Banking, the money supply and Community

Banks were originally an agency for the means of exchange. Money was and still is nothing but a commodity to facilitate the exchange of goods. Communities need to be able to work to provide for themselves. Goods arise from the activity of a community. Work is not onerous. It is a word which describes the activity of a community that gives rise to goods and services in a variety of forms. These include staples such as food, housing, roading, factories, warehousing. There is nothing wrong with any activity that facilitates human life on this planet. Music, art and literature in all its various forms are also goods and services and are just as basic to a human being. Human beings are very sophisticated systems which house the human Soul. They house that which is ultimately that which life is all about.

The problem that has arisen is that it has been discovered, and governments have colluded in this, that it is possible by one means or another to sabotage the system of exchange and get rich on the money supply. Which while a possible action, is a more than slightly unintelligent action for a community to indulge in because, profiting from the means of exchange in a community drives up the cost of all the basic and necessary community activities that allow a community to thrive. It is a little like slicing the arterial system in the human flow of blood. Siphoning off the blood enriches those smart enough to do it but slowly bleeds the community to death. The reason those in power allow this to happen is because many of them are there at the trough. All that needs doing to manage the problem and restore the health of a community is to stop by law the ability of people to treat the means of supply - money as a commodity. It also probably requires some regulation around monopoly around goods by withholding them from the market or cornering control of them as both these actions unnaturally raise the price of goods. Government should be by consensual agreement of an appropriate number of individuals and there should be laws against collusion or in other words parties. Money should be removed as an impediment to public office so that any individual be able to serve. The ideal is that service be more like jury duty a requirement of citizenship and that compensation be made so that nobody suffers in being required to serve their country. On the other hand there might be strict rules about profiting from public office.

Community is equal and does not require wealthy individuals to build large assets. The requirement of larger capitalisation can be the result of agreement for something of benefit to community. This is not socialism this is a form of non-competitive capitalism.

 

Corporate Street vs Occupy Wall Street

I am a New Zealander and I have never really been without. Now at 66 years of age I am materially well off in the sense that I don't want for anything and can pretty well do as I like. That is not true for everyone. As a New Zealander I am particularly fortunate in that oppression and violence are mild in comparison to much of the rest of the world. And although I do not want, my heart feels very passionately about how we act toward each other. The face of those in charge is impersonal the world over. And if we, you and I, want to join the ranks of those who make the rules, then we are expected to dress in a particular way, to follow the rules of whatever organisation we are trying to gain entry into. To not follow the rules is to be seen as a pariah, an outsider. The powerful all dress in a particular way, at least in the west. The powerful have similar beliefs and part of the similarity of those beliefs is that the world looks the same from that angle. It is not a view from the gutter; it is not a view from a position of being exploited; nor is it a view from the position of one receiving welfare! And although those who may be called the movers and shakers, 'know'' that the disadvantaged exist they do not feel it. It is cerebral and their storyline probably runs along lines like - 'they need to pull their socks up', 'they need to take advantage of opportunity', 'move where the work is'. The underlying belief is that if 'they' the disadvantaged had not wasted their opportunity they would not be disadvantaged.

But there is more. The figures tell us that 1% of the American population holds 30-40% of American wealth. That is scary. But what is scarier is that many of those 'have-nots' largely believe in the American dream. They look from the same place and see the same world and figure its ok to be without. Not that they don't want more. They figure they just lucked out. The German playwright' Goethe said somewhere in his memoirs that the man, the phenomena, 'Napoleon' was only possible because France was made up of a lot of little Napoleons. He would have said that Germany during the war was made possible by a lot of little Hitler’s. In New Zealand I get a strong sense of mediocrity high and low. So America now which is suffering from corporate greed may be said to be made up of main-chancers. It is endemic; it is like right inside in the gut so it's not about making a wrong choice. In a sense it's like taking a wrong turn because it was thought to be an okay thing to do.

I BELIEVE that we all end up in the boat we end up in because of what beats in our hearts. We end up amongst those who best reflect us. The old adage ' birds of a feather flock together'. But we can change what is in our hearts. A nation, a world can change its mind. This seems to be what is happening. When Bush and Blair took the world into war in the East there were so many qualities that made up the events that followed. I wrote this poem at the time and will share it with you.

