THE UNBEARABLE MADNESS OF BEING: A Synthesis On The Current Times That Are Running (2nd DEC 2011)

Unless you have been living in a bunker for the last two years, you may have received a range of news, from a faint idea that things are changing to an avalanche of end of the world prophesies.

So why now? What is it that these times are carrying that is turning the internet and other media into some kind of prophesy-frenzy madness? How am I expected to deal with the myriad of theories on political world domination? Are they true? Should I care? Is something really going on? How am I supposed to put all this to good use?

When looking through the different characters of these seemingly unrelated topics, one can make a separation into five main areas:  1) astronomical predictions of events that may put the safety of the planet at risk, 2) theories on secret political and financial agendas, 3) pleads to nurture and shift the current natural state of the plane and of its bio-diversity, 4) the advent of economical collapse and, finally, 5) prophetic theories that relate all these ideas to each other.

There is another important trend that aims at inviting us to reflect upon the existence of extraterrestrial life and the disclosure of the information that has for decades been kept secret to the public. This is a fascinating subject that has to first pass the filter of your ridicule. Aware that it might be too early on in the blog for this, I will postpone this subject for later. Watch this space!

On the first group we find pole shifts, near-miss cosmic journeys of comets and meteorites that threaten to crash onto the Earth, solar flares that may fry up and cancel all technological communication as well as increasing the probability for volcanic eruptions and earthquakes or causing seemingly random effects on our psyche and health leading to depression, heart attacks, a sense of despair or even broken relationships. We have Nibiru and Planet X and Comet Elenin, all bringing forth theories of physical danger upon Earth but also considered bearers of positive change that on the longer run will bring forth an evolution on our consciousness.

On the second group we have the conspiracy theorists informing us about the possible secret agenda for world domination by a selected powerful small sector of the population. This agenda on world domination has as possible outcomes the imposition of a new world order, the further control of the population as well as its forceful decrease in number.

We also find in this group, documentaries that aim at educating us on the mechanisms of the financial system we are ignorantly participating in. These last ones are raising fascinating topics such as the modern time slavery that has been imposed on us, the myth of democracy, loop holes on the judiciary system that lead to manipulation, as well as the de-idealization of the concept of capitalism.

Next we find a group of esthetically designed documentaries on the dangers that we have imposed on our planet with the consumption madness, greed and selfish behavior of a living organism that has grown by 3 billion since 1974. Human beings are showing symptoms equivalent to those of cancer cells which divide and grow uncontrollably and eventually end up invading other tissues and nesting comfortably with a disregard of their surroundings. In this group, human beings are being blamed by such events as the global warming of the planet and consequently the irreparable extinction of 10-30% of its bio-diversity.

Within this same sector we find a group that envisions planet Earth as a living organism, which may be punishing us for our selfish actions and encouraging us to abandon our childish behavior and to grow.

On the fourth group we have predictions on the entire economical collapse affecting millions of lives. This period of financial degradation has been an eye opener to many like myself, realizing the absolute insanity of the economical system we are living in, which encourages the rich to get more rich at the extend of the majority.

This is a system that is sustainable only under the expectation of infinite growth at the expense of finite natural resources. A system that envisions abundance only for a selective few, dependent on the hypnosis of the 99% of the population who slave away for either survival or consumption, which in turn feeds back  to this insane system.

The madness of the whole game has reached its peak when recently we have received pleads of rich political leaders to the entire population to keep on consuming, or to turn the volume up on our consumption madness, on a desperate attempt to keep the parody running for a little longer.

In this sector we find smaller, fascinating groups that are proposing new ideas such as alternative forms of currency and the design of an economical system that works with the finite and cyclical resources of the planet as well as a fairer distribution of wealth.

