Observations of the Appocalyse

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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ~ Carl Jung

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[jimtzu]

hmmm is the evolution process evolving? 

[Michael]

Yes evolution is evolving.  It's called by some "the rapture of the geeks". 

Rupture or Rapture?

[Jana]

Until the species learns to be evolutionary, we will continue to be devolutionary. Biochemically we are tearing ourselves and the earth to bits, while apparently evolving in the mind. But it is not a mind connected to any truth of nature, but a mind bent on exploitation, gain and power. In order to submit to a cosmic evolutionary flow we need to establish a human culture that is reGenerational...that conserves, builds, protects and enhances the form of consciousness in matter...in everything from genes to ecosystems and oceans.


PERMA-CULTURE

Exclusivity, survivalism, short-term gain, me and mine, and self-incestuous preoccupation for ones own piece of the pie without considering the larger picture is symptomatic of the Fear-Culture, and is antithetical to a Perma-culture.
A permanently evolving culture is that which is built on a sense of global responsibility and collective vision. Perm-culture needs to be fundamental to human culture not peripheral to it, nor an adjunct to it, nor an alternative to it. Thus perma-cultural principles must be applied to all human endeavor, whether that be an individual household, city design, or interstellar space ships. Perma-culture is at its core a spiritual, mystical and moral sensitivity that seeks to apply increasing heart and intelligence into the living activities of humans in relationship to the earth. As such it cannot be arrogant, insular, selfish, but instead must be humbly open to a larger truth beyond human greed, insecurity and hubris. Perma-culture at its heart must be founded on regeneration, regenerousity, reGeneration and generosity…or it is simply not a permanently evolving culture…but again another experiment in self-interest and futility. If perma-culture ethos doesn’t spread through the power of its logic and magnanimity then the degenerate culture of unthinking humanity will swallow up all the earnest efforts of the permacultural pioneers…in war, famine, pollution and disease.

[Francis]

Yes because evolution does not provide any real security. Power and gain feel like they provide security, but they don't either. How do we deal with the fact that there is no security available? Pretend that it is actually available, and proceed as such. What we've done then is aggravate the problem by pretending that we can rightfully feel secure under a set of assumed circumstances, and strive to achieve those circumstances. But this approach has made us even less secure in the areas that we've ignored. The problem is that we've grown addicted to a false sense of security that was unfounded in the first place. The solution is to adapt to the realization of the truth that no real security exists. People who can remain calm in the face of an otherwise overwhelming sense of insecurity are the most evolved. Drop the blanket Linus, and face the fact that a sense of security is neither practical nor achievable for the rational person.


"Broken heart don't feel so bad; you ain't got half of what you thought you had."


 "Teamwork only takes you so far; that's when the truly evolved make that extra grab for personal glory."

[Jana]

You are right on the money my friend.

"The problem is that we've grown addicted to a false sense of security that was unfounded in the first place. The solution is to adapt to the realization of the truth that no real security exists."

Can I please quote you on that? The false sense of security are the machinations of the ego that seeks through the means available in this material society to rise up the importance-ladder through wealth, status, beauty, relationships, PhDs etc... Then if all these external efforts at security don't work there is always addiction, habit, boredom, numbness and isolation...that offer a form of security be it a dark removal from the life principle. To not be afraid of fear is to find security.

[Francis]

Of course you can quote me Jana. Security is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances. The ego is naturally, inherently insecure, because it is a fraud. This is analogous to the financial crisis. No amount of capital that is injected into this market will restore the credit markets to the previous state of complacency and false sense of security. We now know that the fraud is systemic and throwing money at the problem is just putting lipstick on a pig. Trust cannot be retored until the system is reformed in terms of checks and balances. The problem goes back to the fact that the greenback itself is just worthless paper. It's no longer backed by gold or anything of value. The charade has been exposed and no amount of phony paper will ever get the feeling of security back, because it's now obvious that the feeling was never justified in the first place. So it's like seeing through the ego, nothing can or should ever be the same.

