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Outtakes from Transmutation

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Here is a private link to some yet unreleased "outtakes" from our feature documentary film Transmutation. There are a few funny behind the scenes moments. 

https://vimeo.com/311562637
password: outtakes

Making this film was nothing but joy. I give huge credit to my friend and colleague Neil Kramer for this. Basically he and I made this movie, so he's usually the sole person on screen for it while I'm the sole person directing him as well as the guy behind the camera. Gorilla Indie filmmaking all the way. Making a passion project together and most importantly always being proactive and easy going with one another - which these outtakes give a preview and flavor of. No matter how much budget projects get in the future, I will always try and keep the crews as small as possible and thus keep the pressures as low as possible as well. It doesn't mean it's not hard work, quite the opposite in fact as less people have to play more roles. However, uphill difficult work which you enjoy the process of doing will always result in good outcomes. Process orientation is key. It's not so much about a goal for the end result as it is a goal to be process oriented. Which we can all strive for with any side creative venture.

There are hundreds of Hollywood big production stories where the lead actor and director we're fighting constantly and hated each other by week 3 of a 6 month shoot. Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog while making the 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo" come to mind. Extremely difficult to work with and heavily mentally unbalanced actor meltdown here. Funny how the end product was compromised as a result. It's the same story with dealing with mercurial movie studio executives, egomaniac directors, reactionary Producers, and the list goes... So the moral of the story take and away from all this is choose who you spend your time with in life and in collaborating with very carefully.

OFFICIAL SITE FOR THE FILM - https://www.transmutationfilm.com/ 

Filmed over three years and five continents, Transmutation explores mystical revelation amid the obstacles of mainstream culture. Sharing personal stories of individuals who have gone through profound life changes which have altered them for the better.

This feature documentary film explores the rarely-seen intimacies of deeply individualistic mystical experiences of everyday reality. A roving philosopher guides us through the striking forests, coastlines, deserts, and cities of the world, inviting us to embrace the intense mystery of our own existence. Is direct personal encounter with divinity a real thing? What secrets are buried in nature’s deep places? Why has mainstream culture sought to eradicate the awakened human? Is normality really our friend?

Podcast 80: Josephine McCarthy - A Modern School for Magic (Extended for Patrons)

Josephine McCarthy on a modern school for magic, experience over intellect, secrecy, self-corrective systems, and in the exclusive extension for patrons, magical Egypt and powerful women in occultism. 

Direct download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1fvnpxx1j74ksge/AnInfinitePath_ep080JosephineMcCarthy_Patron.mp3

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A Course on Magic

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One of the perks of your amazing $10/month support is currently "Links to the best lecture/courses Niles has discovered. Per your request." The per your request part of that is really saying should you simply engage your will to ask me about them. As Sturgeon's Law states, 90% of everything is crap. That is no different for courses of any sort in any subject online. Let alone a course having to do with what one might call "spirituality" which can be very complicated and difficult to grasp. Over the years, I've found a few courses / lectures which are truly exceptional for sharing information which can allow one to continue to develop their Jedihood. There are currently three total and the aim with this post is to share the initial first one, (and the others in the future) in private exclusive Patron updates and tell you why each are so valuable. 

The first course is on magic and is called "Quareia" and can be found at https://www.quareia.com.

It is structured in three parts, "Apprentice", "Initiate", and "Adept", and is simply a series of PDF files for download. I've always found information about real spiritual Jedi practice quite vague and really difficult to find information on which gives you the specific step-by-step HOW. This is likely to protect the knowledge by making it initiatory. This course however, feels like it's bypassing some of that. It is essentially a 1400+ page book on magic which gives you tools to do your own daily, weekly, monthly practices to move toward continuing to become the most actualized version of yourself possible. With detailed step-by-step lessons. 

The creators of the course Josephine McCarthy and Frater Acher have given it away 100% for free as well with the goal of "advancing the education of the public in the UK and World Wide, in the subject of Mystical Magic/Western Esoteric Mysteries, including the concept of personal spiritual evolution, in a way that is accessible regardless of income, race, gender, religion or spiritual beliefs.” This is always a good sign as a real teacher of the great work will likely not charge you exorbitant amounts of money for the learning, but instead simply make you DO THE WORK. And boy does this course require you to do just that because what a staggering amount of work it is. It really is numerous years, if not a decade + of study and practice. 

As we develop ourselves through our lives and our mind, our heart, and our will, if we are truly serious about the great work of self-transformation we will BE DOING THINGS (through will) that allow us to connect to what you might say is "divine." Magic is really the final frontier of that will work as the magician trains themselves to work with the four elements, Earth, Air, Water, and Fire esoterically. We can only get so far by ourselves and need teachers, or wise elders to help us along our journey and those who are seeking any sort of mystery school type education would behoove themselves to dive into this information.

While I am always a student of these things and don't claim I'm a magician, I am extremely interested in magic and have not vetted the entire course. However, at the time of this writing I've been doing it for about 6 months, and although still in the early stages, have found it very beneficial. I also have all the PDF files downloaded already and am happy to send them your way to expedite getting the course to you if interested. All you need to do is ask. I also have Josephine McCarthy scheduled to come on the podcast in the first quarter 2019 so keep an ear out for that!

Podcast 78: Greg Carlwood - Creating Your Own Job By Elevating Conspiratorial Thinking (Extended for Patrons)

***This marks the first episode of the podcast in which the first hour or so of an episode will be free, but the full conversation will be exclusively available for the $2+ full version of the Patrons here on Patreon. The will happen on certain episodes going forward. Thanks very much for the support.

Greg Carlwood on creating your own job, elevating conspiratorial thinking, control and suppression systems, and in the exclusive extension for patrons, forbidden cancer treatments and cures.

Direct download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hu57wew2cy8p8hk/AnInfinitePath_ep078GregCarlwood_Patron.mp3

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A Hidden Gem Inside the Internet Tubes

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Dave Monds is a hidden gem on the internet. His blog and podcast, The Here and Now are great. Yet, they suffer from having a very generic name. In the podcast space, it's also a name of two other podcasts, one on National Public Radio and the other a Ram Dass podcast. So to date his show is very obscure and unknown. Yet it is really good so please do check them out and perhaps send some love his way at very least in the form of clicking 5 stars for his podcast in iTunes.

https://thehereandnow2017.com/
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He and I had been corresponding due to the similar nature of our outputs. With his show consisting of mainly solo monologue episodes similar to our spoken-word essays. As podcasting involves sending audio creations out into the digital either and then usually not getting much feedback, the medium can really feel like you're on the dark side of the moon. So show hosts really do need to cross-promote one another and we decided to do a co-share and appear on each others ventures. Here's mine chatting on his and he will be on our upcoming episode 103.

https://thehereandnowpodcast.buzzsprout.com/724137/4059242-contemplative-landscapes-with-niles-heckman

Unboxing to Think Outside the Box

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Sweet illustration of Harry and I. And the Lecia M of course.

My mate, chap, patron, and friend of the show Harry McInley, guest on recent episode 99 of An Infinite Path, has started his own podcast called Unboxing With Harry McInley. Which is a great double metaphor for both going multiple "rounds" of conversation in regards to the sport of boxing as well as a reference for thinking outside the box. Which he is aiming to have his guests do. 

Harry's goal is to keep the podcast a bit more broad appeal while still being open to fresh out of the box ideas. So having a weird esotericist on wouldn't necessarily be broadly appealing, but I tried to keep it a bit more tame in case there was a larger audience of homo-normalice listening. That being said, we still might have made Harry a tiny bit nervous about releasing this one. Which his mom may not approve of. But hey, my mom stopped listening to An Infinite Path years ago - Yet, we still both love our mothers.

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Transitioning Into Digital Ghosts

It’s with a very saddened and heavy heart as I write this and speak this that I share that a friend of mine, Ryan Geist Bozajin has passed away. He was 39 years old. 

Ryan is someone who I had known since late college, having attended the same university I did, and with us both having worked in similar fields, as he was one of very few people whose career track was extremely similar to my own. With both of us having extensive production experience as well as on set supervision experience in regards to various capacities in film and commercial post-production work.

He and I had collaborated together in several capacities, first meeting on a mutual friend’s ridiculously beyond goofy project, a condom commercial called Space Jizz. Yes, read into that title just as you’d like. It’s not up front and center on the filmmaking resume with Transmutation, and to my knowledge has to this day never been completed, but I have shot a commercial called Space Jizz. As it was exactly what you might think. A raunchy spec ad involving semen floating through zero gravity in a spaceship. It was a single day green screen shoot which I was the director of photography on with Ryan being the Visual Effects Supervisor. It was a super fun project which we worked on as a group of college friends. We later worked once each together at a small Lucasfilm subcontractor as well as an augmented reality company in San Francisco which he and I have both been members of.

He and I not only jived on professional and work related wavelengths but he is especially relevant to my personal work because he himself was on episode 15 of the podcast as well in the early Novelty Generators days. Which to my knowledge was the first time he’d ever spoken publicly about some of his more obscure interests. Which I pride myself on having done numerous times. Pulling people out of the intellectual closet that is. So very sadly, he is now the first guest from the podcast who has passed away. 

His LLC RGB Media, and small production company was a contributing factor to the second episode of our documentary series Shamans of the Global Village as well. RGB Media, which stood for Ryan Geist Bozajian Media (which was also surely a play on the common post production color dynamic of Red, Green, and Blue) being in the front credits for the episode. 

The circumstances surrounding his death are a bit uncertain and may very well always remain that way. As it was from a car accident near Mt. Shasta and he was driving very late at night alone. To make this a bit sadly synchronistic, while writing this I listened to another  recording of him in conversation in which he referenced Andy Weir’s story story The Egg. “The opening line of which read, You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless.”

Death is part of life. Not an end. But a reboot. But the saddest part of death in this life, especially young death, is the time lost from what you would have gotten to spend together. That’s certainly the saddest part of having a child pass away young for example. As they would have had so much time still left in the hour glass than an old timer would.

While Ryan was in the material realm he loved many things. One was Ken Wilber and philosophical word salads. Another was the work of Stanley Kubrick. Biggest Kubrick fan I’d ever met. We had many conversations about the master filmmaker and his works. Another thing he loved was being a socialite. Ryan was a social butterfly to say the least. He knew practically everyone. He wasn't the type of guy that I could tell you would do the thing directly, but what he could do is connect you up with 10 people each of which would be a perfect match to help you with steps along the way in order to accomplish the task. He’s the type of employee a company would bring on board because of their personal rolodex. Thus, Facebook was an often used tool in his arsenal. He was one of those dudes who used it a great deal. Not solely as his only tool of communication but more as an initial vector for physical meet up. 

After his passing, there has been a deluge of Boz’s friends and acquaintances posting about him on his page there. With a private group regarding him created as well. Which also very wonderfully put together a group memorial ceremony for him. A silver lining of memorials is they bring folks together who may not have otherwise met around the nucleus of the one who has passed away. Just like the life of a great star, all things must come to an end, and digital pages that cease to be maintained tend to eventually fizzle out in the near future. Those types of things are initially something like that of a high school yearbook, where folks will swing in, leave a thought felt remark and then move on with their own lives. But this page, will continue sitting there in 1’s and 0’s. His old posts will continue to be there. As though they were now left by some kind of ghost. 

This is a strange factor now upon us in the age of people sharing their activities on whatever series of interconnected blogs they choose to upload their tid bits to. It is weird enough if the ghost posted sporadically and you, having looked at their back posts after their passing, get a very sporadic glimpse into their thought processes and activities. Yet it’s high strangeness if the ghost was a daily poster, because then suddenly, their frequent data stream just hard stops. 

There was a story of young man who was up in a cherry bucket on a very windy day. I don’t recall the context of what he was doing but do recall he was Tweeting updates from his phone while up there. Including saying things like “geez these winds are crazy strong” just moments before the bucket blew over and toppled resulting in him dying from the fall. 

Another college friend of mine who had passed away, from diabetes nonetheless, a skinny guy who I distinctly remember eating nothing but McDonalds constantly during those collegiate years, continues to have a three plus year old cobweb covered Facebook page which seems like it will always continue to be there even though he’s left his meat suit and can’t keyboard mudra onto it any longer. Unless a family member somehow knew his password who could then go and delete it if they felt the need. Instead, the page now has a banner at the top of it giving notice that it’s now archived as a memorialized account. Which when visiting feels a bit like you’re inside the funeral home or tombstone in cyberspace.

Carl Ruiz was a quite known somewhat famous celebrity chef, who died of a heart attack in 2019 at 44 from clogged arteries. He was a prolific and frequent poster on Twitter where many of his updates there were of course food related. Often showing pictures of food which no human being should be eating - Such as hot dogs, donuts, triple factory farmed cheese burgers, cans of sweetened tea, and you get the picture. A post right before his passing reads “Absolutely perfect hand cut french fries in homemade gravy. Be still my cold dead black heart”. So he basically was documenting his demise and the baby step record is out there.

The comedian Ducan Trussell, whose one of those gaggle of funny guys in LA who have all become more well known by orbiting around another comedian who also happens to be the world’s most famous podcaster, had this amazing and somewhat now legendary episode of his podcast Ducan Trussell’s Family Hour where he had his dying mother on just a very short time before her passing. I remember listening to the episode when it came out and it’s stuck with me years later now. It has actually subsequently been adapted into the final episode of a Netflix show he co-created called The Midnight Gospel. Which speaks quite philosophically regarding the topic of death.

His mother had an incredible maturity about her certain imminent passing. Claiming she felt most alive before her physical death. She had completely decoupled from suffering by letting go and having complete acceptance of her passing. Even suggesting a turning toward death. Saying it’s not going to hurt you and that it’s a tremendous teacher. Her having been a psychologist, and lily a good one, really showed. And you could tell by her powerful near final words, that she was a very special lady. So the ghost of her will always live in a documented way through I’m sure numerous private family channels and memories as well as that public conversation.

While it seems to be the style of many to post on someone’s wall after their passing, spending time leaving what is a very here today gone tomorrow ephemeral drop in the ocean, then moving on with their own lives, it’s much more the style of this writer and narrator to put together this essay regarding, as something that will hopefully be more long lasting and a bit more of a time capsule.

Modernity in the Western World has such a terror of death. Knowing my parents are at their age where any day now, either of them could go. Hopefully they have another good decade in them, yet at their state each day later in life should be thought of as a gift for sure. 

While Ryan had much of a life off social media and many people knew him at surface level, his real life, was never fully known to many. Just as many men never really disclose their intimate thoughts to one another in conversation, as it’s generally a constant to say you’re doing fine even when you have many hardships and mishaps going on in your life below the surface. Much of which you feel as though you can’t talk to many of your acquaintances about. This is something I will on occasion say to someone who is consulting with me about themselves. As it’s so important to have friends or acquaintances you can talk to about what’s really going on in your real life. 

So however Ryan went out. Whatever his state of mind and heart right toward the end. Even though there are no coincidences and everything happens for a reason, it’s hard to really concritize that when someone shuffles off what may be their mortal coil suddenly. And early. Why would Ryan chose to go or want to go if that is the case? Very hard not to feel deep sadness when I think that if I could go back and tell Ryan he would not live to see his 40th birthday. I do wish I knew all the details about what was happening in his life. Although, like many of us, there was some shadow there, and I will say that in the last half dozen or so encounters with Ryan, our conversations were increasingly strange, the light and bright side of him will be missed. His personality. His humor, his fun, his winning smile. His radiance. The good times we had together with circles of mutual friends. And much more. You were always so kind to me brother. You are said to have put the Meta in the Metaverse. Much love and until we meet again.

Three Pillars of Persuasion

The OSes, consisting of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, are three pillars of persuasion. They stem from Rhetoric, or Ars Rhetorica, an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, given credit to Aristotle, through his Corpus Aristotelicum, otherwise known as the collection of his works. We are going to lay out a list of logical fallacies in the next private essay, but before we do so it is important to define these terms publicly.

Ethos or the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character. By who they are.

Pathos or the emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. By what they feel.

Logos or the appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason. By what they think.

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Much of storytelling harkens back to Aristotle’s “Poetics.” Which has laid the foundation for classical theatre writing, and other forms of modern storytelling such as cinema. In it, Aristotle wrote:

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

These three pillars are at the root of “idea selling” much of which today has been diluted into what has become advertising. As there is no other field which aims to persuade more and advertising is now about telling a story in order to sell a product.

Ethos, being the greek word for character, is often considered the character or spokesperson delivering information. Ethos means someone knows more than you, and is trustworthy, and reliable. This is great if it's from a wise elder, or just plain amazingly illuminated human, but bad when it’s from supposed experts or a superior character in their field. Professors, medical professionals, gurus, or worst of all, celebrities. This is why you often see a famous person in an ad seen on camera or doing the ads narration rather than just someone

like your sister or brother. The spokesperson is said to validate the product and unlock trust to the “consumer” by having apparent weight and authority. And unconscious people will listen to them. Whether or not they have product-specific expertise such as a famous actor trying to sell you power tools, or something way outside and having nothing to do with their area of expertise.

Pathos is used in persuading folks for a cause or moral responsibility. Appealing and pulling at their heart strings of empathy. Beer commercials are famous for this one. Trying to always tie their brand with American heritage. Or ordinary everyday people, cut from the same cloth as the majority of the audience. Here’s a statement before you by someone one stage or in an old school TV commercial about sick starving children in Africa, with flies all over their face. Help them! Or oftentimes using animals and loving cute baby ones at that to make you appeal to a moral message. Pathos is king in what’s called bandwagon advertising, which is you, as the observer and agreeing with their message, is then felt to be on the winning team or popular opinion. Both recurring logical fallacies have been used as key tools of propaganda through time.

