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luni, 10 februarie 2014

The view - Project Pitchfork

love - is what I believe in
and freedom is what I need
but why do I suffer from love
and why am I not free
the might sleeps in our hearts
we should form it with our hands
there won't be help from anyone
just you and me
purity and hope
the ability to love
and curiosity
are our strong sides
self-hate and greed
are our weaknesses
spirit always was there
or it evoluted to the point
where we are now
but its origin is not of importance
we don`t use it anyway
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
a devil does not exist
it's just a metaphor for
giving free rein to our animal instincts
while a full acceptance of these feelings
opens a door to another level
in which harming even the freedom
of another person turns into nonsense
the growth rate of humanity
could be an indication of our origin
made to survive - at all costs
this may be a cultural effect
but it's somehow corresponding
to the behavior of bacteria
unlike other mammals
we are living without the ability
to produce vitamin c
so - should we save the plants ?
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
perhaps we'll evoke the first
synthetic form of life on our planet
and maybe that's all we are here for
but nature spreads everywhere
will we bring life to other planets ?
is this the plan of nature ?
the freedom of choice
seems not to be wanted
because what we can do
we will do
but should we ?
this question is not really asked
and even if the answer is no
we will do it
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
and if art is a way
to transport feelings and thoughts
from here into the future
then I hope that future generations
will judge our electronical middle age
not only for the things we did and will do
but also for the hopes, dreams and love
we felt within us


Read more: Project Pitchfork - The View Lyrics | MetroLyrics 




sâmbătă, 8 februarie 2014

Intelegere


Corinna Green
asa, ce ziceam cu Avalokiteshvara
uite
sunt cele 3 aspecte
power, wisdom, compassion
in crestinism ar fi tatal, fiul, sf duh
le putem asocia si cu materie, energie, informatie
body, mind, soul
Avalokitesvara e aspectul compasiunii
compasiunea reprezinta constientizarea faptului k totul e Una si a actiona ca atare
stiind k totul ti se intoarce
si asa ajungem la wealth
nu poti sa ai wealth dak esti zgarcit
poti avea intr-o oarecare masura, dar nu te vei bucura de ce ai k mintea ta o sa vada doar lipsa
uite bunica-mea
a murit practic in zdrente si cu zeci de milioane ascunse in plapuma
........
in schimb, ma uit la oamenii generosi
ei mereu au
meereu par binecuvantati sa le vina
acum
fiecare aspect are latura feminina si masculina
in traditia budista, Tara e consoarta lui Avalokiteshvara
iar Tara e tot... Vasudhara
sunt mai multe Tara, practic aspecte ale Vasudharei
white, green, red
asa cum in crestinism ai sa vezi k Fecioara Maria e divinizata in mai multe forme
Nascatoarea, protectoarea etc
ai vazut pe la biserici cred
 
 10:00am
Jo Alex Quilling
da
 
10:00am
Corinna Green
http://www.tbsec.org/imgs/thangka/20110416JambalaHitam-1.jpg
uite aspectul "demonic"
daca esti lacom, daca mergi pe iluzia separarii k tre sa acumulezi doat pt tine
vei fi practic calcat in picioare
asta e Jambala
 
 10:03am
Jo Alex Quilling
deci, daca am inteles bine, fiecare aspect al unei deitati e dat de comportamentul uman
 
10:03am
Corinna Green
da
luca imi zisese de mult o chestie
stai sa caut
am undeva salvat
 
 10:04am
Jo Alex Quilling
k
 
10:05am
Corinna Green
in fine, zicea de Vajrapani
k atat cat esti pe vajrapani nu ti se poate intampla nimic rau... atata timp cat esti virtuos
intelegi?
mantrele ne forteaza in fond sa scoatem ce e mai bun din noi
k dak nu, ni se intoarce
lacomia, ura , orice
iar dak le avem in noi (si orice om le are) va tb sa ni se dea peste nas cu ele
d-aia mantrele purifica karma
de-aia uneori cand incepem lucrul cu o mantra ni se intampla ceva aiurea, ne confruntam cu stari neplacute
e "raul" din noi care iese
tre sa iasa
 
 10:07am
Jo Alex Quilling
da, inteleg
e ca o purificare
 
10:08am
Corinna Green
totul e o purificare in lucrul cu mantrele
 
 10:08am
Jo Alex Quilling
o ”moarte” a ceea ce e ”rau” in noi ca sa apara noul
 
10:08am
Corinna Green
da
moartea ego-ului 
vezi poza mea de profil
ego-ul fiind iluzia cu care ne identificam
k noi am fi corpul sau personalitatea noastra
 
 10:09am
Jo Alex Quilling
egoul nu trebuie sa moara
 
10:09am
Corinna Green
sa moara, la modul k sa nu ne mai controleze
nu are cum sa moara cat timp... traim
k practic e interfata noastra catre lume
 
 10:10am
Jo Alex Quilling
exact
deci, in loc sa ne identificam cu ego-ul, il constientizam si-l tratam drept ceea ce este
 
10:10am
Corinna Green
e masca, e mijlocul prin care interactionam cu exteriorul
yep
 
