Design of the New Age Part 4: The Law of Attraction and Common Sense

What isn’t understood about the LOA is that there is one point that’s really at play: controlling your existence so you can have a wonderful life. This is the perfect definition of ‘enlightened self-interest.’ It is literally ‘prosperity consciousness’ – with the emphasis on consciousness. According to the dimensional investigations Desteni has conducted, the Law of Attraction does indeed exist, but as a design within the unified consciousness field between ‘polarity friction equations’ of right/wrong, good/bad, positive/negative and so on. That friction equation produces energy, which the mind consciousness system needs in order to exist.

Previously, the dimensions used this energy to power its Heavenly existence. That is the reason why emotions, feelings and mind worship are so extensively encouraged within the New Age Movement: massive amounts of energy were being Harvested through these means by the Dimensions (which presented a picture of Divinity and trapped beings within it who were too smart for the mainstream religions). It was discovered by some that they could have a great life through enslaving others through mysteries and belief systems. That’s all religion has ever been – an enslavement through the deception of belief of something beings want to be true.

The LOA is deceptive because there is no teaching of its consequences. The consequences in a polarity are obvious: action/reaction. If you have to win, then someone has to lose. A rich man’s Heaven is also the poor man’s Hell. If an effective Desire for wealth is sent out into the unified consciousness field, the response does not create its gift out of nothing. Someone else in the Matrix must lose something in order for your desire to be met. The Law of Balance demands it.

Everyone moves in relation to the Law of Balance. If you work and prepare hard and get all the right credentials, then good fortune will come your way. But ONLY if you adhere to the basic principles within the System. The system is designed around the principles of Consciousness, the principles of the Unified Field and the principle management-systems of this reality which are the Laws which direct Energy. God is the Law of the System and the Law of Balance holds everything in place.

The New Age belief that by ‘focusing on negativity you will increase negativity,’ isn’t true. The deception that “one gets what one concentrates on” does not take into consideration the Law of Balance within the System. The Law of Balance works in a polarity. This is why we say at Desteni that focusing only on the positive stimulates the negative. Light and Dark exist together.

War, murder and poverty do not just occur independently of peace, birth and wealth; they are absolutely connected through the Law of Balance. But everything is now moving towards oneness and equality – so now – according to the Law of Balance, according to your desire; the bigger your desire, the longer it will take before you face yourself and the bigger the fall. The positive cannot exist without the negative – just two opposite ends of the same pole. The polarity is a program, like religion, God, Free Will, energy and the LOA, the New Age - all illusions of the mind used to energetically control human beings.

The LOA is deceptive because it only can exist through desire and selfishness, with no regard for others. Your good life comes first and if there is anything left over, you’ll make a proper donation, right? The New Agers are so concerned about the Oneness in existence, yet when talking about supporting other beings of that One who suffer, then it’s, “Oh, they chose that for themselves. I must honor their choice.” How unfortunate for those who live their lives to this decree, they are laying “treasures in Heaven” for themselves that they will not expect.

The Design of the New Age (Part 3) Abraham’s Teachings in Brief…

Some of Abraham’s Teachings In brief.

Responses supplied by Andrea Rossouw.

*The physical is the extension of the non-physical.

To make this statement without taking into consideration that we are in a physical reality and suffering and abuse happens within the physical, means that we have to stop and look at what points: physical or non-physical require to be taken into consideration for all abuse to stop. To take on the non-physical only from within gaining riches or a few experiencing good fortune’ – indicates our deliberate dishonesty because we refuse to look at the physical or non physical points responsible for suffering, but conveniently only divulge the points, that will make a few rich. Why is this research into the ‘non physical’ which apparently only a few like the people mentioned above are able to do – not taken to the extreme by these ‘;chosen few’ to find out how to stop poverty, abuse, lack of? Why do the people who have the ‘insight’ into the non physical not research practical solutions that will stop all poverty, abuse, lack. Why do they deliberately justify accessing of the non physical as being a secret, that only the people who are able to walk into book shops and buy the books – are able to harness?

The only reason why there are secretive, selective points required to be understood for people to manifest money is because the people who have made it a secret want vast amounts of money from selling the products. The secret should be called: deliberate spitefulness towards people who don’t have the means to pay for this information.

If you use the excuse: ‘but I only have access to enough information to assist some people, through specific applications within the non-physical – then I would suggest look again at the words: the secret. You don’t divulge the information you do have equally for all – in the best interest of all, but take what you get to make your life ultimately comfortable. If your excuse is that you don’t question the source that provides you with your insight into the physical/non physical, then I would suggest start asking yourself, are you willing to be the pawn that plays the part in the law of attraction, even though you see within common sense, that the law of attraction means that a few get to follow laws to attract good fortune, while those who don’t have the information pertaining to these laws – get left out. This indicates that you are a conduit to a universal game being played, where a law dictates who lives comfortably while this same law will withhold the same equal opportunity to those who visibly suffer immensely within the physical reality. If the key therefore to this law is being made accessible to you by some universal structure/design, then why does the universal structure/design require it to be a secret?

*The basis of life is Freedom, the purpose of your life is Joy.

If freedom exists then first of all the person carrying this message would use their freedom whether it is a non physical or physical application/law to assert for example oneness and equality and equal opportunity for all – surely.

If all people were free to choose life, then why would they choose abuse and suffering – this makes no sense. I have not met many humans who desire abuse. Most if not all humans would like to choose a life in which they don’t have to suffer or experience misfortune.

To make the statement: ‘the basis of life is freedom’ is not taking into consideration the actual laws that govern this world. It does not take into consideration that the basis of such a statement is still supporting laws that govern the experiences of beings. This statement indicates in its nature that people are free to choose life, yet somehow they don’t, but it must surely then be because they don’t know any better. Let’s say 99% of the people on this planet don’t know how to choose life, then it must mean that it again falls under some law that requires of the being to act or understand in a certain way: most people wish they had better lives and think thoughts all day about how they could improve their lives – yet nothing changes. So what you are implying is that there is a secret law to accessing this application of freedom and life. In common sense this shows that this law is not based in ‘freedom’ as nobody knows what the law is and those who hold the key such as the people who present the ‘law of attraction’ are deliberately not doing everything in their power to assist all to realise their freedom to ‘live.’

That you apparently have the key to them experiencing their freedom to choose life and this point belonging to you: This is not freedom – but enslavement to a belief, which in common sense manifests as the enslavement to a hand full of people who are ‘the key’ to people realising themselves as life. Why do we say this information belongs to you? Well the information you present is not basic common sense, is not basic self honesty and therefore in its non-physical, non apparent nature, requires you as the messenger to present the information unconditionally. If this unconditionality becomes conditionality, then it tacitly implies that the information and the people presenting it is deceptive in nature. If the application and understanding of information, that will allow all to realise themselves as life, is based on what it is now where the people who present the information becoming filthy rich, the people who buy the material becoming somewhat profiting – and the rest of the world drowning in misfortune – then the deception behind the law of attraction is clear –it is not here to serve all – but is a game played by humans who like to justify the existence of rich/poor, lucky/unlucky, fortunate/unfortunate.

This again indicates that the people who have to wait for you to educate them are not free until you as their master, appears on their television and gives them the steps to realizing actual freedom. Instead of the information being accessible to all, you write books about it and charge money and the cycle continues. Some experience good fortune, some don’t and in people striving to get it by religiously following and buying the information – you have now made a very lucrative business out of it.

Years after the law of attraction design has been introduced and marketed, we still see a huge gap between those who buy the material and end up benefiting – and those who buy the material but still don’t ‘quite’ get it. The solutions: write more books, which cost more money, as if this secret comes in so many layers, depending on how selectively the information is shared. So the solution would be to stop the master slave agreement by making the information accessible in terms that people are able to read and understand and practically apply, then equally measuring the outcome to truly be: what is best for all – thus proving that they were in fact free to live and that in them wishing for it – you as the law of attraction spokes people, made it so, because in their freedom – they chose it so!

I mean surely if you see that people want to embrace this freedom to experience life and you hold the key, but only make it accessible to a few, then you are deliberately playing god within spitefulness.

If you then assist all to apply the methods of choosing within their freedom to accept themselves as life, and this does not stand the test of time in practical application as the solution – then you must be willing to challenge your methods and reconsider them – and whether they really are what is best for all.

*You create your reality with your thoughts

What this actually implies (without you taking into consideration) – is that our current reality is being created by our thoughts and that what reality is really manifesting as our thoughts is the abuse of ourselves. So in accordance with this beautifully structured admittance to self being responsible for all that is here – yes our thoughts do co-create reality as it is, but if you actually look at what is being created through self interest you will see there is nothing grand about it. Thus the realization through common sense and self honesty that our thoughts create reality, brings us to the point of having to look at what are our thoughts that create this reality? If it was as simple as: we create wonderful outcomes with wonderful thoughts then surely this world would be wonderful. If it was as simple as: rape, war, murder will stop if we all think wonderful thoughts, then surely with all humans thoughts based in ‘prosperity’ – we should by now have started seeing a turn in the destructive events, that is crippling man, further and further into a state of oneness and equality with what we accept and allow ourselves to be.