Last but not least we have the fourth group with fascinating theories such as the Vedic Yuga system, the Mayan Calendar and the Hopi prophesies, which envision our existence in this planet as one with the rest of manifestation and therefore connected to many cycles apparent in the cosmos and nature.  These prophesies maintain that human history is partaking (just as the stars and the rest of manifestation does) on its natural and inevitable evolution towards higher forms of consciousness. Even though evolution is natural, the flavor of our individual experience of it will be determined by our wiliness to grow.

As you can see, the list is no less than fascinating.

None of these theories could hit the masses without the existence of the internet. Most of the written press and TV channels are closely related to the government or to political parties and therefore strongly lean towards one particular viewpoint. This often causes the degradation of the quality of the information we receive and hence leads to subtle manipulation and violation of our rights and our freedom.

The internet, on the other hand is, so far, mostly free speech. We are not sure how long this will continue to be so, many efforts are being made to end the era of open cyber-communication. These efforts will continue, especially when ripple effects on society increase, such as the cases of rebellious uprisings in the Middle East and the recent Occupy Wall Street movement.

Whether all these theories are true, partly true or false, the main observation I extract is the fact that we are in a state of rapid change; we want to change. And not only change, but evolve. The number of theories and prophesies that are urging us to do so with one pretext or the other, as well as the number of its followers, make it evident to me that we are no longer happy with the current state of affairs.

Dissatisfaction may be a signature quality of the unrealized man, but the difference now is that we are acknowledging our power to exert this change, to demand this change. We demand the freedom to change.

Interestingly, as we are demanding the witnessing of change on the outside, a smaller group is also passionately taking the streets of their own individual psyche with demands of a more mature viewpoint on who they are in essence.

As our fists continue to triumphantly come up in the air and force may be finally used to conclude demonstrations, after all the enemies have been named, the veil of illusion may fall, realizing that there is no such thing as ‘me versus them’ and that so long as we perceive our lives as separate from that of our counter parts there will be no solution. As we open up to the bird´s eye view that this miraculous manifestation is not here to satisfy our individual needs, greed and selfish concerns, we realize that, instead, it forms a fascinating web of connectedness that is organically growing towards the evolution of its consciousness; whether we agree to it or not.

In comparison to that, the state of affairs that we are currently living in will continue to lead us on to a feeling of an unbearable lightness of being, general dissatisfaction and the blaming of others.

As a personal note, I would like to say that I support with awe the great numbers of people that are risking their lives to demand a ruling class that walks with dignity on the razor´s edge of justice, which represents high ethical values and pursues abundance and freedom for all.

I support with even more admiration, however, that smaller group of people who are, against all odds, taking charge of their army within and have as their goal the ultimate challenge: their victory upon themselves.

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
― Ghandi

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Further inspiration:

–          Book, Ken Wilber: A Brief History of Everything

–          Book, Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth

–          Youtube, Jay Rockefeller: Internet Should Have Never Existed

–          Youtube, Foster Gamble: Thrive, the Movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThQps461s8

–          Youtube, Kiesha Crowther: A New World Is Dawning

–          Youtube, Steven Greer: The Promise of New Energy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FEyV_-NGyk&feature=share

–          Website on the current times, www.awakeningasone.com

–          Exert your influence on the application of new laws, www.avaaz.com and http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?fp

–          Alternative media, www.realitysandwich.com

–          Alternative media, www.libertaddigital.com

–          Alternative media (radio), www.redicecreations.com

–          Alternative media, www.wikileaks.org

–          Alternative media, www.ted.com

–          Educational Documentary, Ben Stewart: Kimatica http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/kymatica/

–          Educational Documentary, Peter Joseph: Zeitgeist I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXirzknYYE

–          Educational Documentary, Peter Joseph: Zeitgeist II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs

–          Educational Documentary, Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

–          Educational Documentary, Domino Harvey: Domino Collapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXkq_hpaWIo

–          Article, The Guardian: Save the Euro in 10 days or see the EU disintegrate, ministers are warned https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/business/2011/nov/30/save-euro-eu-europe

