ufos

one of my favorite subjects is ufos. not because i think they are alien space craft, because i don`t know what they are. my fascination is in how millions of people report this phenomenon in hundreds of different ways. specifically lights in the sky are reported as points, globs and orbs that do impossible things and swoop down and shoot off and defy known physical laws. some see metallic objects and large wings, some of which are miles across. a classic example of this is the phoenix lights case that can be googled, revealing a vast event witnessed by thousands of people in a major metropolitan area in the u.s. and captured on hundreds of video cameras.
we are past evidence and witnesses into a state of stress whereby we are ridiculed for what we are plainly seeing. we are ridiculed by government, science and by the religious for fear that something greater than thier control is emerging into our consciousness.
we need to stop calling them ufos. the term is the single most recogniseable acronym in common usage followed by fbi, cia etc...........
the term ufo has gravitated into a word that elicits laughter in general conversation and effectively censors the issue completely.
researchers such as steven basset and victor vigiani of the disclosure project have suggested using a term such as unidentified arial phenomina, or uap for short, to semantically rejoin the debate and slip away from the derision in the media so that we can inquire and investigate this phenomenon again and get answers.
the human condition is so fragile that the mere association with a term with ridicule blinds us from critical thought about it.
we need to stop thinking george bush is an idiot too..........

real and not real............

http://home.wirehub.nl/chan/LM/LM.html


put that in your pipe and smoke it.
all of modern scientific reality sits inside what can be proven. all of what cannot, as yet, be proven doesn`t exist.
the scientist cannot love. he cannot see ufos. he cannot even dare to dream for the most part. he can only live in a trap of proof that his scientific dogma has limited him to.
the scientist will begrudgingly admit eventually, if you press him, that love, ufos and dreams of future glory have some contact with our reality, but he will ask you not to put his name and reputation on the idea.........because there is no proof.

stay with me on this one.

o.k. so we are taught to hold on too tightly to our bodies by literalising the type of terms our caregivers used around us a young children. get a grip, or pull yourself together...........interesting instructions to give a child. how would an adult know any different though?
we grip everything tightly now and our bowel is no exception. the waste we eliminate is held until the very last minute in this constriction we call existance. i have thought long and hard as to why we associate money with this waste that we retain so forcefully. is it our judeo-christian indoctrination that calls money filthy and dirty and evil........not unlike that solid eliminative we refered to earlier, or is it something else that has slipped under the radar? and how do we associate the two.
getting one`s shit together. interesting.
i just had to get that out.

physical tension and anxiety.

http://www.spacetruckingmogul.com/mindfieldtv/

as i listen to alan watts talk i am struck by how he doesn`t mess around with the dogma, he goes directly to the experiences themselves. he talks, in one of the lectures linked above, about how before we can think about the meaning of words and concepts as children, our parents and teachers give us instructions that we take as absolute. things like "pull yourself together" or "get a grip" or somesuch that makes us go inside and command our bodies to strain in a desperate attempt to comply. as adults we don`t take these things quite so literally and so we think about strategies to improve or whatever........but the command is still in there......get anxious and tighten up.
so we put energy into tighening our limbs and organs thinking we are solving problems, but what happens is that we can`t relax mentally or physically and we get tighter and tired and eventually ill from the strain.
and the doctors don`t know what`s going on because they`re busy doing the same thing. straining away. so they prescribe pills and surgery to medicate and cut you in the hopes that the symptoms will go away and you go home and get more gripping done and get more tired.......and so on.

waiting.

the i-ching has been a great solice to me recently. through a particularly dificult time the oracle has provided a constantly calming and reassuring voice that allows me faith that i`m on the right path and that setbacks are temporary.
the last reading i did tonight was called waiting. so i will wait. while all around is chaos i will find a calm center and ride the storm out and when the clouds clear and the sun once again shines it`s warm nurturing rays upon my skin i will smile..............................

jesus.

have you people read the bible? you religious people who go to church on sunday dressed in your best and singing the loudest and shaking the minster`s hand the hardest and walking the tallest back to your car across the church parking lot, i`m asking you.............do you hear the words of jesus when he said that he came to say the time had come to be free of the rules of men?
it`s over people. go home. there`s no more to see. the crucifiction is over. stop retrying and crucifying him over and over. he wasn`t a christian. he didn`t carry and quote the bible because it hadn`t been written yet.
the kingdom of the lord is with you and me and everyone else here alive on earth now and everyone else who ever did live. yet we buy into the game rules of a religion run by people who claim to be the ones who can speak to god and you and i can`t...............
well, fuck off. i hear and see and feel just the same as the priest or the minister or the bishop but i`m not going to bullshit people into submission so i can get money to build more churches to sell more bullshit belief.
jesus got in trouble for that but they don`t tack people to trees much anymore..................thankfully.