Logos usually tries to be pointing out facts to back up a claim. Which through time have not really been facts, but prevced scientific facts which far too often then not, end up being some level of psyto science. Like drink your milk, its full of calcium for strong bones. Which give very gross oversimplifications to a more complex and multi-layered nutricional issue. Or the old school 19080’s propaganda campaign of this is your brain showing an egg in its shell, and this is your brain on drugs showing the egg being cracked and put into the frying pan. Implying something that is supposedly logical based on pre-existing mis-conceptions. Statistics, surveys, facts, and historical data can make a product seem like a more reasonable decision. Whether the data is sound or not is another story.

These modalities are often used together, for like the infinity stones from the Marvel universe, they work best when unified. There was a famous 1970’s American commercial of a native american riding a canoe down a river, looking like it could have been out of the old american times before it was settles by Europeans. He gets out of the canoe onto a beach which is covered in trach, and walks over to a freeway packed with cars, revealing it’s modern times, and a vehicle driving by throws a bag of trash out the window which lands at his feet. He’s then seen breaking the fourth wall as it’s called in theatre and cinema, with us going from objective to subjective, meaning looking at the audience or camera, and a tear is seen coming from his eye.

It was very common in the 1950’s to have a family go out to a public park for a picnic and then subsequently leave their trash strewn everywhere, this “dump your trash anywhere you want” mindset, continued into the 60’s and then started to more enter the public consciousness in the 19070’s for example. And this commercial, which was actually a public service announcement for 71 things you can do to mitigate pollution, was a result of the general populous starting to care more about the issue and then have public trash cans installed ubiquitously in American towns and cities. This campaign was extremely successful. As it used Ethos, the native american figure - A type of person who is stereotypically to this day seen as being "one with nature" or an authority on the subject, Pathos, saying hey all this trash everywhere is making out public spaces un-atractive and having a detrimental effect on the environment, and Logos, showing that this was a common occurrence which at a societal level needed to change. As a result from political movements of the time and successful campaigns such as this one, into the 80’s and 90’s it became standard operating procedure to put your trash into a garbage can and to this day if you do not, you are the prick. Future advertising campaigns into the early 2000’s have done the same for recycling and composting, and into the 20teens for now removing use of plastic bags and straws all together.

So obviously these can be used for good or bad ends. And it's good to know how they are deployed. Usually separated by the numerator denominator line of are they trying to sell me something, or are they just providing me with useful and truly educational information.

When I write and then speak, I always try to insert rays of bright illumination to what may be a stormy cloud over the reader or listener. This is achieved partially by exhibiting an inherent truth in what I’m saying. So even if you’ve never heard it before, aren’t sure about it, or it’s just plain over your head, there is something about my work which rings true for you. This manifests itself in each of the aforementioned modes. As it's better to inspire first, persuade second, and promote third instead of doing each of those steps the other way around.

Fear and Terror Broadcasts

Nearly all people are controlled by outer suggestions, and not by inner realizations. Ordinary man thinks only what he sees others do, and hears others say. We must all learn so to control the inner life that outside things do not make an impression upon our mentalities.

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes - Creative Mind And Success

A definition of the news could be stated as “Recent account; fresh information of something that has lately taken place at a distance, or of something before unknown.”

And since every day has, give or take, millions or very least multiple hundreds of thousands of interesting “going ons” happening throughout Earth, which of those items is rising most to the surface? That’s in order to isolate a couple dozen of those action items at local or global levels worth sharing on that day. So then the next question is, who is making those decisions and why? Is it coming from few locations, or is it coming from an entire society of individuals?

Like any centralized source of big power, regardless of what that is or what side of the political spectrum it comes from, or what it’s role is, it disempowers those who are subservient to it. On the other side of that coin, many thousand or millions of individual nodes, must rely on their substance of content to be noticed and that in regards to journalism, will then work to really inform and empower others at their similar socioeconomic level. 

As we have seen an increasing consolidation of everything in virtually every industry in the last century, the news media is certainly no exception to that rule. This is a result of many decades of bad political decisions which help the man, but screw you dear listener. Over the course of this decline, the news has become less about bottom up journalism and instead more about top down infotainment. Due to this business model creating a system which helps the smallest sliver percentage of economically successful folks, the tiny capstone of the commerce pyramid for example, such as the Godzillionair, but screws everyone else, the pyramid has now been turned upside down. It’s de-spiritualized, foundationally untrue, commercial revenue model has become about being paid for by advertisers instead of being paid as a neutral or balanced public service, like a public utility.

Edward R Murrow warned of commercialism in the news. Murrow achieved his legendary status by taking on the witch-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare. He was not afraid to face the fire. It was Murrow's ardent belief in the decision-making capabilities of the American people that drove him. He saw it as the media's responsibility to get the people the facts so that they could make informed decisions. “If we entrust it to those who”, as Murrow noted, “seek only to profit from it without regard to their moral duties, we will suffer the consequences of mass delusion”.

Even though democracy is mob rule which disregards the fallacy of the majority, it’s better than end result left wing communism or end result right wing fascism and you can’t have a resemblance of democracy without a free and open press. Thus, The Society of Professional Journalists are said to be a forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. Ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair, thorough, and acts with integrity. The Society declares these four principles as the foundation of ethical journalism and encourages their use in its practice by all people in all media. They are to:

Seek Truth and Report it
Minimize Harm
Act Independently
Be Accountable and Transparent

If the "news" you are watching does not meet at a bare minimum these ethics it is NOT news. PERIOD. All corporate owned media (CNN, RT, MSNBC, BBC, Fox, ABC, Al Jazeera, Sky News, etc...) are all "infotainment" and with only very rare cracks of journalism peeking through these entities which only happens as scraps and leftovers. It takes We, The People, constantly and consistently calling out the big business media on a regular basis to force them to change. Or even better, permanently turning all of it off and throwing live broadcast television anything into the dumpster or digital trash bin. Comedian Bill Hicks said it best.

Since telling the truth gets you little to nowhere within an untrue society, the top down media now does the opposite of Seeking Truth and Report it, Minimizing Harm, Acting Independently, and Being Accountable and Transparent. They create false perceptions, maximizing harm, while acting on behalf of their financieres, in complete opacity. Because its centralized owned by the pyramid capstone hierarchy within commercial commerce, it only cares about other figures who are pyramid capstone hierarchical within commercial commerce. Thus, it generally focuses all its time on a single digit amount of people, one of whom will always be the commander and chief of the United States. The CEO of the corporation, and placating to them and whatever current administration. The run-up to the Iraq War was the most perfect example of this you could ask for. Where things that a 5 year old could tell were blatantly false become so ecco chambered by establishment media figures that the joker spirals of watching television make one think they’re in a carnival of funhouse distorted mirrors. 

Those media figures, sitting behind on air desks, used to have journalistic integrity like Walter Cronkite or Murrow, but now they're just hard-core nationalists bobblehead talking point repeater puppets, who’s baby pool shallow depth of subject matter is on the same par with sports broadcasters and scorn any ideas that suggest their country is at fault for anything. The very suggestion that the United States of America might have done anything to provoke rational hatred against it by dropping a $50,000 bomb from a $19,000,000 plane which costs $6000/hr to operate on brown People in Yemen who make $1 per day is heresy to them.

Since real objective journalism must search out the truth in all instances no matter the subject, it can now only be found from obscure independent sources. Usually having to rely on bottom up crowdsource or subscription the same way the old school newspapers did. As the larger now digital newspapers have had to adapt their business model from exclusively just subscription, they and the large network news sources now make the majority of their revenue by traffic and clicks via dollars for advertisers. More clicks and page views, means more advertising revenue. The sad truth is that today's media is thus loyal only to spectacle, and conflagrations attract more eyeballs than in-depth analysis. One way to maximize that element, is by spreading fear. The two moons of Mars (if they are even physical bodies) are Phobos and Deimos. Which translates Fear and Terror. 

It’s always wise to take precautions in turbulent times. As having some supplies on hand is never a bad idea. Not like a doomsday fear-based prepper but because homesteading will never go out of style. But constant fear based worry triggers the immune response and the daily barrage of untempered bad news is a kind of psychological warfare designed to keep people in a constant state of disempowerment, always looking to their “authorities” to tell them what’s going on and/or fix the problem. 

It’s easy to feel stressed and buffeted by the turbulent events constantly playing out. At the time of this writing much of the world is under a media inspired umbrella of terror due to a world wide virus scare, creating more economic strain on bottom up small business and lower and middle classes that were already being redlined with economic instability and mandating increased social isolation in a post-truth compartmentalized Capitalist society that has for decades has been causing increased compartmentalization and social isolation. 

Regardless of the severity of any situation, and whatever it’s origin, however illusory or true, global pandemic scares affect our minds way more than our bodies. With our various countrymen freaking out based on risks that are usually at least a smokescreen or at most not actually at all the real case. Knowing what’s really going on by having a plethora of valid information available through armies of outstanding journalists is key. For to accurately identify a problem is to half fix it. Yet, if an unreliable backwards media is pushing something, we must realize there’s more to the story. Most major world events have always had one side of the coin which were publically told, with the other side being hidden and oftentimes only de-occulted out of the forgotten shadows of history years later. A situation’s legitimacy is derived by no one having anything to gain, especially in terms of money and power collection. So seeing the big business stock market eat shit via mass fear means this might actually be another layer of mother nature pushing back. Yet, the tell that things are fishy is if each supposed solution draws the noose of tyranny much tighter around the necks of what has become an ignorant and gullible populace. 

Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, and author is remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Written in 1841, it chronicles various events that swept the masses into collective mania, such as the Mississippi Meltdown, the South Sea Bubble, and other striking examples of crowd psychology and the power of unchecked emotion. As human nature hasn’t changed over time, this book provides a head’s up with regard to how collective hysteria develops and is worth your time.

More than any other contagion, fear seems to be one of those very contagious emotions. The top down media knows this and thus they are a Phobos and Deimos generating machine. Anything that spreads fear is deeply suspect. For example, us burning fossil fuels is asinine and shows what an immature society we are as slaves to the fossil fuel and petrol chemical industries instead of moving in droves to cleaner forms of energy but same goes with climate DOOM. Something is a bit weird there. That doesn't mean we all need to sound like paid shills for the fossil fuel industry and say, “hey, it’s not man made at all and is just a ploy for a global carbon tax, burn as much carbon as you want!” because pollution, factory farming, and deforestation, all fueled by heavy amounts of pollution are FUBAR and regardless of climate change’s causes, bad diet, pollution, and stress are the core causes of mental and physical sickness in people and a green revolution would reduce those things regardless of climate being anthropocentric, natural, or both. 

The brown revolution industrial hierarchical 20th century lifestyle that we were unsustainably drifting along with as mother earth fights back is collapsing and that is forward progress. This will be a time of turmoil and thus transformation, and our communities will need self-leadership. It’s all about surrender and trust. Even those of us that know the current way of living is wrong, that capitalism, inequity, ego and the battery farm of consciousness we live in is unsustainable, even then we still hold on. To the comfort zones, to micro changes, to wanting change and yet we collectively resist it. Until it is thrust upon us by our environment.

One can tell how healthy a culture is by how mentally and physically healthy its people are, how it treats mother nature and her inhabitants, the quality of the art it outputs, and how it treats real journalists. The human spirit is incredibly resilient and our traditional wisdoms have always sustained us. We have drifted so far from nature since the onslaught of the industrial and then commercial revolution, our bodies now reflect the imbalance, which is inevitable when we become divorced from nature’s laws. This makes us more vulnerable to physical and mental sickness because our inner terrain is compromised. 

We will continue to have species' ego death and rebirth of the old and will have to embrace new ways of being which are really ancient ways of being. On a species level we are entering the medicine of trust, change, acceptance, and there is a gift deep in all this if we embrace it. Everything we know is falling away to make way for the new. We are in the chrysalis stage, when the caterpillar lets go, when it has to transform into the thing that is being born that it cannot even imagine. There is no other way forward to do this without jettisoning “mind killing” fear and terror. A rejection of Phobos and Deimos.

The Creative Mind’s Successful Thoughts

The hand of eternal progress is brushing the cobwebs from the corridors of time and is again revealing to the human race the mysteries of being. As there is "nothing new under the sun," the searchlight of Truth is bringing to light only what has been known to the few in all generations. The time has now come when the few must become the many. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the Truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul. Ignorance must vanish and understanding must be ushered in. Man is no longer to be governed by anything outside himself. Creeds, doctrines, churches, institutions, organizations, governments are all being changed to give place to the realization of the individual. There is a power in and through all that is working this great transformation. All that will not measure up to the standard must fall by its own weight; all that is in line with the Truth must still prosper. The time is at hand; we are in the greatest age of all history; we are in the age of the unifying of all people and all things into the "Ever Present One." "The temple not made with hands" is now being silently built by the emancipated souls of this planet.

The following is an attempt to explain what each soul must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he thinks. If it awakens within the consciousness of one single individual the realization that the mind of the Universe (which is the only mind that there is) is his own mind; that the creative power of this mind is his also; that the manifestation of this mind is his own individuality; that the love and power and peace of this mind is within himself, it will not be written in vain. May it then do much in simplifying and bringing to light some of the deeper mysteries and meanings of life.

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes wrote these words on October 1, 1918 from his book Creative Mind and Success. A text which is very worth your time.

Holmes was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind."

Much like Neville Goddard, Holmes taught New Thought in a Christian context in his church, so hence the heaviness of the use of the word “God” here. It’s always nice to see someone who claims they are a Cristian actually embodying the teachings of Christianity. Which Holmes often did and is quite rare. Although, like everyone, he was not perfect, his legacy lives on in a beneficial way to many. Peeking at some of the online presence of those who

continue to share his writings, it’s all about truth, strength, contentment, healing, love, reason, proactivity, empowerment, joy, etc... It’s not about putting bible passages on sniper scopes, stoning women, anti-gay picketing, or putting up prison guard tower walls around Palestine like you see from de-spiritualized religious fundamentalists.

The primary teaching of New Thought is that physical form is created by a Universal Mind, or as Holmes would say, God, which manifests, or literally reflects, the dominant system of all living persons. In his book, the Science of Mind, Holmes described this force as:

There is a Universal Mind, Spirit, Intelligence, that is the origin of everything: It is First Cause. It is God. This Universal Life and Energy finds an outlet in and through all that is energized, and through everything that lives.

Holmes argued that human beings have access to the power of this Universal Mind by directing their thoughts, in particular, their contention about the present or the future. In his book, he described this as follows:

Experience has taught us that the subjective tendency of this intelligent Law of creative force may consciously be directed and definitively used. This is the greatest discovery of all time.

In his book, the Science of Mind, Holmes explains how it is possible to direct this power by controlling one's thoughts. A sustained belief in a particular outcome will invariably create that outcome. In other words, good events proceed from thoughts of good while evil events proceed from thoughts of evil. In the Science of Mind, Holmes emphasized the importance of focusing in the long term on the good:

Never look at that which you do not wish to experience. No matter what the false condition may be, it must be refuted. The proper kind of denial is based upon the recognition that, in reality, there is no limitation, for Mind can as easily make a planet as an acorn. The Infinite knows no difference between a million dollars and a penny. It only knows that IT IS.

In order to get results, Holmes emphasized that it was necessary to think one specific thought, with complete certainty. If one is continually thinking different thoughts, the Universal Mind will not have a dominant belief that it can manifest, or create, in the physical world. Holmes explained this idea as follows, in his book, Creative Mind:

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants; it is the same in mind.

Man is surrounded by a great universal thought power which returns to him always just as he thinks. So plastic, so receptive is this mind, that it takes the slightest impression and moulds it into conditions. There are two things in man which his thought affects, his body and his environment. At all times he is given absolute control over these two things, and from the effect of his thought upon them he cannot hope to escape.

At first, being ignorant of this fact, he binds himself by a misuse of the laws of his being; but as he begins to see that he himself is responsible for all that comes to him on the path of life, he begins to control his thought, which in its turn acts on the universal substance to create for him a new world.

The great soul is learning more and more to dare to fling out into mind a divine idea of himself, and to see himself perfect and whole.

Wise words from over 100 years ago at the time of this recording. Even if much of new thought scientifically is proven to be bollocks, and that has yet to happen, it’s still great training for being a proactive glass half full person who looks on the bright side of life, treating all encounters and obstacles with the realizations of abundance in their life. For even if brining event into manifestation by causative thoughts is actually not the case, one is still a nicer person in the process, at very least.

Is new thought perfect? Of course not. One could criticize only focusing on good as being new agey with the ostrich sticking its head in the sand to hide. Shadow and negativity must be looked at, acknowledge and worked through. For knowledge of a problem is half the solution, and we learn more from the yin than we do the yang. In our own lives and in the aggregate. For example, a group of Christian dogmatists who completely refuse to acknowledge or even consider the anthropogenic aspects of climate change. Or individually, Holmes himself had said “I believe in the healing of the sick through the power of the Mind. I believe in the control of conditions through the power of the Mind.” So, can you simply heal stage four cancer by thinking it will be all good. Of course not. Or can you?

In the East, especially in China, it’s common for elders to not be told by their doctors that they have a terminal disease, for when the scientific modern medicine diagnosis is revealed to the patient, it’s become known culturally that the vast majority of the time the patient will die quicker. The 2019 film The Farewell is a story focused around this dynamic. Although quite controversial in China, one could say that there is a reason this practice has been adopted over the generations. Because it works, for faith and love are dominant positive thoughts while fear is a dominant negative thought. There are also visualization exercises one can do to help alleviate disease from the body. Visualizing darkness or blackness in the affected areas and re-occurringly meditating on seeing and feeling it be purged from within. That is way more esoterically powerful than sitting in your hospital room sulking staring out

the window in depression or anger or regret. In likelihood, it’s probably a multistage approach. Where diet and exercise also play crucial roles, combined with certain potential holistic or drug based applications also factoring in, with positive thoughts being another layer to the puzzle. But a key layer at that.