This indicates that what is really manifesting reality as the collective (unconscious mind) thoughts of people is not the pretty, wishful, hopeful day-to-day thoughts we have been trained to believe, but rather the underlying, non apparent, symbolic thoughts linked to programs designed and resonating for one things: our survival in the system. What does the ‘Law of Attraction’ and ‘The Secret’ gives validation to: our survival within the system based on hope and desire, with poor/rich, fortune/misfortune being our motivation.

*Anything that you can imagine is yours to have.

By tacit implication, we all in self-honest know that for each person to get what they want, within this current system somebody else has to pay the price. Again the same person who makes the above statement will watch a documentary about slave labor, poverty and animal abuse and ‘feel’ really bad about what happens to these beings – yet not take into consideration that the current money system functions in accordance with producing to the vast needs of people while exploiting people and animals who have no other ‘choice’ but to work and function in abusive situations.

The tacit agreement behind: ‘Anything that you can imagine is yours to have’: is that a world system has to be functional, as designed by us – for us to ‘have.’ What we ‘want’ is not imported from Mars; it comes from this planet and is produced by people on this planet, using resources from this planet. At Desteni we don’t disregard that there are polarities and laws at play, according to which the system functions, what we do share is that humans accept and manipulate these polarities and laws, which were created from the starting point of control and separation as the mind (want, need, desire) – to further prosper as the mind through participating in the current money system.

*All is well. It really is!

This statement actually requires no further discussion, because in self honesty and common sense, we are able to see that to justify what we have accepted the situation in this world to be, through means of: all is as it should be for each person, therefore all is well: is the words used by people who are deliberately not seeing the consequences, because they found a way to make money and to feel good about the abuse that we allow.

*The more intense your positive feelings, the faster what you want comes to you.

Again I would suggest taking this into practical application and test whether focusing on stopping all abuse in the world, will manifest by following this polarity technique. If it does not then I suggest look at what it is that you stand for – does your technique only serve your self-interest which in common sense we are able to see co-creates the abuse that is here now, as the current money system – or do you see and realise that playing this polarity game of ‘some get while others don’t’ – is the direct cause of the abuse we accept and allow.

*”By deliberately directing your attention and thoughts toward the outcome that you desire, you can be or do or have anything that you choose.”

Through our research at Desteni into the Mind Consciousness System and the unified field – we have found that our lives are pre-programmed in nature. That is why some people experience luck or fortune, while others despite their desire and thoughts based on attracting a better outcome for their lives –still experience misfortune.

This explains why some people who work with positive thought get the outcome they desire, even if just in a few areas of their life, whereas others may focus as they like, and think about better lives, but it just doesn’t work. The majority of the human experience is based on you win some/lose some and throughout our lives we have come to deal with misfortune as it comes our way. This programming of the human experience was placed specifically so that each person plays a role in the current world systems. The world systems are based in and designed around its own survival and each human is designed as as specific personality program to function in a specific way within the functionality of the system.

From there your life experience is pre-programmed into the unified field. You are born into a time line and according to that will be moved through events, experiences, desires as you perceive them – along geometrical lines – and this is our experience within: ‘time and space.’ Therefore your life is not you making decisions, but you moving along time and space and when you meet a point within your pre-programmed placement where you are supposed to act, feel, think, move, react, decide – then you have your mind consciousness system step in and tell you as your mind what to do, think etc. From there your experience becomes part of the greater experience and collectively all human experiences play out to support the system as it is it. Each human might experience themselves as having a slightly different experience to the next one – but if you look at it in common sense – you will notice that we all experience variations of the same thing – and in the end the system as it is functions optimally because we are the system.

So thinking positive thoughts to attempt to change your life to a ‘better’ experience is relative to what each one of us was programmed to experience – that is why I say again – many people if not all people most of the time focus on creating or attracting ‘positive’ experiences – but it is only on random occasions that we actually ‘get what we want.’

This system of polarity creates the desire within each person to experience only the positive and within the laws of polarity, the opposite polarity is required for or the positive to exist. Thus chasing after polarities – when your programming is actually running in the background’ – actually determining your experience – is how this world functions within polarity balancing itself out – and those who:  ‘deliberately directing your attention and thoughts toward the outcome that you desire’ are creating the ultimate polarity that for it to play out, has to manifests the deliberate attention on events we don’t want to experience.

*”Whatever is happening to you is a perfect Vibrational Match to the current vibration of your Being.’

I take it people have vibration measuring mechanisms, with which they have taken somebody who has been raped, abused, tortured, starved and measured ‘the vibration of their being’ and compared it to the measurement of the vibration of ‘what happened to them.’ To speak about vibrations, would assume you have a means to measuring vibrations, unless of course you are using basic vibrations and energetic given off by the mind during events – and with that creating an assumption that the people who have certain vibrations at the time of an event – is having it happen to them because the vibrations are the same.

So let us say you are able to measure that the vibrations of what is happening to a person matches the vibration of their ‘being’: this would indicate that we have a much larger problem on our hands than what your law of attraction books will be able to address. This means that the vibration of the ‘being’ of for example child being abused, animal being abused, woman being raped, victims of war, victims of exploitation and starvation, etc is directly responsible for that beings misfortune – without them even being aware that their vibration is that of abuse. This implies that innocent people and animals that are abused because their being is vibrated as abuse, don’t actually stand a chance in this world because how else do they stop the abuse – other than some means to getting access to and clearing their beingness.

The solution would have to be simple common sense in practicality or else it is not self honesty. If the solution is not one and equal to each person’s self honest, self realization, within them standing as self responsibility – and instead the point belongs in a book, only accessible to those with the means to buy these books – then that again is clearly a system designed by people who have access to the system information that is designed to control people. Otherwise if the information is for the being to access and use within common sense terms such as SELF-FORGIVENESS – then clearly it is just another system designed by people who will exploit this evasive information, dependent on rules and specific applications.

So, we are not equal and one in our understanding of ‘vibrations.’ It implies mysticism and control, expecting people to believe and follow vibrations, instead of living here in the breath, in oneness and equality, in self honest, self responsibility. How are we able to support ourselves if we pay attention to theories that support the unseen, whereby it enslaves us again to hope? Self support has to be placed within self responsibility and at Desteni we have found that self-forgiveness stops the unseen systematic designs because it brings the person one and equal to the information and allows the person to forgive the allowances of control through system designs, which were programmed into us to stand in on our behalf as the directive principle.

Therefore instead of finding ways to control or direct vibrations which are systematic in nature as it implies mind consciousness designs, acting on our behalf to keep us functioning as mind systems – we work with directing self here within awareness as the breath. Through this we bring self here, instead of supporting ‘hidden’ mind systems.

The Design of the New Age – The Law of Attraction PART 2 “The Secret” of Abraham/Hicks

The Secret

In 2006, Rhonda Byrne created a colossal marketing tsunami with her hit DVD, The Secret. Appearing on Oprah drove in book sales as well, as you could not visit a Border’s or a Barnes & Noble’s book store without seeing a gaudy display of The Secret near the cash registers. Promoting The Secret as a ‘documentary’ of conspiracy theory and ancient knowledge was a brilliant marketing ploy, as the ’self-help’ and ‘how to’ books have always been a reliable source of income to the book publishers. Combining self-help with an ‘ancient wisdom’ conspiracy point (where it is inveigled that the elite has tried to keep the Secret away from the common folk), also made The Secret irresistible to many people.

The Law of Attraction is the central point of Rhonda Byrne’s, The Secret. She came across Wallace Wattle’s book, The Science of Getting Rich during a difficult time in her life and to her credit, turned her inspiration into a world-wide marketing sensation. Byrne just used what was already here and made a fortune. Using The Secret, you can too! By way of affirmation, prayer, visualization and a positive attitude, you can get that new house or Mercedes because only YOU create your own reality. Just as Wallace Wattle and Napoleon Hill said nearly 100 years ago.

Esther Hicks/Abraham

According to the Abraham-Hicks official website, Jerry and Esther Hicks describes themselves of “living a fairy-tale life.” Jerry suffered from poor health as a child and lived in extreme poverty. His life turned around after reading Napoleon Hill’s, Think and Grow Rich. Jerry was a millionaire before he met Esther, who is described as a “gifted conduit to infinite intelligence!” After a period of meditation for nine months Abraham appeared in Esther’s consciousness 20 years ago, and the Hicks’ have been spreading Abraham’s message of “manifesting abundance,” health and “pleasure” everywhere.

Abraham has been variously described as a ‘nebulous mist,” ‘an infinite intelligence,” “a group consciousness from the non-physical dimension” “the great masters of the universe,” and so on. They make the claim that the modern teaching of the Law of Attraction began with them, but when you investigate this, it’s clear that Parkurst Quimby said the exact same things in the late 1850s.

Esther Hicks/Abraham

According to the Abraham-Hicks official website, Jerry and Esther Hicks describes themselves of “living a fairy-tale life.” Jerry suffered from poor health as a child and lived in extreme poverty. His life turned around after reading Napoleon Hill’s, Think and Grow Rich. Jerry was a millionaire before he met Esther, who is described as a “gifted conduit to infinite intelligence!” After a period of meditation for nine months Abraham appeared in Esther’s consciousness 20 years ago, and the Hicks’ have been spreading Abraham’s message of “manifesting abundance,” health and “pleasure” everywhere.

