The Sovereign Akhenaten

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[Jana]

I went to the King Tut exhibition yesterday, and saw the exact Akhenaten statue that I have been in love with since my twenties and have drawn and painted. If you want to read an outstanding book on the beloved royal family I highly recommend "Act of God: Moses, Tutankhamun and The Myth of Atlantis" by Graham Phillips.

IMAGINATION AND EMERGENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN

Capitalist civilization itself is running out of steam as its founding premises...money and security, are not adequate to support ongoing creative growth and spiritual purpose. Now that the central theme of capitalization is bankrupt, we have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves and what it means to be human. The story of culture itself runs dry when there is nothing left to capitalize on, when resources are gone, when there is no viable work worthy of effort and the state runs out of tax money to maintain its structures and the majority of the country's GNP goes into militarization. The collapse of civilization occurs through a failure of the imagination. For all along the honorable and higher alternatives are possible. Endeavors that give us a reason to live beyond mere survival. Globally we have reached such a time, when the return to the good, the true and the beautiful is essential in order to resuscitate and rectify the human condition.

The choice to show up is made when we get an intuition for the ultimate prize and become determined above all else to find a way back to our Self. The challenge we are faced with is to develop our sovereignty and be true to nature...then with bio-ethics and navi-gation restored, we can come together in celebration of our deep humanity. The processes of decay are so great that we are once again discovering the innate drive towards wholeness as our governing principle. But only when we love enough to know that all other roads are futile, and have the zenith perspective to no longer be distracted by or sacrificed to the dethroning machinations of the presovereign culture in which we find ourselves.

We can only come together beyond utilitarianism through sovereignty via the resonance of Spirit. This self-creation longing of the inner androgynous sovereign and the consequent Self-possession and inner knowing that results from metamorphic unification was why the traditionalist Amun (hidden or secret one) priesthood tried to obliterate Akhenaten (Effective spirit of Aten) from history - for the power inherent in actually showing up in our full humanity is too threatening to those who seek power over others and wealth accumulation regardless of the consequences.

The creation story as the basis to religion had always involved three principle gods, mother (Isis), father (Osiris) and child (Horus), to describe the sexual reproduction of cosmogenesis. Akhenaten and his father began to offer the idea of the sun as a hermaphaditic god whom procreates himself unaided through the union of divine masculine and feminine forces within. The Aten (sun) who could annually re-father himself is described on an Amarna boundary stelae as “the Aten is he who fashions himself with his own two hands.” This new idea of self-creation back during Akhenaten’s reign (1353 BC-1336 BC) was the beginnings of New Thought, New Age, self-help, manifest destiny, self-determination and sovereignty. Aten was the symbol and the deity of the inner alchemy of the sacred marriage…reflecting self-parthenogenesis through the union of mind (man) and body-matter (women). This “dangerous idea” was an intuition of the inner alchemy towards the synergistic play of opposites to magnify wholeness in order to incarnate more Spirit.

Incarnation of Spirit becomes an end in itself, as Presence and unity consciousness, where man and God become one, is the ultimate drive, passion and goal. This alignment of man and God is sovereignty…the perfect love of cosmic union and primordial wholeness to which we are compelled by the forces of creation of the Universe itself and the evolutionary drive of cosmic unfolding. Akhenaten raised the stature of the sun to a god, giving Aten the solar deity a status above mere gods (of the traditions, priests, nobles). The sun also gives birth to the Pharaoh and he becomes the Aten’s principle spokesperson. This was not a mere political drive for supremacy, as some of the mystical devotion behind the development of these ideas can be seen in Akhenaten’s  Great Hymn to the Aten. Through the genuine “Passion of the Pharaoh” we see the metamorphic intuition of the actualization of the divine individual. In the beginnings, thousands of years ago, this played out on the world stage through a ruler of nations…but this intuition for the inner alchemy of self-creation is equally inherent in us all. Such that we are indeed all born of the sun, as an androgynous magical being that performs the work of the lord Aten to bring about the noble ideal manifestation.

The blowback from Akhenaten’s audacity to show up as his Self resulted in the agents of cultural status quo attempting to obliterate the King and his heretical idea of self-resurrection, earthly divine incarnation and solar declaration. The realization of Spirit displayed in the love, Presence and awareness of the Amarna period was all but exterminated by the Borg-like power consortiums of the priests, nobles and military. As with many times throughout history the human spirit and cultural evolution was set back and undermined with the crushing of the intuitive drive towards personal empowerment…thus we all became utilitarian slaves to the almighty God of materialism…having learnt that it is dangerous indeed to show up as the son of the sun and a child of the cosmos prior to the machinations of Man.