I know that this danse macabre;

Being played out in the desert,

Being played out in the streets of Basra,

Being played out in the streets of Baghdad,

Being played out in our newspapers,

Being played out on our airwaves,

Being played out in our houses of debate,

In the canteen, and on the factory floor;

Is just the rattling of old sabres;

We have heard it all before,

And amidst stories of carnage,

Amidst stories of joy,

As half a nation make like

Mafia bank robbers in their balaclavas,

With sawn off shot guns,

Little Al Capones of Iraq,

The little Italy of Arabia,

Fight till we die;

And children, old men and women,

Sprint crying for freedom from a regime of hate,

As the soldiers from the west,

Ride in, much like the cavalry in Custer’s time;

Except Custer’s cavalry at Little Big Horn,

Helped secure a once proud nation on reservations,

Retired humans of the wrong skin colour;

Made crushed and spiritless, by the greatest nation spawned in this century;

America – throbbing with industry and vibrant with charisma,

Waves of new culture through every other nation on earth,

Oh to be American!

And this flagrant spark is just a dance of life and death;

And today my wife of thirty years flew out of my arms,

Into the arms of another,

Wars in the desert of married bliss,

Of children that we love and that love us,

Of dirty nappies – broken bones – bruised knees, bruised egos;

Of prayers on bended knees, as one son falls from the cliffs

At Piha; twenty metres onto cruel rocks, every bit as sharp as desert sands,

Thank God to live;

Of proud moments of motherhood, fatherhood,

Quarrels and making up,

Marriage, a dance of life, now death.

I know that while the boots of marauders clump the streets of,

Unlikely sounding towns, in far flung desert lands;

Whistling songs of freedom in a hail of lead;

With one hand tossing projectiles of death,

With the other tossing some gap toothed boy,

Dying for the sight of freedom in western boots,

Onto victorious shoulders;

Protective arms of peace;

Sobbing women greet this army of liberation,

Feeling the weight of years, lift from bowed shoulders;

I know this scene; it’s the danse macabre;

A dance of life and death.

The Danse Macabre,

The dance of life and death,

Plays out in every human breast;

The dance on the factory floor,

The dance in the boardrooms,

The dance in the bedroom,

The dance in the playground,

The dance at the dinner table and over the washing up,

The dance in the hotel bedroom,

The dance on our roads,

The dance in our bars and discothèques,

The dance of life and death.

As I said there are many facets to every question. Because, many of those who opposed the war, particularly in America, hated Bush for what he did; and yet in a way, it was his actions in Iraq and later in Afghanistan, which led to the Arab Spring and thence to the Occupy Wall Street. There is no difference between these latter two events. We think they must be because the Arab Spring is taking place in places of need and poverty and war. And 'Occupy Wall Street' and its spinoffs all over the world even to Aotea Square, New Zealand, are taking place in peaceful democracies. Yet that's not true. This is a silly example yet it is true what I say. I hated when large stalls started printing computer check out instructions on their product packaging. It felt like a number. On my life somehow. But then they stated placing them directly on some products such as CD's, books, DVD's. And these are items I am buying for my own personal pleasure and I have these barcodes all through my book shelves, all through my DVD collection. And nobody asked me. If they had I would have said - no thanks - find another way of keeping track of your stock etc. But nobody asks. And that is the smallest tip of corporate mentality. Like car parks with big signs spelling out 'NO RESPONSIBILITY'. We are not responsible. And this is the whole difficulty. Because if I have a business - someone can point the finger at me and say. - You did this and you shouldn’t have. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE. But in a corporation if I ring up to complain I can only talk to an agent. And even if the agent did it they are only acting on the behalf of a headless chook. And my City Council is a corporation. My government is a corporation. And if I want to complain whose ears are there to hear me. And if I have a legitimate complaint I haven't the wherewithal to take a corporation to court. If I wish to take my local council to court they have all my tax dollars to protect them and if that runs out they can hike the taxes. That was tongue in cheek but it’s sort of true.

If we do wrong whether as an individual or as a legal enterprise we must be responsible. We all know this. Because if there is a child on the street hungry, without shelter we say - how sad. And look around for someone to do something. But if that child is ours we hold out our hand and help. And yet all the children are ours. Let me look in to your eyes and say - I don't know you.