divinity study.

i have occasion to discuss divinity and it`s religious studies with religious people. they immediately want to have thier religious views validated. i disappoint them as quickly as i can, not because i`m cruel, but because i want to get to the point without dogma and ground rules and biblical discussions filling up the air.
the point is that we are the ones having an experience here. to discuss the written experiences of others is like hearing the opinions of others about last nights concert in the park. i want to go to the park and hear the music for myself.
people are to ready to give up thier own potential to experience the divine, the miraculous and the holy in thier lives and would much rather live vicariously. i have never understood how people can while understanding the sufferng i have felt at the hands of teachers, my catholic father and sundry religious ministers and priests i`ve come into contact with over the years.
when people get the idea that you might be claiming divinity in yourself they become all manner of indignant and, i think, afraid..............but every now and then someone will look sideways at me and smile and i know that they`re saying "good for you". and that`s food enough for my soul to know that i`m on the right path.
and i`m heartened to know that some are ready to throw off sin consciousness like a rancid old coat that is no longer useful.

what i`d love to see.

i would love to see science provide simple proof of species evolution, the type of process whereby one species becomes another over time.
science brings the odd dinosaur bone or pot shard or monkey skeleton that they say could be a proto-human and a few old guys in wool jackets with leather sleeves talk at length about things very few people understand and then one gets an award.
and nothing changes.
we don`t know any more about how humans got here than we did in newton`s time........or davinci`s.
though we`ve given these people some serious money in the meantime.
since i was a boy i`ve seen those charts of little mouse-like creatures becoming a horse, or humans emerging from the shores of a primordeal lake and i never bought it then and i certainly don`t buy it now some forty years later.
it just doesn`t make sense that a chimpanzee would leave the cover of the forest canopy with it`s family and friends and abundant food, shed it`s hair, change it`s dna, start walking upright and change it`s diet and hunting habits to eat meat and compete with big carnivorous predators in the grass lands............in one generation.
it would have to happen in one generation because otherwise they would all die from malnourishment or being eaten by thier competition; lions, tigers, etc.
bit of a puzzle, hmm?

the alexander technique.

frederick matthias alexander pioneered a technique over a hundred years ago that improves overall wellness by focusing on physical posture.
known as the alexander technique, it can be summed up by the phrase, "hold your head up".
the more you hold your head up , the more you resonate with everything that holding your head up means.
the simple act of making that shape with your body sends signals to the brain that something is changing externally to allow the head to rise and so we get the feelings of confidence, motivation and physical preparedness as a result. a feed-back, feed-forward mechanism.
i use posture in client sessions to help people know the difference between standing one was and another and helping clients to be more aware of the body shapes they make as a signal to themselves and to others.
do you notice how the way someone carries themselves gives you impressions of how they are inside?

tunnel realities.

robert anton wilson, that most iconoclastic of the iconoclasts, says that we live in a constant flow of tunnel-realities that shape our existance. these tunnel-realities are fluid and dynamic. they are beliefs, they are emotions and they are dogmas that we give power to so that we can exerience the world.
they are filters.
when something is filtered things are removed based on the nature of the filtering device. an old sock will drastically change the bouquet of a glass of drinking water much the same way as believing in witches changed the state of mind of some in salem massechusetts some years ago.
as we realise that we choose to apply filters to our lives we can begin to change the filters...........if we want to see different vistas.

survey.

http://www.mach1audio.com/out-of-body/techniques/out-of-body_survey.html

here is a survey on out of body experience that william buhlman is doing. in doing it i realised just how many experiences i have had since i was a child that could be described as lucid, out of body perspectives. this inventory shows us how the judeo-christian belief tunnel reality holds us and limits us from our own divinity.

belief vs. experience.

http://www.out-of-body.com/

this is where it all began for me as a child. my mother was into yoga and astral travel and learning surrounding the idea that we are experiencing our lives directly until we fall down the rabbit-hole of belief. the beliefs that capture us are religious, philosophical, political, social, etc. the stable sameness mechanisms that hold us in irrational belief that things are a certain way.
jesus and mohammed and joseph smith and buddha and myself aren`t believers........we are experiencers. the experiences take a myriad of shapes and sizes. these experiences take on the shape of what we believe will happen. if you think that the world is surrounded by unseen evil then as you experience the more sensitive areas of your perceptive abilities you will find this unseen evil in the shape of demons, entities, aliens, goblins, ghosts and other denisens of the trditional judeo-christian hell and attendant sub-stations.
the minister and the priest are masters of telling adults tales to scare the shit out of them......to keep them believing in only some things.
if you know with certainty that things are different, then you aren`t likely to be scared by a grown-up tale of the boogy-man.
we are conditioned from the time we were children to believe god is such-and-such and jesus was this or that and that heaven and hell are specific things that were agreed upon by committees of spiritually evolved people who could see beyond the veil so we have purgatory and limbo and sainthood and, well, you get the idea.........rules about things that are made up by committees.
this conditioning makes some fearful. this fear will manifest it`s self through your ability to create whatever your mind focusses on.
so stop the fear and create your own positive, loving existance and experience what the prophets have been offering all along.