 10:10am
Jo Alex Quilling
da
 
10:10am
Corinna Green
faza cu skandas, iluziile
 
 10:10am
Jo Alex Quilling
si-asa ajungem sa traim in lume si sa nu-i apartinem
 
10:11am
Corinna Green
nu e ca trebuie sa le dizolvam
ele exista, ele formeaza lumea
trebuie doar sa le tratam ca atare
 
 10:11am
Jo Alex Quilling
traim in ele constientizand ca traim o iluzie
 
10:11am
Corinna Green
da
a trai in lume si a nu-i apartine nu inseamna ca incepi sa faci pe sfantul
sa intri in pasivitate
 
 10:11am
Jo Alex Quilling
acesta e modul prin care dumnezeu din noi experimenteaza ceea ce n-ar putea experimenta din vid
 
10:12am
Corinna Green
da
il intrebasem pe luca, de ce nu putem sa realizam toate astea "dincolo"
nu in corp
 
 10:12am
Jo Alex Quilling
nu. inseamna sa experimentezi, sa traiesti viata din plin, constient fiind in fiecare clipa ca esti in iluzie
 
10:12am
Corinna Green
a zis k fix asta e sensul
sa o facem aici
da
si am impresia k edy stie f bine asta
de-aia i se si rupe
si se prosteste atat
 
 10:13am
Jo Alex Quilling
ca un copil care a prins regulile jocului si le foloseste sa se distreze
de fapt asta suntem. NISTE DUMNEZEI COPII care experimenteaza si gresesc si invata din greseli
 
10:13am
Corinna Green
da, imi zicea luca
 
 10:13am
Jo Alex Quilling
problemele apar cand luam prea in serios jocul
si majoritatea oamenilor fac asta
 
10:14am
Corinna Green
un bodhisattva nu e lipsit de greseli,calitatea lui e k invata sa le absoarba, sa le transforme
 
 10:16am
Jo Alex Quilling
atunci e ok sa nu te necajesti cand vezi calamitati in jur? daca ajungi sa intelegi totul dintr-o perspectiva macro?
 
10:17am
Corinna Green
ala e aspectul wisdom
sa nu te atasezi de ce se intampla
nu inseamna sa nu actionezi sau sa nu simti nimic
dar sa nu te agati de suferinta aia
wisdom e Manjushri
si are legatura cu visuddha, chakra gatului
comunicarea, intelectul
dar, zic eu, si cu heart chakra (anahata)
fiindca intai e nevoie sa intelegi intuitiv
sa simti cu inima, sa zic asa
apoi sa fii capabil sa procesezi informatia prin intelect si sa o comunici
asa, si aspectul nr 3
ala care e asa activ la luca
e power
forta vitala, energia fizica
mie asta imi lipsea
bine, si wisdom
dar ideea e k chiar a fost nevoie de luca sa incep sa lucrez
k lipsindu-mi vitalitatea fizica, nu aveam energie sa incep nimic
de-aia mi-a zis el de la inceput ca he-s using his own karma k sa-mi dea mantrele
nu sa mi le "dea" in scris
ci sa-mi dea energia necesara sa incep sa lucrez cu ele
uite, si de-asta am dat-o eu in bara cu sorin
el oricum e super slab, nemotivat
are multa karma negativa
si nici eu nu aveam puterea necesara sa=l sustin atunci la inceput
ca din entuziasm m-am grabit
de-aia imi si zisese luca din start sa nu dau mantre altora
cel mult om mani padme hum
 
 10:23am
Jo Alex Quilling
si eu eram fara forta inainte sa lucrez cu mantrele
la mine a fost o chestie gen: aha! asta trebuie sa fac
eram satula de teorie. stiam aproape toata filozofia spirituala. mai trebuia doar s-o transform in adevar
si nu stiam cum
eram terminata fizic si cred ca si psihic
 
10:24am
Corinna Green
si eu
nu ma mai suportam
 
 10:24am
Jo Alex Quilling
de-aia sunt asa entuziasmata
 
10:24am
Corinna Green
stiam k tre sa fac CEVA
orice
si atunci a aparut luca
 
 10:25am
Jo Alex Quilling
da.
nu puteam ramane la un job mai mult de cateva luni
nu eram pregatita profesional pe cat mi-as dori
pe plan personal, eram o mama care nu avea puterea sa ingrijeasca de copii
vad ca multe s-au modificat
sunt cu totul alt pom
om*
acum fac planuri din primavara sa lucrez pamantul
pe langa tot ce mai fac
plus ca, in sfarsit, reusesc sa am grija de flori fara sa le omor
 
10:27am
Corinna Green
 
:)
 10:29am
Jo Alex Quilling
ok. revenind
compasiune, intelepciune, putere
compasiunea poate fi arta de-a nu te atasa
intelepciunea o hranesti doar invatand
iar puterea apare atunci cand esti intelept dar stii si sa empatizezi ca cei din jur
corect?
 
10:30am
Corinna Green
compasiunea e generozitate
intelepciunea o capeti  cand ajungi sa nu te mai agati
sa privesti detasat
 
 10:32am
Jo Alex Quilling
deci, luca mi-a zis sa ma axez pe vajrapani pentru ca imi lipseste puterea. si trebuia sa intru intai in samadhi cu mantra asta ca sa pot sa invat si alte mantre. sa ma pot dezvolta pe toate aspectele
nu?
 