Abraham has been variously described as a ‘nebulous mist,” ‘an infinite intelligence,” “a group consciousness from the non-physical dimension” “the great masters of the universe,” and so on. They make the claim that the modern teaching of the Law of Attraction began with them, but when you investigate this, it’s clear that Parkurst Quimby said the exact same things in the late 1850s.

The Design of the New Age – The Law of Attraction PART 1

Design of The New Age – The Law of Attraction

New Thought/Positive Thinking

The Law of Attraction, as it is commonly understood in the New Age Movement, originated within the New Thought Movement which sprung up in New England in the late 19th century. The New Thought Movement was the precursor to the modern New Age Movement and had some influence on the Christian Science doctrines of Mary Baker Eddy from her association with her mentor, the former mesmerist, master clockmaker and putative father of the New Thought Movement, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.

Quimby was reputed to be a great healer, and taught that sickness arose from false beliefs and fears, and that there was sufficient power in the mind to heal oneself. Faith in God, who is the only reality in existence, is what heals a being and keeps them healthy.

It was only a small jump to extend that optimistic outlook of health towards wealth. The New Thought Movement held that All is God, and further, since God is Divine Mind and Intelligence, then we are all part of God’s Mind. Evil exists due to Ignorance of God’s Love and Light. Poverty exists for the same reason. Poverty and illness are always due to erroneous thinking, fears and lack of faith in God.

Prosperity Consciousness, especially in America, has long been an interest of people looking for tangible ways to succeed in their lives. Books by Napoleon Hill, especially, “Think and Grow Rich” and Wallace Wattle’s “The Science of Getting Rich” has sold millions of copies. These books promote the power of Positive Thinking, faith and affirmations as key components for becoming a success in life.

“The Science of Getting Rich” was first published in 1910, and has remained in print to this day. Positive thinking techniques, will power, creative visualization and the mental science approach to health was applied by Wattle to give readers the key into attracting wealth. William Walker Anderson was a prolific New Thought author and editor and is credited with coining the expression, the “Law of Attraction.’ He writes in his book, THOUGHT VIBRATION OR THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD,

“We speak learnedly of the Law of Gravitation, but ignore that equally wonderful manifestation, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD. We are familiar with that wonderful manifestation of Law which draws and holds together the atoms of which matter is composed – we recognize the power of the law that attracts bodies to the earth, that holds the circling worlds in their places, but we close our eyes to the mighty law that draws to us the things we desire or fear, that makes or mars our lives.”

The Law of Attraction is thus explained as a magnetic force where ‘like attracts like’ as a universal law. The idea with the Law of Attraction is to consciously draw to yourself prosperity and wealth, since that is what God apparently wants you to do. Prosperity and good health is considered an indication of one’s self-realization and spiritual growth. Manifesting a positive outcome for yourself through using your mind and feelings is the secret to make all your dreams come true.

Process: Self-Honesty Breathing Support

Thanks to Bella for showing me that I do ‘get it’ sometimes.

Self-Honesty, breath and the principle of equal and one. These link up together to form practical self-support. 

Within each breath is the opportunity of living the point of self-honesty. 
Self-honesty within every breath connects us to all of life that is here. 
This point becomes self-apparent when reached. The technique is simple. 

Breathe in: self-honesty. 
Breathe out: letting go of all attachments. 

Standing within the self-honest breath you are equal and one with all. 
There is no fear, anxiety, doubt. 
You are just here; life spread out upon the canvas of the Universe. 


Breathe in. Breathe out. No thoughts are present to drown you. 
Breathe in: self-honesty. 
Breathe out: self-forgiveness and the release of all attachments. 

I breathe. I am here. I realize that my self is multidimensional. 
I realize that I am my self existing as this chair I sit in, this desk I write upon. 
The carpet that feels comfortable and scratchy against my toes. 
The walls that make up this room. The books that rest upon the shelf. 
The crickets and the grass that surrounds them as they sing in the night. 
One and equal with the dogs that lay on the floor behind my chair. 

Breathe in self-honesty. Breathe out self-forgiveness. Self-realization. 

I exist, therefore I am here. 
Here one and equal with life. Self-honest in this moment. In this breath. 
Purified from all attachments. 
Purified from all fear. 
Purified from from all doubt. 
An eternal expression standing equal and one with all. 

Breathe in: self-directiveness. 
Breathe out: self-trust. 
It is the addiction of thought that derails me from being here. 
Thought no longer crowds me. 
I self-will myself to remain here in silence. Unmoved. 
I Breathe in. Hold. Breathe out. Express. 
I Breathe in. Hold. Breathe out. Express. 
And I am here as my own self-expression.

Does Karma Exist?

Does Karma Exist?

Darryl Thomas & Andrea Rossouw

“KARMA” is a universal notion of divine justice or retribution found in all religions in one form or another and widely understood as a principle of cause and effect. This notion invariably states that the actions committed by Human Beings in their lives will have direct consequences that will determine their fates in future existences. This is supposedly done in order to provide a means for transcending the physical world, but in reality, those who ascribe to the Law of Karma largely remain within the moral bounds of a particular society and help keep it stable.

In ancient times, the word ‘Karma’ had magical and ritualistic connotations which suggested sacrifice, or a ritual act. Its current definitions contain such notions as action, effect and fate. Karma is directly linked to machinations of the endless cycles of reincarnation. Both Buddhist and Hindu religious systems teach that Karma is the condition that human beings find themselves is always the result of the actions taken in a previous life.

There are different schools in Hinduism that teach slightly different versions of Karma, but in the main, the Hindus consider Karma as a law, a self-correcting cosmic apparatus working to the end result of purifying all desire and thus liberate the soul. Karma strongly implies Free Will, as it is the Will of the being that determines their Karmic condition.

The Law of Karma cleverly justifies the creation and continuation of the Caste Division social arrangement found in Hindu cultures. The lower caste people are persuaded to perform admirably within their caste so they can be rewarded with being promoted to the higher caste in their next life. Karma is thus used to explain and justify inequality in the world and by extension, Karma also neatly explains the Problem of Evil.

“All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge,” Buddha is reported to have said. “It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states.”

To the Buddhist, Karma is a law unto itself, acting blindly and perfectly giving each being its due. Nowhere is it said how Karma Law came into being. Ignorance is the chief cause of Karma, since it involves Acts of Will.

In terms of the Christian Religion, it can be said the Jesus took on the karma of the entire Human Race with his death on the cross. In other cultures, the “Golden Ruleî (do unto others as you would have been done unto you) exists in some version or another.

Neopaganism & Wicca term karma as Luck or as “what goes around comes around,” or what a being does will come back to them. This acts as a deterrent to ‘naughty behavior. ‘Positive and negative energy (Love and Fear, for example) are the determinants. New Agers are often quick to justify suffering in the world as the “choice” of a being that must be “honored,” which closely mirrors the Hindu notion of people always get what they deserve. Morality is deeply implied when ‘choices’ are made. The New Age Movement considers the universe and this world to be creations of the mind, so we create our reality according to the moral and immoral thoughts and actions we choose to undertake.

Now that we’ve had a quick look at the concept of Karma, what can we say about its function in real world? Has Karma been an active force in the world? Can Karma be detected in the sweep of history? Does Karma even exist?

The proponents of Law of Karma claim that it works towards the purification of human beings through a process of doling out consequences that match a being’s actions to their experiences. This should result in a world that is obviously evolving towards perfection, towards equality, towards balance as the Karmic ties are burned in the purification of corrective experiences. But it is more than obvious that the world is in worse shape than ever, thanks to the one thing that has proven its trajectory of evolution; that of mind-manifested technology, which indicates that Karma does not work as advertised. Inequality is increasing as the rich take all that is left while the more of the poor go without. The Law of Karma, as it is currently understood, offers no direct insight into the actual mechanics of how world systems operate for the good of all.

Two more points to consider: the soul construct and the Akashic Records. The interdimensional investigation into the soul construct and the Akashic Records by Desteni found that memories of a being’s life were contained within the soul construct and deposited and stored in the Akashic Records. The being’s previous life lessons could not be accessed in the being’s next life since the memories were erased or the being was given a new soul. Many of us have lived the same life over and over for millennia, without learning a goddamn thing about ourselves and are ‘apparent lessons’ or our past lives. Where is the human being’s evolution of equality and oneness? It doesn’t exist because we forgot everything we did between lives when or memories were wiped by the White Light.

Thus, the dimensional existence which existed as “Heaven” was able to maintain control and guarantee that the beings on earth would continue to supply Heaven with energy siphoned off from human desire and suffering.

Karma was created as a design where the suffering that should have gone to the elite for their abuse was instead spread out among the experiences of other beings, life after life after life. The Elite escaped their karmic debts that were paid by the people who continuously suffered in the Lower Castes of the worlds societies, life after life, their suffering all that they existed as.

The reason for this ’spreading of Karmic debt’ was so that people continued to participate in the world systems without questioning the rich, the money system or the elite.

A sense of defeatism and ultimately ‘giving into the system’ happens because nobody is able to show that ‘The Elite’ or troublemakers within society ‘get what is coming to them.’

