Monday, March 30, 2009

Infant Rearing - HeartStart Homeschool Program

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What exactly do you teach in this infant education program you're propounding?

0- 3 years
Natural birthing
three years breast-feeding
until weaning
unbroken body-contact (never put the baby down and leave it alone)
three year sibling spacing (no spiteful sibling rivalry)
active yet peaceful home-life
infant tied to mom's body
constantly observant of all that is going on
plenty of cuddling tickling and fun

All that good stuff
coming from parents who are profoundly conscious
of how easily mental and emotional dysfunction can take place
and who see parenthood as the most vital occupation on the planet.

The HeartStart Homeschool program goes on from there....... :D

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Consciousness & Technology

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:Consciousness is selecting improvements for it's own use - what do think?



Populations impacting exponentially on an over-stressed environments
force consciousness to invent new and improved technological survival tools
new technologies require new, more extended and more complex social contracts
more complex social relations
require new spiritual revelations
in this way
via natural evolutionary forces
consciousness has evolved from the naivete of the animist hunter/gatherer
though the agricultural shaman
industrial religious orthodoxy
and scientific protestant
towards higher states of self-awareness
until it ultimately reaches a transcendental state
of Cosmic Consciousness
where technology is no longer required
and mind conquers matter

Monday, March 23, 2009

Conscious Motivation

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However, that said, one can also take the argument that it is consciousness, and the motives thereof, that drove the evolution of technology, rather than the other way around.

Personally, as always, I prefer the both/and, not the either/or.




Two things drive the evolution of consciousness
survival needs
and ethical application

It is for this reason the cortex is divided into two hemispheres
Sperry's experiments in split-brain dissection have proved
that we have two separate modes of perception
analytical and intuitive
Communication between these two spheres
determines both inspirational invention and ethical action

The human brain had to evolve to a large enough cubic capacity
able to transcend basic primate survival needs
in order to accomplish the more responsible (and potentially more damaging) uses
of advanced technologies

Development of both brains
was more or less equal during both the Stone and Bronze Ages
more in the Stone and less in the Bronze
increasing needs for oral-based communication artificially modified our behavior
and to some extent distorted natural ethical behavior

The invention of script with its spiritual emphasis
though a specific Iron Age survival need for national cohesion
and to ensure a conscientious attitude towards craftsmanship
also served to drastically alter our developmental dynamics
and further accelerated the distortion in ethical behavior

Science's dismissal of religious beliefs during the present Steel Age
has made further inroads into behavioral ethics

The dilemma we face right now
is that our mass education system in serious imbalance
it concentrates almost exclusively on analytical development
so we are left with adult abilities to analyze
and undeveloped childish abilities to moralize

This imbalance has to be corrected
our technologies are far too dangerous
to be handled by children

Our school curriculums on the advent of the Nuclear Age technologies
urgently need equal emphasis in left and right brain drills and exercises

Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Four Stages of Life

For thousands of years
Chinese society based their collective ethic
on four distinct stages of life.

1. 0 - 21 years Student
2. 21 - 42 years State Steward
3. 42 - 63 years Parent/Mastership/Home estate
4. 63 - 84 years Retirement/Sage/Advisor

The motivation for living the good life
in each stage of the evolving consciousness,
is based on relative perceptions of Time

Infants live in the here and now
and then ambitiously begin to look ahead into the future
for the next 42 years
and remain concerned with what value society places on them

At menopause one arrives at self mastership,
accepts present circumstances
and concentrates on building a sound home and family.

At retirement the sage looks backwards into the past,
takes stock of life
and is more concerned with what he or she feels
towards the society that supported their life,
rather than what others think of him or her.

I am now three years into that final stage of life
and spend much of my retirement in past reflections

It is these summations of the past
that I share on these philosophical forums
with little concern for what you think of me
and much concern on my part
for the affect the past has on present circumstances
and its portents for the future

Friday, March 20, 2009

The Spiritual Imperative

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Philosophy is about what everyone can know/learn/experience about the world, religious experiences are strictly personal and have no place in general discourse.


Our world Holy Scriptures are a record of mankind's earliest philosophical discourses
The fact that they were all theologically orientated
should remain of extreme significance to all philosophers
and not be relegated into the bin of primitive superstition.

Millions of reciorded super-natural testaments made in every culture throughout recorded time
provide a vast body of circumstantial evidence
which informs us that subjective meta-normal experiences
shared with the rest of us by those millions of psychics
is an essential aspect of the human condition.