There is no single Truth

Life is a little like a diamond, many faceted; in that when we begin to describe it, we have then to turn around and say - but we also need to look at it like this. So I ended the last post by saying that global warming by human action is significant but not as significant as our position in our solar system's precession around the heavens. Then I went on to say that that which is on the surface is also a reflection perhaps of the inner state of humanity. These two things are both rather large statements even on their own but together they may seem provocative and unlikely to the rational mind. Yet we can understand each one in our own world. Memory tells me that when the world relied on sailing ships to ply their trade that at one time they went around the Cape of Good Hope, but when the route through the Suez Canal was built this became a preferable route. The reason was that sailing around the southernmost tip of Africa apart from being longer was very dangerous. It was originally known as the Cape of Tempests. Anyway think about this for a moment. As a sailor things were fine until you reached the Cape. Then the level of 'Care' had to be increased because the tempestuousness of that part of the journey was so much greater. So on a much larger scale seems to be the case with our journey through the heavens. The movement of our solar system in its cyclic progress through the heavens is different at different times. At those times of greater galactic activity we have to take more care. That is one thing. There is a correspondence between the inner and the outer worlds and there is a correspondence between the individual and the world we live in. THink! What is the difference between a pimple and a volcano? Both are nodes to the surface allowing an unusual activity causing eruption to reach the surface. The earth needs the expression of a volcano. A person needs the eruption which is a pimple to take part in the cleansing of the system. The winds that howl around the earth these days, the tornadoes that blow are not any different than many human phenomena. An explosion of laughter to an ant is cataclysmic. Equally so is an explosion of anger. A fart, a sneeze, a belch all of these we can comprehend as movements of earth. The thing is that 'we' and by 'we', I mean, those of us who belong to the progressive people on earth, know, as the less fortunate that belong to 'backward' 'aboriginal races don't, that the earth is an object. It does not have emotions, thought, sensation... The thing is that the indigenous do know. That is why they treat earth as a Goddess, the winds, the Sun are not just explosions of dead air, the burning of a neutered planet but Gods and Goddesses, Spirits to be propitiated that we share earth with. The indigenous laugh at us far harder than we them. And our relationship is symbiotic. We need earth to be alive and well to feed and shelter us not to blister us with a harsh sun, chastise us with great vents of air. Drown us in water. Scorch the earth and denude it of food. Strip it naked so that she is bare and we are left starving. We have become arrogant. Knowing as much as we do yet we know so little!

Behind the official storyline

I find it slightly intimidating all the titles. It would seem to make more sense to me to be able to place a series of blogs under each title depending on what you felt like writing about but with my present level of computer aptitude I have to live with what I have. I haven't written here for a while and part of the reason is I have been busy doing other stuff that needed doing but that of course is the story I tell myself. Because I did on a number of occasions go to write but I didn't know what string to pull. I have been reading a number of new books that have only just been published. One of them Gregg Braden's 'Deep Truth', I was reading today where he talks about world crisis in terms of - 'if what is happening in the world is not considered a crisis what is?' That is not a quote it is a paraphrase. And of course he is right. There have always been trouble spots on the earth; there have always been disasters, some of mammoth proportion. But a lot is happening right now. And mainstream media is not contextualizing what is going on. Well they are, but not everything. There is a lot of talk of global warming but 30% of Republicans in the USA don't apparently believe it is happening. Icebergs are melting, glaciers are disappearing all because of higher than normal temperatures over a protracted period of time and large parts of Earth’s population are still saying it’s not happening! In North Africa wars, revolutions, rioting, demands to leaders from people like you and me, who are laying down their lives because they crave change! Because they have found the strength to say enough is enough. They have noticed that their leaders who once would have led them through their desert habitats in their nomadic wanderings and protected them from others who might have found advantage in attacking them. Those, who; once used their wisdom and experience to find out appropriate areas where the tribe might feed; their natural protectors. But suddenly it’s like blinkers are removed and everybody wakes up and realizes that they are being abused, they are nothing but serfs. The blinkers are coming off all over the world. We don't see it quite yet, but we are getting there. Our own western democracies are little better. Nobody gets to be president of the United States these days without a lot of money. It is the same all over the world - the privileged classes hold most of the wealth of the western world. And there has been a recent 'economic theory' which says - we are not going to tax us - this small proportion of all of you's because our money is what makes the economic world go around. So the rich are not heavily taxed. Never mind that everybody else are having their houses foreclosed on, are losing their jobs, have a failing social infrastructure.  Wherever there is money these same ‘job provider’s’ are out-sourcing the work anyway to maximise their profits. They are not being taxed so that they can provide goods at a much cheaper price, so that they can give something back to the community that helps sustain them but given this freedom, they act in a way that provides even more for them. There are newspaper and magazine articles addressing these issues but not in a contextual fashion. There is a lack of respect for person in the world today. Those who hold the strings of power appear careless generally of those whose labour they use and of those for whom they provide, whether we are talking goods or services. When I work for you I need to know that what I am doing is what you want. But business and government today has grown very arrogant. Law and regulation are essentially in the community to care for and allow everybody the space and freedom to experience life in the way they need to, to grow in the way they need. What do YOU think is the reason for law and regulation? If my city, Auckland, of going on two million people did away with all parking meters what might happen apart from a loss of revenue? The thing is, the sense is, that councils take my money because they can. And what should be the highest duties that might be placed on a citizen, to give time to city or national affairs!!! So when I hear of very nice thank you salaries and golden handshakes and super cities and I know there are those in my country who have profited very nicely in government and local government positions. And this is your money. I hear of a new corporation and then I see that they have moved into very expensive premises, prime city premises... This is not about respect and civil duty. It is about power over others.