Therefore a mindset develops where people become equally dependent in and trusting of the same systems that support the Elite without any apparent consequence.

Instead of seeing Karma as consequence of what the rich and poor allow as the current design of economic systems, where the foundation is that of abuse, we accept that it is irrelevant what you do because you are either.

(1) already living out past Karmic debt, so sit back and deal with it, or

(2) karma does not work/exist for this life time at least for the ones who are ‘living the life’ at the expense of others.

The common sense points that are missed with regards to Karma

* Karma stands as enslavement to something we donít even remember doing.

* We abdicate self responsibility this life time (whether future Karmic complications exist or not) solely because we give into an idea based on knowledge from books that apparently some grand scheme is playing out and we are just the Cosmic Bystanders experiencing it. The Law of Karma is simply hearsay, where we blindly believe what we read in books because we want to believe in a mystical, spiritual life where one day, something will reward us for apparently being ‘good people’.

* How are we ‘good people’ if we stand around allowing abuse of each other to support the world systems that support the Elite, apparently the beneficiaries of ‘good Karma,’ which we have not seen for ourselves, but rather see within what we would like to experience for ourselves.

* That each person might as well ’strive to live a better life.’ This in itself indicates that most humans who die attempting to be religious and good are the same ones coming back again in middle to poorer class lives. Common sense – the ratio of elite to poor is not equal, but nobody who adheres to the Karma doctrines seem to get that. Speak to any person on the street and they will either explain to you that there s a god, deity, karmic system or personalized spiritual Ideal that they live – all this indicating that people believe in some ‘reward/punishment system’ after death. If you look at the level of abuse and poverty, the awful reality of living within the jaws of a nightmare does not correlate to the general mind set of human beings that are able to purchase their survival. Thus within our research, we have focused on the designs of self within the larger world systems right down to each person’s role within the bigger system design – thus showing that Karma Is just another system design to keep humans hoping, fearing, believing, desiring – without actual self movement within self responsibility for what we have all accepted this world to be.

* Common sense: we suggest stop finding excuses for why we should accept things the way they are – because what we accept and tacitly agree to is directly playing out in our world. We are able to see using common sense when we look at the human mind consciousness systems and how they ‘play out in the world.’

* Karma as the definition of itself misses the point of self honesty, because it gives a reason for people acting as they do.

* Karma misses the point of self trust because it says: your life is a cosmic design based in a lesson, so why trust yourself to be self honest as self correction.

* Karma misses the point of self-forgiveness because it says that you might forgive yourself now but if you donít stick to the laws of religious belief, which in itself separates the being from self-directive/trusting/forgiving/honesty: then you will again come back in the next life to be punished by a Karmic law and not your own law of self realization.[1]

* Karma misses the point of self-responsibility because your life is a design managed within world systems, therefore to be responsible in ones words and actions is to ‘dishonor’ the world systems/structures/designs. This is clearly seen in the words of ’spiritual’ people who react in shock when somebody declares that they stop participating in the designs that are here because they create enslavement to the world systems that support the elite.

*Common sense: Karma works solely from a point of hearsay because nobody has actually witnessed the process of Karmic debt ‘attaching itself to somebody’ –  or the process of being sent in your next life time into a body best suited for you to face your ‘lesson.’ We would much rather imagine or deal with knowledge from books that support what we believe is true rather than the actuality of what we do witness (I witness) here – and how through our individual abdication of self responsibility, self forgiveness, self honesty, self direction – give our power away to the system we designed to serve a few while billions suffer, hoping that by believing in some ‘Karmic’ Idea, the mess will sort itself out or we will one day experience what It is like on the other end of the human experience and be born into many riches!

Karma as the experience of one and equal, here

Since the Akashic Records has been deleted along with the White Light a few years ago, Karma is now being enforced and operating as it should have.

So now when people die, they will experience what they left behind.

All will be given the opportunity in one life to prove to existence that they are worthy of life.

The Golden Rule that Jesus tried to convey 2000 years ago applies absolutely: do to others as you would want to be done to you.

Self forgiveness is the tool to stop all karma practically, to take responsibility for the cycles we have participated in for many a year and thus realize through self honesty that if we do not stop the action reaction, the cycle continues. If we do not stop the blame, the cycle continues.

Does Karma Exist?

Darryl Thomas & Andrea Rossouw

“KARMA” is a universal notion of divine justice or retribution found in all religions in one form or another and widely understood as a principle of cause and effect. This notion invariably states that the actions committed by Human Beings in their lives will have direct consequences that will determine their fates in future existences. This is supposedly done in order to provide a means for transcending the physical world, but in reality, those who ascribe to the Law of Karma largely remain within the moral bounds of a particular society and help keep it stable.

In ancient times, the word ‘Karma’ had magical and ritualistic connotations which suggested sacrifice, or a ritual act. Its current definitions contain such notions as action, effect and fate. Karma is directly linked to machinations of the endless cycles of reincarnation. Both Buddhist and Hindu religious systems teach that Karma is the condition that human beings find themselves is always the result of the actions taken in a previous life.

There are different schools in Hinduism that teach slightly different versions of Karma, but in the main, the Hindus consider Karma as a law, a self-correcting cosmic apparatus working to the end result of purifying all desire and thus liberate the soul. Karma strongly implies Free Will, as it is the Will of the being that determines their Karmic condition.

The Law of Karma cleverly justifies the creation and continuation of the Caste Division social arrangement found in Hindu cultures. The lower caste people are persuaded to perform admirably within their caste so they can be rewarded with being promoted to the higher caste in their next life. Karma is thus used to explain and justify inequality in the world and by extension, Karma also neatly explains the Problem of Evil.

“All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge,” Buddha is reported to have said. “It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states.”

To the Buddhist, Karma is a law unto itself, acting blindly and perfectly giving each being its due. Nowhere is it said how Karma Law came into being. Ignorance is the chief cause of Karma, since it involves Acts of Will.

In terms of the Christian Religion, it can be said the Jesus took on the karma of the entire Human Race with his death on the cross. In other cultures, the “Golden Ruleî (do unto others as you would have been done unto you) exists in some version or another.

Neopaganism & Wicca term karma as Luck or as “what goes around comes around,” or what a being does will come back to them. This acts as a deterrent to ‘naughty behavior. ‘Positive and negative energy (Love and Fear, for example) are the determinants. New Agers are often quick to justify suffering in the world as the “choice” of a being that must be “honored,” which closely mirrors the Hindu notion of people always get what they deserve. Morality is deeply implied when ‘choices’ are made. The New Age Movement considers the universe and this world to be creations of the mind, so we create our reality according to the moral and immoral thoughts and actions we choose to undertake.

Now that we’ve had a quick look at the concept of Karma, what can we say about its function in real world? Has Karma been an active force in the world? Can Karma be detected in the sweep of history? Does Karma even exist?

The proponents of Law of Karma claim that it works towards the purification of human beings through a process of doling out consequences that match a being’s actions to their experiences. This should result in a world that is obviously evolving towards perfection, towards equality, towards balance as the Karmic ties are burned in the purification of corrective experiences. But it is more than obvious that the world is in worse shape than ever, thanks to the one thing that has proven its trajectory of evolution; that of mind-manifested technology, which indicates that Karma does not work as advertised. Inequality is increasing as the rich take all that is left while the more of the poor go without. The Law of Karma, as it is currently understood, offers no direct insight into the actual mechanics of how world systems operate for the good of all.

Two more points to consider: the soul construct and the Akashic Records. The interdimensional investigation into the soul construct and the Akashic Records by Desteni found that memories of a being’s life were contained within the soul construct and deposited and stored in the Akashic Records. The being’s previous life lessons could not be accessed in the being’s next life since the memories were erased or the being was given a new soul. Many of us have lived the same life over and over for millennia, without learning a goddamn thing about ourselves and are ‘apparent lessons’ or our past lives. Where is the human being’s evolution of equality and oneness? It doesn’t exist because we forgot everything we did between lives when or memories were wiped by the White Light.

Thus, the dimensional existence which existed as “Heaven” was able to maintain control and guarantee that the beings on earth would continue to supply Heaven with energy siphoned off from human desire and suffering.

Karma was created as a design where the suffering that should have gone to the elite for their abuse was instead spread out among the experiences of other beings, life after life after life. The Elite escaped their karmic debts that were paid by the people who continuously suffered in the Lower Castes of the worlds societies, life after life, their suffering all that they existed as.

The reason for this ’spreading of Karmic debt’ was so that people continued to participate in the world systems without questioning the rich, the money system or the elite.

A sense of defeatism and ultimately ‘giving into the system’ happens because nobody is able to show that ‘The Elite’ or troublemakers within society ‘get what is coming to them.’

Therefore a mindset develops where people become equally dependent in and trusting of the same systems that support the Elite without any apparent consequence.

Instead of seeing Karma as consequence of what the rich and poor allow as the current design of economic systems, where the foundation is that of abuse, we accept that it is irrelevant what you do because you are either.

(1) already living out past Karmic debt, so sit back and deal with it, or

(2) karma does not work/exist for this life time at least for the ones who are ‘living the life’ at the expense of others.

