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Postby Skunkboy » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:44 am

A great man once said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Ever since the election, it seems as if the fear reostat has been adjusted downwards and "Hope" is just around the corner. Our economy may be going down like the Titanic or the Hindenberg, and the glaciers are melting even faster than ever, but dad gumit, we have hope. It seems that ever since 9/11, we have been played like a rare violin with fear. And Bush, just like Nero, was fiddling away as the herd stampeded towards the cliffs of war and economic ruin. Mission accomplished indeed. But now we have hope as our new neuro-transmitter of choice. But what about fear? Even as recently as last month, we had all kinds of boogie men to scare us silly. The saucers were coming and the Federation was going to finally show itself. It turned out to be a promotion for Indiana Jones. Then we were going to have Pearl Harbor III according to everyone from the psychics to the people in the "know". Then towards the end of October, Dick Cheney was personally going to lead the 82nd Airborne, ala John Wayne, in an assault on Washington. It was all very familiar.

It has been alluded to in other posts, that the ancient gods, the Archons, Satan, ET, the Illuminati or whoever feed off of our fear. If this is true, then they have had a banquet these last seven years. The election was a variable fire hose of fear. "That one" is a Muslim, terrorist, socialist, un-American, etc. Maybe we're starting to wake up out of our national nightmare. Just maybe we as a people are starting to see the prison cell that we have built for ourselves. The gnostics and others call it the "Iron cage". I think it is more like Platos shadows on the cave wall. There is always someone who wants to keep you in the dark. Anyway, here's an article by Neil Kramer at the "Cleaver" that adresses fear in a much more eloquent way than I can. If we can face our own fears, then maybe, just maybe, we have a chance.

http://thecleaver.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Twilight Of The Doomsayer
Students of consciousness know that fear is a disconnecting frequency; it separates and diminishes with cold efficiency. Fear restrains consciousness by contracting it and binding it to the 3D, effectively isolating the individual from higher awareness. So it is that in these days of shifting paradigms, as the old hierarchies scramble to contain the effects of polarizing consciousness and wider galactic alignments, it is wise to be mindful of those who deal primarily in fear.

We are born with only two innate fears: fear of loud noises and fear of falling. With training, these can be diminished or removed altogether. All other fears are habituated, social and mental constructs that we have imbibed from the matrix. Even pain is a conditional reflex, not a fear. I feel no fear when I burn my hand accidentally in a candle flame. Any anxiety that arises derives from the anticipation of pain or the frustration of an apparent misfortune. Consequently, though it may be explicable to feel fear in the veins when we observe the dystopian Control System framework being radically upgraded, it is a wholly synthetic response that we are activating, an erroneous software loop that has been conditioned into us.

I am reminded of the Bene Gesserit litany from Dune (1965 Frank Herbert novel, 1984 David Lynch film). This was recited to help reduce the debilitating effects of fear.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

This is Zen technique. It seeks to counter the prevalent tendency for humans to falsely identify with the egoic mind, believing that they are the thinking entity inside their heads. It is this basic misidentification that encourages persistent discursive thinking, thereby granting overall authority to the linear train tracks of survivalist logic at the expense of higher dimensional awareness. Crucially, the erroneous belief that we are the ego transforms the human psyche into a fear superconductor.

Egoic Ascendancy

The ego plays an important role in helping us to endure in the 3D world, yet its influence over the entire mind-complex has become artificially elevated over time. The mutation of the ego into a position of artificial primacy can perhaps be better grasped by understanding trauma-based mind control techniques. The mind is subjected to such intense negative experience (suffering/sensory overload) that, in order to survive, it fragments into a number of distinct compartments, some of which can be heavily conditioned, or programmed. Some alternative historians have suggested that immense and sudden earth changes can bring about a splintering of the mind on a mass scale, resulting in a spontaneous and dominant separation of the ego.

Finding itself wearing the white peaked-hat of the Captain, the ego takes to the helm, even though it is patently not experienced or skilled enough to do so. As indicated, the real job of the ego is to focus on survival impulses like eating, drinking, reproducing, gathering, tribalism, fight or flight. It is not equipped to command a large and complex vessel. Consequently, it makes a lot of mistakes, takes wrong turns, gets lost, runs into heavy waters and collides with other egos, regularly inflicting damage on itself and others. In this mode, veering from one predicament to another, thinking can only achieve relatively crude results compared to the awesome and expert command of the higher self. Necessarily, one must persuade the ego to take a back seat.