[Jana]

This question of freedom and security...is played out nicely in The Duchess.
As the rot continues, I took a diversion and went and saw The Duchess...amazed at the degree of suffering of women in that age...and in all in corsets so tight they can't even breath through it. Hopefully evolution would have it that we as individuals can increasingly rise above and be free from the forms of the culture we find ourselves in. This is the lessen we are to learn in the coming months...if we can by whatever means possible hold it together and maintain our creativity within the maelstrom. For if not WE be creative, who will...certainly not those who believe they ARE the figments of culture they have managed to string together. To prevent the morbid sleep of materialism, this little hiccup in the global economy is probably the best thing that could happen. Watching it play and and seeing the results from it will be interesting.

Tell me, how does this "nothing can or should be the same again" play out?

[Jana]

To come out of fight/flight and into the parasympathetic off switch...you drop your tongue into your belly...focus peace into the brainstem...while doing the Inner Smile...and warm throaty breaths into the solar plexus.

[Jana]

I doubt we will see much from the ongoing polar shift as it takes thousands of years to flip over. The reduction in the Earth's electromagnetic field, however, will allow for more damage if any massive flares come our way during the next solar max (2012)...could get some more cancer/mutation rates from that one. Not a good time to breed children during the next solar max as it is a 50 year peak, so rates of schizophrenia may rise...along with the potential for more geniuses to be born around the 2010-12 period.
Doubt there will be a geological polar shift because those are stimulated by the weight of the iceage icesheet...which we don't have at present.
Increase in storms and extreme weather events...earthquake/volcano events will probably be the same as they are now unless the Ring of Power want to use HARP to capitalize on the chaos and bring resisting governments into submission.

The New Age idea of some ascending and others being left behind is the classic exclusion tactic that Christians and people have used for millennia...it is an extension of the survival of the fittest and me/mine focus of the ego. Increasingly we are going to have to face that we are all in this together, and get into the mindframe of no-one-is-left-behind. As population increases there will be more of this survivalist exclusion going on, and it represents a form of moral devolution which is backed by moral guilt. If we wake up rationally and compassionately and have the strength and discipline for follow through...no-one except the psychotic-power-elite need be left behind.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2d-7pDcoY8&feature=related  —2012, The Psyiencedetectives

[Jana]

The New Age has a lot to answer for with all their socalled channelled books that talk about the ones that will be saved and the ones that won't make it. But the paradox is that the Ultimate and Eternal Question is "Love or Fear" and this exclusivity and condemnation of the "lesser ones not as evolved as me"...this death sentence to the "other" while I go to the top of the heap, is clearly a Fear response. There are so many of these mind viruses in the New Age thinking that we will start to see these Nazi type coping mechanisms come out of the Boomer generation as the collapse of the Petrol Civilization plays out.

See if your library has Clive Clusser's Polar Shift audiobook...its fantastically entertaining.

Alex Jones  has some good things to say about the Zeitgeist Addendum movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDs1yER1dyk  te of The Union Greatest Financial Collapse  Lindon LaRouch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvYPuUzIcHI  —Lindon on the bailout october 1st 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StY98o75xuQ&feature=PlayList&p=F2874BAAE1134ABE&index=0  —The Big Picture of the Con-spiracy


One of the sources of that pervasive Nazi mind virus is a chain of “messing with the message” that has occurred as the Kabbalah teachings of mystic Max Theon was shunted through the inferior minds of spiritualist’s like Madam Blavatsky and then adopted by the mentally ill occult Thule society and the Nazi party. Aleister Crowley’s influence on the CIA and the New Age have also warped the original truth in the “layering of consciousness” into a system of rationalizing euthanasia of people deemed inferior on the scale of evolution. The paradox being that individuals that carry and propagate these exclusionary mind viruses are the inferior ones.
An example of a holy or correct interpretation of the Kabbalah taught by Max Theo is Aurobindo’s cosmology which he largely adopted through inspiration from Mother Mirra (The Mother) who along with Madam Blavatsky was a pupil of Max Theon.
www.kheper.net/topics/Theon/Theon.htm

Now we have to watch out that the modern version of the delineation of consciousness—the Integral Movement’s Spiral Dynamics—doesn’t turn out to be another justification for the extermination of the more vulnerable sectors of the human species. Evolution is a widening of embrace, not culling those whom cannot adequately protect themselves from the murderous arrogance of the few who class themselves at the top of the pyramid.