10:32am
Corinna Green
da
pai si mie imi lipsea
dak n-ai putere, energie vitalitate...
cum o sa le obtii pe celelalte?
de-aia tot zice el "keep Vajrapani as the center"
 
 10:33am
Jo Alex Quilling
corect
k. acum sa mergem mai departe
dincolo de mantre
trebuie sa ne traim vietile la maxim, constienti in fiecare moment de iluzia in care traim
cred ca asa oferim sufletului experienta pe care si-o doreste
iubindu-ne noi pe noi insine, ajungem sa nu ne mai ranim si asa ajungem sa iubim totul in jur
 

sâmbătă, 12 octombrie 2013

The problem with spirituality :)

Luca Oprea
remember the michael jordan analogy?

 8/2, 11:48am
Corinna Green
no

 8/2, 11:49am
Luca Oprea
then I probably didn't tell you about it
it's like this
if you didn't know about basketball
and you met michael jordan
and he described the act of dunking to you
you know, there a 3m tall basket and I jump and I put a ball into it
you would believe him, because he is a tall athletic black dude
but if a pigmey tried doing the same thing
you would not fucking believe his story
because he's a little fragile midget looking dude
allright, so this is the problem with spirituality
too many fragile midget looking dudes trying to "spread the teaching"
but it's not believable
they have no skill of their own, no realization, no OUMPH
yes, obviously, you now know that mantras are a very powerful thing and that done the right way, mantras are the most profound way of changing everything
because they can initiate, drive and complete growth, they can erase bad karma, unstick good karma, create infinite conditions, and so on
but still, the fact remains that part of the deal is that you have to become michael jordan within reality, and function in that great manner
otherwise, it's just a pyrdamid sceheme
it's just midgets selling each other stories

 8/2, 11:54am
Luca Oprea
it's not about impressing them
that's just a small aspect
it's about being the real deal
about becoming the functioning proof
being the essence, functioning as the essence, without any doubts, and everything flows
and this is not advice, or an opinion, but the only possible way
because anything else is just a lie, a pyramid scheme
like permaculture "teachers" making a living selling courses
if they were capable of doing permaculture they wouldn't have to sell courses
but oh bla bla bla and bla bla bla
NO, enough, everybody needs to shut the fuck up and accept this
it applies to everything
enough excuses, enough about how hard it is
you either do it, or you don't, you either win, or you don't
and this is about winning for the sake of fundamental nature, and about winning for the sake of every being
and that's it
this is what I was telling you on the phone
there's no time for bragging, there's no time for talking about auras and shit
because it's hard enough without turning it into a pyramid scheme
it's hard, there's obstacles, sickness, adversaries
and you just gotta buckle up and drive through it
that's what I was telling you about. there's no yesterday. no matter how great you were yesterday, if today you're sick, if today you're slow, you gotta deal with it, and you STILL have to function
it's neverending, and eventually, you become neverending too
this is the michael jordan analogy. you gotta be great, you gotta function within reality, and you have to do it endlessly and master everything, no excuses
and there's going to be hardships, maybe fear, maybe doubt, but even those, you have to treat them as nothing but mind and just drive through them
there is only one way of winning. understand fundamental nature, understand the whole universe within it, all its functions, understand the nature of all of it, and then master it and function within it, and also function independently of it

joi, 23 mai 2013

De ce NU suntem egali


Am tot meditat in ultima vreme pe tematica trendului “spiritual” foarte popular azi in societatea noastra vestica, acela de a considera toate fiintele a fi egale si mai ales, a fi Una... si iata ca am inceput sa inteleg de ce din start ceva nu mi se parea in regula.

Ca suntem Una din punct de vedere al substantelor din care suntem alcatuiti si a originii genetice, al esentei, daca vreti asta e un lucru de necontestat, de asemenea si faptul ca avem la baza aceleasi predispozitii, instincte si  chiar acelasi potential de evolutie.  Dar hai sa restrang putin subiectul si sa iau in calcul pentru moment doar fiintele umane, pe planul de AICI si sa explic de ce nu pot eu sa ii privesc si tratez pe toti la fel in orice situatie. 

Oricat ar parea de ciudat, ei bine, trebuie sa stiti ca exista printre noi indivizi carora le lipseste total compasiunea, empatia fata de alte fiinte vii; oameni care ridica din umeri cand aud de suferinta cuiva (in contextul in care le e la indemana sa ajute persoana sau animalul in cauza) sau cel mult mimeaza ca le pasa numai ca sa nu atraga suspiciunea apropiatilor – actiune care deja indica sociopatie.

Exista de asemenea oameni atat de primitivi si egoisti, incat in orice situatie se vor arunca sa castige, sa posede, sa obtina un avantaj cat de mic,  si nu ma refer aici numai la situatii gen competitia pentru un job, ci si de situatii minore, precum statul la coada la plata facturilor, primitul de mostre gratis la o prezentare etc (situatii minore, dar care pot indica foarte mult despre natura celor prezenti , in functie de comportamentul lor).