Science observes the finite
by its own admission
it can never crack the light barrier
which leaves us isolated forever
on a tiny planet on the extreme edge of one of trillions of galaxies

So eventually
without the benefit of our intuitive knowledge
that the spirit is infinite
and the continuous validation of that fact by some of us
science would inevitably lead us all into a state of collective boredom
and mass suicide

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Superstition

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Then screw the absolute standard of goodness. Let people decide for themselves what is wrong and what is right. That's what I generally call individuality.


The degree of personal responsibility implied by individuality
and the penalties for mistake are so great
any premature assumption of that right
is disgraceful,

A child freshly weaned at three years
needs a standard of goodness to focus on
and since they are naturally superstitious
to the invisible forces of Nature that surround them
it is wise of the parent to tune in to these currents of energy
and encourage the child to tread carefully
and not think or act destructively
and thereby not evoke adverse reactions from Nature

Nature out of self-preservation
imposes an absolute standard of good behavior
DO NOT TRESPASS

I have tested that superstition out on all eight of my children
and it has worked like a charm
Every scratch, bump, bruise, bite,
occurred after they have made a trespass
sometimes the reaction came within seconds!

The net positive psychological gain was
THEY NEVER SAW THEMSELVES AS VICTIMS
ALWAYS AS ACTORS
and never came crying for sympathy

By age seven every one of them was entirely self-policed
and tried their best to obey an absolute standard of good behavior
by puberty they were already adults
and never needed another day of parental supervision

They are full adults now
and not one of them believes in coincidence
or accident

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

God, Devil & Freewill

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The believer and the skeptic are even. Now, can you deal with that?


I you were a betting man you would know
they are not even
the odds are with the believer
If the skeptic is wrong about God, he loses his bet
If he is right he has no way of collecting his winnings.

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MM, if you are really a thinker, a philosopher, then you ought to consider all the possibilities involved in such speculations. God might exist, very well. But he can also be just a projection of our own natures, a product of our imaginative inquiries.

No man can call himself a philosopher
until he has passed through both gates of Heaven and Hell.
He must experience the ecstatic height of eternal life
and horrible abyss of total annihilation
and from that pilgrimage into the self
determine his world view

I take my hat off to the satanist
who would face the putrid puss of the abyss unflinching
but I will not embrace him

God, Devil & Freewill

Effort wrote:


The believer and the skeptic are even. Now, can you deal with that?

I you were a betting man you would know
they are not even
the odds are with the believer
If the skeptic is wrong about God, he loses his bet
If he is right he has no way of collecting his winnings.

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MM, if you are really a thinker, a philosopher, then you ought to consider all the possibilities involved in such speculations. God might exist, very well. But he can also be just a projection of our own natures, a product of our imaginative inquiries.

No man can call himself a philosopher
until he has passed through both gates of Heaven and Hell.
He must experience the ecstatic height of eternal life
and horrible abyss of total annihilation
and from that pilgrimage into the self
determine his world view

I take my hat off to the satanist
who would face the putrid puss of the abyss unflinching
but I will not embrace him

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Dogma

I have two female friends
I like them both
for they are sincere in their beliefs

One is deeply religious
a devout believer in God
and life hereafter
She believes in the Holy Scriptures
to the letter.

The other is firmly scientific
a complete atheist
who will argue relentlessly
that there is no such thing as God
or any life after death
and lives a life devoted to empiricism

If I was to marry
seeking someone
only to be a mother and housewife
I would marry the religious
knowing that she would be a loyal wife
and loving mother.

If I was to marry someone
only seeking a practical partner in the business of life
I would marry the scientist
knowing that she would be a reasonable wife
and encouraging mother

But in free choice
I would marry neither
for both are fixed in dogma
and have no mind of their own

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Global Economy

Environmental imperatives
have always dictated our social contracts.

There are natural laws of non-trespass that all living organisms (other than parasites)
are subject to.

During the Stone Age
family groups of hunter/gatherers each established their own territorial boundaries.
Those boundaries were determined via a symbiotic arrangement with Nature. (Their annual circuit around their territory had to allow time for plant and animal recovery.) This determined the size of each territory -larger in arid regions and smaller in clement regions.

Population increases resulted in a gradual migration up Africa, into Europe Asia and the rest of the world.