The common sense points that are missed with regards to Karma

* Karma stands as enslavement to something we donít even remember doing.

* We abdicate self responsibility this life time (whether future Karmic complications exist or not) solely because we give into an idea based on knowledge from books that apparently some grand scheme is playing out and we are just the Cosmic Bystanders experiencing it. The Law of Karma is simply hearsay, where we blindly believe what we read in books because we want to believe in a mystical, spiritual life where one day, something will reward us for apparently being ‘good people’.

* How are we ‘good people’ if we stand around allowing abuse of each other to support the world systems that support the Elite, apparently the beneficiaries of ‘good Karma,’ which we have not seen for ourselves, but rather see within what we would like to experience for ourselves.

* That each person might as well ’strive to live a better life.’ This in itself indicates that most humans who die attempting to be religious and good are the same ones coming back again in middle to poorer class lives. Common sense – the ratio of elite to poor is not equal, but nobody who adheres to the Karma doctrines seem to get that. Speak to any person on the street and they will either explain to you that there s a god, deity, karmic system or personalized spiritual Ideal that they live – all this indicating that people believe in some ‘reward/punishment system’ after death. If you look at the level of abuse and poverty, the awful reality of living within the jaws of a nightmare does not correlate to the general mind set of human beings that are able to purchase their survival. Thus within our research, we have focused on the designs of self within the larger world systems right down to each person’s role within the bigger system design – thus showing that Karma Is just another system design to keep humans hoping, fearing, believing, desiring – without actual self movement within self responsibility for what we have all accepted this world to be.

* Common sense: we suggest stop finding excuses for why we should accept things the way they are – because what we accept and tacitly agree to is directly playing out in our world. We are able to see using common sense when we look at the human mind consciousness systems and how they ‘play out in the world.’

* Karma as the definition of itself misses the point of self honesty, because it gives a reason for people acting as they do.

* Karma misses the point of self trust because it says: your life is a cosmic design based in a lesson, so why trust yourself to be self honest as self correction.

* Karma misses the point of self-forgiveness because it says that you might forgive yourself now but if you donít stick to the laws of religious belief, which in itself separates the being from self-directive/trusting/forgiving/honesty: then you will again come back in the next life to be punished by a Karmic law and not your own law of self realization.[1]

* Karma misses the point of self-responsibility because your life is a design managed within world systems, therefore to be responsible in ones words and actions is to ‘dishonor’ the world systems/structures/designs. This is clearly seen in the words of ’spiritual’ people who react in shock when somebody declares that they stop participating in the designs that are here because they create enslavement to the world systems that support the elite.

*Common sense: Karma works solely from a point of hearsay because nobody has actually witnessed the process of Karmic debt ‘attaching itself to somebody’ –  or the process of being sent in your next life time into a body best suited for you to face your ‘lesson.’ We would much rather imagine or deal with knowledge from books that support what we believe is true rather than the actuality of what we do witness (I witness) here – and how through our individual abdication of self responsibility, self forgiveness, self honesty, self direction – give our power away to the system we designed to serve a few while billions suffer, hoping that by believing in some ‘Karmic’ Idea, the mess will sort itself out or we will one day experience what It is like on the other end of the human experience and be born into many riches!

Karma as the experience of one and equal, here

Since the Akashic Records has been deleted along with the White Light a few years ago, Karma is now being enforced and operating as it should have.

So now when people die, they will experience what they left behind.

All will be given the opportunity in one life to prove to existence that they are worthy of life.

The Golden Rule that Jesus tried to convey 2000 years ago applies absolutely: do to others as you would want to be done to you.

Self forgiveness is the tool to stop all karma practically, to take responsibility for the cycles we have participated in for many a year and thus realize through self honesty that if we do not stop the action reaction, the cycle continues. If we do not stop the blame, the cycle continues.

Our Daily Bread

“GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD”

In Exodus, the LORD gave the Israelites Manna from Heaven after their escape from the Egyptians. The story goes like this:

“When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: “Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer to a person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed.” [Exodus 16. 15-18]

The passages in the Gospels gives us a few famous references to bread. where Jesus performs a great miracle, one of the most well-known is that of the multiplication of the bread and loaves. This is one of the only times within the NT that this story appears in all four gospels. It is an interesting story, and in it, Jesus and his disciples are stuck out in some isolated “desert place” during their travels. This in itself would be scarcely worth mention, but the problem was that 4000 “men” followed Jesus out there and remained with him for over three days, and were getting hungry. Jesus tells his students that he feels sorry for the crowd and realizes that they were too far away from the towns The disciples are freaking because they don’t have any idea how to get food for the mob.

Jesus asks how many loaves of bread were on hand. Seven loaves and bits of fish. Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down and gave thanks for the bread and broke it and had his disciples serve the crowd. The Bible states that the entire crowd “ate and were filled.” There were even seven baskets of left overs. While the Gospels fail to mention what happened to this surplus, what is the meaning, if any, behind this miracle story?

One the surface, this “miracle” (if it really happened)[1] consists of an impossible exchange ratio of bread to the people in the crowd. Not only was everyone fed, but there was more than enough left over. All from a meager amount of fish. Jesus as the Living Word is capable in of serving many equally. “Give us this day our daily bread,” goes the “Lord’s Prayer.” Even when Jesus tells his students that “Man cannot live by bread alone,” here he sees the situation as dire enough to sensibly provide people the illogical; multiplying bread from very little. The day is saved for these folk.

But for everyone else who has gone hungry ever since the this story has been circulated, this miracle remains meaningless and empty gesture. For the Lord our God does not give us our daily bread. By the sweat of our brow (or for those who have internet access, the sweat of somebody else’s brow) we make our bread. It is telling that in the Gospel story of the multiplication of the loaves that the disciples complain that they don’t have enough money to buy enough read for the crowd. Jesus, as the Living Word overruled that objection by speaking his gratitude for what he had and served the people. Yeah, that was really great. But what about the rest of us? Do we not all deserve a miracle? And if not, don’t we all at least deserve our Daily Bread?

Jesus’ famous comment that “the poor shall be always with you” placed against this backdrop of the Loaves and Fishes creates a cognitive dissonance. Is Jesus admitting that the existence of the “poor” was something that just had to be? Did Jesus place this quote in resignation? Did he misunderstand the capacity of self-interest people have? Did he just get it all wrong? Were these words even spoken by Jesus?

Maybe the “Poor will always be with us” because we have accepted this judgment as “the way things are.” I mean, if Jesus says so, who’s to argue? If Jesus could have expounded on that, maybe he would have said something about the human being’s unlimited, relentless sense of self-interest and abuse. What Jesus did seem to realize was that the people were faced with scarcity and did not have enough common sense not to travel long distances without food. And while the myth offers an alternative to the abusive, self-interested path of economic Darwinism and Capitalism by providing food for all in the name of “service,” with the principle of equality and oneness is fully realized as everyone was fed and miraculaously, along with a ginormus amount of “leftovers.”

2000 years of Christianity has not moved the human race past this one point: that all are Children of God and thus deserve a life befitting a Child of God. If we have not moved from the fear of not having enough fucking money to buy bread, then when will we?

This isn’t the blog I intended to write. I wanted to write something that linked the Miracle of the Loaves and Fish with the Living Principle of Equality and Oneness, but nothing relevant or practical is coming up. Now all I’ve done is plunge myself into a slight depression.

MONEY CREATES SCARCITY AND POWER

In the South African Sunday Times August 2, 2009, there appeared an article written by Jacklyn Cock with the headline, “Stand up to those who profit from our daily bread.” The article claims that massive profiteering on the part of the producers and distributors of bread at the expense of the poor. The price of bread has increased 41% since last year which is “devastating to the working class.” In 2007 Tiger Brands was fined nearly one million rand which then later coincidentally increased their prices citing “higher wheat costs.” Lack of bread appears to be Power. Who controls the Bread controls the People. I wonder if this ever occurred to Jesus, and if it did, why didn’t he do more about it?

So, since God, Moses, Elisha, Mahamet, Buddha, Shiva, Yahweh (or those who stand in their place, you know, the great, stateless corporations) is not going to share equally as Jesus did in that nameless desert 2000 years ago. we are going to have to do it ourselves.

1894. Philadelphia. Emma Goldman was standing trial after addressing a labor rally. The offending words?

The Incoherencies Greg Sheehan’s Healthy Anarchy (Pt.2)

 

Anyone that calls themselves an “anarchist” while believing in self-marginalization and holding corny metaphysical belief sytems is nothing but an irrelevancy. Check out Greg Sheehan’s facebook HEALTHY ANARCHY page if you want to read how inconsequencial the anarchist political agenda has become.

 

My ongoing dialogue with Greg Sheehan, who considers himself a “Healthy Anarchist,” has been helpful for me to understand why something as simple as the anarchist principle (the end of government) can be so misunderstood and trivialized. Actually, what Sheehan has done is provide a template for the reason why anarchy has been dead in the water since the days of Emma Goldman.  For that he has my gratitude. 

 

My personal politics has been a trajectory begun with my family’s traditional support of the Civil Rights-era Democratic Party. After the independent Presidential candicacy of John Anderson was locked out of the process  by both the Democrats and Republicans in 1980, I decided that American politics was a brutal affair that was not interested in letting just anybody into the White House. So I became an Independent, which just meant voting against Reagan and Bush although the Democrats were dead to me.

