Where Do We Rest?

We would do well to start all spiritual investigations and most psychological ones, whether of ourselves or of others, with the question, where do we rest? When there is nothing that we are doing, nothing we have to do, where do we rest? In other words, what is our customary experience of ourselves? This is not only the most central question of all; it is the most profound, and the answer is the most revealing!

Resting In Unrest

First, ask yourself the question, do you rest at all? Many of us are usually in a condition of unrest, of having something urgent to do, some wrong to right. And usually, though we may not admit it, we fear there is something terribly wrong with ourselves.

Look at what you are feeling when you're not doing anything. Are you at rest, or are you feeling driven - to do something, to change something - ultimately to change who you are, to be someone else?

Also, consider what things you do when you are feeling this way? What things do you do when you want be resting? Do lists of shoulds arise unbidden in your mind? Do you worry, obsess, make plans or at least lists, clean the house or argue?

And, for that matter, what things do you do to rest?

Baa Baa Black Sheeple, Have You Any Money Left?

Baa, baa, black sheeple

Have you any money?

Yes sir, yes sir

Three bags full

One for the tax man

One for the dame

And one for the Wal-Mart thats right down the lane...

Oh my gosh!...today was black friday.......and the Sheeple ran to Wal-Mart as expected by the manipulation of the advertisers through the magic box we call TV, drilling into each of their minds, that by purchasing something, you could SAVE money.

How in the hell are you suppose to save money by spending it? 

It reminds me of my cousin Steve once telling me he went broke saving money at Wal-Mart. 

But these Sheeple had to be sure and get that 9 dollar toaster or 12 dollar crockpot, before all the other Sheeple took them.

These are the Sheeple that voted for Obama, and are most likely to vote him in again.

These are the same Sheeple who go to their local CVS to get their yearly flu shot because they read the poster hanging on the wall that instructed them to do so.

What Are You Celebrating?

Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday.

Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers.

Why is it that Americans perpetuate this fundamental lie? 

Why do Americans teach their children lies? 

What Exactly Are You Celebrating?

Thanksgiving day is nothing more than a harsh reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture.

Therefore, this is a National Day of Mourning where you should honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples whom strive to survive today.

It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience.

UC Davis Students Demand Resignation of Chancellor Katehi

David Buscho was sitting peacefully on a sidewalk, linking arms with other students in protest at the University of California at Davis. The disturbing video shows a campus police officer in riot gear calmly walk up to the students on the ground and attack them with pepper spray at point-blank range.

Occupy protests at other campuses have gone on peacefully, but UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi allowed her campus police to ruthlessly attack students who were sitting silently on the sidewalk.

UC Davis professor Nathan Brown gave a chilling account of what happened to David and other students:

"When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats," "Several of these students were hospitalized."

McCruelty - I'm Hating It

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation into a McDonald's egg supplier, Sparboe Egg Farms, exposes the fast-food giant's secret ingredient: shocking cruelty to animals.

Hidden-camera footage taken at Sparboe facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado reveals:

Hens crammed into filthy wire cages with less space for each bird than a standard-sized sheet of paper to live her entire miserable life, unable to fully stretch her wings or engage in most other natural behaviors.

Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks without any painkillers and callously throwing them into cages, some missing the cage doors and hitting the floor Workers grabbing hens by their throats and ramming them into battery cages.

Rotted hens, decomposed beyond recognition as birds, left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption.

A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device - violence described as "torture" by another worker.

A worker shoving a bird into the pocket of another employee without any regard for the animal's fear and suffering.

Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire - others suffering from open wounds and torn beaks

Live chicks thrown into plastic bags to be suffocated.

