THE SPYWHISPERER
Compassionate Intelligence Activity
Spywhisperer - Spy 1099 - META HARI - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
“By 2007, my artistic medium changed: the world is my canvas; intelligence is my medium.”“If the world is my canvas, the palette is a shapeshifting morphology of belief systems and ideologies.” ~IO
"I am simply identifying modes of experience. We need new perceptions to cope. Our technologies are generations ahead of our thinking. If you begin to think about these new technologies you appear as a poet because you are dealing with the present as the future. That is my technique. . .Never predict anything that hasn't already happened." Marshall McLuhan, The Hot and Cool Interview; Memories of Now
Sub Rosa In secret; privately or confidentially: held the meeting sub rosa. A "black" (sub rosa) propaganda section.
[Latin sub rosâ, under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + rosâ, ablative of rosa, rose.]
The phrase Sub Rosa comes from the Latin and means ‘under the rose’ or confidentiality. The rose was the emblem of the god Horus in ancient Egypt. Later the Greeks and Romans regarded him as god of silence. This originates from a Greek/Roman misinterpretation of an Egyptian hieroglyphic adopting Horus along with Isis and Osiris as a God. The Greeks translated his Egyptian name Her - pa - khrad to Harpocrates. Cupid gave Harpocrates a rose as a token of gratitude for not betraying the mother of Cupid, Venus. Among the Freemasons the rose is the symbol of silence.
The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. The Game's synthetic, non-linear information play is a forerunner of virtual reality.
Global Architectronics
Hermann Hesse not only wrote the classic introspective novels Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, but won the Nobel prize in Literature (1946) for his final masterwork published under two titles in English: The Glass Bead Game or Magister Ludi. This work (set in the 23rd Century) describes a cadre of individuals and their headmaster -- the Magister Ludi -- engrossed in interdisciplinary play engineering cultural values from behind the scenes. Hesse never forthrightly explained just how the game is played, but gave many hints to its structure for future aspirants seeking solutions to the critical predicament of mankind through Global Architectronics.
The Glass Bead Game is a commentary of how we construct our realities. It requires that its players synthesize aesthetics and philosophy, making deep connections from seemingly unrelated topics. "...‘our rulers’...are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so those who control the symbols rule us.
"Bankers, priests, lawyers, politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class." - Korzybski
CHAOS & CONTROL
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face potentially catastrophic climatic and environmental change, incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, endless wars, urban violence, soil and water depletion. Rampant population growth, genetically-engineered food and organisms, and hazardous waste raise profound doubts about Earth's ability to sustain life.
Many species are already going extinct at the rate of 5000 per year. We wonder about own own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being. Mourning the loss of our freedoms, we feel the impact as loss of our cherished dreams for a better future.
Society itself, changes in unpredictable ways, including through human frailty or perversity, such as crime and war. Political figures, in particular have the ability to affect great masses of people with their policies and dictates. How we mediate and ameliorate these societal disruptions is a major part of our personal stories, and the story of humanity, in general.
We did not anticipate this transition from the arrogant certainty of the rational enlightenment promise of techno-utopia to disquieting uncertainty. We have realized only empty promises of solutions to life's fundamental problems, such as world health, food, and peace. Despite all our knowledge we have not been able to control or dominate our environment successfully.
Knowledge is not wisdom, or even understanding. We need to recognize our innate spirituality. By changing our internal image of reality, we can change the world. There is a deeper current in life and it is embodied in Mystery-- the unpredictable, the unknown, and perhaps unknowable.
THE BIG PICTURE
The Long War is an Intelligence War. We can all participate in more intelligent intelligence. It doesn't belong exclusively to the apostles of the cult of intelligence. Personally and collectively, Intelligence involves information collection and analysis. It helps us determine The Big Picture by synthesizing the forces at play in the world today so we can make prudent decisions about the future of our security.
ANTICIPATORY THINKING
The parallel tracks of roughly seven forces are running the world: Governments, Military, Law Enforcement, Business, Academia, NGO and Media, and Civil (Class, Religion, Labor). Each has its own worldview and agenda which sets the priorities in its point of view, from plutocrats to technocrats and bureaucrats. Many have failed so utterly they have become Roadmaps to Nowhere. We have to step beyond the bounds of elite greed and failed ecology to a less narcissistic, more mature citizenship.
OVERT INTELLIGENCE
Technology, markets, resources and policy interact dynamically. All prediction markets agree that nano-neuro-bio-info products will shape the future. These forces and ideas then filter into manufacturing futures, politics, business, academics, the media, science and military where they take root (or not) in our minds and become part of our cultural mandate. They acquire traction and velocity as people jump on the bandwagon. Despite the techno-utopianism, the economic keyword for 2008 is "debt."
GOD IS AN AMERICAN
The war for your mind has moved from the outside to inside the mindbody of each and every one of us. Propaganda controls the message but the message itself is control. We really have been programmed from the cradle to the grave to worship GOD -- Gold, Oil, & Drugs. We worship and seek solace outside ourselves when the answer is within in our hearts and spirits.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
It's no accident we feel empty and can't get enough. These are the addictions of our culture. We are running on empty, overextended in energy and credit, and militarily. We have traded social safety nets for unsustainable imperialism. We have sheepishly accepted the curtailment of our former freedoms out of fear, or by believing the fear-mongers who create public opinion. Our nation has hostage syndrome. We've been sold a bill of goods and the balance is coming due.
CONSPIRITUALITY
In the Age of Intelligence, modern IO is not about the old messages of psychological operations (PSYOPS), but rather about empowering billions of people with both information tools and access to truthful information. It is about education, not manipulation. It is about sharing, not secrecy. Reality is up for grabs. The present is revealed only after acquiring the entire past. Then the constituents fall into place in a holistic context. The imaginary future influences its creation, from toxic visions like The Matrix to false techno-utopianism. Computers were supposed to save us work, but we wind up working more for less. But, the one who dies with the biggest toys is not the winner. We are living on borrowed time.
THE LONG WAR
The power struggle of The Great Game set up an ongoing quiet war between Britain and Russia for Afghanistan. And after the Soviet defeat, the US was sucked into the continuing quagmire of events involving Iraq, Iran [Persia], India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia described in Zbigniew Brzezinski's book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. This neoconservative strategy has failed utterly as a foreign policy.
INFOTEL
Intelligence in The Age of information is a vision of the convergence of computers, media, and telecommunications - hacking and tracking. It means the ultra data-glut of the net-centric war of information. But where do we go from here? Do you live a white-picket fence / big screen TV fantasy in a militarily-defined world with optimistic delusions of victory? What comes after the fetishizing of information technology and looming economic meltdown of the Greenback?
Instead of the greater free time for creativity imagined in the Cold War era, people have come to work harder and for longer hours for less net gain. But, Voltaire said that, "Man is free the instant he wants to be."
DEMOCRATIC IMPULSE
US intelligence needs to be revisioned and transformed. Covert Action needs to have tighter oversight and accountability. No nation-state currently polices transnational crime, which is a growing threat. Most intelligence now comes from Open Source, so an increase in HUMINT is the quickest route to improvement. The shadow of the Shadow Government, including domestic spying and assassinations, needs to be revealed to the American people and the world so we can finally heal. We must take responsibility for that shadow, including national and global discrimination and exploitation.BIOTIC POTENTIAL
We have prospered parasitically at the expense of disenfranchised others for too long, and need a common survival strategy, at home and abroad. A truly humane and spiritual approach is what is required to heal the split between Machiavellian conspiracies and our human sense of the sacred.
GOOD AIR, GOOD EARTH, GOOD WATER
Sadly, there are serious political agendas to rid the planet of what are flippantly called "useless eaters" - including the poor and the sick. Our food sources are compromised and genetically modified, water is rapidly becoming privatized, and the air is polluted internationally.
Genetics is leading to further horrors of elitism and bioengineered diseases with specific racial targets. We have met the enemy and it is ourselves. The future looks dark. Climate change can be just as big a factor as population growth in the collapse of societies.
Perhaps the light cannot defeat the darkness, but surely we can hold the balance of power against the evil that men do. What we need is more intelligent intelligence. Public intelligence in the public interest is the way we restore the Constitution, save the Republic, and save the Earth and Humanity generations into the future.
Iona "Spooky" Miller, the Spywhisperer
Conceptual Overview:
THE SPY WHISPERER: Intelligence, Skullduggery & Future Tech...
"Give me his skull and I can conjure up the soul of a person..."
MACHI-NATIONS: Who is "Getting Over" on the Whole Human Race?
In GOD [Gold Oil Drugs] We Trust, but Can God trust Us?
WORLD ENGINEERS SHAPE THE TOTALITY OF HUMAN AWARENESS
"Their priesthood was to create new worlds of perception. They were to be world engineers who shaped the totality of human awareness. Their pigments and materials were not to be paint or words but all the resources of the age. Such were the Pharaohs. They made of the world a perception Lab.… The mode of great Art. The environment as ultimate artefact." - Marshall McLuhan to Wilfred Watson, October 4, 1964
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
THE SPYWHISPERER:
"DARKER THAN VELVET; BRIGHTER THAN DIAMONDS"
WAR OF DECEPTION - The Eye in the Triangle is not just a symbol of secret societies and shadow governments. Anyone bothering to educate themselves about how the world really works can open their own Third Eye to the mindbending realities of human society. It is an image many are not willing to accept as a blunt fact of life, but it is what makes the world go 'round, at least for the inhabitants of Spaceship Earth. Is it a race to the Kill, to Techno-Utopia, to Oblivion? Skullduggery may not be a subject you want to pursue but it can be followed to the very heart of The Beast.
DIRECT SOCIAL CONTROL - The future is calling from the center of the world asking why you allowed it to happen. What kind of world do you want to see? The closer your worldview conforms to the reality, the more clarity you have. Time for a Reality Check. The Vortex is a Mask of Power. Are you blinded by your own survival needs? slavishly controlled by your own appetites? distracted by your narcissism, success or The Spectacle? Are you in control of your own thinking and beliefs? THINK AGAIN!
CULTS & CULTURE - By molding worldviews, a culture magician creates the perception, fashions the structure for self-organizing transformation, manipulates and defines the perceived reality. The shaman believes no metanarratives but orchestrates them for others. He is an opportunistic paradigm shifter, chameleon, trickster, environ-mentalist. Both the Great Work and the Great Game are occult -- hidden. The Magus works through contagion. ~io
THE SPY WHISPERER: Intelligence, Skullduggery & Future Tech...
"Give me his skull and I can conjure up the soul of a person..."
MACHI-NATIONS: Who is "Getting Over" on the Whole Human Race?
In GOD [Gold Oil Drugs] We Trust, but Can God trust Us?
WORLD ENGINEERS SHAPE THE TOTALITY OF HUMAN AWARENESS
"Their priesthood was to create new worlds of perception. They were to be world engineers who shaped the totality of human awareness. Their pigments and materials were not to be paint or words but all the resources of the age. Such were the Pharaohs. They made of the world a perception Lab.… The mode of great Art. The environment as ultimate artefact." - Marshall McLuhan to Wilfred Watson, October 4, 1964
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
THE SPYWHISPERER:
"DARKER THAN VELVET; BRIGHTER THAN DIAMONDS"
WAR OF DECEPTION - The Eye in the Triangle is not just a symbol of secret societies and shadow governments. Anyone bothering to educate themselves about how the world really works can open their own Third Eye to the mindbending realities of human society. It is an image many are not willing to accept as a blunt fact of life, but it is what makes the world go 'round, at least for the inhabitants of Spaceship Earth. Is it a race to the Kill, to Techno-Utopia, to Oblivion? Skullduggery may not be a subject you want to pursue but it can be followed to the very heart of The Beast.
DIRECT SOCIAL CONTROL - The future is calling from the center of the world asking why you allowed it to happen. What kind of world do you want to see? The closer your worldview conforms to the reality, the more clarity you have. Time for a Reality Check. The Vortex is a Mask of Power. Are you blinded by your own survival needs? slavishly controlled by your own appetites? distracted by your narcissism, success or The Spectacle? Are you in control of your own thinking and beliefs? THINK AGAIN!
CULTS & CULTURE - By molding worldviews, a culture magician creates the perception, fashions the structure for self-organizing transformation, manipulates and defines the perceived reality. The shaman believes no metanarratives but orchestrates them for others. He is an opportunistic paradigm shifter, chameleon, trickster, environ-mentalist. Both the Great Work and the Great Game are occult -- hidden. The Magus works through contagion. ~io
SKULLDUGGERY
SOCIAL MEDIA
Intelligence has found the public and the public is onto Intelligence. The online public is inadvertently spilling its secrets daily and the dirty laundry of Intelligence has emerged from classified history as CIA's Greatest Hits.
The public is watching not only the Watchers, but The Watchers of the Watchers, and so forth -- all 16 intelligence agencies. Naturally, the public has no access to classified materials, but some claim 90% of intell is Open Souce. Social media is a two-way Super Iway of information exchange. The public is collecting its own intelligence and Intelligence admits trolling the Iway for Open Source data, often as valuable as secrets. Is there some Truth in there or is it just a dataglut of disinformation?
CHAOS & CONTROL
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face potentially catastrophic climatic and environmental change, incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, endless wars, macro-economic meltdown, urban violence, soil and water depletion. Rampant population growth, civil unrest, genetically-engineered food and organisms, and hazardous waste raise profound doubts about Earth's ability to sustain human life.
