’s
as if we’ve forgotten who and what we really are, almost
as if we’re not even people anymore.
It’s as if we’re living under a huge spell or
curse, a species-wide mojo, that
prevents us from knowing who we are, why we are here;
we dwell in the shadow of a “wall of voodoo”
so pervasive…and yet invisible…that we’ve come
to accept this b-grade surrogate fiction as “reality.”
Strangely enough, this wall has been built by none other
than ourselves.
We go about our days, or should I say
“daze”, supporting state-sponsored terrorism by purchasing
petrol from trans-national crime cartels, contributing to global
ecocide through chronic over-consumption, cooking our brains with
mobile phones and poisoning our minds with the virulent pus exuded
through the pores of mass-media.
Americans are so deluded that they actually believe their
country is a “democracy” and that voting matters!
All of this and more has become “normal.”
Just like the German middle-class in World War Two, who thought those were the best times
of their lives, we stroll through this sub-Lynchian
low-grade nightmare oblivious to the occasional blip or scream
that penetrates our matrix of intoxication. “Yo, herr fraulein, vas is
das smoke over yondern?”
“Ah-so, das is new
While we have been sleep-walking,
a powerful minority of our fellow humans has been hard at work
making BIG plans for the rest of us, not to mention for the Earth
and all of her life-forms.
Their self-delusion is orders of magnitude beyond that
of the average somnambulant; but we must give
them credit for being motivated to try to make their vision a
reality! “A” for effort,
New World Order!!!
We as-a-whole have progressively relinquished our self-responsibility,
ever since we stopped growing our own food and educating our own
children, and when we started going to church to get “saved”
and watching the “news” to become informed.
We have reclined in profound apathy, allowing the “state
as parent/God” to run the world…and our lives.
Why? Because
we can’t be bothered.
There’s a big game on the tube!
Early on, these powerful minorities…we all know who
they are, right?...they’re US!...seized
on the mass-apathy and herd-like gullibility they saw in the population
at large. Believing these qualities
to define “human nature”, they then skilfully devised
a full-spectrum of tools, tactics, and technologies to assist
in their dream of total world domination and the enslavement of
humanity. This has
been going on for centuries.
And they’ve been quite successful, to
say the least.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here today to pay our last respects to the best friend we ever
had, who now slumbers, comatose, on the brink of termination: the human mind.
OF MINDS AND REALITIES: The Psychological Universe
We are psychological beings, first
and foremost. Our
minds are our greatest gifts…and our least understood.
Philosophers and scientists have debated for millennia
on the “mind/brain” “problem”, and the nature
of “truth” and “reality.” I don’t know that
absolute truth, knowledge, or reality is attainable by humans,
least of all by English-speaking white people;
but for all practical purposes, we are (occasionally)
conscious, thinking beings who have minds and who communicate
in many ways, primarily using language.
Our highly-motivated “us”
who wants to rule the world learned a long time ago that, indeed,
a mind is a terrible thing…not to waste, but when it is turned
on itself. This in essence is the
fundamental premise of all “dark arts”:
black magic, witch-craft, “voo-doo”,
advertising, psychological warfare.
The reason this works is because,
to a very great degree, we each are actually CREATING our own
reality every second that we are alive.
We have come to believe that “reality” is something
“out there”, separate from us, beyond our control.
But if there is one primary realization of modern physics
and psychology, it is that “reality” as we know it exists
more inside of us than outside of us, and that we are inextricably
inter-linked with the whole of creation, from the sub-atomic to
the hyper-galactic levels.
Everything we know, do, experience and remember happens
“in” our mind;
language is what we use to share this with others. We are constantly engaged
in the processes of reality-building
and communication. These are the cornerstones
of the human psyche…and the primary targets of those who
wish to control us.
Our mind/brains are so profoundly complex that little progress
has been made towards a real understanding
of what is actually going on inside us.
This is, of course, from the perspective of traditional
western psychology, which tends to look at other peoples’
minds, brains, behaviour and communication, often with the goal
of manipulating them. Lucky
for us, we don’t need an in-depth understanding of
neurobiology in order to think or create. Plus,
we don’t have to BUY it…it’s FREE!
Each of us possesses the most unfathomably complex and
intricately designed instrument of thought and creation…the
human organism, which is in reality the ultimate technology! It’s
quite mind-blowing to reflect on what all is actually going on
within us at any given moment.
Many ancient indigenous spiritual psychologies have been
inwardly-directed, oriented not towards what other people are
doing or thinking and why, but on looking within, pursuing self-understanding
and an awareness of what is inside your mind.
Being responsible for your own thoughts, “cleaning
house” and fine-tuning; exercising your
powers of concentration and creativity, learning to navigate the
multi-dimensional cosmos we are travelling through.
Science tells us that we exist in the center
of the electromagnetic spectrum, which stretches out to infinity
in both the micro- and macro-directions.
What is “really” there, beyond the sea of plasma,
is a continuum of indeterminacy, or what physicist David Bohm
called the “implicate holomovement.”
Neuropsychologist Karl Pribram
believes that the brain/mind acts as a frequency transducer, processing
selected domains of energy/information from this wide spectrum
of potential and generating holographic simulations
which we call “reality.”
Our collective reality is constructed from about one per cent of this
spectrum.
One of the best working models for how our mind/brains
work was succinctly formulated by John C. Lilly; this model is equally
valid or useful from both the external and internal approach to
psychology. Etymologically, we are
in fact cybernetic computers. Computare in Latin means “to think
or reflect upon”; kybernetes
in Greek means “the pilot or navigator, as of a ship.”
This electronic digital number-crunching
device on which I now write is just that:
a dinucrud, not a computer in the true
sense.