The story of Akhenaten and his family reads like the perfect parable for the initial emergence of the eternal movement towards individuation and personal sovereignty. The choice to give birth to our Self is made when we get an intuition for the ultimate prize and become determined to find a way back to our Self for the first time, discovering once again the innate drive towards wholeness as our governing principle above all else. If you look at the colossus statues of Akhenaten you can see that they stand out as the first image of the arrival of the noble human in the artistic heritage of humanity.

Self-determinancy through wholeness
Undivided will
Universal Law
Cosmic power

[Jana]

The opposite of sovereignty and imagination is ignore-ance. Blind belief in the politicing lies of the Matrix results from submission to authority for the sake of certainty. If the believers thought that they had to think for themselves and that their President or the Man in The Sky wasn't doing their thinking for them then they would feel insecure, afraid and without identity. To the hivemind, conformity and allegiance is more important than truth, right will or personal meaning. This is not just presovereign behavior, it is prepersonal...for those still caught at the tribal level, have not inhabited their prefrontal lobes and so do not have a core of individuality, but are sponges for identity/identification from outside influences. Because this state is emotionally and cognitively very fragile these people cannot be convinced to change their minds through logic or even evidence. The heart-intelligence, soul-dream mind, emotional groking of right and wrong and even their basic ability for rational reasoning are not yet being used, but lie dormant waiting for possible illumination in the future...perhaps through crisis, to break through the infantile circuits and initiate their own capacity for original thought.

"Most deal in subjectivity instead of objectivity."

Consider that the subjectivity of the Borg individual is not even their own subjectivity and so there is no way the hivemind individual can be objective. The "subject" is told what to think and won't allow themselves the original thought to think outside of the officially sanctioned party line. The evolution out of simple cultural absorption is to develop the subjectivity of the individual beyond the prepersonal/collective "I" to the cosmic "I" or soul. However this requires actual spiritual initiation and illumination which is largely prevented by the brain damaging/power-over structures from the womb to the grave and the antibiogenic technologies and habits of the consumptive culture. Only through developing the inner subjective sense beyond the perspective of hivemind can we gain any degree of critical thought or objectivity at all.

[Jana]

Serpens candivorens—The uroboros also describes the mirrored nature of perception in that what we see in the world is what we ourselves are. And then our perspective of what we see in the world, is what we make ourselves to be. This eternal cyclic uroboric nature of consciousness is the most important realization to come to in establishing sovereignty for without being able to objectively see the “eye” that sees, we are embedded in our field of awareness with no choice to take imaginary leaps through which we can become who we really are, rather than what the world insists that we are. The uraeus therefore is the eye that sees both ways at once…the inner and the outer. Thereby we achieve creative consciousness which is at one with the evolutionary edge of God unfolding in the universe. Only with the stabilization of the eye that sees both ways simultaneously can we have sovereign control over our own emotional neurochemistry and attitude. Only through the uraeus and whole brain functioning we stop being a victim of fate and environment and stabilize our consciousness at the noble or rectified levels of the human spirit. By deeply grokking the serpent who eats his own tail we begin to discover and to live who we really are…and in this lies ultimate freedom. Personal meaning and life purpose is only really achieved through the uraeus…until then we are a slave to destiny.

[Francis]

"To the hivemind, conformity and allegiance is more important than truth, right will or personal meaning. This is not just presovereign behavior, it is prepersonal" ~ Jana

"The man whom we can with justice call 'modern' is solitary. He is so of necessity and at all times, for every step towards a fuller consciousness of the present removes him futher from his original 'participation mystique' with the mass of men - from submersion in a common unconsciousness. Every step forward involves tearing himself loose from that all-embracing pristine unconsciousness which claims the bulk of mankind almost entirely." ~ Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul, pg. 197.


One of the best books I've read in years, by the way. Jung is advocating nothing short of a renunciation of modern man's own ties to humanity. As Leary would have it; a dropping out. Drop out and progress or cop out and regress. It also seems logical that dropouts are on the cutting edge of evolution, since new adaptations certainly represent a lack of conformity to the old ways, being wholly uninformed by tradition. Traditional ways persist only for those embedded in the consensus trance, which lately seems to be founded entirely on a sense of insecurity.

After all, a hero is by definition a dropout. A dropout that made good, but still, she left the herd to perform the heroism. It takes guts to get outta the ruts.

far out video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMH2f0XGeU&feature=related

[Jana]

KWs take on that was the best, you just don't let the fuckers fuck you up.
Actually rather than dropping out, rebelling or turning away from the existing society....sovereignty is becoming conscious of and transcending the aspects of the collective and culture that undermine individuation and humanization. In order to do this we must indeed become prodigal...but in a loving, inclusive and playful way, rather than an angry retreat. Then if people complain about their lack of ability to use, abuse and manipulate us, we careful guide them to their own freedom and resourcefulness. It just makes common sense not to be a lemming.