We're only 6 global degrees of separation from mass extinction. Many species are already going extinct at the rate of 5000 per year. We wonder about our own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being. Mourning the loss of our freedoms, we feel the impact as loss of our cherished dreams for a better future.
Globalist ideology is pushing out national sovereignty. Transnational corporations owe no allegiance to any country. Some call it corporate fascism. When it took root, it was called the military/industrial complex. WARCO, Inc. would like us all to become conformity-spewing "pod people." They've spent billions of lobbying and advertiising dollars aimed toward milking the middle class. Pernicious globalization is affecting our lifestyles, worldview, national identities and hope for humanity and the earth.
SHADOWLANDS
Society itself changes in unpredictable ways, including through human frailty or perversity, such as crime and war. Political figures, in particular, have the ability to affect great masses of people with their policies and dictates. But they are often directed from behind the scenes by those hiding in plain sight. This is the clandestine world of the Shadowlands where things are not as they seem.
There's nothing wrong with faith as long as it doesn't facilitate manipulation. Curiously, an unseen, unheard, unreal threat existing somewhere in the shadows can describe both some images of God and the enemy. This notion is not true for all religions. But it can be used to manufacture bogeymen.
Religion believes in a hidden God; New Age thought argues that god is within; while humanism recognizes no god but human potential. All are beliefs about the nature of existence and each is married to a cultural system. The real enemy is The Shadow without and within, on which we project ultimate evil. Mobilizing this Adversary archetype in individuals and groups is a secret of sorcery.
The Invisible Government has become visible, but governments are not countries. There is a conflict of truth vs. power. The Constitution was written to protect citizens from overweening government but it must be upheld to be effective. The war on terror is a war on the Constitution and Bill of Rights. How we deal with societal disruption and machinations is the silent subtext of our personal stories and humanity in general. Courage is a function of the heart.
TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA
We did not necessarily anticipate this transition from the arrogant certainty of the rational enlightenment promise of techno-utopia to disquieting uncertainty and the politics of fear mongering. It strikes equally at the hearts of humanists, activists and the religious or spiritual. We have realized only empty promises of solutions to life's fundamental problems, such as world health, food, and ever-elusive peace.
Despite all our knowledge we have not been able to control or dominate our inner or outer environment successfully. Science understands that all knowledge is models and some models are better than others. Sometimes new paradigms overthrow whole ways of thought, creating revolutions.
Chaos is actually nonlinear order. Pressed on all sides by chaos and disruption, we long to escape the stress of constant crisis. But this is precisely what makes us vulnerable to tyranny through our manipulated desire for peace and order.
STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE
Ironically, system governance has bankrupted our future - but that is so because the real system has remained clandestine. That is why the apparent system is not only out of balance, but on the verge of catastrophic failure. The middle class is collapsing, according to the secret agenda. When we think we've found the cure, we've often just taken the poison. Today's child is not educated for intelligence. System education just produces "world-class workers," who go along to get along.
We have not thought far enough in terms of the dynamically interrelated complexities of whole systems. A system by definition is a complex. If you can't protect the integrity of the system, there is no system. We need to become more organic, less mechanical in our approach to global life. Systems deal with various levels or scales which may or may not interact (exchange energy) with one another.
THE PROCESS
The question is - how do interactive potentials relate to the whole? The specific nature of the interaction gives rise to global constraints when boundaries are pushed. Boundaries depend on who is placing them and how they are placed. To know that is to know the secret history of the world.
Whether we like it or not, the age of democracy is over, replaced by corporate feudalism. The euphemism "wage slave" has become a reality of control from the cradle to the grave. Sure, you have choices, but the choices are all controlled.
Your journey through the propaganda maze begins K-12. Your graduate work is in The Matrix. Beyond that is a whole other level of great game play of which most remain unaware. Attempting to grasp that reality brings ridicule. Dis-couragment is the name of that game, meant to rob you of independent thought.
WATCHING THE WATCHERS
Relevant interactions often don't take place locally. Our focus should be on more productive relationships. The relationship is emergent and novel. Energy applied at the correct level is more effective than misplaced force. It does little good if our progress is in the wrong direction. Asymmetrically moving toward scale limits distinguishes a system. Systems are closed or open, depending on their quality of interaction.
Mechanical systems are linear; organic systems are nonlocal - recognizing the instaneous connection of all elements. You can build a house, brick by brick, but it reveals nothing about those inhabiting it. Some events have a greater order of magnitude and effect more aspects of the system. Complex systems have complex causality and often change catastrophically when forces build to the tipping point.
Seemingly every move for domestic confidence leads to international disequilibrium. Our problem remains that we all have vastly different definitions of the meaning of wellness in thought and action. We believe we know, but we don't really know for anyone but ourselves, and often not even that. We engage in self-defeating behaviors individually and collectively because we are in a sick system, which is consuming itself.
ENVIRON-MENTAL ARTISTRY
Knowledge is not wisdom, or even understanding. We need to recognize the power of imagination and our innate spirituality for creating social change. We have, at least, now recognized the problem. By changing our internal image of reality, we can change the world from the inside out. It's a cliche to say 'the journey is the destination,' yet we have to begin that journey to change anything -- to save ourselves from ourselves.
Wholistic visionary thinking -- collective intelligence -- is the bridge to the future. Top-down constraints can be overcome by bottom-up groundswell. The integration of new information leads to the unifying truth of tomorrow.
If we can dream it, we can do it. There is a deeper current in life and it is embodied in Mystery-- the unpredictable, the unknown, and perhaps unknowable. The promise of this Mystery is at the core of the secret history of the world. Does that sound good? If you think that is so, you may have already drunk the koolaid. As in alchemy, the poison is in the cure.
THE GREAT GAME
With the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, the United States displaced Britain as the global power, asserting its influence in the Middle East in pursuit of oil, containment of the Soviet Union, and access to other resources. This period is sometimes referred to as "The New Great Game" by commentators, and there are references in the military, security and diplomatic communities to "The Great Game" as an analogy or framework for events involving India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and more recently, the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia. In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski published "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" which advocated a 21st century version of the Great Game. Popular media have referred to the current conflict between international forces and Taliban forces in Afghanistan as a continuance of the Great Game.THE BIG PICTURE
The Long War is an Intelligence War. The unhealthy hegemony of intelligence agencies has led to them wielding too much power without adequate oversight by the citizenry they should represent. Intelligence means being able to see the big picture. You can only "spy" on information that is secret or protected.
Arguably, we should be able to gain deeper insight into what intelligence should be by combining both senses of the word that allow us to connect the dots and ferret out what goes on behind the scenes. Many people have learned how to read between the lies.
FREE RADICALS
The popularity of a variety of "truth" documentaries like Zeitgeist, The End of Suburbia, Peak Oil, JFK II, Endgame, Loose Change, Freedom to Fascism, We Become Silent, Money Masters, Beyond Treason, and endless 9/11 exposes show that many people are interested in looking behind the curtain.
New Age cult films such as 2012: The Odyssey, The Secret, Peaceful Warrior and The Courage to Change are probably popular because they promise you are in control of your reality and sound a more heartful note than doomsday documentaries.
CONSTRUCTION & CONSTRAINT
We can all participate in collective wisdom -- participatory wisdom -- and more intelligent intelligence. It doesn't belong exclusively to the apostles of the cult of intelligence, and their never-ending constructed crisis of the day. Personally and collectively, Intelligence involves information collection and anaylsis. It helps us determine The Big Picture by synthesizing the forces at play in the world today so we can make prudent decisions about the future of our security.
Intelligence is a type of time-travel or remote viewing, projecting one's consciousness into all possible futures, deciding which are plausible and even probable. It means interventions to prevent disasters. Who's in charge? Intelligence officers don't claim to know; they do know who isn't in charge. There is no ultimate "Puppetmaster," but several international competing forces. Players include both known and hidden state- and non-state actors.
EMBEDDED HIERARCHY
The notion of "creating the future" is tied to keeping systems in balance, but they are not in balance. The old structures are breaking down making way for the new impositions. This process has a few driving forces. Great foundations have their mandates that are executed across many generations, for centuries.
Historically, much of the agenda is predetermined by futurists in social engineering think tanks that use language and propaganda for conditioning us with buzzwords and theories that then penetrate government and academia, spreading from there to the general culture. This includes the vectors of educational and ideological trends and beliefs.
"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced with pharmacological methods." ~Aldous Huxley, 1959
Intelligence has found the public and the public is onto Intelligence. The online public is inadvertently spilling its secrets daily and the dirty laundry of Intelligence has emerged from classified history as CIA's Greatest Hits.
The public is watching not only the Watchers, but The Watchers of the Watchers, and so forth -- all 16 intelligence agencies. Naturally, the public has no access to classified materials, but some claim 90% of intell is Open Souce. Social media is a two-way Super Iway of information exchange. The public is collecting its own intelligence and Intelligence admits trolling the Iway for Open Source data, often as valuable as secrets. Is there some Truth in there or is it just a dataglut of disinformation?
CHAOS & CONTROL
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face potentially catastrophic climatic and environmental change, incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, endless wars, macro-economic meltdown, urban violence, soil and water depletion. Rampant population growth, civil unrest, genetically-engineered food and organisms, and hazardous waste raise profound doubts about Earth's ability to sustain human life.
We're only 6 global degrees of separation from mass extinction. Many species are already going extinct at the rate of 5000 per year. We wonder about our own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being. Mourning the loss of our freedoms, we feel the impact as loss of our cherished dreams for a better future.
Globalist ideology is pushing out national sovereignty. Transnational corporations owe no allegiance to any country. Some call it corporate fascism. When it took root, it was called the military/industrial complex. WARCO, Inc. would like us all to become conformity-spewing "pod people." They've spent billions of lobbying and advertiising dollars aimed toward milking the middle class. Pernicious globalization is affecting our lifestyles, worldview, national identities and hope for humanity and the earth.
SHADOWLANDS
Society itself changes in unpredictable ways, including through human frailty or perversity, such as crime and war. Political figures, in particular, have the ability to affect great masses of people with their policies and dictates. But they are often directed from behind the scenes by those hiding in plain sight. This is the clandestine world of the Shadowlands where things are not as they seem.
There's nothing wrong with faith as long as it doesn't facilitate manipulation. Curiously, an unseen, unheard, unreal threat existing somewhere in the shadows can describe both some images of God and the enemy. This notion is not true for all religions. But it can be used to manufacture bogeymen.
Religion believes in a hidden God; New Age thought argues that god is within; while humanism recognizes no god but human potential. All are beliefs about the nature of existence and each is married to a cultural system. The real enemy is The Shadow without and within, on which we project ultimate evil. Mobilizing this Adversary archetype in individuals and groups is a secret of sorcery.
The Invisible Government has become visible, but governments are not countries. There is a conflict of truth vs. power. The Constitution was written to protect citizens from overweening government but it must be upheld to be effective. The war on terror is a war on the Constitution and Bill of Rights. How we deal with societal disruption and machinations is the silent subtext of our personal stories and humanity in general. Courage is a function of the heart.
TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA
We did not necessarily anticipate this transition from the arrogant certainty of the rational enlightenment promise of techno-utopia to disquieting uncertainty and the politics of fear mongering. It strikes equally at the hearts of humanists, activists and the religious or spiritual. We have realized only empty promises of solutions to life's fundamental problems, such as world health, food, and ever-elusive peace.
Despite all our knowledge we have not been able to control or dominate our inner or outer environment successfully. Science understands that all knowledge is models and some models are better than others. Sometimes new paradigms overthrow whole ways of thought, creating revolutions.
Chaos is actually nonlinear order. Pressed on all sides by chaos and disruption, we long to escape the stress of constant crisis. But this is precisely what makes us vulnerable to tyranny through our manipulated desire for peace and order.
STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE
Ironically, system governance has bankrupted our future - but that is so because the real system has remained clandestine. That is why the apparent system is not only out of balance, but on the verge of catastrophic failure. The middle class is collapsing, according to the secret agenda. When we think we've found the cure, we've often just taken the poison. Today's child is not educated for intelligence. System education just produces "world-class workers," who go along to get along.
We have not thought far enough in terms of the dynamically interrelated complexities of whole systems. A system by definition is a complex. If you can't protect the integrity of the system, there is no system. We need to become more organic, less mechanical in our approach to global life. Systems deal with various levels or scales which may or may not interact (exchange energy) with one another.
THE PROCESS
The question is - how do interactive potentials relate to the whole? The specific nature of the interaction gives rise to global constraints when boundaries are pushed. Boundaries depend on who is placing them and how they are placed. To know that is to know the secret history of the world.
Whether we like it or not, the age of democracy is over, replaced by corporate feudalism. The euphemism "wage slave" has become a reality of control from the cradle to the grave. Sure, you have choices, but the choices are all controlled.
Your journey through the propaganda maze begins K-12. Your graduate work is in The Matrix. Beyond that is a whole other level of great game play of which most remain unaware. Attempting to grasp that reality brings ridicule. Dis-couragment is the name of that game, meant to rob you of independent thought.
WATCHING THE WATCHERS
Relevant interactions often don't take place locally. Our focus should be on more productive relationships. The relationship is emergent and novel. Energy applied at the correct level is more effective than misplaced force. It does little good if our progress is in the wrong direction. Asymmetrically moving toward scale limits distinguishes a system. Systems are closed or open, depending on their quality of interaction.
Mechanical systems are linear; organic systems are nonlocal - recognizing the instaneous connection of all elements. You can build a house, brick by brick, but it reveals nothing about those inhabiting it. Some events have a greater order of magnitude and effect more aspects of the system. Complex systems have complex causality and often change catastrophically when forces build to the tipping point.