Mai exista si oameni  care se simt extrem de bine  in postura de victima, care niciodata nu intreprind nimic si se asteapta sa fie compatimiti, trasi in sus de prieteni, care pe scurt, functioneaza ca niste lipitori. Oameni de obicei dependenti ori de alcool sau alte substante, ori de situatii in care ajung in centrul atentiei din cauza situatiei lor speciale si care nu reusesc sa se mobilizeze sa faca ceva nu pentru ca n-au potential, ci pentru ca aleg starea de bine de moment si n-au nici cea mai mica motivatie in a-si planifica resursele eficient pentru termen mai lung.

Acum, nu are rost sa mai enumar si alte categorii ( puteti aici sa treceti orice tipare de persoane cu care ati observat sa nu impartasiti atitudini si structuri emotionale comune) asa ca o sa trec la subiect: daca eu, ca fiinta care am impulsul sa ajut cand pot (nu, nu din cauza conditionarii religioase sau faptului ca ma face sa ma simt mai importanta, ci din pur instinct), daca pentru mine e natural sa ma dau uneori la o parte de pe primul plan in favoarea altora, daca de asemenea imi place sa iau initiativa si sa-mi rezolv problemele fara sa astept sa apara vreun salvator… de ce ar trebui sa fiu obligata sa am in preajma niste oameni care doar ar profita de aceste trasaturi ale mele? De ce nu m-as inconjura cu persoane care stiu sa empatizeze, sa ofere, sa imparta, in loc sa ii consider egali pe unii care sunt in mod evident diferiti de mine?  Doar de dragul imaginii pe care mi-as face-o, de persoana ok si toleranta, care vede potentialul in fiecare? Fiindca hai sa fim seriosi, la multi toleranta e o chestie cultivata cu scopul de a se simti superiori : "da, observ ca esti prost si agresiv, dar uite, eu te accept asa cum esti, deci vezi, sunt mai evoluat" ....

Apropo de potential, am inteles dupa multe experiente dure ca nu e suficient ca el sa existe, trebuie sa se si manifeste intr-o forma sau alta. Altfel, degeaba stiu ca un om e capabil de sinceritate, daca in cele mai multe situatii minte si stiu ca la un moment-dat , cuvintele lui vor fi definitorii pentru o situatie importanta.  Degeaba intr-un context special, un om se poate decide sa se mobilizeze si sa faca ceva pentru el si cei apropiati, daca in celelalte 95% din cazuri, prefera sa se ingroape in comoditate si dependente. La ce foloseste ca avem in fundal aceleasi trasaturi arhivate in genele noastre, daca mici impulsuri ne fac sa ne comportam atat de diferit ?

Daca exista printre noi oameni care sunt dispusi sa “iubeasca neconditionat” si accepta sa functioneze printre asemenea specimene... bravo lor . E insa dreptul meu de a alege sa stau deoparte de ei  si sa nu ii vad ca fiind la fel , fiindca NU am fost si NU vom fi niciodata cu totii identici. Daca nu ma credeti, intrebati-va de ce doctrine gen comunism  au dat gres,  de ce idealuri precum “ libertate, egalitate fraternitate” au ajuns sa se sufoce in coruptie si sete de putere, desi pornisera fix de la premisa ca oamenii trebuie tratati la fel.


marți, 13 martie 2012

An article about social movements and human values - by Luca Oprea

Many have asked, repeatedly, with either disgust or confusion, what good could ever come of the ongoing Spanish and Greek “popular uprisings”, the European Revolution, the Wall Street Occupation. Long before there was ever a talk of lack of demands, there was talk about the lack of possible solutions. Even talk of a lack of possible outcomes. What change can there be from powerless, futureless young people desperately massing together without a cause?

But that question doesn’t matter -it simply doesn’t matter what anyone thinks or says about this, what anyone computes and approximates, because as long as people are doing it, it’s the most basic, most fundamental human response possible. With lack of outcomes, and unnatural, abusive complexity encroaching from all directions, the only thing left to do is to soundly reject it.

And that rejection, although not many saw it as dignified at first – is essentially dignified, because it stems from a silent and primordial statement of human value. In fact, it is not rejection, and it is not a statement, it is pure being – being unto itself, being in the name of values which are universal and go beyond the discursive paradigm of any particular situation, it is being that is self-referential in the way that natural rights and citizenship are self-referential, because they have self-nature – they are, no matter what, a reflection of higher good which transcends the barriers of history, political systems, and false justice enforced through threat of terror and death.

It doesn’t matter who does this, as long as it gets done. Your names and faces and place of origin, your skills and your age, the ways in which you may be defined by your lacks and faults, criticized for them, none of it matters while you’re standing up for pure, simple being, because the importance and beauty of being there – of occupying the public spaces which belong not to a narrative of centralized greed, but to one of refined human civilization – begins with the pouring of energy into space, opening it up, then flowing further into minds and opening those up.

The basic, fundamental, undeniable and unavoidable flow of life is primary biological production. Primary production is the ability of plants and certain bacteria to create biological matter without consuming other life forms, to directly transform sunlight, heat, and physical substances from the air and earth into living tissue. Without primary production there can be no life, there can be no food and there can be no economy. Through design of ecosystems we can take advantage of primary production and channel it into ever-evolving webs of natural complexity – creating vibrant health and beauty.