17th century philosopher Rene Descartes gave expression to the biggest fallacy of all time when he said, “I think therefore I am.” This is a signpost that points in the wrong direction for those seeking transcendence. We are not the mind. Fundamentally, we are that which does not think. If the ego is in command, thinking is flawed and capricious. It is brain noise. The trick is to observe the mind. Watch it from a distance. In so doing, we recognize that for the mind to be so observed, it cannot therefore be us. This sends a subtle but potent signal to the ego. We are the watcher, timeless and non-local. Pure consciousness emanating from all things. This perspective shift starts to reintegrate fragmented components of the mind and transfers the ego back to the survival department, where ultimately it is much happier.

Being who you are is not some vague new-age sentiment. It is the rigorous discipline of working on oneself to develop conscious presence. It is a natural spiritual trajectory. By bringing one’s unswerving attention into the present moment, we unplug the egoic thinking mechanism and free the mind from the flow of temporality. We exit the time loop (the 3D) and the mind becomes immediately deeper and more connected (to the 4D). This is the journey to true selfhood. It is philosophy, psychology, spirituality, science and art. It is the living reality of observing one’s dharma, one’s own sacred path, day to day, every day.

Thinking and doing are peripheral. Being is all there is. Being is now. This is ancient wisdom, deep and authentic. It is knowledge that is once more surfacing in thousands of awakened minds, out from the great and recurrent amnesia of mankind.

It’s Not About The Data, Stupid

Psychological acuity, esoteric knowledge and spiritual discipline are required in equal measure before the human mind can properly process undiluted eschatological information. Those who proceed into the shadow realms without these qualities are either naïve or disturbed.

There is a distinct class of alternative researcher that exhibits a consuming fetish for dramatic revelatory disclosure. Unconsciously vampiric, these individuals are easily identified by the energy vacuum they leave in their wake; a low pressure drag destabilizing any nearby high frequencies. They are the doomsayers. Quite unable to escape their own gravitational pull, doomsayers monotonously resonate the low apocalyptic vibrations of scarcity, upheaval, pestilence and havoc. They cannot help themselves.

Through understanding the basic dynamics of consciousness, how it moves, contracts, transforms and expands, we can infer that doomsayers have no real interest in raising consciousness, otherwise they would not proclaim their black prophecies so freely. Certainly not without first balancing such an unmitigated energy drain with the sharing and giving of deeper wisdom and higher dimensional awareness. The doomsayer appears confined to deal only in the 3D, the world of mind, of thought-form and illusion, all tightly choreographed by the unobserved egoic mind. No light or wisdom. They are gullible black marketeers, unwitting assets of the Control System. Once again I resist the temptation to name these conduits of numbness, though I see they are making themselves stand out like sore thumbs anyway.

None of the much hyped predictions for October 2008 came to manifest. This is good, bad, irrelevant or inevitable, depending on your perspective. There were not even any notable spikes in activity, outside of the usual horror and weirdness of 21st century society. A blend of meagre justification, deafening silence and point blank apology were issued by the fruitless forecasters. Perhaps both prophet and fanboy* alike will realize that “trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.” Whether doomsayer data is fact or fiction, accurate or rubbish, it is always first and foremost promoting a gross level of physical manifestation, a low level of consciousness. Always mind stuff… events, plots, objects, secrets, people. Theatre and drama.

Is it not becoming transparent that the external doomsayer is an archetypal manifestation of the internal doomsayer? A collective projection of future fear? From all doomsayers, all mainstream media and every portal of the Control System, the future is always a fear based construct. To inoculate yourself from the accustomed egoic response (contraction), bring to mind that 'there is no future'. As indeed there is no past. There is only one moment. It stretches in all directions and it is the only thing we ever have. Everything we do and will ever do, is contained in this one moment.