–          Youtube, Cgreene34: Anarchy State, Eurozone Collapse a controlled demolition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3eMpRGx70&feature=share&noredirect=1

–          Occupy Wall Street official website http://occupywallst.org/

–          Occypy Wall Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9NGcrtMHcI

–          Website, The Venus Project: Alternative Vision for a Sustainable World http://www.thevenusproject.com/

–          Website on alternative currencies  http://openmoney.info/

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Up and coming text:

THE PATHLESS PATH: The journey of the seeker towards the great path of Freedom

As we desire change and growth, contemplating the idea of conscious transformation, this text aims to shed light into the nature of the new possible goals that may fuel our motivation. Destruction of ego, self realization, enlightenment… What do these concepts really mean? What sacrifices do they demand? And how will they ultimately look like?

SATURN´S RETURN: A Planet´s Powerful Effect On Our Lives (28th Nov 2011)

For most, the recognition that we are a planet, floating in an infinite space, is hardly a recurrent thought throughout our busy days. Yogis would say that the filter between our conscious and subconscious mind gages our immediate needs and determines the feeding of thoughts from the subconscious through to the conscious mind in order to keep ourselves focused on the task at hand, mainly concerned with survival.

So even if our subconscious mind has the immense capacity to store every thought and experience we have had so far to the minutest detail (even of our peripheral vision!), we still only manage to concern ourselves with the trivialities of life. And as we think about these thoughts over and act upon them, we reinforce them in a way that gives them an extra point for them to be allowed into our consciousness again in the future.

Those thoughts that don’t make it through to our conscious mind are considered by the filter dangerous for our survival and will induce fear if forced through. Hence the fear that we may sometimes feel when invited to ponder on our cosmic reality. During certain unexpected moments of shock or trauma or inspiration, these stored thoughts might leak through, bringing those glorious ‘Aha!’ moments.

But whether we ponder about the cosmos or not, it is a reality. Astronomers have so far only been able to envision a tiny part of the universe. Recently, advancements have been made where more powerful technologies have been able to zoom further into what we have considered as empty space and have found trillions of galaxies like ours as well as black holes. Every dot in the sky could well be a sun like ours with planets orbiting around it.

For planets to hold themselves for eons in space there has to be a relationship of attraction and retraction of force between them and another mass that they rotate around to. Even being in imaginably large distances, planets are able to exert such a magnificent influence on each other. Imagine the force necessary to retain the mass of our precious planet Earth in position for centuries and maybe even infinitely.

The fact that planets and stars exert a strong influence, not only on the overall mass of the other planets, but also on the life that resides in it, is not a new idea. The sun is vital for growth and vitality and also exerts an influence on our emotions; the moon affects the waters as well as our psyche and bio-cycles. In many cultures seeds are planted at a specific time in the year when the stages of either the moon or other planets exert a particular benefit on the growth of that crop. Same goes with its harvest. In this way, the birth of the plant, now in seed form, is strongly influenced by the cosmic organization at that particular time and will therefore determine its qualities in the future.

The same as the seed determines its qualities by the position of the stars and the planets in the sky, so do we when we are brought to manifestation into physical form in this life. Of course DNA and genes also have a strong say on how we will manifest in this life time, and a lot of this will also be chiseled by our experiences as we grow along, but still the impact of our planetary surroundings is of enough importance to take into consideration.

Most people, when asked about astrology will know of their star sign or sun sign or even their moon sign or ascendant. Whether or not Taureans are stubborn, Geminis are two faced, Virgos are tidy or Pisces are creative. Many of us may have been exposed to cheap astrology readings that sound generic enough to be applied to every person on this planet and hence we have become untrusting of this amazing discipline. Others may have encountered a true expert on astrology that has been able to read us through in a holistic way and guide us through to understand the hidden lessons during difficult moments in our lives.

But few will know of a planet that exerts its powerful  effect on us several times in our lifetime, creating enough unsettlement and opportunities for growth to be able to literally transform our inner and outer worlds in a few years.

