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 20 Mar 2010 @ 18:45
From Frater Otto's texts:
(On Motivated Willpower and Unconditioned Volition):
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...the True and Complete Human is able to raise a 'will'. A will which has not been motivated by others nor pressured by Meme's of groups. A will that was never created by others and is not being maintained to please or satisfy anyone else. This 'will', let's call it 'unconditioned volition', raises out of the sea of consciousness like a giant whale. Visible only for a short time, it soon sinks back into the depth of the ocean of awareness. The waves generated by this appearance survive for a short time as seemingly 'unmotivated willpower'. Then, the human mind invents or allocates a reason WHY it must exist and assumes a purpose for something which was originally unconditioned, not-motivated, without predecessor, new-in-itself, and not a restimulation of anything prior. THIS SPONTANEOUS VOLITION NOW is the quality that the True and Complete Human is able to bring about, and be it only rarely and spontaenously. Being subject to the manupulation around us, it rarely is being recognized even the moment it occured and it quickly subdues to be 'rational' when in fact it was entirely 'irrational', or better 'arational', not needing any justification for its existence, nor purpose, nor an end...
[end of quote..] More >
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 11 Mar 2010 @ 17:55
Far from making a joke, a pack of Brazilian self-acclaimed intellectuals attacked Brazilian's President as being analaphetic and unable to speak correct Portuguese. In the end it turned out to be a joke but the joke was on them as Lula's choice of words was not only legitimate but even intelligent as I will show below.
However, the problem lies deeper than using a certain word or not. It is symptomatic for a mental, oops, intellectual illness, it is a SYNDROME. One could simply focus on the obvious part and call it 'literal thinking'. But this would easily be dismissed as pertaining only to autism. In reality, an autist DOES conceive outside the framework of words but does not abide to the 'domestication process' that commands people to abstract from words the same way that had been determined by the current 'society'.
In a larger sense, 'literal thinking' also describes the inability to conceive a thought outside a pre- and other-determined frame of words. In other words, to 'think outside the box'. Rigid language thus keeps people captured within a limited range of possibilities and, Heavens forbid they would step beyond those boundaries of the mind. Don't even think of it!
Let's look at languages that are less rigid than Portuguese: the English of the United States is notoriously open to newly constructed expressions and even allows for 'inventing' new words, be it from scratch or through combinations of existing words like 'brunch' (= BReakfast plus lUNCH). It's no news that the American people were world leaders in innovation during the last century even though the vast majority of them is still at the 'literal level'.
The German language provides another example of linguistic flexibility: agglutination. The former communist regime of Eastern Germany wanted to export their fabrications of angels for Chrismas trees without internally referring to religion. They created the new word 'Gefluegelte Jahresendfigur' - a 'figure with wings for the end of the year'.
Back to the pack of predatory journalists in Brazil: they just can't confront the success story of a Northeastern metal worker becoming president. Whenever he speaks in public, they are hunting for some signs of illiteracy and they had a feast when Lula declared the other day: "tenho o casco duro", claiming it should be 'casca dura'. But the class of journalists of Brazil that is hunting for Lula-bloopers outdid themselves in their own smartness:
not being a Brazilian, it took me less than 2 minutes on the Internet to find out who's right and who's wrong!
This is silly, of course, but it comes to show that preconceived thinking combined with literal thinking makes anyone a fool of himself. To add shame to injustice, the same journalists and bloggers that blasted Lula for alleged 'erroneus Portuguese', took down their own pages ridiculizing Lula faster than you can say 'casco duro'.
Where is Google here - to conserve this outrageous, shameful behavior of the Brazilian mass media? Like in the recent case of an accident in Sao Paulo, they quickly remove any links to whatever is not convenient to the wannabe rulers and enemies of the Brazilian president, doing their part in local politics without the official status of a lobbyist. But Google's links (or non-links!) are in part controlling the Memes of the world and in this case local politics. Something that should seriously be looked into on a larger scale!