slugs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060727/us_nm/life_slugs_dc

in the midst of chaos, and against all odds, humanity shines through. it needs a helping hand though.
ideas?

today i took my own advice.

i rattle on at length about the deepest of metaphysical states, through thick and thin. i`m sort of a spiritual rambo in that i go ahead and choose to pump up the good feelings and laugh and joke even though i`m outnumbered. but today...........well, today was different. there were no adversaries and even though nothing on the surface had changed, underneath it all something greater is finally coming to the surface. it still hasn`t become clear in my mind, i don`t see any pictures yet, but the feeling is stronger than it`s ever been. i allowed the feelings of love to rise and wash over me and everything i saw reflected that back like it had never happened before.
i`m going to do it again tommorow.

god is no deciever?

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/solipsis.htm

these is an assumption that solipsism is a problem. that it is a problem is assumed in the language of the article above. the asumption that my experiences are the only experiences isn`t what i get out of solipsism.....i take it one step futher. my experiences create other entities and consciousnesses, which are all capable of having precisely the same experience that i`m having.........in fact, they even create me. and i love how some do it!!!!!!!!!!

solipsism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_Syndrome

if you say the word solipsism enough times over and over, it loses all meaning.
y`see i don`t have any problem with solipsism and it seems that it only becomes uncomfortable psychologically, that is, in a scientifically reduced (meaningful.....) way.
the control freaks want to label, predict and control situations and going further, medicate away certain states of mind that might actually be nearer a valid and "real" conscious state than the rational, normal state that we exist in in modern society.
what if we are actually butterflies asleep dreaming we are men?
just a thought.

right in the eye.

do you greet people with a smile? do you offer your hand with firm confidence and look them in the eye?
i do.
why?
because when you do these things with warm understanding and openness and hold a person`s gaze for a moment or two they begin to see you as a real person standing before them and this wakes up thier humanity in like measure.
try this the next time you buy coffee or get on the bus or are introduced to someone new. look right into thier eyes as you speak and smile and they will too. take the opportunity to do this for brief moments with everyone you meet. you will find people will respond to you, know you and remember you like you love yourself.
because you do love yourself. you always have. and you want to recognise that love in others. now you know how to do that...........by simply looking into thier eyes like they have always wanted you too.
it is the loving opposite of being ignored.
being validated.

one red paperclip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE8b02EdZvw

a story about a deep understanding of humanity...............and childlike playfulness.

tribal ritual.

as civilised men in a culture of personal knowledge and learning we are unfamiliar with the power of the tribe. our only brush with the power of raw humanity is at the football match, if we ever have the opportunity to go. there are really no other places we can go to feel the surge of humanity responding to the gestures of few if not one man. everywhere else outside of "civilisation" men know this power and involve themselves in practices whereby groups or even one or two people come together for the express purpose of creating an altered state of perception where we slip the bounds of what our five basic senses tell us is real.
we experience a trancendance through ritual that allows us to open new doors and look into new worlds of potential, insight and healing.
the civilised man is alone, physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually and his time is winding down. soon there is going to be an end to this game of "civilsation" because it`s too expensive for the spirit to be deprived.
millions of spiritually bankrupt people are living in the cities of the world kept from the rhythm of the earth beneath thier feet by the bureaucrats who want to control people`s efforts for thier own gain.
when we get back to the ritual and listen to the voices of the spirits we will get the answers and the way out of this....................

play.

why do we play?
to learn about patterns. our brains recognise patterns and if we see an emerging shape in behaviour we can predict the next element in the sequence.
so play helps us to predict the future behaviour of systems. a vital tool in being functional in our daily lives.
example. if you pile boxes up in certain ways they will fall over. how do we know this? we have played with boxes since we were little and so have the experience to predict with a fairly high level of certainty how they will act when stacked in different ways in a storage area or a shop floor, etc.
this example is true with a variety of systems including human dynamics. what is also true is that if you limit a child`s access and ability to play they will never develop the fine skillsnecessary to make these determiations. so as carlos santana likes to say, let the children play.