One final note here, especially important to note for the ladies. It’s very common when reading old texts to have them framed in the language of what at first glance seems to be male dominated language. Stating this “God” character as a male, always speaking of mankind as “man” and saying only “he” and never “she”. The Webster’s 1828 definition of man is Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. So this of course speaks to both women and men when saying man on equal footing. It’s not uncommon for actresses these days to actually prefer the title of actor. Which in the classic definition is gender neutral. There is a benefit to this thinking because it jettisons the misguided use of the etymology of the feminine spelled by adding additional letters to the masculine. Such as wo-man adding to man, or fe-male adding letters to male, or s-he adding letter to he. Implying the male came first and the woman came second. So the words mankind or man are intended to give originality to both simultaneously. What a beautiful thing.

Asking is As King

Do you think its of the utmost importance to ask questions? Why is something done this way? How can we improve what’s not working well? Have you ever noticed how rarely multiple questions are asked of you by others in conversation? How much of your life is spent around boring and uninteresting people? Too much? Do you feel energetically drained or amplified around certain individual non player bot characters within the system?

At the time of this writing the holidays have just occurred. During this time it's customary for us to spend time with folks we may not see that often. Extended family, friends back in town, etc... Many of them will talk about shit. Saying little to nothing about anything. Discussing small town and thus likely, but not always, small mindedness, or maybe their work dynamics, or perhaps which shows their watching to be entertained. Maybe there will be some room splitting discussions of politics or religion. But every once in a while, you might have a conversation about something that is not within the narrow canyons of average thought. In order to have one of those conversations, it cannot be unilateral, if you know that word - being any doctrine or agenda that supports one-sided action. It must be a reciprocal discussion, of give and take, statement and question, to rise up out of a shallow canyon and see some level of horizon.

It always makes me question why in these real social dynamics, how few folks actually ask you questions about yourself. We know due to the massive narcissism epidemic, many just want to talk about themselves and what’s going on in their own lives, perhaps not even tracking how much the others in the conversation are interested in what they are saying. For to keep another pair of ears interested during a discussion at a party, or around a dinner table, or even in a work environment, the speaking party must not just project, but also be willing to receive. Their ears must function as much if not more than their mouth. For we have two ears and one mouth and they are to be used proportionately. This entails asking multiple if not frequent questions of others.

Asking questions means you're interested. You care. In reality, many non player characters of normality don’t really care beyond perhaps the standard, “what have you been up to?” surface level inquiry. Questions breed curiosity. They help you learn. The answers feed you information and help you establish a

growth mindset in life. In most social situations, surface level questions may be peppered a bit, but deeper and real questions are rare. This can be because of a fear based mindset, and fear breeds contempt. In the professional workplace especially its common for new recruits to be scared to ask because the moment they ask reveals they don’t know something. In that environment, this will surely be to a potential group of onlookers, fellow students or colleagues. Yet, wanting to know is will engagement. A put forth or effort to show you want that growth based improvement, and that you care.

I have some distant acquaintances, who could be called family members, who don’t ask each other much. Their more than happy to ramble on about the dynamics of what’s going on in their small town. Such as “hey there’s a new teller at the bank”. It’s small town and often but not always small mind syndrome. They ask a bit of each other who they see periodically or once in person at most per year, but they have a general attitude to not pry. For it would be thought of as being too nosy. Due to this bland brain dynamic within their family, which is one of putting in a basic minimum effort, they don’t know that much about each other. I ask them questions about their relationships and social situations and they can’t answer those questions about one another. Let alone know anything more personal about their family members such as their hidden struggles, potential depressions, or even the broad brush strokes of their financial situations. And these are siblings who over the years have drifted apart and are just not that close to one another. They certainly don’t know much about me as a distant family member, who will always stay distant to them. Which is probably a good thing since they have some religious dogma and I could be said to be an occultist or at the very least am someone with occult interests. Their none inquisitive nature does feel to me like they simply just don’t care about learning that much about yours truly, but from their narrower, shallower, and less sophisticated point of view, it’s because they seem to think that others will just tell them things without them having to ask.

As we get more developed, strong willed, and independent, we save the answers to the deepest questions for those who really have the ears to ear. This is of course old knowledge dating back all the way to the ancient mystery traditions. For the deepest answers require the deepest questions and the profane are not developed enough to even be able to ask deep questions. Those that have some level of answer for those questions, learn to not volunteer the information, unless it’s worth transmitting to one who can accept, process, and do something with the data. So I in my life have learned to volunteer almost nothing unless

it’s asked of me. Regarding anything. Basic day to day activities, advantageous things learned, new cool discoveries, and certainly also regarding matters of perennial philosophy as Manly P. Hall Called it or Ageless wisdom as Paul Foster Case called it.

The advice “don’t explain or complain” is an old adage which when first examined may seem a bit off or inaccurate. For reactionary complaining is not going to get you anywhere in any dynamic, as a Virgo I know this. For a problem with Virgo’s is they can be very whiny and needy. So knowledge of that can help you work on an area of potential weakness. But explaining why you did something is good correct? Only if it’s asked of you. Explanations are best followed by questions, in a teacher student relationship.

Can you tell us more? Sure will do... For a period of time, I lived at a quit upscale and non-dumpy trailer park while working on fixing up a house. This was in our small 20 foot silver Airstream trailer. If you’re not familiar with what that is, just picture a giant silver Twinkie. They are very well made rigs, and we always worked to keep it clean and our space the same. Minimalist. Japanese tidy. Clean space for a clean mind. There was another rig or coach, as their also often times called, which looked quite old and junky just a couple spaces away. Not well maintained, weathered, cardboard over some of the windows, a couple of the wheels removed propped up on cinder blocks, an old shed behind it, etc... It was one of the few rigs in the trailer park which looked like the owners had been living there full time for a very long time out of necessity and not by choice or just because they were passing through on a road trip adventure. I had seen one of the owners walking about here and there on occasion, an old timer who looked like he would be old man Winters who owned the haunted amusement park out of an episode of Scooby Doo. Disheveled with mad scientist hair. The one and only interaction I ever had with him was a brief few line exchange, where he did not inquire with me in any way, asking get to know you questions, because he didn’t care, but instead the second sentence out of his mouth was to make a comment about how he could never afford to do something. So he instantly defined himself to me by his scarcity (which is really his perceived scarcity) and what he couldn't do. He over explained, without me asking, in a reactionary way, his life baggage to a complete stranger and I was able to instantly tell he was a debtor, in a less than ideal living situation because of his frame of mind.

This is a similar classic dynamic to bad date syndrome. Where a guy and gal are at a restaurant and the woman is a blabbermouth valley girl Chatty Cathy doll, unilaterally explaining away all aspects of various social minutia of her life without the reciprocation of ever wanting to know anything about the man she’s supposedly there to get to know. As many men know, shallow women just want to talk about themselves, so talking to unsophisticated women in social environments, which 99.999% of the time take place in dens of alcohol distribution, can far too often consists of just listening by nodding and looking interested. So for how much dating sucks, it’s still good practice for becoming a better listener.

Another instance at the trailer park involved me bringing my two small dogs over to the pool in the height of balls hot summer. It was 100+ degrees so it would have been irresponsible to leave them in the rig which would essentially be like leaving them in a hot car. No one else was at the rather nice little pool with an unfortunate ugly chain link fence around it. So I brought the dogs in and tide them up in the corner in the shade. A few minutes later, an employee from the trailer park came out and told me I couldn't have the dogs in the pool area. My response was “why?” He gave the usual non player character “company policy” response which is euphemistic code for, the owner decided so, or a group of people sitting around a table at the high level of this skyscraper decide so. The second I asked him “could you please explain or elaborate on that?” he couldn’t. His statement fell apart. There was no more intellectual depth there.

For there is massive power in asking why. Play the why game with anyone as see how quickly they can’t answer. It’s usually after two or three rounds. “Why do I have to go to church?” “Because we said so”. But “Why?” “Because we always have and it’s the way it has to be.” “How do you even know god is real?” “Shut up kid, just believe.”

By asking “why”, you set up your mind to be ready for change. Youngsters who ask why have a bright future ahead if they continue asking why into adulthood. Always needing to know the “why’s” through life make one much more powerful and leads to increased sovereignty. Breaking through the shallow glass ceilings of meaningful and uncomfortable questions that many people want to say, but don’t know how. It is the predecessor of future lives of depth free of dogmas. For asking is a great stimulator to get deeper into anyone’s thought processes. One major head cracking along our life’s journeys, is as we mature continuing to

ask questions, we come to the realization that very few people have any real answers.

To go further down the rabbit hole, every exchange you have in life is an offer and acceptance. A contract. In commerce is you ask questions, you remain, powerful, a king. If you frame everything as a question, you remain in honor, without arguing, or going silent, and are essentially offering a conditional acceptance to the offer. Which it puts the conditional acceptance back on the other party to answer. “Do you know why I pulled you over today”, “I’m not sure officer, can you please inform?”, “you were speeding.” “Was I speeding and do you have proof of my speed?”, “I have it on radar.” “Can I see the radar readout please?” “Sure.” “Can I also see some identification please?”, “Why do you need to see my identification?”, “Are you refusing to identify yourself?”

If one gives respect, and stands in honor, without being argumentative, questions have huge power. As shown from this example. Especially in a court of law. Which is a game inside a court as much as a tennis court is a game within a court. A fantastic cultural reference of this appears in a scene in the 1990 Monty Python film Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Here’s the scene in its entirety.

Now here, whoever continues asking questions, without making statements, wins the game don’t they? Statement 0-1. This is because asking questions remains you in honor as a creditor, while making statements is being an argumentative debtor. If you go through life arguing, not questioning much of anything, that’s not going to be a very fulfilling life.

In spiritual teachings there is the dynamic of cataphatic and apophatic. With cataphatic being directly telling and apophatic being attained by negation. Putting the question back on the student and getting them to have to figure it out for themselves. I once spent numerous weeks with a teacher of mine. 1 on 1. The more I probed, the more he talked. At one point he highlighted how outstanding it was that I was asking so many questions and quality ones at that. Why? Because I listened and asked the right questions. Being given answers that I knew would then require change.

I Started a podcast so I could ask people who I was interested in questions, in order to learn more about then, their processes, and what makes them tick in order to then see that reflecting within myself. To fill what at the time I couldn't vocalize but certainly just felt was a void that was resultant by others that hadn’t asked me those similar things. Which has been very enriching, fulfilling, intellectually stimulating, and perhaps prevented me from committing seppuku years ago. And as a trade off, relationships have been built which consist of others doing sending that same energy my way. Using me as a source to be able to answer some questions. With deep insights shared, knowledge being learned, and then things upon those discussions being built.

The quality of your life is the quality of your questions. Never stop asking questions. Never stop looking for knowledge. Never discount who will provide you the answers. There will be disappointment along the way, its natural but it should not be due to lack of effort from your side. My dear friend James Ferran said it best when he mentioned, truly listening is a great gift that you can give someone on their journey.

Cutting it Out

This essay will be discussing the barbaric practice of male circumcision which if you’ve had done to you, was due to your father continuing the cycle of pain which was done to him.

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As you can tell from that statement this will not have professional journalistic objectivity nor will it be from the standpoint of a watch what I say medical professional. But instead as someone who is quite passionate about this issue because of being constantly mind boggled at how many people who still are so ignorant to this practice, by knowing the benefits of never having part of my dick cut off, and also having a wife who is in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology who occasionally has direct unhappy stories regarding this subject because her partner in her practice sadly placates to it. Bearing witness to the screams of a freshly circumcised baby which are like nothing you’ve ever heard. Welcome to the 3D realm newborn. Hahaha!

So what does this particular topic has to do with an overlying theme of these essays? It’s an issue of physical consciousness. Also a deconstruction of one of the wrongs of religion’s dogma through spiritual philosophy. This is being penned and spoken on to raise awareness about because the amount of people who live in the US who still think this is normal not to mention acceptable to do to a child is staggering. It’s also extra good for the beautiful devine ladies to hear because women don't of course have reference points on this and may have only had interaction with non natural male genitalia and thus blindly follow their husbands in regards to making this decision for their own sons.

This will also be the most X rated reality tunnel essay to date so if you have sensitive ears about things related to sexy time, slang about our anatomy, and detailed descriptions of how it works, definitely turn this off now. It will also hopefully inject some comedy interwoven as an attempt to bypass any conditioning systems. Some of it you might consider to be TMI, too much info, but we must be specific and detailed to understand overstand the issue. It may also be a bit contentious and thus controversial because like your thoughts on abortion, both are very tied in with people's belief systems, otherwise known as their indoctrination systems. We do honor and respect the 10% of religion which at its esoteric core is beautiful and shares wonderful allegorical life stories. But the following will highlight some religious practices which go way too far up koo koo creek.

Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis. Most males throughout the world are not circumcised. With the exception of parts of the Middle East, Africa, Israel, and the United States because this unnecessary practice stems primarily from Judaism and Muslim faiths and has had splash damage to other non-Jews and Muslims in those countries from the waves of those rocks dropped in the pond. In the last half century the rates of it have been dropping as the species has become a bit more conscious to its horribleness. It is primarily an exclusively religious ritual, although it is actually quite rare in Mexico for example, so Catholicism gets an extremely surprisingly warranted pat on the back for that. It has always been quite sparse in Europe and its past colonies, because they got through much of their holy warring many centuries ago while the Middle East, Africa, Israel, and the United States are still a bit in the sandbox of maturity around low resonate exoteric dogma running much of their politics and beliefs. For example, a woman named Paula White, a televangelist pastor from the state of Florida doesn't know anything about spirituality and is the spiritual advisor to the current President of the United States. By the way, have you ever noticed that the word belief, which much like alien, has lie in the middle of the word? As in your being told a lie.

At the time of this writing, 2019, according to the false Roman calendar as opposed to the lunisolar calendar, which follows both moon phases and the time of the solar year dating back to at least the 2nd century AD, and had to be banned by the Romans as it indicated obvious druidic practices, in America there are still many folks who circumcised standard operating procedure to a beautiful male newborn. Most people that are pro-circumcision don't even really know why and if they think they do it's based off of ultra weak and flawed superstitions. These opponents of un-intact penises, claim circumcision is done for numerous reasons, one of which is health and hygiene purposes. Back in the day, in the dark ages and into Victorian era Europe, most people didn’t shower much. Hygiene was not good. So women got heinous yeast infections which stunk up the whole room and guys would get this gross white cheese buildup in the foreskin of their dicks cause they didn't shower for weeks on end. It’s called smegma. Both sexes often also had greasy long Tales from the Cripkeeper hair and would go days with of poo caked on their buttholes and didn't change their underwear much. A classic example of hygiene misuse is when the new settlers came over to rape and pillage the Americas, the native americans (who they backwards called savages) were quite clean and the europeans off the ships stunk hellishly awful. So smelling like the mentally Ill homeless vagrant who might be seen hanging out at Venice Beach in Los Angeles today was somewhat standard operating procedure for many Europeans of the time.

Weather 500 years ago or today, if a little male kid refuses to shower for about a week, there is a possibility of the milky cheesy smegma building up inside the foreskin, (wine and cheese with crackers anyone?) but that’s essentially the male version of the common female yeast infection and we are not advocating cutting off women’s vagina levia for that are we? So this hygiene argument might have made a shred of since then, but regardless of time period or even the invention of soap in ancient Babylon and Egypt, one could always go jump in a lake or river to clean off. As hygiene has improved all these problems went away if one so chose to adopt daily cleaning to thus not have hippie stink. Yet bizarrely, today, as most people shower regularly there is still this urban legend misguided superstition that circumcision is important for hygiene. Saying that you need to cut off foreskin for hygiene is so nonsensical it’s like saying you need to cut off your ears because of a small possibility of ear wax build up instead of regular soap scrubbing and using the occasional cue tip.

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Another common ultra weak argument in favor of non-intact circumcised penis is aesthetics. Not to sound like the sinister child traffickers who operate in the shadows of politics and entertainment who send out weird coded e-mails and tweets, but it’s important to give some details for evolution of growth, uncircumcised prepubescent little boy penis does look weird. When a boy is a baby, the size of his penis to his body is really tiny, and the foreskin typically looks extra long. A bit like an anteater's nose or the nose of the character from the 1980’s American sitcom series Alf. With extra rolls of skin that hang down beyond the tiny shaft and look super wrinkly. Almost like a penis with some sort of extra larval extension attached. Since so many men in the US in the baby boomer generation had been circumcised that they have gotten used to rarely seeing a penis the way nature made it, an 80’s high school slang nickname for an intact, uncircumcised penis became Alf Nose.

The foreskin is a sheath that the head of the penis sits inside for protection against day to day activity. As a male gets older and hits puberty, it’s no shock his dick gets bigger, and the foreskin becomes less predominant. So even though most women think most dicks look weird regardless of being circumcised or uncircumcised, these comments around improved aesthetics become obsolete regardless when a boy becomes a man because his dick gets longer and his foreskin gets shorter because the two typically don’t grow proportionally. As we know, everyone’s physicality and geometry is a bit different, dicks vary in size and foreskins can vary a bit in size. The soft flaccid penis (your everyday, to and fro positioning) of any uncircumcised male in day to day life, typically looks like the circumcised one, with the head usually partially or fully visible. With only a minor remaining flap of skin covering the hat of the head.

Removing the foreskin from a pediatric penis has much larger effects for the adult penis. Let’s say we were watching the show Game of Thrones and were all about being in front of flaccid full grown man’s penises. A cut and uncut crotch of two identical sized men would be almost identical in terms of style. Except intact penisis have a nice flesh look from the head to the shaft, un-intact ones usually have a darker purple head. This is due to keratinization. A hardening similar to fingernails and hair. Which causes that skin to be highly desensitized. So if you are circumcised, you have a much less sensitized head of your dick cause its been rubbing around inside your armor your whole life without its natural protective cover. One very common difference is the head of the intact penis will be soft and healthy looking and the un-intact circumcised one in a best case scenario will be dry and rigid and likely slightly bulgy looking around the head. In less than ideal circumcision operations it will also perhaps have a discoloration scar on the shaft below the head or in a botched circumcision, there is a floating bridge of skin that connects the head to the shaft or even a ringed canyon lumpy unevenness to the shaft, or in an absolute worst case scenario the complete loss of the organ. Just type botched circumcision into a non safe search engine if you want to see photographic evidence of these staggeringly unfortunate events.