Over-crowding in more fertile regions led to the invention of on Agri-based economy
Clan boundaries were established

Clan Agriculture led eventually to national boundaries, craftsmanship, and an industrial-based economy.

National over-crowding led to imperialism and international colonies and high-tec economies.

We are now faced with globalization and the end of man-made boundaries

The global economy of the future will be based on independently managed eco-boundaries,
Each eco-system will be determined by its own water tables with its economy based on the optimum uses of sustainable resources. Trade will be based on surplus production.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

The Evolution of Human Consciousness

Africa is the common homeland of all mankind.

Africa also remains the last living repository of precisely what went on in our prehistoric periods.

The San Bushmen of the Kalahari are among the last remnants of our Stone Age culture.
Rural tribal Bantu groups are among the last remnants of our Bronze Age culture.
I spend half my life studying both the San and the Bantu tribes and have constructed our entire forgotten past from those researches.

One can argue that I am making suppositions.
That is true.
But I have reason for faith in my interpretations

Decades of direct experience on the ground among those surviving cultures, clearly reveal the social organizational imperatives that forced both family group hunter/gatherers and clan group agriculture's to remain within prescribed survival parameters.
Comparisons with existing shamanist practices as far apart as Siberia and North America with those practiced in Africa, tend to confirm basic Bronze Age cultural similarities.

From these researches I have defined the following.

The Stone Age is defined by Hunter/gatherer family groups who survive via a social ethic of meticulous sharing, and an intuitive spiritual sense that Nature is a conscious organism, jealously guarding against destructive trespass. They are all Animists

The Bronze Age is defined by an agricultural existence, extended family cooperation, oral-based communication and clan totemism.
Ancestral worship is practiced via the medium of psychically gifted shamans.

These fundamental social and spiritual realities are the the common prehistoric denominators that guided the development of all human cultures.

It is from that common foundation that all Iron Age nations were formed and developed individual script-based industrial organizations.

All of that prehistoric development is lost in all but the remotest regions of the world.

Three early English pioneer colonists were witness to the federation of the Nguni clans under the despotic rule of the warlord, Shaka Zulu, in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Their surviving diaries describing that momentous event provided me with a clear window into the exact moment a Bronze Age culture came to an end, and how an Iron Age of national organization began.

The on-going survival of a ruling dynasty also reveals why the need for and introduction of orthodox scriptures were a national imperative It made me realize that by learning the mechanics of grammar via scriptural missionaries, the precise spiritual stimulus was created to sustain conscientious craftsmanship as well as engage the human intellect in abstract reasoning, necessary for a further Age of scientific determinism and religious protest to arise out of the Iron Age.

Thus the Iron Age is defined by national industrialization with conscientious craftsmanship religiously sustained by orthodox Scriptural observances

The Steel Age is defined by international colonization, scientific intellectual self-determinism and religious protestation

This logical evolutionary progression of human development through four distinct Ages of mass changes of consciousness is common to all developed cultures.

With the introduction of the nuclear theory, which explains the relationship between orthodox religion and the reasons for protestation, all indications are the we now face a 5th mass shift of human consciousness into the formation of a Nuclear Age Global Cooperative, with us all involved in sustainable planet management and practicing an ontological form of spirituality.

If you are interested, the exact circumstances of my research can be found in
Psyche-Genetics - The Metaphysical Implications of Human Evolution.
If you PM me I will give you the link.

Monday, March 02, 2009

It is Time to bring Incest out of the Family Closet

The taboo against incest began
as a clan custom during the Bronze Age

Virgins received a high bride price
This assured paternity
and helped to cement clan alliances

The hold-over into modern times
makes no sense
keeping incest in the closet
is causing untold harm

Thousands
if not millions of families
are forced by law
to live lives of fear and shame
because some damn fool geneticists
a century ago,
interested only in laboratory statistics,
stated that a small percentage of incestuous offspring,
might suffer some form of genetic disorder.

And what I am saying
loud and clear
so that deaf ears might hear

Firstly:
The whole of species evolution
is founded on incest
it is therefore
not even remotely unnatural,

Secondly
healthy parents
no matter what their relationship
will beget perfectly healthy off spring
and unhealthy parents
not matter what their relationship
will beget unhealthy offspring

Thirdly
the law against incest
is unjustly and cruelly punishing the innocent
for no sound reason.

It should be put aside
and allow families
to come out of the closet
and live normal lives

I would like to know what anybody with some balls
has to say about all that.