The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/04/the-pentagons-carbon-boot-print/
With both France and the UK now “at war” with ISIS in Syria and
joining the U.S.-led bombing mission, it’s not likely that there are
many voices at the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris who would
dare to discuss what a few critics have called “the elephant in the
room” – the fact that the military is not just the world’s biggest
institutional consumer of petroleum products, but the greatest source of
global warming and climate change.
In fact, even if the delegates wanted to formally discuss that issue,
they are prevented from doing so “by demand” of the U.S. government –
at least in any official capacity at conferences such as Paris COP21.
In a remarkable piece originally published by the International
Action Center, Sara Flounders wrote in 2014: “There is an elephant in
the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even seen.
This agreement to ignore the elephant is now the accepted basis of all
international negotiations on climate change. It is well understood by
every possible measurement that the Pentagon, the U.S. military machine,
is the world’s biggest institutional consumer of petroleum products and
the world’s worst polluter of greenhouse gas emissions and many other
toxic pollutants. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all
international climate agreements. Ever since the Kyoto Accords or Kyoto
Protocol negotiations in 1998, in an effort to gain U.S. compliance, all
U.S. military operations worldwide and within the U.S. are exempt from
measurement or agreements on reduction [my emphasis].” This astonishing revelation was recently expanded upon by Gar Smith (editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal),
who wrote that “despite being the planet’s single greatest
institutional consumer of fossil fuels, the Pentagon has been granted a
unique exemption from reducing – or even reporting – its pollution. The
U.S. won this prize during the 1998 Kyoto Protocol negotiations (COP4)
after the Pentagon insisted on a ‘national security provision’ that
would place its operations beyond global scrutiny or control.”
So not only is the Pentagon exempt from any climate agreements, it is
also exempt from having to reduce its own greenhouse gas emission
levels and exempt even from reporting those levels. Smith adds: “Also
exempted from pollution regulation: all Pentagon weapons testing,
military exercises, NATO operations, and ‘peacekeeping’ missions.”
Nonetheless, despite those generous exemptions, “the U.S. Senate
refused to ratify the Kyoto Accord, the House amended the Pentagon
budget to ban any ‘restriction of armed forces under the Kyoto
Protocol,’ and George W. Bush rejected the entire climate treaty because
‘it would cause serious harm to the U.S. economy’ (by which he clearly
meant the U.S. oil and gas industries)."
On Sunday a Man Appeared on Our Televisions. This is What He Said.
http://disinfo.com/2015/12/sunday-man-appeared-televisions-said/
mercredi 9 décembre 2015
Hair and dresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudFlare (more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Honey_Pot )
Controversies
CloudFlare was ranked in the 7th rank among the top 50 Bad Hosts by Host Exploit. The service has been used by Rescator, a website that sells payment card data;
Two of ISIS' top three online chat forums are guarded by CloudFlare but U.S. law enforcement has not asked them to discontinue the service.
An October 2015 report found that CloudFlare provisioned 40% of SSL certificates used by phishing sites.
On November 19th, 2015, Anonymous discouraged the use of CloudFlare's services, following the ISIS attacks in Paris and renewed accusation of providing help to terrorists.
http://allthingsd.com/20131217/Cloudflare-reveals-50-million-secret-funding-from-one-year-ago/
http://allthingsd.com/20131230/the-nsa-and-silicon-valley/?mod=ATD_featured_posts_widget
Bowie, seller of transhumanisme and aliens? It doesn't matter what's believed as long as it is belief ?? Or “the side-effect of cocaine” ??
And a line to the lama,
https://books.google.fr/books?id=gq9Vp45cGx4C&pg=PT492&lpg=PT492&dq=bowie+and++dalai+lama&source=bl&ots=Ek4snh0OWY&sig=lgBnAgc-WCVLPzEW7U3irtnhgro&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB6Mi-j6HJAhXEORoKHRpTDIcQ6AEIRTAH#v=onepage&q=bowie%20and%20%20dalai%20lama&f=false]
http://www.marianne.net/air-cocaine-confession-qui-change-donne-100238044.html?google_editors_picks=true
samedi 20 juin 2015
samedi 23 mai 2015
savings - part 1
saved from destruction, but not checked the links
(from the making of history to the making of future ?)
engeland viert vandaag de 100e verjaardag van Alan Turing ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
http://newagemess.blogspot.fr/2011/08/yoga-was-introduced-to-west-by.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ancientlandmarks/PlatoAndAristotle.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ScienceAndTheSecretDoctrine/SeriesNumber99-of-103.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/appliedtheosophy.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/vague.html
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/hilton/underworld.htm
http://www.blavatsky.net/magazine/theosophy/ww/additional/WordPuzzles-Series/Part26of29.html
http://www.blavatsky.net/magazine/theosophy/ww/additional/christianity/JesuitryAndMasonry5of6.html
http://vlaamseprimitieven.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/nl/biografie/jan-van-eyck
http://www.terugnaardebron.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t2617.html
When Clive Prince contacted me in May 1995 to contribute certain material for the then not yet published “The Templar Revelation” – which since has gone on to inspire the likes of Dan Brown – I also became introduced to the idea of the existence of an “underground heretical stream” that ran throughout Western society. This “resistance movement” was attacking the Christian religion, though not openly. Clive and his co-author Lynn Picknett had begun to pay particular reference to the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci. Some months later, my attention was drawn to a painting by Jan Van Eyck, “The Adoration of the Lamb”. In 1993, I had helped in the production and publication of a pivotal book on the theft of one panel of this painting, “The Just Judges”, which is one of the great unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Soon, evidence began to collate that drew us to the conclusion that if Leonardo da Vinci had been exposed to a secret doctrine about an alternative point of view on Christianity, Van Eyck seemed to be too – if not more so.
Art historians have designated this 14th century Flemish painter as the founder of the “Flemish Primitives”, which was a new style of art that would revolutionise painting ever after. What singled out Van Eyck and Da Vinci was that both were using oil paints in a manner unlike anyone else at that moment in time. Decades ago, art historians had speculated that both men were somehow aware of or communicating with each other, and exchanges details about their oil paints. Indeed, Van Eyck would, for a long time, be seen as the inventor of the oil painting technique, though it is now known that he was “merely” the first who brought its techniques to unrivalled heights. His innovative mastery of painting with oil rather than water would find its way to Italy, where it entered the Verrocchio study in Florence, where the likes of Leonardo learned to master it. This trail from Flanders to Florence is an intriguing connection, in which there was an exchange of techniques – trade secrets – passed on between colleagues, but not between Leonardo and Van Eyck, but, it seems, between Verrocchio’s studio and Van Eyck. But were it merely trade secrets that were passed on, or also other knowledge – maybe even heretical, dangerous knowledge?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/the-politics-of-pubic-hair-why-is-a-generation-choosing-to-go-bare-down-there-8539673.html
(from the making of history to the making of future ?)