As a male gets aroused, which happens quite often, and the penis becomes erect, the foreskin slides down the shaft and looks identical as an un-intact circumcised one. However, the head can still slide in and out of the foreskin. This is wonderful for masterbation. An intact penis can be masterbated very easily. An un-intact circumcised one must use lubricants. There are larger spiritual implications on masterbation and the expulsion of the sexual energy. The serpent is an esoteric symbol of the inner kundalini energy which can be transmuted if that energy is saved. But the 10,000 foot on masterbation, specifically male masterbation, is that it’s perfectly healthy up to a point. And like anything in life, if abused or overused, through extensive animal lust, can be a detrimental process. It’s no wonder the internet has made pornography so ubiquitous these days, where every teenager has exposure to it just a few clicks away.

What circumcision is really about however is a dulling of sexual gratification but even more so a determinant to male masterbation from uptight and staunch religious zealots who in a grossly off balanced way advocate zero mastubation claiming the practice is a complete sin. Foreskin has millions of sensitive nerve endings. More than any other part of the body. If you have a foreskin, all you have to do to jack off, squeeze one out, masterbate, etc is pull your foreskin back and forth. No lube required. You also keep heightened sensitivity your whole life so the process is easier and quicker than if you are masturbating circumcised.

The foreskin is thus an important and functional body part, protecting the head of the penis from injury and aiding in moisture and lubrication. Circumcision also diminishes sexual pleasure later in life. If you are circumcised you are also desensitized, which carries over into being more difficult for your partner in sex. Since male foreskin acts as a moisture retention for the female during intercourse. Holding in wetness during the outward part of each sexual trust. So it helps women stay wet longer and allows the males advanced to be more gentle. Rather than potential deep dick thrusting which likely more only benefits the male and can oftentimes be painful for the female as her natural moistness is reduced and causes hard chafing. So if you're listening to this while cut thinking, he man I’ve had no problems in my sex life with what you speak of, do relize your sex would feel even better if you had your foreskin. Not too mention not living up to your masterbatorual capability. So it’s kind of like you won't ever be able to know what your missing. If you’re a father who has had your son cut you have effectively made his life of potential wonderful balanced and infrequent masterbastion not as grand. So cut off the tips of his fingertips while your at it.

Claims that circumcision prevents HIV have repeatedly been proven to be trivial. STD’s in general are spread through the pineal opening or through infected skin contact, regardless of how much skin is there or if something is trapped in small rolls of skin. Only abstinence or safe sex, including the use of condoms, can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Some of which are the gifts that keep on giving. On this note, when you’re in college and people are passing around a pot pipe or bong, think twice before you take a hit off that thing. As oral herpes can be transmitted by sharing a pipe, drink, or even a kiss.

To focus a bit more on the Judaistic aspect of this, because Judaism is basically ground zero for this practice, we find its origin in the book of Genesis. Just 17 chapters into the Torah, Abraham receives a strange command from God: You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. No reason given other than, as God says, it will be a sign of the Eternal covenant between God and Abraham and all of his descendants. The text makes it clear that circumcision must occur on the eighth day of life and falls to every Jewish male. No exception. Those who choose not to obey this commandment, continues their patriarchal God, will be cut off from the Jewish people for breaking this sacred agreement. Abraham. The same Abraham who later accepts God’s command to take his son, Isaac, on a three day camping trip and sacrifice him. Without asking a single question. (Spoiler Alert: For those who have yet to read the story, Isaac lives.) Nor does Abe ask any questions about circumcising himself and committing all future generations to the same act. Not. A. Single. Question. We, on the other hand, have plenty of questions. Starting with “why?”

According to Jewish law, which like all Abrahamic religions has some good things and some ridiculously immature and infantile things, the foreskin should be buried after a brit milah. The rite is considered of such importance that in Orthodox communities, the body of an uncircumcised Jewish male will sometimes be circumcised before burial. They will literally circumcise a corpse.

On the absolutely weirdest and even more bonkers than that front. Many of you may know but it has to be mentioned, there is a ritual within some ultra orthodox jewish faiths where a baby is circumcised and then the Rabbi will take a sip of alcohol and literally blow the child briefly, in the creepy mouth raping child fucking pedo since. For what they claim is a disinfectant by putting alcohol to the fresh wound. But why deliver it orally? Remember the gift that keeps on giving which we just mentioned? Oral herpes, which is yes, incurable and with you for life, there have been cases of infants contracting herpes from their rabbi’s. So this ultra crazy process is a clear example of too much religion. In some indigenous cultures they do even weirder things with young boys which they also consider normal. So go figure.

A teacher of mine once said “Does a God who has conceived and born intimate witness to all manifestation and life throughout the vast multi-dimensional realms of ineffable splendor – over countless aeons and through infinite iterations of mind-boggling dynamic evolution – really care what individual human beings choose to eat, drink, wear, say or believe? Let alone what they choose to do with their genitals? I would suggest that the answer is no. God doesn’t mind at all. Not even a tiny little bit.”

My wife had a Jewish lesbian couple as patients who you would think would be less old fashioned and a bit more hip to new change and society software upgrades. Yet they still had their son circumcised! To really put this in perspective think about female circumcision, as most often practiced in Africa. How would we feel if a gay male couple wanted to circumcised their daughter like they do in Africa with a unsanitary or even sanitary razor blade? One can compare the male foreskin as being the male equivalent of the female clitorus. So if you are cutting of your son’s foreskin you are cutting off your daughter’s clit. Every female is a woman on the outside and a male on the inside. Ever male is a man on the outside and a woman on the inside. This is not only in terms of esoteric qualities and emotions but has physical aspects as well. Men have nipples for example which are not functional. Women’s clitoriouses are basically a little female dick, and those vary in size by the way, as a real hermaphrodite will likely have a vagina with a large clit that’s basically a little mirco-penis in front of it, and men have a female clit in their butt which is their prostate. This is why gay men enjoy anal sex because of the stimulation in that area of the prostate, so this is why it apparently it feels better in the butt for dudes then it does for the gals. Aren't you glad you’re learning this information?

Also esoterically, the removal of the foreskin is the physical aspect of the male that is the inner and outer labia and the symbolic allegory of the divine feminine being removed. Which happens from Judisim and Islam which exoterically are surprise, surprise, patriarchal. There are many physical reasons beyond this such as keeping the illusion of an erect penis on the male from birth and to keep them sex driven and thus expelling the fluids from the spine and brain to keep them from ever waking up as they "spill their seed" every chance they get. So the penis foreskin is the physical allegory of the divine feminine shorn from that being.

It is a sacred act that binds our sons and daughters to the thousands of generations who preceded them, and the generations to follow. Patriarchal lies and refusal of orthodoxy to admit that something from its past has been wrong, to acknowledge that is to acknowledge that it and perhaps more of its shaky dogmas may be wrong as well.

Freedom of religion is not freedom to ignore human rights. Whatever the rationale, forced removal of healthy genital tissue from any child – male or female – is unethical. Boys have the same right as girls to an intact body, and to be spared this inhumane, unnecessary surgery which they were too young to consent too. Thus many who oppose the permanent alteration of children's genitals do so because they believe in universal human rights.

Plastic surgery at a consenting age is a wonderful modern technological privilege for correcting damage from accidents and terrible injuries. Scars, burns, etc… Doing it cosmetically is a slippery slope. If a young person’s self esteem is heavily hindered by jug ears, a large hook nose, or a labiaplasty because the inner and outer folds of her vulva are so large her crotch bump creates a self esteem issue around wearing her yoga pants and a procedure can help that, then fair enough and there is still a place for the use of this technology cosmetically. Especially if it helps a young adult have higher self esteem about their physicality. But those who have had unnecessary or excessive plastic surgery are doing it because they are externally manifesting their internal mental damage and sickness. Just look and the face of the “spiritual” advisor mentioned earlier. Circumcision is basically no different.

All children, regardless of their ethnicity or culture, have the right to be protected from bodily harm and cutting a baby’s genitals creates immediate health risks. There is no link between circumcision and better health and their is no reason to cut anything off from a newborn other than the umbilical cord. Or let if fall of naturally for that matter. Call this what you want, a rant, a soapbox, a preach, a high horse, if this has done an ever so slight part to help make inquisitive minds think more and thus hopefully be able to feel a little more, then it’s helping those with ears to hear. Do please stop this cycle if this was done to you. As there is nothing more wonderful than a man who was circumcised choosing to not carry that onto his own sons.

Hegelian Dialectic

One of the favorite tools used by propagandists through time has been the Hegelian Dialectic. Otherwise called a “false flag” or “Problem-Reaction-Solution” with the traditional name of “Hegelian Dialectic” being derived from the German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who lived from the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s. For some this is old news, for others it is new, but it is certainly not a new occurrence. For it has been taking place through much of humanity’s dark parts of history. The technique is as old as politics itself. An unpack and or recap is presented in the following because this is a must know concept for understanding and empowerment. It is bringing about change in a three-step process: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.

The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.

A dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments. Hagel brought increasing recognition of the importance of three dialectical stages of development:

      The thesis, gives rise to its reaction.
      The antithesis contradicts or negates the thesis.
      The tension between the two being resolved by means of that synthesis.

Paul Joseph Watson, in his book Order Out of Chaos spoke to this recurring dialectic by writing “It works like this – the manipulating body covertly creates a problem and then directs the media to incessantly focus on it without recourse. The problem could be anything – a war, a financial collapse, a rash of child abductions, or a terrorist attack. The power of the media can create the false perception that a big problem exists, even if it doesn’t ... Once you have created this problem you make sure that an individual, a group or an aspect of society is blamed. This then rallies the population behind the desperate lunge for a solution to the problem. ‘Something must be done!’ they cry in unison. The people that created the problem in the first place then come back in and offer the solution that the people demand. Remember – the people screaming for a solution do not know that the problem was artificially created in the first place. The solution to the problem is always a further curtailment of freedom and an advancement of one or more aspects of the New World Order agenda – whether that is geopolitical expansion, new laws or the implantation of new societal worldviews.”

So the simple real de-cyphering or de-occulting of this three step method is:

      A centralized source of power, exploits a problem blaming it on others.
      Which is the false flag.
      The ignorant self-sleeping masses react by asking the centralized source
      of power for help. Which nearly always entails an eroding of their
      rights. “Give up your rights — it’s for your safety...”
      The centralized source of power offers the solution that was pre-planned
      which they self-created before the problem occured in the first place.

False flags are used disturbingly often and effectively through the implementation of the Hegelian Dialectic. From Nero burning Rome to Hitler burning the Reichstag, power-mad leaders across the decades have manufactured crises in order to present the public with situations where their police state solutions “make sense”.

The sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 as a pretext for the Spanish-American war.

The explosion of Japanese railway cars in 1931, which was done by Japanese officers as an excuse to seize Manchuria which was occupied by the Chinese.

Adolf Hitler burned his own Reichstag building in 1933 to blame on his political enemies. He would later declare that, “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”

During the Gleivitz incident in 1939, German leadership fabricated evidence that they were under attack by Poland as an excuse to invade the country.

On November 26, 1939 the Soviet Union fired artillery into their village of Mainila, near the Finnish border, to use the attack as an excuse to attack Finland four days later.

In 1954 Israel bombed US and UK interests in Cairo and blamed it on Egypt to provoke a war between the West and Egypt. This eventually came to be known as the Lavon Affair. Israel took responsibility for it in 2005.

The attack of two US warships by North Vietnamese vessels. Which was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in order to involve the US in the Vietnam War.

Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan by the US DOD to stage acts of simulated or real terrorism in the US and blame it on the Cuban Government in order to generate US public support for an invasion of Cuba.

The 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was blaimed on Chechen rebels to caused public outrage. Putin was able to launch a military invasion of Chechnya, positioning himself as a savior who

would neutralize the Chechen rebels and restore order. It also allowed him to win the presidential election in 2000.

The Oaklahoma City bombing in order to pass the nefarious Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Bill of 1995 (S. 390/H.R. 896) which was the pre-planned solution.

The September 11th terrorist attacks as a stupidly obvious excuse to invade Iraq and other Middle East countries for their oil and other natural minerals and sign the horribly unpatriotic USA Patriot Act which was brought into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, less than two months after the attack. This bill focused on US citizens to be targeted by their own military mainly to target legitimate dissent.

More recent to that historical pattern, there are two continuously ongoing uses of this technique going on in the United States of America. The first is the history of the economic crises we’ve experienced which can only be deeply understood within a framework of the Hegelian dialectic process: Problem-Reaction-Solution.

      The government and big banks create a real estate bubble and blame it on
      homeowners that cannot repay their loans.
      The people react by asking the government and banks for help.
      The government takes Trillions of taxpayer dollars to bail out banks and
      pay huge bonuses to those working in the financial industry who created
      the problem in the first place. The taxpayer is left with the debt and
      austerity measures.

These economic crises were engineered by the same international banksters that have been active throughout our history and that brought about a central bank and various forms of unconstitutional taxes. Every major financial crisis America has experienced in her history has followed this same Hegelian dialectic pattern with the outcome being another incremental step toward world financial domination by the manipulated centralized controlling body lead by a tiny few dark sorcerers. The International bankers create the Problem in the first place... the Reaction is the economic crisis... and the Solution is provided by the same bankers and bureaucrats that created the problem to begin with. Same story. Curiously, in all previous financial crises, a state of war was always associated with the process. How revealing about war since all wars are bankers wars.

The second constant ongoing use of this technique in the USA are attempts at abolishing the second Amendment through psychological operations. So our steps for this issue go something like:

      America is a world leader in gun violence against its people by its own
      people.
      American’s ask for their own personal Second Amendment of be eroded to
      solve the problem. Yet their military can still own these weapons.
      The Second Amendment is then heavily redacted if not eradicated by those
      who made the populous falsely believe the initial premise.

Now, a restriction is different than a complete abolition. We are a country that is off balance in our gun owning when any mentally crazy person who beats his wife and has a criminal record can by multiple military grade laser gatling rail guns that fire 1000 rounds per second with no background check at a gun show because of loopholes. Some people demonstrate that they are unfit to own a gun, by way of their own criminal, immoral, or mentally unstable behavior. Restrictions on ownership for such people must be intelligently gauged and rigorously enforced in decentralized ways. So it does come down to a balanced system of ownership. In terms of how many guns one can own, what type of guns, how they are acquired, etc... Gun violence is real, and tragic. But for the majority of judicious Americans who have guns or a single gun and have never hurt another with them, bearing arms is a protected right, whether they choose to exercise it or not. Whenever rights are taken through legislation, it’s much harder if not impossible to have then restored, so much of the american gun owning populous views restrictions as steps towards eradication and are very hard line of their feelings on this issue. Which is one aspect of what makes America both simultaneously a great country but still in many was the Wild West.

When world society is educated, noble, principled, and greatly distinguished by its intellectual and emotional maturity, there will be little necessity for guns, other than for sporting and historical purposes. Yet we are not anywhere close to that. The perception that we have already somehow achieved reasonable standards of cultural sophistication and international democracy, is a total fiction. We have achieved nothing of the kind anywhere on Earth. Behind the veneer of orderly governance and elected officials, is a seething mass of corruption.

These corrupted sources originate a large percentage if not the majority of shootings in the US via their psyops. Carried out in different ways. Most of the times real people do die, which can ruin lives and shatter families yes, but these killings are almost always happening not from a bottom up source, but from a top down one. Meaning it’s not a crazy loner individual but more a pre-planned set of circumstances from a manipulating centralized source of power and resource which has used the individual as a patsi. For other shootings, sometimes no one dies except AI created fake people whose pictures you see in the headlines.

Deception is deception ... truth is truth ... The Hegelian Dialectic is Truth ... the misuse of it is Deception. Truth is that our World, as a part of our Universe, is in fact and truth a Trinitarian construct that works out naturally as does the Hegelian Dialectic of Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis. Problem, Reaction, Solution is also somewhat natural given that the first awareness is that of the problem at hand, as life lived by free people hoping to overcome problems by learning their natural solutions in order to live a more productive life. That is the divine intention for us all, the seeking and then finding of the higher truth that is natural.

The biggest obvious take away from all of these incidents is that centralized sources of power around the world, industry and governments are fine killing citizens in order to enact restrictive rights on citizens and thus gain even more power over the populous. These dark revolutionaries in centralized power, be that it governmental or corporate have created economic chaos, shortages in food and fuel, confiscatory taxation, a crisis in education, the threat of war, and other diversions to condition free sovereign beings, not citizens mind you, for their control and disempowerment. Applying the Hegelian Dialectic, and irresistible financial influence, concealed change agents seek to dismantle social and political structures by which free women men govern themselves — ancient landmarks erected at great cost in blood and treasure.

Their objective is to emasculate sovereign states, merge nations under universal government, centralize economic powers, and control the world's people and resources. Yet it will never work so long as we are aware of their nefariousness and don't consent to it. For all we need do is first acknowledge its occurrence, a tough swallow for many who wouldn't believe a word of this essay, and then not consent to it through our actions.

