Monthly Archives: October 2018

Riffvlog on We Are Not Gods…

Published October 29, 2018 | By 326061

HIS-story (a tale of the demiurge).

Published October 27, 2018 | By 326061

Ladybird.

Published October 22, 2018 | By 326061

We Plants Are Happy Plants.

Published October 20, 2018 | By 326061

The first video by Terrence McKenna linked here is a brief overview of the Gnostic cosmology of Sophia. I don’t take any of the Gnostic creation myths literally but I do believe they are pointing to a profound truth. Having said that, I don’t dismiss altogether the idea of a personal deity, and that part of the myth has the male and female principle embedded in the universe right from the get-go…The Monad divided itself into two, etc…

The second video here although dated in look and style documents the gnostic Cathars in France in the 11 Century. So this story continues to resurface time and time again. I won’t get into the intrigues surrounding these events as you can watch the documentary to get the gist of what happened.

What previous gnostics didn’t know was what we do now: computer technology and possible extraterrestrial involvement here. There were those in antiquity who alluded to a computer like idea in the Akashic–the hall of records in Vedic mythology. If we put these two ideas together from a modern perspective filtered through a gnostic lens we get something like Westworld. Only the demiurge is an alien named Elohim/Anu., etc. And we are its creation and slaves and are being manipulated via memory technology similar to what was alluded to by the Hindus; except we don’t have a soul, or maybe we do, but I’m a skeptic regarding that particular aspect of spirituality. Hey, after all, I describe as an agnostic gnostic. That aspect aside, the alien view on this is usually associated with cosmic warfare between varying E.T. races with this planet and race of humans caught up in the drama. This view gets more complicated, however, if there is dimensional spirituality involved in all this drama… On a personal note, I would suggest that I’m only here as an independent observer just taking notes! I get that my non-attachment to any particular religion or cosmology can be really off-putting for those with strong religious or cosmological attachments. I’m also a fan of the words, “I DON”T KNOW!”

I don’t buy into all the idiosyncrasies of the Cathars when it comes to the human body, sex, sin, etc., because I view all of this as universally inconsequential; as we don’t have a universal free will, because of how we’ve been made or manipulated. I view this aspect of humanity similar to Buddhist concepts of desire and aversion–all a part of the suffering within saṃsāra. Simply attempt being calm in the eye of the hurricane while embedded within this chaotic maelström. But I do share the view that love is more powerful than hate and that true love, from a spiritual perspective, doesn’t seek to control–it seeks freedom of expression–not earthly political control and power or a heaven that’s really hell as described literally in Revelations. See the Youtuber, Underlings, correct portrayal of what the Christian heaven really is here.

I’m not a fan of the Torah (most Gnostics are not) but I always liked the idea of sackcloth and lamentations and never more so in an era of the ethics of cocaine and hookers via the coarsest system of unnecessary exploitation and coercion ever to come into existence! And those Cathar’s had a sublime understanding of The Golden Rule and didn’t buy into an economic system premised on treating everyone and everything as nothing but objects of financial exploitation; yes, everyone is gaming everyone here and it’s not a pretty or sustainable picture.

Of course, the best idea in that book is the Jubilee–the thing we need most and get last!

Indoor Golf Practice

Published October 18, 2018 | By 326061

What If?

Published October 17, 2018 | By 326061

This post will go well with yesterday’s on Dvaita which I’ll link here.

It’s also a stream of consciousness so perhaps bear with me as I attempt to cohere a point or two:)

Hinduism falls generally into 2-primary schools with Buddhism positing a third possibility. The first and most traditional is personal theism primarily represented by Krishna. The second is the impersonal ocean of God as posited in Advaita of which we are all waves. Buddhism posits that God and our (self) is, in reality, non-existent and temporal.

Please note the obvious that for over 5000 years there has been no consensus on the nature of reality and God. We’ll come back to this.

In the West, Schopenhauer started a modern trend when he posited Kant’s noumena as being will; Nietzsche took that one step further and called it, ‘The Will To Power’. In the West, to my thinking, this has played out as a type of Buddhism without compassion or empathy (and Rand’s Objectivism). When tied to ethnicity it brought us the fascist state. We should note that the fascist state is built upon the foundation of state authority fully aligned with corporate power–a condition that exists in many nations of power today.