Seemingly every move for domestic confidence leads to international disequilibrium. Our problem remains that we all have vastly different definitions of the meaning of wellness in thought and action. We believe we know, but we don't really know for anyone but ourselves, and often not even that. We engage in self-defeating behaviors individually and collectively because we are in a sick system, which is consuming itself.
ENVIRON-MENTAL ARTISTRY
Knowledge is not wisdom, or even understanding. We need to recognize the power of imagination and our innate spirituality for creating social change. We have, at least, now recognized the problem. By changing our internal image of reality, we can change the world from the inside out. It's a cliche to say 'the journey is the destination,' yet we have to begin that journey to change anything -- to save ourselves from ourselves.
Wholistic visionary thinking -- collective intelligence -- is the bridge to the future. Top-down constraints can be overcome by bottom-up groundswell. The integration of new information leads to the unifying truth of tomorrow.
If we can dream it, we can do it. There is a deeper current in life and it is embodied in Mystery-- the unpredictable, the unknown, and perhaps unknowable. The promise of this Mystery is at the core of the secret history of the world. Does that sound good? If you think that is so, you may have already drunk the koolaid. As in alchemy, the poison is in the cure.
THE GREAT GAME
With the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, the United States displaced Britain as the global power, asserting its influence in the Middle East in pursuit of oil, containment of the Soviet Union, and access to other resources. This period is sometimes referred to as "The New Great Game" by commentators, and there are references in the military, security and diplomatic communities to "The Great Game" as an analogy or framework for events involving India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and more recently, the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia. In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski published "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" which advocated a 21st century version of the Great Game. Popular media have referred to the current conflict between international forces and Taliban forces in Afghanistan as a continuance of the Great Game.THE BIG PICTURE
The Long War is an Intelligence War. The unhealthy hegemony of intelligence agencies has led to them wielding too much power without adequate oversight by the citizenry they should represent. Intelligence means being able to see the big picture. You can only "spy" on information that is secret or protected.
Arguably, we should be able to gain deeper insight into what intelligence should be by combining both senses of the word that allow us to connect the dots and ferret out what goes on behind the scenes. Many people have learned how to read between the lies.
FREE RADICALS
The popularity of a variety of "truth" documentaries like Zeitgeist, The End of Suburbia, Peak Oil, JFK II, Endgame, Loose Change, Freedom to Fascism, We Become Silent, Money Masters, Beyond Treason, and endless 9/11 exposes show that many people are interested in looking behind the curtain.
New Age cult films such as 2012: The Odyssey, The Secret, Peaceful Warrior and The Courage to Change are probably popular because they promise you are in control of your reality and sound a more heartful note than doomsday documentaries.
CONSTRUCTION & CONSTRAINT
We can all participate in collective wisdom -- participatory wisdom -- and more intelligent intelligence. It doesn't belong exclusively to the apostles of the cult of intelligence, and their never-ending constructed crisis of the day. Personally and collectively, Intelligence involves information collection and anaylsis. It helps us determine The Big Picture by synthesizing the forces at play in the world today so we can make prudent decisions about the future of our security.
Intelligence is a type of time-travel or remote viewing, projecting one's consciousness into all possible futures, deciding which are plausible and even probable. It means interventions to prevent disasters. Who's in charge? Intelligence officers don't claim to know; they do know who isn't in charge. There is no ultimate "Puppetmaster," but several international competing forces. Players include both known and hidden state- and non-state actors.
EMBEDDED HIERARCHY
The notion of "creating the future" is tied to keeping systems in balance, but they are not in balance. The old structures are breaking down making way for the new impositions. This process has a few driving forces. Great foundations have their mandates that are executed across many generations, for centuries.
Historically, much of the agenda is predetermined by futurists in social engineering think tanks that use language and propaganda for conditioning us with buzzwords and theories that then penetrate government and academia, spreading from there to the general culture. This includes the vectors of educational and ideological trends and beliefs.
"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced with pharmacological methods." ~Aldous Huxley, 1959
SUB ROSA: A Briefing on Espionage & the Occult
The Magus As Spy & the Spy As Magician
"Here is the ancient tension. To be. To know. Well, the magician has a spell to weave here, too. The intellect divorced from old-fashioned neurosis, freed from egocentricity, from semantic reification. The mind illuminated by meditation ready to play with the lawful rhythm of concepts. The Bead Game." ~Leary, Metzner
ESPionage is strongly rooted in the Occult and Secret Societies, as well as 19th Century Psychology and 20th Century parapsychology. Throughout the centuries, power has been ready to recruit magicians, miracle workers and devils to its side. Occultism has served as "an alternative account of the world, available to people dissatisfied with the orthodox view of things, scientifically and politically, since the late 18th century.
Queen Elizabeth recruited John Dee much like the Pentagon weaponized Robert Monroe's bilocation (OBEs) and hemisynch brain entrainment techniques and V2K Synthetic Telepathy. Watergate burgler E. Howard Hunt became fascinated with the occult after the real Exorcist incident happened in his neighborhood. His CIA partner was William Peter Blatty. The notorious author (allegedly of Arab descent) ran a mind control program for the Army in Lebanon according to Alex Constantine (2000, Covert War Against Rock, Feral Press). His tale revolutionized the horror genre.
“By 2007, my artistic medium changed: the world is my canvas; intelligence is my medium.”“If the world is my canvas, the palette is a shapeshifting morphology of belief systems and ideologies.” ~IO
"I am simply identifying modes of experience. We need new perceptions to cope. Our technologies are generations ahead of our thinking. If you begin to think about these new technologies you appear as a poet because you are dealing with the present as the future. That is my technique. . .Never predict anything that hasn't already happened." Marshall McLuhan, The Hot and Cool Interview; Memories of Now
SUB ROSA
In secret; privately or confidentially: held the meeting sub rosa. A "black" (sub rosa) propaganda section.
[Latin sub rosâ, under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + rosâ, ablative of rosa, rose.]
The phrase Sub Rosa comes from the Latin and means ‘under the rose’ or confidentiality. The rose was the emblem of the god Horus in ancient Egypt. Later the Greeks and Romans regarded him as god of silence. This originates from a Greek/Roman misinterpretation of an Egyptian hieroglyphic adopting Horus along with Isis and Osiris as a God. The Greeks translated his Egyptian name Her - pa - khrad to Harpocrates. Cupid gave Harpocrates a rose as a token of gratitude for not betraying the mother of Cupid, Venus. Among the Freemasons the rose is the symbol of silence.
There have always been Watchers since primordial times. Tribes spied on one another. Formal spying and covert operations date back from the dawn of kingship and kingdoms. It took on fresh impetus during the Reformation and the English break with Rome. Under the Tudor Rose, espionage was raised to a new level using the occult powers of Dr. John Dee and the Rosicrucian Frances Bacon, and spymaster Walsingham.
Ciphers and codes that had been used in the occult to hide gnosis from the church were used in mundane but supersecret communiques.
Looking at the scorecard or playerlist of a game isn’t the same as playing it. The game looks quite different from the inside out, where the occult or hidden operations of controlling the world go on.
"Here is the ancient tension. To be. To know. Well, the magician has a spell to weave here, too. The intellect divorced from old-fashioned neurosis, freed from egocentricity, from semantic reification. The mind illuminated by meditation ready to play with the lawful rhythm of concepts. The Bead Game." ~Leary, Metzner
ESPionage is strongly rooted in the Occult and Secret Societies, as well as 19th Century Psychology and 20th Century parapsychology. Throughout the centuries, power has been ready to recruit magicians, miracle workers and devils to its side. Occultism has served as "an alternative account of the world, available to people dissatisfied with the orthodox view of things, scientifically and politically, since the late 18th century.
Queen Elizabeth recruited John Dee much like the Pentagon weaponized Robert Monroe's bilocation (OBEs) and hemisynch brain entrainment techniques and V2K Synthetic Telepathy. Watergate burgler E. Howard Hunt became fascinated with the occult after the real Exorcist incident happened in his neighborhood. His CIA partner was William Peter Blatty. The notorious author (allegedly of Arab descent) ran a mind control program for the Army in Lebanon according to Alex Constantine (2000, Covert War Against Rock, Feral Press). His tale revolutionized the horror genre.
“By 2007, my artistic medium changed: the world is my canvas; intelligence is my medium.”“If the world is my canvas, the palette is a shapeshifting morphology of belief systems and ideologies.” ~IO
"I am simply identifying modes of experience. We need new perceptions to cope. Our technologies are generations ahead of our thinking. If you begin to think about these new technologies you appear as a poet because you are dealing with the present as the future. That is my technique. . .Never predict anything that hasn't already happened." Marshall McLuhan, The Hot and Cool Interview; Memories of Now
SUB ROSA
In secret; privately or confidentially: held the meeting sub rosa. A "black" (sub rosa) propaganda section.
[Latin sub rosâ, under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + rosâ, ablative of rosa, rose.]
The phrase Sub Rosa comes from the Latin and means ‘under the rose’ or confidentiality. The rose was the emblem of the god Horus in ancient Egypt. Later the Greeks and Romans regarded him as god of silence. This originates from a Greek/Roman misinterpretation of an Egyptian hieroglyphic adopting Horus along with Isis and Osiris as a God. The Greeks translated his Egyptian name Her - pa - khrad to Harpocrates. Cupid gave Harpocrates a rose as a token of gratitude for not betraying the mother of Cupid, Venus. Among the Freemasons the rose is the symbol of silence.
There have always been Watchers since primordial times. Tribes spied on one another. Formal spying and covert operations date back from the dawn of kingship and kingdoms. It took on fresh impetus during the Reformation and the English break with Rome. Under the Tudor Rose, espionage was raised to a new level using the occult powers of Dr. John Dee and the Rosicrucian Frances Bacon, and spymaster Walsingham.
Ciphers and codes that had been used in the occult to hide gnosis from the church were used in mundane but supersecret communiques.
Looking at the scorecard or playerlist of a game isn’t the same as playing it. The game looks quite different from the inside out, where the occult or hidden operations of controlling the world go on.
MIB & WIB
Iona Miller & Charles Stone, Deputy Director, MRU
Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
What happens when the prey realizes its predicament and become the predator? In intelligence parlance, it is called Counter Measures, and that is just what is required by agent provocateurs in today’s world to maintain even the slightest semblance of ever-elusive “freedom.” This is summarized nicely in the movie The Matrix, where Neo navigates his way through an artificially constructed maze of situations and synthetic environments the participants mistake for reality.
"Society is built on a careful balance of thinkers and non-thinkers. Society relies on a few thinkers to break the rules and bring innovation, but at the same time relies on non-thinkers to perform the daily tasks that keep society alive. Business relies on a few people to bring innovation and on millions of non-thinkers to buy it. Capitalism, communism, fascism [globalism] all rely on people not to think too much, otherwise the system would become highly unstable. If people thought, McDonalds and Coca Cola would be out of business, and nobody would listen to the Beatles or watch Hollywood hits. And probably very few people would work as hard as they do. It would be total anarchy. Not only there exist different levels of consciousness, but society (and possibly nature at large) depends on a delicate balance of those levels." -Piero Scaruffi
"...‘our rulers’...are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so those who control the symbols rule us. "Bankers, priests, lawyers, politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class." - Korzybski
CRYPTOCRACY
In the wake of the Enlightenment, the notion arose of an intellectual elite, a distinguished social stratum that can be traced far back into classical history.The elite classes of intellectuals or well-educated people emerged in most European countries
The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them (e.g., artists, mystics, psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers). It is the forerunner of what we can call the ‘psychedelic intelligentsia’ and today’s New Age spiritual fusion.
Utopian socialism is the philosophical root of modern socialist thought. Anyone can be a utopian socialist, but the trend emerged in the first quarter of the 19th century. From the mid-19th century onwards, the other branches of socialism overtook utopianism in popularity.
Societies are cyclic, always in a continual process of constructing themselves and destructing from within. Utopian socialists are forerunners of communal hippie life, intentional communities and cooperatives. Utopian nostalgia is exemplified in the Star Trek and Star Wars philosophy. Its dystopian reflection is The Matrix, the postmodern Brave New World.
Quasi-socialist intellectuals created hypothetical visions of perfect egalitarian and communal societies without actually concerning themselves with the manner in which these societies could be sustained. Yet, they shared a dream.
THE OCCULT REVIVAL
Theosophical studies cover the origin and development of the cosmos and human development in all the planes of being from its beginning to its end. It is a philosophy of process, transformation, and evolution toward an extraordinary human potential. Out of this Utopian and scientific socialism came Theosophy, British” guild" socialism, the Fabian Society, Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Tavistock and iconoclast Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley is an infamous occultist.
Occultism has served as "an alternative account of the world, available to people dissatisfied with the orthodox view of things, scientifically and politically, since the late 18th century. Older than Theosophy with roots in kabbalah, Hermetics, and pantheism, Magick was a practical application of causing change to conform with will using similar principles. They both embrace the Hermetic Axiom: “As Above; So Below,” which reflects the identity of man as a microcosm.
The Cryptocracy, through economics and mass mind control is involved in the transformation or "alchemical processing" of mass consciousness by psychological mind manipulation. With the help of these foundations and secret societies, experiments in world shaping continue multimedia and military campaigns. The goal is to seed and control megatrends so the masses live as controlled puppets – wage slaves -- of the ruling elite.
