Merry Christmas from da Budddha

"Be ye Lamps unto yourselves"

Sacred Chao goes Mu

The problems you observe are not the PRO – BLEM because I believe the PRO aspect of the Blem... the BLEMISH on your experience... the PRO aspect is the benefit of not having to be forced to live in PERFECTION always, but have the chance to experience YIN AND YANG... and from them DECIDE for yourself THINK FOR YOURSELF and choose FOR YOUR SELF what it is that makes you FEEL BETTER, what is PRO for you.


Okay, so being born into this time/space as a human, not as an amoebae, or a redwood tree, or an earthworm... Or a marijuana plant which will live less than 1 year then get smoked so someone who is confused can NUMB his feelings enough to find some PEACE in the confusion of being born a HUMAN in this current age... into a body with a 6,000,000 year DNA legacy of human like form upright walking...


Being and having BEEN programmed to accept the truths of those who want to keep a level of control of their own lives at the expense of others... by keeping the others in CONFUSION... struggling to be the nice humans that humans on a great average really are (very nice and GENERALLY cooperative). Confused through POINTING THE FINGER OF EVIL, like the criminal... he distracts you by telling you how bad the OTHERS are while he is SCHEMING a way to fuck you over.


This is all about the GETTING part of the FORE-GETTING... the forgetting is you remembering the freedom to THINK FOR YOURSELF... and then doing just that and THINKING feeling COMPARING the PRO and the BLEM(ish)...


We are here to experience TIME... to experience TIME we've got to have SPACE to do it in... remember your TAO self is still in the infinite, dreaming about you being here... it in TAO experiences no time it experiences everything always in every NOW... a state of NO ONE THING a constant every POSSIBILITY... So time is a COOL GAME PLAYGROUND TO be in...


1 percentage of your POINT OF VIEW (an unnamed point of view because names are un-IMPORTANT) is here on the playground the rest is in and OF the WHOLE... that idea is UNTHINKABLE so do not get raped/limited by the TOOL – our brain which is limited to processes only 2 gigs per second... but feel the VIBE, feel what resonates in you... not what you have been taught to FEEL THROUGH. You have been taught to FEEL through a filter of MASTER/slave expectations... GOD, savior, evil humanity, sin, it's everywhere in our culture... the saviors are the Slave Master who taught you to work so you would not die or be put on a work detail so dangerous you would die... way way way back in the days of building PHARAOHS pyramids. please the savior and you lived... make the savior slave master mad and you got put on dangerous detail you died and you did not reproduce and your kids are not the DNA strands we now all share... Those who lived is the DNA we all share...


Now BACK to fore-GETTING... feel outside of the master/slave filter... outside of the training to please master (THE MAN), to feel is to TOUCH, to TRANSLATE energy... and what is ENERGY? the ATOM. what is the ATOM? a thought form of the use of sub-atomics. which is THOUGHT form of the use of Quantas... and QUANTAS are just VIBES, feelings... no one thing, coming in and out of BEING... WELL WHY DO THEY COME AND GO? SO THAT the playground can be... the STREAM OF WELLBEING... the building blocks of... so you can experience the wanted from the experience of the UNWANTED... they come and go, changing as you move towards that which is MORE AND MORE PLEASANT. Or staying the same as the unwanted if you FREELY CHOOSE NOT TO MOVE... to move begins FIRST in thinking about where and what would feel better... thinking is what? Energy or VIBES, vibrations... in and of the whole... Infinity.


LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN and contented. You know that urge. You feel that urge, it is the CONTRAST that pulls you forward each morning as you wake up to find some thing GOOD in your day. And so it is with all life, the PLANTS MOVING TO WARM SUNLIGHT AND MOIST ROOTS... Animals basking in RELAXATION time, sunning themselves, rolling around playing with each other. You ever watch cats? SOCIALLY GROOM EACH OTHER in contentment... life is meant to be fun... and yet the CAT HUNTS, it kills... the GRASSHOPPER EATS a plant all the way down to the root killing it...yet what did it really KILL?


It killed off a BIO MACHINE that is an aspect of the Tao... was using it to experience the BEING of that 1 thing at that 1 location, have that 1 life and contrast... and everything MUST DIE... no one gets out of here ALIVE ... accept this, do not fear this... remember the words of the SAGE Jesus. I believe he talked about aspects of NOT worrying about DEATH. Be good to the TEMPLE BODY (the word tools of his day and age)... enjoy life and LOVE all... and accept that you will never KNOW THE DATE OR TIME OF DEATH. But the YOU. Goes on. TAO.