 

Then I looked around at the Libertarians for a year or so. I was initially enamored with the writings of Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard, but when I realized that Libertarians were some of the biggest jerks ever unleashed on the internet (the “anarcho-capitalists” who are basically republicans who like to smoke weed and not pay taxes), I decided to move even further left to anarchism, which was fascinating.

 

I learned read up on characters like William Godwin, Emma Goldman,  P.J. Proudhun, J.J. Rousseau, Kropotkin, Baukinin, Benjamin Tucker, Max Striner, Saul Newman, Hakim Bey, Bob Black, etc. There are so many approaches to the anarchist philosophy that it can drive one crazy. Some are driven by humanism, some by desiring the end of capitalism and some by pushing unfettered capitalism. Classical Anarchism is quite a mess, with no practical answers to today’s problems that exist in the 21st century. Which is why I moved on to consider the post-left, post-anarchist viewpoint as a possible answer in humanity reaching equality and oneness. 

 

The post-anarchist perspective goes something like this: the classical anarchist agenda is an antiquated, irrelevant and old-fashioned program, and it cannot answer the new questions being asked today because anarchism has become a parody of itself by becoming nothing more than an academic ivory tower frozen to death with the useless ideas of marching, protesting and revolutionary theorizing which are useless against today’s stateless Corporations, Late-Capitalist Globalization and the elimination of human rights through technology. 

 

What I see is that a One World Government and giving every human being equal money would go a long way in bringing equality to this world. Make no mistake, I am a fan or neither money or government, but like William Godwin, I see that the State and money are necessay evils that must exist for a while until the needs of such are removed forever through the evolution of common sense principle of what is best for all.

 

Cue up Greg Sheehan’s “Healthy Anarchy.” I was mistaken when I thought anarchism centered around the elimination of the state and religion, mutual collectivism through agreements and equality. Apparently Greg Sheehan’s brand of “anarchy” not only  considers it necessary to eat healthy food and avoid booze and drugs (!), but he seriously attaches and promotes a weird metaphysical intervention by aliens and an admiration of the Source of existsence as “Pure Consciousness.” I shit thee not. Here is the letter Greg Sheehan sent to the members of Healthy Anarchy that set me off (this letter Sheehan sent is long and rambling, so I will place the relevant parts here):

 

“An answer to the idea that all is “oneness” and that means everything is connected. And that both fo [sic]

 

I have come across oneness many times in the people i talk with.

I wrote this as a response to something that keeps being said to me online. That everything is oneness and it’s all connected.

I agree that when things are one then there is no conflict, like there is no conflict in truth.

Now god/consciousness, god being the ocean and us being drops from that ocean which are non-different except in scale. Consciousness(our souls) is like a fusion of every possible thing, including truth, and it also holds every positive value of all the things its made of. So because there is no conflict in truth there is also no conflict in consciousness.

 

However that applies in the spiritual world which is made entirely of consciousness and in which god or the supreme oneness(read the supremem [sic] one) are the oneness and that oneness holds all positive value of all things.

 

The trouble with “oneness” is that when applied in the material world you get people saying “everything is one and everything is fine. When here there is obviously conflict and seperation.

There is massive hypocrasiy [sic] and contraditicions, like alot of the seperation. 

There is massive hypocrasiy and contraditicions, like alot of the seperation is caused by attatchments to the material world, ironic.

As far as i know when you practise being transcendental you literally are elevating yourself to the spiritual world. Which is called Vaikuntha, “vai” menaing “free from” and “kuntha” meaning “anxiety”. 

As you change your consciousness to the “on” position you can literally part the material world and open up a consciousness pocket within it. This stuff actually exists in infinite expanse beyond the material world already, and this is also the stuff we are made of, not our bodys or our minds which are just other forms of possesion but the lifesource of our soul.”

 

Sheehan goes on and on about the “spirit world” and “consciousnes.” To this piece of well-intentioned “metaphysical reasoning,” I responded with: 

 

“Greg: Well, I would suggest that “oneness” by itself is not sufficient to address the problems witrh the world. Considering Equality AND oneness is where I’d begin, because we’re already “one” – that as human beings scuttling across the face of the earth in various stages of survival mode. However, we are obviously not “equal” in terms of everyone having the same starting point of the ability to “purchase their survival.” Purchasing survival in the form of economic Evolution needs to be addressed first, as this is consciousness’ “answer” to survival. With a friend like consciousness, who needs enemies?” Sheehan responded with inchoherancies like,

 

“Consciousness is pure positivty so in a battle against negativity I would think positivity in its purest form would be the perfect ally.”

 

“Someone said “but everyone is too greedy” and I answered that people are greedy for the wrong false unhealthy things, if people are greedy for true value/health/positivty that is real selfishness which is good because the self is consciousness. So greed is the cure for greed as if you only allow in positive value that value will overflow into those things and people who are around you.”

 

“Consciousness is the source and the source of the source is god consciousness. We are the drops of that ocean god is the whole ocean.”

 

 ”In pure consciousness in the spiritual world there is no death only life hence no survival need.”

 

 

Are you are asking yourself what does this gooey, flowerhat metaphysics have to do with anarchism? I sure did. I asked Sheehan and his response was more of the same. I tried to corral the discussion in terms of practical effectiveness removed from “the sea of consciousness.” 

 

Darryl Thomas at 6:24pm July 7

This is an interesting denial of the physical when we start saying that the Spiirit/Consciousness (something nobody has ever seen or proven to exist), is “more real.” 

 

We are one and equal to who we are as what we do.

 

We certainly are not equal to our words because we lie all the time, so we can’t even lay claim to possessing the Living Word. The consciousness of human beings is what is wrong with human beings. The consciousness of human beings has created a world where ecological systems are breaking down. The consciousness of human beings is where we create ideas of love and beauty while giving each one abuse and death. Do not extoll consciousness’ virtues. It has none that I can see.

 

Greg Sheehan at 6:39pm July 7

ok you voiced your concern about starving children, one aspect of god consciousness is to extend your scope of protection. Most people protect the life/health of themselves, then family then friends etc etc all the way up to country. One aspect of god consciousness is to realise that every living thing has a soul and to treat it accordingly and to extend your protection beyond all of those me/family/friends/country/planet boundaries to all life as all lifeforms have souls/consciousness. Anyway if you are really concerened about feeding people I would expect you to be acting on those concerns and growing food, if you are doing that then we are in agreement because I am also doing that, im writing alot less these days because im mostly in the garden which i have created to produce as much as it can.

I wrote about the 3 most important things(food water shelter) and how everyone should be pouring all their energy into those things, are you putting all your energy into those things?

 

Darryl Thomas at 10:58pm July 7

…your attitude towards my concern over the poverty of the millions of beings in this world is one I have seen before. It’s shockingly dishonest, both intellectually and “spiritually,” as if you are moved in the least to what I do about facing the crap in this world. As if you would ever base your future actions on what I am doing. As if you are saying, “Hey, if you aren’t doing anything about this, why should I?” As if you couldn’t see what needs to be done and do it on your own, but rather wait and see if somebody else does. 

 

I then wrestled the discussion to the possibility of a One World Government and Equal Money for All. The Equal Money component so far has been completely ignored, which is fascinating. The One World Government idea however, has predictably drawn the most flack. Sheehan of course, takes the classical hardline anarchist approach, which is nevertheless somewhat surprising given the CandyLand metaphysics he’s infused into his politics.

 

Greg Sheehan at 4:23pm July 12

Government is like parenting, autoritarian governments [sic] who tell people to do so just because they say so only breed blind dumb obidiant [sic] humans who will follow whatever college lecturer, boss, president, group leader says. Becuase [sic] from a young age they were told by an autoritarian partent to do so not because of reason or value but because the autoritry [sic] said so, even if the authority could not explain the reason/value if their life depended on it because they dont know/understand.

So is more authoritarianism and blind obediance [sic] what we need, that just retards the devlopment of people. Best example is traffic area that had all the signs and rules removed as a test in a city area. It was anarchy, but people started to EXCERCISE [sic] their once retarded  better judgement (?) and drove without confusion and with more care. Accidents went down in huge numbers. Governments might be there because of retardation but they also create retardation.

 

That will teach me to try and have an argument with someone. Buried within the flurry of misspelled words, incomplete clauses  and sentence fragments, there is a concrete, recognizable anarchist perspective waiting to see the light of day. GOVERNMENT IS BAD AND MAKES PEOPLE STOOPID. PERIOD. Sheehan goes on to disparage my view that a One World Government agenda is an evolutionary step that is a necessary evil until it can be done away with by posting his admiration for Ayn Rand and then saying: “You think people need to be weened off it and I think we need a bit of “cold turkey”. Do some research on addiction of retarding substances like heroin or other drugs, weening off does not work. The smallest ammount of heroin will ruin a cold turkey and mean the addict has to start all over again.

And government is addictive, it lifts responsability away magically just like heroin or other addictive development retarding things… Give people room to grow and they will grow like plants , tie them too tightly and bind them to rules and you will confuse and retard them.”

