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Good Day, Everyone!
I hope your holiday travels are safe, and gatherings with your friends and families are as happy as could’ve been imagined. Many warm wishes to each of you and to all those who surround you!
Of the many ways to celebrate holiday times, often it’s music that endears us to one another. If only music flourished during holidays, with no football games, no shopping sprees, only one singing soirée and choral concert after another, don’t you imagine we’d have very different societies? For those of you celebrating the Christmas season, my wish for you is sung in the Ukrainian Bell Carol, performed beautifully by a treble vocal ensemble at the end of this ezine.
This is the final 2007 Staying Awake newsletter. Through the month of January, and perhaps into February, you’ll receive the usual announcements, and those announcements may have only quick notes and quotes. That’s all to remind you that I’m researching and studying to jump start topics and videos as well as possible quotes they provide for 2008 ezines.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), American, leader of the Transcendentalist movement, essayist, poet
Years back, being the sprightly, free-spirited age of sixteen, I was strolling down the open-aired corridor one afternoon between two buildings that were part of the church facilities where my mom worked. I don’t recall the thoughts leading to this one, but I instantly interpreted the sensation as ‘nothing is impossible with the mind.’
I remember feeling surprised, rather like shocked, and kept on walking as if nothing ever happened. Of course, I didn’t mention the experience to anyone, because the intuitive senses didn’t match any experience I knew in scripture. Actually, I hadn’t a clue the word intuitive or its possibilities existed. ‘Nothing is impossible with the mind’ is more than just a little apparent when considering…
Probable impossibilities are preferred to improbable possibilities.
~ Aristotle (b 384 BCE), Greek philosopher, poet, ethicist, physicist, biologist, zoologist, student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great
Often Forgotten Philosophy
Whorls of possibilities for discovering information can jolt our amnesic state of health, and, after we’ve had a moment of “Surprise!” our tendency for more ideas expands our personal cosmology into answers to curiosities we weren’t at first seeing.
Changing ‘nothing is impossible’ to ‘everything is possible’ gives us practice for intending hope for our global sisters and brothers by imagining life in the Tao Te Ching. It distinguishes USA residents’ Western consumerism, a ‘way of being’ over two centuries, and Eastern ‘ways of being’ over eight thousand years. Some of us desire the harmonious world of the Way, treasured, yet a near forgotten philosophy in the USA.¹ Hover your cursor on the topic you choose.
Catching on to Our Error
Early on in studies and writings for Staying Awake, I kept wondering, like a novice, why did Earthlings’ presence on Earth get turned upside down by cosmologies of violence toward each other? Was violence all tied up in the male gender’s biology? Which sage or prophet or prophetess had not signaled a resolution to our error thinking?
Being reared a too evangelical youth, I began questioning dogma and politics in a quiet ire once the stun had cleared following 9/11. It was right in front of my nose—again—I got the answer better than ever: layer upon layers of fear over millennia. Mostly out of fear, Earthlings have tendencies for protecting something that might get taken; some are more protective than others.
Many USA taxpaying hirelings including thinkers, journalists, professors and scientists by the thousands, and theologians live lives conscious of an invisible matrix, vast layers of dismissed fear that leak regenerated webs of error thinking. And, in the groups just mentioned, there are some brave people who understand the realm of geopolitics and religious tradition, but speak delicately of it not wanting to expose the art of the silencing operation that holds fear of subsequent ridicule.
All one must do is connect the secret dots, which is the manipulation we’re keeping concealed: a ruling group matrix dotted with possibilities of mortal threats to person and family, loss of personal prestige and revenue and comfort if mentioning personal preferences inconsistent with a selected group’s intentions. Put that error thinking of fear into much of humankind, and we’ve got nearly imaginable possibilities.
“All of our perennial philosophies, spiritual paths, religions, dreams and hopes, have spun out of an intuitive knowing that these higher intelligences exist, that life is more than just an economic knee-jerk reflex, that we are not just glorified Skinner-box pigeons or naked apes.
“On the one hand we have divinized our potential, projecting who we are designed to be onto an abstracted cloud nine rather than fulfilling our evolutionary potential and falling victim to the politics of that projection.
“On the other hand, and far more destructively, we have denied our evolutionary nature, grounding ourselves in the more primitive, physically bound modes of our brain/mind, and subjecting ourselves to the magician-priests who can best manipulate that physical realm.