Money is a virtualization of the basic energy flows of primary biological production, human work and energy production,  but money is generally a very poor design system, and disastrous when it comes to creating and sustaining life. As money also virtualizes work ability and intellect, it can and does separate human experience and human mental powers from primary production flows, even pitting them against each other, creating fundamental flaws in biological production and human life, leading to global social imbalances and aberrant human development that spirals down into avalanches of increased personal and social tension. Money and capital are not a working replacement for the mind’s innate ability to work with and design the natural world.

They suffocate it.

Occupy Wall Street can be seen as a basic, natural, global response to this fundamentally flawed state of things. The mindless segregation of life and energy flows from human consciousness is what led to the existence of the flowing crowds of Spain and Greece and Portugal and the rest of Europe. They have very little past and no apparent future, and as such cannot be understood through economic theory, although they are created by it. Fundamentally, human communities should cover the full spectrum of evolving life, from primary biological production, through innately collaborative social life, to consciousness and then mind.

Instead, the current state of things sees rural and urban areas feeding off of each other in production cycles that deplete the earth, social ties, and individual lives. The reason is simple – while they may appear to be separate and different communities, in fact they are only one community, its production and social flows stretching over very long distances. Capitalism speaks of competition, consumption, business and trade as essential factors which create value, but the reality is that these are low level processes which only make sense between partially developed communities.

All societies are completely based on and limited by primary production. Our complex, spatially spread out combination of urban areas and food production towns are no more fundamentally complex than any basic community, except that the energy flows are so complicated and weak, and social interaction so indirect, that at first glance its pieces seem completely unrelated, and its life processes are almost completely hidden.

Trade ties two societies into one – it turns two societies that have been unsuccessful at internally designing their structure and fulfilling their needs into two interdependent pieces of one slightly more evolve whole. But this interdependence is always poorly designed itself, and it only leads to more and more aberrant development – loss of jobs, loss of life and work standards, loss of ecosystems in the search for a competitive edge – this is the downwards spiral of destruction of value and life on all levels. Trade is only an example that is very dear to the “minds” of corporate economists the world over – in a low-level society, such as ours, consumption and business follow the same deadly patterns and are ultimately more destructive several times over.

Capitalism, by quantifying and virtualizing work, disengages it from its fundamental human potential and purpose, thereby reducing our interactions to transactions that are lossy, fearful, and antagonistic. You cannot disconnect consumption from consciousness without creating low level, inhuman chaos. This is friction, and friction generates heat.

The friction of large masses of people and mass-produced goods is the inevitable heat death of capitalism. If heat-death isn’t a strong enough word for you, know that capitalism is nothing more than a weak bully on a collision course with the mother of all forest fires. All the failures and abuses of capitalism are due to its fundamental inefficiency in dealing with energy flows, its unintelligent design, and its simple, pure weakness.

In a fundamentally good society, all functions are created with awareness that there is a human imperative and a life imperative – the both the life and potential of human beings and other beings are at stake, that the way we construct our society and cultivate our evolution is exactly what our destiny will be. Our destiny and that of countless generations to come, which, born in a place with no true avenues for human development, for the development of our innate strength and beauty, will be more and more stunted.

Your  future is human, or it isn’t.

Primary production has to be channeled through intelligently designed, sustainable biological systems, resulting in higher complexity flows of matter and energy.

Healthy and abundant food, clean and abundant energy, available at ground level – produced at the most basic level, not as the result of complicated and inefficient political-corporate systems. The highest expression of primary biological production is social usefulness, its ability to support higher levels of human existence. Social usefulness as a design quality and system value is the opposite of the friction and competition of capitalism. Thus, primary production is transformed into human value, it supports consciousness as an universal and fundamental factor of existence, of humanity, refinement and pleasure. And above consciousness comes the ultimate adaptive, knowing and governing structure of any society, the mind. Fully developed to its potential and power, it responds to surrounding systems and stressors while maintaining the fundamental values which are its actual substance – mind perfectly reflects and perfectly protects life.

You’ll be told business creates value. It doesn’t.

Societies, culminating in the transcendent human mind, are what create and sustain value. Business is no substitute for society.

Segregated urban/agrarian communities are supposed to lead to rapid technological and mental advancements by focusing certain kind of higher-level activities in a single, highly urbanized area, but the technological advances that happen in this way are almost completely separate from and unaware of the primacy of human life. Any value they create is purely related to form and formal functions, and mostly relegated to those places which already have value, and therefore can purchase more of it. This leads to towers of derivative value, layer upon layer of it, with no connection to primary production, human values and healthy, prosperous and purposeful communities. By not cultivating full human beings, with consciousness and mental potentials that can transcend paradigms and solve fundamental issues, these urban accumulations of technological value are relegating their historical status to third rate also-rans.