When Britain’s youth rioted for three days or however long it was I thought - here it comes. There are so many stories of fraud perpetuated in seats of power. Whether it's Roman Catholic priests, newspaper moguls! The characters who perpetuated the hacking scandal in British newspapers were bosom buddies of those in government, in the police! And then the Prime Minister spoke of the dereliction of the parents? And, that, mobile phones might be immobilised if it happened again. And he spearheads an austerity program which protects his friends and puts 'his people out of work and out of their homes' and he wonders why they riot. He sees that their actions are not all good but he can't see himself. They are 'his people' because he is the 'Prime Minister', the First Minister, the one that needs to get it right. And now 700 people have been arrested for protesting in New York. About; what? They don't know - but they know that things aren't right.



Countries throughout the world are broke. Pension funds are broke. Town Councils are broke. The only ones who have money aren't taxed because the experts on that part of how life is lived - the Economists say it’s not a good thing and millions of people who should know better believe them. The land has been spoiled - for profit. There are those out there that if they can see a way to turn a buck turn it. And it spoils it for everybody else.



There is a strange anomaly. Cities and nations throughout the world are suffering unusual drought conditions, being devastated by cyclones, tornados, hurricanes, just plain storms. Sea levels are rising, the polar ice is melting, temperatures are rising and everyone is talking global warming and care of the planet and so they should be. But there is more happening that the eye does not see and very few people really try. There is a great deal of solar activity for one but the really interesting bit is that there is this Mayan calendar and then there are all these prophesies from Nostradamus, whom everyone has heard about, Edgar Cayce, the Hopi Indian amongst others. And the talk is all end of the world or is it? It may be end of the world as we know it. There is a little main stream scaremongering from Hollywood and the like but peeling back the layers of the onion reveals something new. We all know how the Church rewarded Galileo when he said that the Earth moved around the Sun? He was made to recant. Well eventually the Church had to move and allow modern science its day. But while this was taking place, before Galileo had time to formulate his new knowledge, Hernan Cortez was on his way to the Yucatan Peninsula, where, on behalf of Spain, he set about with great determination the dismantling of an Empire - the Mayan's - which in the a few artefacts which remain from their civilization; demonstrate a knowledge of the Earth in relation to the heavens far beyond what Galileo had conceived. Because what the Mayan calendar demonstrates is the knowledge that our solar system including our Sun actually orbits over a period of 26,000 years approximately; around what has become referred to as the Galactic Centre; which is essentially the axis on which our whole milky way spins. It is its, our Milky Way’s gravitational Centre. And on 21 December 2012 we are as far from this centre as we ever are during our orbit around it. And that position apparently always produces a change in our climate very similar to what we are experiencing now. So although there is no doubt that our commercial and social practices may not be very good for our home planet, it is the cycle of the earth through the heavens which is causing the unpredictable weather patterns, not the, so called, Global Warming. The evidence from previous cycles suggest that the present warming is the precursor to a more severe cooling of the planet and these events take place over a considerable period of time of which 21 December 2012 is just a marker.

There is more. People often have evinced puzzlement over what happened to the Mayan and talk of the destruction of a civilization. And in a sense that is true and yes it might be a puzzle. But in fact they have not in another sense gone anywhere; because there are Mayan still living who have maintained connection with the knowledge which is being spoken about. And here I would like to speak in more generalised terms. We have what we refer to as the indigenous peoples, by which we mean those who were here first. In my own country, the Maori speak of themselves as the Tangata Whenua which means literally the people inhabiting the land. It is a useful term as a Universal description of this task. That which is indigenous is that which occurs naturally at a particular geographical place. So, there is a relationship between all life. Earth itself, plants trees, animals, people; are all related. So the indigenous have rituals that honour the place of everything. And sickness in this context must be seen as related to one's own person. You don't get sick by getting a virus or having an accident. There is a correlation with being and circumstance or condition and wellness is getting back in synch. So in one sense what is happening to our planet is because of where it is in its galactic cycle. But in another sense it is as it is with its wars and tsunamis and earthquakes and shaking of the its financial markets, and it’s power brokers and those who are downtrodden and those who rise up because this is a little like that moment when the kettle boils and water turns to steam. Anything is now possible and this is our moment. More on another day.