Thinking is temporal apparatus, linear processing, the wiring of the 3D. Thinking about the future is reductionist mind projection. Only in a state of deep conscious presence can we connect fully with the fourth dimensional realm where there is no timeline as we have come to know it. Fringe physics tells of time and space being a single interrelated entity, entirely non-local at fourth and fifth dimensional levels. Only from the 3D does it look like one way traffic, past > present > future.

One thing we can predict: those who do not radiate deep conscious presence know nothing of the future.

Spiritual kindergarten lesson number one: do not allow yourself to become a channel for fear, inwardly or outwardly. It is psychic folly and serves only to fuel the disinformation and scare tactics of the Control System. Anyone who doubts this is simply not paying attention. Whether the motherships arrive or not, whether the waters rise or not, whether worlds collide or not, it does no good whatsoever to propagate fear and uncertainty. It is agreeably ironic that the very thing that the doomsayers fixate upon, the disintegration of negative Illuminist sorcery, is the very thing that exposes the emptiness of their own egoic dependency.

The Sacred Journey

Fear is a super low frequency vibration that serves as a power source for the unreality superstructure that the Control System has constructed around us. Without fear, their matrix cannot function. The nodal fear lines would be set alight, spewing fire into the sky like ignited oil wells in the Iraqi desert.

With practice, it becomes instinctive to counter and neutralize the fear reflex with a fusion of spiritual centredness and a deeper sense of presence that reduces the egoic insistence on the ‘I’.

The awakened mind is well aware of the necessity of balance when the consensus trance begins to break down. A mystical sense of the impermanence of all things is a useful psychic tool. It should be openly acknowledged that there is an intense darkness within the heart of the storm and a tomb-like desolation throughout the wintertime. Things do get dark and serious. Yet it is incumbent on all those who walk the path of transcendence to equally recognize the beauty of the new dawn and the opportunities for new growth and higher dimensions of being. This is seeing the whole equation. The shadow and the light are understood to be simply reflections of the same illusory construct. Such duality is purely a three dimensional perception.

For those who choose not to deepen, cleanse and expand their consciousness – being who you are, being present and bringing consciousness into the present moment is an entirely outlandish concept. In many cases, it will actually be disturbing. We see people like this all the time, frantic and neurotic, compulsively thinking and doing, filling every possible moment with some trivial rubbish that eats up any potentially unpleasant self-reflection. Compelling and vigorous diversionary tactics (overloading sense data) are deployed to avoid contact with self at all costs. The psychology of previous investment means that many feel they have too much to lose to risk jumping trains from unconsciousness to the sacred inner journey.

Yet the unreality of the Control System, its players, sets and fakery, is becoming increasingly transparent, even ludicrous. Crunches, crises and calamities – all meticulously rolled out, as determined in a centuries old plan. For those who don’t get that yet, your homework awaits. The global economy is being overtly manipulated to achieve a radical centralization of power. The US, Europe, UK, China, Russia, the Middle East and South America are all playing the same game and sitting around the same table. The paltry illusions of separate nations and international conflict are mere puppet shows to calm the groping ignorance of the uninitiated masses. This has been widely discussed for decades amid leading alternative scholars and even in certain rather brazen neo-con and United Nations circles. Their strategies, once again, are nothing new. It’s the same old well worn trickery. The Hegelian bait-and-switch routine. Offer global cooperation, protection and stability – but once you hand over your money (your conscious acceptance), what you actually get is suppression, disempowerment and serfdom. However, the flipside to their darkness is ever present… I have noted the inverse correlation between the desperation of the Control System’s containment strategies and the natural galactic shift of consciousness from the 3D to the 4D. The faster consciousness expands, the smaller the Illuminist chess pieces become.

The world around us is changing. Each day, the 3D manifestation becomes slightly less physical, less dense. The mystic's mindset can phase into this thinking as easily as one slips into a warm bath. From the reductionist or fundamentalist platform, this is a highly troubling development. Yet even science is beginning to admit, if only in the free thinking fringes at present, that they have indeed got it wrong about matter. Wrong from the ground up. Starting with… there are no atoms. No ultimate building blocks. Sorry about that. Even the wild goose chase for the Higgs Boson, when you really drill down to it, is not actually seeking a thing, as such. It is seeking to observe a behaviour.