Van het boekje ’ Het verschijnsel mens’ intrigeerde de achterflap
waarop vermeld stond dat de schrijver een jesuiet was en in China
(Peking) werkzaam was (geweest), nu had ik toevallig in een ander boekje
gelezen dat de paleontologie in Peking door de Rockefeller foundation
gefinancierd werd , dus de moeite waard om eens goed op te letten.
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=33&catid=2
http://www.unesco.org/ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest-theologian and a distinguished geologist-paleontologist, who was born in France in 1881 and died in New York City in 1955. Following teaching posts in Paris and Cairo, he was assigned to China for many years. In China, Teilhard became imbued with a vision of working to build the future.
http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/plenum/plenum_2.html
Teilhard opines that the destiny of man is to culminate into a consciousness of the species.
This consciousness of mankind will ultimately become the “thinking layer of the earth,” which Teilhard calls the *noosphere.*
Cosmic evolution will not cease with the noosphere. Teilhard does not consider the human species to be the epitome of the universe; rather, he believes that Nature provides us with yet another evolutionary opening…that of a “super-soul above our souls.” The whole “gigantic psycho-biological operation” of cosmic evolution points toward a “mega-synthesis” of all the thinking elements of the earth forcing an entree into the realm of the super-human.
Teilhard refers to the super-human as the Omega Point. It is, for him, the apex of cosmic evolution. Teilhard, scientifically speaking, can only imagine what the reality of Omega might be like…a *pure conscious energy.* Teilhard proclaims this cosmic energy almost in the mode of poetry. “In the discovery of the sidereal world, so vast that it seems to do away with all proportion between our own being and the dimensions of the cosmos around us, only one reality seems to survive and be capable of succeeding and spanning the infinitesimal and the immense: energy… that floating, universal entity from which all emerges and into which all falls back as into an ocean; energy…the new spirit; energy…the new god.
Het oude boekje blijkt toch nog in de belangstelling te staan
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin: Father Of The New Age Movement
http://revolutionharry.blogspot.fr/2010/11/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-father-of.html
The aim of the article below is to, hopefully, highlight just a few of the connections between the Vatican, the New Age movement, the United Nations and the wider New World Order agenda by taking a look at palaeontologist and French Jesuit, Catholic, priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
In the influential and very successful book “The Aquarian Conspiracy”, by Marilyn Ferguson, a survey of new agers showed that the leading influence on their spiritual ‘awakening’ was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The book itself was described as a “handbook for the new age” that “sought a paradigm shift in global consciousness”.
Gary Kah, in his book ‘En Route to Global Occupation’ (p. 41), said of Chardin:
“[He] is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists.”
A claim further supported by Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, in their book ‘The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days’ (p. 80) when they said:
“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realising his own godhood at the Omega point. This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”
From the above quotes it’s easy to see how Chardin became known as the ‘Father of the New Age’. We also catch an early glimpse of a spiritual belief system that is almost identical to the ‘one consciousness’ or ‘we are all one’ beliefs of David Icke and others in the ‘truth’ and ‘new age’ movements. A point emphasised by Chardin himself when he said:
“I can be saved only by becoming one with the universe.”
Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was among the first to give serious consideration to the future of human evolution. His work advocates both biotechnologies (e.g., genetic engineering) and intelligence technologies. He discusses the emergence of a global computation-communication system (and is said by some to have been the first to have envisioned the Internet). He advocates the development of a global society. Teilhard is almost surely the first to discuss the acceleration of technological progress to a Singularity in which human intelligence will become super-intelligence. He discusses the spread of human intelligence into the universe and its amplification into a cosmic intelligence. More recently, his work has been taken up by Barrow and Tipler; Tipler; Moravec; and Kurzweil. Of course, Teilhard’s Omega Point Theory is deeply Christian, which may be difficult for secular transhumanists. But transhumanism cannot avoid a fateful engagement with Christianity. Christian institutions may support or oppose transhumanism. Since Christianity is an extremely powerful cultural force in the West, it is imperative for transhumanism to engage it carefully. A serious study of Teilhard can help that engagement and will thus be rewarding to both communities.
http://jetpress.org/v20/steinhart.htm
The Inhumanity of Teilhard de Chardin
http://realphysics.blogspot.fr/2011/09/inhumanity-of-teilhard-de-chardin.html
At this point, it must be admitted that one of the most serious criticisms of Teilhard bears precisely on this point: an optimism which tends to look at existential evil and suffering through the small end of the telescope. It is unfortunately true that Teilhard, like many other Christians, regarded the dead and wounded of Hiroshima with a certain equanimity as inevitable by-products of scientific and evolutionary progress. He was much more impressed with the magnificent scientific achievement of the atomic physicists than he was with the consequences of dropping the bomb. It must be added immediately that the physicists themselves did not all see things exactly as he did. The concern of a Niels Bohr and his dogged struggle to prevent the atomic arms race put Bohr with Rieux and Tarrou in the category of “Sisyphean” heroes that are entirely congenial to Camus. After the Bikini test, Teilhard exclaimed that the new bombs “show a humanity which is at peace both internally [217] and externally.” And he added beatifically, “they announce the coming of the spirit on earth.” (L’Avenir de l’homme)
Both Camus and Teilhard firmly took their stand on what they considered to be the side of life. Both saw humanity confronted with a final choice, a “grand option,” between the “spirit of force” and the “spirit of love,” between “division” and “convergence.” Man’s destiny is in his own hands, and everything depends on whether he chooses life and creativity or death and destruction. Teilhard’s scientific mystique and long-range view, extending over millennia, naturally did not delay overlong to worry about the death of a few thousands here and there. Camus could still pause and have scruples over the murder of an innocent child. He refused to justify that death in the name of God. He also refused to justify it by an appeal to history, to evolution, to science, to politics, or to the glorious future of the new man.
In short, Teilhard de Chardin’s devotion to the powerful generalities of modernity blinded him to the plight of particular men living in the world.
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=33&catid=2
http://www.unesco.org/ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest-theologian and a distinguished geologist-paleontologist, who was born in France in 1881 and died in New York City in 1955. Following teaching posts in Paris and Cairo, he was assigned to China for many years. In China, Teilhard became imbued with a vision of working to build the future.
http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/plenum/plenum_2.html
Teilhard opines that the destiny of man is to culminate into a consciousness of the species.
This consciousness of mankind will ultimately become the “thinking layer of the earth,” which Teilhard calls the *noosphere.*
Cosmic evolution will not cease with the noosphere. Teilhard does not consider the human species to be the epitome of the universe; rather, he believes that Nature provides us with yet another evolutionary opening…that of a “super-soul above our souls.” The whole “gigantic psycho-biological operation” of cosmic evolution points toward a “mega-synthesis” of all the thinking elements of the earth forcing an entree into the realm of the super-human.