And all of this you think about... your tool of the biomachine deals with little tiny aspects or bytes of infinity, at the rate of 2 gigs per second... and we start to believe that this is all there is... good! For that makes this LIFE PASSIONATE. Real... the most real of NOVELS or movies... designed by the all of TAO and agreed upon by even the single quanta that comes in and out of BEING to enable the CONSTRUCTION of atoms to form molecules to create substances from which DNA can then be assembled... and in that DNA is INFORMATION to guide the day to day activity of a very COMPLEX BIO MECHANICAL tool created of substance for a limited aspect of awareness to use for TIME/SPACE experience and free choices. got it? Got IT? Good! Think for yourself. Life is long and full of stuff. What do you want that stuff to be?

interesting LJ post

Young master... about 4 years I ago I was teaching some one about the book ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach … http://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Adventures-Reluctant-Richard-Bach/dp/0440204887 . They had read the small book and we were discussing the theme of the UN IMPOSSIBLITY of toa. They showed interest in learning how to be POWERFUL MAGICAL …. Walk thru walls be all knowing and destroy clouds and shit ….

So like the book says see it in your mind done and it is done …. So I explained you have to take the CLOUD out of your thinking as if you had never had EXPOSURE to that cloud when your mind is that focused THEN OF COURSE TO you the cloud NEVER WAS AND SO IT IS NOT THERE IN THE SKY …. BUT IF YOU ARE DEPENDING ON THE AGREEMENT OF others to do this... you are FUCKED ….because you can not create in another's experience... we ALL AGREE on a stable platform to experience a general state of agreed upon PHYSICS … but the FREE CHOICE in each to see and feel experience is just that in each... a freedom of each .

This person still wanted to learn to get rid of clouds, so I reminded them of PSYCHOTICS… they think shit we do not see is real and for them it is very very very real …only until you SHOCK the bio machine will you ever be able to get them to experience this time/space agreement of the rest of us… and even then there has to be a WANTO of that psychotic to 'want to' see what the rest of us see, other wise after the GRAVE shock to the bio machine they promptly return to their own PRIVATE IDAHO. I explained for me to teach them that MAGIC IS for me to become mentally ill on command … self generated. and still they wanted to learn …

But when the student came back once more for some more clarity … and told me how it did not works while with friends …. And complained … I had to go over it again …. The idea of STABLE PLATFORM AGREEMENT STATE …. And that magic breaks the agreement state, so others will not let you do magic... unless of course they want you to do magic and then ..well then we get professional magicians … who do magic but within the context of the agreed upon state. It is why mystics, when examined to closely, are almost always found out to be …using the tool of ….. mass hypnotic hallucination … the desire of the individual to experience hypnosis is the only way…. There has to be a general UNDERLYING acceptance, or allowing of the PROGRAMING .

Once I could get the student to NOT want to PROVE their power in front of friends but to erase the clouds... to feel what it is like to pass thru solid matter etc .. astrail travels etc …once they were doing it for their own fun and not for the GLORY of being able to say to others HEY LOOK I AM MAGICAL AND YOU ARE NOT ! i get fucking so lost trying to teach this shit even live this shit for it is outside of the day to day agreement state it is useless recreation… it is something I can not share because of the DOUBT of the others unless they themselves have already lived it. And then well I am not having to convince them in any way, hell they are trying to convince me that their concepts of the UNIMPOSSIBLE ARE POSSIBLE .

So this has to do with keeping your GOALS to yourself, unless of course you are truly involved in a MASTER MIND LIKE DESCRIBED IN THE teaching of NAPOLEON HILL ….. and the master mind is… a group of NON DOUBTERS... very supportive of each other who still creative in their OWN minds, not dependent on the minds of the others. Alone! Lonely place actually we came here to experience SOCIALNESS ... a common reality. Keeping your PLANS to yourself can be difficult many times, but it is very important for then you do not have the energy of others streams, CO CREATING upon your dreams... polluting it …. Because if you FELT they were important enough... if you LOVED enough to describe to them you future…. Then you ALREADY have polluted your dream with SHOULDS based upon creating in their world for their happiness, which I can not do…..

I can not really create in another mind ….. I can do what I believe is best for me and what I would like some one else to like, but I can not force them to like it …. I just invite them into my world. They then HAD THE RESPONSIBILITY to feel their emotional guidance scale and move on… Or stay, but if they stay in a FORCED MODE, if the SIGNALS of stress continue to show up, then your want for their happiness OUR DNA instincts is one of caring will detract from the life you created and now BOTH PEOPLE STILL BECOME unhappy … neither true to themselves.

Your TRUTH …is the lighted path for others … the best help is you being happy. That is the WITNESS of the SAGE JESUS …. Talking about show your own happiness then let others free choice to follow or not … if not wish them LOVE AND GOOD FORTUNE …. Adventures. And so do you worry NO ONE WILL LIKE YOU PRIVATE IDAHO?