Poetry Section

I have added a poem which was written five hours and ten years ago today. I read it at the Dead Poets Cafe on Karangahape Road in Auckland the following Sunday afternoon. It is in the poetry section.

9/11

It is not easy to separate out the personal story from our own perceived reality of what the world looks like. The Anglo-Saxon part of my heritage with its concept of the stiff upper lip; a heritage of Law which relies on what a particular set of circumstances looks like to an unbiased observer; a form of government specifically constructed to separate Church (surely a metaphor of heart and spirit) from the State (a metaphor of mind). The modern concept of social face, comes from this background of careful separation the right and left brain; the separation of a public and private persona.


As a young man I was very proud of my Anglo-Saxon heritage and believed strongly in the supremacy of the rational mind and the containment of feeling. As an older man what I see in this heritage is a basis for dishonesty; disease; and the supremacy of the social group as opposed to truthful individual expression. I see in this heritage repression at every level and an inhibition of useful action.


Every culture is a particular expression of a compendium of beliefs that society not just accepts as correct but in light of which it cannot believe the world can possibly be different. Cultural beliefs are as solid as the physical world the culture inhabits. Cultural beliefs don't of course remain static, they change over time. But so does the physical world that contains the culture. We only have to look at pictures or paintings over a period of time to see how different the landscape and the people as mirrored in their dress and activities are, to see these personal and external changes.




But here, right now, at any specific point in time, belief is paramount. We are incapable of perceiving an idea or situation outside of the paradigm of our own knowing. And why would we expect anything different. And yet we all carry a belief that we are capable of observing a situation or event cleanly, free of bias. We each of us think that what we observe is true, even though we know others observe differently. We either think that the other is mistaken, or misinformed, or not as smart as we are; and we congratulate ourselves on our perspicuity.




How can I say that my Anglo-Saxon heritage results in dishonesty? We are emotional beings. An analytically inclined person is like that by reason of their emotional stance. Although we apparently act and expect others to act in a rational fashion, this is very far from the truth. Our analytic construct of the world we live in is imbued in its every part by our emotional perspective. The English belief of not expressing what is really felt, of separating and constructing a world ruled by the mind, means that much of what is expressed by us individually and in groups is a fabrication. It is not true. To distinguish between what is said safely in the sanctity of our home and not expressed in public means that nobody except those close to us ever know what we really think and even in personal relations the English in the home in the nineteenth century were quite formal, even to the point of using formal language in personal communication between members of the family. In modern parlance this translates to never expressing what we mean.


What of disease? There is a great deal of evidence these days that the repression of true feeling or the expression of modified more acceptable views is a major component of disease. That which we really feel when it is not expressed; is trapped or deposited in various parts of the body; and is the seed of illness. Unexpressed emotion is painful and isolating. The lies that we fill our communications with, and let’s be clear - to say something that you don't believe because you consider it will be more acceptable - is a lie. And all these lies add up to living a lie, living a life which is not the life that beats within.


If we are emotional beings and if our world is as much if more intangible, than tangible; why, would proof of the truth of anything, be more true because it is borne out by an examination of the physical than any other world? Why do we think that the physical is the repository of truth? Signals from the heart to the brain show that it is not the brain that drives our conduct but the heart which influences our thoughts. We are emotional beings before we are analytic beings. One thing science is quite agreed on. When a memory is laid down in the brain with a larger quotient of emotion the stronger the memory.