Perhaps the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 because that is when the historical and practical possibilities of recording a 3D causal timeline are no longer possible, because we won’t be in the 3D anymore. In the 4D, there is no time, so no need to hang a calendar on the wall. Even the calendar’s function of representing the linear evolution of consciousness comes to an end, due to the unitary and trans-temporal nature of higher 4D/5D levels. Hence the top layer of the Mayan pyramid temple to Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl) at Chichen Itza ends with the shortest architectural representation of the final cycle of consciousness. The Mayans knew this well. Wherever their information came from, it was outside of the 3D.

It is probable that the dimensional shift marks a great point of divergence for Earth, a time when the minds of organic human consciousness and post-human unconsciousness diverge. Those spellbound by the 3D, and those already moving toward the 4D, will finally part company. Two colossal reality tunnels dividing billions of individual tunnels. My feeling is that, for some, nothing will happen, even as the dimensional shift reaches its peak. Without consciousness, the Samsaric cycle perpetuates, imperceptibly and inexorably. With consciousness, the 3D becomes a single facet of a higher dimensional model. The critical mass of awareness is at last achieved. The 4D shift will be at once profoundly exhilarating, deeply sacred and yet always perfectly natural.

The dimensional shift is now. It is not something that will slide into place on 21st Dec 2012. It is with us now, in this very moment. Being present is all that is required. For some it is a new beginning, for others it is an ancient return.



References & Footnotes

(1) The ‘fear is the mindkiller’ image is used with kind permission of the owner (of both the neck and the body art), the enigmatic Ms Kaminska.

(2) The phrase "fear is the mind killer" first appeared in Aldous Huxley's 1962 novel ‘Island’, three years before Dune was published.

(3) Nice 8 minute info-burst that explains the holonomic model, its fractal expressions and the harmonic resonance of sacred geometry in our daily lives. A good introduction to the idea of multi-dimensionality. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=SvKP0SERi6c

(4) * Wikipedia definition of fanboy: Fanboy is a term used to describe any individual who is devoted to a single subject in an emotional or fanatical manner, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession.
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Re: Fear

Postby Penguin » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:48 am

Skunkboy wrote:A great man once said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Ever since the election, it seems as if the fear reostat has been adjusted downwards and "Hope" is just around the corner. Our economy may be going down like the Titanic or the Hindenberg, and the glaciers are melting even faster than ever, but dad gumit, we have hope. It seems that ever since 9/11, we have been played like a rare violin with fear.


Ya got that right brother.
Fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little death (of reason too).
Fear of death, fear of unknown.
Laugh with death, laugh in the face of danger,
and you'll be fine, my friend.
Death is inevitable - death is not to be feared.
Life, that others call death. Death, that others call life.
One has nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Seize it.
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Postby anothershamus » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:14 pm

AHAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Postby Foote Hertz » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:30 pm

Public Service Announcement

In the next few weeks, thousands of necrophiliacs, and National Necrophilia Foundation Volunteers, will try to enter your homes to sell you this soap, the Foundation's only source of funds, by the way. So when you see the necrophiliac wearing that big Freddie Herbie Run From Fear button, welcome them into your homes, and tell 'em Freddie sent ya. This has been Freddie Herbie, saying for necrophiliacs everywhere "Thank you, and may you all drop dead."
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Postby ninakat » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:46 pm

Thanks for the posting, Skunkboy. Lots of great food for thought, and lots to learn about the true nature of fear and all its ramifications. Here's something else to think about though:

Skunkboy wrote:It seems that ever since 9/11, we have been played like a rare violin with fear.


Absolutely. And now, aren't we being played with hope?

But what's wrong with hope, you may ask? Nothing at all, when it's based on reality. But, I'm afraid (!) that false hope can be as dangerous as fear since it elevates complacency and lowers vigilance -- at a time when vigilance is needed more than ever.

I think that if we learn anything, it should be to stop being played. That's a hard thing to do though -- swimming against the tide of current public opinion -- especially because those of us who remain cynical about this supposed Hope become more ostracized and marginalized for not playing the game. I had hoped that today's Hope would be real and not a trap, but I fear (!) it is yet another illusion foisted upon us from Above. And, as with all illusions, there are always consequences.