The way the Marquis de Sade was portrayed in the movie Quills...was as a villian for his perversion, and as the Christ in sacrificing his life to expose the insanity of the times...he was possessed of the Muse with an evil twist...but he certainly was an individual among the crowd...in the end his influence perhaps helped France teeter back to greater general sanity and humaness.

The world teaches our conditioned mind to distrust and so for spiritual navigation we need to transcend the limited perception of our worldly bodymind. The daily waking mind alone is not enough to lead us to the true destiny of our soul.

There are few awakening shocks as great as the impact of losing the love of your life, due to following a mentally constructed reality, rather than living from a gestalt of the body, the rational mind and earth soul. By gestalt of the body I mean a fully embodied body without the trauma conditioned social armoring or biological apathy that constitutes Borg consciousness. Earth soul is the transpersonal, transanthropomorphic level of consciousness arises in dreams, visions, symbols and intuitions through the fully embodied bodymind. It is the spirit of evolution of both life on earth and life in the universe...and so the Earth soul is the universal intelligence that governs thought, behavior and culture of a mystic or truly spiritual civilization...I think we are at least 1-3 thousand years away from this level of collective maturity, but we can tap into inner resources now that draw us towards the mature human species of the future. Most people rarely get a glimpse of this transtemporal, transglobal level of consciousness, however it is still informing/in-forming their lives to one degree or another whether they are conscious of it or not.

[jimtzu]

nice Kymatica video Francis.. thanks for the heads up. 

i like the emphasis on the ego that holds us back and is one of the major reasons for  the somatic life most people live.  that is also one of the things that i don't really care for in KW's work, his glorification of the ego..  you can do all the shadow work you want but it will do not good (maybe harm?) if you hold onto and build up the ego.

[Jana]

We tease apart and let go of Borg consciousness through freeing up the flow of consciousness within the organism-total. It is truncated, diminished and malfunctioning consciousness that keeps us from using the fully integrated-sovereign brain. Only by liberating the organism-total can we open up the prefrontal lobes out of punitive paranoia and myopic short-term self-interest. The Borg superego is simply the “human suspended” and out of sync and out of flow with the evolutionary force of the Universe...stemming the flow of cosmic consciousness is the source of all suffering born of the loss of our humanity. When we are in sync we live to fulfill the benefit of the Whole...both within our cells and within the world. This inner/outer unification and amplification is the sovereign Self. Competition keeps consciousness within the old brain systems where creative win:win solutions are not to be found. Competition is the vengeance of the lower levels. The more inclusive ones approach the greater the benefits to all in the long run. The upliftment of the individual is essential to the smooth working of a synergistic society that  evolves rather than suppresses the individual. Thus sovereignty is a cosmic citizens duty as well as their greatest joy.

[Francis]

KW talks a good game but he's too embedded and too starry-eyed in my view. He seems quite far from being grounded, which never ends well. Anyway, glad you guys liked the video.

Here's a piece on dropping out in modern America. Dropping out is more about a state of mind, not necessarily any particular kind of characteristic of your circumstances. That said, I think the essay gives the idea.

How to Drop Out

I didn't even start dropping out until my mid-20's. Unlike many outsiders and "radicals," I never had to go through a stage where I realized that our whole society is insane -- I've known that as long as I can remember. But even being already mentally outside the system, I found it extremely challenging to get out physically. In fourth grade I wanted to blow up the school, but I didn't know how, and even if I had done it, it would not have meant an endless summer vacation. In high school, inspired by Bill Kaysing's The Robin Hood Handbook, I wanted to go live off the land in the Idaho wilderness, but actually doing it seemed as remote and difficult as going to the moon. (Kaysing later wrote the book We Never Went to the Moon.) So I continued to bide my time and obey the letter of the law, like the guy in the Kafka parable (link). In college, when Artis the Spoonman performed on campus and told us all to drop out, I thought that was ridiculous -- how would I survive without a college degree?

A few years later, with my two college degrees, after jobs operating envelope-stuffing machinery and answering phones in a warehouse, I was finally nudged toward dropping out by the Bush I recession and my own nature -- that I'm extremely frugal, love unstructured time, and would sooner eat garbage than feign enthusiasm. More than ten years later I'm a specialist at eating garbage -- as I draft this I'm eating a meal I made with organic eggs from a dumpster, and later I'll make a pie of dumpstered apples. I live on under $2000 a year, I have no permanent residence, and moving to the Idaho wilderness now seems like a reachable goal -- but no longer the best idea.

