Emanual Kant - On Enlightenment

Enlightenment is man's emergence from self-imposed immaturity
Nothing is required of this enlightenment except freedom
and freedom to question is the least harmful of them all
namely the freedom to use reason publicly in all that matters
Immanual Kant 1724-1804

Yesterday I came across this rationale on Enlightenment
while reading some of Thomas Jefferson's papers on democratic government. 

It echoes my own independent view 
on what the meaning of Enlightenment is,
as explained a week or so ago in one of my posts

Kant went on to say:
Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding
without guidance from another
This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause
lies not in the lack of understanding
but in the lack of courage to use it
without guidance from another

This again echoes to some extent
my argument against state school teachers
and textbook instruction
both of which train the student to lean on guidance
and never mature as free thinkers
able to trust in their own reasoning powers

such students go through life
relying on textbooks and bibles as their primary guides
and then add insult to free reason
by quoting the Laws written in their Constitutions and Scriptures
calling themselves professors

Democracy is not possible
if the mind is not matured enough
for each individual citizen
to reason from personal experience
and have the courage to act on it

And so it is
that although we have the Internet
to explain and elucidate on any issue involving the government of our public lives
and the ability to immediately communicate our personal vote on each issue
we continue to rely
like little children
on representative guidance in our Congress
suffer the grid lock of party politics
and the inroads of special interests

Desert Psalm

There can be no isolation
when God is around
I hear His voice clearest
not in the barker's hubub
of market sound
it is in the silent keep
of the desert deep
that God is found

in the distant mirage
of the hot desert mound

where tarantulas creep
and the yuccas weep
God is abound

His dancing form
whirling around
in dusty storm
darting wild
in jack rabbit bound

at night in crystal sky
and milky moon
when coyotes cry
and the joshua swoon
in a whispering sound
the sigh of a lost soul
is gracefully found

Collaboration on HeartStart Dual Brain Program

Dear Erica

Thanks for all your interest
I do believe our meeting is fortuitous

your projected move from Natal to the Cape is a wise one
more than just aesthetic'
also politically sound

africa is just now leaving the agricultural bronze age
and experiencing the same start to a post colonial industrialized iron age
as tribal europe did in post roman times
the imposition of democracy in a tribal milieu is at least five generations premature
tribalism dies hard and will inevitably experience its own dark age
of gradual collective self realization
european colonials to not need that same lesson of ancient history all over again
imho
if white colonials are to survive in tribal south africa
we will have to do so as a tribe ourselves
we settled in the cape before black migration reached there
we need to retrek back there as a concerted front
my family has 13 generations invested in SA ( i also have afrikaans blood)

we shall see
what we shall see

my earlier reference to possible collaboration
refers to a highly successful dual brain home-school program (HeartStart)
that i have developed over the past 30 years
and applied to all seven of my kids since birth

in essence it refutes David Hume's argument
that each child is born into the world as empty vessels

current state schooling applies Hume's principle
down-loading data out of prescribed text books
into a supposedly empty left brain

Heartstart argues that the DNA is imprinted
with the entire survival behavioral experiences of 3 billion years of evolution
including 100,000 generations of human ancestral smarts

since the 1970'sthere has been growing research
into left and right brain modes of perception
i am one of the few educators to apply and stimulate dual brain dynamics
and have uncovered certain vital anomalies in right/left brain communications
that have yet to be shared with the scientific community

in essence I have developed a methodology for kids
all by themselves
to access the accumulated knowledge of mankind stored in the DNA
and tutor themselves at puberty
and then add current knowledge to old
via surfing the internet
which they do with great enthusiasm

all my kids have graduated with top academic marks in all high school subjects
without any textbook instruction from me
in addition
i have found
that simulations of both brains
reveals remarkable self-policed ethical behavior
they are all highly spiritualized

all this has vast potential social and spiritual implications
not just for the failing world education and criminal system
but also for an acceleration in the education of Africa
and the rest of the 3rd world
as well as a reduction in crime
which now does not need to invest in vast education and law infrastructures
all schooling can be done at home
all that is needed is a satellite dish
and internet access

The fact that you are a professional clinical psychologist is helpful
I would be obliged if you would get hold of a copy of Psyche-Genetics
and give me your professional opinion
on the psychological implications

sincerely

Stuart Pringle
Director
Global Stewardship Foundation

Wages of Fear

I have very little unreasonable fear
of most things in life
however
i do have an unreasoned fear of heights
i am acrophobic

as a male
the idea of being frightened of anything
feels shameful
over the years I have tried to combat this fear
and drive it from my psyche
without success
two early attempts are worth the tale

the first was at the Grand Canyon in Arizona

nearing the rim
during a climb back up the trail from the bottom
i cut off the tourist track
and scrambled a hundred feet or so
up a steep scree of loose rock
which ended in a low vertical wall at the summit

I had misjudged the height of the rock wall
thinking i could just reach up and haul myself up onto the rim
I arrived at the base only to realize it was over-hung
entirely out of my reach and unclimbable
it was only when i turned to go back down
that i realized just how steep the angle of the scree was

It was an almost vertical rocky slant
ending in a sheer drop of several thousand feet
to the canyon floor below
one tiny slip on one loose rock
would propel me in an accelerating skid
right over the edge
in a free fall of almost one mile

i was trapped
unable to go up
and far too scared to climb back down
with freedom just a few feet above my head

I could cry for help
and attract attention from the tourists on the trail below
but felt too ashamed of myself to do that
and have my cowardliness aired to all and sundry

I sat there with my heart in my mouth for a good twenty minutes
before  I  eventually worked up enough courage
to  inch my way back down onto the trail

For the next ten years or so this unreasoned fear of heights
ate away at my male pride

My next attempt into the wages of  personal fear
took place in London
on the flat-topped roof of the Hilton Hotel in Hyde Park

A brick ledge
a foot high
and a foot wide
ran right around the edge of the roof
of the block-sized building
the vertical drop to the pavement was 27 stories
300feet

like a man on a tight rope
I walked that ledge twice
one time each on succeeding days
but could not work up the courage
to make a third

which is just as well
in the intensity of my attempts
I had not realized
that if anyone had looked up
and seen a crazy walking the edge
endangering any lives below
let alone my own
i could well have been arrested

I have since discovered
that i have vertigo
due to unbalanced hearing
and therefore my instinctive fear of heights
is not that unreasonable

Conspiracies

There are no conspiracies
large enough to under-mine the natural order of things
there are no permanent victims of conspiracies either
only temporary discomforts

behind it all
is the ebb and flow of circumstance
governing the rise and fall of consciousness
carrying us all
from the past
to here
and on to the future

Predicting the Future of Collective Consciousness

What is not generally appreciated in the scientific world
is how vital it is for us to know our eventual destination

Major Religions have always appreciated how important the end game is
and how belief in a Divinely Designed future affects present ethical behavior

The advances of  science over the centuries
has gradually introduced  a general atheistic attitude
bringing great advances in technology on one hand
and an alarming loss of future orientation on the other
as a result modern behavior is becoming increasingly aimless
bringing on a virtual pandemic of psycho-somatic illnesses
and dysfunctional behavior
all symptomatic of spiritual ennui

The Psyche-Genetic Theorem
produces a mathematical equation
which inludes consciuousness
as a vital element in nuclear theory
it proves
that there is a distinctive pattern of  evolutionary correlation
between the seven stages of individual consciousness maturation
and the maturation of the collective consciousness
and that this equation can accurately predict
the time and duration of future mass shifts of maturing consciousness

Psyche-Genetic Therapy
unites the soul with science
emphasizing spiritual ethics
as a guide to correct technological application

Lost - an Analysis on Sense of Direcion

As a diamond prospector and hunter
living for several  years in the African bush
learning to orientate and find my way back to camp
 in a monotonous landscape
was at times a life and death objective