But I am hopeful. Just not in the ways that I'm expected to be.

A pessimist is a well informed optimist, after all.
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Re: Fear

Postby Eldritch » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:07 pm

Skunkboy wrote:A great man once said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Ever since the election, it seems as if the fear reostat has been adjusted downwards and "Hope" is just around the corner. Our economy may be going down like the Titanic or the Hindenberg, and the glaciers are melting even faster than ever, but dad gumit, we have hope. It seems that ever since 9/11, we have been played like a rare violin with fear. And Bush, just like Nero, was fiddling away as the herd stampeded towards the cliffs of war and economic ruin. Mission accomplished indeed. But now we have hope as our new neuro-transmitter of choice. But what about fear? Even as recently as last month, we had all kinds of boogie men to scare us silly. The saucers were coming and the Federation was going to finally show itself. It turned out to be a promotion for Indiana Jones. Then we were going to have Pearl Harbor III according to everyone from the psychics to the people in the "know". Then towards the end of October, Dick Cheney was personally going to lead the 82nd Airborne, ala John Wayne, in an assault on Washington. It was all very familiar.

It has been alluded to in other posts, that the ancient gods, the Archons, Satan, ET, the Illuminati or whoever feed off of our fear. If this is true, then they have had a banquet these last seven years. The election was a variable fire hose of fear. "That one" is a Muslim, terrorist, socialist, un-American, etc. Maybe we're starting to wake up out of our national nightmare. Just maybe we as a people are starting to see the prison cell that we have built for ourselves. The gnostics and others call it the "Iron cage". I think it is more like Platos shadows on the cave wall. There is always someone who wants to keep you in the dark. Anyway, here's an article by Neil Kramer at the "Cleaver" that adresses fear in a much more eloquent way than I can. If we can face our own fears, then maybe, just maybe, we have a chance.


Hi, Skunkboy. I read your post—along with the entire quote you provided—earlier today, and I want to thank you for improving my day so early on.

I am not generally a pessimist (most of whom expect things to get worse), nor am I an optimist (most of whom expect things to get better), but I do try to look for bona fide positives in given situations in order to remain hopeful—and therefore to remain as able as possible to act constructively and with some degree of free agency.

Even more than the important warning about fear, your remarks on the Archons (who have been given a number of names throughout the history of various cultures, religions, and civilizations) were also appreciated. That the Archons are real seems undeniably clear to me. The pagan world and some of the ancient gnostics in particular KNEW the nature of the system that has been constructed over the surface of the earth, its purpose, and its many pitfalls for those who want to ascend (ascension being the chief reason for our being "here," collectively).

Unfortunately, our attachments and, yes, fears—when allowed to run unchecked or to grip us beyond the point of correction—can often fashion a cage from which ascension too often becomes rare and, for some, even impossible.

Rediscovering the innocence and wonder of our childlike selves (the child who, in spite of everything, dares to hope and to dream once again) is a way out of that cage.

"Become as little children," he said.
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Postby Penguin » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:20 pm

Thanks Eldritch and Skunkboy.
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Postby Wombaticus Rex » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:23 pm

http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/ ... they_have/

Only way out of hell is through it. ...or so they say.
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The Process of Maggot Brain

Postby IanEye » Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:58 am

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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pywl9zNIE]"Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time.
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe.
I was not offended, for I knew Eye had to rise above it all or drown in my own shit."
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Re: Fear

Postby 8bitagent » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:13 am

Skunkboy wrote:It has been alluded to in other posts, that the ancient gods, the Archons, Satan, ET, the Illuminati or whoever feed off of our fear. If this is true, then they have had a banquet these last seven years. The election was a variable fire hose of fear. "That one" is a Muslim, terrorist, socialist, un-American, etc. Maybe we're starting to wake up out of our national nightmare. Just maybe we as a people are starting to see the prison cell that we have built for ourselves.


And you don't think that Obama's win is a key part of this elite agenda?
Hell I like the guy, but it's clear to me he was engineered to win
by the same elites who've been bashing us over the head with "Osama! Osama!" for the last decade.

The banquet has indeed been never ending...the 9/11 ritual produced egregore and fear had to be bookended by the engineered(tho wholly genuine emotion wise) egregoric energy of the 11/4 Obama "win".