Occult societies have a long tradition of influence peddling and providing covers for espionage. They are conduits of trust that transcend national borders and can cover a spy network. Naturally, occultists influenced one anothers’ beliefs, whether it was acknowledged or not.
Black intelligence ops, “Esoterics” has always been a department in most intelligence services. In MI6, it was called the Occult Bureau. The SS also had an Occult Bureau. The Watch were FDR’s supersecret team for occult countermeasures, arcane assassinations, paranormal and psychic investigation. After the war, The Watch redirected its interest to UFO phenomena.
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Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
What happens when the prey realizes its predicament and become the predator? In intelligence parlance, it is called Counter Measures, and that is just what is required by agent provocateurs in today’s world to maintain even the slightest semblance of ever-elusive “freedom.” This is summarized nicely in the movie The Matrix, where Neo navigates his way through an artificially constructed maze of situations and synthetic environments the participants mistake for reality.
"Society is built on a careful balance of thinkers and non-thinkers. Society relies on a few thinkers to break the rules and bring innovation, but at the same time relies on non-thinkers to perform the daily tasks that keep society alive. Business relies on a few people to bring innovation and on millions of non-thinkers to buy it. Capitalism, communism, fascism [globalism] all rely on people not to think too much, otherwise the system would become highly unstable. If people thought, McDonalds and Coca Cola would be out of business, and nobody would listen to the Beatles or watch Hollywood hits. And probably very few people would work as hard as they do. It would be total anarchy. Not only there exist different levels of consciousness, but society (and possibly nature at large) depends on a delicate balance of those levels." -Piero Scaruffi
"...‘our rulers’...are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so those who control the symbols rule us. "Bankers, priests, lawyers, politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class." - Korzybski
CRYPTOCRACY
In the wake of the Enlightenment, the notion arose of an intellectual elite, a distinguished social stratum that can be traced far back into classical history.The elite classes of intellectuals or well-educated people emerged in most European countries
The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them (e.g., artists, mystics, psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers). It is the forerunner of what we can call the ‘psychedelic intelligentsia’ and today’s New Age spiritual fusion.
Utopian socialism is the philosophical root of modern socialist thought. Anyone can be a utopian socialist, but the trend emerged in the first quarter of the 19th century. From the mid-19th century onwards, the other branches of socialism overtook utopianism in popularity.
Societies are cyclic, always in a continual process of constructing themselves and destructing from within. Utopian socialists are forerunners of communal hippie life, intentional communities and cooperatives. Utopian nostalgia is exemplified in the Star Trek and Star Wars philosophy. Its dystopian reflection is The Matrix, the postmodern Brave New World.
Quasi-socialist intellectuals created hypothetical visions of perfect egalitarian and communal societies without actually concerning themselves with the manner in which these societies could be sustained. Yet, they shared a dream.
THE OCCULT REVIVAL
Theosophical studies cover the origin and development of the cosmos and human development in all the planes of being from its beginning to its end. It is a philosophy of process, transformation, and evolution toward an extraordinary human potential. Out of this Utopian and scientific socialism came Theosophy, British” guild" socialism, the Fabian Society, Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Tavistock and iconoclast Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley is an infamous occultist.
Occultism has served as "an alternative account of the world, available to people dissatisfied with the orthodox view of things, scientifically and politically, since the late 18th century. Older than Theosophy with roots in kabbalah, Hermetics, and pantheism, Magick was a practical application of causing change to conform with will using similar principles. They both embrace the Hermetic Axiom: “As Above; So Below,” which reflects the identity of man as a microcosm.
The Cryptocracy, through economics and mass mind control is involved in the transformation or "alchemical processing" of mass consciousness by psychological mind manipulation. With the help of these foundations and secret societies, experiments in world shaping continue multimedia and military campaigns. The goal is to seed and control megatrends so the masses live as controlled puppets – wage slaves -- of the ruling elite.
Occult societies have a long tradition of influence peddling and providing covers for espionage. They are conduits of trust that transcend national borders and can cover a spy network. Naturally, occultists influenced one anothers’ beliefs, whether it was acknowledged or not.
Black intelligence ops, “Esoterics” has always been a department in most intelligence services. In MI6, it was called the Occult Bureau. The SS also had an Occult Bureau. The Watch were FDR’s supersecret team for occult countermeasures, arcane assassinations, paranormal and psychic investigation. After the war, The Watch redirected its interest to UFO phenomena.
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http://espionagecentral.50megs.com
http://beyondmkultra.50megs.com
CONSPIRITUALITY
The Secret: To Dare, To Will, To Know, To Keep Silent
Intelligence is the key to understanding the world today. What spies have in common with magicians is an uncanny ability to connect the seemingly unconnected, to notice what goes on behind the scenes and to see through misdirection ~ it takes one to know one. Both have learned to synthesize and interprete data, how to pace and lead people (hypno-patsies) with rapport. The opening gambit of psychological warfare and mind control is flattery.
As trained observers, magicians and spies are adept at people-reading and keeping secrets; both are actors -- performers. Both are in secret societies that rely on craft and often use collaborators or confederates, and mentors. How much different is stealth and surveillance than a spell of invisibility? Each have their rules of engagement in the Great Work and the Great Game.
Clandestine Craft
Even some of the elements of tradecraft are the same. Both are cryptic, using encryptions and codes. Each has its own arcane language, symbols and rituals veiled from the profane. Remote Viewing or psychic spying is virtually identical with clairvoyance. Ceremonial psychodrama is played out in public, in personality cults and "ritual" murders.
Both use passwords and slogans for security. Cryptography is now ubiquitous. All domestic and foreign electronic communication is monitored by programs like Echelon. Spies and magicians both are cracking the Brain Code, the wetware of humanity.
Cryptocracy refers to a type of government where the real leaders are hidden. There may possibly be a fake government that appears to be in charge and this fake government might not know themselves that they are not in charge. It can also be used when referring to similar arrangements in organisations, orders, sects and cults.
Everywhere is Ground Zero
In military terms psychic operations are called psychotronics. Adversaries are rogue psi operatives, psiwarriors who battle like sorcerers. Psychic self defense employs thought disruption, shielding techniques, mind drain and energy manipulation. Psionics is scientific magic ~ magecraft, the product of extraordinary human potential. Precogs, like analysts, are attuned to the future.
Deep Cover
They understand viscerally that things are often not what they seem. Both are masters of disguise, the hidden environment, intelligence, espionage, and covert action. Both aim to 'tweak the timeline' with small perturbations that pump up to macroscopic results, setting up currents of intentional influence. They also tweak minds by controlling the environment. No one can resist what they cannot detect.
Both are Inside Outsiders, working at the fringes of the System. The "outsider" aesthetic is charged by a desire to break free from the contrivances of tradition. They look boldly outside the system and deep within themselves for inspiration that arises directly from Creative Source.
Both work sub rosa.
Arcana
The occult is one of the keys to world events; reality is also defined by politics. Like nature, history is cyclic. Drug companies are as powerful as banks and oil. Corporate feudalism has replaced democracy as the new elitist rule. Corporations compete with nation-states and international mafia-style crime rings.
It takes intelligence to be a magician, but a magician can also be an active agent of intelligence, figuratively and literally.The real question is, rather, how and why and who and what do these things serve?Restoring self and society is the essential wisdom of the Grail.But this quest can be coopted for narcissistic or pathological ends.The Secret Doctrine can introduce both positive and negative praeternatural forces.
Secret Missions
Who is served by the Holy Grail of occult knowledge? What is the Grail, and who does it serve?The secret is in the power and the power is in The Secret.It is a meaningless metaphor without the experiential process of self-transformation to back it up.That’s why it can’t be told.It is the panacea, a personal path of recovery for “what ails thee.”The Grail is a metaphor for connection to the mystical Source of everything, the ever-renewing Fount of all manifestation
.All paths lead toward a personal journey of transformation and enlightenment, though not all journeys fulfill the total potential of creativity, compassion, engagement, and spirituality. On a classical “hero’s journey” like Parcival, when you find the Grail, and are called to its service, no knowledge remains hidden for long.Magick was the first transdisciplinarian occupation, drawing on all areas of knowledge.Before science divorced the occult arts it was called Natural Philosophy.
Trump Card
A Magus is a “worker of magic” which eludes rational definition.The Magus is both a symbol of enlightenment and deception (disinformation)-- just like the Tarot card, The Fool, is a card of duality: Wisdom and Folly.
"Now you see it; now you don't" is the forte of the illusionist, the juggler of realities, who is master of Orwellian double-think – holding the tension of the opposites.You alternate between faith and skepticism until you go beyond the ordinary boundaries of both - "slay each thought with its opposite." Myths present themselves as systems of antinomies, or opposites: heaven/hell, good/evil, life/death. The Magus lives at the Paradox.
Traditionally, the Magus is one who can demonstrate hands-on magic: healing, transformative rituals, metaphor therapy, alchemical transmutations, charging of talismans, spirit comm, etc. Magick works on the principle that man is a microcosm.
Arts Magian
A modern Magus is any person who completes the circuit between heaven and Earth, one who seeks to bring forth the divine 'gold' within her or himself.He or she is also a Mentor, an Initiator, divining and reading the signs and revealing deeper purpose and meaning in “the godgame.”
But that is how the outer world sees it. Every Magus has a foot in both worlds.Their inner life is mercurial, a complex psychic layer-cake of inner planes of transcendent experience where quantum leaps of consciousness are possible and messages are exchanged with the Great Unknown.
Metaphysician
Perception of what is real and what is not dims and vanishes in a whirlwind of synchronicities. Imagination is reality. Magicians understand the world we live in, or think we live in, is an illusion, a construct of our own perceptual apparatus and a malleable interpretation of our brains.
But the hyperdimensional gifts of the Spirit come at a price.The magician taps into, becomes one with, an essence that pop culture calls The Force.Photons and phonons are quantized modes of vibration. This subatomic vibration of Light and Sound is the enlivening force, which feeds creation and allegedly responds to focused intention.Information controls and patterns energy.
Hermetics is a Spiritual Technology
For masters of the Hermetic Arts, all magick is wrought through this impressionable ether – the Astral Light --a plenum of potential, using true properties of nature, it's laws, forces, and principles.Science now describes it as the scalar physics of subspace.The mage seeks to selectively establish an internal order out of this chaos, then externalize it, according to his vision.He is the soul guide who initiates the transformation process.
The Hermetica included works on magic, alchemy, astrology, healing, gnosis, theurgy, ritual and philosophy. Sympathetic magic contends that like substances sharing an essence can influence one another through resonance effects. Likewise the hypnotic and magnetic qualities of charismatic individuals can create rapport with others to influence them.
Magick Metaprograms
This power card also represents the fine line dividing white magic from black magic, toxic or malignant black ops. Sensory deprivation, loss of equilibrium, confusion techniques, social isolation, physiological stress, severe shock and ceremonial terror tactics were the forerunners of brainwashing techniques. The Magus is a mind control expert - an environ-mentalist.
This is the realm of psychic attack and psychic self defense, of sorcerers stealthily vying with one another for power. Weaponized ESP can affect the body, mind and soul of one's opponent. But it can boomerang back on the sender 3-fold, according to the cautionary prescription.
Undercover
Power can be used in either a self-serving manner, or one in service to the All. In order for The Magus to achieve his aims, there must be constant awareness and self-examination, pressing on and exploring one’s boundaries, breaking through into the boundless realms.
This is also the Trump of discernment.The Magus can discriminate between various realities and fantasies, between various points of view, without buying into any belief system, literally.The sorcerer orchestrates and works within others’ belief systems.
By molding worldviews, a magician creates the perception, manipulates and defines the perceived reality, creates the structure for self-organizing transformation.He believes no metanarratives but orchestrates them for others.He is an opportunistic paradigm shifter, shapeshifter, chameleon, trickster.If you assume a role does that make it real?If not, fake it till you make it.Better to be an inspired lunatic than uninspired, or so Crowley’s arc implies.
Visionary Culture Legacy
Another magnetic mercurial personality, Tim Leary, took notes on Crowley's cult of personality.Leary admitted Crowley inspired him and bootstrapped his book 'The Game of Life' (Part 4 of his Future-History Series) from the scientific-occult philosophy of Aleister Crowley and Tarot.He understood Crowley was on a similar path, only using different language. He called Crowley an 'Agent of Evolution.'
LSD rascal-guru Timothy Leary was a Crowley enthusiast. He said: “I’ve been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that I’m carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years ago … He was in favor of finding yourself, and ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ under love. It was a very powerful statement. I’m sorry he isn’t around now to appreciate the glories he started.” (Late Night America, Public Broadcasting Network, cited by Hells Bells, Reel to Real Ministries).
Leary also had his own relationship with both the mystic arts and the CIA. One of his famous early books was called HIGH PRIEST. He was called "the Pope of Dope.". Both fearlessly explored the outer limits of human potential. Psychologists - essentially psychic engineers - exert both local and remote control on human minds and behavior. see http://espionagecentral.50megs.com
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behaviour generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviours (such as religious ceremonies, political rallies, football matches, rock concerts, etc.). It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greekword for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER.
WIZARDS & SPOOKS
There is a tradition of Spooks and Wizards consorting since Elizabethan spymaster Walsingham recruited magus John Dee for his MI spy network.The unholy alliance continues to this day in Psionics and Psychotronics and PsiOps - the weaponization of the occult arts, even if under new "more scientific" names. The modern version spawned psionics, psychotronics and PsiOps - the weaponization of occult mental focus. Extreme psychic countermeausres can range from attacks on the energy body to organs of the target. Usually, the specific target in arcane assassination is the hear or brain --heart attack or stroke are the methods of choice.
