Consciousness is the greatest trick we ever fell for. Our so called ‘consciousness’ is a flash light in a dark room, which we call Me, Myself and I.
Really we’re the room, the person holding the flashlight, the flashlight, the light, the darkness AND the bullshit.
People tell themselves stories about their quest for consciousness, awakening, enlightenment, ego-transcendence or what have you because the mind needs to make up stories when it’s trying to believe something that is not real.
Real things don’t require stories, or elaboration. They don’t require me to go out and preach about them. The truth doesn’t need defending… how presumptuous!!! That the truth is so fragile and weak a thing that it needs ME as its defender… as if it would suddenly disappear or be effaced forever just because I wasn’t around to protect it… to somehow SHOW it to others, when it’s in plain sight?
Fuck that…
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I feel a duty to find where science actually agrees with magic, where theory and logic can really help us grow and add to our spiritual experience of ourselves, and where
Ultimately, to move forward from broken, mistranslated and misunderstood traditions and dogma – available in any spiritual path new or old – we have to find a way these ideas can work in the present day. If humankind desperately needs to change bad collective habits, old beliefs need to be updated – contemporized.
You can see the beginnings of this happening in the New-Age market. There are thousands of books on wicca, energy healing, angels, runes, meditation and reiki (to mention a few), using thousands of buzz words and invented jargons. While it certainly attests to our imagination and creativity, and signals an age where anyone can write a book, it has its downsides.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Ever since I was introduced to Marshall McLuhan in 1999, I have been in love with the power of media in expanding our minds and awareness. I have felt that much of the media is used for distractions, but I know that it has massive potential for facilitating education and awareness. Meeting the branding, identity and marketing requirements to compete with the noise of the information age is challenging but vitally important.
I enjoy and am good at taking profound concepts and conveying them to others in a passionate and engaging way. I find myself the type of person who can talk to anyone and whether speaking privately or publicly, writing or making art, I have long been interested in raising the consciousness of those around me to enrich their lives and the worlds they live in.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
The human spirit has exploded into reality. Every single problem our world faces has now become a problem of human psychology. From the temperature of seas and health of species at the very bottoms of the deepest oceans to the quality of the air we breathe the world over. The last unclaimed tract of land on the Earth was absorbed into the nation-state system a year before the twentieth century dawned. After two frightening wars, the world is held hostage by weapons and transnational corporate greed. The unconscious forces that have allowed us to burst into being on this incredible level of existence and master our environment must now, themselves, be mastered. It is our own shadow that haunts us now.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
There’s plenty of pessimism about our civilization’s future. I’ve been there. Lots of people seem to think that we’re in for trouble. I’m certain we are, but extinction? Well, I don’t know about that — Certainly change. Perhaps ‘Correction’ to use a soulless economic term. Ecological Correction.
The truth of spiritual awakening is that it generally comes from extreme pain and suffocating fear. Some people even have to die, or almost die, to have their lives changed in a radical enough way to see Life as a miracle. Our collective suffering and fear for the future is the most powerful prophecy of our rise as an enlightened, planetary civilization.
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