And while that in itself doesn’t mean much, the loss of life and loss of potential of life which will undeniably result from it,  is the very definition of tragic – the classical meaning of tragedy refers to the fulfillment of that which is fundamentally wrong, to the detriment and ultimate destruction of fundamentally good human factors, which were present all along and could have turned the tide at almost any point if only they had been aware of and acted upon their inherent potential.  This tragedy is ticking right now, on its last legs,  ready to implode or explode or melt and show its immensely fragile and deadly structure.

But our society never leads to problem solving, or even a preoccupation with problem solving. We are preoccupied with form, and the functions of our forms are only meant to aid in the consumption and production of more forms. This is the result of an entropic, almost morbid preoccupation with existence as a simple drive to fulfill desires, and it comes from the lack of cultivation of consciousness in our current world. Even architecture, one of our pursuits which is closest to pure form – is perennially caught in a form-function dichotomy – and cannot seem to reason its way towards an understanding of a fundamental human form, which would include beauty (a consciousness-enabled understanding of form transcending tension) and usefulness (a consciousness-enabled understanding of multiple functions as coalescing into a higher level of social/human purpose).

The full framework of understanding required for inter-disciplinary action is never given – the mere existence of people completely segregated into disciplines suggests that even the framework for wanting to solve problems rarely exists. Most of the time, we are not aware of the need for making things right – and it even seems to us that it is contradictory to the commonly held belief that a constant state of pressure is what leads to evolution in the first place. This is the backwards rationalizing of an entropic system whose race towards the unknown is fueled only by the pressure of it own unconscious and unconscientious destruction.

Even when someone does awaken enough to want to solve the riddle of the state of things, our understanding of ourselves and the world, being caught somewhere between derivative forms and derivative desires, does not allow for it.

Business then, is very ineffective consumption, and even more ineffective in the creation of high level human values and human existence. The very fact that human existence depends on competitive consumption practices and their accompanying virtualized mathematical models is ridiculous, laughable, and murderous. It murders life in the most direct way, and it keeps consciousness and mental powers from evolving – the very things that can challenge the death built into the system. That can overturn its ineffectiveness.

Existence, life, cannot depend on an entropic process. It’s a deadly logical flaw.

The human mind isn’t meant to build a slightly better gizmo. Wall street will have you believe that business finances people with ideas. But ideas going through countless business and manufacturing loops, energy being lost at every one of them – is not what the mind is about. As modern wisdom goes, it’s said that you could not have the current level of human development without massive urban concentrations. But even putting aside the fact that the way we sustain these urban centers is not developed at all, that our agriculture and social practices and political process are all primitive and result in a very low level of human existence, human interconnection, and friendly care for each other – putting all this aside, we are still left with a fallacy. It’s not the crude massing of forms – urban forms and processes – that leads to mental development, but focus on the mind itself.

Corporations are the shadow of a shadow of a shadow, drawing virtualized profits from virtualized transactions with virtualized people. There can be no community where human time is divided between corporations and entertainment services. There is no citizenship there, no natural rights, no real room for consciousness to evolve, embracing all other human potential. Freedom of expression, creativity and design are counted in monetary value, in a mindless squabble where friendly understanding is reduced to the insane act of having to sell each other things – or worse – knowledge and education – just to survive.

Our countless failures in every field, and in the field of putting it all together and solving the world’s issues, shows that the focus is not on the mind, not on the world, not on humans, but rather on the process of urban existence, consumption, accumulation of status and goods. For all those of you having a knee-jerk reaction at this attack on some of your favorite things, I’ll simply have to add that an evolved consciousness and a strong mind trump all these phenomena of modern life, in the most pleasurable and natural way possible.

Community, small or large, rural or urban, endowed or not with beautiful architecture and a variety of goods, can only solve its problems and the world’s problems by focusing on mind, biological life, and human existence as being the fundamental theoretical units of our understanding. By focusing on consciousness and mind, we can grow it to high levels anywhere. Ultra-high capital science is only needed in a desperate scramble to offset the issues created by our fundamentally flawed, entropic design, and ultra-high capital science could be much more easily sustained by a world without fundamental flaws. It would correspond to a human imperative instead of a consumption imperative.

The powers of the human mind, modern or otherwise, are not a result of capitalism or technological improvements. Never be fooled into believing that.

Our creative avenues, from art to design to entertainment, from journalism to entrepreneurship to social activism, from science to construction to ecology, from film to documentary to intimate individual life, are all flawed, because they have evolved, as we have, in a system that has no direct contact with humanity. Our creative avenues are derivative, endlessly derivative and frail, at odds with giving birth to answers, or beauty, or even a cry for help.

The reason? we are so remote from direct, inclusive understanding, from leaps of faith and intuition, that we cannot comprehend ourselves as a whole and as part of a whole. A theory of solving everything can only start with the basis of what it means to be human, and what it means to be alive. These are things that have self-nature, whereas starting from the current system and trying to rearrange its pieces in some meaningful way cannot work – very few of those pieces have any self-meaning.

Mostly they are derivatives. Financial derivatives are only one sort of derivative – a derivative, of any kind, is what happens when unprincipled, weak men of little cultivated human potential are set loose upon the world for several generations. It’s an evolutionary process at the level of form – the form of the world is changed so much that it becomes completely unrelated to its original life-giving function.