"The great thing about death is that there's really nothing worse that could happen to you, and once it happens, it can never happen again. Better yet, once you die, you're no longer in a position to be bummed about the fact you died. The situation in 2007 is already fucked beyond the point of no return. We're not saving the world, we're not going to improve things, we're not going to beat the machine. We're going to save ourselves, we're going to minimize damage where we can, and we're going to watch the machine collapse and eat itself."
- Justin Boland aka Thirtyseven aka Humpasaur Jones aka Algorhythms aka DJ Multiple Sex Partners

William Blake wrote:

The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time that they would be misunderstood & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in everything, and as I was then persuaded & remain confirmed that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.'

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 5th Adhyaya, 1st Brahmana, 1st Mantra

That is perfect - this is perfect.
What comes from such perfection truly is perfect.
What remains after perfection from perfection is yet perfect.
May there be peace, peace and perfect peace.

"A kind word can warm three months of winter." Japanese proverb

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." Rainer Maria Rilke

“If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." the Buddha

old native american prophecy

when the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. they will be known as the "warriors of the rainbow".

"If we wish to understand the nature of reality, we have an inner hidden advantage: we are ourselves a little portion of the universe and so carry the answer within us."
- Jacques Boivin

whatever you are THINKING, it really doesn't matter, everything is already a-okay. your words, your inner dialogue, is just cosmic foo foo. your "answers" (a.k.a. analyses) are never a lasting thing.
be mindful.
stop the regressive looping. put an end to repressive thinking.

aleister crowley said:

"There are three ways to increase your intelligence:

1. Continually expand the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive.

2. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about the future to understand what's happening now.

3. Develop external networks for increasing intelligence. In particular, spend all your time with people who are smart or smarter than you. We assume that you are the Intelligence Agent from your gene pool, so you will seek Intelligence Agents from other gene-pools who will stimulate you to get smarter.

brave new world exerpt

"...Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."

two resonating aphorisms of the baal shem tov

Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, so will be the image you perceive. But should you look upon your fellow and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

I asked the Moshiach, "When will you come?" and he said to me: "When your wellsprings shall spread to the outside."

favorite nietzsche quote

Those who were dancing were thought insane by those who did not hear the music.

cosmic confliction

The Spectrum of Reality encompasses both that which we can see and measure, as well as that which we can neither see nor measure. If graphed, our human senses detect only about 5% of reality. Scientists can measure, perhaps, another 10%, above and below our sensory range. The remaining 85% is the non-physical. It has been called quasi-physical, supernatural, mystical, spiritual, astral, and/or celestial.

worthy advice for knowledge-seekers

Studying "spiritual" matters is always connected to a consciousness-related process. Every individual must be mentally prepared to confront himself with truth, and he should also get the chance to work for this preparedness himself.

The awesome respect for all life is an awesome attitude towards life that harbors only within itself the key to knowledge, truth and all realization.

Never let yourself be enticed—because of sheer enthusiasm for truth or a craving for recognition, among other things—to perform propaganda or missionize in order to win or convince other people of your own learnings. In doing so you can do great harm to yourself as well as to others.

Do not turn the study of lessons into a secret or impart a feeling into the fellow-man that he has not progressed far enough in order to understand this or that. Such behavior would not only represent an unjustified self-exaltation of the own person but also a lack of respect and awe for another individual. Likewise one should always bear in mind that one isn’t all-knowing and that one’s own understanding of lessons is always more or less limited.

It should be considered by everyone that oneself and the fellow-men are led astray with half- or false-truth and, because of this, the path to and the finding of truth is impeded.

Of course, no person shall hide his light under a bushel, and if any information is necessary or appropriate, or if interested people ask questions, then obviously they can get explanations—within reasonable limits and according to one’s best skill and abilities. Consequently, if one is talking about their learnings it shall always be in a general manner and according to one’s own understanding. Talking about all cognitions, assumptions etc. right from the start should be avoided.

your brain does not know the difference

The Exercise

1. Stand up, position your feet shoulder width apart, bend over as far as you can without any strain or force to your body and try to touch the floor while keeping your knees straight. (If this is quite easy for you to achieve then stand on something to raise yourself taller, for example stand on a couple solid books stacked on top of each other. Anything you can do to make it difficult to touch the floor without bending your knees.) Notice how close or far away your fingers are to the floor and stand up again.
2. Close your eyes and imagine/visualize bending over as far as you can again. In other words do not actually physically bend over again, but use your mental eye to vividly image yourself bending over except this time imagine yourself bending over and getting closer to the floor. Next, imagine yourself coming back up to an upright position.
3. Keep your eyes closed and imagine bending over as far as you can again. Visualize it so clear that it feels as if it is actually happening physically, but this time imagine your fingers touching to the point where your palms are almost flat on the floor. Again, visualize yourself standing straight up.
4. One more time with your eyes still closed imagine bending so far over, that your palms lay flat on the floor with painless effort, flexible ease, and enjoyment. Now visualize coming back to the vertical position.
5. Open your eyes and bend over as far as you can physically (without over extending or hurting yourself) while keeping your knees straight and notice how much closer you are to the floor now compared to the first time you tried!