Thinking and communicating in the service of self-navigation
and reality-building. This is what we are really
all about, from a psychological perspective.
Our biocomputers operate at many levels simultaneously,
from the quantum-superconducting to the neurophysiological
to the reflexive/autonomic to the cognitive and creative. All of these processes
can be thought of as programs of varying levels of complexity; hierarchies of metaprograms
emerge, and at the top, in command, control and communication,
is you: the self-metaprogrammer.
The vast majority of these programs run automatically,
without the necessity of conscious guidance.
This is good: imagine
how much thought would have to go into telling each
and every neuron how and when to fire every thousandth
of a second! Yet this IS going on inside
us. Miraculous
to say the least.
We are awesomely designed biological, psychological, and
spiritual beings who in our natural state function perfectly in
the “garden of Eden”, the planetary biosphere of Earth.
A SENSE OF THE SACRED: Indigenous spiritual
cosmologies
Indigenous
tribal cultures have always lived close to nature. This is our nature,
because we are part of nature.
Naturally. They live in tune with
the rhythms and cycles of nature, the sun, moon and tides, the
seasons; they talk to the
wind and listen to the trees.
Shamans and medicine folk are given highly advanced knowledge directly
from Gaia herself, without the need for “mediation.”
Indigenous
technology is internal and natural.
Communication is not only linguistic,
using “harmonic languages” based on the power of sound
vibration, but also empathic and telepathic.
Harmony is maintained through artistic ceremonies of song
and dance; art and geometry
are expressions of cosmic creativity.
Wisdom is shared through stories and mythologies.
Western
society as a whole has lost our sense of the sacred, in nature,
in each other, in ourselves.
We no longer have any recognizable coherent spiritual or metaphysical
belief system or frame of reference, to help us find meaning in
life; our “god”
has become materialism, our world, the “technosphere.”
As the forces of industrialism and totalitarianism
have come to provide more and more of our external reality, we
have allowed them to supplant our spiritual realities as well
with memes like Darwinism, which, like western Christianity, has
“supported the expansion of the Industrial Revolution, with
its unbridled exploitation of the environment for the material
benefit of mankind…and affirms this exploitation by ignoring
the intelligence, beauty, and purposefulness of nature and replacing
it with chemical and mechanical explanations…Darwinism, in
one form or another, has been used to justify nineteenth-century
political, social and economic systems, such as industrial capitalism,
as well as the colonial expansion of European civilizations that
began centuries earlier.” (Robert Lawlor,
Voices of the First Day)
As
culture after culture, tribe after tribe has succumbed to the
imperialistic juggernaut, our inner separation from nature and
our loss of the sacred has increased in direct proportion.
We are no longer dancing to drumming, but marching
to it.
OUR SPACE-TIME COORDINATES: Kali versus Ahau
Jose Arguelles tells us that a calendar
is "an instrument that locks the conditioned programs of
a given culture into place.”
Modern calendars were created by the same institutions
that gave us the Inquisition and the Nazis.
Jesus wasn’t a Christian; do you think he
is honoured that time itself is now reckoned in years since his
birth? I doubt it.
Besides, he never left, did he? Why are we waiting for
him to return? Jesus is love, and wherever there is love, there
is Jesus, right? Love
is beyond time;
love is simultaneous.
I think that Jesus was probably more into the long-term
cyclical calendrical systems of the
Hindus and the Mayans. These
systems of keeping track of where we are cosmically speaking are
based on astronomical patterns or rhythms…not the
life of someone who is alleged to “save” us from ourselves!
Don’t ask me how the Hindus
or Mayans figured out the precession of the equinoxes. Maybe it was a combination
of millennia of astute observations and record-keeping and direct
revelation from the Hunab Ku herself! But
this 26,000 year cycle figures heavily into all ancient calendrical
systems.
And the Hindus have the longest
cycles of all. There’s
the kalpa, which is a “day” or “night”
of Brahma, similar to an expansion (exhalation) or contraction
(inhalation) of the cosmos; a
kalpa is trillions of Earth-years!
Perhaps the calendrical unit
of greatest interest to us now would be the yuga. As I understand it, the
26,000 year cycle is divided into four
“seasons” of varying length. The beginning of the cycle,
and the longest, is called the “sat” yuga,
“sat” meaning “truth.”
This is the “golden age” where we realize our
essential divinity and connection with creation.
The last age of the cycle is the shortest…and the
darkest;
this is the “Kali” yuga. This is a period of war,
of terror, of conflict;
of rampant materialism and degradation, when humanity
as a whole has lost touch with our true spiritual nature.
An age of illusion and unreality, of deception and
toxicity. Guess
where we are now?
Lucky for us, however, the Kali yuga just kind of dies off, often accompanied
by global war and natural catastrophe…but what would you
expect from the goddess of death and destruction!
Even as she is disintegrating, the rays of light from the
inner sun illuminate the horizon of humanity’s hope, waking
us from our nightmare and activating the seeds of love which have lain dormant for quite a while.
Both the Egyptians and the Mayans referred to this transition
period between the end of darkness and the return of the light
as the “beak of time.” The Mayans also pointed to their
date of 13.0.0.0.0, which is 2012 Gregorian as the moment of “galactic
alignment.” During
this window, solar and astronomical geometries enhance the divine
ascension energies from the supreme deity, the Hunab
Ku, which are transmitted into all the stars in the galaxy (which,
according the the “electric universe”
theory, are actually more like light bulbs being lit up by plasma
filaments than they are nuclear reactors!), who, in their turn,
send out light and life-giving energies to all their planets and
life-forms…or whatever else planets can have!
These beams of radiance can now be felt
around the world. But
there’s still a lot of crazy stuff going on.