The New Age Movement promoted via corporate neoliberal capitalism has promoted an ad hoc mixture of primarily two of the aforementioned spiritual theories; that is nonduality mixed together with self-help and self-actualization ‘will to power’ philosophies. This has created a culture of spiritual-materialist narcissism. Humankind is god and we can do whatever we will!

I should note that our first group hasn’t been without its problems either and no more apparent than when a person or group enacts violence against the other on the instruction of personal deity. This is most clear today among Jihadists and neocons who believe they are acting as emissaries for an invisible master. Our Jewish friends are quite busy in this regard, too.

So what has modernities capitalism brought to the forefront when it comes to our spiritual proclivities? It appears to have brought out the worst traits, aspects, and tendencies of our spiritual inheritance! The death of God brought us fascism driven by the ‘will to power’; a New Age premised on the obsession with the self and its desires (funded via unlimited credit), and, of course– religion used as a tool of political power.

My question is this: could this be because there is something in all these ideas that are false?

Obviously, if God and spirituality are myths then the explanation is simple enough. Or, is there something that we missed?

Let me lay this one on ya: science and Buddhism have become very much compatible, but what if the emptiness or void is a chasm? What if this place and universe are as real as science says it is combined with the notion that there really is a transcendental God? What if there were a truth that led to peace and not a multiplicity of falseness leading to strife and division?

I don’t have the answer to that question but any theology proffered in that regard cannot implicitly or explicitly contradict the faculties of reason and logic. A theological idea, if true and not false, can be trans-rational but not irrational. I have about 3 or 4 idealist type cosmologies that I consider possible as explanations for how God could still exist. Dvaita is one of them as is Christian Gnosticism; varying alternate theories on The Nephilim, and the alien/E.T. hypothesis. One can search my blog in this regard as there is plenty of musing on this issue.

A note here that Moses, as described, didn’t seem to exist and much of the history written in that book is not accurate as described so if one is going to promote a version of Western theism it has to account for these facts. Christian Gnosticism does but it’s not the only possibility.

Dvaita Vedanta

Published October 16, 2018 | By 326061

I will argue in this post that this philosophy is more coherent than Advaita.

Dvaita asserts that this universe is real and distinct from God and is not an illusion. This is consistent with all modern scientific knowledge.

Dvaita asserts that the supreme being is distinct from this universe and humankind. I see this as a Kantian view also–that we are not the thing in itself (and can’t know it). This is consistent with Deism, various schools within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

I do believe this philosophy is consistent with panentheism, too, as long as we agree to concede that God is thoroughly transcendent as well as being immanent to the universe.

On a personal level, this philosophy is also consistent with my Christian Gnosticism. I’ve walked this path which I’ll link from the Dvaita wiki page. I choose a path of physical labor (karma yoga); 40-years of layman spiritual study–jnana yoga; and bhakti as I’ve been unequivocal in my search for truth.

From the Wiki:

‘combination of dispassionate discharge of one’s duties (Karma Yoga), acquisition of scriptural knowledge (Jnana Yoga) and the unconditional devotion to the higher entity (Bhakti Yoga).’

This view, from my perspective, honors both the scientific worldview and the spiritual worldview while maintaining clear delineations between who is who and what is what. I would still say this place is fallen and in disrepair and Christian Gnostic cosmologies explore possibilities about why that is.

Here is the Wiki on the 5-distinctions or reality within this tradition.

Five fundamental, eternal and real differences are described in Dvaita school:^[5]^[9]^[10]

Between the individual souls (or jīvātman) and God (Brahmātmeśvara or Vishnu).
Between matter (inanimate, insentient) and God.
Between individual souls (jīvātman)
Between matter and jīvatman.
Between various types of matter.

At a minimum, we should concede, like I always suggest, to take a step back from our spiritual attachments and consider that things may not be a given here.

Speculative metaphysics in the only justifiable framing of spirituality today.

Erich von Daniken

Published October 15, 2018 | By 326061

I’ll link the video here of Erich telling his life story in a short documentary.

As a kid, I remember thinking how cool is that! I wasn’t indoctrinated (mind-controlled) into religion as a kid so it was fairly easy for me to think that way. The ideas espoused didn’t stir me into academia or anything, but the doc. definitely registered and stayed with me as I traversed my life’s journey.