In any case, Lula, a 'simple' 'Nordestino', from a formerly poor and underdeveloped region of Brazil, rose to power in an unprecedented way and despite a massive mass media campaign of lies, unproven allegations and badmouthing in general. It was in the context of these shameful maneuvers that he stated that he survives these attacks of the mass media because of having a 'thick skin' as we would say in English.
Here is a little Portuguese lesson for the Brazilian mass media who claims that 'casco' should be 'casca' and only an illiterate person could mix those up:
'casca' - the shell of an egg, the rind of a tree
'casco' - the hull of a ship, the hoof of a horse, the shell of a tortoise
So, dear reader, what did Lula mean? That he's like an egg or a tree?
For me the message is clear and it prompted me to engage in some interesting musings about Lula's archetype: one thinks of a metal worker as an Ogun-type person. But Lula changed his career from a worker to being an advocate for workers as a syndicalist and then, much to the surprise to Brazilian Elitists, he went on to become President of Brazil. And reelected. Wow! What a shock it must be! And what a strange way to go for an Ogun! Isn't this a classic, THE classic, path of Shango?
Let's look for clues in Lula's words, not just of the other day but along the past years of presidency and we can see an old warrior carefully scheming his way amongst his own enemies, deflecting all attacks by a strong shield while maintaing his heart soft, warm, and intact, the way of the turtoise (sic!), and, after the storm is over, having the last laugh! What archetype would that be?
(Note: one can find the answer, of course, in the book 'Your Personal Archetype' (by Ed, Aaron, and myself), but you can also find it on the Internet if you sift long enough through all the trash&jewels that's out there about archetypes, Orishas, Archons, Devas, you name it). More >
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 10 Feb 2010 @ 18:50
For some time now I wanted to map out the contect of modern day Ifa.
At the same time I want to revive the concept of 'Ifa for the 21st Century', a project from the early 2000's and very useful for 2,3 years but shredded when I was traveling/working so intensely that I hardly answered my e-mails.
Recently I found MindOMO [link] , a mind-mapping software that is easy to use and share/collaborate.
As a first map, I posted above mentioned map. Whoever finds some errors, has suggestions, or wants to on or off this map, please mail me or leave a comment to this post.
Ifa for the 21st Century Mindmap: [link]
Standard Disclaimer: I don't necessarily endorse every of the links, especially those that are NOT explicitly using Ifa but provide a branch of a holistic approach (which for necessarily includes the energy and archetypes of Ifa). I do not receive any compensation or favor in listing or not listing a certain provider, organization or author. More >
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 24 Jan 2010 @ 15:22
Rest-in-Peace, Fabienne Cherisma, whether you 'stole' the printed painting from a rightful owner, or whether you saved a piece of beauty from its destruction in the rubble.
Whether deliberate shooting (something usually called murder but the mass media prefers some other wordings) or whether it was a tragic accident. Maybe nobody will ever know the exact truth of it.
But we should not only support the people of Haiti materially but also look at the damage inflicted by those who brag now of coming to 'rescue'.
The 'rescue' of the World Bank is clear: make a loan with concise political conditons attached to it and get paid back handsomly later with fat interest and interest on interest.
Behind the scenes, more from a global viewpoint, literally, another question looms:
Why are the United States trying to destroy the well-being and happiness of other countries?
And, more general, whence came, the contra-meme of 'not permitting others to be happy'?
'Technically' we could 'explain' this contra-meme as a result of what we call the 'decay scale' but this seems to put the cart before the horse. It assigns words to circumstances and pretends thus to 'explain' them, very much like Dawkins' Extended Phenotypes, in the end running around in circles and arriving at the 'conclusion' that humans would be animals.
In this line of reasoning, was it the color within the painting that caused the girl to run off with the printing and should be blame the phenotype of the color pink for the tragic event?