During our moment of birth, planets in space where forming a particular geometry that defined, to an extent, our inner and outer worlds in this life time. After some larger and shorter cycles, each planet will eventually return to its original position, creating a feeling of completion and rebirth.

Saturn takes 29 years to make one magnificent orbit across the heavens around the sun. His slow dance across the zodiac is owed to the fact that Saturn is one of the farthest planets out in our solar system.

If you have ever had the chance to see this gorgeous planet through a telescope you may be immediately convinced of its majesty and confidence in power. As you zoom in further its stunning ring becomes fully alive and reverberates with energy and strength.

The first time I saw Saturn through a telescope was coincidently during its return to my house and I had a strong sense of its pull towards me. I envisioned it winking at me confidently, the ever seeing eye, witnessing during my transformation, knowingly anticipating the alchemic journey I was being part of.

Between the 27^th anniversaries up to the early 30s, each of us will go through a transformative process of a very sublime quality, whether conscious or unconscious, subtle or gross. In Indian mythology Saturn is a god that causes untold troubles at least once a lifetime, it’s seen as the bringer of fear and calamities in life and is greatly respected and bowed to. It is said that Saturn has the power to strip you naked in the name of Truth.

Saturn is the symbol of the physical plane and manifests for evolutionary purposes. Fear is our reaction to any threat to our sense of security or well-being.

For those that already accomplished an evolutionary step into maturity and an inclination towards profound and spiritual realms, one may experience a ‘good’ Saturn, giving patience, good observation and an ability to work hard. A ‘bad’ Saturn, on the other hand makes a person depressed, an escapist, lazy, quarrelsome, sorrowful, irresponsible creatures with tendencies towards drug abuse and alcohol.

Practically the return of bad Saturn may mean a sense of cracking down of all that holds us safe. Relationships may crumble, work may become difficult, economical matters challenging, mental and psychological health may suffer.

In our modern times the Saturn Return has been famed by the Club of the 27, the trademark year when many musicians have died of drug and alcohol abuse such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and recently Amy Winehouse amongst many others.

But far from being a mercenary, Saturn´s visit comes paved with good intention that, if consented to, will make us jump the cliff of childhood into the immense wealth of opportunities of our adult lives. By stripping us of our comfort zone, Saturn demands an evolution of consciousness towards more mature forms of thinking and acting, a spiritual awakening that will shatter our illusions about our limitations as material beings.

Whether or not you were aware of this at this age, you may recall a beginning and an end in your life in this period. For others, like me, who were stubbornly and ignorantly clinging to the past and refusing to grow, will suffer through this period, only to be presented with the greatest gifts at the end of the tunnel.

The following Saturn returns to your house through this life time will also have a strong influence on your life experience, but its first return is considered the strongest and most fascinating of all.

But it´s good to know that if you are currently going through a tumultuous phase, whereas it’s the consequence of a specific cosmic condition, or a consequence of your previous actions, or the actions of others, it may the perfect opportunity to come face to face with the director of the movie and enter a transformative journey within.

As far as I´m concerned, even though my Saturn has returned and already started travelling again away from me, it has however now jumped to the position of the ruler of my chart for the next 20 years!

Needless to say that I am holding tight and getting ready for a hell and heaven of a ride.

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” 
― Rumi

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Further inspirations:

– Youtube, Kryptonianguy: “The Size of the Universe”

– Youtube, Tdarnell: “The Hubble Deep Field,The Most Important Image Ever Taken”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

– NASA official website, http://www.nasa.gov/

– Astrological calculations website,http://www.astro.com/

– Wikipedia on, Planets in Astrology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_astrology

– Indian vedic astrology website, http://www.findyourfate.com/indianastro/grahas.htm

(please go lightly on the word fate…)

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Up and coming text:

THE UNBERABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

Text on the changing times that are running and their effect on our moods and seeds for growth.