Walsingham proved that intelligence equaled power.He recruited educated young men--like playwright Christopher Marlowe--random lowlifes, and traveling merchants.Hmmm, writers, jugglers and magicians, again? Magicians and alchemists have always made potions, nostrums, tonics, even poisons. It is part of their stock in trade.
Dee is probably best known for his deep involvement in skrying, magic and mystery. The Elizabethan Magus advanced the fields of mathematics, mapmaking, and navigation. His interests included alchemy, mysticism, and astrology. Dee's personal library was one of the largest in Europe. His obsessions, like Crowley’s, also included the pursuit of angels and spirits; he claimed to summon the divine secrets of the universe from angels and archangels.
Following the examples of his predecessors, Crowley’s promotion of drugs, used for induced psychotic states and sexual abandon, was followed by Tavistock Institute sponsorship.His contemporary Carl Jung (1975-1961) provided the science; Crowley laid down the hedonistic drug, sex, and magick philosophy.Both saw the death of the old society but not the psychedelic rebirth of the new paradigm.
With his slow-motion magick, his long-term intentional influence, it was Crowley who eventually pulled the cosmic trigger on a cultural revolution with an unlikely accomplice – the CIA.The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA dosed unsuspecting CIA officials with LSD, and their reactions were studied like "guinea pigs".
Later, acid was turned on the unsuspecting general population. Curiously, the LSD “counter-culture” of the 1960s, the “student revolution”, was financed by $25 million from the CIA to deliberately ruin the peace movement. LSD use continues at a steady rate in the youth drug scene throughout generations; it just doesn't get the press it once did..
In their own CIA Black Ops program, Astral travel became Remote Viewing and psychism became Psychotronics, weaponized ESP influencing the mindbody of another at a distance, often with malevolence. It gave new meaning to ESPionage. Crowley’s occult fighting with MacGregor Mathers is well known and perhaps the exemplar of psychic attack.
Psychedelic cults took root in the U.S. and spread from San Francisco to Europe.The mystic arts, such as astrology and tarot became commonplace. Though he didn’t live to see it, Crowley got his New Age, even if the results seem a little childish or narcissistic to those of a more mature disposition.Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda triggered chaotic cultural evolution even if polarity and stress undergird it.
The Flower Children and drugs and free sex Hippies were followed by disenfranchised punks and disillusioned postmoderns and skeptical cyberfreaks.The Internet and cell phones have made voluntary ESP possible and soon we will have direct Brain-Computer interface.
Aquarian Conspirators, 1980’s pioneers of social transformation, embodied the cultural imprint of Tavistock vision (Whole Earth Conspiracy).They used their mindbodies and PCs in the battle toward a higher consciousness, networking and urging a paradigm shift to a more mindful society.The way to heal the imbalances is to heal ourselves. Tools are shapers of their users, individuals fall into the thrall of institutions, "development" can be a trap. The way to heal ourselves is to pay attention, to witness, to share wisdom.But the wounds that won’t heal are the programmed personality disorders – neurotic childishness, self-absorption or immaturities promoted by the Tavistock agenda in schools, media, and therapy.
“New Age” is an umbrella term to describe organizations which seem to exhibit one or more of the following beliefs: (1) All is one, all reality is part of the whole; (2) Everything is God and God is everything; (3) Man is God or a part of God; (4) Man never dies, but continues to live through reincarnation; (5) Man can create his own reality and/or values through transformed consciousness or altered states of consciousness.
Intelligence is the key to understanding the world today. What spies have in common with magicians is an uncanny ability to connect the seemingly unconnected, to notice what goes on behind the scenes and to see through misdirection ~ it takes one to know one. Both have learned to synthesize and interprete data, how to pace and lead people (hypno-patsies) with rapport. The opening gambit of psychological warfare and mind control is flattery.
As trained observers, magicians and spies are adept at people-reading and keeping secrets; both are actors -- performers. Both are in secret societies that rely on craft and often use collaborators or confederates, and mentors. How much different is stealth and surveillance than a spell of invisibility? Each have their rules of engagement in the Great Work and the Great Game.
Clandestine Craft
Even some of the elements of tradecraft are the same. Both are cryptic, using encryptions and codes. Each has its own arcane language, symbols and rituals veiled from the profane. Remote Viewing or psychic spying is virtually identical with clairvoyance. Ceremonial psychodrama is played out in public, in personality cults and "ritual" murders.
Both use passwords and slogans for security. Cryptography is now ubiquitous. All domestic and foreign electronic communication is monitored by programs like Echelon. Spies and magicians both are cracking the Brain Code, the wetware of humanity.
Cryptocracy refers to a type of government where the real leaders are hidden. There may possibly be a fake government that appears to be in charge and this fake government might not know themselves that they are not in charge. It can also be used when referring to similar arrangements in organisations, orders, sects and cults.
Everywhere is Ground Zero
In military terms psychic operations are called psychotronics. Adversaries are rogue psi operatives, psiwarriors who battle like sorcerers. Psychic self defense employs thought disruption, shielding techniques, mind drain and energy manipulation. Psionics is scientific magic ~ magecraft, the product of extraordinary human potential. Precogs, like analysts, are attuned to the future.
Deep Cover
They understand viscerally that things are often not what they seem. Both are masters of disguise, the hidden environment, intelligence, espionage, and covert action. Both aim to 'tweak the timeline' with small perturbations that pump up to macroscopic results, setting up currents of intentional influence. They also tweak minds by controlling the environment. No one can resist what they cannot detect.
Both are Inside Outsiders, working at the fringes of the System. The "outsider" aesthetic is charged by a desire to break free from the contrivances of tradition. They look boldly outside the system and deep within themselves for inspiration that arises directly from Creative Source.
Both work sub rosa.
Arcana
The occult is one of the keys to world events; reality is also defined by politics. Like nature, history is cyclic. Drug companies are as powerful as banks and oil. Corporate feudalism has replaced democracy as the new elitist rule. Corporations compete with nation-states and international mafia-style crime rings.
It takes intelligence to be a magician, but a magician can also be an active agent of intelligence, figuratively and literally.The real question is, rather, how and why and who and what do these things serve?Restoring self and society is the essential wisdom of the Grail.But this quest can be coopted for narcissistic or pathological ends.The Secret Doctrine can introduce both positive and negative praeternatural forces.
Secret Missions
Who is served by the Holy Grail of occult knowledge? What is the Grail, and who does it serve?The secret is in the power and the power is in The Secret.It is a meaningless metaphor without the experiential process of self-transformation to back it up.That’s why it can’t be told.It is the panacea, a personal path of recovery for “what ails thee.”The Grail is a metaphor for connection to the mystical Source of everything, the ever-renewing Fount of all manifestation
.All paths lead toward a personal journey of transformation and enlightenment, though not all journeys fulfill the total potential of creativity, compassion, engagement, and spirituality. On a classical “hero’s journey” like Parcival, when you find the Grail, and are called to its service, no knowledge remains hidden for long.Magick was the first transdisciplinarian occupation, drawing on all areas of knowledge.Before science divorced the occult arts it was called Natural Philosophy.
Trump Card
A Magus is a “worker of magic” which eludes rational definition.The Magus is both a symbol of enlightenment and deception (disinformation)-- just like the Tarot card, The Fool, is a card of duality: Wisdom and Folly.
"Now you see it; now you don't" is the forte of the illusionist, the juggler of realities, who is master of Orwellian double-think – holding the tension of the opposites.You alternate between faith and skepticism until you go beyond the ordinary boundaries of both - "slay each thought with its opposite." Myths present themselves as systems of antinomies, or opposites: heaven/hell, good/evil, life/death. The Magus lives at the Paradox.
Traditionally, the Magus is one who can demonstrate hands-on magic: healing, transformative rituals, metaphor therapy, alchemical transmutations, charging of talismans, spirit comm, etc. Magick works on the principle that man is a microcosm.
Arts Magian
A modern Magus is any person who completes the circuit between heaven and Earth, one who seeks to bring forth the divine 'gold' within her or himself.He or she is also a Mentor, an Initiator, divining and reading the signs and revealing deeper purpose and meaning in “the godgame.”
But that is how the outer world sees it. Every Magus has a foot in both worlds.Their inner life is mercurial, a complex psychic layer-cake of inner planes of transcendent experience where quantum leaps of consciousness are possible and messages are exchanged with the Great Unknown.
Metaphysician
Perception of what is real and what is not dims and vanishes in a whirlwind of synchronicities. Imagination is reality. Magicians understand the world we live in, or think we live in, is an illusion, a construct of our own perceptual apparatus and a malleable interpretation of our brains.
But the hyperdimensional gifts of the Spirit come at a price.The magician taps into, becomes one with, an essence that pop culture calls The Force.Photons and phonons are quantized modes of vibration. This subatomic vibration of Light and Sound is the enlivening force, which feeds creation and allegedly responds to focused intention.Information controls and patterns energy.
Hermetics is a Spiritual Technology
For masters of the Hermetic Arts, all magick is wrought through this impressionable ether – the Astral Light --a plenum of potential, using true properties of nature, it's laws, forces, and principles.Science now describes it as the scalar physics of subspace.The mage seeks to selectively establish an internal order out of this chaos, then externalize it, according to his vision.He is the soul guide who initiates the transformation process.
The Hermetica included works on magic, alchemy, astrology, healing, gnosis, theurgy, ritual and philosophy. Sympathetic magic contends that like substances sharing an essence can influence one another through resonance effects. Likewise the hypnotic and magnetic qualities of charismatic individuals can create rapport with others to influence them.
Magick Metaprograms
This power card also represents the fine line dividing white magic from black magic, toxic or malignant black ops. Sensory deprivation, loss of equilibrium, confusion techniques, social isolation, physiological stress, severe shock and ceremonial terror tactics were the forerunners of brainwashing techniques. The Magus is a mind control expert - an environ-mentalist.
This is the realm of psychic attack and psychic self defense, of sorcerers stealthily vying with one another for power. Weaponized ESP can affect the body, mind and soul of one's opponent. But it can boomerang back on the sender 3-fold, according to the cautionary prescription.
Undercover
Power can be used in either a self-serving manner, or one in service to the All. In order for The Magus to achieve his aims, there must be constant awareness and self-examination, pressing on and exploring one’s boundaries, breaking through into the boundless realms.
This is also the Trump of discernment.The Magus can discriminate between various realities and fantasies, between various points of view, without buying into any belief system, literally.The sorcerer orchestrates and works within others’ belief systems.
By molding worldviews, a magician creates the perception, manipulates and defines the perceived reality, creates the structure for self-organizing transformation.He believes no metanarratives but orchestrates them for others.He is an opportunistic paradigm shifter, shapeshifter, chameleon, trickster.If you assume a role does that make it real?If not, fake it till you make it.Better to be an inspired lunatic than uninspired, or so Crowley’s arc implies.
Visionary Culture Legacy
Another magnetic mercurial personality, Tim Leary, took notes on Crowley's cult of personality.Leary admitted Crowley inspired him and bootstrapped his book 'The Game of Life' (Part 4 of his Future-History Series) from the scientific-occult philosophy of Aleister Crowley and Tarot.He understood Crowley was on a similar path, only using different language. He called Crowley an 'Agent of Evolution.'
LSD rascal-guru Timothy Leary was a Crowley enthusiast. He said: “I’ve been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that I’m carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years ago … He was in favor of finding yourself, and ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ under love. It was a very powerful statement. I’m sorry he isn’t around now to appreciate the glories he started.” (Late Night America, Public Broadcasting Network, cited by Hells Bells, Reel to Real Ministries).
Leary also had his own relationship with both the mystic arts and the CIA. One of his famous early books was called HIGH PRIEST. He was called "the Pope of Dope.". Both fearlessly explored the outer limits of human potential. Psychologists - essentially psychic engineers - exert both local and remote control on human minds and behavior. see http://espionagecentral.50megs.com
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behaviour generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviours (such as religious ceremonies, political rallies, football matches, rock concerts, etc.). It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greekword for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER.
WIZARDS & SPOOKS
There is a tradition of Spooks and Wizards consorting since Elizabethan spymaster Walsingham recruited magus John Dee for his MI spy network.The unholy alliance continues to this day in Psionics and Psychotronics and PsiOps - the weaponization of the occult arts, even if under new "more scientific" names. The modern version spawned psionics, psychotronics and PsiOps - the weaponization of occult mental focus. Extreme psychic countermeausres can range from attacks on the energy body to organs of the target. Usually, the specific target in arcane assassination is the hear or brain --heart attack or stroke are the methods of choice.
Walsingham proved that intelligence equaled power.He recruited educated young men--like playwright Christopher Marlowe--random lowlifes, and traveling merchants.Hmmm, writers, jugglers and magicians, again? Magicians and alchemists have always made potions, nostrums, tonics, even poisons. It is part of their stock in trade.
Dee is probably best known for his deep involvement in skrying, magic and mystery. The Elizabethan Magus advanced the fields of mathematics, mapmaking, and navigation. His interests included alchemy, mysticism, and astrology. Dee's personal library was one of the largest in Europe. His obsessions, like Crowley’s, also included the pursuit of angels and spirits; he claimed to summon the divine secrets of the universe from angels and archangels.