Teilhard refers to the super-human as the Omega Point. It is, for him, the apex of cosmic evolution. Teilhard, scientifically speaking, can only imagine what the reality of Omega might be like…a *pure conscious energy.* Teilhard proclaims this cosmic energy almost in the mode of poetry. “In the discovery of the sidereal world, so vast that it seems to do away with all proportion between our own being and the dimensions of the cosmos around us, only one reality seems to survive and be capable of succeeding and spanning the infinitesimal and the immense: energy… that floating, universal entity from which all emerges and into which all falls back as into an ocean; energy…the new spirit; energy…the new god.
Het oude boekje blijkt toch nog in de belangstelling te staan
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin: Father Of The New Age Movement
http://revolutionharry.blogspot.fr/2010/11/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-father-of.html
The aim of the article below is to, hopefully, highlight just a few of the connections between the Vatican, the New Age movement, the United Nations and the wider New World Order agenda by taking a look at palaeontologist and French Jesuit, Catholic, priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
In the influential and very successful book “The Aquarian Conspiracy”, by Marilyn Ferguson, a survey of new agers showed that the leading influence on their spiritual ‘awakening’ was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The book itself was described as a “handbook for the new age” that “sought a paradigm shift in global consciousness”.
Gary Kah, in his book ‘En Route to Global Occupation’ (p. 41), said of Chardin:
“[He] is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists.”
A claim further supported by Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, in their book ‘The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days’ (p. 80) when they said:
“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realising his own godhood at the Omega point. This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”
From the above quotes it’s easy to see how Chardin became known as the ‘Father of the New Age’. We also catch an early glimpse of a spiritual belief system that is almost identical to the ‘one consciousness’ or ‘we are all one’ beliefs of David Icke and others in the ‘truth’ and ‘new age’ movements. A point emphasised by Chardin himself when he said:
“I can be saved only by becoming one with the universe.”
Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was among the first to give serious consideration to the future of human evolution. His work advocates both biotechnologies (e.g., genetic engineering) and intelligence technologies. He discusses the emergence of a global computation-communication system (and is said by some to have been the first to have envisioned the Internet). He advocates the development of a global society. Teilhard is almost surely the first to discuss the acceleration of technological progress to a Singularity in which human intelligence will become super-intelligence. He discusses the spread of human intelligence into the universe and its amplification into a cosmic intelligence. More recently, his work has been taken up by Barrow and Tipler; Tipler; Moravec; and Kurzweil. Of course, Teilhard’s Omega Point Theory is deeply Christian, which may be difficult for secular transhumanists. But transhumanism cannot avoid a fateful engagement with Christianity. Christian institutions may support or oppose transhumanism. Since Christianity is an extremely powerful cultural force in the West, it is imperative for transhumanism to engage it carefully. A serious study of Teilhard can help that engagement and will thus be rewarding to both communities.
http://jetpress.org/v20/steinhart.htm
The Inhumanity of Teilhard de Chardin
http://realphysics.blogspot.fr/2011/09/inhumanity-of-teilhard-de-chardin.html
At this point, it must be admitted that one of the most serious criticisms of Teilhard bears precisely on this point: an optimism which tends to look at existential evil and suffering through the small end of the telescope. It is unfortunately true that Teilhard, like many other Christians, regarded the dead and wounded of Hiroshima with a certain equanimity as inevitable by-products of scientific and evolutionary progress. He was much more impressed with the magnificent scientific achievement of the atomic physicists than he was with the consequences of dropping the bomb. It must be added immediately that the physicists themselves did not all see things exactly as he did. The concern of a Niels Bohr and his dogged struggle to prevent the atomic arms race put Bohr with Rieux and Tarrou in the category of “Sisyphean” heroes that are entirely congenial to Camus. After the Bikini test, Teilhard exclaimed that the new bombs “show a humanity which is at peace both internally [217] and externally.” And he added beatifically, “they announce the coming of the spirit on earth.” (L’Avenir de l’homme)
Both Camus and Teilhard firmly took their stand on what they considered to be the side of life. Both saw humanity confronted with a final choice, a “grand option,” between the “spirit of force” and the “spirit of love,” between “division” and “convergence.” Man’s destiny is in his own hands, and everything depends on whether he chooses life and creativity or death and destruction. Teilhard’s scientific mystique and long-range view, extending over millennia, naturally did not delay overlong to worry about the death of a few thousands here and there. Camus could still pause and have scruples over the murder of an innocent child. He refused to justify that death in the name of God. He also refused to justify it by an appeal to history, to evolution, to science, to politics, or to the glorious future of the new man.
In short, Teilhard de Chardin’s devotion to the powerful generalities of modernity blinded him to the plight of particular men living in the world.
engeland viert vandaag de 100e verjaardag van Alan Turing ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
http://newagemess.blogspot.fr/2011/08/yoga-was-introduced-to-west-by.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ancientlandmarks/PlatoAndAristotle.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ScienceAndTheSecretDoctrine/SeriesNumber99-of-103.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/appliedtheosophy.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/vague.html
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/hilton/underworld.htm
http://www.blavatsky.net/magazine/theosophy/ww/additional/WordPuzzles-Series/Part26of29.html
http://www.blavatsky.net/magazine/theosophy/ww/additional/christianity/JesuitryAndMasonry5of6.html
Jan van Eyck
http://vlaamseprimitieven.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/nl/biografie/jan-van-eyck
http://plazilla.com/arnolfini-en-zijn-vrouw-symbolen
http://www.terugnaardebron.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t2617.html
http://www.agoract.cz/main.asp?lan=1&typ=155
http://www.philipcoppens.com/vaneyck.html
When Clive Prince contacted me in May 1995 to contribute certain material for the then not yet published “The Templar Revelation” – which since has gone on to inspire the likes of Dan Brown – I also became introduced to the idea of the existence of an “underground heretical stream” that ran throughout Western society. This “resistance movement” was attacking the Christian religion, though not openly. Clive and his co-author Lynn Picknett had begun to pay particular reference to the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci. Some months later, my attention was drawn to a painting by Jan Van Eyck, “The Adoration of the Lamb”. In 1993, I had helped in the production and publication of a pivotal book on the theft of one panel of this painting, “The Just Judges”, which is one of the great unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Soon, evidence began to collate that drew us to the conclusion that if Leonardo da Vinci had been exposed to a secret doctrine about an alternative point of view on Christianity, Van Eyck seemed to be too – if not more so.