The other component of my Anglo-Saxon heritage that I mentioned was the primacy of the group over the individual. The Dalai Lama is purported to have said in response to a suggestion that pressure be brought to bear on China to change its stance to Tibet, by a boycott of Chinese goods, that to do so would possibly bring suffering to Chinese labourers. And that to consider an action in relation to one unique event that might hurt - one being - is not to be countenanced. I am using this story a little out of context to express an idea. Each one of us is unique and special. Each of us deserve to be allowed the uttermost opportunity to realize our potential. We have reached a point in our thinking where we neglect or interfere with the freedom of the individual for the greater good. Smoking for instance is not condoned because we use the argument that it potentially harms and is a cost to the larger group. Drinking could be similarly considered and yet most western societies laud the drinking culture. I'm not sure why I pick on these two. They both have slightly negative connotations and are not that important in the scheme of things. I suspect that the most difficult area of individual freedom is that arrangement of society which allows a few individuals to control the basic components of life as we know it to the detriment of most. Wealth and land has moved into a few hands and these hands have a ball, while most people find it hard to make any sort of living. Slavery per se has been abolished and yet most people today are economic slaves to a few. The irony is that the mass of people allow this by accepting the rules which govern these economic phenomena. If might is right then the few only hold their position of superiority by selling to the mass of people the belief that what they do is not only okay, it might be said to be the natural order.


Today in many countries in the Arab world, and throughout Africa a change is taking place. The young are saying, it is not right that the mass of us starve whilst you - the few - hold all the wealth and power. And so in Libya, Egypt and Syria amongst others the young people are throwing off the shackles of power. And the truth is that unless there are changes in the west the same will happen here. Just because our world has the trappings of what we westerners see as civilized! cultured! -doesn't make repression any the less real.


Why have I headed this blog 9/11. Because from September 11 2001, with the bombing of the twin towers, a huge movement has taken place in the human spirit. Within each one of us there has been a turning, a recognition that some things are not to be countenanced. This movement within has resulted in the so called - war on terror - but that is just one side, one part of a more fundamental shift. Countries that were just names on maps have invaded our living rooms. There is a sharp awareness of the difference between 'Good' and 'Evil'. There has begun an examination of institution, of ways of doing things that embody unfairness, of unnecessary privilege. There has been an acknowledgement that just because something is, doesn't make it right. From the bombing of the twin towers all the world action that followed is imbued with our spiritual response to it. And the world will never be the same.


There is a sense that the inclement weather, the bowing of cities and nations to hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes is all part and parcel of the changes that are coming upon us. Global warming is a buzz word but my sense is that what is taking place in the world is much bigger than this. I would like to share part of my book that inspired this blog to give a sense of what I mean. It is as follows:



 

WINDOWS IN THE SKY

“There is an answer to every question you have within you. The question is the beginning of the answer. Knowingness and action is the result.”
Conversation with Raman Pascha 2001

We have a discombobulated way of looking at the world.  It arises from our belief of separation and isolation. And it creates a planetary consciousness that mirrors this belief. We experience this in many different ways. We feel separate from each other. In cities of millions we feel isolated from each other. We also feel isolated from ourselves. A happy person, someone completely accepting of themselves with no lack of self esteem, doesn’t require others to bolster their sense of self. A happy person doesn’t feel alone when they are by themselves, because their sense of self is fulfilling. An unhappy person is alone in a crowded room.

Apart from personal isolation, we are isolated as a planetary consciousness. C S Lewis depicted this in his first book in a scientific trilogy he wrote, called, ‘Out of the Silent Planet’. The reason it was silent, was that it was artificially closed to all the other inhabitants of the galaxy by the presence of the ‘earthlings’ low level of consciousness. The rest of the galaxy cared for them but were unable to be seen until a sufficient level of consciousness was achieved. This is the promise of 2012.

In the introduction to her channelling of a Pleiadian called P’taah, ‘An Act of Faith’ Jani King quotes him, speaking of the time following the first decade of this millennium: “The words you have will not describe the ecstatic explosion of consciousness, nor can you imagine how you will be in that time, when every atom and molecule upon this planet, and the whole planet herself, will radiate with divine light. Such exquisite beauty is beyond imaginings. And when the transition has taken place there will be beings flocking to your planet to sing the wildest hosannas, in joy, in jubilation, in thanks, in blessings. And those beings will be the unseen ones, they will be the beings from other worlds who do not appear as you do, and yet you will be able to perceive the divinity in all things. It will not matter the shape and the size, you will perceive the Godhood in all. It will be the most magical”.

‘Windows in the Sky, Buddha is that you’, is my personal tsunami. It is a voice calling me through one of those windows; awakening me to vigilance; and a reminder that we are not alone. I know also, the sound and feel of the voice of my ‘Authentic Self’ and that is another ‘window’. My ‘father’ occupies a window as does my ‘mother’, my ‘sister’ and of course so many, many others including Mona Lisa. The poem, ‘Windows in the Sky’; is not written tongue in cheek. I know that this is the reality. Mind is not limited to this earthly frame. To bring to mind, one of those many not physically present on earth right now, or even those present, and a point of attention flies to wherever it needs to make that connection. We all know when we stop and reflect that even when talking to someone in the same room as us; it is not just our voices that bridge the gap. Our attention directly connects us one to another, the seen and the unseen. ‘Call my name. I will come and be with you, and allow you to know I am present, and, where I can, inspire you to the answers and understanding that you need’. Those were Raman’s words to me when I spoke to him back in 2001.