In later years, I did research my favorite topic, The Nephilim Theory quite deeply and certainly, his work came to mind; as did Stitchen’s. I’ve come to my own thoughts on these issues which align with a neo-gnostic (pun intended) view of this phenomenon. I’ll link one of my blog posts here in that regard.

As speculation, I’m in the camp which thinks we might be dealing with both E.T. type aliens and interdimensional spiritual beings, but I don’t know…it’s just my feelings and intuitions. As a good skeptic, too, I’m aware that no one can or is able to prove their claims–everyone is speculating, but very few will be forthright in conceding this fact.

In the comment section of Erich’s post the Flat Earther’s show up and I’ll copy one of the comments below. I’ve done my own research in that regard and believe the official stories about the earth although I still concede there is a minuscule chance someone is right in that camp. There are a whole plethora of flat earth cosmologies out there and this guys is a doozy! He talks about different root races created via different epochs and at the center at Mt. Meru (A Hindu Creation Myth) live the first ghostly like creator beings. Much of the lingo sounds like The Urantia Book and that’s a red flag as the archons love using bullshit tropes! I’ve suggested they pretty well bullshit about everything which is different from the scope of lying it would take for the earth to be flat.

At any rate, here is this guys comment and cosmology. The internet has made it so that everyone now gets to offer up their own personal cosmological theories!

Flat Earth Universe 2 weeks ago (edited)