Art historians have designated this 14th century Flemish painter as the founder of the “Flemish Primitives”, which was a new style of art that would revolutionise painting ever after. What singled out Van Eyck and Da Vinci was that both were using oil paints in a manner unlike anyone else at that moment in time. Decades ago, art historians had speculated that both men were somehow aware of or communicating with each other, and exchanges details about their oil paints. Indeed, Van Eyck would, for a long time, be seen as the inventor of the oil painting technique, though it is now known that he was “merely” the first who brought its techniques to unrivalled heights. His innovative mastery of painting with oil rather than water would find its way to Italy, where it entered the Verrocchio study in Florence, where the likes of Leonardo learned to master it. This trail from Flanders to Florence is an intriguing connection, in which there was an exchange of techniques – trade secrets – passed on between colleagues, but not between Leonardo and Van Eyck, but, it seems, between Verrocchio’s studio and Van Eyck. But were it merely trade secrets that were passed on, or also other knowledge – maybe even heretical, dangerous knowledge?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/the-politics-of-pubic-hair-why-is-a-generation-choosing-to-go-bare-down-there-8539673.html
The politics of pubic hair: why is a generation choosing to go bare down there?
Shaved genitals have somehow become the new normal for an entire generation of women. Surely it’s time we asked why. Louisa Saunders ponders the politics of pubic hair.
Last weekend, I went to see my daughter in a university production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, the successful and somewhat cultish play that brings the V-word out from the shadows. On the way in, we were offered marker pens and encouraged to write on a large sheet of paper what our vaginas would say if they could talk.
My younger daughter and I were a little too British to give this novel gimmick our full attention, but I watched what the other women in the audience wrote. “Oh, hang on while I clear the cobwebs away.” “Talk about a lean period.” But then I saw that someone among the largely student, and presumably broadly feminist, audience had written, “I need a shave.” I snatched up a pen and replied (though never having conversed with a vagina before), “No you DON’T.”
Tentatively raising the matter in conversation with younger women, I expected that some of them might share my bewilderment with this still fairly new fad. But I was met with awkward shuffling and downcast eyes, which told me that it might be better to change the subject.
Did this begin in the pornographic industry? Or has pornography merely responded to what is fast becoming the new normal? Images of female genitalia au naturel are now in a very small minority, and a large percentage of pornographic images show no hair at all. The partial or full removal of pubic hair in pornography is so widespread, Joe Slade, professor of media and culture at Ohio University, recently told The Atlantic magazine, that there is now a niche market for those who prefer to look at the fully covered version.
Our sexual lives are a complex and personal matter and it is not my intention to question the feminist integrity of any woman who chooses to go hairless. There are those who argue that it is in some way empowering and that it is something women do for their own satisfaction – wear that vagina loud and proud. The removal of pubic hair is not confined to man-pleasing Barbies, nor even to straight women. Nevertheless, the fashion for it makes me uncomfortable. Hairless female genitalia have an obvious association, and that is with pre-pubescent girls. Where there are hairless genitalia, surely the unwelcome suggestion of the childish body is never far away.
Women, more than men, prink and preen our bodies to bend to the rules of attraction – to look more youthful and even, you could argue, more childlike. Leg-shaving, lip-reddening, eyelash-darkening, hair-lightening – all these hint at the flawless childish state. But it is adult women who have sex and, surely, adult women to whom men want to make love.
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when
a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to
the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical
thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and
critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data
uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional,
rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain
activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body’s own natural
opiates—thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching
television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown
that very few people are able to kick the television habit.
http://www.mackwhite.com/tv.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head. And ?approved by consensus? is really just a delicate way of saying that the opposition was silenced.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-have-a-hive-mind
There?s nothing new about the militarization of brain science. Ten years ago, when I was writing an article on how information is encoded in the brain, Darpa was already a major funder of research on neural coding and neural prosthetics. Darpa program manager Alan Rudolph told me back then that the agency was interested in a wide range of potential applications, including ?performance enhancement? of soldiers via either implanted or external electrodes linked to electronic devices.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/05/22/why-you-should-care-about-pentagon-funding-of-obamas-brain-initiative/
So what?s changed over the past decade? Several things come to mind: First, major media have become less concerned about the militarization of brain science. A decade ago, conservative New York Times pundit William Safire worried that science might allow powerful institutions to ?hack into the wetware between our ears.? Today, few prominent journalists question Darpa?s role in the BRAIN Initative. The best critique I?ve read is by physician/blogger Peter Freed, who asserts that Pentagon funding of the BRAIN Initiative fulfills President Dwight Eisenhower?s 1961 warning about the growing power of the ?military-industrial complex.?
whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/02/brain-initiative-challenges-researchers-unlock-mysteries-human-mind
http://neuroself.com/2013/04/03/eisenhowers-ghost-and-obamas-brain-how-the-mainstream-press-missed-darpas-50-million-move/
“An extremely important message for a society whose best-intentioned members have lost themselves in a wilderness of wishful thinking.”
“This book takes a look at the dark underbelly of ‘green energy’ and attempts to shift the U.S. dialogue to a more pressing problem: consumption.”
http://www.greenillusions.org
Productivism is the belief that measurable economic productivity and
growth is the purpose of human organization (e.g., work), and that “more
production is necessarily good”. Critiques of productivism center
primarily on the limits to growth on a finite planet and extend into
discussions of human procreation, the work ethic, and even alternative
energy production
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivism
Demented Agitprop: The Myth and Madness of Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theories
The story behind the groups that believe bike lanes and smart growth are here to steal our land and send us all to the gulag
http://www.dementedagitprop.com
Historian David Aaronovitch succinctly described the origination of conspiracy theories as “created by the politically defeated and accepted by the socially defeated ,” but in the case of Agenda 21, these theories are more likely to be created by political interests that are far from defeated.
Similar to the anti-Agenda 21 and Tea Party protests of today, Wise Use has a parallel history of fomenting dissent at the behest of private industry’s interests with overblown, nonsensical, and apocalyptic language against any and all environmental regulations. It is the same international, socialist, enviro-Nazi conspiracy rhetoric and coordination tactics, and the same names that are seen today
I met Stevens at the Self Reliance Expo in Mesa, Arizona, one of the nation’s leading “readiness” trade shows, where attendees (about 5,000 over two days) shop for bulletproof vests and dehydrated peas or practice suturing an open wound on a severed pig’s foot. Stevens’ cosponsorship amounts to a sort of papal blessing for the event. “He’s the bomb, he’s the godfather,” says Tony Tangalos, the Phoenix-based host of The Prepper Patch, an AM radio show. “He’s like the Elvis Presley.”
Over the past four years, Stevens has witnessed something of a renaissance, coming out of retirement to hawk an expanded edition of Basics and a water-filtering system that’s so efficient, he tells me, it could make urine taste like bottled water. The product has netted Stevens and his partner $1.5 million in profits in just over a year. And he’s far from the only one making a living off the coming collapse of civilization. Sites like Revolutionary Realty and Survival Realty list rugged properties with amenities such as a “defensible hillside location.” There are no fewer than three prepper dating sites—Survivalist Singles (“Don’t Face the Future Alone”) boasts 4,000 members, mostly male. Both the National Geographic Channel and Glenn Beck TV have gotten into the game with their reality shows Doomsday Preppers and Independence USA. The preserved food company Shelf Reliance reported a 708 percent explosion in revenues over the past three years. Overall, the size of the market for Americans expecting major disruptions caused by hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorism, pandemics, price shocks, gas shortages, civil unrest, martial law, nuclear disasters, and/or the Rapture is estimated to be $500 million.
