The Sandorian Grove

Holiday A Parody

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:19:02 GMT

stumbled across an excellent article Lew Rockwells cool site http://www.lewrockwell.com/

Below saves me writing myself, good grief, my thoughts exactly..

Unfortunately, this craziness is not limited to the US, it existed and exists throughout the world, wherever crazy men congregate to rule over others...

But there it is:

"A Fresh Look at Holidays"

by Butler Shaffer

I have long been a critic of the states co-option of holidays to serve governmental purposes, thus negating the messages these holidays originally served. July 4th designed to celebrate independence from the state has been refashioned as a holiday for revelling in the states favorite activity, war. Television treats us to a seemingly endless supply of John Wayne films, urging us to embrace the contradictory idea that submitting ourselves to increased state power is the way to promote our liberty! It is such twisted thinking that leads those who refuse to examine the content of their minds to bleat about the soldiers who "fight for our freedom." What nonsense. Shall we next be told that Sunset Boulevard hookers are peddling virtue?

Just how far we have contorted our thinking about "independence day" is reflected in most peoples thinking about fireworks. Like private gun-ownership, our personal use of fireworks represents too much power in the hands of individuals. And so, we confine ourselves to the absurdity of having the state celebrate our liberty and independence for us!@
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see the full article here http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer178.html

Notes for a recent speech

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:50:59 GMT

Here is the draft I made for a speech I delivered yesterday near Sao Paulo, Brazil. While I drafted along, perhaps to relativate the idealism expressed in my speech, a tucano intruded our lovely home to steal my daily bread from the plate... should I rescind my visions?

[draft]:
In a time in which so many diverse efforts are being made to bring oneself closer to one's own origin, to 'reconnect' (Latin 'religere', hence religion) to our Source, we see also many, many efforts to manipulate others to surrender to slavery, not just on the personal level, but planetwide, on a global level. We see how some groups impose their belief systems onto others with force, be it openly or in disguise.

As chaotic and confusing as the situation of mankind seems in these years, it is yet this chaos that provides an incredible opportunity for conscient Human Beings to easier go beyond and at the same time reach deeper than in other times...
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Platonic Gunas: thymos, eros & logos

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:03:48 GMT

The closest to the type of triad that was published in 'Cosmic Glue Part 4' is the model of Plato, the parts of which he called thymos, eros & logos.

As with Freud's similar model, what prevented me in the past referencing to these models were the confusions, implications, and contradicting interpretations that are floating around.

However, seeing these models as FRACTAL INSTANTIATIONS of the all-encompassing model of the Gunas (a model pre-dating all other such known models) it is possible to make their models work with the following specifications:
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Cosmic Glue Part 4: A method for neutralizing VANITY

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:04:55 GMT

Isntt there anything more important to investigate than vanity?

Perhaps not, at least at a certain point during personal evolvement. After all, there are strong indicators that the BASIC GLUE of non-optimal behavior patterns, some call it 'case', may in fact be based on what falls under the heading of the fuzzy word 'vanity'.

Vanity comes in so many flavors that it seems difficult to 'catch'. Typically, people find it ONLY present in other people, rarely in oneself, and if the latter should occur, there will be certainly good reasons to tolerate it for the sake of a greater cause or simply one's own survival.

Some flavors seem easy to recognize, such as 'arrogance'. Likewise, some of its strongest 'negative' manifestations, demotivation, 'feeling without purpose', 'no future', and the like, seem quite obvious.

It may come as a surprise that EVERY human emotion condition, good or bad, may have a COMPONENT of a flavor of vanity. Even though these components appear to be very 'weak' forces, they still glue the REST of the entire condition together. Neutralizing these 'vanity aspects' opens up hidden layers of 'case' in no time and dramatically increases 'perceptions'. In fact, one of the major impediments of 'perceptions' that were found during earlier studies on how to improve perceptions (see past articles on this BLOG) were leading to the detection of 'vanity' as a basic factor, if not the basic GLUE, that is holding down the awareness of the Being (and not just the ordinary 'human' part of it).

The only effective way to neutralize 'vanity components' found so far consists of the following: more >

(Edward J. Dawson) Technical announcement about olodu

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:09:19 GMT

(note from mx: the following is from a message from Ed. Note that there are no changes to the wheels as such but rather a model of how the olodu groups evolved. Instead of a circle, one can visualize a 3D-spiral and it becomes clear how the final wheel evolves).

This is highly technical and probably can only be understood by someone who truly understands the 16 olodu. To others I apologize and you may please ignore this data.

I did an analysis of the #1 wheel and it resulted in greater clarity in understanding how a level of four item becomes a set of four olodu.

