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!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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 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.
Monday, January 28, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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
"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
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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
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
Friday, January 11, 2008
getting ready for a shift
i like to think that we are a means for the universe to see and perceive and understand "itself"
Thursday, January 10, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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
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
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