“If the economy falls apart, people don’t have food. People who are looking for food, they’re gonna have their guns with them. People want body armor so they can protect themselves.”
Welcome to the doom boom.
Humans have been preparing for the worst for millennia, but modern Americans have turned it into an art form. At the dawn of the Atomic Age, suburbanites scrambled to build backyard shelters and the government stockpiled food in anticipation of the day after. The spiraling inflation of the 1970s brought with it a spike in gold sales and backwoods land purchases. During the Clinton years, camo-clad survivalists prepared for the black-helicopter invasion, and Y2K briefly made prepperism mainstream. But perhaps the best salesman for the notion that we’re on the verge of financial, technological, and political collapse has been the current occupant of the Oval Office. Stevens says of the president, “He is the leading promoter of this without even knowing it.”
http://http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/preppers-survivalist-doomsday-obama
hoog gehalte NRA: The NRA’s political activity is based on the premise that firearm ownership is a civil right protected by the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The group has a nearly century long record of influencing as well as lobbying for or against proposed firearm legislation on behalf of its members. Observers and lawmakers see the NRA as one of the top three most influential lobbying groups in Washington.
The mystery man came over
And he said “I’m outta sight!”
He said for a nominal service charge
I could reach nirvana tonight
If I was ready, willing and able
To pay him his regular fee
He would drop all the rest of
His pressing affairs and devote
His attention to me
But I said “Look here brother
who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Look here brother, don’t waste your time on me”
Teilhard’s Gnosis: Cosmogenesis *
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest-theologian and a distinguished geologist-paleontologist, who was born in France in 1881 and died in New York City in 1955. Following teaching posts in Paris and Cairo, he was assigned to China for many years. In China, Teilhard became imbued with a vision of working to build the future.
By the future he meant more than the building up of the physical world; he envisaged the irreversible ascent, through man’s collective efforts materially and mentally, to reach what he called the Omega Point. For Teilhard the Omega was the cosmic apex, the Christ who was the Spirit of the Earth. He began writing out his ideas. Teilhard the scientist began to view the cosmos as a holistic entity in process. The foundation of his ideas is scientific, based on the principles of geological and biological evolution. Teilhard the theologian intermixed these evolutionary cosmic concepts with Christian creedal theology. Because of these innovative efforts he was considered subversive and so he was silenced by the Vatican throughout much of his adult life. His works, written over a period from 1924 to 1955, were only published after his death.
Teilhard refers to the super-human as the Omega Point. It is, for him, the apex of cosmic evolution. Teilhard, scientifically speaking, can only imagine what the reality of Omega might be like…a *pure conscious energy.* Teilhard proclaims this cosmic energy almost in the mode of poetry. “In the discovery of the sidereal world, so vast that it seems to do away with all proportion between our own being and the dimensions of the cosmos around us, only one reality seems to survive and be capable of succeeding and spanning the infinitesimal and the immense: energy… that floating, universal entity from which all emerges and into which all falls back as into an ocean; energy…the new spirit; energy…the new god.”
Gary Kah, in his book ‘En Route to Global Occupation’ (p. 41), said of Chardin:
“[He] is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists.”
“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realising his own godhood at the Omega point. This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”
From the above quotes it’s easy to see how Chardin became known as the ‘Father of the New Age’. We also catch an early glimpse of a spiritual belief system that is almost identical to the ‘one consciousness’ or ‘we are all one’ beliefs of David Icke and others in the ‘truth’ and ‘new age’ movements. A point emphasised by Chardin himself when he said:
“I can be saved only by becoming one with the universe.”
The aim of the article below is to, hopefully, highlight just a few of the connections between the Vatican, the New Age movement, the United Nations and the wider New World Order agenda by taking a look at palaeontologist and French Jesuit, Catholic, priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.**
In the influential and very successful book “The Aquarian Conspiracy”, by Marilyn Ferguson, a survey of new agers showed that the leading influence on their spiritual ‘awakening’ was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The book itself was described as a “handbook for the new age” that “sought a paradigm shift in global consciousness”.
Chardin was a keen proponent of the theory of evolution. On his Wikipedia page we learn that:
“In his posthumously published book, The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard writes of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the Omega Point in the future, which is ‘pulling’ all creation towards it.”
“It is the law of the universe that in all things there is prior existence. Before every form there is a prior, but lesser evolved form. Each one of us is evolving towards the godhead.”
Perhaps we can begin to see why the ‘oneness’ meme is so important to the New World Order agenda.
It seems we have to voluntarily agree that ‘we are all one’ in order for us to ‘evolve’. This is the exact same philosophy that is being pushed so heavily by the likes of David Icke and others in the New Age, 2012 ‘awakening’ and ‘consciousness shift’ movements. More worryingly we see from New Age leaders such as Barbara Marx Hubbard that anyone who resists this manipulative attempt to create a hive-minded conformity needs to “either change or die” because “that is the choice.” She states that dealing with those who refuse to ‘change’ would merely be “as horrible as killing a cancer cell”. She continues:
“It must be done [so] be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed…. The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
So there we have it, a keen insight into the ‘spirituality’ of the New Age. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that this drive for ‘unity’ or ‘oneness’ is a key element of the proposed Luciferian, one world religion and anyone who doesn’t go along with it is, it seems, to be eliminated. If any sort of unity naturally arose that would be fine but this false unity that the ‘elites’ are attempting to create is being done through a variety of brainwashing and mind control techniques. The subtle deception at play in the ‘oneness’ agenda is to undermine our sense of being unique, sovereign, individuals born with God given, inalienable, rights so as to more easily subsume us into the ‘Communitarian’ (a Communist/Fascist synthesis), New World Order.
The sex work debate
The language itself is highly problematic and emotive. The use of the term ‘prostitute’ is regarded as a denigrating word used for women who are forced into selling sex through poverty and exclusion, while the use of the term ‘sex worker’ is seen as dignifying an activity which reflects and compounds women?s oppression. This article does not suggest that sex work is ‘a job like any other’?however, the term sex work will be used, first because it avoids the moral condemnation often attached to the word prostitute. Second, this term is used because women who directly sell sex on the streets, in flats or in brothels are only a subset of a much larger number of women who work in the sex industry.1 The modern sex industry is a multibillion dollar industry, which generates huge profits for both transnational corporations and criminal gangs. The sex industry is difficult to define because it encompasses a huge range of diverse activities.
Then as now there was a strong relationship between the migration of women and prostitution.