Following the examples of his predecessors, Crowley’s promotion of drugs, used for induced psychotic states and sexual abandon, was followed by Tavistock Institute sponsorship.His contemporary Carl Jung (1975-1961) provided the science; Crowley laid down the hedonistic drug, sex, and magick philosophy.Both saw the death of the old society but not the psychedelic rebirth of the new paradigm.
With his slow-motion magick, his long-term intentional influence, it was Crowley who eventually pulled the cosmic trigger on a cultural revolution with an unlikely accomplice – the CIA.The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA dosed unsuspecting CIA officials with LSD, and their reactions were studied like "guinea pigs".
Later, acid was turned on the unsuspecting general population. Curiously, the LSD “counter-culture” of the 1960s, the “student revolution”, was financed by $25 million from the CIA to deliberately ruin the peace movement. LSD use continues at a steady rate in the youth drug scene throughout generations; it just doesn't get the press it once did..
In their own CIA Black Ops program, Astral travel became Remote Viewing and psychism became Psychotronics, weaponized ESP influencing the mindbody of another at a distance, often with malevolence. It gave new meaning to ESPionage. Crowley’s occult fighting with MacGregor Mathers is well known and perhaps the exemplar of psychic attack.
Psychedelic cults took root in the U.S. and spread from San Francisco to Europe.The mystic arts, such as astrology and tarot became commonplace. Though he didn’t live to see it, Crowley got his New Age, even if the results seem a little childish or narcissistic to those of a more mature disposition.Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda triggered chaotic cultural evolution even if polarity and stress undergird it.
The Flower Children and drugs and free sex Hippies were followed by disenfranchised punks and disillusioned postmoderns and skeptical cyberfreaks.The Internet and cell phones have made voluntary ESP possible and soon we will have direct Brain-Computer interface.
Aquarian Conspirators, 1980’s pioneers of social transformation, embodied the cultural imprint of Tavistock vision (Whole Earth Conspiracy).They used their mindbodies and PCs in the battle toward a higher consciousness, networking and urging a paradigm shift to a more mindful society.The way to heal the imbalances is to heal ourselves. Tools are shapers of their users, individuals fall into the thrall of institutions, "development" can be a trap. The way to heal ourselves is to pay attention, to witness, to share wisdom.But the wounds that won’t heal are the programmed personality disorders – neurotic childishness, self-absorption or immaturities promoted by the Tavistock agenda in schools, media, and therapy.
“New Age” is an umbrella term to describe organizations which seem to exhibit one or more of the following beliefs: (1) All is one, all reality is part of the whole; (2) Everything is God and God is everything; (3) Man is God or a part of God; (4) Man never dies, but continues to live through reincarnation; (5) Man can create his own reality and/or values through transformed consciousness or altered states of consciousness.
MANIFEST DESTINY MANIFESTO:
Healing the Soul of America
Applying Therapeutic Technique to Our National Dysfunction
by Iona Miller, 2008
SUMMARY: We can create an evolutionary politics to build a more creative future. Calculated cycles of commodification and scarcity, business and war have driven the military/industrial complex and the multinational corporate climate. Cover Ups and confusion have paralyzed us into apathy where nothing significant can be trusted, believed or known. One percent of humanity controls 40% of global wealth.
But we can empower ourselves to resist status quo politics and shape ourselves a better destiny - a 21st century Manifest Destiny that fulfills our positive spiritual potential. If we don't want a dark future for humanity, we must reinvent ourselves and our culture from the foundation upwards. Even if that is fantastically radical, it can still happen, one inspired person at a time and cascade toward a visionay approach to large-scale societal transformation that heals personal and global socioeconomical scars.
Competent citizenry can learn to implement constructive visions for our collective planetary future. Deep and broad visions can stimulate reflection and lively discussion of contemporary solutions that can become the scaffolding for action plans from the community level upwards. A courageous and truly integrated vision would include a detailed strategy for a vibrant and life-sustaining future. Individually and collectively we have to redefine what it means to thrive with more compassion for others, not just survive. The paradigm needs to switch from "dog eat dog" to "we're all in it together."
SOUL OF AMERICA: A specter is haunting America -- the dark shadow of her domestic and international covert activities, cover ups and arguably poor choices. America is dysfunctional; she has a sickness of the soul. Maybe she has lost her soul. Soul loss is a spiritual illness. We are an addictive nation and our government is an addictive organization, as demonstrated by its leaders. Individuals reflect the addictive nature of the system. The system demands you are consistent with the system.
CONSENSUS CULTURE: We are always in a trance state. We conspire with one another to create or confabulate consensus reality. Cultures and subcultures share tacit understandings which together are Cultural Trance States, an unconscious cohesion. All cultures are trance states with their own modified programming content - family, community, religion, nation. We have been programmed by repeated suggestion since birth. We don't question or doubt this deep trance. Nations and organizations also create lived trance states. We are surrounded by and absorbed in their powerful reality in the social cradle.
SHAME & BLAME: Addictive organizations and their false images (PR, spin, false fronts, false flags) are the infrastructure of an addictive society. Addiction leads to compulsiveness. Thus, we have become a shame-based society. Symptoms include grandiosity, confusion, self-centeredness, dishonesty, perfectionism, scapegoating, self-righteousness, paranoia, projection, defensiveness, fear and ethical deterioration.
TOXIC SHAME, the fuel of addiction, divides us from ourselves and others. In toxic shame, we disown ourselves and cover-up with a false self. Toxic shame has many disguises; it loves darkness and secretiveness. It stays in hiding and covers itself up with a myriad of behavioral cover-ups. Toxic shame is spiritual bankruptcy. Healthy shame is honest. It lets us know our healthy limitations and provides meaning. It is the basis of humility and spirituality.
DEPRESSION is the number one mental health problem. Stress is the number one killer. Often depression lurks behind compensatory manic activity. Our boom-bust economics, the irrationally optimistic housing bubble and over-extended credit reflect the same syndrome. We react to an illusion of scarcity with the illusion of control that blocks what we fear we can't handle. Personal or collective disaster leaves us dispossessed. Shock, disaster and economic downturn is a formula that can be manipulatively exploited to eliminate resistance.
GOD CULT: What we worship is what we give our attention to. We worship GOD: Gold, Oil and Drugs. They are what makes the world go 'round. They fuel the social control systems and fund the elite controllers. This GOD is the tangible source of our freedoms and our slavery, the buffers between ourselves and our awareness and feelings. The cult of GOD has taken over our lives and we are more and more powerless. *We rely on the elusive promise of a hoped-for reward to pull us into the future, toward our destiny.
This is the the Catch-22 in the American Dream, which was the 20th century prime directive. It promises you will get ahead with power, money or influence. Despite our lip-service to democracy, we are far from a classless society.* We are seduced by the promise of the good life, with benefits that is the payoff for the Protestant work(aholic) ethic. We deny this is the core of the sick system by working out and eating well so we can work even more without burnout. We are lured by the promise of the addictive system to take us out of the here and now.*
Economics and politics have taught us that greatness lies in expansion and accumulation. Yet even though we work harder, the US has lost its manufacturing base and pre-eminence as the world's greatest economic power to the EU. The Greenback is slipping. Markets have been appropriated by transnational corporations. Only empathy can heal this entropy -- the global acceleration crisis and destructive wastefulness. Economic development has failed to create and maintain social welfare.
For America to recover, she has to see through deep denial, acknowledge the realities of her shadow self, hold the tension of the opposites, and let go to the transformative process of self-actualization that promises rebirth at a higher level of integration, stabilization and functionality. We can become more conscious participants in our own self-unfolding and in course-correcting the ship of state toward positive directionality. We can understand, adapt and respond to our world better.
POST-TRAUMATIC CULTURE: PTSD is a chaotic, hyper-reactive state of being. Our cultural crisis is characterized by symptomatic numbing, dissociation, impulsive aggression, depression, denial, shame and anxiety. We are haunted by a sense of injury -- victimization. "Victim speech" is used for economic and military gain. First- and second-hand trauma shapes our central narratives of overwhelming personal and collective change.
COUNTERMEASURES: Mediated images of war and catastrophe can produce PTSD symptoms much like directly witnessing traumatic events, especially if one identifies with the victims. Providing a means of processing information and feelings, Internet may provide an antidote to toxic media images that induce panic. When we see history repeating itself, we flashback to similar unresolved events. Hampered by persistent high-level denial, time does not heal these collective wounds. Disclosure would be a start.
CREATIVE RE-PATTERNING: We need to eliminate the blocks to our maturation process as a nation, even if no nation can realistically survive being totally transparent. A nation can oversight itself internally just like an individual can do a "reality check." We've been stuck in pointless paranoia with a Draconian government, corporate feudalism and an unwinable war that has sucked us dry. Dynamic change and flux means finding our own way to an authentic relationship with self, others and world.
SELF-IMAGE: We need to make a quantum leap beyond our delusions in all these domains. Currently, we are getting "shock treatment." The Shock Doctrine (Klein) and "disaster capitalism" have been imposed abroad and domestically to re-engineer societies reeling from disasters. This corporate warfare and economic policy are rooted in CIA electroshock experiments in torture. Ideally, we need breakthrough not breakdown. But our self-image, our national esteem has been damaged. Self image is linked to feelings of destiny, meaningfulness, significance, uniqueness and reason for being.
TRANSFORMATION: Without meaning we are cut off from our spiritual source that is our motivation, soul, spirit or destiny. The essence of tragedy is the realization of a destiny that escapes the human will, even if some have been able to predict the end. With insight and a new orientation we could effect a dramatic and positive self-transformation of our national character. It is our potential for eminence and the exceptional -- a clearer perception of and response to reality. OWNING THE SHADOW: The Shadow is the first challenge on the way to clarity. With 1/20th of the world's population, we consume over 50% of the energy. We have to integrate our dark side, face our negative qualities, what we have attempted to hide or deny, our secret shame. Our national shadow is embodied in our clandestine history, the dirty tricks conducted in our name. We have to know ourselves fully. We also discover our own buried potential there. It brings hidden powers into the light. To heal our denial and learn discernment, we need trustworthy disclosure.
I’ve seen the future, brother: it is murder
Thing’s are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure any more
The blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul (Cohen 1992)
SOUL RETRIEVAL is the process of recovering what we've cut off, left or lost somewhere, or that was stolen or appropriated by someone else. Refuge is found in the human heart. Soul retrieval relieves trauma and fragmentation by mending the past and healing the future. The object of healing is to become whole...to embody soul. Wholeness is a process of reconciliation. Imagine what a more soulful nation might be like.
VISION: Each step in our history has been marked by a quantum leap in our Manifest Destiny driven by our expansive spirit and zeitgeist. If it is so that we "create our own destiny," it is time for America to manifest a better destiny in harmony with global values that support true democracy and our Constitutional freedoms. A more meaningful manifestation of our national spirit would prioritize universally spiritual ideals, like respect and compassion, over domestic and international power trips. To grow our citizenry and government need vision, communication and trust. We are the only species capable of long-term systematic planning, but we willingly sabotague ourselves for short-term gratification. We need to heal our relationship to self, others, and world.
CRISIS DRIVEN: The fact is, we live in a sick system and it impacts our quality of life from the inside out. If the USA was a person, that individual would be a toxic, narcissistic, territorial, workaholic control freak with boundary issues. Our violent nation is manipulative, dramatic, paranoid, compulsive and soon may become literally depressive. The housing market is in a depression, and that is symbolic of our condition. You have to wonder what all our irrational exhuberance and manic activity is hiding in the depths of America's soul. Just what is our collective "heart's desire?"
COMMITMENT TO TRUTH: What is our shared vision today? Shared visions arise from those truly committed to their personal visions. What is the true nature of this "reality" we are creating? Are we on purpose and achieving our collective destiny or has our country been hijacked by special interests? Why do we obsessively overwork, overspend, cover up, get aggressive and perpetuate sick organizations? How can we let go of our old national identity, pass through the 'neutral zone' and experience transforming rebirth? We need a paradigm that superimposes the new on the old. First comes a change in attitudes or worldview that embodies a different set of values in cultural rebirth.
CREATIVE STRATEGIES: How can we raise the bar? Shared vision uplifts our aspirations, gives us courage and ignites our spirit. It pulls us toward an overarching goal. It creates room for risk taking and experimentation by fostering long term commitment. We can extend principles and insights from personal mastery into the world of discipline, collective aspiration and shared commitment. The vision may come before its time is ripe, but we have to try, even to fail. We need a transition plan or crisis and confusion will arise. We can look to the past to get to the root of the problem.
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MANIFEST DESTINY is the philosophy that created the USA in her westward expansion. But it didn't stop there; our penetration has gone global. America has lost her boundaries but Manifest Destiny is still a driving ideal of virtually endless expansion. This ideology is still creating America's history, powering our culture. But in our egotistical zeal we have spread ourselves too thin, like the Alexanders, Napoleans and Hitlers of bygone eras.
But does the rightful destiny of the American people include unlimited imperialistic expansion? We're running out of places and cultures to invade. As a restless territorial culture bent on acquisition and conquest, we have boundary issues. We are the dominators, but the only frontiers left are within ourselves. It is high-time we manifest a new vision of our collective destiny, beyond the materialistic, religious, utopian design.
If the buzzword "Intentionality" is to be properly applied, we have to move beyond the ego gratification and wish fulfilment of THE SECRET and apply it in a global context. We can choose to consciously engage in self and social transformation. In a strongly networked society, a bottom-up approach to order is the counterpoint to the old hierarchal dominator model that has permeated history -- participatory consciousness.