The Industry

The industry; man its not the same

The industry; its not a fucking game

The industry; real niggaz is dying to get in

The industry; just define they don't fit in

The industry; ain't what it used to be

The industry; trying to control the way you MC

They want you to dress like that this and talk like that

But I'm gon' dress like this and talk with the gat

The industry; got y'all word meaning nothing

The industry; fuck what you heard cause he's bluffing

The industry; money, bitches, hate

But I dare you to try to take a fucking thing off my plate

The industry like "Wait!", but in the streets we like "Get 'em"

Set 'em teed up in that thing, catch 'em sleeping and hit 'em

And Ima pop whoever with 'em, the coroner is coming to get 'em

Industry niggaz, so that's how I did 'em

Occupy4Love

Occupy4Love is a beacon for heart-centered individuals, groups, and organizations that are supporting the Love in Occupy. In a humble way, we are raising awareness of the highest possibilities for Occupy to bring forth a compassionate civilization that works for 100% of life. In our unique ways, we are living and telling the story of Occupy through the lens of Love.

Attitudinal Healing is a philosophy based on the belief that it is not people or conditions outside ourselves that cause us to be upset. We are not victims of the world we see. Rather, our perceptions, beliefs and attitudes are the source of our conflict, pain and unhappiness. We are not only responsible for our own thoughts; we are responsible for the feelings we experience.

By exploring these feelings, we can eventually heal them.

There are principles that Occupy Wall Street could embrace, which could help eliminate violence by educating our youth through programs that transform the human spirit and build peaceful, loving communities for all humanity.

Feel No Pain

Mamma been laid off

Pappa been laid off

My brother's been laid off

For more than two years now

Ooh can't get a job

Billy can't get a job

Ooh they gotta listen to the blues

Help them to strive

Help them to move on

Help them to have some future

Help them to live long

Help them to live life

Help them to smile

Don't let them stay home and listen to the blues

Idioteque

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?

Women and children first

Women and children first

Women and children

I'll laugh until my head comes off

I swallow till I burst

Until I burst

Until I..

Ah POOK Is Here - 2012

With its wheels-within-wheels configuration, the Maya calendar was a uniquely sophisticated and remarkably accurate system of measuring time. It perfectly demonstrated the concept of prescience - and by extension the idea of a pre-existing script. It ‘traveled’ back four million years into the past, and in the future, predicted the precise year when Hernan Cortes would arrive in the Americas. An event that would initiate the final stage of Maya destruction. It also predicted much further in the future, a moment of consequence that has now become imminent.

Unlike our Western calendar with its three-part, year, month and day demarcations, the Maya calendar had five. It’s referred to as the Long Count. First known use of this system occurs around the 8th Ka’tun or 7:00:00:00:01 – 8:00:00:00:00 which originates from a start date of all zeroes equivalent to 3114 BC.

The first number in the series, representing a 400 year cycle, changes according to the interacting cycles of the other four. When all four zero out, the first number is raised one. If the system is continued to the present day we arrive at 13:19:19:17:19 on December 20th 2012. The following day - the winter solstice of December 21st - the numbers will roll forward to the 14th Ka’tun: 14:00:00:00:00 Solstice is the null point of transition at the darkest time of the year.

November 11, 2011 - 11/11/11

November 11 2011 is believed to be important from the numerological point of view and there is stuff floating around the net about crop circles, ascension and the Book of Revelations. There is even a Hollywood movie coming out on that day called 11:11:11. I checked out the astrology for this date and it’s actually rather impressive so I thought it was worth writing about. It will be interesting to see if others think there is some special significance to this date and if that can be linked to the planetary aspects and fixed star influences.

The most significant aspect I believe is Mars opposite Neptune and Chiron. This only occurs about every 160 years but this time it is extra special because Mars is conjunct the Royal fixed star Regulus, which incidentally is entering the sign of Virgo about now.

Give Of Yourself

The best gift you can give is to give of yourself.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, and to make themselves smaller.  We say to girls,

"You can have ambition, but not too much.  You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man."

Because you are female, you are expected to aspire to marriage.

You are expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.  Now marriage can be a source of Joy and love and mutual support.