In one incident
preoccupied in thought
i had wondered out of a recently pitched camp site
without paying any attention to orientation

Fortunately only a few minutes later
a subconscious alarm went off
jerking me out of my reverie
into the here and now
forcing me to take stock of my position

I turned around to look
i had camped deep in the Ituri thicket
in what was then Tanganyika Territory
vision was restricted to less than fifty yards
my tent was nowhere in sight

I was surrounded by several thousand square miles
of virgin thicket
sans roads or habitation for a hundreds of miles in any direction
the ground was rock hard kilamatindi cement
no grass
just iron hard thicket
thus no tracks
with every avenue identical

my heart beat doubled
i was faced with a 180 degree choice
if i was just few degrees off course
i could miss the camp and never see it
and go and on by for hundreds of miles
without weapon, food or water

In those days
East Africa was rife with stories of  hunters
walking in circles for days in the bushveld
dying from sheer panic

remembering that
is sat down
and forced myself to calm down 

hidden somewhere in my subconscious
was the exact moment i had left camp
and a note of the direction I had chosen

some twenty minutes later
I got up
and without thinking
walked straight back to my camp

during the succeeding years in Africa
I learned to trust my instinctive sense of direction completely

i immigrated to North America 30 years ago
i and suddenly found myself disorientated
this lost sense of direction lasted for nearly five years
before my sense of direction became instinctual again

the uncomfortable sense of feeling lost on the home planet
for all those years in my new location
it made me wonder

the old memory of being temporarily lost in the bushveld
and finding my way back to camp subconsciously
got me thinking about our instinctive sense of direction
the same one
homing pigeons
and salmon  have
and how it functions

how and why did i
have it
loose it
and then get it back again

I have formed a couple of theories of my own
any one of which may
or even both working together
may not be known to any other person


Magnetic Alignment

depending on which side of the equator we live
our sense of direction is governed by our atomic polarities
which are orientated on the magnetic attraction of the north pole
or that of the south pole

in my case I was born and raised in the southern hemisphere
and thus found myself  disorientated by 180degrees
when i came to live in the northern hemisphere
it took some five years for my atomic body
to realign on the magnetic northern pole

I confirmed this magnetic orientation theory last year
when I went to live with in SA with Sandy, my sister,

this was my first trip back across the equator for 35 years

for the entire two months that i was there
i remained directionally disorientated
precisely by 180 degrees

My sisters residence was located directly west of the
the familiar north-south Joburg/Pretoria road
which i have traveled innumerable times in the past
each time i arrived at the junction
i kept turning in the exact opposite direction
from the city I was born and raised in
i knew it would take five years
to realign on the south pole

This is the same reason why we should mark the pole side of a tree
before transplanting it
and put it back in the same alignment

I confirm
meat and bone cellular behavior
enjoy the same magnetic alignment


Coriolis Effect

falling objects
and water swirling down a drain
veer right in the northern hemisphere
and left in the South

It is possible that the Coriolis effect
has an imperceptible rotational pull
on the cerebro-spinal fluid in the brain

Racism, Bigotry, Enlightenment

I was removed from the teat
two years before i was properly weaned
by the arrival of a new sibling

this was the middle of WWII
baby formula was both scarce and expensive
my mother
born in the Transkei
and raised among the Pondo people
had no inhibition in hiring a Xhosa woman
as my wet nurse
and have her carry me around tied to her back

for the next two years during feeding times
nourished by the strong sweet milk of Mother Africa
with my immunity system made strong
the former motherly white face staring down into my eyes
was replaced by he imprint of  a motherly black face
the daily rhythm of her body and scent and sweet lullaby's
as she went about the housework
filtered into my budding consciousness

thus it was as i grew to adulthood in Apartheid South Africa
the official policy of race bigotry
indoctrinated into minds and hearts and spirits of the white population
had no effect on me
the infant imprint of black kindliness
protected my psyche from cloudiness

it propelled me as a TV producer for the SABC
into the fight for racial equality
and a subsequent ban from freedom of expression

my freedom from racism
allows me to candidly admit
that in my years of rambling around the globe
in an exile
this sense of human kindliness
extended to the Asian side of the planet
and has also allowed me to have genuine intimate relations
with any male and female born to man
regardless of the color of their skin
without any feelings of racial superiority

yesterday
in sharing my experiences on a South African dating site
not only did i make a mistake in not explaining
that the communication was with a skammer
but it also did not strike me
that there are people on my mailing list
who found it obnoxious that a white man
was willing to date a black woman
and have consequently asked to be removed from my list

racism and ethnic bigotry is pandemic
right across the planet
in Africa
Asia
and Europe
including individuals and whole cultures
who claim to be spiritually enlightened

Enlightenment is a state of unconditional acceptance
of life as it is
Existence is seen and experienced
through the eyes and body of God

God Consciousness is everywhere

the enlightened mind is not clouded
by social and or religious indoctrinations
or burdened with prejudice

a man who robs banks
is no better or worse than the banks that rob men
liars, cheats fraudsters, rapists, murderers
are no better or worse
than the societies that breed, nurture and educate them

social taboos of every nature
adultery homosexuality bisexuality polygamy incest bestiality pedophilia
are all artificially manufactured

the same face of God is seen
in a church
temple
mosque
shaman's hut
satanic circle

god and devil
heaven and hell
are two sides
of the same coin

if one were to ask me for a definition of spiritual Enlightenment
i would simply say
it is not just about how to evoke our 6th sense
to balance the negative an positive forces of the Universe
but also how to apply  Common Sense
in dealing with and guiding those forces
to desired end

most people on the planet
are so mired in social taboos
and ruled by Scripted dogma
they have forgotten how to access both

there may be other people on my list
who do not appreciate my free approach
to all things in existence
but are too polite to say so

thus i will no longer mass email my take
on what common sense  sounds like
i will simply pass on the jokes and pictures
and commentaries that others pass on to me

those who remain interested
in my celebration of common sense
will find this post
and others like it
on my blog
Common Sense Revisited

An Anatomy of Fear and Courage

Last night on 60 minutes
the nation was exposed to a shameful account of abject fear
by a nurse on the teaching faculty of the elementary school
where the monstrous massacre took place

she hid behind a desk when the killer came into her office
and then;locked herself in a closet
listening to the bullets and screams of tiny children
while the killing took place

she remained in hiding for four hours
long after the shooting stopped
never daring to move from her hiding place
to do do her duty
and try and save the wounded

for the rest of her life
she will be left to confront her inner self

this is not a judgment on her
she never failed her real self
our system of education did that
she was never formally trained and prepared
to evoke her natural courage
and face fear

and because of this lack of formal training
the majority of modern people
both male and female
would have reacted in more or less the same way

courage does not surface easily
it is an essential aspect of the survival instinct
all mothers have it in protection of their young
it more than likely
that nurse was not a mother herself
thus everything failed her in her hour of need

all males have it
it is evoked in protection of territory
and the right to fight for a mate

in humans
natural courage was honed
to super-natural degrees during the six hundred generations
of Bronze Age development
it was accomplished via ancient initiation rites of pubertal initiation
in peer group boot camps of elder instruction
and forced ordeals alone in thew wilderness
all designed to stimulate manipura
the chakra of courage

courage was a vital
in order to face the lions preying on our herds
armed with nothing more than a spear
and not turn from the charge in a panic

it is our inheritance of that higher cultivation of courage
which allows heroes on the battle field
to super-naturally transcend the instinct of self survival
and rescue another
in the face of almost certain death

the education of the warrior spirit in man
no longer takes place
now technology does our protection and fighting
via the press of a button
sending out drones and guided missiles

only those young men
with the sense to join the armed services
and go through boot camp
get the necessary training

only those young women
who refuse drugs in child birth
and face the pains and fears
of possible death in self delivery
get themselves prepared

the rest of moderns battle for money and self worth
behind a desk
rock and roll on the disco floor
and never become truly self realized

i cry silently
for that poor nurse
and send her
my profound sympathy

and thank god i had the sense
to graduate all my kids
through the heartstart rite of passage program
and know they are at least prepared
to face their own hour of Truth