We are enmeshed in denial. We either don't know or don't want to know the details of global exploitation that undergird our consumer lifestyles. We don't have the rationalized right to destroy anything or anyone who gets in the way of our so-called freedom and independence. We aren't independent; all of humanity and life is interdependent. We aren't free; we have traded freedom for so-called security. Far from demonstrating our superiority, the immortal doctrine of international Manifest Destiny reveals the spiritual faultline in the Soul of America.
FOR "WE THE PEOPLE" TO HEAL...
CATASTROPHE OR CREATIVITY: Pleasing ourselves is loaded with the potential for self-deceit. We have prospered at the expense of others. We consume more than we make. This is most true of the elite who are the meta-controllers of world events. We must not remain content with sociopolitical mediocrity but have to widen the boundaries of our compassion.
We have already mortgaged our progeny's future and must address that debt with more ethical economics. We need to find out what lies beyond the artificial constraints of corporate media, unregulated covert action, self-serving officials, greed-ridden American imperialism, the decline of civil liberties, environmental atrocities, egregious war, nuclear proliferation, lying leaders, global tyranny, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, commodification of healthcare, and transnational crime.
ECONOMIC SYNERGY
We need to reinstitute safety nets and social justice. We need a pro-evolutionary environment, social innovation and economic synergy -- socio-cultural negentropy. Our nation needs to make a strong commitment to the health and well-being of all people and stop being an entropy sink. To successfully meet the challenge, we need our Constitutional Rights restored.
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We can begin by admitting our addiction to our false GOD -- Gold, Oil & Drugs.
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MANIFEST DESTINY: How can we manifest the common destiny of a peaceful and prosperous future for all of mankind? We can create an evolutionary politics to build a more creative future. Calculated cycles of commodification and scarcity, business and war have driven the military-industrial complex and the manipulative/exploitative multinational corporate climate. Cover Ups, media distortion, disinformation and confusion have paralyzed us with apathy and cynicism so nothing significant can be trusted, believed or known. But we do know this: 1% of humanity controls 40% of global wealth.
FROM GREEDY TO NEEDY: But we can empower ourselves to resist propaganda, consumerism, fear factors, status quo politics and meta-control to shape ourselves a better destiny - a 21st century MANIFEST DESTINY that fulfills our positive spiritual potential. Spiritual bankruptcy, the failure to consider our effects on the whole system, is a symptom of our collective ethical and economic failures.
ETHICAL ECONOMICS: If we don't want a dark future for humanity, we must reinvent ourselves, our ethical economics and our culture from the foundation upwards. Even if that is fantastically radical, it can still happen any moment, one inspired person or community at a time, cascading toward a visionary approach to large-scale societal transformation that heals personal and global socioeconomical scars. Active reconciliation must replace passive resignation to our fate. We have to "check it before we wreck it," that is, check our overweening narcissism, self-indulgence and gluttony as a nation-state.
COMPASSIONATE CONSUMPTION: Competent citizenry can learn to implement constructive visions for our collective planetary future. We can wrestle our future from the grip of sociopathic control freaks, fiscal irresponsibility and deluded mental processes. Deep and broad visions can stimulate reflection and lively discussion of contemporary solutions that can become the scaffolding for action plans from the community level upwards. A courageous and truly integrated vision would include a detailed strategy for a vibrant and life-sustaining future.
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES: Individually and collectively we have to redefine what it means 'to thrive' not just survive with more compassion for others and life in general. The paradigm needs to switch from materialistic "dog eat dog" to universalist "we're all in it together." We must remain self-reflectively vigilant for mass stupidity, cultural bigotry and racial intolerance. We have to develop an active courage to change and to implement more intelligent choices.
CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: Evolution has made us self-aware and self-conscious. But those terms are not states but a spectrum of states, which can be up-regulated with simple techniques, such as concentration, self-reflection and meditation. Even biological evolution is now under the direction of human Conscious Evolution. Hard technologies and spiritual tech are expanding our ideas of what it means to be human, and our inherited potential for realization and self-expression. Conscious Evolution is a worldview that supersedes the Manifest Destiny philosophy, a higher octave of the comprehension that "our reality is what we make it."
ENLIGHTENMENT: Many are pro-actively implementing their personal and collective vision of social potential and an emergent worldview that is negentropic and integrative, personally and culturally. Greed is unenlightened self-interest, myopic selfishness. Enlightened Self Interest is a good place to begin. It is an ethical philosophy demonstrating when we act in the interest of others, we promote our own well-being. An illumined state is not the goal, but the platform for creative interaction within the authentic Self, or essence, in a collective context. Conscious Evolution links discipline, practice and service. Our culture can be enriched by our present actions.
EMERGENT PARADIGM: The new paradigm embraces chaos, complexity, emergent creativity and self-organization. We all participate in the evolution of consciousness, whether our transformations are conscious or unconscious. Conscious Evolution is the ethical, philosophical, intentional governance of human change and cultural engineering.
We can each conduct ourselves compassionately with spiritual responsibility for the health and unfolding of human progress.Thinking and behaving with creative intent, we form a graceful society, approaching our ideal, incorporating loving, harmonious methods also in harmony with nature. The post-metaphysical desire is to contribute to the spiritual fulfillment of all people. The needs of the many resonate with the needs of the one.
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
EVOLUTION OF BELIEF PARADIGMS
Stage 1: Archaic: Survival, the Ground Zero of Existence. Self-preservation, isolation; antisocial. Paranoid or idiosyncratic beliefs.
Stage 2: Tribal: Truster/Trickster. Social; love, belonging. Self-sacrifice vs. selfishness. Transgression; taboo. Ethnocentric magical and superstitious beliefs.
Stage 3: Egocentric: Power; Esteem; Autonomy, heroic. Unscrupulous Competition/Hero. Shame vs. honor. Exploitation vs. Respect. Mythic beliefs.
Stage4: Moral/Patriotic. Rules; Initiative. Shame and guilt vs. conformity and conventionality; purpose, virtue. Systematized truths. Emotional, nostalgic beliefs.
Stage 5: Materialist. Reasoning; mental analysis. Rational beliefs, truth; goodness; consumerism, greed. Head vs. heart. Progressive if rewarded, compulsive, workaholic. Perspective. Rational beliefs.
Stage 6: Wise Empath. Service, rapport, intimacy, empathy. Politically correct.. Inner wisdom, meaning. Self-actualization. Intuitive, mystical beliefs.
Stage 7: Distancer/Self. Paradoxical; individuated, reclusive; universalist. Deconstruction and Synthesis, gestalt, the big picture. Integral, synergetic beliefs.
Stage 8: Global Village. Complex Dynamic Beliefs. Post-Metaphysical Integrative Spirituality. “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue.” Integrative Sustainable beliefs.
THE GUERRILLA INFORMATION WAR
“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the status skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools converge in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of "Web 2.0" and other non-compliant media and distribution channels.
DIY Media: Paramedia, including desktop cinema, is the medium of the "Naughties." Arguably, it is the single most important factor in current social evolution, light years beyond the offerings of dry pedagogy and endless Power Point presentations. It penetrates deeply into the gaps of conventional culture, rigidity and atrophy, bursting it apart at the seams, like overripe fruit. It is a chaotic factor mirroring the criticality of our times, and magnifying its influence through the butterfly effect of info-memes.
Infowars: Taking its message directly to the people who either actively seek it or come upon it synchronistically, it is a new way of teaching and learning that suits our busy lifestyles and our infolust for concise, up to the minute reportage, analysis and applcation. As with all media, once you digest the content, you are invited to make up your mind for yourself.
Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, YouTube, and the next thing we haven't heard about yet but will soon all be doing.
REFERENCES
Klein, Naomi (2007), The Shock Doctrine, Metropolitan Books, New York, NY.
Schaef, Anne Wilson (1988), The Addictive Organization, Harper & Row, San Francisco.
Wildman, P., Socio-Economic Guidance from an Infinite Universe, in Human Science Technology. 2004: Prosperity Press, Brisbane. p. 35
Wildman, P. (2007). Economics for a Wriggling Universe: Economics and the Science For Ethical Ends. Human Science Technology - Harnessing Negentropy for Human Survival, Uki, NSW, Prosperity Press. 30pgs
But we can empower ourselves to resist status quo politics and shape ourselves a better destiny - a 21st century Manifest Destiny that fulfills our positive spiritual potential. If we don't want a dark future for humanity, we must reinvent ourselves and our culture from the foundation upwards. Even if that is fantastically radical, it can still happen, one inspired person at a time and cascade toward a visionay approach to large-scale societal transformation that heals personal and global socioeconomical scars.
Competent citizenry can learn to implement constructive visions for our collective planetary future. Deep and broad visions can stimulate reflection and lively discussion of contemporary solutions that can become the scaffolding for action plans from the community level upwards. A courageous and truly integrated vision would include a detailed strategy for a vibrant and life-sustaining future. Individually and collectively we have to redefine what it means to thrive with more compassion for others, not just survive. The paradigm needs to switch from "dog eat dog" to "we're all in it together."
SOUL OF AMERICA: A specter is haunting America -- the dark shadow of her domestic and international covert activities, cover ups and arguably poor choices. America is dysfunctional; she has a sickness of the soul. Maybe she has lost her soul. Soul loss is a spiritual illness. We are an addictive nation and our government is an addictive organization, as demonstrated by its leaders. Individuals reflect the addictive nature of the system. The system demands you are consistent with the system.
CONSENSUS CULTURE: We are always in a trance state. We conspire with one another to create or confabulate consensus reality. Cultures and subcultures share tacit understandings which together are Cultural Trance States, an unconscious cohesion. All cultures are trance states with their own modified programming content - family, community, religion, nation. We have been programmed by repeated suggestion since birth. We don't question or doubt this deep trance. Nations and organizations also create lived trance states. We are surrounded by and absorbed in their powerful reality in the social cradle.
SHAME & BLAME: Addictive organizations and their false images (PR, spin, false fronts, false flags) are the infrastructure of an addictive society. Addiction leads to compulsiveness. Thus, we have become a shame-based society. Symptoms include grandiosity, confusion, self-centeredness, dishonesty, perfectionism, scapegoating, self-righteousness, paranoia, projection, defensiveness, fear and ethical deterioration.
TOXIC SHAME, the fuel of addiction, divides us from ourselves and others. In toxic shame, we disown ourselves and cover-up with a false self. Toxic shame has many disguises; it loves darkness and secretiveness. It stays in hiding and covers itself up with a myriad of behavioral cover-ups. Toxic shame is spiritual bankruptcy. Healthy shame is honest. It lets us know our healthy limitations and provides meaning. It is the basis of humility and spirituality.
DEPRESSION is the number one mental health problem. Stress is the number one killer. Often depression lurks behind compensatory manic activity. Our boom-bust economics, the irrationally optimistic housing bubble and over-extended credit reflect the same syndrome. We react to an illusion of scarcity with the illusion of control that blocks what we fear we can't handle. Personal or collective disaster leaves us dispossessed. Shock, disaster and economic downturn is a formula that can be manipulatively exploited to eliminate resistance.
GOD CULT: What we worship is what we give our attention to. We worship GOD: Gold, Oil and Drugs. They are what makes the world go 'round. They fuel the social control systems and fund the elite controllers. This GOD is the tangible source of our freedoms and our slavery, the buffers between ourselves and our awareness and feelings. The cult of GOD has taken over our lives and we are more and more powerless. *We rely on the elusive promise of a hoped-for reward to pull us into the future, toward our destiny.
This is the the Catch-22 in the American Dream, which was the 20th century prime directive. It promises you will get ahead with power, money or influence. Despite our lip-service to democracy, we are far from a classless society.* We are seduced by the promise of the good life, with benefits that is the payoff for the Protestant work(aholic) ethic. We deny this is the core of the sick system by working out and eating well so we can work even more without burnout. We are lured by the promise of the addictive system to take us out of the here and now.*
Economics and politics have taught us that greatness lies in expansion and accumulation. Yet even though we work harder, the US has lost its manufacturing base and pre-eminence as the world's greatest economic power to the EU. The Greenback is slipping. Markets have been appropriated by transnational corporations. Only empathy can heal this entropy -- the global acceleration crisis and destructive wastefulness. Economic development has failed to create and maintain social welfare.
For America to recover, she has to see through deep denial, acknowledge the realities of her shadow self, hold the tension of the opposites, and let go to the transformative process of self-actualization that promises rebirth at a higher level of integration, stabilization and functionality. We can become more conscious participants in our own self-unfolding and in course-correcting the ship of state toward positive directionality. We can understand, adapt and respond to our world better.
POST-TRAUMATIC CULTURE: PTSD is a chaotic, hyper-reactive state of being. Our cultural crisis is characterized by symptomatic numbing, dissociation, impulsive aggression, depression, denial, shame and anxiety. We are haunted by a sense of injury -- victimization. "Victim speech" is used for economic and military gain. First- and second-hand trauma shapes our central narratives of overwhelming personal and collective change.
COUNTERMEASURES: Mediated images of war and catastrophe can produce PTSD symptoms much like directly witnessing traumatic events, especially if one identifies with the victims. Providing a means of processing information and feelings, Internet may provide an antidote to toxic media images that induce panic. When we see history repeating itself, we flashback to similar unresolved events. Hampered by persistent high-level denial, time does not heal these collective wounds. Disclosure would be a start.
CREATIVE RE-PATTERNING: We need to eliminate the blocks to our maturation process as a nation, even if no nation can realistically survive being totally transparent. A nation can oversight itself internally just like an individual can do a "reality check." We've been stuck in pointless paranoia with a Draconian government, corporate feudalism and an unwinable war that has sucked us dry. Dynamic change and flux means finding our own way to an authentic relationship with self, others and world.