This works on everyone who can follow the instructions above. It does not matter if you feel your visualization skills are not up to the part or if you think your imagination is weak. Everyone has his or her unique way of visualizing and imagining so you cannot fail or get it wrong, except by not trying it at all.

Why Did This Work?

Some people might say this is a misinterpretation of its actual nature and the only reason it works is that the first time you did it you stretched your mussels so the second time around you could go farther. If you have done this exercise and compared the difference between the first time and second time, you would automatically know that was not the case because the measurable distance is too significant. In fact, if you did the whole exercise again you would be able to bend even more.
This worked because the brain cannot recognize the difference between your imagination/visualization (memory, dreams, and fantasizing all fall under the same category) and your perceiving reality. Yet what does that mean? It means that if you visually imagine something, vividly, many times, your brain will produce that result! Why does that matter? It matters for the reason that you produce any result on every level of your life that you can imagine!

Personal Development for Consciously Flexing the Consciousness

give purpose to nothing or purpose to all

It is pointless to choose the middle ground, to make purposeful what you, or others, deem to be purposeful.

We move forward as best we can, reaching toward the light between the branches to guide us out of the forest.

We don't know where we're going but once we know how to recognize the signs that are so abundant, once our eyes are open to them, we have a chance of discovering our own Buddha Nature, our Christ 2.0, our own real Self.

selections by Ajahn Chah

A visiting Zen student asked Ajahn Chah, "How old are you? Do you live here all year round?" "I live nowhere," he replied. "There is no place you can find me. I have no age. To have age, you must exist, and to think you exist is already a problem. Don't make problems; then the world has none either. Don't make a self. There's nothing more to say."

Once there was a layman who came to Ajahn Chah and asked him who Ajahn Chah was. Ajahn Chah, seeing that the spiritual development of the individual was not very advanced, pointed to himself and said, "This, this is Ajahn Chah." On another occasion, Ajahn Chah was asked the same question by someone else. This time, however, seeing that the questioner's capacity to understand the Dhamma was higher, Ajahn Chah answered by saying, "Ajahn Chah? There is NO Ajahn Chah."

If your mind is happy, then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you've learned how to read - you can then read anywhere you go.

Any speech which ignores uncertainty is not the speech of a sage.

If your mind tries to tell you it has already attained the level of sotapanna, go and bow to a sotapanna. He'll tell you himself it's all uncertain. If you meet a sakadagami, go and pay respects to him. When he sees you, he'll simply say, "Not a sure thing!" If there's an anagami, go and bow to him. He'll tell you only one thing. "Uncertain!" If you meet even an arahant, go and bow to him. He'll tell you even more firmly, "It's all even more uncertain!" You'll hear the words of the Noble Ones: "Everything is uncertain. Don't cling to anything!"

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

A devout elderly lady from a nearby province came on a pilgrimage to Wat Pah Pong. She told Ajahn Chah she could stay only a short time, as she had to return to take care of her grandchildren, and since she was an old lady, she asked if he could please give her a brief dhamma talk. Ajahn Chah replied with great force, "Hey, listen! There's no one here, just this! No owner, no one to be old, to be young, to be good or bad, weak or strong. Just this, that's all - just various elements of nature going their own way, all empty. No one born and no one to die! Those who speak of birth and death are speaking the language of ignorant children. In the language of the heart, of Dhamma, there are no such things as birth and death."

last summer was when i first ingested the DREAD LSD. :P

i was with four friends (adam, aaron, jake, and sean) when i ate my hit at sometime like 3:30 in the afternoon, at adam's house. it took about an hour when i started feeling exhilarated. i was entering into a new reality. i remember looking at myself in the mirror (wow, such huge pupils!) and i kept smiling. i'd stare intently, trying to remain stoic, but then one eye would start twitching and i'd laugh and have to look away.

i wanted something to munch on, and brought this up with my friends. sean and i readily agreed that suckers would be perfect. so the four of us decided to drive to the nearby grocery store. the second wave hit me when we were inside the store. there was so much food in one localized place! and the fruit!! it was so bright and inviting to my hunger! i snagged a banana. the others didn't take long; we didn't even head to the candy aisle, we just got the fuck out of there quickly as possible, as the flourescent lighting was starting to intensely bother each one of us.

back at the house, i found a small four-wheeled flat cart in adam's back yard. he and i decided to ride the cart down this hill that ended at the edge of some woods. we careened and crashed the cart nearly every ride down, but we just kept laughing and wanting to do it again. we had become young boys again. we also found a toad, which we observed with total fascination. at some point i looked up at the sky and noticed how the clouds seemed to be breathing. we laid with our backs on the hillside, watching the energy of the clouds flow and pulsate.