Society has the duty of directly and immediately addressing its fundamental problems, and in doing so eventually reaching the highest level of human development and understanding. Any society that doesn’t do that will eventually crumble under its own weight – the weight of generations that do not fulfill their potential. For a society to stand the test of time, and reach permanence, it needs to tackle the ever renewing flow of basic biology, by educating the inflows, helping them evolve, and in this way avoiding the build-up of tension and opposites. We are born as basic biology – small and uncultivated – but full of potential. If we are not grown as humans, able and involved, then we become passive or destructive, useless, lost, dirty, we rot away generations at a time, not even knowing where the blame lies.

The entropic nature of any society that doesn’t transform its low-level biological flows leads to ingrained systemic destruction of value on all possible levels, then change through revolution, or a system cleanse through war.

In this sense, Occupy Wall Street and the European Revolution are an attempt to stop the destruction of value through a spontaneous shaking up of that biological human level, which right now, on a global level, is stale and fearful and fragile and has been the target of systematic abuse.

Many of us are born in what are known as democratic republics. A republic guarantees the primacy of fundamental individual rights. There is no majority that can ever take that away. A republic understands the mental potential of the individual as being the basic building block of human society, and the life of the individual as being an inviolable asset. No thought or majority decision can violate structures of life and mind, because thoughts and decisions are below such structures. A democracy allows for full expression, and for uninhibited decision regarding one’s own destiny. It does not allow for power over another’s life or mind. An individual must cultivate his understanding of things so that he can express democratic choice without making the mistake of threatening the fundamental rights of others through that choice. The choice of the majority over a minority can only happen when the decision does not threaten individual rights, or the fundamental values of a democracy or a republic. And the final result is that no cultivated individual would take such decisions, and indeed such decisions can only happen when uncultivated minds are exposed to desperate situations.

We must not say that we are right because a 51% majority can rule over any 49% minority – the history of war has proven that one to be wrong many times over – but because both our natural rights and our democratic process has been tampered with and destroyed by a minority which has long stopped upholding the ideals of a democratic republic.

That we are a majority is a good thing, something to bolster our courage, but what we want is in line with the ideals of justice, not with dominating the individual rights of a minority. We have no relation to their rights – their rights are far from the issue – since they have no right to tamper with the lawful processes which create prosperity for all. It is good that we are a majority, that 99% of people are in a similar situation, whether they realize it or not, but the situation is economically and socially deadly, so it should not take a majority to speak up against it. Fundamental rights allow even the smallest minority of one to speak up against things that seek to destroy the balance of a democratic republic.

So do not pride yourself simply on majority, but on the truth of the justice you seek. On the other hand, our society has a glorious track record of ignoring truth, so make sure you pride yourself on majority as well.

A citizen is inherently part of a community. A citizen is important through his potential, all his innate human potential – the powers that human beings are capable of developing – but equally important, he is the fundamental unit of that community. With a breakdown of the community, there is a certain chance that a human might continue living with his internal structure unharmed, but a community’s structure is completely destroyed once you break down the citizen.

If, with courage, you win the battle for people’s consciousness, and then, with unrelenting focus, you win the battle of minds for the right to plan and enact a future, then there is a chance you will see the day when you can change the physical make-up of reality into something fundamentally right, fundamentally healthy, and fundamentally human – with no glaring flaws of design and understanding, no overcomplicated yet underachieving structures, no giant leaks at every corner, wasting huge, murderous percentages of our life-flows and potentials, and then damming and damning them, locking them up altogether when the flow reaches the right point in the rigged system.

Compromise will have to come on part of the government, in the form of an adaptation to human values. An adaptation to the necessary ideal of citizenship as the functional unit that drives all processes within a society. This is called transcendence. America was founded by humans who transcended all the mental and moral limitations of the world they lived in. They opened up space, created a complex civilization in it, and took care to imbue it with the ideals that would create more transcendent men in generations to come, men who would refresh the values and processes of their civilization.

This transcendence is merely the wisdom that comes with truly being human, open and enduring over a certain period of time.

Have it.

It is more and more yours with every day you spend opening up squares and cities and souls and minds.

An entropic system erodes all life and all values. It erodes ecosystems, it erodes communities, and then it erodes vision and hope, and finally, when all true mental power is gone from the system, and all that is left are impotent derivatives, there also lingers an idea that, once, greatness used to be possible. And with that idea, all that is left is the most simple and biological of courage, and the only way I could describe this courage would be by saying it is akin to that of cell colonies divided by toxic space, yet still fearlessly projecting the greatness of the natural immensity they once came from.

This is the courage of Occupy Wall Street and the European Revolution. Perhaps it is not yet high minded, and it may not be fully clean and refined, not beyond the reproach of those who can afford perfect formal cleanliness to offset the horrendous dirt of the jobs they perform in this world. It may not be calm and composed, and therefore worthy of our neutered politics and sterile, homicidal military-industrial complex.

It is a strange and unexpected courage, confused, but it has a heart which is beating. First with angst, then with courage, and now with hope – which, when you look at how hopelessly misguided our civilization-building efforts have been for the past century, and centuries before that, when you look at massing police forces and then at how small and fragile each of these people are, the so-called 99% – this hope might seem ridiculous.