[jimtzu]

here's a good 30 min video on the future of the US economy, made BEFORE the shite hit the fan.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/O_TjBNjc9Bo&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/O_TjBNjc9Bo&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1</a>

[Francis]

Mind viruses can be easily deactivated by means of meditation or perhaps brain wave biofeedback. The trouble is that they are easily re-activated by any number of stimuli in the social environment. Or worse, some more pervasive and insidious mind-numbing thoughtform is about to move in to take the place of the recently evicted youthful naivete.* The mind virus or thoughtform has three primary components: physical, emotional and mental. De-energizing any one of these disables the virus. The way of the fakir corresponds to control of the body and senses; that of the monk to the emotions or feelings, the heart; that of the yogi to the mind. Self discipline is therefore all that’s needed to avoid being a puppet at the whim of powerful thoughtforms, be they socially or individually initiated.
 
Spiral dynamics is just a set of thoughtforms. Going from one thoughtform to another is evolution? Going from a neurotic robot to a satiated robot. Some progress.

 


*"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first." (Matthew 12)

[Jana]

Our reality these days is pretty scary...it can bring out meanness and crazyness in the best of us. So if exposed to increasing insanity, we cannot take it personally and we have to transmute our fear and the fear of others toward a higher frequency. The higher, visionary, transcendent frequency will become dominant if we daily drop the mind and body...feeling into the energetic consequences of the daily life on the body. I do this in bed each evening...to wipe the slate clean. This energetic digestive process uses the energies of dissonance to palpate and come into greater and greater coherence.
If, as in primate politics, someone throws us some shit, then we can twist the nature of the gift toward an uplifting reply...without being defensive. For example a heavy/dark energy Almass Boomer tried to get at me last night by saying "So many people, so many stories." Because I give most of my customers some illuminating titbit related to their expressed needs. Unconsciously I replied "Yea, there is so much to learn, you just have to stretch your neurons and go with the flow."
This is applied social transmutation—Changing the bite to an apple without being pedantic or defensive...man what an art.

What we have here is the perfect proving ground for vision-logic communication. I am convinced that my lastest Inner Arts practices will help us create new neural pathways, and new skills for thriving in this time of reconstruction.

[Francis]

Are you sure you’re not fishing for praise when you offer your illuminating tidbits? Quit casting your pearls to swine. Expressed needs are often just a pretense or, even more often, people won’t do the hard work required to meet their own needs, so they run around whining like babies instead.

Maslow’s needs are hard wired; it’s not an option. Personal growth is defined by the Maslow hierarchy, not the spiral dynamics hierarchy. Although they are related, for example the beige, red, blue and green SD levels (thoughtforms) correspond to socialized reactions to threats on the Maslow needs of physiological safety, belongingness and esteem respectively.
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs and http://www.spiraldynamics.org/aboutsd_overview.htm)

Therefore the key to avoiding the lower SD thoughtforms is in mastering the lower Maslow needs. By this scheme, we can determine which needs are unmet by examining the SD thoughtform(s) that is exhibited.

[henry]

no swine here at heartmind, and i doubt there is any swine lurking . Jana occasionally hits the bulls eye and usually aims at interesting targets ....interesting esalen/maslow story: in the 1962 upstart days the esalen staff was reading "toward a psychology of being". one stormy big sur night maslow pulled down the hill  looking for a place to spend the night. the community took it as a sign they were on the right track ...henry