after a while jake suggested taking a trip to the local thrift store. that seemed a perfect idea to me; everyone else was content to stay where they were, though.

well, it was in the thrift store when my peak came on. i was geeking out almost the whole time. jake had to thoroughly convince me that the turqois parachute pants and red trench coat really didn't complement each other. but i did find one of the greatest books i've since read, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. and i also found an old-school LEGO poster, completely framed in hard, clear plastic, with the heading "Explore the Universe with your Imagination". :D

on our return drive, we happend to be mooned by some girls that looked to be about 12 or 13. honestly, that was the weirdest part of my trip.

after showing off my new-found treasure to the others, adam and i took a drive to a party in another town. we smoked some nugs along the way, but i didn't even notice a change in my high.normally i'm somewhat a more reclusive, introverted person, but at the party, conversation flowed smoothly with anyone, and i noticed an ability to read/understand most of the people i interacted with on a deeper level by just focusing on what their faces were expressing. some decipherings were surprising to me. some saddened me immensely.

i got into a game of fooseball and instantly "got in the zone". i discovered i was pretty much able to go auto-pilot and, while holding my own against my opponent very well, at the same time i was studying his methods of play, looking for and analyzing his patterns, and solving how to get past his defense. it was all a wild, intense experience. and, well, so was the entire trip itself. :) i started to feel the coming down affects soon after the game, so i'll end my story here.

albert einstein quote

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."


In short, if you always think what you've always thought you'll always create what you've already got.

bananas benefit

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

carlos castaneda's commentaries

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge


The irreducible description of what I did in the field would be to say that the Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus, introduced me into the cognition of the shamans of ancient Mexico. By cognition, it is meant the processes responsible for the awareness of everyday life, processes which include memory, experience, perception, and the expert use of any given syntax. The idea of cognition was, at that time, my most powerful stumbling block. It was inconceivable for me, as an educated Western man, that cognition, as it is defined in the philosophical discourse of our day, could be anything besides a homogeneous, all-engulfing affair for the totality of mankind.

For the sorcerers of don Juan's lineage, however, there is the cognition of modern man, and there is the cognition of the shamans of ancient Mexico. Through the shaman cognition, Don Juan explained, it was energetically imperative for human beings to realize that the only thing that matters is their encounter with infinity. "Man's battlefield is not in his strife with the world around him. His battlefield is over the horizon, in an area which is unthinkable for an average man, the area where man ceases to be a man."

Little did I know at that time that don Juan was not giving me just an appealing intellectual description; he was describing something he called an energetic fact. Energetic facts, for him, were the conclusions that he and the other shamans of his lineage arrived at when they engaged in a function which they called seeing: the act of perceiving energy directly as it flows in the universe. This capacity to perceive energy in this manner is one of the culminating points of shamanism.

According to don Juan, the task of ushering me into the cognition of the shamans of ancient Mexico was carried out in a traditional way, meaning that whatever he did to me was what was done to every shaman initiate throughout the ages. The internalization of the processes of a different cognitivie system always began by drawing the shaman initiates' total attention to the realization that we are beings on our way to dying. Don Juan and the other shamans of his lineage believed that the full realization of this energetic fact, this irreducible truth, would lead to the acceptance of the new cognition.

Don Juan said that the energetic fact which was the cornerstone of the cognition of the shamans was that every nuance of the cosmos is an expression of energy.

To perceive energy directly allowed the sorcerers of don Juan's lineage to see human beings as conglomerates of energy fields that have the appearance of luminous balls. Observing human beings in such a fashion, they noticed that each of those luminous balls is individually connected to an energetic mass of inconceivable proportions that exists in the universe; a mass which they called the dark sea of awareness. They observed that each individual ball is attached to the dark sea of awareness at a point that is even more brilliant than the luminous ball itself. Those shamans called that point of junction the assemblage point, because they observed that it is at that spot that perception takes place.

What the shamans found out when the focused their seeing on the dark sea of awareness was the revelation that the entire cosmos is made of luminous filaments that extend themselves infinitely. Shamans describe them as luminous filaments that go every which way, but without ever touching one another. They saw that they are individual filaments, and yet, they are grouped in inconceivably enormous masses.

Another such filament, besides the dark sea of awareness which the shamans observed and liked because of its vibration, was something they called intent, and the act of individual shamans focusing their attention on such a mass, they called intending. They saw that the entire universe was a universe of intent, and intent, for them, was the equivalent of intelligence. Their conclusion, which became part of their cognitive world, was that vibratory energy, aware of itself, was intelligent in the extreme. They saw that the mass of intent in the cosmos was responsible for all the possible mutations, all the possible variations which happened in the universe, not because of arbitrary, blind circumstances, but because of the intending done by the vibratory energy.