Whenever a crisis occurs, or the threat of a crisis looms, or a series of crimes unfold which is hyped by the media, understand that the psychopathic wealthy interests who run the planet may be attempting to terrorize you into accepting new legislation. For Voltaire once said “Madness is to hold an erroneous perception and argue perfectly from it.” This is what far too many madly react too by consenting to their puppet string pullers who use this technique. Because it has worked time and time again and that’s why it continues to be used. It shows you that the shadow of the world happens to live at the top of hierarchies, and use many forms of dark magic for their own gains. So we must all be conscious of these things as a way of not giving our power away. Which is truly a revolutionary act. We must have the understanding and conscious intent of some of our founding fathers, for like Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Real Spirituality Over Fake Spirituality

There’s a lot of bad spirituality out there. Discerning between what is good vs what is bad can be tough at first. People make tall claims. As they’re are many trixsters and charlatans afoot. Before we move forward and give a simple barometer that lets you know what is fake vs what is real let’s define what spirituality really is.

Ask 9 out of 10 people on the street, in the west, and they might associate it with religion. Giving claims of religious affiliation. Saying traditionally, spirituality refers to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world. The term was used within early Christianity to refer to a life oriented toward the Holy Spirit and broadened during late medieval times to include additional aspects of life.

A more modern initial description could be broadened to refer to a wider range of experience, including a range of esoteric traditions and religious traditions. Modern usages tend to refer to a subjective experience of a sacred dimension and the "deepest values and meanings by which people live", often in a context separate from organized religious institutions, such as a belief in a supernatural (beyond the known and observable) realm, personal growth, a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning, religious experience, or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension". So you could include the formal structures and teachings of the world's religions as having a tie to one of those definitions but certainly not all of them.

Most modern day religions are so neutered and watered down, co-opted by empire with blood spillings, judgments, guilts, dogmas (and catmas) and or deplorable behavior by their followers they are actually today almost void of spirituality. All religion stems from astrotheology (a tie to man's relation to the cosmos and the As Above So Below relationship to that) and shamanism which is about tripping balls using a sacrament to union with the divine. An experience of initiation and expansion that can gives you direct connection to the gaian mother, or smears you across all space and time or gives you downloads from fungal intelligence or back door mesh network gnosis from the underside of the circuit board of reality and thus allows one to more realize their spiritual heritage and capabilities. That has been reduced into eat this wafer that was from the body of this corporal man in a large and cold building. The inside esoteric has been replaced with the external exoteric. Religions esoteric core truths have been dimmed and a hollow shell remains. But at their inner core, that light does still dimly shine. Not as bright as it once did, but there is still some good stuff there. So religion is both not to be blanketly disrespected while at the same time, if it’s real it can take the pressure. Same with any claims of spirituality as secular from religion.

The Webster's 1828 definition of spiritual is consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as a spiritual substance or being. The soul of man is spiritual. It’s what you are capable of in your most expansive state. Spirituality is not chasing rainbows. As the amazing Mexicacn Calro Alvete who I spoke to on the podcast in 2019 said, it’s your life. And I would extend into that to say it’s your real life. And how you conduct yourself through your mind, your heart and your will. The further you go in that process. The more balance and work you put in the more you will have experience and realization that spirit and soul are aspects of you or what you might call your higher self. To connect more with higher self you must reduce ego because ego blocks wisdom. When ego is balanced, your energetic centers are balanced, and your deeds and conduct are honorable, your spirit is a beneficial connection to larger spiritual realms. And that everyone and everything is embodied with it. A spiritual developed human will become a big individual which does not so much need big corporations or big governments. Thus, the larger you become, the more powerful you become. For we are spiritual beings having a human experience, not the other way around. So Spirituality is the real. Switch out those words. They are synonymous.

Now, let’s look at an opposite definition to spiritual. Which is material. The Webster’s 1828 definition is “Consisting of matter; not spiritual; as material substance; material bodies.” Nature is both spiritual and material so we of course exist in both places. Material has aspects of excellence but solely seeing things from only a material standpoint is materialism. Commercialism is the promotion of material things not made by the divine, but by man. What conscious man makes is excellent, let’s say a woman making her own beautiful jewelry from her artistic talents. Yet, what less conscious man makes is horrible, such as a mountaintop removal coal mining company in West Virginia which blows the entire top off mountains leaving a desolate sludge of chemical mudslide disgust. There’s a Grand Canyon of difference between those two types of materialism. One is balanced, and the other is massively imbalanced. AS the most commercial things will have the most overloaded material things.

The Webster’s 1828 definition of commercial is the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce. The spirit of commerce. Compared to the spirit of the individual. Most exemplified by extreme commercialism which emphasizes on the maximization of profit within materiality. Materiality is a contraction of what you’re capable of through ego misalignment. Because of opposite to spirituality, the commercial world wants to feed your ego. By having you climbing up a work ladder and thinking you are defined by your role in commerciality or catering to what they want you to think your ego needs. Egomaniacs and even sociopaths can do very well in capitalism and the corporate world. Information is the pinnacle of importance in marketing but in spiritual practice it’s just an early step. For reduced humans make great dull minds and dim hearts to be marketed to and commercials don’t work on or likely are not even seen in the first place by sophisticated intellectual developed humans. What is made by define forces is spiritual, like nature, what is typically but not always made by man (due to our low, but somewhat rising cell phone bar signal of consciousness) is commercial. Everything in the commercial society thinks of you as a barcode. They want you to be a materialist meat suit eater solely here to be advertised too in order to buy and sell things through your wage slavery. Cell phones and web traffic access a world wide web fraught with algorithms designed to get you to access commercial sources to click on things and spend time in their places because clicks and follows and traffic equals money for advertising dollars. Our entire consumerist world is filled by the oily glurge of this concept. Barcoding humans in their matrix pods. Turning them into batteries to be siphoned off of until death. A rare few who play ball with this system and show their willingness to work very hard within it sign away their soles with secret sacrifices who are then sanctioned to be propped up rising to join with or even become part of the shadowy cabal’s highest echelons of what they claim is success and the best achievablity by having their names becoming brands. Like Rotschilds, DuPonts, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, Forbeses, Livingstons, Roosevelts, Lowells, Griswolds, Winthrops, Vanderbilt, Ford, Cargill, Walton, or even Oprah Choprah and Robbins. All of which have had marketing empires to sell their products throughout the world.

Unless you want to go live in a remote cabin or connect with a remote indigenous tribe, dealing with the brutality of sustaining food and shelter on your own, everyone in the modern world somewhat has to live in the spider web of commerce. Meaning the buying and selling of commodities. Which is all promoted commercially. In Matrix land, everyone is trying to make money all the time. 90+ percent of our jobs inside this modern world are solely for commercialism. Newspapers and magazines are paper which just existed to sell ad space first and spread propaganda second, with real journalism third, and their denigration is obvious because if this. Same think with television and radio. Which was only invented to air advertising. It also has things in between the advertisements called programs (named that for a reason) which make sure you dont think and making any possibility for long-form uninterrupted conversation or interactions, how humans really talk, broken. Again, followed by their inevitable decline. Politics has become a political ad circus where the party who spends the most, wins. Many major corporations are just ultimately marketing companies, who also make a product or products as a secondary. Big tech allows you to freely sign up to their platforms and upload your content onto them so they can collect your data and sell it off to the highest bidder. Film festivals don’t care about your film. They care about their festival and the submission money they will make off of it. Music industry contracts are 9 out of 10 times written in blood and will take the souls of the small authentic band who’s trying to create real art so they can water down that art into a commercial success. The most commercial music is what you’ll most often hear being broadcast to the masses on the loud speakers of movie theaters or shopping malls. It’s plastic catchy poppy music at best or K-Pop or Boy bands at worst which are balless, soulless, spiritless, heartless, corporate little bitches, suckers of Satan's cock as the wonderful comedian Bill Hicks very kindly and accurately used to say. Everything about them is fake and fabricated solely for commercial ends. They are a product. A Brand. An ultimately a bar-code. While social media is just self-marketing. The system is Inauthentic, greedy, and deceptive and its the world we’ve created today and that inherit inauthenticity is why it will continue its slow decline.

Yet most people don’t seem to fully realize this do they? They spend their entire lives just trying to succeed in a commercial world and have nice material possessions and stop there. But you, dear listener, realize there’s more don’t you? Good for you. You are probably more interested in states of mind, conduct of character, creating great art, living in as much harmony with your environment as possible, the expansion of consciousness, connecting with fellow tribe on your similar vibratory level, and the mystery of reality. All of which can be done living much more in symbiosis with nature. A system which is void of meaning can only force conscious beings to want to take less part in it in order to bring back meaning to life. However much you choose to take part in it is your choice, but the problem with this cultural operating system which is in desperate need of software upgrade installation is that human beings are not solely commercial traders.

When one starts to evolve in state of mind, and becomes concerned with wanting more out of life, then pursuing it, they are moving away from the commercial and toward the spiritual. Everything truly spiritual will be antithetical to our jobs within material commercial commerce. The empire loves commerce because its a distraction from your spiritual progress. As you progress spiritually, through spiritual growth you will come to peel old ways of doing things away and see old systems, you once may have taken part in, for what they really are, and you may no longer want to be as much a part of. You will discover that what is really going on is the opposite most of the time what you have been previously told or we could say previously indoctrinated into. So based upon what we’ve already said here, what would you say is the simple quick cliff notes answer to a sign of real spirituality? Here’s a simple cipher code to pier behind the veil. A basic sign of knowing if something is real spiritual philosophy (spiritual meaning real, and philosophy meaning wisdom) real wisdom is it will NOT BE COMMERCIAL (meaning fake). It will have no or extremely little commercialism surrounding it. Nature is the ultimate spiritual teacher. It is not commercial. There has been a few hundred years of attempting to commodified the elements, but it won’t ultimately last. Commercialism is fake, spirituality is real. The majority of the modern technologically advanced world (not organically technologically advanced like a mycelium network in the undergrowth of a forest) is commercial, thus it is ultimately more fake than it is real. So Time Square is a fake place while a redwood grove is a real place. This is why nature never gets tiring.

Charlatans working within the profession of spirituality will be commercial. They use a wrapper of new agy, self-helpy, or even esoteric catchphrases, while still having profit as their primary goal. If you see a spiritual teacher saying things thats seem self empowering and internally transforming or promoting consciousness expansion on their website while showing flowers of life, or panpipes, or CG renders of a globe Earth, or a series of “featured on” or “as seen on” with a bunch of corporate logos, then watch out. Pay massive amounts of money to come to my sold-out seminar, were taking millions of dollars to build our new temple. The real temples are inner, which you envision. They’re not built by stone. God wants us to be plentiful so you should give a percentage of your earnings to the congregation. By my New York Times best selling book. Our psuto mystery school has high monthly dues all due on the first sharp. So they pretend they’re spiritual but can only exist through expanding their followings and email lists. Look at my psuto-spiritual website converted in fallacies about my high numbers and downloads. All signs of fakery.

People tend to shit can what they are not good at. We must be big individuals, which happens through our spiritual growth, to reduce big corporations and big corporatized governments. Targeting this power is certainly one of my main priorities, which I’m sure you’ve noticed, yet frankly, I’ve been quite successful personally in my “career”. But I’m doing less of it than I ever had commercially, which means much less money and the content of substance like the documentaries and essays have to be supported in more decentralized ways for listeners like you. For I know my carrier is mostly an outer shell and any success in it is an allowance for me to highlight both the good and bad within it systematically. Because the best things I’ve created are the least commercial projects and the last ones that I would put front and center on the resume. I certainly appreciate the beneficial aspects of the professional working class, the disciplines and the drive to accomplish goals in teams. And see huge benefits in output of excellent things that are created through prideful jobs that make our lives easier so we don’t have to work the land 16 hours per day and then die at 34 because of a brutally hard winter. Yet I still can point towards its many flaws when scaled out too large. I’ve also said numerous times in the past I’m the lease commercial person on spaceship Earth. This was prior to formulating the more distilled thoughts given in this essay. Perhaps it has been my higher self subconsciously telling my current self, you are trying your best to live a real spiritual life as much as you can.

This material/commercial vs spiritual dynamic is of course not a binary. As their might be a glimpse of real sometimes seen within something commercial. “Conscious business owners” or triple bottom line business have the right idea but are operating in a system which goes counter to their intentions. An ad campaign for a specific outdoor clothing supply company shows footage of a human being climbing to a mountain top saying, hey unless you want to live as a primitive iceman in a raw animal hide to do this, you should instead buy our jackets to keep you warm. Sure. Were the jackets sourced well or were they made using sweatshop slave labor? The point is it’s more about the ratio of each. If you’re sponsoring business you actually use or you think is adding value to the world, then great. It’s the struggle of every artist through time. Making a living (or is it more like dying) off their art by having to interact with commerciality when all you want to do is move toward spirituality. So basically always remember, the more commercial something is, the more illusory and pretend it is, the more advanced and wise and deep something is, the more spiritual it is.

Yet, we can pay folks for their time and efforts, as money is energy. By a product I directly created myself, come to my smaller sized workshop, sign up for my magic school behind a paywall, become a premium member, join my Patreon. However far you want to play that to sustain your work. It’s up to you to decide how commercial you want to be. For the first couple years of this podcast I resisted and resisted putting any sort of commercial introduction to it and it took everything in my bones to eventually ad it. For I must have a products/store section of my website in an effort to bypass gatekeepers. It did feel a bit weird and slightly dirty, but I caved. Since people’s works take up their time, and a compensation like that in today's day and age is totally understandable. So it’s not a binary. All or nothing. It’s a sliding scale. And where you land on that scale is up to you and you alone. We all want to do good work. Real spiritual work is our inner work which helps the great work. It’s why we are here. Commercial work is for the dollar and is outer work. They will usually be different things but that doesn't mean we can’t find an alignment and balance with each. Or even better, if you find something which fuels your true will and helps others spiritually and sustains you financially then that’s great and amazing. A shamaness who takes a small fee for ceremony for example. George Gurdjieff owned a carpet company in Moscow. Manly P Hall had a couple main patrons who were was the wife and daughter of an oil barren which financed his works, seeing the value in them. John Michael Greer gets royalties from his occult books and his website very high quality blog entries with no marketing with a little tip jar on the side. Hal Lucid Nation’s real esoteric spiritual temple (which leads to your own inner temple) is literally a private newsletter. David Shoemaker’s Temple of The Silver Star has a very basic website. Any real mystery school will have no website at all or a very simple basic website with a simple contact us area. Fake AA or OTO or Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn websites will be packed with information. A dear buddy of mine who’s galactivated hundreds of people in Santa Cruz California on 5-MeO-DMT, providing them with life changing betterment, removed his presence completely off the internet and continues to operate with a private encrypted email address only for being contacted at but with mainly an underground network of connections in the flesh in that area. He’s been on a past episode of the Novelty Generators archive by the way as a hint hint. Neil Kramer sells audio products, does personal consultations for a fee, and he has a single annual workshop which is very modestly priced. Both of which allow you to spend direct time with him rather than just being one of many thousand audience members in a huge hotel conference room or even full megachurch style stadium. Our film Transmutation does not have a marketing team behind it. It’s just word of mouth via its sales. On the Josephine McCarthy first (will not be the only) episode of my podcast, she mentioned her magic school being not a commercial entity and they do not care if they don't make any money ever. Which was a coded way of her saying it is legit. While she and her online course are not perfect, none of us are, she accepts donations on the side and if you pay her for her creation that is certainly a nice way to show appreciation. At the time of this writing, I do use Patreon which is un-perfect tech but I like that it requires you to create your own content to have a page worth supporting on it. I also have royalties of my creations which I made directly, will occasionally consult others which they are welcome to financially compensate me for, and send out a very sporadic newsletter telling folks with eyes to see and ears to hear whats new. Because real spirituality will care about providing you with guidance and tools for path walking practice first and any profits as a third, fourth, fifth priority.

When you go to all these websites and they want your email address, it’s because all marketers know that the more emails you collect, the more sales you will get off your newsletter. Typically the ratio is about 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 conversions. So if you send out a newsletter email to 1000 people you will get between 1 and 10 sales from that email. So you can imagine how many sales you’ll get if you have a newsletter of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. The non-binary component of this spiritual vs commercial dynamic can also be compared to how you structure an email list. It’s the difference between being marketing gimmicky about it with the “hey give us your email” front and center at the beginning of the site, maybe even with a pop up field or a “claim your free gift” field, which are primary, and really the only reason that website exists. That vs content first and enter your email address field being secondary and non intrusive somewhere else on the website page. One way is more commercial than the other.

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A shining example of someone who found excellence in this balance is Bill Watterson. A cartoonist and the author of the delightful comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 95 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. He made money off creating the comic strip while he was putting his time into it and the rights to the various anthology books which are wonderful pieces of comic art that will always be there for future generations to enjoy. But he did not commodify it, turning it into a franchise with toys and other merchandise. Today, Watterson is still known for his negative views on licensing and comic syndication, his efforts to expand and elevate the newspaper comic as an art-form, and his move back into reclusive private life after he stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes. Which other than third party bootleggers who made stickers and decals off the characters, only exists in its original medium. It was about the characters, the art, their stories, and the childhood joy and magic of a youthful imagination which existed within its pages. It was kept pure and never watered down. My daughter likes Peppa Pig, a very cute British preschool animated series but has done the opposite. Merchandising itself to the nines, with peppa albums, films, and many plastic crap toys spilling out all over shelves of toy stores which will ultimately all end up in a landfill in the near future. The creator who devalues licensing will have more spirit and thus more to say in the work then the one who’s all for de-spiritualizing by making tons more money off licensing. Thus, Calvin and Hobbs will always have more magic hermetically sealed within it than Peppa Pig.

What Do We Do About All This?

It’s no surprise that most people's lives today are difficult. And it’s absolutely true that a nefarious few or what you might call a tinny winnie tiny percentage of the population engage in dark sorcery for their own benefit to hurt the rest of all life in the realm of Earth. They have an ancient secret club sitting around large tables in old and tall buildings and you’re not in it. These dark occult groups operate behind closed doors of initiatory orders and have been imperialistic dickheads creating past overt slavery which still continues today as various forms of covert slavery.