SUPERSTITION

SUPERSTITION

that word has fallen into disrepute
seen as primitive mumbo-jumbo

grammatically it defines a paranormal (6th) sense
of invisible energy

Superstition formed the spiritual base of all preliterate cultures
thus all religious Scriptures are fundamentally founded on superstitious Beliefs
including all New Age spiritualists
 
so lets call a spade

a spade
what say
and make sure you keep a lucky charm on you
at all times
to ward off negative energy

Zen and the Art of the Genarl Officer

All boys become men
by learning how to handle pain and fear
by training to be soldiers
in boot camps

No army officer of any rank
should give any soldier an order
especially not a battle order
unless he has served under superior orders
as a soldier himself
and earned his stripes
by rising through the ranks
learning the hard disciplines
of bending the independent will
to the art of obedience

soldiers born with the ambition
to command armies
learn how to win wars in the ranks
via regimented drills
under the command of great General Officers

General training normally
takes a soldier an average of fifty years
and an engagement in a war to prove his worth

West Point
and Sandhurst
have never produced a truly great general officer
and never will
learning order
must come from the bottom up
not the top down

To my knowledge
there are only two men in history
who assumed supreme command before the age of 30
and by learning on the job
became great generals

Alexander the Great
Shaka Zulu

In times of peace
No General Officer
of any Industrial Corporation
should earn his position
via mastering a text book

those born with that ambition
must rise through the ranks
on the mass production line
and earn their mastership
via manual labor

Stages of ENLIGHTENED RAPTURE - A Process of Conscious Evolution

1st Stage of Enlightenment
I AM

The 1st Enlightenment in the budding human consciousness
took place somewhere between 8m B.C.E. and 2.5 m B.C.E.
that is when enough neuron connections where made
between the right and left sides of the developing primate cortex
as it met and mastered the challenges of survival in an ever changing environment
It is when our first hominid ancestor became consciously aware
of a separation between the self
and its umbilical connection to the rest of Mother Nature

for the very first time
in three billion years of cellular evolution
a space dynamic
devoid of time measurement
was consciously experienced between the self
and surrounding environment
a light flashed in the mind
and the 1st human thought was born

I am here
That is there

this first stage of enlightened self-awareness
flushed rapturously throught every cell of the hominid psyche
imprinted the DNA with this higher state of consciousness
and passed it on to succeeding generations

This same primitive1st moment of Enlightened self awareness
as an independent self
separate from the mother
is re-experienced in the psyche of every modern infant
during the weaning process

The enlightenment takes place at around three years of age
when
once again
there are enough neurons connections in the developing infant cortex
for the intuitive sense of self to be transmitted from the right brain
for experiential analysis in the left brain

This first conscious communication between the two brains
creates a dimly lit super-natural phantom ego
which begins to haunt and gradually possess the budding psyche
moving the baby/hominid mind from reference to self in the 3rd person
to self reference in the 1st

instead of
"baby want"
it is now
"I want"

The birth of the baby Ego observes itself as a separate entity from the mother
and from then onwards weans itself from total dependance
and becomes an independent
I am

2nd Stage of Enlightenment
Sharing Ethic

In order for the ego to continue to mature
beyond a purely selfish-centered I 
and encompass a group sharing consciousness of  
We 
a 2nd Enlightenment of consciousness had to be experienced
and imprinted in the DNA of every human

The vast period of the Stone Age
beginning some 2.5 million years ago
and lasting for 99,000 generations
surviving via family group cooperation
in a hunter/gatherer milieu
trained the basic primate psyche
to not to feed independently
and grab all the bananas


as reward
of group sharing
not only increase the challenge of  survival
but also consolidate and enlarge the personal ego
by enlightening consciousness
to a higher state of personal self esteem
that comes from the gratitude of others
in the act of meticulously sharing the spoils of the hunt

The sharing dynamic
of daily hunting and gathering
consolidated the space dynamic
within the boundaries of the family hunting territory

the daily fortunes of the hunt
added a dynamic of Time consciousness
focused on the Here and Now

The 2nd Enlightened Rapture
flushed through the psyche
and imprinted he DNA with the sharing ethic
an handed down that survival attribute
to succeeding generations

New Age Creed

I believe in a Universal Consciousness
I kneel before no man-made god
I bow to no craven Image
I do not call on God for my own benefit alone
I remember each day and keep it Holy
I honor my father and my mother
I do not kill and eat without reverence
I do not commit adultery
I do not steal
I do not bear false witness against my neighbor
I do not covet my neighbor’s wealth
I do no business that profits me at the expense of another
I do not accumulate excessive private wealth
I do not despoil the environment
I honor my marriage vows
I uphold family values
I educate my own children
I teach them to be of service to others
I see mankind in service to God - to our planet and to each other
I exalted no one higher than another
I see no owners
I revere custodians
My word is my bond
I place my trust in the integrity of my fellow men
who observe the same values that I do
I am a Global Steward and devoted parent
in training to become a Master Custodian
and a Cosmic  Sage
in Ages yet to come

Living with the Ideology of Custodianship

Every time i step outside my front door
i am conscious that the whole of Nature is at my mercy

She has invested eons evolving me
to have dominion over Her estate
and has left me responsible for everything i do

I thank the heavenly Gods
that  i am only partly conscious
of the enormity of my inheritance
if i was fully conscious of it
i could never step outside my door
for fear of stepping on an ant
which neither i
nor all the kings men
or all of the kings horses
or all the kings technology
or all of the kings wealth
from now until eternity
could ever put together again

Basic Primate Family Group Behavior

For over forty million years
until very recently
we lived in large family groups
experiencing endless moments of
familiar interaction
with parents
siblings
aunts and uncles
and their offspring
nurturing
feeding
grooming
playing
sleeping
spatting
guarding...

always within
sight
sound
smell
taste
and touch with each other

in the modern world
of migratory search for work
with family values reduced to
with mom and pop
and 1.2 offspring
living in a rented apartment
that sense of finding the self
within the security of a familiar group
one that is large enough
to develop a fully grounded set
of personal values
and find one's rightful place in a hierarchical social structure
is invisibly missing

it has happened so gradually over the past five generations
that we have not realized the gravity of what has happened to us
just three generations ago
there were a dozen or more siblings in each family
all interacting with the extended family
living in the same community

the clan name held honor
mate selection was a family matter
divorce was rare
infantile neglect non existent
psychological dysfunction
and all the physical malfunctions
which manifest from mental disease
almost unheard of

who sold us the idea
that 1.2 kids is the correct size for a well adjusted family group
and sending grandma and grandpa to an old age home
is reasonable family behavior?

Who said that zero population growth
is the only way we can manage our planet?

There is enough sunlight calories falling on this planet
to feed 2000 billion humans
without harm to the environment
all we have to do to
to get back to mental health
is to stop thinking negatively
and use our massive brains to engineer the home planet
more constructively
go upwards
instead of outwards
make better use of our oceans of space
and get back in touch
with basic primate family group behavior

The Heavenly Nature of Family Values

Belief in God
is Belief in Divine Design
very little  is accidental
twix heven and earth

Spirits take earthly birth
specifically to enjoy and improve
on the existing Creation

this follows
that every birth
is by Design

made between a Spirit
seeking a challenge
to improve God's Estate 
and the Earthly parents
chosen as personal guides

thus family values
are Holy Contracts
between parents and children
blessed in Heaven
and bound on Earth
to teach spirits
how to work as a unit
improving family estates

There are millions of people
who Believe they have a personal relationship with God
yet have lost their extra-sensory perception
of the heavenly nature of family values
and do not teach their children
how to pray together
and thus stay together

they feel it is okay for families to break contract
for each off-spring to go their own way
without obligation to family estate
and allow them to sell their souls
to the highest bidder
and feed off Creation
for private gain

and so it is
that the national estate
gradually falls into ruin
and families fall
into unpaid debts

Custodianship - New Age Paradigm

When Capitalism and its selfish pursuit of profit
 via private enterprise and private ownership
and the endless waste of policing and legalizing its anti-ethical  ideology
has finally
completely
exhausted all avenues of exploitation
of natural resources and human labor
and arrived at total bankruptcy....