Zillions of these luminous filaments, or rather fields of energy, were observed to converge on and go through the assemblage point. They discovered the energetic fact that the impact of the energy fields going through the assemblage point was transformed into sensory data; data which were then interpreted into the cognition of the world of everyday life. Those shamans accounted for the homogeneity of cognition among human beings by the fact that the assemblage point for the entire human race is located at the same place on the energetic luminous spheres that we are: at the height of the shoulder blades, an arm's length behind them, against the boundary of the lumionus ball.

The seeing-observations of the assemblage point led the sorcerers of ancient Mexico to discover that the assemblage point shifted position under conditions of normal sleep, or extreme fatigue, or disease, or the ingestion of psychotropic plants. Those sorcerers saw that when the assemblage point was at a new position, a different bundle of energy fields went through it, forcing the assemblage point to turn those energy fields into sensory data, and interpret them, giving as a result a veritable new world to perceive.

Another issue related to intent, but transposed to the level of universal intending, was, for the shamans, the energetic fact that we are continually pushed and pulled and tested by the universe itself. The intending of the universe is to be continually testing awareness. The shamans saw that the universe exerts pressure on all beings, forcing them to enhance their awareness, and in this fashion, the universe attempts to become aware of itself. In the cognitive world of the shamans of ancient Mexico, therefore, awareness is the final issue.

Don Juan Matus and the shamans of his lineage regarded awareness as the act of being deliberately conscious of all the perceptual possibilities of man, not merely the perceptual possibilities dictated by any given culture whose role seems to be that of restricting the perceptual capacity of its members. Don Juan maintained that to release, or set free, the total perceiving capacity of human beings would not in any way interfere with their functional behavior. In fact, functional behavior would become an extraordinary issue, for it would acquire a new value. Free from idealities and pseudo-goals, man has only function as his guiding force. Shamans call this impeccability. They derived function from seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe. If energy flows in a certain way, to follow the flow of energy is, for them, being functional.

According to don Juan, the culmination of the shamans' quest is something he considered to be the ultimate energetic fact, for every human being on Earth. He called it the definitive journey. The definitive journey is the possibility that individual awareness, enhanced to the limit by the individual's adherence to the shamans' cognition, could be maintained beyond the point at which the organism is capable of functioning as a cohesive unit, that is to say, beyond death. This transcendental awareness was understood by the shamans of ancient Mexico as the possibility for the awareness of human beings to go beyond everything that is known, and arrive, in this manner, at the level of energy that flows in the universe. Shamans like don Juan Matus defined their quest as the quest of becoming, in the end, an inorganic being, meaning energy aware of itself, acting as a cohesive unit, but without an organism. They called this aspect of their cognition total freedom, a state in which awareness exists, free from the impositions of socialization and syntax.

the all

The All is the Hermetic or panentheistic view of God, which is that everything that is, or at least that can be experienced, collectively makes up The All. One Hermetic maxim states, "While all is in The All, it is equally true that The All is in all."

According to Hermetic doctrine, The All is a bit more complicated than simply being the sum total of the universe. Rather than The All being simply the physical universe, it is more correct to say that everything in the universe is within the mind of The All, since the ALL can be looked at as Mind itself. In effect, the universe is partially existent on the Mental plane, and we may in fact all be parts of The All's psychological makeup, representing parts of The All in its dream or meditation.

The All is a union between Nothing and All Possibility, the ultimate opposites, and the nature of that union is without beginning or end for these two opposites automatically and simultaneously create each other. The result is a "cosmic copulation" whose effect is an infinite, living mind.

But, even with everything in the universe being part of The All, it is possible that other things exist outside of The All. For example, The All may be just like us on its own level of existence, with its own The All above it. Other beings would be part of that greater All having the same difficulty interacting with us as anyone else has entering the dreams of others.

opening towards beyond

"Many people who took LSD, mushrooms, and other psychedelics, often along with readings from The Tibetan Book of the Dead or some Zen texts, had the gates of wisdom opened to a certain extent. They began to see that their limited consciousness was only one plane and that there were a thousand new things to discover about the mind. They saw many new realms, got new perspectives on birth and death, and discovered the nature of mind and consciousness as a field of creation rather than the mechanical result of having a body. Some opened beyond the illusion of separation to the truth of the oneness of things. But in order to maintain this vision they had to keep taking the psychedelics over and over. Even though there were some transformations from these experiences, they tended to fade for a lot of people. Following that some people said "If we can't maintain the highs of consciousness that come through the psychedelics, let's see if there is some other way." And so they undertook various kinds of spiritual disciplines." (Jack Kornfield

"I don't see psychedelics as an enlightening vehicle, but I do see it as an awakening vehicle. I see them beginning a process that awakens you to the possibility. That's the way I'm using the word 'awaken'. It breaks you out, in the same way that trauma can do it, near-death experiences, and perhaps years of intensive meditation." (Ram Dass

why 2012?