In any case, may the events in Haiti prompt many to reflect another time about what really provides the true worth of a human existence. More >
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 6 Jan 2010 @ 14:04
The German language has a unique wording for the inner conflict when having to choose from a selection of offers: 'die Qual der Wahl', the 'suffering of choice'.
We can choose from 5 baby doggies with a Rottie daddy and a German Shepherd mummie and 3 puppies with a German Shepherd daddy and a Rottie mummy..
And, HOW MANY of them?
If it were for Anthony, we'd take them all, of course, plus their five elders sisters, and all of the pure bred Rotties next door, plus all their friends and relatives, OF COURSE...
Dear Reader: May your choices be as vast and ample as ours in 2010 !!! More >
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 25 Dec 2009 @ 15:00
while grandson Anthony starts taking his newly won bicycle apart and I torture everyone with a new flute that I was 'gifted', along with demo and instructions, many went without a gift and some won a lot:
Brazilian's president Lula granted 50k square km to the indigenous population which will expand the native's territory to 12,5 percent of Brazilian's territory, over 1 Million km^2. Sounds good, if the mining and deforestation in those areas would stop, of course, too. Much better certainly than the US of A which 'boasts' 2.3% of its territory to be 'Indian reservations'.
Finally, Santa Claus gave a lot of free snow and ice to the Europeans and the Northamericans and something to think about, or should I say 'feel about'?
Happy Christmas to everybody from the whole gang here in the jungle :)
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Addendum Xmas Gifts, Dec 25th:
- Lula, in a Christmas nite blitz, also established healthcare and retirement for the 'people of the streets', the homeless. [link]
- free book (in portuguese) along with free music from various sources, 2nd installation of a virtual book project of Investigative reporter Claudio Tognolli [link] More >
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 17 Dec 2009 @ 19:16
Everytime I visited my friend Bruce in Pasadena, I giggled&admired the giant poster he had in his office. It came from the Albert Ellis Institute once [link] and I recreated it here for the BLOG...
Truly a golden rule :)
Looking the Albert Ellis site, they have an interesting-sounding game there, the “Let’s Get Rational” Game [link]
Would get it myself to check it out if I wouldn't hang out in Brazil.. anything going to there from the US is at least for times its price, with freight and import taxes.
Which reminds me to remind you that it's still time to get some interesting things as Xmas presents for your loved ones such as:
- the revolutionary book 'Polar Dynamics 1' [link]
- the Logs from a time 5 years before the BLOG arrived, a PhiloFi series: the Logs of JD Flora
- Ed's fantastic PhiloFi [link]
- a book better than the Dan Brown stuff from someone who doesn't want that I say who he is: [link]
- something to think about: Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond [link]
- some modern Orisha music if it's getting too boring [link]
(lastly, if you have something yourself to add, drop me a line!)
Happy (intelligent!) xmas shopping!!! More >
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 15 Dec 2009 @ 14:01
MJ sang:
"Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times
Blame it on the boogie!"
He got it wrong, sorry. It was and is, like always. God's fault! The Boogie man must be him, after all he made it all possible!
Exactly like the contamination of today's world's rice crops with an experimental variety called LL601. It was tested and found not worthy around 2001 and today it's all over the place.
Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, N.C, knows exactly why: it's them stupid farmers and an "act of God", [link]
So, don't blame it on the Boogie, pleeeze..
Did I mention that the "variety" was never approved by the "authorities"?
(Bayer is working hard on that to fix that retroactively, it's been only 8 yrs after all since they did it, after all).
Should I mention that it was following Monsanto's weird-killer ’roundup ready’ strategy of usurping the world markets? [link]
Smart move, if your patented genes show up around the world, you own the world! Sure, you got the "copyright"! If them stupid farmers don't want'em it's their problem.