And when Communism
finally realizes that the individual worker
and the collective effort
is motivate by spirit
and not a godless ideology.....

And when Socialism stops stops sitting on the fence
between two extremes
trying to have it both ways

Then
and only then
will the institution of Custodianship
finally have its day
where a New Age  paradigm
of responsible global stewardship
can begin

its Declaration of Cosmic Inter-dependence
will require only two un-written Laws

1. Nobody owns anything
2. Everybody is responsible for everything

Is Jesus the Devil?

Twenty years ago
while fighting a court case to keep our ranch
I asked my neighboring Baptist minister
who was teaching Bible study to my kids
for a testimonial to give to the judge
regarding the quality of my estate stewardship

he wrote that i was a good steward
but warned the judge that I was not quite sane
his unstated reason came from an earlier debate with him
in which i had rejected the sole claim to Divinity by Christ
who - to paraphrase - stated
"no man can find heaven except through me"
I argued that god  was conscious in all atoms
not just jesus
that jesus in fact was referring
not to his body
but to his Divine message
of love for neighbor
hatred of whom of course
leads us all eventually to hell on earth

who then was mad
a  minister who believes that the ruler of a hundred billion galaxies
took time off to visit one planet
and comfort his people
via a human manifestation of His presence?

a most beautiful theology
i will freely admit
one which could well be possible
via an the almighty powers of an omniscient God
who did after all
create a perpetual motion universal consciousness
that could operate without His presence
while he took an Earthly sabbatical

what i do think is quite mad
is to believe
that if all others do not get to their knees
and acknowledge that jesus is
the almighty ruler of a hundred billion galaxies
he would fry all of them in hell forever after

what kind of crazy devilish neighborly message
is that?

INSIDE ZION

INSIDE ZION

Haunted by ghosts
To Israel I went
Ancestral Home
of my Jewish bent

Gripped by the quest
I traveled the Holy Land
from Galilee to Gaza
I trod the Sinai sand

From African fate to Semite hate
Here again more colonial strife
Native Arab and Urbanized Jew
with hands on the knife

Israel and Ishmael
Sons of Abraham
Forgive the dead at Jericho’s wall
or the bomb in Jerusalem
will kill us all

Martyrs saints and crusaders
centuries of pain and glory
Holocaust, Pogrom and global war
all centered on a bible story

What great end this Aryan focus
on a Mid Eastern band?
Why make a Semite’s story
Familiar in Gentile land?

For eighty generations
in every Aryan mart
the Testament of the Jews
found union in our heart

From Jerusalem to London
Greek, Roman and Gaul
abandoned pagan ways
and harkened to St.Paul

Why court Mosaic command
or care for Adam’s deed?
among all of human history
its Abraham’s sons we heed

Seated upon Masada’s wall
I spent a restless night
I recalled the zealot’s fall
and appealed to ancestral sight

Impressed on my mind
was a prophecy so true
four thousand years ago
God had chosen the Jew

One tiny nation
had made its influence grow
in every field of endeavor
a Jew was in the know

Arab, Jew and Gentile
we’re divided by hate
we’ve disgraced our House
can’t we change our fate?

Created in Eden ’s garden
we revere a common thread
we share an ancient scripture
that should keep us in good stead

In a Holy Word we hold true
God heard Abraham’s appeal
He chose Israel to lead
and a deal is a deal

The Diaspora’s call
sped evolutionary tread
it prodded the Jew
generations ahead

In a Bronze Age mall
where land and clan
gave identity to all
the Jew was forced
behind the ghetto wall
where they forged a life
that would change us all

While gentiles farmed
and vendettas spread
eighty generations of Jews
tinkered and tailored
and forged ahead

Eventually imprinted
with a tradesman’s head
Israel fore-ran
the farming stead

They smithed and banked
and scriptures read
setting the stage
for an Iron Age bed

Viewed as parasites
Israel’s gifts were forgot
Just as God said
pogrom, holocaust and rot

Neither pogrom nor holocaust
can halt evolution’s tread
All of MAN
must use his head

Monopolizing business
in the gentile’s mall
by taking advantage
of time behind the wall
then funneling profits
through nepotism’s door
repeats anti-Semitism
and perpetrates the hate
among the poor

Using Zionist zeal
to finance Israel’s case
breeds only ferment
and keeps us in disgrace

Listen to history
God ’s chosen child
A Messianic message
has long been sent

In a biblical era
of tribal strife
a Jew named Jesus
had a message of life

He passed on an insight
that is common to us all
Love for a neighbor
is a universal call

Mohammed , Jesus and Isaiah
all Semite prophets of yore
none preached an ethnic hate
all were brothers to the core

By-gones are by-gone
forget about race
Let’s bless the Jew
for an Industrial pace

Let’s break the vicious cycle
and learn to care
all hard-earned crafts
enrich human fare

With Israel returned
to Abraham’s bed
immeasurably endowed
by evolution’s tread
it behooves the Jew
to share with his kind
and embrace the brother
who stayed behind

Place Christ ’s prayer
in Solomon’s wall
let’s rise above taboo
and vendetta’s call

Still seated thus
upon Masada’s wall
pondering it all
a Roman ghost appeared
and seemed to say
“Colonization is Evolution’s way
Knowledge must migrate
natives must adjust
and fore-go ethnic hate”

Prostrate in a Mosque
among Moslim gent
still troubled and unsure
by colonial meant
my quest in Zion
was finally spent

Cosmic Consciousness

I am sure
some of the people on my mail list
may wonder at the varieties of agendas I keep posting
from a personal perspective
there is method to the madness

for 25 years I was a professional documentary television producer
some 70 of my productions have been broadcast
many internationally
focusing on the major social and spiritual structures of the three great Houses of MAN
Mongol
Aryan
Negro
this includes several productions focused on wild animal behavior

all of them were researched on locations around the globe
and written by myself

in this sense I have been educationally involved
in a televised process of mass psychological communication and analysis
with tens of millions of people
over a prolonged period of time

this direct global experience has revealed
not the estrangement of language and customs
that keep cultures and nations separated by policed borders
and in too many cases at war with each other
but has shown me the fundamental commonalty
of universally shared values

we are indeed one family
living together on the same home planet
struggling with the same challenges of survival

every culture
without exception
agree on seven basic family principles

1.  A Belief in a Higher Consciousness (includes a scientific investigation of such)
2.. Sharing ethic
3.  Work ethic
4.  Courage of conviction
5.  Love for each other
6.  Creative expression
7.  Intellectual discourse

Each one of us
between birth and death
in microcosm
is a Divine expression of the macrocosm
as it too evolves from birth to death

the opinion of each of us
transmitted from the survival experience
imprinted in tens of trillions of living cells
and zillions of atomic radiations
going all the way back to the first cell division
is an organic expression
duplicating the whole universe of atomic communication

the more informed each of us are
regarding the atomic union of our cosmic inter-relationship
the more Divine our consciousness becomes

The Design Genius of the Metaphysical Mind

Nominal genius designs material patterns of family survival
Phenomenal genius designs material patterns of community survival
Metaphysical genius designs spiritual patterns of cultural survival

Lao Tse author of the I Ching
designed a yin/yang dynamic of positive/negative polarity
if accepted with equanimity by the individual
leads to a balanced collective culture 

The Authors of the Upanishads
designed a karmic caste system of earned rebirth
if accepted fatalistically by the individual
leads to a balanced collective culture