“Split between these lower and higher neural systems, with evolution pressing to break through into its new modality, our situation can get precarious. Our personal awareness, with its ego-intellect, makes up an estimated five percent of the total intelligent energy of our brain/mind. (The rest provides the environment and maintains the conditions of this personal five percent.)
“Yet with this paltry percentage we try to manipulate universal forces of unknown magnitude and then wonder why everything goes wrong. Over and again we hear the clarion call that we must take evolution in our hands and do that which bumbling nature, in its fifteen billion years of incredible creation, has obviously not had the intelligence to do. While the ego-intellect loves such arrogant, bootstrap nonsense, operations of this sort plunge us from one personal, social, and ecological catastrophe to another, and we are apparently incapable of catching on to our error.
“As architect Henry Bergman once said, ‘Each and every problem we face today is the direct and inevitable result of yesterday’s brilliant solutions.’” ²
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, explorer of the physical heart and brain connection
We’ve Got Ourselves
Is there any wonder we Earthlings must find ourselves in groups—even if a group of two—so we won’t make errors alone? Where would we be without our longing to belong? We’ve got ourselves to help one another be aware of and survive our collective experiments, errors, and brilliant solutions from cradled days into eventual coffins.
When humans had themselves together in small communities distanced apart in Europe, Africa, and Asia, it might have been at best a questionable cosmology to corral Earthlings by the resounding fear taught by religious and other shaming philosophical teachings. Within communities, fear of losing one’s soul was created by not believing and behaving in the name of one’s deity like the rest of the group; fear of not having behaved good enough before a messiah returns; fear of not paying tithes; fear of not evangelizing enough souls.
Today, as Earthlings observe other possibilities for ensconced apprehension, many of us USA citizens smell another pool of savvy sludge out of which cliquish relations in religion and politics beget each other. We and our global sisters and brothers have reason for pause when listing phantom fears our religious governments and governmental religions famously market; fears for uniting voters by embellishing pretences, hour upon hour in media…
fear of death; fear of not staying the course for anything proclaimed a security risk; nurturing fear by insinuating ‘you’re with us or against us’ to win hearts and minds of voters; fear of not stopping global warming; fear of not stopping climate changes; fear of pollution; fear of water shortages; fear of famine; fear of nuclear threat; fear of lack of oil; all of which and volumes more are politicized and moralized in USA public relations campaigns. We’ve got ourselves the very corporations and retailers that set up delusions to unite us; now, they require citizenries to purchase services and products promoted by corporations as solutions to their delusions. Altogether, avoidances and abstractions have become a matrix too preposterous to imagine too much.
Rulers of Imagination
Imaginations of taxpaying hirelings are ruled—until they’re not—by a group mind that insinuates deeper blame by adding the word moral. That’s an incriminating part of the equation that marks ourselves as USA voters needing a common enemy to unite us. Altering the equation by substituting voters for invisible rulers of nations, we may then incriminate the cloaked pyramidal hierarchy playing around with our imaginations: ‘What they don’t know won’t hurt us,’ say the rulers.
Invisible rulers of the visible rulers of nations can devise anything as an enemy, and, with help of too many political and religious shills, insinuate voters and taxpayers are themselves the immoral enemy, nay the sinner. That’s quite apparent as lobbyists and professional cartels dramatically accomplish their mission in global warming campaigns by moralizing alarmist insinuations to billions of uncurious people already trained to revere anxiety.
We’ve got ourselves to look at, because as long as ruled Earthlings don’t realize or don’t care their collective imaginations are bonded by religiously politicized pretences, then merely helping friends and family survive from cradle to coffin becomes an effortful antidote to anxieties: human beings’ promise of eternal life through belief in a certain god and savior has been and still is the delusion that’s fertile soil out of which myriad fears can blossom. ³
Too many times, the group mind necessitates shame: when falsely defined ecologically safe light bulbs and washing machines aren’t purchased; as delusory political campaigns supported by millions of dollars are privately offered by cartels to pre-selected candidates, who, not without some shame, perform scripts written by rulers to expand the matrix; when delusional sinfulness is offered personal salvation supported by theological dogma already based in shame.
Memes, delusions, and abstractions permeate unwitted personal cosmologies within the elegant matrix of rubber-stamped shame in human existence; a group mind is required for delusions dutifully custom designed by rulers of imaginations, century after century.
We’ve got ourselves to awaken as more unethical, masculine strategems in godly leaderships are exposed to such an extent the USA Republic, by design, crumbles then shifts into a new world government of invisible rulers’ pre-determined organized unions.
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