Getting free of the system is more complex than we've been led to believe. Here as in so many places, our thinking has been warped by all-or-nothingism, by the Hollywood myth of the sudden overwhelming victory: Quit your corporate job this minute, sell all your possessions, and hop a freight train to a straw bale house in the mountains where you'll grow all your own food and run with the wolves! In reality, between the extremes there's a whole dropout universe, and no need to hurry.

In my case, as I understood what I had to go through to make money, I stopped spending it. I learned to make my meals from scratch, and then from cheaper scratch, making my own sourdough bread and tortillas. I stopped buying music and books (exceptions in exceptional cases) and got in the habit of using the library. When I crashed my car, I kept the insurance money and walked, and then got an old road bike. I took a road trip by hitchhiking, but it was too physically taxing and I got sick. Like many novice radicals, I got puritanical and pushed myself too hard, and finally eased off. I temporarily owned another car and lived in it for a couple months of a long road trip. In the Clinton economic bubble, I got a job that was much easier and better paying than my previous jobs, and built up savings that I'm still living on.

The main thing I was doing during those years was de-institutionalizing myself, learning to navigate the hours of the day and the thoughts in my head with no teacher or boss telling me what to do. I had to learn to relax without getting lethargic, to never put off washing the dishes, to balance the needs of the present and the future, to have spontaneous fun but avoid addiction, to be intuitive, to notice other people, to make big and small decisions. I went through mild depression and severe fatigue and embarrassing obsessions and strange diets and simplistic new age thinking. It's a long and ugly road, and most of us have to walk it, or something like it, to begin to be free.

A friend says, "This world makes it easy to toe the line, and easy to totally fuck up, and really hard to not do either one." But this hard skill, not quitting your job or moving to the woods or reducing consumption or doing art all day, is the essence of dropping out. When people rush it, and try to take shortcuts, they slide into addiction or debt or depression or shattered utopian communities, and then go back to toeing the line.

The path is different for everyone. Maybe you're already intuitive and decisive and know how to have fun, but you don't know how to manage money or stay grounded. Maybe you're using wealth or position or charm to keep from having to relate to people as equals, or you're keeping constantly busy to avoid facing something lurking in the stillness. Whatever weaknesses keep you dependent on the system, you have to take care of them before you break away from the system, just as you have to learn to swim before you escape a ship. How? By going out and back, a little farther each time, with persistence and patience, until you reach the skill and distance that feels right.

At the moment there's no reason to drop out "all the way" except puritanism. I hate civilization as much as anyone, but in these last few years before it crashes, we should appreciate and use what it offers. Sylvan Hart (his given name!), the 20th century mountain man who even smelted his own metal, still traded with civilization, and once carried a sheet of glass 50 miles through the woods so he could have a good window. (See Harold Peterson, The Last of the Mountain Men)

Some of the happiest people I know have dropped out only a short distance. They still live in the city and have jobs and pay rent, but they've done something more mentally difficult -- and mentally liberating -- than moving to some isolated farm. They have become permanently content with low-status, modest-paying jobs that they don't have to think about at home or even half the time when they're at work. Yes, these jobs are getting scarce, but they're still a thousand times more plentiful than the kind of job that miserable people cannot give up longing for -- where you make a living doing something so personally meaningful that you would do it for free.

"Do what you love and the money will follow" is an irresponsible lie, a denial of the deep opposition between money and love. The real rule is: "If you're doing what you love, you won't care if you never make a cent from it, because that's what love means -- but you still need money!" So what I recommend, as the second element of dropping out, is coldly severing your love from your income. One part of your life is to make only as much money as you need, at a job that you can come home from feeling energized and not drained. And then the important part of your life is to do just exactly what you love, with zero pressure to make money. And if you're lucky, you'll eventually make money anyway.

But how much money do you "need"? And what if the only jobs available are low-paying and so exhausting that you come home and collapse into bed? These questions lead to my own level of dropping out, which is to reduce expenses to the point that you shift your whole identity from the high-budget to the low-budget universe.

In a temperate climate, you have only five physical needs: food, water, clothing, shelter, and fuel. (If you're a raw-foodist and don't mind the cold, you don't even need fuel!) Everything else that costs money is a luxury or a manufactured need. Manufactured needs have fancy names: entertainment, transportation, education, employment, housing, "health care." In every case these are creations of, and enablers of, an alienating and dominating system, a world of lost wholeness.