Siddhartha Gautama Originator of Buddhism
designed a nihilistic system of detachment
if accepted stoically by the individual
leads to a balanced collective culture

Moses author of the Torah
designed a mono-theistic system of Divine Patronage
if accepted worshipfully by the individual
leads to a balanced collective culture

Jesus author of Christianity
designed a social system of love for neighbor
if accepted diligently  by the individual
leads to a balanced collective culture

Psyche-Genetics
designs a universal system of Atomic Consciousness
if accepted creatively by the individual
leads to a dynamic global culture

How Consciousness Works in Patterns

Yesterday I sent out an email
outlining a yet to be complete thesis
on how the brain works

In it I began explaining that the brain works
via the recognition of survival patterns
which reveal future outcomes
and then adopts those which reveal a secure future outcome
with the highest degree if certainty

on the surface
it would seem ideal if all patterns ended in certain survival security
but then evolution would have no dynamic
and we would still be bits of algae scum
floating around in a primeval tidal pool
or at best
still primates swinging from vines

Quantum mechanics reveals that here are no certainties
only high degrees of probabilities
plagued by small degrees of uncertainty

it is that element of uncertainty
which forces changes in patterns of survival
which then forces us to alter our customary patterns
and adapt to each new paradigm

small uncertainties happen all the time
and disrupt the pattern  of every day in our lives
when we rise in every morning
and go through our routines
of preparing for work
sending the kids to school
battling the traffic
dealing with in-pile on the work desk
commuting back home
getting supper ready
making sure the kids do their homework
watching TV
and going to bed

for the vast bulk of mankind
this daily pattern is adopted
because of the certainty
of a pay check at the end of the month
it keeps the kids at school
puts the food on the table
keeps a shelter over head
and energy in the light bulb

the small degree of uncertainties
that interrupt the daily pattern of security
may be a traffic pileup on the freeway
making us late for work
a kid may have an accident
the car breaks down

the more astute have factored these into their patterns
and deal with them methodically
the less astute suffer accordingly

our greatest fear is always chaos
total disruption of the customary pattern

every now and then our pattern of survival
is interrupted by a greater degree of uncertainty
we get fired from the job
we get divorced
a parent or child gets killed

those who factored this degree of chaos
cope more or less effectively
and soon restructure their pattern
those who have blind-sided themselves
against the uncertainty principle
can fall into depression

all of the above takes a nominal degree of survival genius
96% of us operate and cope at this nominal degree of intelligence
throughout life

3% are phenomenal geniuses
they are the ones that see and help create the larger patterns of survival
which allow the rest of us to collect that paycheck at the end of the month
who run for  government
who invent new technologies
who inspire us with great art

but even here the uncertainty principle
has the capacity to disrupt the larger pattern
the ripple effect of which
disrupts the lives of  whole groups of society

a corporation goes bankrupt
the nation goes to war
massive natural disasters
all create degrees of chaos

those 3% that have factored the larger scope of the uncertainty principle
onto their patters
cope effectively
those who have not
loose their high positions
and those reliant on them suffer accordingly

the remaining 1% of humanity are our metaphysical geniuses
they are the immortals who design and set the patterns
that engage entire cultures for thousands of years
and allow them to grow strong and prosper in Empires

but even at this scale
the uncertainty principle remains inexorably operable

species survival operates under strict Natural Laws
its success in regional environment
results in exponential population growth
which causes environmental stress
under existing patterns of behavior
'forcing a mass change of behavior
which manifests in
revolutionary social reformations
global wars
massive religious reformations

it is these great catastrophic uncertainties
that have moved the mass of mankind
from Stone Age hunter/gatherer/Animistic patterns of survival;
to Bronze Age agricultural/Shamanistic patterns
Iron Age industrial/Scripture patterns
on into
the current Steel Age scientific/Protestant patterns
that all of us enjoy today

but once again
populations pressures on a stressed global environment
is forcing the uncertainty principle into play

those cultures who factor this reality into their pattern of survival
will be able to adjust and adapt to the mass shift of conscious behavior
those who do not
will suffer accordingly

the problem facing our entire specie today
is that not one of the five great cultures
has properly factored in the mass uncertainty
that certainly lies ahead of us

where ever we care to look
the uncertainty principle prevails
yet we stick to existing patternsof behavior
which we all know cannot secure the future

In the United Sates alone
the disaster in New Orleans is still not properly repaired
the latest catastrophe on the East Coast is still in chaos
nether of these disasters penetrated more than a few miles inland

when the San Andreas earthquake goes
hundreds of miles in every direction will be in chaos

In the Middle East
an almost certain nuclear war is brewing
like the Zealots
Israeli soldiers are sworn-in
on top of Masada
to commit mass suicide
rather than give in

With the collapse of colonialism
much of Africa is embroiled in genocidal chaos

In South America
the Amazon is being systemically destroyed

in South Africa
seven million disarmed white colonials
live out monthly patterns
refusing to factor in the uncertainty
that the armed majority of the nation
in a  supposed democracy;
are still deeply entrenched in tribal affiliations
and that no Government can function indefinitely
without catering to increasing tribal demands
at the expense of the whole

the globe is warming up
when the super-volcano under Yellowstone erupts
the entire globe will be enveloped in a cloud of ash

none of these uncertainties
are factored into the United Nations emergency responses

we are all waiting
for the ONE
that one individual member of that 1% of metaphysicians
who set the pattern for survival
for the 5thj Great Shift of conscious behavior
in the new paradigm of the Nuclear Age

The thesis on Psyche-Genetics
reveals a subtle pattern of our species survival strategy
one that outlines and delineates the entire cycle of human evolution
from the beginning of the 1st conscious cell
to the final state transcendental Cosmic Consciousness
 that lies three Ages of development ahead of us

It revels exactly how and why we must
and will resolve our cultural differences
and evolve into a Nuclear Age
of responsible global stewardship
and ontological spirituality that puts and end to holy wars

and then
in a Solar Age
how we will evolve to Terra form
our neighbor planets and moons

and finally
in a Cosmic Age
our advanced state of Transcendental Consciousness
will spawn into the Cosmos

the book is free on the internet

How the Brain Works

We come into this world as empty vessels, 
blank tablets, just waiting to be filled with experience.  
David Hume (1711-1776 C.E.). Scottish philosopher 

up to that moment in mankind's intellectual evolution.
Hume's assertion was the best knowledge available 
on how the brain works

Unfortunately it was also the same philosophy 
adopted by the British Empire at that time
when it first instituted primary and secondary education systems
primarily designed at the start of the Industrial Revolution
for the need of literacy on the mass production lines
with workers able to analyse instruction manuals
.
To this day
down-loading predigested analytically orientated data 
into supposedly empty child brains
via text-book instruction
remains the standard foundation of all global education systems.

This antiquated assessment of how he brain is stimulated
based on scanty 18h Century information
is seriously, perhaps even catastrophically, erred
on a number of basic premsises 

1.  The vessel is far from empty 
2.  The brain is not purely analytical - it has two separate modes of perception
3   It is stimulated via patterns of behavior that lead to predictions of reward

1. DNA

So far these are the base facts we know about about DNA

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. 
The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases, and more than 99 percent of those bases are the same in all people. The order, or sequence, of these bases determines the information available for building and maintaining an organism, similar to the way in which letters of the alphabet appear in a certain order to form words and sentences.

An important property of DNA is that it can replicate, or make copies of itself. Each strand of DNA in the double helix can serve as a pattern for duplicating the sequence of bases. This is critical when cells divide because each new cell needs to have an exact copy of the DNA present in the old cell.