In the Mayan calendar, one day is referred to as a Kin. 20 Kins make up a Uinal. 360 Kins make up a Tun. 20 Tuns make up a Katun. And finally, 20 Katuns (144,000 Kins) make up a Baktun.

Long Count dates in the archeological record are found to begin with the baktun place value and separated by dots. For example: 6.19.19.0.0 equals 6 baktuns, 19 katuns, 19 tuns, 0 uinals and 0 days. If all the values are added up, 6.19.19.0.0 indicates that a total of 1,007,640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0.

The 13-baktun cycle, also known as the Mayan "Great Cycle", is completed 1,872,000 days after 0.0.0.0.0, and the cycle begins again. This period of time equals 5125.36 years.
So, how does this Long Count relate to our Gregorian calendar? J. Eric S. Thompson determined that 0.0.0.0.0 correponded to August 11th, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian calendar. This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.

The point of interest for Mayan astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. (Although there are still many Mayan scholars who dismiss this as mere coincidence.) This end point was considered to be the end of an Age. Why did the Mayan astronomers conclude December 21, 2012 to be the end of the current Age?

In Mayan creation and cosmos myths, "The Sacred Tree" is at the center of the entire corpus. The astronomical meaning of The Sacred Tree, as discovered through iconographic evidence, is the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band (Galactic Equator) of the Milky Way, which the Mayans considered to be the sacred doorway to the underworld. The ecliptic is the "plane" on which the planets of our solar system orbit on (with the exception of Neptune). The Galactic Equator is just as it is named, the imaginary line just like the equator of Earth. It can be seen as a dark ridge through the middle of the milky way (it's really just lots of gas and other molecules hindering light from stars on the other side reaching our eyes on Earth). The Mayans saw this dark ridge as a road to be traveled to the door to the underworld.

Okay, if you're still following, here's the fun part. The astronomical anomoly behind December 21st, 2012, is the fact that our sun will be in EXACT conjunction with the crossing point of the ecliptic and Galactic Equator. It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. What this might mean astrologically, how this might effect the "energy weather" on earth, must be treated as a separate topic.

**A convergence of other ideas now occurs here. For starters, in the book he co-authored with his brother Dennis (Invisible Landscape), Terence McKenna suggests that the position of the winter solstice sun within 3 degrees of the Galactic Center in the year 2012 may provide the eschatological end point for his theory of time known as Timewave Zero. His end date was chosen for historical reasons and was, apparently, only later discovered to correspond with the Mayan end date.

You should read more on McKenna's theory if you have any interest whatsoever: Novelty Theory.

***A third concept (and one that will be a stretch for the close-minded soul) has to do with two geophysical conditions that are changing: "zero point" and the "Schumann resonance".

Nearly fifty years ago, German physicist W. O. Schumann discovered that the Earth behaves like an enormous electric circuit. I won't go into too many details, but just know that there is a 'cavity 'defined by the surface of the Earth and the inner edge of the ionosphere 34 miles up, in which exists quasi standing electromagnetic waves. This background base frequency, or "heartbeat," (called the Schumann resonance) is measured at 7.8 cycles per second. However, this frequency has risen, and scientists have yet to figure out why. The current rate has been set at over 11 cycles.

And while the earth's "pulse" rate is rising, her magnetic field strength, on the other hand, is declining. Earth's geological record indicates magnetic reversals have occured quite often. And a flip of the magnetic poles will probably happen again very soon.

Supposedly when Earth's frequency reaches 13 cycles the magnetic field will be at a zero point (the lowest possible energy), and the earth's magnetic poles will shift.

But that's not all.

In 1961, by means of satellite instrumentation, astronomers discovered an abnormal nebula phenomenon. Normally a nebula is understood to be a vast cloud-like mass of gas or dust. However, this one appeared to have anomalous properties. This electro-magnetic cloud is known as the photon belt. 20 years later astronomers discovered that this nebula's location was coincident with the projected orbit of our solar system. However, it was difficult to predict when this would occur since the belt was oscillating randomly. Theories hold that when Earth does enter the photon belt (projected to be sometime after 2010), the orbit of our planet will start to slow down, and possibly reach a stand still.


