Category: Culture

Human sacrifices

Here's an issue you might want to think about. The Ego and capitalism are inseparably related. Neither want to contemplate, or hear about the possibility of sacrifice. But sacrifices need to be made. So who decides who is to be sacrificed? Are we talking about human sacrifices?

Navigating a fragmented life

One of the biggest misconceptions we have about life is that we assume that life is complete. Life is never ever complete. Life is a never ending process or sequence of random happenings, events, conflicts, puzzles, things which don't fit neatly together and contradictions. The tools we have to understand life are insufficient, memory, language and intellect. So how do we navigate this experience we call life?

The rape of Mother Nature Essay

I am a staunch conservative. To those who know me this might come as a surprise, but in terms of ecology and environmental issues, and on account of being a shaman, I am a conservative. If plants and trees had human rights I would be speaking out in defence of them, which is what I'm doing here. So let's start by assuming that plants and trees have human rights.

The mystical experience

A few people have asked me to write about the mystical experience. This I am willing to do of course, but to understand the mystical experience for what it is we need to understand what reality is. This is what I want to get into in this post so if you read this you should get an insight into both reality and also the mystical experience.

Complexity in obesity

This is a post about obesity and the complexity of obesity as a health issue. Forget about the simplistic platitude 'eat less, exercise more' because that's not going to help you lose weight. Obesity is a complex medical issue and there's a hard truth about obesity which doesn't get said often enough. If you're looking to lose weight you're going to have to investigate and you're going to have to pay attention to relationships. Let's get into some of the variables you need to be thinking about.

War

Sleep is generally regarded as a good thing. We all need to sleep. But it is also extremely important in life not to be so asleep that your life is a failure. But what has this got to do with war?

My way or the highway?

This is another post about free will and personal agency or responsibility. Just to make it interesting and yet clear I'm going to start with an old Frank Sinatra song sung by Elvis Presley... the song is of course titled 'My way'.

The Texas Example

Today we're going to be looking at capital punishment in Texas as an example of how believing in free will completely skews your perception and your understanding of reality. Much of what I'm about to write applies equally to the Western WASP cultural concept of criminal justice, but Texas makes a good example because we can see how murder perpetuates murder leaving behind nothing but victims.

Capitalism and democracy

As this is a year of elections for many people reading this I feel it's worth getting into the dilemma of voting in an election, which brings most people face to face with an conflict between the natural and the ideological. Many people seem to have this idea that voting in an election is preferable to not voting and that if you do not vote then you have no 'right' to complain about the system. Okay then, so what is the benefit of voting?

The principles of stress

Today I'm going to write about the basic principles of stress. Stress and how you experience it is a key component of the mystical transaction (the subject of my previous post) and your life experience so I think it's best to write a blog post about stress and the basic principles of how stress works.

The mystical transaction

For weeks I've been wanting to write about mind over matter, which a few people have asked me to. But it's difficult to write about mind over matter without also writing about neural plasticity and what neural plasticity is all about. Therefore I'm going to write about the mystical transaction which involves both mind over matter and also neural plasticity.

An example of being messed up in the head

I rarely write about news and current affairs, but today I make an exception. Following on from my previous post 'Things which mess you up in the head' a news story broke which provides a very clear example of what it means to be messed up in the head. I'm referring to the story involving Tory donor Frank Hester's comments about Labour MP Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female politician. So we're going to take an opportunity to examine what it means to be messed up in the head within the context of racism.

One in five

This is another post inspired by one of my social media posts on Reddit. This was in response to the question "What is a ticking time bomb that very few people are aware of?'. I gave another simple answer 'societal collapse', but qualified this response by what I'm going to write about today in this post.

The monkey on your back

What I'm going to write about today was originally intended to be a post on the social media platform Reddit in response to the question "What do people do the hard way because they don't know the easy way?" I came up with a one word answer - relationships.

Understanding the darkness in your soul

In this post I write about desire, attachments, expectations, and the inner struggle and battles we all experience in life. This post is based on an extract from my new book titled 'The Loving Space'

Love and reincarnation

Energy and consciousness are equal to one another in the same way as karma is always equal to reincarnation. This means that karma is always equal to love, truth, beauty, and courage. At the top of the pyramid of human living existence all these things become one.

The paradox of greed and selfishness

In this post we're going to look at the paradox of greed and selfishness. Hopefully by the end of this post you will see how when distorted by separateness greed and selfishness can be powerfully destructive to both society and the environment. But hopefully also you will see how both greed and selfishness can be transformed into a basis for both spiritual and social liberation.

Relative truth

Absolute truth has no physical form. This is because absolute truth is pure consciousness. It can be insight, it can be what you glean from actual reality, for example what comes to your senses when you look at the sky, or a tree. You can call it insight, or even inspiration. But once truth or consciousness enters into a relationship it becomes relative truth. Therefore absolute truth cannot be expressed in words.

Separateness: the fundamentals of self-deception

In this post I dig deeper into separateness, the fundamental issue affecting all of Mankind, and explain how it relates to the various deceptions and self deceptions we all participate in to maintain Ego, ideologies, authority and hierarchy structures and that what we call society.

Where there is Ego, there is fear

It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what your background is, your social status or 'position' in life, your Ego, identity, personality or self-image is a compromise in a long standing conflict between self and other...

Home by the sea

I think in my blog post about Neptune a couple of blog posts back I mentioned that I was going to take you through the lyrics of three songs. Well we've gone through 'Stairway to Heaven', last post we did Electric Light Orchestra's 'Can't Get It Outta My Head'. Following on with the Neptune in Sagittarius theme we're now going to travel to 1983 with Neptune about to leave the sign of Sagittarius and enter the cardinal Earth sign of Capricorn. Today we're going to be going through the lyrics of a Genesis song titled 'Home by the sea'.

When you can't get it out of your head

Today I'm going to be writing about the mystical experience using one of the most beautiful songs from the 1970's - 'Can't get it outta my head' by the Electric Light Orchestra.

Satanic Led Zeppelin?

In this blog post I'm going to address a Youtube video where the author claims that the song Stairway to Heaven is evil and part of the satanic agenda of British rock band Led Zeppelin. So grab a coffee, get yourself comfy, and let's unpack this gem together.

Neptune in music in 1971

This is going to be one of my more 'far out' blog posts - so you're going to have to indulge me. The subject for today is the planet Neptune, its astrological symbolism, and it's influence on culture and music.

The enlightenment puzzle

I'm going to try and keep this post shorter than my previous post. What I want to write about today is enlightenment. What actually is enlightenment? How do you achieve enlightenment? More to the point, how do you know that you are enlightened? How do you know that someone else is enlightened?

Conceptual living

This is a post about life or rather a concept of living. I'm referring to a concept of life which we all developed roughly around the ages of eight or nine. This concept of life is what we generally use as a yardstick or reference model for life or what life should be. Often this yardstick or reference which makes us resistant to change and not really that open to what is actually going on around us. It's kind of like an emotional or psychological straitjacket. Let me go a bit deeper into this.

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