Prostitution in the 19th century occurred on a much greater scale than in previous societies. It was fed by the massive social dislocation as people were driven from agriculture into the manufacturing system. The urbanisation, poverty and large scale migration which characterised 19th century capitalism produced conditions in which brothels sprang up around the globe. In his book London Labour and the London Poor, written in the 1850s, Henry Mayhew described how women in seasonal and insecure trades were frequently driven into prostitution at certain times of the year.10 Thus milliners, whose skills were only in demand during the London society “season”, became particularly associated with prostitution. Socialist anarchist Emma Goldman quoted a study called Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century to describe the conditions that fuelled the growth of prostitution:
Although prostitution has existed in all ages, it was left to the 19th century to develop it into a gigantic social institution. The development of industry with vast masses of people in the competitive market, the growth and congestion of large cities, the insecurity and uncertainty of employment, has given prostitution an impetus never dreamed of at any period in human history.
http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=618
En een reportage van de BBC onder de titel Hardcore profits, met als inhoud de investeringen die bepaalde bedrijven doen in de porno-industrie. Daarbij komt, overigens niet voor het eerst in de laatste decennia, aan het licht dat tal van religieuze investeringsmaatschappijen zich niet verheven voelen boven het porno-niveau van de bedrijven waar ze geld insteken, indachtig de revenuen die de investeerders als het ware tegemoet spuiten, waarbij tal van binnen de industrie in kwestie werkzamen het geld liggend kunnen verdienen.(http://tempelreportages.blogspot.fr/2009/09/streng-gelovige-beleggers-investeren-in.html)
Shaved genitals have somehow become the new normal for an entire generation of women. Surely it’s time we asked why. Louisa Saunders ponders the politics of pubic hair.
Last weekend, I went to see my daughter in a university production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, the successful and somewhat cultish play that brings the V-word out from the shadows. On the way in, we were offered marker pens and encouraged to write on a large sheet of paper what our vaginas would say if they could talk.
My younger daughter and I were a little too British to give this novel gimmick our full attention, but I watched what the other women in the audience wrote. “Oh, hang on while I clear the cobwebs away.” “Talk about a lean period.” But then I saw that someone among the largely student, and presumably broadly feminist, audience had written, “I need a shave.” I snatched up a pen and replied (though never having conversed with a vagina before), “No you DON’T.”
Tentatively raising the matter in conversation with younger women, I expected that some of them might share my bewilderment with this still fairly new fad. But I was met with awkward shuffling and downcast eyes, which told me that it might be better to change the subject.
Did this begin in the pornographic industry? Or has pornography merely responded to what is fast becoming the new normal? Images of female genitalia au naturel are now in a very small minority, and a large percentage of pornographic images show no hair at all. The partial or full removal of pubic hair in pornography is so widespread, Joe Slade, professor of media and culture at Ohio University, recently told The Atlantic magazine, that there is now a niche market for those who prefer to look at the fully covered version.
Our sexual lives are a complex and personal matter and it is not my intention to question the feminist integrity of any woman who chooses to go hairless. There are those who argue that it is in some way empowering and that it is something women do for their own satisfaction – wear that vagina loud and proud. The removal of pubic hair is not confined to man-pleasing Barbies, nor even to straight women. Nevertheless, the fashion for it makes me uncomfortable. Hairless female genitalia have an obvious association, and that is with pre-pubescent girls. Where there are hairless genitalia, surely the unwelcome suggestion of the childish body is never far away.
Women, more than men, prink and preen our bodies to bend to the rules of attraction – to look more youthful and even, you could argue, more childlike. Leg-shaving, lip-reddening, eyelash-darkening, hair-lightening – all these hint at the flawless childish state. But it is adult women who have sex and, surely, adult women to whom men want to make love.
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when
a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to
the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical
thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and
critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data
uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional,
rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain
activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body’s own natural
opiates—thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching
television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown
that very few people are able to kick the television habit.
http://www.mackwhite.com/tv.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousnesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head. And ?approved by consensus? is really just a delicate way of saying that the opposition was silenced.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-have-a-hive-mind
There?s nothing new about the militarization of brain science. Ten years ago, when I was writing an article on how information is encoded in the brain, Darpa was already a major funder of research on neural coding and neural prosthetics. Darpa program manager Alan Rudolph told me back then that the agency was interested in a wide range of potential applications, including ?performance enhancement? of soldiers via either implanted or external electrodes linked to electronic devices.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/05/22/why-you-should-care-about-pentagon-funding-of-obamas-brain-initiative/
So what?s changed over the past decade? Several things come to mind: First, major media have become less concerned about the militarization of brain science. A decade ago, conservative New York Times pundit William Safire worried that science might allow powerful institutions to ?hack into the wetware between our ears.? Today, few prominent journalists question Darpa?s role in the BRAIN Initative. The best critique I?ve read is by physician/blogger Peter Freed, who asserts that Pentagon funding of the BRAIN Initiative fulfills President Dwight Eisenhower?s 1961 warning about the growing power of the ?military-industrial complex.?
whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/02/brain-initiative-challenges-researchers-unlock-mysteries-human-mind
http://neuroself.com/2013/04/03/eisenhowers-ghost-and-obamas-brain-how-the-mainstream-press-missed-darpas-50-million-move/
“An extremely important message for a society whose best-intentioned members have lost themselves in a wilderness of wishful thinking.”
“This book takes a look at the dark underbelly of ‘green energy’ and attempts to shift the U.S. dialogue to a more pressing problem: consumption.”
http://www.greenillusions.org
Productivism is the belief that measurable economic productivity and
growth is the purpose of human organization (e.g., work), and that “more
production is necessarily good”. Critiques of productivism center
primarily on the limits to growth on a finite planet and extend into
discussions of human procreation, the work ethic, and even alternative
energy productionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivism
Demented Agitprop: The Myth and Madness of Agenda 21 Conspiracy TheoriesThe story behind the groups that believe bike lanes and smart growth are here to steal our land and send us all to the gulag
http://www.dementedagitprop.com
Historian David Aaronovitch succinctly described the origination of conspiracy theories as “created by the politically defeated and accepted by the socially defeated ,” but in the case of Agenda 21, these theories are more likely to be created by political interests that are far from defeated.
Similar to the anti-Agenda 21 and Tea Party protests of today, Wise Use has a parallel history of fomenting dissent at the behest of private industry’s interests with overblown, nonsensical, and apocalyptic language against any and all environmental regulations. It is the same international, socialist, enviro-Nazi conspiracy rhetoric and coordination tactics, and the same names that are seen today
I met Stevens at the Self Reliance Expo in Mesa, Arizona, one of the nation’s leading “readiness” trade shows, where attendees (about 5,000 over two days) shop for bulletproof vests and dehydrated peas or practice suturing an open wound on a severed pig’s foot. Stevens’ cosponsorship amounts to a sort of papal blessing for the event. “He’s the bomb, he’s the godfather,” says Tony Tangalos, the Phoenix-based host of The Prepper Patch, an AM radio show. “He’s like the Elvis Presley.”