Strap in, it appears we're heading for seriously weird, uncharted territory as we turn the page to this weird new chapter called 2009 and beyond.
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Postby Penguin » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:27 am

Wombaticus Rex:

Throughout history, humans have gotten involved with Black Magick because it gives them power. I am arguing that all of the trappings of black magick are beside the point. There is no need to believe in non-human consciousness, and I will not try to convince you that performing certain rituals allows you to contact certain entities. Let us assume that all phenomena related to magick is only occuring inside the heads of those who practice it. Yet the power of black magick remains perfectly real. The power of Black Magick is simply the fear it invokes in other people.

I do think it’s irrational to be afraid of Satan. I do not think it’s irrational—or even weird—to be afraid of what Satan’s followers will do in his name. (In the interest of full disclosure, I feel more or less exactly the same about Jehovah and Allah. It’s not the invisible monster that worries me, you see, it’s the primate worshipping the invisible monster.)


Did I ever tell you I love you, man?
If not, I love you man!

Some human interest...
I come from a religious family. Missionaries and all, preachers and the like.
My upbringing was christian.
I remember that the phrase that stuck with me from early church visits was "Faith moves mountains." And I remember being in Christmas church, age 3 or 4, under a warm blanker, hearing people sing "hallelujah"..I thought it was "nalle halaa lujaa", "the teddy hugs strongly" :)

And I remember wondering if all the Bible prophecies come true because "faith moves mountains" and people really want to believe in them. I must have been under 5 at the time. And how cruel it is for God to condemn to hell all those people who havent had a chance to hear of him and repent. Yeah. Cruel man.
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Postby Penguin » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:36 am

What do you do when someone puts a gun in your face?

There is only one sane answer to this question. You stay calm and you ask the person with the gun what they want. Although violence is the primary form of entertainment in this culture, few of us give any serious consideration to violence entering our own lives. It is difficult for anyone to stay calm and keep their shit together in a situation they’re unprepared for.

Quite predictably, this is something that Asian cultures are familiar with, and already have cultural solutions for. (They are, after all, the most advanced culture on planet Earth, and no amount of public school conditioning will change the actual facts. Sorry, folks. Brainsturbator is racist after all.)

We’ll take a look at two different traditions: the Hakagure, recently popularized by the supremely great movie Ghost Dog, and the Buddhist meditation ritual known as Chod.

“Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease, or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master.”


Word, man...
Ive been almost killed 3 times, once beaten up by a mob, and kicked unconscious on the ground...all because they didnt like the way I looked. Twice by a car hitting me...
And it aint that bad, when you get around to it. You will fall from the knifes edge one day. Fear not.
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Postby Penguin » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:39 am

Lone Wolf and Cub:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub

"A formidable warrior and a master of the suiō-ryū, Ogami Ittō (拝 一刀), had become the Shōgun's executioner, the Kogi Kaishakunin, a position of high power used by the Tokugawa Shogunate (along with the oniwaban and the assassins) to enforce the will of the Shogun over the daimyō or domain lords. For those samurai and lords ordered to commit seppuku, the Kogi Kaishakunin would assist with their deaths by decapitating them to relieve the pain of cutting their own stomachs. As it was unthinkable for a person of lesser rank to act as Kaishakunin for a noble, the Kogi Kaishakunin was entitled and empowered to wear the crest of the Shogunate, in effect acting in place of the Shogun.

Shortly after Ogami Ittō's wife's childbirth with Ogami Daigorō (拝 大五郎), Ogami Ittō returned to find his wife Azami and all of their household brutally murdered, with only the newborn Daigorō surviving. They were ostensibly murdered by three former retainers of an abolished clan to avenge their lord who had been executed by Ogami Ittō. However, the entire matter was designed to disgrace Ogami Ittō by placing and then revealing an ihai (funeral tablet) with the shogun's crest on it in Ittō's family shrine (representing Ogami's wish for the shogun's death). This would make Ittō a criminal and thus forfeit his post. The set up was planned by Ura-Yagyū (Shadow Yagyu) Yagyū Retsudō (柳生 烈堂), leader of the Yagyū clan, in order to seize Ogami's post for the Yagyū clan.
Akihiro Tomikawa as Daigoro in Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril.