"We are going into a dimensional consciousness change and though a physical preparation may help a little tiny bit at the beginning, as we pass through these changes, the only real help is who you are, what your character is, how much your heart is open and how well you are to love and to connect with God. So the most important thing is to work on your innerself." -Drunvalo Melchizedek

getting ready for a shift

i like to think that we are a means for the universe to see and perceive and understand "itself"

some friends and i took some 2CB

the drug first hit me when i was sitting in zack's room listening to muse (map of the problematique) on his computer. i started to feel just phenomenal [in psychological terms, very pleasant :D]. i was totally digging the music, i closed my eyes and let it wash through my ears and my brain. adam later commented, "you were there, man! i could see it. you were just there."

adam went downstairs and i followed after listening to a song by earth, wind, and fire. jake and aaron were playing super smash brothers for N64, so i joined in. jake wasn't tripping, just stoned. adam disappeared for awhile, and aaron and i tripped out hardcore in our attempts to make our polygon characters battle.

us four trippers decided to go outside and make our way to prospect park. we all began to feel more at ease on the walk. there was a thick fog outside, and all of the different lights of the city were just exploding with colors. the traffic light poles were immense! i had never noticed how much they scream at you to pay attention to them. i also free-fell into a pile of snow, but it was ungiving.

in the crackhead neighborhood, i found a sign for some church gathering. the header said, "Turning Towards the Light" and had some days. on January 6th, the event was, "Celebrate New Elevator". none of us could figure out what in the fuck that meant, and this made us laugh very hard. adam said he felt that he had read that before, and it seems likely that they re-use the same data file for the church function every year, as it had no mention of what year it was anywhere on it. but more than that, he felt a deja vu about the whole walk to the prospect park tower, of which i did not feel. i guess, for me, it was more like, everything is right, everything is a-okay, even though i've no fucking idea as to what is going on! oh, and another interesting thing on the piece of paper (which was laminated very nicely) was the next days event, after the celebration of the new elevator. the next event was, "Singing Charles Westley Hymns". now, none of us could quite figure out if charles westley was the name of a human, so that group of words seemed especially funny. and we laaaughed.

the hill climb at prospect park was incredibly steep and icy. adam, with nice grip on his shoes, made it up with ease. the rest of us fell all over the place, slipping, falling, and laughing very much. at the summit railing, we noticed that the trees really appeared to be breathing. the side of the tower had some spray paint art on it. it showed a city skyline, with the prospect tower in the middle and flying saucers all over the sky; one of them being the witches hat on the top of the tower. the words, "The Invasion is Near" were also painted.

on the other side of the tower there was more spray paint and we all gazed at it and pondered what it was. adam and i thought the paint was fresh and was coming off on our hands when we touched it, but it wasn't, as confirmed by zack, who had taken an older 2cb, and who wasn't feeling anything really. there was a long hill path down to university avenue, and we looked at it for a bit, deducing that we should come back here with sleds. then adam just went down on his butt, which worked surprisingly well. so i followed suit. it was FUN and i hurt my butt. we were finding our authentic selves and boy was it awesome. after we all had slid down we walked kind of close to the road and when adam saw a car coming he ran and dove into the bushes. i closely followed. in the bushes, i found a stick, which i grabbed. i squatted down, and waved my stick at adam and the others, poking, saying, "get away, i'm pooping" and this made everyone laugh immensely. this is where we came from, after all. territoriality as marked by feces. we went down the hill a few more times then walked out to university avenue. it was only 1:30am, but the street was completely empty, and fogged over. we all stood in the middle of it. zack sat down in an intersection. there were no cars coming down this normally very busy road even on late nights. 'twas eerie.

suddenly, i thought i heard a car. i ran into a building entry corner, and adam into another entry. aaron walked out of the intersection, and zack stayed in the road. it turns out we were just hearing noises, either made up, or from farther away, traveling well in the dense fog. on the walk home we saw brick under the blacktop, a glimpse of what the road used to look like. how many times have we built upon previous cities, and how much more building up will we do? there were many parked cars. we thought about cars, how useless they are without people. they are simply waiting to be used. they sit endlessly, forever if need be, and wait for an operator. that must be a lonely existence.

zack and i found a suede couch in a dumpster and it appeared to be in fine condition. but we decided there'd be nowhere for us to put it, so we left.

when we arrived back at the house i no longer felt like i was tripping, although the affects of 2-CB are said to last 6-8 hours. but i still enjoyed the rest of the night. we played goldeneye on the 64 (which really brought me back, oh boy). adam started laughing so hard that it became almost obnoxious, and we laughed more because so. adam and i periodically played harmonicas. we packed a bowl and smoked and played micromachines on the 64. we didn't want aaron to play, though, because he always wins. and i eventually fell asleep on the futon around 5:30 in the morning. all in all it was a wonderful new drug experience.

brainwave synchronization

When conversing/communicating with another person, it's impossible to truly bring them to your complete understanding of what you're saying. Because every word that you say in that conversation brings along its own unique meaning to you and you alone. For instance, when I think of this word, I also think of this, and this, and this... I had this experience when I was younger... etc... and you do this with nearly every single word you're using.
We're such primates! We can only communicate so far with the amount of words that are possible to catalogue in just one book!
Wouldn't it be great if we could bring communication to a new level, bring relation to a whole new understanding?
Can we somehow find the ability that will allow us to feed our personal concepts back and forth?
:o