If you love your normal activities, you don't need to tack on "entertainment." If you aren't forced to travel many miles a day, you don't need "transportation." If you are permitted to learn on your own, you don't need "education." If you can meet all your physical needs through the direct action of yourself and your friends, you don't need to go do someone else's work all day. If you're permitted to merely occupy physical space and build something to keep the wind and rain out, you don't need to pay someone to "provide" it. Expensive health care is especially insidious: not only is our toxic and stressful society the primary cause of sickness, but the enormous expenses that have been added in the last hundred years are mostly profit-making scams that cause and prolong sickness far more than they heal it.

This is the low-budget universe: I ride around the city on an old cheap road bike, in street clothes, often hauling food I've just pulled out of a dumpster. Sometimes I'll be on a trail where I'll invariably be passed by people on thousand dollar bikes in racing outfits. Why are they riding around if they're not carrying anything? And why are they in such a hurry?

I used to be envious of those suckers: I have to ride my bike to survive and they're so rich they do it for fun. But what is this "fun"? I get everything -- exercise, getting from place to place, meaningfulness, the feeling of autonomy, and doing what's necessary to survive -- all with the same activity: riding my bike. They should be envious of me: my life is elegant and theirs is disjointed and self-defeating, making money which they have to turn around and spend on unhealthful restaurant food because they don't have time to cook, on cars because they have too many obligations to get around by bicycle, and then on bicycles or health club memberships to make up for sitting in their jobs and cars all day, and even then on medical "insurance" (a protection racket which for most people costs more than uninsured care -- or there would be no profit in it) for when their fragmented poisonous life makes them sick.

How do you get out of this? One step at a time! Move or change jobs so you don't need a car, and then sell the damn thing. Get a bicycle and learn to fix it yourself -- it's not even 1% as difficult and expensive as fixing a car. Reduce your possessions and you'll find that the fewer you have, the more you appreciate each one. Get your clothing at thrift stores on sale days -- I spend less than $20 a year on clothes. Give up sweetened drinks -- filtered water is less than 50 cents a gallon and much better for you. If you have an expensive addiction, pull yourself out of it or at least trade it for a cheap one.

Probably the most valuable skill you can learn is cooking. For a fraction of the cost of white-sugar-white-starch-hydrogenated-oil restaurant meals, you can make your own meals out of high quality healthful ingredients, and if you're a good cook, they'll taste good. I eat better than anyone I know on $100 a month: butter, nuts, dates, whole wheat flour, brown rice, olive oil, all organic, and bee pollen for extra vitamins. From natural food store dumpsters I get better bread, produce, meat, and eggs than Safeway even sells, but if this is impossible in your city, or you'd just prefer not to, you can still eat beautifully on $200.

The foundation of all this is to cultivate intense awareness of money. It doesn't grow on trees but you have millions of years of biological memory of a world where what you want does grow on trees, so you need to constantly remind yourself that whatever you're thinking of buying will cost you an hour, ten hours, 100 hours of dreary humiliating labor. Your expenses are your chains. Reducing them is not about punishing yourself or avoiding guilt -- it's about getting free.

If you continue to reduce expenses, eventually you'll come to the proverbial elephant in the parlor, the single giant expense that consumes 50-80% of a frugal person's money, enough to buy a small extravagant luxury every day. Of course, it's rent, or for you advanced slaves, mortgage. The only reason you can't just go find a vacant space and live there, the only reason another entity can be said to "own" it and require a huge monthly payment from whoever lives there, is to maintain a society of domination, to continually and massively redistribute influence (symbolized by money) from the powerless to the powerful, so the powerless are reduced to groveling for the alleged privilege of wage labor, doing what the powerful tell them in exchange for tokens which they turn around and pass back toward the powerful every month and think it's natural. Rent is theft and slavery, and mortgage is just as bad, based not only on the myth of "owning" space but also on the contrived custom of "interest," simply a command to give money (influence) to whoever has it and take it from whoever lacks it.

Fortunately there are still a lot of ways to dodge rent/mortgage other than refusing to pay or leave and being killed by the police. For surprisingly little money you can buy remote or depleted land and build a house on it. (see Mortgage Free! by Rob Roy, and also Finding and Buying Your Place in the Country by Les Scher) If you don't mind starting over with strangers, you can join an existing dropout community. (See the Communities Directory.) You can live in a van, camp in the woods, or look for a caretaker or apartment manager job. If you're charming, you can find a partner or spouse who will "support" you by permitting you to sleep and cook someplace without asking for money. And if you're bold or desperate, most cities have abandoned houses or buildings where you can squat. Mainly all you need are neighbors oblivious to your coming and going, a two-burner propane camp stove, some water jugs and candles, and a system for disposing of your bodily waste. If the "owners" come, they'll probably just ask you to leave, and in some places there are still archaic laws from compassionate times, making it legally difficult for them to evict you.