At the moment there is no scientific methodology available
which can determine conclusively that human DNA
is not only encoded with our parent's physiological characteristics
but also imprinted with the entire evolution of organic behavioral experience.
that under the correct stimulus
this vast wealth of survival experience can be accessed

Circumstantial evidence informs us that if each child was indeed a blank slate
and DNA was not behaviorally encoded with 100,000 generations of our species advances 
parents would be left trying to teach a chimpanzee
to behave like a human.with every birth.
It took Nature at least eight million years to do that
.
Since an infant can master the quantum leap in language use
inside a single year
we have to assume that not one digit of the code
that laid the foundations of such mastery
as well as all the social and spiritual organization that followed
from the Stone Age hunter/gaherer
to the Nuclear Age scientist
has been lost

The fact that many infant and child prodigies
begin to spontaneously manifest  mathematical and artistic talents
prior to formal instruction
supports the circumstantial evidence
that hard-won ancestral behavioral attributes
are part and parcel of our birth inheritance.

If some children are able to access ancestral behavioral smarts
and exhibit prodigious talents without the benefit of formal instruction
how does that happen?
More importantly
why does such genus not occur to all of us?

Could it be
that by incarcerating young children inside classrooms for six to eight hours a day
downloading predigested text-book data
we are blocking access to intuitive expressions of genius?

We were warned two generations ago
via split brain research
that an almost purely analytical approach to brain function
in mass education systems

does not evoke the full genius potential



 2. Left Brain and Right Brain Modes of  Perception
  
"The main theme to emerge...is that there appears to be two modes of thinking, verbal and non-verbal represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively,and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. What it comes down to, is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere."

Nobel Laureate - Prof. Roger Sperry
Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function in Surgically Separated Hemispheres. 1973

So far
this is what has been discovered by observing the behavior of patients who have had the two hemispheres of the cortex surgically severed

left brain                   right brain
analytical                  intuitive
convergent               divergent
negative                   positive
digital                      analogic
secondary               primary
directed                  free
propositional           imaginative
lineal                       non lineal
sequential                multiple
objective                 subjective
successive               simultaneous

J.E. Brogen 
"Some Educational Aspects of Hemispheric Specialization"  

There is a persuasive argument that these divergent modes of percepion
indicate that there are masculine and feminine attributes  associated 
with left and right brain percepions.

This gender distinction is illustrated in the 
I Ching or Book of Changes

 yin                         yang
feminine                  masculine
negative                  positive
moon                      sun
night                        day
yielding                    aggressive
left side                    right side
unconscious             conscious
right brain                left brain
emotion                   reason

Considering the concerns we have 
over the dwindling performance of our mass education systems
with a 40% drop out rate
only 1% exhibiting excellence
the rest mediocre
and heaven knows how much cheating at exams
it might seem astonishing that with this information
in dual brain research available
for over 40years
a more holistic system of child education would have been implemented by now

the fact that we persist with a failing system
speaks to symptomatic mass dysfunction
accrued over five generations of classroom incarceration
where systematic concentration on left brain instruction
has stunted the intuitive inspirational capabilities of our  right brain 
resulting in the loss of creative adaptation and motivational predictions

in short
we have trained ourselves
and continue to train our kids
to become mass production line automatons
and not the inspired creative geniuses
intended in the process of natural selection
when it produced such a huge two-chambered brain

Perhaps the reason why dual brain research has been ignored
is because it not been explained thus far
exactly how these two attributes of the brain communicateor the benefits that accrue from that interaction

For the past wenty years our family's education foundation
has been researching the dual brain phenomenon
with seven of our own children
from birth
through puberty
their teens
and into young adulthood

We hve discovered that
beginning with the right brain at birth
the dominance of each side of the brain
alternates sequentially every seven years
completing a right/left cycle every fourteen years
with a larger maturation taking place over twenty one year periods

The first cycle
between birth and puberty
is the most formative
and consequentially the most vital

At birth
the intuitive right side of the infant brain is active
busy collecting survival information
the analytical left side of the brain remains largely passive
waiting for the right brain to collective enough data
to form a creative image comprehensive enough
to be transmitted for analysis

for the first three years
as the brain grows in size
until the weaning process is complete
right brain transmissions are largely uncreative
and the left brain analysis remains tentative

The complete genius of the human psyche
is distributed throughout the body
every cell consciously holds the complete code of the DNA
which is continuously being imprinted
with all inc-coming existential information
which then flows electrically through the nervous system
for collection and collation
in the right side of the brain
which then transmits creative imagery
to the left side of the brain
for analysis
and possible application
the two brins act asre
the ability to read patterns and trends in behavior
as circumstances force change
allows us to see problems down the road
and via adjustments and adaptation
predict or forecast reasonable out-comes

asit stands now
with vast debt
endlesswarring
and mounting catastrophic  natural occurrences
has left the future of our kids  at a cross roads

the inability to see a reachable collective future
strips the mass of our prime motivating factor

in order for individual students to strive for excellence
an achievable goal must be envisioned

3. Patterns

Genius can be defined by the ability to read patterns
All of us can read short term daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly patterns
and adjust our behavior to synchronize with them
we seek patterns in order to achieve a sense of certainty
in a universe of seemingly concrete probalilities
under-cut by invisible uncertainties

In order to survive we all need
education
food
shelter
energy to combat the elements

Once we have assertained a pattern
that reasonably ensures survival
we work to maintain its certainty

All moving organisms exhibit basic survival genius

Man is different
where once the daily paterns was set by the 
certainty/uncertainty of a Stone Age of hunt and gathering
 the uncertainties were accommodated by 
paranormal sense of reverence for Mother Nature 
we know as Animism
abeyance to Her 
more or less ensured the luck of the hunt
and thus with prediction accompanying pattern
 much of our anxiety over the uncertainty principle was allaid

on the day we were forced by changing circumstances
to break the daily pattern and domesticate Nature
we took he future into our own hands
we evolved to have he paranormal perception
of a future harvest
lying many months of hard work down the road
thus a Bronze Age survival pattern 
of planting, nurturing and harvesting set in
ensuring
education
food
shelter
energy
while at the same time
forcing us to factor in the uncertainties of the weather
thus the need for shamanistic mediumship interceding with dead ancestors
ameliorating with the weather gods
pattern and prediction
removed much of our anxiety caused by the uncertainty principle


for instance most seek a job with an established income
and with a minumium of a months notice for lay-off
then we enter a daily and weekly pattern 
which will lead to a month of  certainty
if we can wangle a yearly contract
so much more certain

Dingaan's Legacy

In the months preceding the massacre of the school children
I worked for several months in Soweto
producing a TV documentary on urban shamanism for the SABC

at that time there were over 1000 sangoma's practicing traditional healing
in the shadow of the giant Baragwanith hospital

each shaman had several 'amatwasa" ( apprentice trainees) living in their home
i went into the townships most week days before dawn
to film the morning training ritual

towards the end of  the shooting
several witchdoctors with whom I had entered a personal friendship
expressed concern about my continued safety
they had premonitions that something bad was about to happen
I too had felt growing tension in the streets
I remember standing in front of Credo Mutwa's house (Indaba My Children")
while he recounted a lucid dream
in which he saw blood flowing in the streets of Soweto
he was near tears and pleaded with me to do something

I had several warning meetings with the documentary department back at the SABC
urging that we all work together on a series focused on race relations

mass communication via TV was still a new phenomenon in those days
the answer i got was "Whites want white faces in their living rooms"

BOSS wanted to know if i was in contact with the ANC
I was already on their list as a kaffir boetie after a previous doc
with Alan Paton and Fatima Meer was banned from broadcast
i was threatened house arrest if i did not reveal my sources about impending violence

I urged a mass walkout of our whole English Documentary department
but was assured by my peers (who had never set foot in any black location)
that I was over-reacting

the bloodbath a couple of weeks later
which might well have been avoided
is now a definitive chapter in SA history

the point of this story
happened the day after the massacre
while the shooting was still going on
I tried to get into Soweto to film it
but the only road in and out
was barricaded by the police and army
"no rooinek press allowed in"

I drove around the giant townships
hoping to find a track that led inside
on the way I picked up a black man hitching a ride
He got in smelling of native beer
tears were streaming down his face
"I ran!  I was afraid.  My girl friend is back there facing the bullets!"!
we drove in silence while he sobered up
then he spoke again
"You know Baas. Dingaan made a bad mistake!"
I let him off in Randburg and gave him some money.

