I remember those carefree summer days of childhood along the
shores of
Birch Lake
in
Northern Wisconsin. Catching frogs for bait to fish
for Walleye & Northern Pike;
life
seemed pretty straight forward and uncomplicated back then, the way it's
supposed to be for children.
Except for
the inevitability of school, and household chores my time was pretty much my
own.
Yet even as I busied myself with
those things important to a youngster I had in the back of my mind just a smattering
of an idea of how growing up would change things.
You would have to be blind & deaf to not
know that the responsibilities of adulthood were a constant source of stress in
that house.
So it was that I approached
the years of adulthood with reservations and no small degree of reluctance.
The nearer I got to that age when I'd be expected to
"put away childish things" the more misgivings I developed as I came
into a clearer picture of what it was about adulthood that took such a heavy
toll on my parents.
Between school and
church it seemed we had a clear enough blueprint given to us for how humans
should conduct themselves on this beautiful blue-green gem of a
planet....trouble was, nobody was playing by those rules. As near as I could figure out at the time, following that
blueprint just set us up as fast food for those who played by their own set of
rules.
I tried not to give it too much
thought back then because well, hunting for dinosaur bones was just way more
important; and besides, I was certain that the grownups would have everything
fixed before I turned 20.
As the years piled up on me I couldn't help but notice that
the closer I got to adulthood, the worse shape the world seemed to be in.
There were a few moments of
hopeful anticipation when someone showed real
signs of bringing about some much needed change in this society and the world;
but the ensuing, inevitable assassinations also killed such hopeful
notions.
The military-industrial-complex
that Ike tried to warn us about was just getting warmed up about the time I
received my draft notice.
It came as a
death knell for the dreams of a generation of young people just like me.
Motivated by Dad's war stories and the news
coverage in
Vietnam
I took my narrow ass down to the Navy recruiter and signed up.
If I was going to have to go to war, I
figured there was no earthly reason I shouldn't have a dry bed & warm food.
About the only thing I found that was
"as advertised" was the old saying, join the Navy & see the
world.
Now I didn't get to see the
entire world, but the parts I did see bestowed upon me a far greater education
than any school can provide.
I got to
see how other people in other lands live, I got to see their culture,
architecture and society.
what I saw the
most of was their poverty and oppression...I got to see outside the bubble of
"
the American dream" for the first time.
I also saw no earthly reason why I couldn't make the most of
it and have some fun along the way.
On a
three day stop-over for liberty in
Hong Kong I coerced
two buddies to accompany me (in civilian clothes) to the
Kowloon
side (
which is communist mainland China;)
for some sightseeing and culture.
Everything went fine the whole day, right up until we hit the peoples
republic museum.
On the far wall was a
beautiful, huge painting of chairman Mao surrounded by many other
notables.
I was taken by how very
life-like the painting was, so I snapped a couple photos.
How was I to know that not only is
photographing people frowned upon in some oriental cultures, but taking
pictures was actually against the law in that museum??
Very soon we saw two uniformed museum dudes
coming our way and a small windowless room in our future, so we ran.
The guards chased us out into the street
where we were fortunate enough to find one of the literally thousands of
'taxis' which swept us up, and out of the area before the police could
respond.
Of the several lessons I got
from that experience perhaps the most important one was learning
that you cannot always expect other people's
beliefs to be reasonable, or logical...but you must respect them just the same
if you wish the same consideration in return.
No matter where the Navy took me, everywhere you go there is
one thing that exists the same way in every country and continent, and that is
this ability humanity has to just ignore the injustices heaped upon them, as
they continue to work for the very system which oppresses them.
The proverbial elephant in the room, with
Leonard Cohen on the radio singing "
Everybody Knows" to
intentionally deaf ears!
There exists a persistent and pernicious evil
on this planet which seeks to dominate and control humanity; to prevent us from
thinking, thriving and evolving.
It is
cold, calculating, & heartless and seeks to re-make us it it's own
image...and we're letting it!
Why is
that, Really?
I conjure the biggest part
of the answer is conditioning...they've been at it for centuries now, so the
roots are very deep indeed.