I squatted a shed for two weeks in December 2002 and if necessary I'll do it again. Also I have enough money saved to buy cheap land -- the project is just too big for me to do alone. Also I'm slowly learning wilderness survival -- which is iffy since wilderness itself is not surviving. But I spend most of my time surfing housesits and staying with friends and family.

To drop out is to become who you are. Do not feel guilty about using strengths and advantages that others do not have. That guilt is a holdover from the world of selfish competition, where your "success" means the failure or deprivation of someone else. In the dropout universe, your freedom feeds the freedom of others -- it's as if we've all been tied up, and the most agile and loosely tied people get out first, and then help the rest.

But what if they don't? What about people who are outside the system but still hyper-selfish? These people are not what I call "dropouts" but what I call "idiots." The view of this world as a war of all against all, where your purpose in life is to accumulate "wealth," zero-sum advantages and scarce resources for an exclusive "self," is the view of the elite. The only reason to think that way is if you are one of the handful of people in a position to win. For everyone else, the value system that makes sense is that you are here to help, to serve the greatest good that you can perceive. Yet in America, rich and poor alike are raised with robber baron consciousness, to turn us against each other, to keep us exploiting those below us instead of resisting our own exploiters, to keep all the arrows going the right way in the life-depleting machine.

The frugality that I'm talking about is the opposite of ungenerosity, because it frees us from a scarcity-based system in which we cannot afford to be generous. For all our lives we've been trained as prostitutes, demanding money in exchange for services that we should be giving free to those we love, because others demand the same of us. In this context, the dropout is a hero and a virus: if you no longer need money, you can give others what they need without asking for money, and then they no longer need money, and so on. In practice it's still sketchy because there are so few of us, but the more of us there are, and the more skills and goods and openings we offer, the better our gift economy will work. And if we do it right, they won't be able to just massacre us or put us in camps, as they've always done before, because we will have too many friends and relations in the dominant system.

For strategy I look not to political movements like revolts or strikes or radical parties, but to cultural movements like gay liberation or feminism or pagan spirituality. First define a clearly understood identity, then proudly claim that identity, then build public acceptance through entertainment and by each of us earning the support of friends and family outside the movement. I'm envious of gay people -- I've spent years mastering written language just to halfway explain myself, and all they have to say is "I'm gay."

If we had a word, what would it be? In a recent family bulk Christmas mailing, I was "living the bohemian lifestyle," but I don't go to poetry readings or hang out in coffee shops. "Anarchist" smacks of ideology, of people who bicker endlessly about abstract theory, although maybe we could adopt an insulting term used by theory anarchists, and call ourselves "lifestyle anarchists." "Voluntary simplicity" is too tame and politically correct, suggesting aging yuppies trying to save the world by reducing households to one car -- plus the life I advocate is not at all simple, just unstressful. I'm too politically ambitious and forward-looking to be a hobo or a tramp. In Eastern tradition I could be respected as some kind of monk or holy man, but I don't want to get "enlightened" -- I want to make the whole world wild and free.

The word I've been using, "dropout," is a good start but it has the same deep flaw as "primitive": it places our dominating, parasitic, and temporary civilization in the fixed center. We've got it inside out. On the physical plane, nature is the center that holds, and "mainstream" society is the falling apart, the irresponsible life-wasting deviance. What I'm trying to do -- and what we're all going to have to do in the next few decades if we survive at all -- is drop back in.

http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html

[Jana]

Give economy—abundance and freedom
Take economy—dependency and control

I like Catherine Austin Fitts's advise to unplug and pull out of all systems that one doesn't morally agree with and to put ones dollar into local community systems that one deems fit. This ultimately will help to keep business honorable and work against corporate corruption, special interest politics and monopoly. If everyone did this we could clean up our structural systems within weeks not centuries. We don't need an Accountability Task Force (ATF)...we just need to quit being chickens and make wiser choices with our lives and money.

It is up to the sovereign to be responsible for liberating themselves from their own cage. How our hurt rubs up against others shows us the work we need to do on ourselves to open more fully to love and the divine. When we get to the point of conscious appreciation for that which we are triggered by, we are well on the road to genuine healing and freedom, rather than being trapped, repressed and suspended by the constant retriggering of debilitating pain. Only through learning, growing and transcending can we embrace the evolutionary edge. Embracing the evolutionary edge is the only real healing there is, for we are not whole without being alive to change.

[Jana]

YES: Love Economy—Eternal Giving Energy Exhange—optimistic, affirmative, abundance, Presence, allowing and freedom
Those in the give economy are serving to uplift and broaden spirit’s genuine richness and everyone is pronoid that others are equally rich in gifts to share. Sustainable, resonant, non-circular, recycling, reciprocity, regenerative, enjoyment, novelty, deep, awake. Universally functional and aligned with the cosmos. Living.