 

I replied with:

Beginning with a One World Government so we can stop the wars and regional conflicts and then moving on to equal money for all to be given to children when they are born – enough so that it guarantees and provides equal education and living status. Then over time we can dispense with both forms of tyrany. Practicality goes a long way in meeting the needs of the people.

 

As for Ayn Rand, she was a charaltan and neoliberal hack.

 

Greg: …fine make your one world government, just another government that will need disbanding. Healthy anarchy is an idea of the best way to live as humans. Im not saying it will be implemeted tomorrow, although it would be possible to impliment it tomorrow if everyone studied enough to understand it and voluntarily choose to live by it. Not saying thats gonna happen tomorrow im just saying it would be false of me to say its impossible. Tomooorow may be logistically im possible tho due to communication limitations but maybe a few very good weeks.

 

Okay, so now I know what I am up against: a childlike conception of what is possible in the world do to strict dietary rules (NO MEAT OR BOOZE) that will magically become the anarchist and healthy “choice” for the billions of human beings living on the Earth… that could take place in “maybe a few very good weeks.” Sheesh.

 

When I asked Sheehan what he would propose How do you propose to practically stop giving their power to the government,” he responded: Dont participate, dont vote , dont support the idea in conversations like it has an validity. An example of why not to vote would be the EU lisbon treaty, If Ireland passes it we could have our laws superceeded by the EU. So we could have mandatory(forced) vaccinations if swine flu occured. Now I wouldnt want that, so do i vote to try to not get vacinnated? Well if i loose the vote then it would seem I accepted the possibility of a loss by participating. Giving them a vote means giving them power. I shouldnt have to play a vote gambling game with the majoirty to see if someone can come and forcefully inject something into my arm which i can not verify myself. Non compliance is a good way to remove their power.

 

Then someone with the improbable name of “Patrick Jibby Jabrone Watt” posted:

 

“In order to have a One World Government

1. Many people have to be killed

2. Much land has to be destroyed 

3. Those in power now would have even more power

 

On the other hand, though, if the world was in better hands, then yes obviously a One World Uniting would be very beneficial for everyone, if everyone agreed to it. Now, this is very fictional in our society today, but if enough people awaken to a higher sate of consciousness level in time, then I see nothing but beautiful things in a One World Unity. 

 

Now, with 12-21-2012 a little more than 3 years away, it is close to impossible for the U.S. Government to take control of the entire world in so little time, so I don’t think we have much to worry about. By 2012, I think that this world will be quite different, whether it be majorly shook up by the coming solar flares, aliens making first contact and helping us out in whatever way they must or all of us rising to that crucial level to bypass all the negative stuff…”

 

I answered:

Let’s take your 3 opinions and see if these are valid points:

 

1. Many people have to be killed

Why would many people “have to be killed?” For what reason? ? Who would order such a thing? How do you know this?  What amount of people wou;d qualify as “many?” Why would murder on a vast scale accompliph more than common sense?

 

2. Much land has to be destroyed 

Why? Why would land “have to be destroyed?” What purpose woukd be served by destroying “much land?” Who would give the order and who would follow it out and why? 

 

3. Those in power now would have even more power

 Why would we have the same assholes in power when we already know what kind of job they’ll  do?Why can’t we place people who are trustworthy (I realize there’s not that many, but I’m willing to look them up). 

 

And now we come to the part of the screenplay where our Hero comes to the rescue! And it is 2012 riding the waves of Higher Consciousness! Woo Hoo! Who knew that it was only MAGIC that would solve our problems? Well, I suggest a few things. Stop marginalaizing yourself politically and get out there and be effective, and give up the namby-pamby, Pie-In-he-Sky, CandyLand Metaphysical bullshit. The only thing that wil happen at the end of 2012 is that things will be a LOT WORSE than you can imagine. I PROMISE you that! No aliens will come down and save us. I PROMISE YOU THAT. 

 

Healthy Anarchy has all the answers! What will sort out the problems of this world? 2012 and ALIENS coming to the rescue!!! Woo hoo! That’s great news! How to direct the political agenda in this world? DON’T PARTICIPATE! That’s brilliant stuff, isn’t it?

 

I mean, if anarchy has fallen to such deplorable intellectual depths, maybe it would better to kill it and put it out of it’s misery.

 

What anarchists like Greg Sheehan don’t get is that their misguided spitiualism fatally infects, disables freezzes their agenda to the point of irrelevancy. Sheehan goes on and on about “choice” and “positive thinking” and how “negativity in any form will “warp you,” and not seeing how that human being has been programmed and brainwashed into predictable behavioral patterns (life-styles) to the point of free will being removed, perhaps permenently, and then accept what Saul Newman would call a “moral hygiene” (like Sheehan’s insipid “Healthy” moralisms) that is just another form of domination of the System and not a serious attempt to consider what would be the best for all as Life. 

 

Which begs the question: what would be the best for all as Life? Wouldn’t be an equal consideration for all and the removal or inequality? Wouldn’t be the institution of equality through equal money and education for all? Wouldn’t removing the principle of purchasing your own survival be a great starting point in making sure children all over the world will be born here without having to entertain the dreary prospect of working themselves to death in a sweat shop or an athletic footwear factory just so I can wear cool shoes and enjoy my life while they suffer? Because that’s what it all comes down to: our enjoyment is fueled by other’s suffering. Greg Sheehan’s Healthy Anarchy cannot answer any of these questions with its pedantic “All Government is Bad/Positive Thinking/Spirituality” rhetorical, boring-ass bullshit. But it is invaluable in revealing how empty and irrelevant the impractical can be. For that, I suppose we should give thanks. And then get to work in providing relevant answers that will sort this world out.

 

 

Greg Sheehan’s “Healthy Anarchy” Not Healthy nor Anarchy Pt.1

I’m one of those people who has a love/hate affair with the social networking site, facebook. I love how easy one can connect with people and especially how I can run into people there that I haven’t seen in a million years. There’s the crummy and annoying Flower-Growing and “Quiz” apps, but a half-decent Texas Hold Em game makes up for that. And then you have the groups. I belong to several. My favorites is the  “I Love the Fall” group dedicated to my favorite pop band, The Fall. Then there’s the Desteni group and several others that I’ve joined that I have forgottened about and who sends me ubiquitious emails every once in a while, mst which I delete without reading. 

Well, sink me… I decided to open one of these highly deletable emails on a whim from Greg Sheehan’s Healthy Anarchy group. I don’t remember when I  joined this group, but I have a soft spot for Anarchists and assumed I would be getting some interesting anarchist takes from them when I joined. If I had read their mission statement first, I would have passed up on it. 

Here’s a couple of relevant passages of  Greg’s vision of  his “Healthy Anarchy”:
“All along people were looking for a blueprint for how to run society, and all along we were walking around in it, Healthy human body = Healthy Anarchy

God definitly has a sense of humor”

Yeah, he sure does, Greg. His greastest “work” was creating pathological human beings who abuse and wreck everything they touch. Har-de-har-har. 

Greg continues:

“The healthy human body appears to function on a system of healthy anarchy. The large systems would seem healthy and ordered like the organs that organise the smaller systems, and the small systems like blood cells would seem disordered yet healthy as things still get done. The orders that tell the small systems what to do don’t come from each other they come from the system as a whole. If all people are healthy and god conscious they would receive their instructions in the same way from consciously aware interpretations from nature and all that is. To envision this you have to see the entirety of life on earth as one organism, that must organise in the same way as a body does, as humans are the brain of this organism they cannot be giving each other orders for the system to function. This is seen in dysfunctional people who’s minds are constantly at war with themselves like the people of our planet at the moment.”

I beg to differ. This account fails because it does not provide a congruent example of how aggregations and  systems work in real time. It’s almost as if Sheehan came up with the term first and then tried to arrange a  meaning to encapsulate it. There can be no “Healthy Anarchism” within a human body, because the body obviously acts in accordance to the law of systems, which connects things (symbols, structure, maths, etc)  into a specific point and thus becomes that point. A stop sign functions within the system of traffic management by virtue of its placement on a street corner and the symbol that determines its functionality. Nothing anarchist about this. 

Here is the bold section that needs taken apart from the above: ” If all people are healthy and god conscious they would receive their instructions in the same way from consciously aware interpretations from nature and all that is.” 

This is a claim that has no basis of practicality nor fact, and simply undercuts Sheehan’s previous (and correct) take that systems autonomously run on their own. And why would one have to be “god conscious,” anyway? What does that even mean? That one is aware of “God” sitting somewhere in some strange dimension, or even here? It would make no difference because one would stioll have to suffer and purchase their survival from the System. Now if the System is “God,” being conscious of this is probably good common sense since bowing to the tyrant is such a wonderful life. 

Greg then goes on to say: The instructions must come from a common consciousness, god consciousness. This also means being rid of the teacher student situation. The only way this healthy anarchy can evolve is through students learning from students. We are all students, nobody is done learning.  