They carefully craft a tapestry of propaganda being transported in private jets and yachts while many struggle to pay monthly apartment rent. They have turned everything into an upside down funnel to keep the funds flowing upward to their shadowy cabal and keep the masses in ignorant docile servitude. Our past has been forgotten so we don’t know where we are going in the future. With what we are told about history really only being someone else's false HIS STORY.

These criminals in power cause the world to look backwards and upside down by keeping us decoupled from our natural selves and natural ways of being in natural environments and instead slave to urbanization and corporatization. As a result of their colonial expansion, they’ve suppressed cleaner and freer energy for the Earth and holistic natural cures for us, the banking system is purely parasitic, and their sick care industries of insurance companies and pharmaceutical petrochemical monopolies rake in endless profits. Telecommunications companies slow cook our mental and astral bodies with their webs of what seem like escape-less intrusive infrastructure and the fossil fuel industries business model is to tub girl the garden realm of Earth via massive amounts of environmental degradation. This overloaded materialism results in a limiting pen of conventionality and the status quo as materialist science also only advances one funeral at a time.

Tyrannical think tanks take your mind to stupid town and where ever else disempowering they want you to be. The joker spirals of the main-stream unreality signal, have turned news networks, creepy big data and ghost in the machine artificial intelligence systems, malevolent marketing and advertising industries, and school not really education systems to be weaponized against the people through their behavioral think tanks, paid shills and trolls, and have completely co-opted the patent and regulatory agencies which are supposed to be watch dogs over them and are instead turned into revolving doors meant to only protect their nefarious tomfoolery.  

Yes, the parasitic puppet masters of the power pyramid have their oily tentacles in a lot of poo pies, fed to us with aluminium, mercury, fluoride, depleted soils, glyphosate, genetically modified fake foods, gasoline, added refined sugars, non biodegradable plastics and a deluge of other toxic chemicals shat down all over us which are all about nefarious short term dead corpse corporate profits instead of our health and wellbeing. This comes as we are told the trust the experts who often will only really tell you that down is up and up is down.

Sustainable colorful indigenous animistic esoteric cultures and traditions have been steamrolled into dull grey mundane monotheistic monoculture passed off as what the culture claims is “spiritual” yet all placate to the old testimate which has been rewritten many times over by those who were the winners on the battlefield by engaging in the most staunch brutality. Their resulting dogmatic patriarchal theocratic leanings have large audiences of a Borg collective of mega churches which sell you hollow exoteric half truths and constantly challenge the separation of church and state while always politically fighting for a lowest common denominator Handmaid's Tale style bring back of the Orwellian dark ages. As all wars are bankers wars, they grow in influence as their shady shadow co-opted big government behind the militarism and jingoism drinks Vatican and Israel Kool Aid cheering on unconstitutional middle east occupations, all catalyzed by clear false flags. Economic hitmen from the triple drown trinity rob less powerful countries of their natural resources and get them in spider webs of debt, endless occupations of other countries in the name of freedom really just make us less free and cost significant loss of blood and treasure and mass degradation of mental health. All while telling you don’t look over here at these natural nature based allies your ancestors used for millions of years. The criminalization of which and decoupling from have caused us to be ignorant of not only our history but our own mystery.   

Their psychological operations and Hegelian dialectic work time and time again to create outrage polarization and a constant multilevel matrix of distraction, apathy, and infighting by the ignorant docile masses. You are told you live in the land of the free and the home of the brave which is really a politically expedient euphemism for “you are free to engage in commerce” and “you are free to do as we tell you”. As the empirical pattern recurrently plays out over decades and even centuries, it always persists in the quest to suppress all aspects of expansion through expanded militarization not just abroad but at home with police forces starting to look like black super-soldier stormtroopers out of a hellish zombie apocalypse sub genre graphic novel or video game.

Today we use this Higherside chats style introduction to ask the ultimate question, what do we do about all this? Well folks knowledge is power and these “They Live” skull faced aliens under rubber masks are not a really powerful 100,000 pound King Kong ape but instead a fake blow up car lot gorilla that’s only empowered because we keep blowing our own steaming hot air inside it. We must self consult our cosmic script and unplug from our matrix pods to re-saturate, and re-enchant our oftentimes mundane and repetitive modern lives. Disconnecting from the system and declaring a declaration of sovereignty over one's own consciousness. Allowing us to recouple to natural energetic process and cycles and re-discovering nature as a teacher. Thus causing a dissolution of empire and the re-llumination of the astral plane through de-occultment of the darkness and torch bearing of the light. Resulting in a restoring of our own magic and enchantment of this beautiful reality and rediscovering who we are, where we’ve been and what we’re doing. 

So, what are some specifics we can do to counter these nefarious goings on? Well, the following is an initial answer to that question which can help these culture creator grossly unbalanced man and she beast illusory Archonic overlords melt away as we remove that air. For we are the creators and they can only be manipulators.

In the following essay we present to you four things to not do and four things you can do. They are basic but broad overarching things that if are conscious of, allow for a re-connection to the spirit which our ancient ancestors ones knew as well as water. Here’s the quiet cliff notes and the key sentence in this blanter - The actions you take are to not follow, consume, believe or watch. While the things you can do are to feel, empower, experience, and create.

As we dive in we must re-mentioned the often time mentioned Sturgeon's Law. As penned by writer Theodore Sturgeon. Which is the adage that “ninety percent of everything is crap”. Meaning everything applying to all subjects. So as we mention these things not to do, there will always be a 10% ratio of doing them which can be okay. So please do bear that in mind.

NOT FOLLOWING

Following is a tasteless and disempowering act. Better to be your own leader and not someone else's follower. If you’re just following others, your not forging your own originality. You are rubber stamping other’s ideas and notions. There is a difference between liking someone’s material and using the best aspects of it to create your own cosmology, vs just acting in ways based around others actions. Toddlers, for the most part, are very impressionable. They will oftentimes mimic the behavior of their guardian. In elementary school, the biggest worry for a kid is to be singled out and have their ass kicked because they didn’t follow the trendy routines of what the other kids did or thought was cool. Very immature. If we mature, we find all our own power in going our own way and forging our own direction. And in the long run it makes you less replaceable. For you are disempowered when you follow, regardless of age. This is most grossly seen in celebrity worship. Which seems to most appeal to tweens and teens before adulthood or grown up tweens in adult meat suits. Magazines and social feeds show idealized versions of the rich and famous, making the sleepers feel unless they strive for the same success and ladder climbing within materiality, they are somehow failures or somehow less whole or less successful. All totally untrue. Sure, you can enjoy specific individuals or groups work if they are seeking and exemplifying their creative bliss but you use that as a moderate intake of what they do well and don't mimic their shortcomings. This is also seen in the concepts of big religion preachers or new age guru’s who's “spiritual” students, none of whom are willing to do real spiritual work on their own lives, outsource that hard work, the real work, the great work, to others. So they don’t have to do it themselves. Because it’s much easier. 

Our minds are not our own when we follow other talking points. Such as lib-tards are trying to destroy America with their socialism because I heard that on Fox so called News or Breitbart forum. Or Orange man bad, orange man racist because MSNBC and the Huffington Post said so.  

The most gross examples of extreme following are high crime acts which are committed in war zones by order followers. As “I was just following orders to do this dastardly act” was never a real excuse when they deep down knew it was wrong. I blew up these people from the sky behind a video game style screen because my superior from the CIA told me to do it. Or I drank this grape-flavored Flavor Aid because my cult leader told me to do it. 

We follow previous generations bad habits because that’s the way they were done in the past. Not giving credence to an understanding of it being completely unjust or immoral or unconscious. We falsely look up to high profile people who have large followings because of fallacies of the majority, when in reality many people who are popular only got that way because of their connections are their ability to turn themselves into a brand with a marketing team behind them. All of which is illusory since commercialism is antithetical to true wisdom.

NOT CONSUMING

Our big food industries transport goods hundreds of miles while the plastic it’s all packaged or shipped in fills up island gyres in our oceans. Buying good from big industries degrades the awakened human, which is fully capable of being an infinite fractal of consciousness, by calling us “consumers” which is really a metaphor for “mindless zombies”. The most gross examples can be seen in Black Friday videos of the horde of walking dead consumers going shopping year after year to stampede into the Red China mart to buy the marked down boob tube television set for a few hundred bucks off. Advertising and marketing industries sell us crap we don't need. Mega corporate power and corporatized governments only keep the gears turning if we continue using our slave wages to buy excessive consumer goods, often times on borrowed credit, which don't bring happiness, but instead only temporarily fill up our domiciles and storage lockers only to one day realize how much time and effort it takes to try and get rid of it all in order to be a more developed and educated human. 

So basically the system of over excesses only operates because we give it our energy by swiping those high interest credit cards. Money is not going away, decentralized or not, so voting with our dollars more consciously is key. Much less fossil fuels are burned when we buy from small businesses more sustainably within our own communities. Better to give the 10% that’s worth of our consumption to online small business. The local hardware store, the folks in your town that make their own homemade jelly or honey, the local artist, or the farmers market, or even from the cottage industry style product seller online creating their own handcrafted or much more original creative outputs. 

Instead of from the Amazon.com style Deathstars owned by Godzillionas who are not happy people. So think global and act local.

NOT BELIEVING

People’s staunch beliefs are one of the greatest problems with the human species. Believing is a fake spiritual version of following. There is really no reason to believe in anything. Our believes fog our judgment and keep us locked in ultra conservative and unchangeable ways of thinking and thus acting. Oftentimes fueling ignorances. Our minds our powerful engines of future manifestation, and if we outsource our esoteric inner powers of experience to simply what we believe off someone elses menu of dos and don'ts then we have a very small perspective on our lives and the world in general. We disavow the real underlying reasons why both good and bad things happen in our lives, which is do to our own actions and free will, and passively hand it off claiming that things happen because a higher power wanted it that way. Which is another form of disempowerment and contraction. 

Believes thrive with lack of experience. If indoctrinated into beliefs, we see things for the rest of our lives in only black and white. Regardless of right wing religiously mindedness or left wing scientifically mindedness, extremely polarized beliefs lead to the same limiting behaviors regardless of ideology. The counter opposite of something horrible is also equally as horrible. For the more set in stone, “this is the way it is and can not be changed,'' dogmatically minded we are in our beliefs the more nutty we become. Sometimes even willing to kill others because we believe we are chosen by some higher power to fulfill that higher powers will or intentions. Trust your own will and morals and not a higher wills.

NOT WATCHING

Most people just spend their spare time being entertained. The vast majority of what they watch is either distractions at best, or psychological operations, mind control, or flat out propaganda at worst. Politics becomes about the contraction of languages, while most fiction on a screen destroys our ability to concentrate. Undeveloped human beings are very impressionable. What they see on TV, because the nice man in the suit or celebrity said so, they think is actually a real reflection on how things are or how the world really works. When in actuality, it’s just there to keep you on a latent path of time wasting and stagnation or a contractive path of feeling like humanity and the world is doomed because that news network shared a selection of the most crap things going on right now because if it bleeds it leads.

Although pros can be packed with miss information as well, it’s generally better to read a good old book by a personal author because those who are well read are usually an inoculation against ignorance, for those with large libraries will always have more interesting lives and minds than those with large television sets. 

A highly discerning use of the screen, al la carte as a window into the arts can be empowering of course. By always seeking out media that is expansive in whatever small way possible. This usually but not always stems from watching the small and not the big. The small online publication whos actually doing real journalism, the independent film, the local Shakespearian performance theatre, videos on simple living, self-sufficiency, small or tiny homes, backyard gardens, alternative transport, DIY, craftsmanship, a great interview, beautiful concert, etc...

To give credit where credit is do, as someone who likes ethnobotanist, psychonaut, lecturer, author Terence McKenna’s material but is not a fervent follower of his, I will say I got these four “what not to do concepts” from one of his lectures. As to not leave us in what could be construed in just a virgo style reactionary, negative, rant here come some things that we can always do to empower ourselves and focus more of our time currency on with a glass more than half full attitude.

FEELING

Ask yourself, after you’ve watched two hours of live broadcast television or played five hours of that video game, how do you feel? Do you feel enriched or bettered? Or do you feel drained? When you spend time on reactionary forums with extremely polarized and energy sucking people, do you feel recharged? Or do you feel like you’re venting a status quo? When you watch that crappy disaster movie where Los Angeles is being blown up by an alien army, do you feel better about the future? If someone has a fake way about their dress or speech or lifestyle and you pick up on that, what does that tell you about them or the potential long term future of being their friend or business partner? When you walk in nature, how do you feel? When you hear your child's laughter how does that feel? When you’re sitting in post apocalyptic traffic day after day, how does that feel? When you fancy someone and find out for the first time they fancy you too how does that feel? 

It is important to follow you heart in life, and not just your head. Of course we need to use both, but if something feels slightly off of write, it usually is. If you see early signs of something being not good, they will only amplify later if not fixed or moved away from. If you’ve also heard very deviating mixed reviews of something that is generally not a good sign. An inner voice or an older, wiser, and higher version of yourself is always present. Think of it as your own inner homunculus who’s not so much piloting you from your head but from your heart. This could also be thought of as your subconscious or holy guardian angel. Listen to it. 

If you are not happy in your life as a whole, or perhaps just aspects of it, you are misaligned. Depression is a call for course correction  for example. Folks usually start to feel these things via larger cultural and societal mis-alignments before seeing deeper misalignments within themselves. 

Sure, we must always do things here and there that feel off or not good, but our ultimate goal is to live a lifestyle in which day after day, the majority of your time is spent doing things that feel right and good. And that’s the overall problem with our modern commercial world of commerce, it makes the vast majority of people do things they don’t want to be doing for decades of their lives. Solely to be subservient to the dollar. 

We feel like we want to try new things or take new leaps but our analytical left brain makes us scared to actually do them. What if this? What if that? In that regard the heart can be more of a powerful barometer than the mind. Follow it. Treat others will the heartfelt compassion you would like to be treated with. Especially through your hardships and setbacks and theirs as well. 

Unless your a psychopath, feeling like doing something is right means it usually is the right thing to do, so don't give a shit what others think of you, but do what feels right for you. Especially if those others are not conscious about your spiritual growth. Don’t be so normal, be a bit more weird. And always ask yourself through life, what is life for. Am I maximizing my time and effort here? Do the majority of my days feel good? Am I pursuing my true work? You may find it why you were meant to be here.

EMPOWERING

So much of your empowerment in life is self-empowerment. This comes by changing frame of mind and having higher perspective. And manifests by how we choose to structure our lives. By doing things such as not being in a relationship with someone who is not helping your growth, not being in a job you hate, lowering your standard of living but not necessarily quality of life, having more financial independence however you choose to do that, thinking positively, not having 2.4 kids just because everyone else is, living more off the land such as growing our own food or finding our own water, following natural cycles and rhythms, knowing our astrology, being an autodidact, knowing our family lineage, engaging in local organization, decentralizing your life, thinking for yourself and questioning authority, eating healthy natural foods our ancestors ate, and having sovereignty over our bodies and consciousness. All are efforts and will engagement which not only lead by example, but make you much more powerful and more self reliant.

EXPERIENCING

To flip to the opposite side of the coin from beliefs, we have experiences. Do things with your life. Have experiences. Travel the world and see how most of it is really cool full of excellent people who have just forgotten who they are for a little while on the deep timeline of humanity. Pilgrimage to a sacred places, see remnants of ancient cultures, meditate, have safe sex, spend extensive time in nature, try out some magical rituals, fall in love, have shamanic experiences. If you do, you may find yourself having a slight glimpse of a mystical experience which gives hints or micro downloads of gnosis or logos. It will be about you and for you, not from an egotistical perspective, but for how you fit into the greater ecology of things. You must experience to have expanded awareness. For you cannot be told what the Matrix is, you must experience it for yourself.

CREATING

Creativity is the final frontier. Create more, consume less. Create things that are truly an expression of you. Your works should extrinsically represent your intrinsic spiritual self. Follow those passions, and they will lead to snippets of day by day bliss. In doing so, you will find your true will.



Simulation #438 - Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times

Fun chat with mate Allen Saakyan on the Simulation Series which is a long-form nuance-driven San Francisco based show that features global leaders at the edge of knowledge. 

They aim to permanently awaken humanity to its collective union with evolution, create the world’s largest open knowledge database, and provide equal degrees of economic freedom for everyone to self-actualize.

 
 

Allen is like a new paradigm version of Charlie Rose, giving a nice space for ideas to flow and asking great questions in the process. We chat about Transmutation, Shamans of the Global Village, the documentary narrations, and the need for ancient wisdom in modern times. Simulation is 100% independent so your support keeps them going. Find out more about the show at:
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Some Thoughts in 2019

The following represent a short manifesto for the year 2019, told through the lens of yours truly. Hopefully, you find it to not be so much about aspects of me, but more about aspects of you. Here are some thoughts:

ON LIFE

Like all of us, Niles does multiple things. He is a father, husband, autodidact, artist, investor, and consultant. Yet he will always be a student of the mystery of life. Much of his life and work focuses around themes of naturalism, occultism, and esotericism. However, most people don’t know what that means so you can swap it out for saying, “themes of ancient wisdom”. Applying the knowledge gained from his experiences in these areas has been astronomically helpful in his general well being and understanding of the world while fostering a willingness to share with other kindred spirits who also have ears to hear through his interactions as well as the media he creates.

SUMMARIZING SKILL SET

In terms of his résumé, he has been a Writer, Director, Designer, Cinematographer, Photographer, Editor, Colorist, Lighter, Compositor, and Podcaster. Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. Or, a more simple encapsulating summary of how he spends his time would be as a Filmmaker or Documentarian. Both hobby and professional.