The
proverbial elephant in the room, conditioned it's entire life to believe it
cannot run free because of the heavy chain on its hind leg.
Except the Mahout (
trainer/keeper)
long ago replaced the chain with a small rope the elephant could easily
snap...but he doesn't because he believes he cannot!
Another part of
Why might just be that
as a group, humans often seem to prefer taking the path of least resistance. Especially so here; under the ever-decaying bubble of the
American dream.
We Yankees are so
addicted to our cars & creature comforts we dare not rock the boat too much
for fear of loosing them.
Well played,
pernicious evil, well played indeed!
Get
the talking monkeys addicted to toys and stimulants so if they ever revolt,
they loose it all.
Now Joe Six-pack & Marvin Middleclass know all
this.
Somewhere in the back of their
mind they figured it all out, did the math and arrived at the in-escapable
conclusion that the fix is in, the game is rigged, no brass ring for you.
To their credit they do not share this
epiphany with the wife and kids, no need to scare them; they just keep it
tucked away in a dusty box in the basement of their subconscious and keep
putting in those overtime hours to get ahead until they have their heart attack
& die.
The thing is, all that is NOT
in-escapable!
Joe & Marvin don't
have to settle for austere lives of debt and desperation; there is another
way...and the boys know that as well, but to go down
that path is
to turn away from the hive mind and what is socially acceptable, and it
requires an uncommon faith in yourself and the universe.
In today's fractured world to openly say you
believe something dramatically different than the masses is to invite disdain,
alienation and possibly even a violent death.
Like I said, you just can't always expect other peoples beliefs to be
reasonable.
Throughout my life every time I encounter this head-in-sand ostrich
mentality we humans have about confronting evil, I remember back to that house
I grew up in and the ceramic on the fireplace mantle of the 3 monkeys,
hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, & speak-no-evil...and I wonder if it was one of
Dad's little inside jokes, I wonder if he knew.
This ostrich mentality is by no means limited to politics, but is
pervasive across the board, regardless of subject, be it scientific, philosophical,
or religious.
It was always a disconnect
for me that I was expected to quit believing in Santa Claus at a certain age
while the grown-ups got to keep their invisible friends well into adulthood.
I also had some basic issues with the blind
faith demanded by most all organized religions.
I've always been more of an empirical kind
of guy when it comes to what I choose to believe.
I also had some degree of cognitive
dissonance when it came to the idea of an all powerful perfectly infallible man
in the sky who created everything including a divine master plan for all of
us.
I guess I've just never been willing
to passively let someone else do my thinking for me, they say I'm 'funny' that
way, crossed wires I guess.
There exists another reason why we humans abdicate our
choice and power to those who would enslave us, and its about being willing to
go to any extremes to keep from acknowledging our own power, and dominion.
I think we are afraid of the unknown but
terrified of the unknown within ourselves.
We can sense the power laying there dormant and because we've never
explored it, we fear it, even though
it is US!
It's like riding your bicycle everywhere
because you forgot that inside the garage is a shiny new Porsche sitting there
waiting for you.
We allow the most
unqualified among us to not only steer the world closer to disaster with each
passing day, but to also somehow convince us
they are the only ones
qualified to lead!!
We allow this
vicious cycle of war, poverty & power mongering to continue decade after
decade.
It's the same damned dog &
pony show every time...and just like Charlie Brown with Lucy & the
football, we fall for the shit every time.
There must be a reason for all this somewhere; if we are just brave
enough to look with the right kind of eyes.
I only mention this because as it happens, there is a
widespread epidemic of awakening currently rampant across this planet and I
believe it may well be our last chance to break free from the conditioning and
have ourselves a revolution of consciousness that will turn things around, and
get us back on course for our first best destiny.
We can, you know!
The very first step is
remembering
that the people gave the government the right to exist, not the other way
around!
Only when this has been
thoroughly established can there be any real progress forward; anything less is
just the same old merry-go-round dog & pony show. The psychic numbing from
generations of conditioning is starting to wear thin, its giving out, and the
faster this awakening moves, the sooner we are free to pick up the pieces and
start over...yeah, some stuff is gonna get broken, it might even get real ugly
because we have pernicious evil backed into something of a corner, and you
recall what they say about a cornered beast!