Why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, and we don't teach boys the same?

We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.

Feminist: the person who believes in the social political, and economic equality of the sexes.

Your time, your attention, your love and caring are far more valuable than anything that could be wrapped up in a brightly colored box.

Give a little kindness, or patience, or understanding or love. Give encouragement, and attention, and assistance.

You always have what it takes to give of yourself.

For in every situation, there is something valuable and positive that you can offer.

When you make the world a better place for others, you have the good fortune of living in that world too.

Here is a message for the new year to all the young women out there.

Don’t have babies. You don’t have to run out and get married and have kids.

Have a larger life than that.

Supercollider

Super collider

dust in a moment

particles scatter

coming up from the soup

swimming upstream

before the heavens crack open

thin pixellation

coming up from the dust

in a blue light

in a half-life

in a high line

in an arc light

i'm a bass bin flip-flopping

i'm a pulse wave hot-stepping

i put the shadows back into the boxes

i put the shadows back into the boxes

i am open

i am welcome

for a fraction of a second

i have dislodged my depression

i have jettisoned my illusions

and put the shadows back into the boxes

i put the shadows back into the boxes

i've seen the angel hanging over the balcony

i've seen the angel hanging over the balcony

Truth Is An Acquisition

The truth is an acquisition.

Of course, not a thing, but some sort of acquisition of some sort of sacred or special knowledge.

In other words, enlightened people know something, that I don’t know.

No matter how many times you tell somebody that that is not what it’s all about, there really is no other option that the mind has but then to keep believing that someone that is happy, someone that seems to be free. Someone that doesn’t seem to be limited to this endless turmoil of self, must know something that I don’t know.

Actually the funny thing is, it’s the opposite that is the case. I used to know a lot of things too. I remember what it was like.

I mean the first thing that I knew, was that I didn’t know. That is where the spiritual seekers starts off.

The one thing I know for sure is that I don’t know.

Lotus Flower

I will shape myself into your pocket

Invisible, do what you want, do what you want

I will shrink and I will disappear

I will slip into the groove and cut me up, and cut me up

There's an empty space inside my heart

Where the weeds take root

And now I'll set you free

I'll set you free

There's an empty space inside my heart

Where the weeds take root

Tonight I'll set you free

I'll set you free

Generation OS13: The New Culture of Resistance

Anonymous itself has come forward with an amazing short documentary that happens to be called Generation OS13:

The New Culture of Resistance.

The film takes you on a rapid-fire tour de force through the madness of our world and the new resistance movement that’s trying to come up with alternatives.

What’s fascinating about Generation OS13, and about the new culture of resistance in general, is that it’s trying to carve out a new ideological niche that is firmly critical of our present world order without falling into the trap of the old-fashioned socialist or communist clichés. After all, we need new critiques, new narratives, new inspiration.

Generation OS13 is an explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists, musicians, journalists and authors encourage the peoples right to resist against Banker occupation.

The Self-Illuminated Human

Throughout human history, individuals and groups with awakening consciousnesses have been striving to break the code of the unconscious, to gain access to the locked programs of their unconscious minds and revise them, in other words - to take conscious control of their psychospiritual evolution.

The three great "consciousness-raising" traditions of the world, psychology, mysticism, and religion, have always been about this to some degree, however unconsciously and unwittingly. In the psychological tradition, this is part of the aim of psychotherapy, hypnosis, and psychoactive drugs. In the mystical tradition this is part of the aim of meditation and yoga. In the religious traditions, this is part of the connection with God.

In this regard, PsychoNoetics and to an extent, other “clearing strategies” do not stand alone.

Soldier Of Love

I’ve lost the use of my heart

But I’m still alive

Still looking for the Light

The endless pool on the other side

It’s a wild wild west

I’m doing my best

I’m at the borderline of my faith,

I’m at the hinterland of my devotion

In the frontline of this battle of mine

But I’m still alive