ON BEING YOURSELF

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Life requires balance. Niles does this by working with individuals directly and creating the projects which are the content represented in his portfolio at nilesheckman.com. Years ago, he made the decision to take his multifaceted skill set and spend a significant portion of his time becoming a creator catered to original content which fueled his passions. This came out of a knowing that when one creates authentic work from the heart, it's not work at all. Documentary photography, filmmaking, and podcasting are the channels of expression which we chosen. His path required doing an astronomical amount directly himself at many stages of the production, most of which goes unknown and unrecognized, but has made him a much more well rounded and fulfilled creator.

ABOUT PASSION

Regardless of obscurity or popularity, what Niles will never stop being interested in is creating great passion projects. Gaining his multifaceted skill set has synchronistically allowed him to create his own works efficiently instead of just exclusively being a for-hire technician on other people's projects. Going this more difficult road inevitably means periods of significant sacrifice, living through the journey and life struggles of being an independent content creator constantly pushing up against budget constraints while operating in the unknown. However, when you follow your heart and vibrate at a certain higher level, you are rewarded in rather unsuspecting ways.

His work takes him all over the world - on the rooftops of skyscrapers, film stages, flying in helicopters, occult rituals, walking the streets of mega asian cities, visiting sacred sites, lost in deep old growth forests, through the sun stargate, down catacombs, vast deserts, the sides of waterfalls, old Europe, magical initiations, high altitude mountains, into other dimensional spaces, and more. All which are worth infinitely more than any amount of dollars in a bank account and have shown him first hand the magic and enchantment of life.

IN REGARDS TO A BODY OF WORK

Being a esotericist pertains to studies and practices that happen on the inside intrinsically. Extrinsically, Niles is a documentary photographer and filmmaker, which are works created as outward manifestations of those inner subjects. Since one's inner work affects their outer work for the better because the inside is the cause and the outside the effect, he aims to combine beauty, which means high production values with substance, which means occult and esoteric content. Reality is more powerful than fiction, thus that personal work he creates is all about inspiring self-empowerment.

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He will help create occasional projects for hire, which are nice because that equals money, but it's extremely rare those projects will have anywhere near the same depth of substance as the content in his own personal works. Thus most of that work is not front and center or even featured at all in his website and as a result, his official website is not your usual portfolio of client work to simply get more clients.

He will help create occasional projects for hire, which are nice because that equals money, but it's extremely rare those projects will have anywhere near the same depth of substance as the content in his own personal works. Thus most of that work is not front and center or even featured at all in his website and as a result, his official website is not your usual portfolio of client work to simply get more clients.

He will help create occasional projects for hire, which are nice because that equals money, but it's extremely rare those projects will have anywhere near the same depth of substance as the content in his own personal works. Thus most of that work is not front and center or even featured at all in his website and as a result, his official website is not your usual portfolio of client work to simply get more clients.

It's better to die having made a slow drip amount of consistent excellence, cottage industry style, than working exclusively for decades on other's mass productions. This requires you to go your own way and make your own living rather than just "getting a job". This is very difficult but is you initiating yourself, and fuels your true will. Internal individuality will outwardly manifest in your external works and inward perseverance leads to you ceasing to be a robot and instead results in you leaving a legacy.

ON BEING CONSCIOUS

One can only get so far in life until they really take a deep dive into the study of human consciousness. It's an arena which fascinates Niles and thus he has made a series of weird experimental art films of folks talking about the subject which are featured here. The voices are arranged in no particular order and more chapters may be manifesting in due course as the audio samples are collected.

WARNING: It's not in the interests of big business, big government, big religion, big science, or your ego for you to hear them.

REGARDING PROFILE

Niles loves networking 1-to-1 with other folks and is always happy to connect. Especially in regards to long-form mediums such as personal campfire conversations or excellent podcast discussions which can go deep. He does that for fellowship building and not to increase profile, client chase, or career climb. Social networking profiles are really anti-social networking because relationships are about quality and not quantity. Sadly, less folks call one another anymore to give them the good old “How ya doing?” and begin a conversation but instead just peek at that person’s highly curated feed of a shallow and illusory storefront about how their life is perceived to the public world. These interactions cause discursiveness due to their clickbait short-form nature. Worst of all they are the fuel behind the modern narcissism epidemic so Niles basically sets players to nearly zero on that and does little to no self-marketing. He might use it as a tool to post something on occasion but doesn't engage and gives the base minimum of his time. And he suggests you do the same.

90%+ of those who’s work focus in the area of self-help or spirituality are secretly really just trying to increase numbers and make money via an inflation of their ego. This is commonly seen with selfie YouTuber’s, Facebook & Instagram memer’s, or those who wear amplified headsets on stages. Real wisdom, gnosis, logos, or what you might call spiritual Jedi growth is transmitted 1-on-1 or in small occult and esoteric groups experientially so anything with audiences of large amounts of people will bring in dollars but will be inherently hypocritical and antithetical to the real process. Industries are driven by ego and Niles is more concerned with creativity than competition, thus all of his media yields very high quality content with very small numbers. He enjoys his work being seen and appreciated but recommends you do not follow him on any anti-social media platform. There is no reason to follow or like anything. Following is a tasteless and disempowering effort and it’s better to be your own leader and not someone else’s follower. Like’s are purely there for marketing purposes to rate which content is worthy of monetization via the fallacy of the majority.

Most content creators with red carpet champagne dreams try to gain patriarchal power positions in the cut-throat commercial world shilling to corporate brands and endlessly trying to collect laurels and rise up hierarchies of the entertainment business or other media creation fields. While occasionally there are great projects made by those types which bring in the dollars and deserve recognition, the vast majority of it leads to work which is visually interesting, yet is completely status quo not to mention extremely substantively thin. So if you're going to play outside that mindset, you might as well create work which is an extension of your own unique individuality. Thus it will likely be contentious, paradigm destroying, and un-commercial. You know, real.

ABOUT FINDING HAPPINESS

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Because it's always darkest before the dawn... If you've read this far through this rambling manifesto, here's a secret for arriving at a happiness destination...

It happens when you have a near perfect alignment of your inner feelings with your external doings, day after day. It's very difficult and IS your internal alchemical spiritual journey.

Deciphering A Symbol

The podcast An Infinite Path was started in early 2018. Actually it was rebooted in 2018 after a few years of a prior podcast called Novelty Generators. Novelty Generators was themed around the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s concept that the universe, meaning the divine, is always pushing mankind to new forms of creativity through originality, or novelty.

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Since a symbol or logo is a critical part of the branding of any venture, being the initial image you see to identify with an associated person, product, or service, the logo for Novelty Generators was set against a backdrop of a star field to give it a very cosmic feeling. The reason for this is a much deeper conversation, but it related to the podcast being often centered around a guests latest personal venture which used more of their creative skillset than let’s say, every single for-hire job on spaceship Earth would. Thus, one must metaphorically look to the stars to see creative potential.

As the venture continued it started getting more into areas of off the beaten path thought. Subjects such as occultism and esotericism started popping up due to their relationship with the expansion of consciousness which is a key theme of the venture along with balance. Various ancient spiritual practices such as Alchemy, Shamanism, Mysticism, Hermatism, and Magic have been ground zero for wisdom or old knowledge and thus started popping up recurrently. These practices are very deep and a crucial secret doorway to a full understanding of not only the nature of reality, but what it truly is to be a more free willed and actualized human being in the realm of Earth. So a reboot was done as the podcast basically began to focus on broader overarching themes of not only personal growth and creativity, but balance and the expansion of consciousness which many of these spiritual philosophical subjects entail. For as Alice Bailey said “Symbols are the outer and visible forms of the inner spiritual realities.”

Esotericism is internal. It happens on the inside and is about each individual's unique, creative, inner journey in life. Much of what is esoteric, must be experienced because putting it into language is a degradation of a life-transforming internal gnosis. Meaning a knowing that something is the case through having personally experienced it. A mystical experience can be defined as union with the divine. So, why would one want to have gnosis or a mystical experience? For two reasons, for healing (mental or physical) and for the expansion of consciousness. How does one have a mystical experience? There are many ways, years of time working in deep meditation, a ritual magical practice, extreme isolation, lucid dreaming, a psychedelic experience, mountaineering, scuba diving, or many other forms of extreme physical activity such as a pilgrimage are various potential ways. All of which are not easy and can be great amounts of work.

After the experience occurs, it is often times life-changing or somewhat life-transforming. Although there may be similar themes which are shared in common, the specifics are difficult if not impossible to convey to others. Because it was given to you and specifically for you at that place at the time. Thus metaphor, myth, and symbolism was born many bazillion years ago as a more effective tool for communicating aspects of old world wisdom to others who had had these experiences and knew how to feel into a underlying subtext of information. For one can not be told what the Matrix is, they must experience it for themself. Thus self-discovery and deciphering are keys to doorways to secret codes of the mystery of life. So as a story is told, or a symbol drawn, or a metaphor written, the subconscious mind, which can also be thought of as a deeper aspect of the heart, not the everyday monkey brain, can read further and decipher or decode deeper aspects of what experiential wisdom is being transmitted. For discovery is experiential in itself and you won't be able to receive it until you are developed enough to do so. Hence, much of what is esoteric, meaning inside, or what is occult, meaning hidden, exists in metaphor or symbolism. Speaking to you as a mirror at your current level of understanding based on exposure to personal experience.

Since much of symbolism existed before written language, it has a very long history and mystery and the study of it is a 5000 hour conversation. The cave painting at Lascaux France of deer and elk being hunted by men with spears or the releafs of birds and lions at the dolmens of Göbekli Tepe come immediately to mind. Dan Brown is a fictional writer who created such world famous novels such as Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. His work features recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, art, and conspiracy theories. His lead character throughout many of his books, Robert Langdon is the man he secretly wishes he could be. He is a professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard University and travels the world solving ancient puzzle mysteries in a similar style to Indiana Jones, also exploring ancient tombs just with less booby traps or large centipedes and tarantulas. The Langdon character is an encapsulation of many of our collective interests in the mystery of symbols. For the unknown reason to many that symbols speak to an older, higher, wiser version of ourselves.

Thus when it was time for An Infinite Path to be rolled out a new, a logo was chosen which was actually more like a crest, symbol, sigil, or emblem. Logo’s are typically type while a corporate symbol is typically a single closed shape or small series of shapes which can be recognizable as a silhouette. Multinational corporations logos and symbols are actually quite basic for their instant recognizability solely to convey a brand. However, the goal with the emblem for this venture was for it to have a feel similar to many of the older and quite frankly more mysterious symbols from the days of an older time of engravings in old books, family crests, relics, tombs, or even forgotten civilizations.

The symbol entails six main components and we will go through each of them, highlighting their importance and why they were chosen, starting from the outside and working our way in. So in some ways we’ll be going from exoteric, meaning outside, to mesoteric, meaning middle, to esoteric meaning inside or the core. As most things have an outer exoteric surface which is seen by the many because they are easy (For example accept Jesus Christ as your lord and personal savior) but anybody waiting around the pick up order area of the In-N-Out burger can do that since it takes no skill and yields virtually no reward. While the inner levels take work, effort, sophistication, and spiritual growth and are much harder. Thereby they are for the few to access initially by doing research in old libraries or on the better parts of the internet followed by direct personal experiences out in beautiful nature all while having some level of excellent teachings from wise elders. Again, it is work, and difficult work at that. Yet it’s infinitely worth all the effort to get there. So due to our order of operations we will continue down the rabbit hole and save the best for last. Outermost first and innermost last. Since so much of what gives gnosis or knowledge goes to those who pace themselves and allow for time, space, and of course concentration.

The Sun & Moon

On the outermost perimeter of the symbol are the rays or the sun. Corresponding to a moon in various phases of new, full, half, waxing and waning.

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The Sun and moon both have profound importance to the ancients. For they are divine opposites, with neither having greater importance over one another. The ancient alchemists called the mind “the sun” and the heart “the moon,” for to them strength, reason, and logic were masculine, paternal, solar powers; while love, beauty, intuition, and kindliness were feminine, maternal, and lunar qualities. So we could think of the sun as a representation of male with the moon as a representation of female. Gold and silver were blended in the great alchemical enterprises, for the gold of the sun and the silver of the moon were not dead metals but living aspects in nature and esoteric to human life. These traits highlight duality and opposites; namely, that rhythm and polarity are two of the building blocks and fabric of the material world. One rules the day and promotes growth, the other rules the night and promotes decay, making them both luminaries. Both are the same things in opposite directions.

In the East, teachings of Yang and yin organized into a higher unity under the harmonious influence of Ch’i are regarded as the source of all existence, as well as its symbol. One is black, and one is white and an ancient secret to deciphering the message of these two teaching tools is the balance point between them. Which can most amply be seen in the rare occurrence of a solar eclipse. When the two celestial bodies, which both happen to be the exact same size in the sky, form a union of one, during a very rare time, to create a unique portal.

This is a balance of opposites and and balance of power being shown to man. Through alignment of light and dark, positive and negative, female and male, growth and decay, and mind and heart lead to emotional stability and power within us. For example, a society of patriarchy, where men call all the shots ruling the entire show and women are heavily de-valued, leads us astray. Or similar problems would stem from, every thoughts it has been extremely rare to see, a solely matriarchal society in which it is flipped the other way around. We can only find progress in a society of equal level of philosopher kings and queens. Wise elders of both sexes balancing out each others energetic traits and strengths. For balance in nearly all areas is a secret to life.

The sun and moon are oftentimes if not the majority of the time found on esoteric and occult artwork for very specific reasons. Some of the initial hints of which have just been given to you. Our 2019 short film Balanced Opposites takes a deeper look at the balance of these two cosmic spheres, via some ancient wisdom given to us through the balance of our sun and moon. Shared through live-action footage as well as a world heritage of esoteric, alchemical, and master work art.

The Triangle

The triangle has had many meanings through time and through various cultures and civilizations. Usually to represent a trinity of three. With a common dynamic within Theology being the Father, Sun, Holy Spirit or the holy trinity. In an effort to identify how a symbol speaks to you not not to others, it’s also good to extract out your own personal mystery meanings from symbols which you may find are more legit than what others or larger systems say. Thus the relationship I personally derive from the triangle is that of a relationship I term the third way.

In an attempt to understand the nature of reality, we are usually presented with two primary ways. Or directions, systems, or thought processes. They are two offered choices of looking at the world and formulating a cosmology behind how one decides to look their way into beginning to navigate life. They are two sanctioned and allowed paths to follow by the majority of modern industrial society. And are the only two. What I’m about to share is designed to show you the secret third way in life. An infinite path that not only empowers you, but is being re-discovered at this time space vector for humanity. It was long known ago to the ancients, but has been suppressed because of its capability to empower you, the creative individual, should you choose to experience it.

We start with a single point in space. A place of harmony and balance. That point is spread out into a horizontal line. The end of the line of each side represents the two main claimed systems of knowledge - science and religion. Science will go on the left because those who are more scientifically based tend to be more left leaning liberal in their politics and religion will go on the right as those more religiously based tend to be more right leaning conservative in their politics.

A young child may ask early in their life “where did I come from?” and based upon the parent or guardians background and childhood, they will likely give them an answer based on either of these two systems. Evolution or creation. A primary controversy of the Western world involves ongoing, recurring cultural, political, and theological disputes about the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. Within the religious world, creationism was once widely believed to be true, but since the mid-19th century evolution by natural selection had been established as a claimed empirical scientific fact. These are the basic answers these two systems put forth to that young child. This further extends into the species as a whole with future generations regarding their suspicions on origin.

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What is offered in the following is a third way which when brought together forms a third point at the center above from these two. A three pointed shape or a triangle. It is intended to empower the individual who must first have eyes to see and ears to hear. It is not a path of science or a path of religion but a path of magic. It uses the aim of religion with methods similar to that of silence. Thus, the lower left corner of the triangle represents science, the lower right, religion, and the top peak magic. Encapsulating and summarizing the magic and enchantment of the world and that there are many paths to the mountain top. So one could put a S in the lower left triangular corner, a R in the lower right, and an M in the center top position.

A side note on the An Infinite Path symbol is that it has gone through a couple iterations. Like all things that are in constant motion and never set in stone, it will likely go through more in the future. The very first version of the logo contained the litter A larger in the symbol which essentially formed a smaller triangle within a outer larger triangle. This was eventually changed because child pornographers oftentimes use a similar dynamic of a smaller symbol within or next to another same but larger symbol to imply adult and child in a coded way and find one another. The FBI has databases on these various symbols used by child pornography rings so those can be found if you care to research this horrendously dark subject a bit yourself. This is something I of course did unconsciously before becoming aware of this fact, yet I mention it because it’s important to have a back pocket knowledge of shadow workings in the world. If you want to know what’s really going on, it’s often very ugly. Yet knowing about it allows you to transmute it by learning and growing from it. It’s also very unfortunately quite rampant in dark occult circles of power within politics and the entertainment industry. Which not only use symbols but also coded language to communicate their nefarious behaviors. So of course symbols can have a good hidden connotation or a very bad one as well. The other reason the symbol went through a major initial iteration was because of the connection of the smaller triangle essentially containing an eye within the triangle, otherwise known as the Eye of Providence.

The eye in the triangle combined with sun rays around it’s perimeter did have an affiliation with this symbol. Most universally known for it being on the US one dollar bill. There are many theories of why that is and we will explore it a bit more in detail when we get to the eye part of this fun train.

The Ouroboros

Next up on our tour down de-coding lane is the Ouroboros. Which is a Greek word meaning "tail devourer," and is thought to be one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. It can be perceived as enveloping itself, where the past, which is the tail, appears to disappear but really moves into an inner domain or reality, vanishing from view yet still existing elsewhere.

The ouroboros typically has several meanings interwoven into it. First of all is the symbolism of the serpent biting, eating, or devouring its own tail. This symbolizes the cyclic nature of the universe: creation out of destruction, life out of death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. It is sometimes depicted in a lemniscate shape as well.

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The serpent biting its own tail is first seen as early as 1600 years BC in Egypt as a symbol of the sun, and represented the travels of the sun disk. From there it moved to the Phoenicians and then to the Greeks, who gave it its name, Ouroboros, which means devouring its tail.