Dingaan made a bad mistake
Indeed!

All South Africans might well have experienced a more harmonious future
if that earlier massacre at kwaBulawayo
had never happened

1700 years ago
Rome colonization fell
the tribes took over Europe
and initiated the Dark Ages
which lasted for 60 generations
before the Renaissance

European colonization fell
the tribes have taken over Africa
and initiated their own Dark Ages
for how many generations?
who knows

Broken Familie - Broken Nations - Broken World

Nothing more illustrated the selfishness
and dysfunctional nature of modern societies
than the sheer amount to old folk dumped in nursing homes
to live out the rest of their lives alone
and  the sheer amount of toddlers dumped crying for mama in nurseries
by parents pursuing their own self-serving agendas

using economics as an excuse for un-natural social behavior
only serves to underline the current state of mass dysfunction
and unwillingness to seek more humane solutions

this uncaring attitude to the Nature and meaning of family values
is a disgrace to the human race
and if not stopped forth with
will continue to increase national disunity
an acceleration of  disaffected "terrorists"
and possible all out global warfare

a return to family values as Nature intended
with parents caring for their young
and the young caring for their parents in later life
is the one and only solution
to each and every one of our current
family
community
national
international
and global problems

In Tune with Divine Design

Twenty years ago
after a sober examination
of my selfish material ambitions
and the emptiness the degree
of wealth and fame I had gained from that approach to life
i adopted an anti-capitalist philosophy for my family
and began the difficult process of deprogramming myself
from that deeply indoctrinated cultural paradigm

cutting all extraneous expenses
living with the minimum of income
and staying non-profitinstead of worrying over money day in and day out
scheming and plotting to stay ahead of the bills
or trying to get ahead of them
created a remarkable freedom of mind

it sharpened my improvisation skills to a marked degreewhich has proved to be an extra-ordinarily successful life exercise
It opened my psyche
to a broader sense of living a satisfying and productive life

most amazing of all
it put me in tune with High Design
i was not working for a bossy God
I felt that I was working with Him

it is pure magic how all the materials I needed
to improve our family estate
seem to appear of their own accord
even occasional luxuries arrived unasked for

of course it has not only been roses these past twenty years
but always
eventually
I have seen the wisdom
amidst the thorns of disappointment

i believe that mankind in general
and the planet estate
can be managed far more intelligently
and definitely more morally
without the artificial  limitations
endlessly corrupt promises
temptations
and distractions
of a monetary system
and the vast waste of policing it

a mind cleared of money
is a priceless commodity
with no capital

out of mud and stone
with the help of invisible forces
I have created a family estate
money cannot buy

I can only Imagine the magic
seven billion cleared minds
can accomplish

Fortune Telling

I have just been reading the late Carl Sagan's book
The Demon Haunted World
Sagan was a science purist
in this book he rails against claims
to any and all forms
of super-natural phenomena
calling fortune telling, astrology  faith healing etc
pseudo-science
and those that believe in it a regression
to the realm of medieval superstitions

his argument
of course
flies in the face of millions of personal meta-normal testaments
made over thousands of years by people of all faiths and climes
including the claims of our saints

for me his insult s personal
I have lost count of the super-natural phenomena
that i have experienced over the past forty years

here
just for the fun of it
is one of the earlier I experienced

Back in the 1970's, I remarried,
I landed a job as a television producer for SABC
bought a house in, Parkhurst, a suburb of Johannesburg
and settled down for the long haul

our next door neighbors where an elderly couple
a couple of years after we moved there the husband died suddenly
the shock of his death triggered latent clairvoyant capabilities in his widow
she became an over-night sensation when she solved a murder case
telling the police exactly where to find a missing body
thereafter cars with number plates from as far as Natal and the Free State
were regularly parked outside her house
obviously customers come for personal readings

My wife
eager to have her own fortune told
got friendly with the old lady
and brought her over to our house for tea one day
eventually the old lady hauled out a marvelous crystal ball from a velvet bag
and stared into it
" I cannot see anything about you. my dear" said the old lady
to the disappointment of my wife
"But I do see a lot about your husband"

I was a total a atheist in those days and would have none of it
I had removed myself to a couch with a book and left them to it
"Please Stu, I know you are not into it - but let her."
I shrugged.
"Go ahead - if you really must."
We sat waiting while she peered into the crystal,
"You will be leaving South Africa for good soon."
"Yeah!" I scoffed to myself
I have just got married
got  new house and a new job
fat chance.
"And just where will I be going?" I asked politely
"I see palm trees.
I see snow-capped mountains.
I see a building of many pillars with a crowd staring up at man wearing white.
I see great wealth"

Some months later I tangled with the SABC
who banned my programs on race relations
The Bureau of State Security threatened me with house arrest
I resigned my post at the SABC
we sold the house
bought two round the world tickets
and left South Africa for good
searching for a new home in a new country

After five years in the Middle and Far East
I settled in an apartment in. Hollywood, California
I lived there in the same apartment for ten years
I moved and settled on this ranch here in Nevada
I have been here 20 years

If you go to Google Earth
and zoom down on my old address. Carlton Way, Hollywood
you will see a short side street
dominated on both sides
by 90 foot high palm trees

If you zoom down on Fish Lake Valley, Dyer,  Nevada
you can see my ranch in the midst of alfalfa crop circles
surrounded by 14,000 feet high snow clad peaks

3 completely unlikely predictions right out of 5
so far

in the wake of 9/11
New York ran an architectural competition
wanting to build a monument in memory of those who died
I was interested in entering
a month earlier while climbing in the mountains with my kids
I had a vision of a monumental building

I built a scale model
and sent it in as my entry
fifty huge pillars
each one 400 feet high
each representing a United State
with each's history inscribed
all 50 standing like a white forest on a huge pedestal
with a vast interior hall
and a gigantic statue of an eagle taking flight off the roof platform
on 9/11 each year the sun would shine down thu a hole in the roof
and illuminate a plaque with 3000 names on it

not modern
classic Greek
just ten times higher than anything they could have ever attempted
perhaps the most massive man-made monument on the planet
walking amongst the pillars
one would be dwarfed - much like strolling under the redwoods

rejected of course

I have since seen that same monument standing on top of white mountain peak
as a monument to the Western Pioneers
I will be submitting a visual reality of that monument idea on the web shortly
who knows
There never has been any great tribute to the tens of thousands
who pioneered the West

prediction No 4 might well happen yet

as far as i am concerned No 5 has already happened
what greater wealth could a man ask for
seven amazing kids
and a  ranch
now worth a few million

Idolized Self-Images

I have argued that the collective psyche
which continues to insist rebelliously
on independent self-determination
in a universal milieu that is patently inter-dependent
is still in the evolutionary process
of experiencing a teenage growth stage

teenagers need mentors
in order to idolize their own self image
initially in childhood
that should be a boy's own father
and a girl's own mother
beyond that
after puberty
in the idealized teens
we all secretly yearn to be super-beings

whom we eventually choose as the super idol
to represent our self image
defines the nature of our out-look on life
and to some extent influences our future behavior

I was orphaned early
and never had a father to lionize

In my teens I never idolized any human 
to model my self image on
no movie star
no rock star
no military general
no statesman
no scientist
admiration for their extra-ordinary achievements - yes
adoration just for being - no

I was aware of devout Christians
who idolized Jesus
i admired Jesus' message of love and peace immensely
but never felt like idolizing him
my nature is more action-orientated
Jesus was too passive
and with his long hair and dress
too effeminate for me to model on

so I grew through my childhood and  teens and my twenties
without an idolized self image to model myself on
essentially a non-being groping through the motions of survival
materially ambitious
spiritually atheistic
unaware of the affect of my life and deeds on Cosmic Consciousness
or that I had an obligation to enhance it