NO: Unlove Economy—Transitory Taking Energy Exchange—pessimistic, negative, dependency, dissociation, manipulation and control
Those in the take economy are either trying to suck each other dry or everyone is paranoia that they are going to be sucked dry and are hoarding. Unsustainable, dissonant, dissipative, wasting, predatory, exhausting, depression, entrenched habit, shallow, asleep. Universally dysfunctional and misaligned with the cosmos. Dying.

[Jana]

I am still being challenged on the use of term Borg...but I HAVE to use it...nothing else will work.

We do live in strange times regarding what it means to be a concerned citizen and not dissociated to the troubles and pains of the world. How we metabolize our own distress, is how we metabolize the distress of the world. If we are not good at processing our own suffering, we will be dysfunctional about processing the suffering of others and the world-pain. If what we see makes us paranoid and fearful this in turn undermines our ability to rise to creative action, and instead we become magnets for the accumulation of negativity in general. Emotional detoxification of the dis-ease and dysfunction that represents all our various flavors of suffering is the major lesson we are learning right now in order to stabilize our consciousness and weal-being for more advanced levels of humanization.

“I stand for an ever increasing supply of "new" energy to accomplish anything conceivable in the earth realm. I am convinced of an essence of mutability at the heart of "reality". I denounce the lie of inevitability of any outcome. It is truth to me that perfection is the balance between the heart and the feather of Maat. We are the ones who must choose to just let go. Isn't that the profound message we have heard in many ways. Letting go is required! But that is all.” Maggie

I agree that we cannot solve problem mind with problem mind, and so an entire new energetic of solutions consciousness needs to be born in order to find the eternal solutions and the transitionary steps. How far we ourselves have moved into the affirmative-Yes-love side of the energetic equation, is how well our message, energy and actions will be received by the “crowd.” However there is a need to clarify the negative and diseased aspects of our condition in order to stop repeating the same entropic stressful results. Clear seeing of our error must be expressed therefore in ways that doesn’t merely generate more closure, pain and illness. This is not a steadfast rule however for humorously escalating the pathology to the point of farce and madness can also serve to expose shadow to the light of day, faster perhaps than pretty, balming verse.

The fact that civilization was won by war and slavery shows that there is not so much civility about it, but rather that it is an ongoing process of domestication and enslavement. That is not to say that we don’t reap the benefits of thousands of years of trauma, plunder and control. It is therefore our duty and our joy to further the rise of civilization towards greater and greater humanity, to give due acknowledgement and respect to the unending trail of blood and tears it has taken to bring us all to this point in the human story. If we have not yet seen the absolute necessity for the joy-side of transformative play, then we will likely just create more of the dysfunctional problem.

Sovereignty practice and metamorphosis is an internal process of overcoming the aspects of the culture of death we have endured since our primate origins. We are progressively learning how to be human and how to be civilized...I am merely pointing out the elements that we use to destroy ourselves so that we can create an actually civil civilization. For a certain % this is possible within our lifetimes, at least to get a glimpse of the whole human and higher community. For the world population at large it will take thousands of years to stabilize the sovereign individual and generate systems that support the humanization process. Once we really understand the complexity and pervasiveness of our escape mechanisms to really showing up in conscious awareness...we will finally be on our way to moral and intellectual integrity as a species. And without these, you can forget about a stable Master Culture.

By Borg I am not referring to the "human" part of us, but to that which destroys the "humanity" within us and in the collective. It is the disease that undermines the metamorphic individuation process of human evolution itself. The Borg represents all that is dehumanizing.

[Jana]

In Bauval's latest redicecreations.com talk he says King Tut's DNA had European markers. King Tut must come from Neferititi's sister and either Akhenaten's brother or father.
Graham Phillips in Act of God says that Neferititi was of Minoan descent...this explains the open naturalistic style of the Armarna frescos and the break with traditionalist art.
Phillips's book is a true feast...I am struck with the idea that Akhenaten was first to claim divine union with the sun. No wonder he was a threat to the control systems of the establishment.

[Jana]

Awesome check out Carmen Boulter back on redice!

Creative Transformation
We have hit the wall with our follower/leader systems and need to set off on the Grand Opus of each individual finding their inner leadership or sovereignty. Thus we must more fully develop and use our prefrontal lobes and change our social behaviors and social structures into those that support humanization, humaneness and the liberation or enlightenment of the individual. Our depleted, depressed bodies are not strong enough to deny and suppress the truth anymore, and so our false society is collapsing along with our health and the environment. As the dissolution crisis becomes more apparent our attitude is slowly changing toward greater integrity/integration, but there is a lag time involved in having to survive in the old socioeconomical system while establishing the new. It is thus a difficult transition time in which we have to find our Self and deeply trust our heart’s intuition. The point to remember is that we do this transformative work for the entire human enterprise, for the sake of survival and the evolution required to thrive. We have everything going for us, if we could only find a way to live in nature's truth. Viktor Schauberger revealed most pertinently the mystic reality of nature's secrets, and so by reading his books we can peer into the wheelworks of the cosmos, and thereby learn to live by the Life Code.