Don’t be fooled by sound-bytes. There is no 1% and 99%. There is no inclusion and exclusion, there is no economic reform that will safely and painlessly save this mess. There are no clean-cut demands to be made, because there isn’t a system currently capable of enacting them. And there can be no talk of the opposite of capitalism being socialism, when capitalism itself is so morally bankrupt that the only thing which can oppose it is desperate, raging humanism.

A friend who almost died in the Romanian revolution of 1989 told me that, after having been captured and taken outside the city during his second day of being on the streets, as he was literally being trampled and bludgeoned to death by soldiers, the many tens of thousands of workers of Bucharest finally came out into the streets. this saved him, as it forced the soldiers to abandon the beating, leaving him with a severely cracked skull and seconds away from his death. The way he recounted it to me is, he can never truthfully think of that time in terms other than anyone not participating that day, anyone not coming out into the streets, was for his death, and for the death of many others, and death in general, whereas each of those who did march saved him, and saved many others. I thought of this as I watched Spanish women being beaten by police, hit over their faces with riot sticks, and at that moment, and for a long time afterwards, I wished I could have been there and taken every one of those hits in their place.

I still do now, as I remember, because human pain is also transcendent, and therefore, any society that has no direct and immediate solutions for the homeless man living down the street as winter approaches, but has only sly, abusive rhetoric whose projected effects are measured in decades, is simply not a human society.

It isn’t human.

Beyond demands, further global action is needed in the same spirit and with the same sense of immediacy that the Wall Street Occupation has. Turn this into direct action democracy, E-democracy, turn this into a social justice platform capable of homing in on any level of injustice with massive multi-regional force, turn this into pledges from both social groups and local government, turn it into local currency, into community creation, into support and creation of the kind of economic and social platforms that citizenship requires. Turn it into a virtual platform for the creation of justice and prosperity and human values, leveraging the many skills and potentials and situations that everyone, literally, everyone everywhere has. This is open source prosperity, the only kind there is.

While broadscale economic reform needs to happen, it’s much more important to simply stop the massive destruction of value, immediately – with no more bailouts followed by seizing of property, both on a personal scale, with home foreclosures and massive job loss, and on a national scale, with sale of historical and social assets, as is happening in Greece.

There are current reforms and actions that can be enacted by our governments with immense and immediate effects on all levels of society. This could be done by transcending the relationship between debt and infrastructure, forgetting conversations on debt altogether and focusing on building infrastructure with high social relevance. Add to this a transition to an international model of cooperation instead of coercion, replacing planned international interdependency based on debt with a higher trust model, and understand that even in the stock market, planned trust is more valuable than planned debt, since the stock market is so volatile when it comes to global human factors.

But even working within the debt model, there are continents of people young and old, students, workers and entrepreneurs and farmers, intellectuals and scientists that can rebuild a functioning economy given the right freedom and support. Even capitalism can work out when it is conscientious and happens within the framework of a democratic republic, not that of a corporate dictatorship. Capitalism and corporatism are very different animals.

Despite the inherent design flaws of our current system, it could still be more productive, gentler on ecosystems and human beings, and ultimately result in more capital/monetary gain for all involved. Making it work that way is essential to gaining and spreading the resources needed for building fundamentally human communities, on all levels. And the only way of getting government to act in a sane, constitutional and human manner is to keep protesting, keep occupying, keep opening up spaces, keep being human and standing up for rational human ideals. This in itself must continue to grow, but we must also build a direct democracy platform, and use it to keep the system in check and enforce positive changes.

Just as importantly, we must build a roadmap of the knowledge and actions required for the creation of self-sustaining and highly evolved communities, and the way such communities can positively influence the world around them. This combination of human activism and occupation, massively direct and focused democracy using virtual platforms mixed with immediate change, immediate, and the building of fundamentally healthy communities that support citizenship and take advantage of the full potential of biological and mental flows – is the only thing that can truly change the world.

Every problem, local, national or global, must be immediately seen and tackled for what it is – something which threatens someone’s integrity and life. This is how you occupy a planet.

Without direct democratic action platforms, communities cannot positively change the conditions around them, and become vulnerable to government and global factors. Without building communities, the existing global factors are the only ones we can interact with – and that is a losing game.

I will be working on this knowledge roadmap, organizing virtual groups for the evolution of solutions. And I will try and wish to be there to physically and peacefully take every baton hit and pepper spray shot, which now seem to be mostly aimed at women. My physical structure can take them, because it is human, strong.

“If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall – if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.” Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Concentration and equanimity conquer all things.

vineri, 24 februarie 2012

Covenant - Humility

Behold the beauty that surrounds us
See the wonders we take for granted
Roam the world in all her glory
Sail the seas and climb the mountains

Discover things you never knew
Be happy that you're alive
So many reasons to remain
So many people to embrace
So many stories to be told
So many errors to correct

Turn your gaze towards the moon
Even further if you dare
Turn your face towards the sun
And be grateful that it's there



Behold the beauty we have made us
All the wonders that we created
See the cities of the ancients
In the deserts and the jungles

See the truth you always knew
Be happy that you're alive
So many reasons to remain
So many people to embrace
So many questions to be asked
So many answers to be found