The top level of four item can be called Mathematicals (inside), or the Tools of God (outside). I am on the verge of renaming it the Prime Operator (Thank you, Rita Zousel). When the Prime Operator splits in half, one half is a finite and the other an infinite application of the Prime Operator. In the past I expressed this clumsily as "relative" and "absolute", which is not perfectly true. What is perfectly true is finite and infinite...
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A brand new book on an old ugly topic by Carse

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:47:22 GMT

Ed alerted me to a book release today, May 29th, written by one of the few authors I wholeheartedly admire, James P. Carse. a Professor Emeritus of Religion at New York University, where for thirty years he directed the Religious Studies Program. His previous books include The Silence of God, Finite and Infinite Games, and Breakfast at the Victory.

The new book is titled:
The Religious Case Against Belief
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (May 29, 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594201692/ref=pe_606_9400550_pe_ar_v1

From the Editorial Review: more >

Cosmic Glue Part 3

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:56:59 GMT

It was speculated, in especially by late 'founder' Hubbard, that the most valuable particle in the Universe would be an 'admiration particle' (why not a wave?) At the very least it appears to be the most sought after energy around and if this Universe would be really based on 'vanity', there must be a certain relationship between the two.

One way to look at it would be to see it from a causative Vs being-effect viewpoint. And in fact there is an interesting relationship.

If a Being's principal motivation would be showing off itself (vanity), it would seek to cause its own display in order to bring about a flow of 'admiration particles' towards itself, in other words making itself the 'effect' of an outside flow. (In narcissism, this flow is self-created).

Here something interesting occurs routinely: the Being thinks of being causative while RECEIVING an admiration (particle or wave, whatever) that was originally prompted by him, as a result swapping cause and effect viewpoints due to the neglect of differentiating between the two.

As a consequence the Being thinks it is the ONLY cause, disregarding the codependent factors of its creation (Gotamo Siddharto is still right, yeah!, see earlier articles on Cause&Effect!)

This now is a simple definition of the "Yaltabaoth Virus" which could be seen as the most basic "bug" of this Universe. Yet, instead of a mere postulate, like in the Gnostic teachings, we can now imagine at least part of the mechanism leading to its creation. Furthermore we can start speculating from where the ORIGINAL deficiency
arrived instead of just blaming it on Sophia.

The cause/effect model is static and inherently limited, so let's look at it from the point of the more dynamic model of the be-do-have triad: more >

The Bug in this Universe: found ... but then it escaped again..

Mon, 26 May 2008 01:37:40 GMT

Finally I had a glimpse of the Bug of the Universe: one of our new family additions (2 German shepherds} barked up a wall, and there, besides a crack in the wall, I found it: the Bug in this Universe.

Fortunately I could make a foto before it escaped again. Unfortunately, it appears to be a design flaw rather than a bug that could be isolated.

Still examining its chemical compounds, give me a few days, and I'll finally write the third part to the 'Cosmic Glue' series (see Sandor's Purple Notebook http://orunla.org/pnohteftu/contents.html, not updated in over 5 years, tzzz)

But if you take my last post and do the math, you'll find it for yourself...
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The Vanity of the Universe - now copyrited...

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:55 GMT

It has always a well-guarded secret of the true shamans that the world at its basic core is VAIN, VAIN, VAIN.

Of course, they would rarely talk about it, just observe it. After all, the latest product of the Universe in our area around here, homo sapiens, is equally vain, vain, vain, and would therefore not appreciate any such comments.

This may change now. The truth of the vanity of the Universe has a cute name (UQV) and a claim to copyright. Congrats go to superultramodern KEDAR JOSHI! http://superultramodern.gaia.com/

Here is the abstract of his discovery: more >

Fretless Perceptions

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:29:42 GMT

The other day I finished a conversion from a 'normal' guitar to a fretless one, giving me the inspiration to consider anew some unresolved questions:

- whereas the ability to 'classify' is the hallmark for human intelligence (some schools using it as its actual definition), continued use appears to result in a degrade of the original ability to perceive what was classified).

The most dramatic example is human language, of course. Count Alfred Korzybski was going so far to base insanity in general upon the misuse of identifying (literally) an actual object (thing) with the word that is representing it. (see http://www.general-semantics.org/ )

Earlier this year I was experimenting with a new rundown to "remove the bias on perceptions". The results were astonishing and clearly demonstrate that language is just one example of self-imposed limitations and the problem lies deep in the Being's loss of the ability to differentiate perceptions.

But back to the 'fretless guitar': playing with frets only allows for playing combinations of the Western tone scale (if tuned to usual standards). Of course, one could detune the entire guitar but that would result in yet another closed framework of sounds. Like painting only with 7 colors in 3 or 4 shadings. On the other hand the modern guitar works exceedingly well the way it is. Going back, at least for the experiment, is quite a feat. Forces to listen carefully instead of just playing mechanically.

On my long, long list of actual perceptions (much much longer than Hubbard's confused arrangement of 57 perceptions) is the perception of the archetype of a person. Which is another perfect example of a lost ability even amongst most of those who think of themselves as experts, for example in the field of 'Orishas'.
Resetting the classification and 'refinding' it from scratch provided a great way to enhance perceptions.

Now I gotta get back to practice the guitar for some months (years?)...

oh well, hope my hands&arms dont fall off...