The sovereign is about internal self-government. Until we stabilize the lifestyle of the autonomous visionary mystic in our daily life we tend to find our direction and encouragement from external sources and cues. Boredom, doubt, ennui, narcolepsy, futility, lack of pleasure, limbo, hesitation etc...are all forms of default that we use to avoid taking up the proactive, executive role in our lives. The mystic in modern material life lives "outside" of flatland reality and so is not likely to be recognized and affirmed by others. This means one's own internal driver has to be tenacious to stay awake while driving in order to get anywhere...because the social realm is not going to reflect a sense of progress, accomplishment or destination back to mystic. There is no syllabus for the modern mystic, nor can a sovereign individual be easily defined, or readily observable at any point in time. This is so because the mystic is not interested in the trappings of spiritual wears, spiritual dogmas and spiritual doings.

The majority of the "work" is done when we are “down” and forced to strive within for what it is that needs to be born. After tangling with the void we can then  "play" without it being mere avoidance...for meaning is born from recognition of the absence of meaning. The sovereign's life is a self-directed approach to learning and seeking opportunity for greater perfection, or the pure joy of inquiry. The navigational compass arises from the depths of the unconscious and hints are given to us in our dreams, but in order to keep the momentum going we must be balanced in our cellular energy, exercise, nature-immersion and soul-food. It is easy to get lost on the journey if we do not have a holistic, integral approach to conserving our forward momentum..."movement, e-motion."  If no great quest is naturally elicited we can at least find a large problem, and provide a solution, thereby kick-starting the Muse toward a specific goal.

[Jana]

HUmanizing the Human
I use the term human, humanizing, or humanization in the positive sense as representing the evolution towards the higher qualities of being human. This process involves liberation from pathological social conventions and the culture saturated mind. That is humanization or spiritualization is the Source recovery of the wild or cosmic human who is fully empowered and so being exhibits the noble qualities associated with aliveness, openness and love. Whereas the Borg is the unconscious, unthinking acceptance of the spoon feed cultural constructs and the disowning of ones own personal reality. The authentic “pure” human exhibits fluidity, truth and the spontaneous high energy of multidimensional being plugged into the Universe at large. The sovereign is "truth-being" while the default constructs of cultural normalization turn the unignited into a single dimensional machine with limited brain growth, truncated spirituality and vulnerable to the false reward system of the substitute gratifications composing the commercial world. The true human exhibits a tonality of Spirit where movement-wholeness-openness allow a reciprocal connection to the field of knowing (gnosis) and the receptivity to pure primordial being…(what we call soul).

"When you stop shaping your own reality someone else it doing it for you." Neil Kramer  http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2010/08aug/RIR-100819.php

The short way of saying this is that the Borg represents a machine-like death of the human spirit...and the consequent death of the planet, and everything we touch, through lack of cosmic integration or divine connection.

Since the foods and substances of Borg culture is how we maintain our devitalized state in order to fit into the dense material world through killing our own spirit...it is through fasting that we most quickly recover our higher human sensibilities. Fasting allows for detoxification of all that blocks our receptors, and prevents the full flow of energy, consciousness and matter around the body. Once we stop our life-suspending habits we quickly rectify the cosmic being within that we have held prisoner by internalizing the outer sense of being controlled into our mechanisms of internal restraint and death. Fasting is the quickest way out of the Flatland prison into the multidimensional life of the true human, where we rediscover the complex layers of peripheral vision and telescope out to the larger perspective. Where the suffering of the separated ego “cut off” from cosmic unity is healed once and for all in the call to compassionate global dharma, through the seamless flow of lifeforce.

[Jana]

The difficulty for anyone trying to stabilize the mystic levels is that the standard culture actively fights against the energies, feelings and perceptions of the deeper levels. Therefore we may feel justified about going back to sleep or coasting so we can fit in. However spirit won’t let us. It will kick our ass if we refuse to potentiate and perfect what is emerging. And indeed we have a duty to the cosmos to become who we are, despite ourselves and our current conformist sociosphere. If we run into problems with the tension of the levels, we need to periscope outward until we “feel” the tangible gains made to the whole of humanity by our waking up. Then like water round a stone, we find our way around the inner and outer resistances.