In that same year we saw the planetary event now known as 9/11. It became a defining event - a line in the sand. At that point the western world stood up individually and in concert and metaphorically said – Enough! We are not prepared to be bullied out of our convictions any further. And a new consciousness grew from that point. One that recognizes injustice in whatever forms it appears; whether it is external to us or internal. Enough is enough!

The other day I had a deep moment of, ‘aha’. It pierced right through to my core, and for a long time afterward, I just sat, mesmerised by that ‘knowing’. I was reading the beginning of Lee Carroll’s co-created Kryon book; and he wrote; speaking about a twenty-six thousand year cycle of the earth within the Milky Way, said to be depicted on the infamous Mayan calendar that ends on 2012:

He was putting together two sets of thoughts. One was, that the Mayans, who put the calendar together; along with many other of the indigenous people, the Aztecs, Chinese, Egyptians, Druids,, Aborigines, Maori to name a few, knew enough about the earth that we live on and the galaxy in which it exists; to know that the earth moves around the sun, that it is a sphere, they knew the movement of planetary bodies in relation to us… They had to know to be able to create artefacts of the nature of the Mayan calendar. And yet our ‘vastly superior civilization’ historically imprisoned a reputable scientist for suggesting that the earth was round and moved around the sun, and at the same time sailors were taking their courage in their hands to discover new lands all the time believing that the earth was flat.

The 26,000 year earth cycle hidden in the Mayan calendar is said to bring earth changes; that result in stresses on the earth; that bring about a regular occurrence of major disturbances at the end of each cycle. I read the description and was bemused. It puts our history into a very parochial perspective. It makes sense of Gregg Braden, speaking at the ‘Celebration of Life’ event in Phoenix last year (2010) where he recounted speaking to a woman in Tibet; who told him that her grandmother had told her; that when she stood at a particular spot and reaching out could no longer touch the face of a particular glacier, that it was time to move for the earth changes that were to come. She told him this at the face of the glacier. It gives a new perspective.

Our consciousness is insular but it is what we know. There is much talk nowadays of changing belief systems; that we don’t have to live with the beliefs we have; and that our experience of life at any point in time is completely coloured by our beliefs. Shaking with flu symptoms, now hot, now cold; sniffly; sore throat; headachy; ask; – what belief created these feelings? How do I change it? It is not easy. So how do we expect each other to change the viewpoints of a lifetime? It is not easy. Logic may help. Reading the thoughts précised above from ‘Kryon’s - The Twelve Layers of the DNA’ innate logic rushed in, in as I said, with a huge ‘aha’.

Quite a lot is being said. I will encapsulate it by spelling out clearly, my understanding. We are more than we appear to be. Because of the particular beliefs we as a western world have chosen to believe, we are an isolated group consciousness on earth, an isolated group consciousness in the galaxy, and we have a very narrow vision of what life on earth is all about. We as a western group consciousness; are separated from what was well known by our forebears but is not known to us. It is known also by many indigenous peoples, and because we consider ourselves as the civilized, knowledgeable ones, we discount any information that comes our way from the indigenous, because ‘they’, don’t know what we know. They are less civilized and misinformed. Even, we used to think like that, but now we know better. And what is this particular knowing?

It is, that human life on earth, is much older than ‘our’, science, tells us. It goes back a very long way and much of the knowledge that the indigenous have retained is forgotten by us. Life on earth appears to have been broken at many points by cyclic events that are well known by the ancients but not by us. The breaks are sometimes of such a nature as to completely interrupt history and give those who survive the cyclic catastrophes a false sense of history. We are entering into the latest of many such interruptions in life on earth and this one promises to herald a revolution in consciousness that has never been experienced before or at least not for a very long time. There have been civilizations that are the subject of myth, such as Lemuria in the Pacific area and Atlantis in the Atlantic, which once were home to great civilizations now gone. There is ample evidence that this is so in ancient writings, and physical evidence of divers, and memories even within our own recorded history. We come and go, lifetime after lifetime. For dying read; – (returning to our Eternal Home); being reborn; moving down the ages… Our DNA, the record of our past amongst other things, being carried with us through countless lives and countless historical periods... We are our ancestors, a huge cast of actors and we play many parts. And tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes such as those just experienced in Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan; fights for liberation throughout the Arab world; are all a part of the shrugging off of the old and stepping into the new; new energies, a new consciousness. This is the promise. Not Armageddon but a New Earth.