Over the past four years, Stevens has witnessed something of a renaissance, coming out of retirement to hawk an expanded edition of Basics and a water-filtering system that’s so efficient, he tells me, it could make urine taste like bottled water. The product has netted Stevens and his partner $1.5 million in profits in just over a year. And he’s far from the only one making a living off the coming collapse of civilization. Sites like Revolutionary Realty and Survival Realty list rugged properties with amenities such as a “defensible hillside location.” There are no fewer than three prepper dating sites—Survivalist Singles (“Don’t Face the Future Alone”) boasts 4,000 members, mostly male. Both the National Geographic Channel and Glenn Beck TV have gotten into the game with their reality shows Doomsday Preppers and Independence USA. The preserved food company Shelf Reliance reported a 708 percent explosion in revenues over the past three years. Overall, the size of the market for Americans expecting major disruptions caused by hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorism, pandemics, price shocks, gas shortages, civil unrest, martial law, nuclear disasters, and/or the Rapture is estimated to be $500 million.
“If the economy falls apart, people don’t have food. People who are looking for food, they’re gonna have their guns with them. People want body armor so they can protect themselves.”
Welcome to the doom boom.
Humans have been preparing for the worst for millennia, but modern Americans have turned it into an art form. At the dawn of the Atomic Age, suburbanites scrambled to build backyard shelters and the government stockpiled food in anticipation of the day after. The spiraling inflation of the 1970s brought with it a spike in gold sales and backwoods land purchases. During the Clinton years, camo-clad survivalists prepared for the black-helicopter invasion, and Y2K briefly made prepperism mainstream. But perhaps the best salesman for the notion that we’re on the verge of financial, technological, and political collapse has been the current occupant of the Oval Office. Stevens says of the president, “He is the leading promoter of this without even knowing it.”
http://http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/preppers-survivalist-doomsday-obama
hoog gehalte NRA: The NRA’s political activity is based on the premise that firearm ownership is a civil right protected by the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The group has a nearly century long record of influencing as well as lobbying for or against proposed firearm legislation on behalf of its members. Observers and lawmakers see the NRA as one of the top three most influential lobbying groups in Washington.
The mystery man came over
And he said “I’m outta sight!”
He said for a nominal service charge
I could reach nirvana tonight
If I was ready, willing and able
To pay him his regular fee
He would drop all the rest of
His pressing affairs and devote
His attention to me
But I said “Look here brother
who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Look here brother, don’t waste your time on me”
Teilhard’s Gnosis: Cosmogenesis *
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest-theologian and a distinguished geologist-paleontologist, who was born in France in 1881 and died in New York City in 1955. Following teaching posts in Paris and Cairo, he was assigned to China for many years. In China, Teilhard became imbued with a vision of working to build the future.
By the future he meant more than the building up of the physical world; he envisaged the irreversible ascent, through man’s collective efforts materially and mentally, to reach what he called the Omega Point. For Teilhard the Omega was the cosmic apex, the Christ who was the Spirit of the Earth. He began writing out his ideas. Teilhard the scientist began to view the cosmos as a holistic entity in process. The foundation of his ideas is scientific, based on the principles of geological and biological evolution. Teilhard the theologian intermixed these evolutionary cosmic concepts with Christian creedal theology. Because of these innovative efforts he was considered subversive and so he was silenced by the Vatican throughout much of his adult life. His works, written over a period from 1924 to 1955, were only published after his death.
Teilhard refers to the super-human as the Omega Point. It is, for him, the apex of cosmic evolution. Teilhard, scientifically speaking, can only imagine what the reality of Omega might be like…a *pure conscious energy.* Teilhard proclaims this cosmic energy almost in the mode of poetry. “In the discovery of the sidereal world, so vast that it seems to do away with all proportion between our own being and the dimensions of the cosmos around us, only one reality seems to survive and be capable of succeeding and spanning the infinitesimal and the immense: energy… that floating, universal entity from which all emerges and into which all falls back as into an ocean; energy…the new spirit; energy…the new god.”
Gary Kah, in his book ‘En Route to Global Occupation’ (p. 41), said of Chardin:
“[He] is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists.”
“Teilhard dreamed of humanity merging into ‘God’ and each realising his own godhood at the Omega point. This belief has inspired many of today’s New Age leaders.”
From the above quotes it’s easy to see how Chardin became known as the ‘Father of the New Age’. We also catch an early glimpse of a spiritual belief system that is almost identical to the ‘one consciousness’ or ‘we are all one’ beliefs of David Icke and others in the ‘truth’ and ‘new age’ movements. A point emphasised by Chardin himself when he said:
“I can be saved only by becoming one with the universe.”
The aim of the article below is to, hopefully, highlight just a few of the connections between the Vatican, the New Age movement, the United Nations and the wider New World Order agenda by taking a look at palaeontologist and French Jesuit, Catholic, priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.**
In the influential and very successful book “The Aquarian Conspiracy”, by Marilyn Ferguson, a survey of new agers showed that the leading influence on their spiritual ‘awakening’ was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The book itself was described as a “handbook for the new age” that “sought a paradigm shift in global consciousness”.
Chardin was a keen proponent of the theory of evolution. On his Wikipedia page we learn that:
“In his posthumously published book, The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard writes of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the Omega Point in the future, which is ‘pulling’ all creation towards it.”
“It is the law of the universe that in all things there is prior existence. Before every form there is a prior, but lesser evolved form. Each one of us is evolving towards the godhead.”
Perhaps we can begin to see why the ‘oneness’ meme is so important to the New World Order agenda.
It seems we have to voluntarily agree that ‘we are all one’ in order for us to ‘evolve’. This is the exact same philosophy that is being pushed so heavily by the likes of David Icke and others in the New Age, 2012 ‘awakening’ and ‘consciousness shift’ movements. More worryingly we see from New Age leaders such as Barbara Marx Hubbard that anyone who resists this manipulative attempt to create a hive-minded conformity needs to “either change or die” because “that is the choice.” She states that dealing with those who refuse to ‘change’ would merely be “as horrible as killing a cancer cell”. She continues:
“It must be done [so] be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed…. The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
So there we have it, a keen insight into the ‘spirituality’ of the New Age. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that this drive for ‘unity’ or ‘oneness’ is a key element of the proposed Luciferian, one world religion and anyone who doesn’t go along with it is, it seems, to be eliminated. If any sort of unity naturally arose that would be fine but this false unity that the ‘elites’ are attempting to create is being done through a variety of brainwashing and mind control techniques. The subtle deception at play in the ‘oneness’ agenda is to undermine our sense of being unique, sovereign, individuals born with God given, inalienable, rights so as to more easily subsume us into the ‘Communitarian’ (a Communist/Fascist synthesis), New World Order.