"All that is
necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
~ Edmund Burke.
A person's belief system is sort of like when you stand a
few hundred dominoes on end to form a pattern.
If one of those domino-like beliefs falls over because it's proven
invalid or just wrong, (lack of support) it tends to also bring down the
next few beliefs in line. If the belief
that falls happens to be the keystone belief for the entire system, the
first domino...the whole thing comes cascading down around your ears. This is why so many steadfastly refuse to
accept new concepts which threaten their belief system; not only is accepting
the new paradigm going to send you off away from the hive mind, it's also a lot
of work. Humans have repeatedly proven
their reluctance toward change, especially when new ideas and new knowledge is
involved. Most only really change when
the discomfort of remaining the same becomes too great, and it's been said that
in our western culture, if a person hasn't changed old, self-limiting beliefs
& programming by the time they are 45, they probably never will. That would be like having to live with Bill
O'Reilly in your head for the rest of your life!
Among those who are now awake, (
and we are
legion by the way) there are a number of differing thoughts & theories
about how humanity is going to free itself from pernicious evil, now that the
world didn't end last December 21st.
Some are betting on the Rapture to save them from the fall of man, while
others are digging in underground to wait it out.
There are those who believe that the Anunnaki
will return to save us from ourselves...but, lets not forget, the Anunnaki are
said to have genetically bred our race specifically to be slaves.
Not sure I'd greet them with open arms. Some believe that by
purifying our energy systems and raising our vibratory resonance, we will
ascend to a higher dimensional plane; while another group believes we cannot
and shall not escape total annihilation of the entire planet.
Unless you are still soundly asleep you might
have noticed that this month has had more than a few
ripples of high strangeness for those looking
for signs from on high.
The Pope quit
his job, and lightning hits his house.
Huge pods of dolphins numbering in the hundreds, if not thousands are
sighted for the second time off
san Diego
Bay.
NASA tells us of a space rock about to
harmlessly pass by between Earth & her artificial ring of man-made
satellites, but fails to mention the ones which fell to Earth in
Russia,
Cuba,
Florida,
California and
Saudi
Arabia! Then there's news of a massive
'filament' on the sun which could maybe violently erupt, sending a planet
singing coronal mass ejection hurdling our way. Actually there are so many
weird, unusual events taking place, someone has created an impressive new web
site called
Climate Viewer, just to track them all;
http://climateviewer.com/
In a universe where
anything is possible, any or all of these things might happen, or any one of a
hundred other theories out there in La-La land as well; all are equally valid
in the quantum universe.
As for myself,
my money is on the Black Swan...which is a
totally unforeseen event we
are powerless to stop which when it happens will fundamentally change
everything.
The black swan event comes
from nowhere and is perhaps a response from the universe itself, an attempt to
hit the cosmic reset button in our collective pineal gland.
You see, the black swan is limitless, doesn't
have to take the form of death and destruction but rather can manifest itself
any way it pleases.
It might be Earth
shattering news that stuns the world into the proper mindset for evolution
almost overnight; or it might be so subtle and refined a thing that only
children and pets can perceive it at first.
The very best thing about the black swan is that it eats pernicious evil
like so many frogs on the shoreline of
Birch
Lake.
It renders evil irrelevant with one flap of
its huge
midnight wings.
It
removes the butchers thumb from the edge of the meat scale.
It is a re-shuffling of the deck to remove
those stubbornly clinging to a vacuous, dying empire so that the shiny new can
have a turn at bat in this evolutionary procession.
Of all the recent "signs" that something big may
be coming our way very soon; the one which most typifies both the situation,
and the dire need to change it was all the Hullabaloo over Obama playing a
round of golf with Tiger Woods.
It was
such a spectacle that to thwart "the terrorists" a no-fly zone was
declared...which grounded a med-evac flight...resulting in two people dying..."film
at eleven".
"According to my calculation, we're over-due for a
transformation"
~ Jackson Browne
Until next time...Be
good to each other.