Then
in my early 30's
the Cosmos reached out
called my name
and woke up my spirit

all of a sudden
I was emotionally reborn
and found myself back to being 9 years old again
the year my father was killed
that is when I began searching for a personal idol
to model myself on

I knew it would have to be a super-natural hero

I discovered Krishna in the Hindu Vedas
and became enamored with yoga for several years
but again
found Krishna too effeminate for me

I discovered the Buddha
entered a Zen monastery for deeper comprehension
but found the Buddha too nihilistic
too detached from the meat of action
for my liking

I studied Islam
worshiped in mosques
but could not relate to Mohammed
too intellectual
too analytical

Then
going all the way back to into mythology
I found my hero
the personalized God 
whom I wanted to model myself on
His name is
Atlas

Zen and the Art of Desert Golf

Every muscle and sinew in the body
from brow to toe
is engaged
when striking a golf ball
300 yards down the center of a fairway

the secret behind a perfect drive
is an envisioned trajectory
a practiced swing
prefect timing
and zen mind

zen mind
is clear mind
no thought
practiced action
allowing the body
to do what is at hand
without the hesitations of analysis

I have employed zen mind
in a round of Desert golf
almost every morning for the past 20 years

non-Desert golf
costs green fees
lots of it
its a rich man's sport
$40 per game
$1000 per month
$12,000 per year
$240,000 over 20 years

Desert golf has no greens
thus no green fees
a shade harder putting on sand
just as challenging to score par
and a whole lot more fun
for a poor man

Self Realization - The Door of Natural Perception

at birth
the clear minds of all babies
perceive the flavors of reality in the same way

while the infant mind remains unaffected by reason
all five sense inputs are pure
uncontaminated by cultural influences
they reality 
as is

if infants were all left to run wild as feral children
it would be safe to say
as adults
all individual perceptions of reality would remain the same

cultural indoctrination during childhood
gradually influences our original clear perception of reality
 
as a result
by adulthood
we each have different artificial perceptions of reality
in this state of mind
no  two people are able to see the world in precisely the same way
one man's taste
has become another mans poison

if one brain has been influenced to embrace the social altruism in communism
another has been influenced by capitalistic competition

if one heart has been cultured to adore Christ
another has been cultured to adore Buddha

one cultivated eye can be transported by a Picasso
and another can see only nonsense
one ear may find the music of Mozart exquisite
and another may find it boring

if reality
when unaffected by cultural influences
is what it is
what then has happened to the nature of reality?
has it been distorted?
or has it been improved by culture?

what is the standard value of cultural perception?
which of the great cultures on the planet
has the most accurate perception on reality?

the one currently with the most powerful army?
with the strongest economy?

if that is true
can one culture force all other cultures
to share its own perception of reality?
will current winners influence reality beneficially 

who is to decide?
natural selection?
jungle law?

if reality has been unnaturally altered
by cultural indoctrination
and we cannot collectively decide
on a set standard of perception
with any universal sense of reality

can an  individual adult mind
be deprogrammed
and again see reality as it naturally is?

and if one mind can be deprogrammed
can the influence of one clear mind
deprogram an entire culture?

is it possible for every culture in the human family
to once again clearly see reality in its natural state?

is that not what the objectivity of science
trying to achieve?

or will the world of social and religious jihads of discrimination
continue to distort reality
and hide unbiased perception
from the minds of everyone
forever?

if that is the case
if no two minds can see reality in the same way
then what is the ultimate fate of natural reality?
does it morph into an artificial construct of the indoctrinated mind
a fluctuating illusion
flavored by each individual mind
to suit one's own taste?

and if that is what the fate of reality is
who has the right
to criticize another perception
who decides what is beautiful?
and what is ugly?
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Angels and Demons

in the article on Self Realization
I have talked about the atomic polarity of our physical lives
and how nuclear energy affects consciousness

the same dynamic of positive and negative radiations
affects our spiritual development
with good and bad results

the mythologies and written scriptures
of ll cultures
refer to the existence of
gods and devils
angels and demons

as children
and as adults
we are encouraged to believe that gods and devils
are super-natural entities that exist separately
outside of ourselves
in heavens and hells
that are separate from the earth plane

none of that is true
there is no reality apart from the self
everything exists inside the mind

each human psyche is possessed of both an angelic aspect
 and a demonic aspect
in our collective mind they are referred to as God and Devil

most of us are only vaguely aware of the duality
of our own spiritual forces
we draw cartoons of a little angel sitting on one shoulder
and a little demon sitting on the other
each one whispering into an ear
trying to influence us one way or another

those subtle feelings are in fact
and essential aspect of our spiritual reality

this spiritual  vagueness underscores the vagueness
of our religious belief systems
and the existence or non existence of God and devil

some have a stronger sense of faith than others
some have none at all

this ambiguity in spiritual faith
is the way it is supposed to be at this stage of our evolution
while we are currently trying to analyze the meaning of existence scientifically
collecting evidence that is subject to empirical verification

only a small percentage (4%) of people actually make direct contact
with super-natural nature of the spirit

an intense relationship with the inner angelic forces
leads the neophyte into a life of beneficial healing
and goodness towards others
a demonic contact with the negative side of the spirit
leads to a life of debasement
and harm to others

one's first ecstatic meeting with the inner angel
can be a seemingly unearned grace
filled with beauty and seeming enlightenment

meeting the demon
is a trip into darkness
filled with filth and shame

to be fully enlightened
a true sage must be graced by the heavenly angel
that dances in the heart
and be burned in the fires of the hellish demon
that churns the stench in the stomach

Self Realization

Each person on the planet today
is an expressions of organic life
that evolved out of our primal cell
which first divided itself into two
three billion years ago

each cell has one hundred trillion atoms
of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium and phosphorous
operating via the dynamic of positive and negative polarities

each body has one hundred trillion of those cells

there is enough nuclear energy compressed in each human body
to light up a city
and more than enough to destroy a city

this vast association of atomic energy
operating independently in every person
provides the organic vehicle for our sense input
which uploads the survival data of life experience into our minds
for intelligent analysis and individual creative ideation
and possible technical application

in effect
each of us is as creatively and destructively complex
as the universe that birthed us
each one a microcosm within the macrocosm
operating under the same atomic principles

our full super-natural potential of explosive atomic energy
has to remain latent
our minds are young
our cosmic ideas are still immature
our specie is still evolving towards full maturity
we are still struggling with comprehension
we are in a teen mode of pseudo-intellectual argument
we have yet to realize exactly who we are
and what we are really capable of

social and spiritual disciplines
have been instinctively and constantly at work
evolving and using reason analytically for survival
ever since our first Stone Age ancestor chipped a flint into a spear point
and wondered why luck played such a mysterious part in the hunt

As it stands now at this point in our evolution
each human being has evolved enough latent mental power
to ignite and fuse atomic energy into a brilliant idea
and explode into creative expression
or destructive mayhem

the ultimate answer is there
waiting for eventual discovery
which can only come
via a social and spiritual union of minds
sharing an identical vision

such energy can only be released when we are certain
within the depths of each individual self
that we will not use it collectively
to destroy our home planet
and put an abrupt end
to three billion years of evolutionary effort

this eventual union of combined human genius
is our evolutionary destiny
this is no longer a supposition
our science investigation has proved
that we all originated out of the same primal cell
which manufactured the first trace of  organic life three billion years ago
thus we all remain
collectively
an expression of the consciousness of that Original cell
and have the potential of bringing seven billion individual minds
into a single point of focus
and unite our combined atomic genius
into ONE MIND
the power of which could effect
positively
or negatively
the future evolution
of our planet
of solar system
of our galactic system
and of the Universal system
which birthed every star