 Right, or as Bernard would say, “There are only students that want to be teachers.” However, god consciousness is superflerous since the System, like a sizeless, titanic Casino, operates under its own authority. The question to ask is whether the System is an extension of Humanity, or is Humanity an extension of the System. The latter is  is a fair point because we all have abdictated our responsibility to the System and now serve it our entire lives. So ask yourself, when you did  relinquish your automony to the System, did you realize that you accepted your slavery to it? Did you still erroneously believe you still possessed “Free Will?” 

As above so below. God made man in his image. 
Gods image would be a whole planet if you take this from the old meaning of it, so instead of being created in the image of god himself, we were created in a smaller version of the image he saw looking at earth, each of us a smaller version of earth, like in the examples above. Although we are also made of the same energy that everything/God is so it could mean both.

CandyLand Metaphyical nonsense that has been floating within the minds of the Spiritualists for the past 200 years. It was beautifully absurd then as it is now. When we think of “God” why must we always assume that “It” is so much greater than us?

How great can “God” be if all “He” can create is the stuff from “His” own being? Has Sheehan (and the opinions of the  ”mystics” he has  followed and assumed to be correct in their perspective) ever considered that to be a “God” is the most LIMITED being that one can imagine? Place yourself in “God’s” place, and look at it from this angle:

All “you” can create is contingent upon “your” attention and “your” beingness. Everything “you” create is just versions of “yourself.” The beings “you” created out of “yourself’” are “you.” They are all countless versions of “yourself” and “you” know it, since “you” created everything out of loneliness, anyway. 

Which begs an interesting question, “God.” Why would “you” create divisions, separations and war within “yourself?” [1] What kind of  pleasure or fascination could “you” glean from such a “game?” Why would “you” dishonor all “life” – that which “you” created yoursself out of? Maybe “you” are just as insane as we are, for we act within insanity all the time. “As Above, So Below,” indeed. 

Sheehan: Care needs to be taken to promote health before anarchy, as the last thing we want is unhelathy anarchy, or unhelathy anything.

 I reckon something has to be the last thing we want, like an unhealthy nuclear war.

There has been an exchange between Greg and myself on his facebook wall that will be placed in the next blog. Should be a little interesting, I hope.

 

[1] The Christian conception of “God” creating existence separately from “nothing” (ex nihilo) is the beginning of CandyLand Metaphysics because it conveniently removes “God” from participating directly in “His” Creation and deflects worrisome questions as to “God’s” relationship to the existence of Evil.

DOUBTING THOMAS

 

 

 

 

When did I first DOUBT myself? The first memory I have was when I was a little boy of six years old and involved in my first fight with another kid across the street. It wasn’t much of a fight, and I don’t recall the details, but I was humiliated in front of all the others kids that were watching and I ran inside my house crying my eyes out. I wasn’t hurt or beaten up or anything like that, I was more angry and shocked than anything. Angry at myself for not standing up for myself and shocked that “fighting” existed! I stood behind the screen door with tears on my cheeks and looking at the other kids playing without a care in the world. In a moment, and I didn’t have the words to express it, but I knew I was never going to like those kids who laughed at me. I was something less. For the first time, I felt depression, like the world had gone black and would never be the same for me again. 

 

The secret was out, I was a coward and didn’t want to understand or even care about fighting. 

 

A year later I went to Catholic School and learned about the Bible and Jesus and God and all the saints. I did not DOUBT the existence of any of that stuff, since I took it all as something obviously real, since everyone around me considered all of it true. Especially the grown-ups. I loved participating in Mass every morning, listening to the mysterious sounds of Latin falling from the droning lips of the old Father, holding a golden chalice that held the Blood of Christ. 

 

Father Thomas was a young priest who was assigned to my school (St. Vincent de Paul) when I was in the second grade. I thought he looked like a movie star or President Kennedy, young and handsome. I thought it was neat that we had the same last name. Then I realized that there was a Saint Thomas that was one of Jesus’ Apostles. 

 

Then I learned that St. Thomas was also called, “DOUBTing Thomas” because he would not believe that the Lord had come back from the dead unless he could put his fingers into Christ’s wounds. According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus finally appears, Thomas is convinced and says, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus replies to the effect of that it’s cool to believe what you see, but it’s even greater to believe in things not seen. 

 

However, I can excuse Thomas for DOUBTing since how many people come back from the dead. Thomas then was just being common sensical. But I have DOUBTed myself ever since that day when I ran home crying because I let a kid hit me. It is a pattern that I let repeat throughout my life ad nauseum. If there’s a problem, then run away. Or walk away, because somehow, I have programmed myself to do exactly this. I have everything I need to be an effective and directive being, but I accepted and allowed DOUBT destroy all of me. I have allowed DOUBT to give me permission to hate myself, and I don’t know why. It’s crazy.

 

Earlier today I felt like I was falling: literally, falling down some hole into the earth. What brought up that feeling? DOUBT. It’s like DOUBT freezes me in my tracks, makes every step I take forward a step back. Anyway…

 

DOUBT has been my companion throughout all my life. Giving up because of DOUBT was my modus operandi as I struggled through life. I didn’t graduate from college because I got involved with an older woman who I ended up marrying because I was “grateful” that a woman wanted to be with me. I walked away from my first real band because I didn’t think they wanted me anymore. I walked away from my wife because I wanted to do something than be a working stiff and a father married to a woman I didn’t love in a small, fucked-up, rural town in southern Ohio. I ended up creating something of my own and of worth when my next band became very popular. After several years I left because again, I didn’t want to do it anymore. Instead of defending my point, I quit. Was it DOUBT? I had no doubt as a singer. None. But I wasn’t a musician. And I didn’t believe that I could play well.

 

Once again, I had DOUBTed myself. 

 

Then I went back to Ohio after leaving LA because I DOUBTed myself in being able to survive in California after my car was stolen. I was taken back by an old girlfriend, but I DOUBTed I loved her because I was more interested in her friend, who was more my “type.” SO I left and went to stay with my sister in Illinois, but I left because I DOUBTed myself there, as well. I couldn’t get a decent job and I was being harassed by the same type of kids I though I had left behind in high school. So I went back to my first wife so I could just have a place to live.

 

I had been writing and drawing cartoons and worked on them to find a publisher. I felt I was getting better, but I still wasn’t satisfied. I did get a rejection latter from Kitchen Sink Press saying that my work was within the top 5% of the submissions they received, but couldn’t “take a flyer” on unknown talent at the time. He also said to keep submitting. But did I? No.

 

I was tired of being out of work, so I landed a truck driving job and spent the next two years away from home. It was pretty nice. But after two years I was fired because I had too many accidents. I was relieved because I didn’t believe I was a good truck driver, anyway. I was planning to leave my wife anyway, so I settled in another town. I was trying to get back together with the girl I came back to Ohio to, but she got mad at me when I told her that my wife had gotten pregnant. So I was all alone, trying to get my cartoons written and drawn. Drawing wasn’t a problem. I just didn’t have anything to say. So I began to DOUBT myself as a comic strip artist. Eventually, I stopped drawing altogether. I gave up. I had nothing to say… 

 

After two years of being alone and working minimum-waged jobs, I went back to my wife again. I just wanted love in my life. I didn’t realize that I wouldn’t any such thing from this woman or my children, just as I didn’t get any love from my parents. So I always searched for it… never finding it for long. Always disappeared over time. After another two years, I left the wife for good. Why, because I couldn’t stand her and wanted a single life again. 

Of course, I didn’t meet anyone for a year, but then I met and went out with two wonderful women who both ended up dumping me. Both times I could see the end coming, which was interesting. I had DOUBTed my ability to “hold on” to them. 

 

So I worked for years climbing up the ladder in the local print shops in town. I got to be pretty proficient within my skill set and was finally feeling good about myself, making money and eating out all the time. I eventually married again, but I DOUBTed the marriage would last because I secretly promised myself as soon as I wanted out, I would leave. After six years, I did just that. I should have left after four years, but I wanted to give her “another chance.” I left her because I wanted to get back with a former girlfriend who I thought wanted me back. It was a great surprise when I found out she had no idea that I wanted her again. She had no intention to get back with me. So I gave up in trying to get her back, and I  just went on…

 

I fought against the IRS because I found a flaw and an argument in the tax system. I fought for several years before I gave up. I DOUBTed that I could take on the system and win. 

 

Eventually, I met two women on the internet dating sites. Very similar in nature and temperament. I ended up dumping them both. I DOUBTed that I wanted to be with them. 

 

I got a job at a print shop that paid fairly well, but DOUBT crept back into me because I had to do the work of three people some nights, and I kept making mistakes. The DOUBT I experienced ended up costing me my job. 

 

I ended up being out of work for six weeks before getting a very relaxing job at the Library. Exactly what I needed. The i found Desteni. Ka BOOM! I entered process, and the rest is history, as they say.

 

DOUBT still plagues me. I haven’t forgiven it, apparently. I have forgiven regret, but there are still point I suspect I’m missing. I am sick and tired of living like this. I can’t stand the DOUBT anymore. DOUBT has been with me for a long time, and in writing it all out, I can see why. Question: Why do I still DOUBT myself? I suppose because everything in the past that I have tried has eventually turned into a fuckup, and I mean EVERYTHING. (There really isn’t even a “because” since I know that self-trust is paramount if I am going to get anywhere in process. So, self-forgiveness and stopping that program I no longer accept this in myself. No further)!