In mythology, the Oroborus is a symbol representing the Milky Way galaxy. Myth surrounding it refers to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. The Milky Way is this serpent, and viewed at galactic central point near Sagittarius, it takes on the known shape of a circular pattern. Important for many ancients who used the galaxy to calculate cosmic and earth cycles.

It is found in Gnosticism and alchemy representing cyclical natural life and the fusion of opposites. It also symbolizes the transcendence of duality and was related to the solar God Abraxas, and signified eternity and the soul of the world.

In alchemy, it represents the spirit of Mercury, a substance that permeates all matter, and symbolizes continuous renewal as a snake is often a symbol of resurrection, due to it appearing to be continually reborn as it sheds its skin. Also often symbolizing the cycle of life and death, and harmony of opposites. As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation. It unites opposites: the conscious and unconscious mind. Alchemically, the ouroboros is also used as a purifying glyph. The alchemical textbook, Chrysopoeia (gold making) of Kleopatra contains a drawing of the ouroboros representing the serpent as half light and half dark, echoing symbols such as the Yin Yang, which illustrates the dual nature of all things, but more importantly, that these opposites are not in conflict but harmony.

The Ouroboros appears in many other cultures and settings as well… the Serpent Jormungand of Norse legend, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth. It guarded the Tree of Life, and is often depicted as an ouroboros. In Hindu, you have the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world. The Aztec serpent God Quetzalcoatl was depicted similarly, and Chinese alchemical dragons have both similar shapes and meaning. It can also been seen on the perimeter of domed or flat Earth illustrations symbolizing the theory that there is endless land beyond the poles.

The Hand

Our most front and center major element of this mashup is a single human hand with open palm and outstretched fingers. The hand has a very long history of usage in occult or esoteric symbolism. Two of the main uses being the Hamsa Hand of the East and the Philosophers Hand of the West.

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The Hamsa, or Hand of Fatima as it’s also called, is typically seen as an up-side down hand with an eye in center used as a protective amulet by both Jews and Muslims. The name hamsa is derived from the Semitic root meaning “five.” Called the Hand of Fatima by Muslims, named for the daughter of Mohamed, and is sometimes said to symbolize the five pillars or tenets of Islam. In Jewish use, it is sometimes called the hand of Miriam, after the biblical heroine. The eye in hand is considered a powerful talisman against the ‘evil eye,’ and is usually worn around the neck or hung on walls or over the doors of homes and businesses.

That’s more of an exoteric point of view from two more traditional structures claiming it is essentially a defense mechanism for those said to portray a hand of goodness or good luck. A more esoteric perspective on the hand comes from the hand of the philosophers or what was called “The hand of the Mysteries” by the incredible Manly Palmer Hall. He wrote of it much in his seminal book The Secret Teachings of All Ages. A beautiful illustration of the “Hand of the Mysteries,” was illustrated by Hall’s collaborator and sidekick, occult Illustrator Augustus Knapp in certain versions of the book which contained illustrations.

Hall says in the work that The Hand of the Mysteries goes by many other names, including the Hand of the Philosopher, Hand of the Master Mason, and the Emblematic Hand of Mysteries. On each finger you will find a unique symbol. The thumb has a crown, the index with a star, the middle finger with a sun, the ring finger with a lantern, and the pinky with a key.

Although many feel it to represent the Hand of God, a further and deeper importance of this symbol pretaints to individuals taking it within their own hands to become initiates of the Secret Mysteries. The hand of the philosopher which is extended to those who enter into the mysteries. When the disciple of the Great Art first beholds this hand, it is closed, and he must discover a method of opening it before the mysteries contained therein may be revealed. In alchemy the hand signifies the formula for the preparation of the tincture physicorum. The fish is mercury and the flame-bounded sea in which it swims is sulfur, while each of the fingers bears the emblem of a Divine Agent through combined operations of which the great work is accomplished. The unknown artist says of the diagram: “The wise take their oath by this hand that they will not teach the Art without parables.” To the Kabbalist the figure signifies the operation of the One Power, the crowded thumb, and in the four worlds which are the fingers with their emblems.

Besides its alchemical and Qabbalistic meanings, the figure is said to symbolize the hand of a Master Mason with which he “raises” the martyred builder of the divine house. Philosophically, the key represents the Mysteries themselves, without whose aid man cannot unlock the numerous chambers of his own being. The lantern is human knowledge, for it is a spark of the universal fire captured in a man-made vessel; it is the light of those who dwell in the inferior universe and with the aid of which they seek to follow in the footsteps of truth. The sun, which may be termed the ” light of the world,” represents the luminescence of creation through which man may learn the mystery of all creatures which express through form and number. The star is the universal light which reveals cosmic and celestial verities. The crown is absolute light– unknown and unrevealed–whose power shines through all the lesser lights that are but sparks of this Eternal Effulgence. Thus is set forth the right hand, or active principle, of deity, whose works are all contained within the” hollow of His hand.

The alchemical symbol of apotheosis, the transformation of man into god, is traditionally represented by an image of a hand with other symbols, including skulls, crowns, stars, fish, keys, lanterns, astrological symbols and the all-seeing eye. A hand covered with numerous symbols was extended to the neophytes when they entered into the Temple of Wisdom. An understanding of the embossed upon the surface of the hand brought with it Divine power and regeneration Therefore, by means of these symbolic hands the candidate was said to be raised from the dead.

To key out some personal perspective here, the hand in the logo is a left hand. If one really reads deeply into it, this could be said to be an advocation of the left hand path in magic, but that wasn’t the ultimate intention and ultimately the goal was to keep that more neutral to argue that there are benefits of both paths. In ancient mythology, the symbol of the right hand had always signified power and Jupiter. To sit at the right hand of God, had meant to wield the divine power of God on earth. Apollo was the god of light, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. He was the favorite son of Jupiter, father of gods and men, and he sat at the right hand of his father.

The personal perspective on choosing the hand is that of taking things into your own hands and engaging your own will to make things happen for yourself. To be thought of as a source of empowerment and that everything in your life happens for a reason and you likely chose to make it that way. Hence your destiny is in your own hands. You have the will to change that destiny through your own actions. Not only is your life literally in your hands your hands are a map of your microcosm.

The Eye

The main stereotype of what the proletariat thinks of conspiracy theories or secret clubs is the single centered eye in the triangle. For Americans that is especially pertinent because of the Eye of Providence appearing on the one dollar bill. So here’s this weird symbol on the most common bill of our money, thus every single American who is of buying a pack bubble gum age has seen it. The version of this symbol elaborates onto a capstone of a triangular pyramid forms part of the Seal of the United States, accompanied by the slogan, Annuit Coeptis, or “It has favored our undertakings.”

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The eye, usually depicted in the sky looking out upon the earth, is an ancient symbol of the sun, and historically has been used as a symbol of omniscience. The idea of the solar eye comes to us from the Egyptians, who equated the eye with the deity Osiris; the human eye in its ability to perceive light was viewed as a miniature sun. The use of the eye emblem to represent God was quite common in the Renaissance; often, the eye would be enclosed within a triangle representing the triune godhead. Such an emblem can be found in numerous examples of Christian art. This emblem was eventually adopted by Freemasons as a symbol for the Great Architect. A widely accepted view is that it represents the eye of God watching over humanity. With more conspiratorial leanings stating it’s the eye of a malevolent force watching over you. Entities such as secret societies, aristocratic bloodlines, fraternal groups, the deep state, empirical controllers, dark historical manipulators, and various other puppet string holders are said to be watching over us. It is the symbolic version of its written equivalent “the illuminati”, everyone’s default go to secret society popularized by again, the lightweight but very fun to read author Dan Brown. One could more accurately say the symbol of an eye looking at us is a single element used to describe an ethos of not only being seen but being watched. So a glass-half full mindset on that would be being looked over by a divine presence of love and compassion and a symbol of protection, while the glass-half empty sinister vision would be being spied on in order to have data gathered upon the masses in order to control. It is a bit revealing to note that the triangle is the capstone of a pyramid. For there is absolute truth to those being at the top of a pyramid of power not having those below themselves in the social or financial hierarchy best interests at heart. For the more power one attains the more corrupt they almost always become.

One could technically say that the eye in the infinite path symbol is inside a triangle. As spoken of before. However, the personal motivation with this eye is not so much from a standpoint of a all knowledgeable one’s eye or the eye of a controller, but our own third eye. The third eye (also called the mind's eye, or inner eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept of a speculative invisible eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight. In certain dharmic spiritual traditions the third eye refers to the ajna or brow chakra. Which essentially refers to the gate that leads to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness. Not only do humans instantly identify with an eye, as it’s the very first place we look when we see another person's face either on screen, or on canvas, or in the flesh, it acts as an external visual representation of the pineal gland. When one introduces a third eye into anything as a concept, it is to show that they acknowledge realms of vibratory levels or aspects of consciousness outside the 5 senses. In that regard the third eye is an excellent symbol which acts as a counter weight to materialism. One could say it's a bit trendy in the twenty teens to include it in a logo, as many spiritual, psychedelic, or metaphysical podcasts feature this element in their branding. Yet it is a movement in the right direction, for anyone on the path, even if it’s so little that they just like the symbology of it without being able to articulate quite why, still gets the majority of this author's vote.

The Lemniscate

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In the most dead center bullseye of the symbol is the infinity symbol. It can be drawn in one continuous movement and has neither a beginning or an end. The two circles sit side by side, symbolising equality between opposing forces, with the connecting point in the centre. The main significance of it in this context is the obvious correlation with the name of the podcast An Infinite Path. To others its ancient understanding as the symbol of perfection, duality and empowerment holds more meaning. The only two numbers that can be written over and over without ending are the 8 and 0 and the number eight on its side is the mathematical symbol for infinity known as the lemniscate. Devised in 1655 by mathematician John Wallis, and named lemniscus, ribbon, by Bernoulli about forty years later. The symbol is patterned after the device known as a mobius, named after a nineteenth century mathematician’s strip. A mobius strip is a strip of paper which is twisted and attached at the ends, forming a two dimensional surface. The deeper aspects of the infinity symbol predate its mathematical origins. As it has been found in Tibetan rock carvings; and the ouroboros as spoken of before, is often depicted in this shape.

The lemniscate can be seen in numerous cards of the tarot including the two of pentacles, strength, and the magician. In the context of the tarot, the lemniscate represents the balance of forces and is often most associated with the magician card. It can be said to show that the divine or the spiritual is always present and able to be accessed beyond the act being represented, without necessarily conscious awareness by the character in question. For the two of pentacles, being the two of coins, it shows that the spiritual operates deep within the material bounds of manifestation via the open-ribbon. The Magician and Strength both have powers beyond those which can easily be explained away; the Magician's intellect and will, and Strength's almost holy calmness as she tames a fierce beast with a pat of her hand are examples. Both cards also signify traits of power that have the ability to impact the rest of our lives.

Summary

A final note on the combination of these separate elements to make us this symbol is that for the most part, it is symmetrical. Symmetry has a connotation of balance, and is a very important element in my personal life. It has much deeper inclinations because of my personal experience with a mysterious practice called mirrored bilateral symmetry. It is something I have had recurring experiences with as an altered state of consciousness and somewhat moving meditation consisting of my body making lemniscate figure eights through movement. It’s a state I have been able to access for the last couple years which provides deep insight via ties to kundalini activation and ancient yogic energetics. That will be more explored in a future essay but it’s worth noting that it’s one of the personal practices that has lead me to say the things I do.

So this encapsulates some subjective and objective opinions which we could also say are still surface level. As there are always deeper meanings to extract. For it can be very self educational to turn on our inner Robert Langdon and get to know lesser understood symbols. In an effort to create a magical sigil out of this logo, with a benevolent and deeper meaning and undercurrent behind it, we are also happy to share a more direct explanation why via this essay’s insights. This is similar to the ways occult, alchemical, or esoteric symbols from the past we may have been so personally drawn towards in our lives are intended to function. If you are intrigued by symbolism, allow yourself to feel into what they do for you and how they make you feel. For if they help light an inner spark of interest within yourself, then they are doing their job. For they are machines and keys capable of unlocking what is inside us. They are gateways to know thyself and machines for accomplishing an effect. And each individual must experience things on their own to have their own internal unique logos. Take notice of the etymology of that word and how the word logo is contained within it, which is not a coincidence.

In a Perfect World Podcast #143: On the Road To Wirikuta

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The first associated media around Shamans of the Global Village episode #2 has dropped!

Join immersive journalist Rak Razam and filmmaker Niles Heckman live on the shoot for episode 2 of Shamans of the Global Village, on the road to Wirikuta, where the sacred Peyote cactus grows. Together they discuss the pilgrimage made by the Huichol people and their medicine men, the Marakames, the hardships and sacrifices of the journey, and the delicate responsibility of filming their sacred ceremonies. Listen to a heartfelt sharing of the role of scared medicines, the re-connection to mother Gaia, the role of ceremony, music, song, and the secret sauce of life itself wooing us back into connection. This is how we remember the sacred in a profane world. This is the journey home. This is… the Road to Wirikuta….

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Forward Movement

While some women and men are evolving in state of mind or what we might call state of consciousness, the majority are not. They are in fact, de-evolving. This is a natural process and is how things are meant to be. For what is true lasts, and what is un-true, does not.

The ones evolving forward, focus more on things that matter. While the one's engaging in de-evolution major in minor things. Caught in the thick swamps of thin things. Weather you’re in the third world and sell cheap trinkets on the side of the road or work in a sulphur mine, or in the first world, sitting in an office all day while having season tickets to a sporting arena by night, most people engage in low frequency behavior the vast majority of the time. They are wasting time being unbalanced and to move forward we must be time balanced. This can be a bit of a tough swallow, but to progress, one must spend minimal amount of time around those folks. For human beings are very influential on one another's actions. Perhaps a weekend is spent creating something rather than popping a beer and fusing into the couch to consume bread and circuses from home.

You can't have a healthy body temple if you fill it with z-grade fecal filled White Castle Cheese Burgers. Although the various types and breeds of vegetables have been downgraded in the last few hundred years as the majority of the species de-evolves allowing activities such as soil mineral depletion. Those moving forward must eat healthy natural foods from local communities, perhaps our farmers market, or even grown ourselves, as much as possible. This comes while our lives must be re-arranged so that they are able to spend consistent time on high quality activities. The more forward one moves, which is juggling the fewer yet completely essential practices, (financial, physical, relational, spiritual) in their life and removing the mind contractive unnecessaries, the less one can justify low frequency actions and behaviors. Which really means low quality. For one can not underestimate the unimportance of practically everything in industrial modernity.

Before one begins their mental evolution, they can reasonably spend time with just about anyone and eat anything placed in front of them. Thus justifying activities and behaviors which are quite frankly mediocre. As one’s ideals and vision for themselves expands, they realize they must adjust aspects of life such as wasting money, because money equals time, and their time is valuable, on low grade entertainment. They must save more money, thus saving more time, and invest more in their education, thus investing more in themselves and their future capabilities.

The more one forwardly progresses, the more one may be challenged by the forces of the universe and thus the more focused one must become. Engaging in consistent daily behavior of high quality excellence, which continually increases and much of which is only known by them and perhaps them alone. Those who we used to know who have gone away will not know or care why we are doing it, for we have wished them luck in their journey, yet they are far in our rearview mirror. It's not about being a tight ass, or being disrespectful to others, or thinking we are better than they are, or being perfect in our beings and doings. It's definitely not about being busy constantly, but instead the balance of true forward momentum involves regular sabbaticals. Breaking from routines of repetitiveness that eat time and don't allow us space to think or to be in retrospection in a new environment. Giving more quality time for introspection to ourselves. For if one’s daily behaviors are consistently low to medium quality, what does one expect their life’s output to be?

Relationships and choices must become as conscious as possible, since every area of our life has a correlation and effect on virtually every other area of our life. Hence the saying, “how you do anything is how you do everything”. This is doing that moves us constantly toward mindfulness in ourselves and how us as one piece on the chessboard of reality shapes things around us based upon our movements. Thus removing places and people from our lives which don't appreciate or fulfill us. So our daily actions can only be filled with those places and people and actions and creations we highly value. When our silver moon nights and golden sun days are embodied with those core essentials that mean the world to us the majority of our time is spend succeeding in that small amount of excellent areas, we dominate our life rather than having it dominate us. Holding onto those things that we highly value, with the rest being weeded out, we are thus living congruently and in harmony. With momentum, regardless of speed, because it's not a race. Yet, we are being who we truly want to be, every single day.

Easier said than done, but much like everything in these writings and speakings, is vastly worth doing. For success, which is really just forward motion for ourselves, and not ladder climbing or ego boosting, isn’t only having lots of money. For many people with lots of money have horribly unhappy and radically imbalanced lives. Success is continuously improving how you live, how you relate, how you serve, and who you are.

Professionally, saying no to great but irrelevant opportunities is something the de-evolvers will not do. While personally, giving up unfulfilling habits takes time. Expanding our vision and throwing previous belief systems in the trash bin takes courage. It’s also easy to revert back to small and mediocre thinking, so sometimes it is two steps forward and one step back with thousands of more steps yet to climb. However, as we come closer to living on a daily basis with our ideals and values that resonate with our heart strings and feel right, amazing yet subtle things begin to happen. While in between some desolate spells, these positive occurrences continue to happen into the future. Giving us objective insight into our own forward progress. We have less suffering, feel happier, more fulfilled, and present with those we love. We spend that time better by pursuing dreams and ambitions which have a knock on effect to others who they wash over. While also being more resilient during challenges due to our forward momentum and high frequency, everything around us will reflect on that. For it is all mirror work with reflections abound.

While the majority are not doing this, you have already begun doing it. You know it, and you can feel it. While some weeks and months have more of ability to see changes than others, through the years you can look back and see how far you've come.