Right now there are two energies present on Planet Earth. There is an old energy that requires much thinking and planning and red tape, and measuring and proofs; that is like walking through quicksand. It adds up the cost of disaster while compassion deals with it. Then there is a new energy which makes use of the light and magic of the quantum nature of things. It is the energy of the young that right now is standing in front of the established world throughout the Arab countries and saying – we will not lie down anymore. Your tyrannical rule is greedy and self-serving and we want you to stop even at the cost of our lives.

There will be no peace on earth until the old guard step aside and stop thinking success in life is adding up the real estate they own. Whilst there are those who think to profit from others there will be no peace, until there is justice and compassion for all. Whilst the peoples of South America, and Africa, and Asia, of Polynesia, Melanesia – anywhere that doesn’t share the prosperity of the west remains in need there will be no peace. Recovery requires everybody to share because there is no reason why many lack while others hold the purse strings.

And all this happens under the compassionate gaze of those who have gone before; all those great souls that come so easily to all of our lips, as well as others; each one of us; soul guiding ourselves; many – ‘Windows in the Sky’. And we scurry about down here thinking ourselves invisible. We carry so much guilt about stuff the wise don’t even blink at. And we have the ability – here now – through our intuitive faculties to ask and answer the right questions – leading us to the right answers. My mind is not separate from your mind. My heart is in constant interface with and communion with your heart. Thought, feeling, sensation is not primarily physical. They are inter-dimensional. That is all.

Astar - the poem

Written in 2001. I promised I would put this on the site. You will now find it under a new page titled 'Poetry'.

A reply to comment from reader

You ask if we are from the stars, did our ape fathers travel in time machines from the stars, or don't I believe in evolution. I guess a bit of both. With the knowledge we are gaining in the sciences in the last few decades, the ground is begining to shift, and although evolution is pretty well a last bastion of 'hands off', the 'how' of evolution is not as clear as we once believed.


Evolution as a process certainly happens, and you could say if you wished, that it is survival of the fittest I suppose, although that is a very clumsy way of putting it. As a schoolboy I always imagined the fittest to be the stronger, more vigourous. But our world is sort of more unified, and it does not seem that an identity evolves for whatever reason, so much as the inner workings of nature evolves on behalf of the particular species that we may be talking about. Under threat species change, under changing conditions species change. But worlds can of course come into being that have no place for certain creatues, witness the shrinking environment for wild animals in Africa for example.

But that we are the people we are, because we evolved from something rudimentary to something not so rudimentary??? I think not. If there is a creative principle in the universe call it God or whatever you like, do you really think it needs to throw an amoeba like entity into a void and wait for millions of years for what (s)he really meant to make??? I believe that a human being is a part of an intelligent whole. Someone once said that to believe in evolution as Darwin proposed it is like imagining a hurricane blowinging through a scrap-yard and ending up with a world. It is a simplistic answer.

Quantum theory opens a whole new way of looking at life, but I am not about to post about that here now as that is a whole other post. I believe that we are pretty well eternal entities that come and go, dropping a body here and picking up another. That is one thing and there is a lot of posting in that statement. Conversely the concept of starseeding is not one to be necessarilly understood as a linear activity that takes place in our own space and time. If we drop a body and then pick up another we do by inference exist elsewhere. Where? We can't see this and yet on a dreamy night looking out under the stars, very still is the quality that we may experience related to otherness? This is not a complete answer. Just a direction of thought.

Astar

This Astar Cafe site is being created for two purposes. Having written a book called, 'Windows in the Sky, Buddha is that you' and having difficulty publishing it I now intend self publishing.  This will be done over the next few weeks. It looks at the differing ways we perceive reality. 'Astar', is a poem in the book which refers to the proposition that all those science fiction books about starseeds may not be so wrong and that maybe just maybe differences between humans which we see as cultural, racial or genetic are in fact more related to our having differing starseed origins. I will post the poem tomorrow as I don't have it with me at the moment. So I am going to use this site to promote the book.

More importantly I intend to use this site as a way of creating a dialogue of what our world really looks like and hope that anyone who is interested is as interactive as they wish in responding to the ideas presented in this blog. Happy blogging.