ROOT RACES ‘ and Origins of physical ‘Humans’. Some of you will now be familiar with the geocentric electromagnetic ‘Cosmic Egg’ model, consisting of four concentric realms or domains of land – With a fifth central pillar at the very center AKA Mt Meru, Mt Zion, Mt Olympus, etc…. Now…. just as there are four realms, there are also four physical ‘humanoid’ root races associated with the creation of each realm… These four root races are… The Hyperboreans – The Lemurians – The Atlanteans – The Aryans. But there is a fifth race of beings that live at the center (Mt Meru) of our flat Earth… The master root race – THE POLAREANS. Unlike the other four, the Polarean are semi-ethereal, meaning not completely physical beings, they do not have a definitive skin pigment, size, color or race. Although they are often depicted as being somewhat indigo blueish translucent beings. Anyway, these Polareans began the human race at pole position as I said. They were the very first forms of earthly beings to manifest on earth. All the other four root races were ‘seeded’ by the Polareans – hence the term ‘Master Race’. We could also call the Polareans, ‘The Guardians of the Earth’ The Polareans are also sometimes referred to as ‘angels’ in the Abrahamic religious texts or ‘Das Avatars’ in Vedic scripts or ‘Pleiadians’ in new age esoteric circles. The first physical humans seeded out of the Polareans was the Hyperboreans. The Hyperborean earth realm ‘unfolded’ out from the central pillar and thus was the very first “Garden of Eden” surrounding the Tree of Life (Mt Meru) at the center. Over cyclical time the Hyperborean realm was pushed ‘outward’ away from the center as a new Earth realm/domain and physical root race (the Lemurians) was created. This Lemurian realm/domain was the second garden of Eden, and again after cyclical time they too were pushed ‘outward’….to make way for the third root-race – the Atlanteans. This Atlantean root race & realm is the one we currently inhabit. All human races in this realm of Earth are pre-dominantly Atlanteans. Once again over cyclical time, the Atlantean ‘golden’ age at the center ended to make way for a new realm & root race – The Aryans. The Aryan root race was seeded out from this fourth Garden of Eden. This is the current ‘Garden of Eden’ commonly referred to in most of the modern religious texts. This current Aryan ‘Eden’ root race was seeded about six thousand years ago. As you can see, a new earthly realm & root race is periodically seeded over cyclical time – each new realm & root race beginning at the center (garden of Eden) around the polarean axis Mundi (Mt Meru) slowly expanding outward. This cyclical expansion from the center out is what’s known as an ‘EPOCH’… So now you will notice that we have had five Epochs so far – Polarean Hyperborean Lemurian Atlantean Aryan According to many mystics, ancient scriptures & mythologies, there are two more epoch to come – eventually meaning seven Epochs, seven Earth realms & seven root races… Seven is the universal number of completion. I will further elaborate in my upcoming cosmic creation Pt 2 presentation. Moving on…. You will also notice that in this realm of Earth, there are four ‘main’ races – Black race, Oriental Asians, Indo – Asians – White race. These are known as ‘sub-root races’ – All the other races in between are mixes of these four. (Mixed races) The Black races have their DNA lineage from the very first earth root race – The Hyperboreans. The native black cultures of this realm have their cultural beliefs & practices handed down by the Hyperborean root race sometimes referred to as the ‘Annunaki’. The Oriental Asian races have their DNA lineage from the second root race – The Lemurians. And likewise, the Oriental cultures stem their beliefs & practices from the Lemurian root race commonly & mistakenly referred to as the ‘Reptilians’. The Indo – Asian races have their DNA lineage from the third root-race – The Atlanteans. The Indo – Asians naturally stem their beliefs & practices from the Atlantean root race of this current realm. This means the Indo – Asian races are the original root race lineage of this ‘Atlantean’ realm. The White races have their DNA lineage from the most recent fourth root race – The Aryans. And of course the white cultural influences we see today are seeded from the Aryan root race currently at the center. The Aryans are what most religious texts & mythologies refer to as ‘the gods’, or sometimes ‘fallen angels’. The Aryans are also sometimes confused with the Pleiadians AKA Polareans, whom are semi-ethereal beings that live at the very center (Mt Meru) and not in the ‘Eden’ realm as discussed above. Now, although we in this realm all appear to be different races, within our different sub & mixed race lineages & traits. We are all actually one race, this due to the mixing of genetic codes over time – We are ALL predominantly Atlantean humans. Only with slight genetic variances, most notably skin pigmentation, hair structure & eye color. In fact, most of the racial & religious divisions & wars fought today have their roots seeded from past wars between the FOUR MAIN root races. We Atlanteans in this realm inherited our predisposed prejudices of one another from ‘outside’ influences. Now…I’d imagine that all the other earth realms would have many different multicultural sub & mixed races in their own domains, just like we have in this realm. Meaning there are probably thousands of different sub & mixed races & cultures within the different domains across the entire plane of our Earth But fundamentally, every root, sub & mixed race on Earth is of Polarean origin. We all came from the center & we will all return to the center eventually, regardless of what you believe or look like. As many of you will now know, all the four different realms/domain, with all the various, solar systems & extraterrestrial civilizations – are divided & separated from one another by the various toroidal electromagnetic fields (Van Allen Belts). Theses electromagnetic belts do periodically open and close dependant on various universal & cosmic cycles, seasons & ages. This periodically happens to allow the sharing & rebalancing of conscious energy, technology & knowledge between all the different earthly dimensional realms. We are fast approaching the next ‘opening’ of these electromagnetic barriers. Hence, “Trumps space force”…The American government obviously knows what’s up. Who knows what this ‘Opening Event’ will reveal & how this will impact us in this realm collectively & individually. Although we can already see the birthing pains of this great cosmic event with the current so-called ‘conscious awakening’ & unusual weather patterns. Knowledge is power…. The secret to knowing when & how is in learning about the natural rhythmic seasons & cycles of nature. I will go into further details when I present my cosmic clock. In conclusion & most importantly – we must remember that we are all first & foremost spiritual beings having a physical existence. All these physical differences are just part of the game or rather race – The Human race – We are all physically & consciously unique, but at core, we are ONE – We are all different seasons under the same sun. The purpose of all of this…. EXPERIENCE – LEARN – GROW – MOVE ON. VISION 2020🌟 Welcome to the age of AQUARIUS…the age of truth, knowing & rediscovery. https://youtu.be/ejwuNvKLvyY

Ruthlessexistence

Published October 11, 2018 | By 326061

This one is for the millions and millions of homeless.

Thanks to Cosmic Pig Studios for engineering and production.

F-Jazzy Blues.

Published October 9, 2018 | By 326061

About 100,000 people live homeless in the greater Los Angeles area and the Nobel Peace folks just gave two environmental scientists a prize! One has to have a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance, uncertainty, and paradox to live today. Yikes!

https://youtu.be/sT892Q0927w