Maybe I should mention the industry labs are 'certain' that a connection Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and Bayer's pesticide of the bee colonies cannot be proven
Not in 2000 when it was banned in France [link] much less in 2009 [link]
Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the wealth of nations gets redistributed over an issue that REALLY could be seen as an "act of God", at least if you're Sun worshipper: the notorious ClimateChange [link] (note to the link: the guys say something plausible while still not realizing that temperatures are DROPPING since years. [link]
Let's keep our heads cool, too! It's of no use to jump from one hype into the next.
Let's not forget to push for Open Science and to get politicians and industry to stop telling scientists what to publish or not to publish. And, last not least, let's get the judges out of the labs, telling us what 'science' is good for us and what is 'bad'!
If in doubt, remember, don'sing along with Michael RIP, but chant:
"Let's blame it on the sunshine!"
Can't go wrong with that one :) More >
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 11 Dec 2009 @ 16:38
While we arrived at a fairly comprehensive update of the ancient system of Ifá for modern times in regards to the primal energies (Olodus), there still was a considerable lack of linking energies and the archetypes.
Note, that the primal energies (Olodus) can be seen as an axiomatic system of the 16 basic principles of anything that exists (see Polar Dynamics 1 by Sandor/Dawson [link] )and it's binary geometry is reflected in the Toth Diagram [link] .
The Archetypes (or Archons, Devas, Orishas, Spiritual Guides, or Archangels, Sephiroth, whatever you like to call them) never fit exactly in the binary structure of the energy polarities (Olodus). It was significant to realize that contemplating the binary sequence alone was not sufficient. One crucial question was the overlap of the Eshu (counter) forces from below with the Orisha forces from 'above'.
Note, that this way of seeing 'creation' is NOT 'creationalistic' but supports the concept of 'evolution', and very much so, except for the 'design' aspect and the 'first unfolding', two topics for which the 'evolutionist' do NOT have a response themselves.
When I branched out to the decimal system of 'counting' the archetypal forces, I looked again at the odd relationship between the number of 201 Archetypes (in this aspect also called Irunmole) and the number of 256 energies (Olodus) out of which they spring, and then, after realizing that there are 55 prime numbers between 1 and 256, saw that the Archetypes arise out of the 201 non-prime numbers and that the 55 prime numbers are allocated exclusively to Eshus (and another force which I will not name here).
Edward J. Dawson spearheaded a new division of the Archetypes in the past years. A part of this work is reflected in our book 'Your Personal Archetype' [link] but much progress was made since then. Most importantly, he realized the concordance of the 6 archetypes, 3 males and 3 females, with the concept of the 'triune brain' (link?) and charted the four-directional subdivision of the 6 'archetype complexes', matching them with 'traditional' observation.
Already some time ago, I found that the numbering within one of the traditional Ifa divination systems, the 'Merindinlogun', is the 'real' numbering system within the Archetypes and that it is a decimal and not a binary system. It took longer to also find out that it is multiplication that creates 'offspring' of the main archetypes and not addition (as it is predominant in 'sacred number' theories).
Looking at the number space in relation to the archetypal forces, I arrived at a crystal, and with the help of the 2.5yr old crystal child Anthony, as you can see in the photo attached, we made a little 'clay-match-demo' of Anthony's Crystal!
How would a 'new/old Genesis' then read when built onto the decimal numberspace? More >
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 11 Dec 2009 @ 13:26
After ClimateGate comes another major blow for the (religious) institution called 'Science': the Nobel Prize Award for a war apologist. [link]
How low can it get before the 'scientific community' wakes up and defends its own integrity?
As far as Afghanistan goes: see [link] and [link]
"In 2007, Afghanistan supplied 93% of the world's opium, according to the U.S. State Department. Illicit poppy production, meanwhile, brings $4 billion into Afghanistan, or more than half the country’s total economy of $7.5 billion, according to the United Nations Office of Drug Control (UNODC)."
Congrats to all the nations who help Obama to continue this scheme, including the Germans [link] who really should know better. Oh well...
On the bright side, there's sun out there, the first time in some weeks, maybe we'll have a bit of summer coming down to Brazil after all :) More >
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