The 1-year-old Daigorō was given a choice by his father: a ball or a sword. Had Daigorō chosen the ball, his father would have killed him, sending him to be with his mother; however, the child crawled toward the sword, and reached for its hilt. This signified that he would take the path of a rōnin, living with his father as "demons" – the assassin-for-hire team that would become known as Lone Wolf and Cub, vowing to eventually destroy the Yagyū clan to avenge his wife and his disgrace.

On meifumadō ("The Road to Hell"), the cursed journey for vengeance, Ogami Ittō and his son, Daigorō, encounter numerous adventures, encountering (and slaying) all of Yagyū Retsudō's children and eventually facing Retsudō himself. The first duel between Ogami Ittō and Yagyū Retsudō ran 178 panels -- one of the longest single fight-scenes ever published in comics.

Before his final duel with Yagyū Retsudō, Ittō was attacked by the last of the elite ninja of the Yagyū clan, the "Grass". His sword was tampered with earlier by a visit from a member of the Grass disguised as a sword polisher, causing Ittō's longtime dōtanuki sword to finally wear down and break during the Grass's final assault. He was inflicted with wounds that would ultimately be his demise against his battle with Retsudō. After eliminating each and every ninja, Ittō and his shattered dōtanuki were finally met with Retsudō and his spear. His will to end the Yagyū flowed through his soul, but his wounded and exhausted body would eventually leave Ittō to his fate. In the middle of the battle Ittō's spirit left his body after a lifetime of fatigue and bloodshed. Ittō was unable to destroy his longtime enemy and his walking of meifumadō had ended. The story finishes with Ittō's son, Daigorō, taking up Retsudō's spear and charging in fury. Retsudō opens his arms, disregarding all defense, and allows Daigorō to drive the spear into his body. Embracing Daigorō with tears, Yagyū Retsudō names him, "Grandson of my heart", closing the cycle of vengeance and hatred between the clans, and concluding the epic."

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Postby Skunkboy » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:39 am

8bitagent wrote:
And you don't think that Obama's win is a key part of this elite agenda?
Hell I like the guy, but it's clear to me he was engineered to win
by the same elites who've been bashing us over the head with "Osama! Osama!" for the last decade.

The banquet has indeed been never ending...the 9/11 ritual produced egregore and fear had to be bookended by the engineered(tho wholly genuine emotion wise) egregoric energy of the 11/4 Obama "win".

Strap in, it appears we're heading for seriously weird, uncharted territory as we turn the page to this weird new chapter called 2009 and beyond.


8bit... you got that right. Especially after reading your other post.

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/v ... hp?t=21605

It's begining to look a lot like Clinton III. Et tu Barrack? You and Ninakat may just be right.

And getting back to my original thought about fear and it ramifications, we now should be worried about earthquakes for an early Christmas gift.


http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/v ... hp?t=21631

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm just burned out on being afraid. I decided to change my way of looking at things and like Eldritch said, "look for the bona fide positives". We can't change whats going to happen, so I guess I'll just try to watch where I'm going. Eventually we'll all come to a fork in the road like those Ronin of Penguins. Do we take the Right hand path and choose to walk in the footsteps of greater people than ourselves, or do we choose the Left handed path?

And if we do choose to follow the Left handed path, heres where it may eventually end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS69fuCOhTM

( Sorry I've been listening to a lot of Pearl Jam lately. Nods to IanEye and Wombaticus)

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Postby Penguin » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:18 am

Skunkboy:
This one is dedicated to you then :)

One of my favourites from Pearl Jam...

"I'm Open"

a man lies in his bed in a room with no door
he waits hoping for a presence, something, anything to enter
after spending half his life searching, he still felt as blank
as the ceiling at which he's staring
he's alive, but feels absolutely nothing
so, is he?
when he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
by nine he had deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact
no tradebacks...
so this is what it's like to be an adult
if he only knew now what he knew then...
i'm open
i'm open
come in
come in
come in
come in
i'm open
i'm open
come in
come in
come in
come in
lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
he decides to dream...
dream up a new self for himself
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