SELF-IMAGE: We need to make a quantum leap beyond our delusions in all these domains. Currently, we are getting "shock treatment." The Shock Doctrine (Klein) and "disaster capitalism" have been imposed abroad and domestically to re-engineer societies reeling from disasters. This corporate warfare and economic policy are rooted in CIA electroshock experiments in torture. Ideally, we need breakthrough not breakdown. But our self-image, our national esteem has been damaged. Self image is linked to feelings of destiny, meaningfulness, significance, uniqueness and reason for being.
TRANSFORMATION: Without meaning we are cut off from our spiritual source that is our motivation, soul, spirit or destiny. The essence of tragedy is the realization of a destiny that escapes the human will, even if some have been able to predict the end. With insight and a new orientation we could effect a dramatic and positive self-transformation of our national character. It is our potential for eminence and the exceptional -- a clearer perception of and response to reality. OWNING THE SHADOW: The Shadow is the first challenge on the way to clarity. With 1/20th of the world's population, we consume over 50% of the energy. We have to integrate our dark side, face our negative qualities, what we have attempted to hide or deny, our secret shame. Our national shadow is embodied in our clandestine history, the dirty tricks conducted in our name. We have to know ourselves fully. We also discover our own buried potential there. It brings hidden powers into the light. To heal our denial and learn discernment, we need trustworthy disclosure.
I’ve seen the future, brother: it is murder
Thing’s are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure any more
The blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul (Cohen 1992)
SOUL RETRIEVAL is the process of recovering what we've cut off, left or lost somewhere, or that was stolen or appropriated by someone else. Refuge is found in the human heart. Soul retrieval relieves trauma and fragmentation by mending the past and healing the future. The object of healing is to become whole...to embody soul. Wholeness is a process of reconciliation. Imagine what a more soulful nation might be like.
VISION: Each step in our history has been marked by a quantum leap in our Manifest Destiny driven by our expansive spirit and zeitgeist. If it is so that we "create our own destiny," it is time for America to manifest a better destiny in harmony with global values that support true democracy and our Constitutional freedoms. A more meaningful manifestation of our national spirit would prioritize universally spiritual ideals, like respect and compassion, over domestic and international power trips. To grow our citizenry and government need vision, communication and trust. We are the only species capable of long-term systematic planning, but we willingly sabotague ourselves for short-term gratification. We need to heal our relationship to self, others, and world.
CRISIS DRIVEN: The fact is, we live in a sick system and it impacts our quality of life from the inside out. If the USA was a person, that individual would be a toxic, narcissistic, territorial, workaholic control freak with boundary issues. Our violent nation is manipulative, dramatic, paranoid, compulsive and soon may become literally depressive. The housing market is in a depression, and that is symbolic of our condition. You have to wonder what all our irrational exhuberance and manic activity is hiding in the depths of America's soul. Just what is our collective "heart's desire?"
COMMITMENT TO TRUTH: What is our shared vision today? Shared visions arise from those truly committed to their personal visions. What is the true nature of this "reality" we are creating? Are we on purpose and achieving our collective destiny or has our country been hijacked by special interests? Why do we obsessively overwork, overspend, cover up, get aggressive and perpetuate sick organizations? How can we let go of our old national identity, pass through the 'neutral zone' and experience transforming rebirth? We need a paradigm that superimposes the new on the old. First comes a change in attitudes or worldview that embodies a different set of values in cultural rebirth.
CREATIVE STRATEGIES: How can we raise the bar? Shared vision uplifts our aspirations, gives us courage and ignites our spirit. It pulls us toward an overarching goal. It creates room for risk taking and experimentation by fostering long term commitment. We can extend principles and insights from personal mastery into the world of discipline, collective aspiration and shared commitment. The vision may come before its time is ripe, but we have to try, even to fail. We need a transition plan or crisis and confusion will arise. We can look to the past to get to the root of the problem.
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MANIFEST DESTINY is the philosophy that created the USA in her westward expansion. But it didn't stop there; our penetration has gone global. America has lost her boundaries but Manifest Destiny is still a driving ideal of virtually endless expansion. This ideology is still creating America's history, powering our culture. But in our egotistical zeal we have spread ourselves too thin, like the Alexanders, Napoleans and Hitlers of bygone eras.
But does the rightful destiny of the American people include unlimited imperialistic expansion? We're running out of places and cultures to invade. As a restless territorial culture bent on acquisition and conquest, we have boundary issues. We are the dominators, but the only frontiers left are within ourselves. It is high-time we manifest a new vision of our collective destiny, beyond the materialistic, religious, utopian design.
If the buzzword "Intentionality" is to be properly applied, we have to move beyond the ego gratification and wish fulfilment of THE SECRET and apply it in a global context. We can choose to consciously engage in self and social transformation. In a strongly networked society, a bottom-up approach to order is the counterpoint to the old hierarchal dominator model that has permeated history -- participatory consciousness.
We are enmeshed in denial. We either don't know or don't want to know the details of global exploitation that undergird our consumer lifestyles. We don't have the rationalized right to destroy anything or anyone who gets in the way of our so-called freedom and independence. We aren't independent; all of humanity and life is interdependent. We aren't free; we have traded freedom for so-called security. Far from demonstrating our superiority, the immortal doctrine of international Manifest Destiny reveals the spiritual faultline in the Soul of America.
FOR "WE THE PEOPLE" TO HEAL...
- We have to Know the truth about cover ups and clandestine activity.
- We have to mobilize collective Will to change ourselves and culture.
- We have to care enough to Dare to see through the manipulation of our beliefs and attitudes about what is important to collective well-being.
- We have to find our collective voice to overcome the public Silence that has kept us in denial to the point of moral and economic bankruptcy.
- We have to work toward restoration of our Constitutional Rights.
CATASTROPHE OR CREATIVITY: Pleasing ourselves is loaded with the potential for self-deceit. We have prospered at the expense of others. We consume more than we make. This is most true of the elite who are the meta-controllers of world events. We must not remain content with sociopolitical mediocrity but have to widen the boundaries of our compassion.
We have already mortgaged our progeny's future and must address that debt with more ethical economics. We need to find out what lies beyond the artificial constraints of corporate media, unregulated covert action, self-serving officials, greed-ridden American imperialism, the decline of civil liberties, environmental atrocities, egregious war, nuclear proliferation, lying leaders, global tyranny, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, commodification of healthcare, and transnational crime.
ECONOMIC SYNERGY
We need to reinstitute safety nets and social justice. We need a pro-evolutionary environment, social innovation and economic synergy -- socio-cultural negentropy. Our nation needs to make a strong commitment to the health and well-being of all people and stop being an entropy sink. To successfully meet the challenge, we need our Constitutional Rights restored.
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We can begin by admitting our addiction to our false GOD -- Gold, Oil & Drugs.
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MANIFEST DESTINY: How can we manifest the common destiny of a peaceful and prosperous future for all of mankind? We can create an evolutionary politics to build a more creative future. Calculated cycles of commodification and scarcity, business and war have driven the military-industrial complex and the manipulative/exploitative multinational corporate climate. Cover Ups, media distortion, disinformation and confusion have paralyzed us with apathy and cynicism so nothing significant can be trusted, believed or known. But we do know this: 1% of humanity controls 40% of global wealth.
FROM GREEDY TO NEEDY: But we can empower ourselves to resist propaganda, consumerism, fear factors, status quo politics and meta-control to shape ourselves a better destiny - a 21st century MANIFEST DESTINY that fulfills our positive spiritual potential. Spiritual bankruptcy, the failure to consider our effects on the whole system, is a symptom of our collective ethical and economic failures.
ETHICAL ECONOMICS: If we don't want a dark future for humanity, we must reinvent ourselves, our ethical economics and our culture from the foundation upwards. Even if that is fantastically radical, it can still happen any moment, one inspired person or community at a time, cascading toward a visionary approach to large-scale societal transformation that heals personal and global socioeconomical scars. Active reconciliation must replace passive resignation to our fate. We have to "check it before we wreck it," that is, check our overweening narcissism, self-indulgence and gluttony as a nation-state.
COMPASSIONATE CONSUMPTION: Competent citizenry can learn to implement constructive visions for our collective planetary future. We can wrestle our future from the grip of sociopathic control freaks, fiscal irresponsibility and deluded mental processes. Deep and broad visions can stimulate reflection and lively discussion of contemporary solutions that can become the scaffolding for action plans from the community level upwards. A courageous and truly integrated vision would include a detailed strategy for a vibrant and life-sustaining future.
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES: Individually and collectively we have to redefine what it means 'to thrive' not just survive with more compassion for others and life in general. The paradigm needs to switch from materialistic "dog eat dog" to universalist "we're all in it together." We must remain self-reflectively vigilant for mass stupidity, cultural bigotry and racial intolerance. We have to develop an active courage to change and to implement more intelligent choices.
CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: Evolution has made us self-aware and self-conscious. But those terms are not states but a spectrum of states, which can be up-regulated with simple techniques, such as concentration, self-reflection and meditation. Even biological evolution is now under the direction of human Conscious Evolution. Hard technologies and spiritual tech are expanding our ideas of what it means to be human, and our inherited potential for realization and self-expression. Conscious Evolution is a worldview that supersedes the Manifest Destiny philosophy, a higher octave of the comprehension that "our reality is what we make it."
ENLIGHTENMENT: Many are pro-actively implementing their personal and collective vision of social potential and an emergent worldview that is negentropic and integrative, personally and culturally. Greed is unenlightened self-interest, myopic selfishness. Enlightened Self Interest is a good place to begin. It is an ethical philosophy demonstrating when we act in the interest of others, we promote our own well-being. An illumined state is not the goal, but the platform for creative interaction within the authentic Self, or essence, in a collective context. Conscious Evolution links discipline, practice and service. Our culture can be enriched by our present actions.
EMERGENT PARADIGM: The new paradigm embraces chaos, complexity, emergent creativity and self-organization. We all participate in the evolution of consciousness, whether our transformations are conscious or unconscious. Conscious Evolution is the ethical, philosophical, intentional governance of human change and cultural engineering.
We can each conduct ourselves compassionately with spiritual responsibility for the health and unfolding of human progress.Thinking and behaving with creative intent, we form a graceful society, approaching our ideal, incorporating loving, harmonious methods also in harmony with nature. The post-metaphysical desire is to contribute to the spiritual fulfillment of all people. The needs of the many resonate with the needs of the one.
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
EVOLUTION OF BELIEF PARADIGMS
Stage 1: Archaic: Survival, the Ground Zero of Existence. Self-preservation, isolation; antisocial. Paranoid or idiosyncratic beliefs.
Stage 2: Tribal: Truster/Trickster. Social; love, belonging. Self-sacrifice vs. selfishness. Transgression; taboo. Ethnocentric magical and superstitious beliefs.
Stage 3: Egocentric: Power; Esteem; Autonomy, heroic. Unscrupulous Competition/Hero. Shame vs. honor. Exploitation vs. Respect. Mythic beliefs.
Stage4: Moral/Patriotic. Rules; Initiative. Shame and guilt vs. conformity and conventionality; purpose, virtue. Systematized truths. Emotional, nostalgic beliefs.
Stage 5: Materialist. Reasoning; mental analysis. Rational beliefs, truth; goodness; consumerism, greed. Head vs. heart. Progressive if rewarded, compulsive, workaholic. Perspective. Rational beliefs.
Stage 6: Wise Empath. Service, rapport, intimacy, empathy. Politically correct.. Inner wisdom, meaning. Self-actualization. Intuitive, mystical beliefs.
Stage 7: Distancer/Self. Paradoxical; individuated, reclusive; universalist. Deconstruction and Synthesis, gestalt, the big picture. Integral, synergetic beliefs.
Stage 8: Global Village. Complex Dynamic Beliefs. Post-Metaphysical Integrative Spirituality. “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue.” Integrative Sustainable beliefs.
THE GUERRILLA INFORMATION WAR
“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the status skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools converge in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of "Web 2.0" and other non-compliant media and distribution channels.
DIY Media: Paramedia, including desktop cinema, is the medium of the "Naughties." Arguably, it is the single most important factor in current social evolution, light years beyond the offerings of dry pedagogy and endless Power Point presentations. It penetrates deeply into the gaps of conventional culture, rigidity and atrophy, bursting it apart at the seams, like overripe fruit. It is a chaotic factor mirroring the criticality of our times, and magnifying its influence through the butterfly effect of info-memes.
Infowars: Taking its message directly to the people who either actively seek it or come upon it synchronistically, it is a new way of teaching and learning that suits our busy lifestyles and our infolust for concise, up to the minute reportage, analysis and applcation. As with all media, once you digest the content, you are invited to make up your mind for yourself.
Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, YouTube, and the next thing we haven't heard about yet but will soon all be doing.
REFERENCES
Klein, Naomi (2007), The Shock Doctrine, Metropolitan Books, New York, NY.
Schaef, Anne Wilson (1988), The Addictive Organization, Harper & Row, San Francisco.
Wildman, P., Socio-Economic Guidance from an Infinite Universe, in Human Science Technology. 2004: Prosperity Press, Brisbane. p. 35
Wildman, P. (2007). Economics for a Wriggling Universe: Economics and the Science For Ethical Ends. Human Science Technology - Harnessing Negentropy for Human Survival, Uki, NSW, Prosperity Press. 30pgs