The sex work debate
The language itself is highly problematic and emotive. The use of the term ‘prostitute’ is regarded as a denigrating word used for women who are forced into selling sex through poverty and exclusion, while the use of the term ‘sex worker’ is seen as dignifying an activity which reflects and compounds women?s oppression. This article does not suggest that sex work is ‘a job like any other’?however, the term sex work will be used, first because it avoids the moral condemnation often attached to the word prostitute. Second, this term is used because women who directly sell sex on the streets, in flats or in brothels are only a subset of a much larger number of women who work in the sex industry.1 The modern sex industry is a multibillion dollar industry, which generates huge profits for both transnational corporations and criminal gangs. The sex industry is difficult to define because it encompasses a huge range of diverse activities.
Then as now there was a strong relationship between the migration of women and prostitution.
Prostitution in the 19th century occurred on a much greater scale than in previous societies. It was fed by the massive social dislocation as people were driven from agriculture into the manufacturing system. The urbanisation, poverty and large scale migration which characterised 19th century capitalism produced conditions in which brothels sprang up around the globe. In his book London Labour and the London Poor, written in the 1850s, Henry Mayhew described how women in seasonal and insecure trades were frequently driven into prostitution at certain times of the year.10 Thus milliners, whose skills were only in demand during the London society “season”, became particularly associated with prostitution. Socialist anarchist Emma Goldman quoted a study called Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century to describe the conditions that fuelled the growth of prostitution:
Although prostitution has existed in all ages, it was left to the 19th century to develop it into a gigantic social institution. The development of industry with vast masses of people in the competitive market, the growth and congestion of large cities, the insecurity and uncertainty of employment, has given prostitution an impetus never dreamed of at any period in human history.
http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=618
En een reportage van de BBC onder de titel Hardcore profits, met als inhoud de investeringen die bepaalde bedrijven doen in de porno-industrie. Daarbij komt, overigens niet voor het eerst in de laatste decennia, aan het licht dat tal van religieuze investeringsmaatschappijen zich niet verheven voelen boven het porno-niveau van de bedrijven waar ze geld insteken, indachtig de revenuen die de investeerders als het ware tegemoet spuiten, waarbij tal van binnen de industrie in kwestie werkzamen het geld liggend kunnen verdienen.(http://tempelreportages.blogspot.fr/2009/09/streng-gelovige-beleggers-investeren-in.html)
Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Conducting his own extensive research, Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950s and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the cold war, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960s and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the “porno chic” moment of the early 1970s, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which now shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency.
http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14886-3/
Afval ;de nucleaire nachtmerrie tot in Siberie.
Een deel van het europese nucleaire afval gaat hiernaartoe
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107304020307998631025.000475d883b93c8b56887
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2006/1155403848.98
http://www.greenpeace.fr/stop-plutonium/stockage_russie.php3 (engelse bladzijde werkt niet?)
http://www.economist.com/node/285498
Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Conducting his own extensive research, Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950s and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the cold war, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960s and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the “porno chic” moment of the early 1970s, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which now shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency.
http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14886-3/
Afval ;de nucleaire nachtmerrie tot in Siberie.
Een deel van het europese nucleaire afval gaat hiernaartoe
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107304020307998631025.000475d883b93c8b56887
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2006/1155403848.98
http://www.greenpeace.fr/stop-plutonium/stockage_russie.php3 (engelse bladzijde werkt niet?)
http://www.economist.com/node/285498
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
Slivjak, Vladimir: ” Das Neue ist das Alte, schon lange Vergessene - der Skandal um die Ausfuhr von französischen und deutschen radioaktiven Abfällen nach Russland” in Russlandanalysen Nr. 190 (PDF; 715 kB)
Slivjak, Vladimir: ” Das Neue ist das Alte, schon lange Vergessene - der Skandal um die Ausfuhr von französischen und deutschen radioaktiven Abfällen nach Russland” in Russlandanalysen Nr. 190 (PDF; 715 kB)
mardi 19 mai 2015
hive mind 2.0
Que jamais l'art abstrait, qui sévit maintenant
N'enlève à vos attraits ce volume étonnant
Au temps où les faux culs sont la majorité
Gloire à celui qui dit toute la vérité (Georges Brassens)
re-ligare -
« En l’élisant (eligentes), mieux : en le réélisant (religentes), car négligeant (neglegentes) que nous sommes, nous l’avions perdu –, en le choisissant de nouveau (religentes) – d’où vient, dit-on, religio – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin que l’atteignant, nous trouvions en lui le repos. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3.
« Nous liant donc à lui, ou plutôt nous y reliant, au lieu de nous en détacher pour notre malheur, le méditant et le relisant sans cesse – d’où vient, dit-on, le mot religion – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin de trouver en lui le repos et de posséder la béatitude en possédant la perfection. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3, trad. Raulx, éd. Guérin 1864-1873
(de béatitude et béat, peace of thought/mind, eg religion)
Augustin insiste ici sur les termes eligere signifiant choisir, ce qui fait que le terme relegere ou religere peut se comprendre non seulement comme une relecture, mais aussi comme une réélection.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étymologie_de_religion
-----The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is "public opinion." Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. (emma goldman quotes)
(Mistaking group thought for collective intelligence) As James Surowiecki points out in The Wisdom of Crowds, this forming of the tight, homogenous group gives ground to group thought in a negative sense. Surowiecki gives a lot of examples of when group thought stops innovative ideas from being realized or even thought or expressed. The fear of breaking the group thought is perhaps not obvious or even realized, but is there. If you break that precious bond, you lose that comfy feeling. We’ve all been in that situation too. We have that small, tight group and in comes the Outsider with the Outsidish idea. What an idiot. He knows Nothing. We’ve already tried that. But we are the experts. And so on. The outsider must in many cases chose between aligning and thereby just provide ideas which are in line with what is acceptable ideas within the group or stay an outsider.
and an interesting confusion, notice that the hive is not outside but needs to be restored as personal overview capacity....
- You Have a Hive Mind. There is a deep connection between the way your brain and a swarm of bees arrives at a decision.
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head. And “approved by consensus” is really just a delicate way of saying that the opposition was silenced.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-have-a-hive-mind
There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
-----(K.Kesey's Demon box)---
All the underlying issues raised here remain in doubt until the penultimate essay, ''Demon Box,'' a piece somewhat in the spirit of Hunter Thompson's ''gonzo journalism,'' about Mr. Kesey's relations with mad people, their keepers and a counterculture guru named Dr. Klaus Woofner, who runs the Big Sur Institute of Higher Light. Here the matter of the book's form becomes a major source of irritation, because the author invokes the spirit and authority of a major counterculture figure of the 1960's and 1970's - Fritz Perls of the Esalen Institute - without allowing us to exercise our own views of Dr. Perls and the school of gestalt therapy he founded.
Very well, then; so we have to deal instead with Dr. Woofner's ideas, yet another view of psychic life that invokes Newton's second law of thermodynamics. The human mind is Sir James Clerk Maxwell's demon box, in which the superego plays the demon, letting the good thoughts in and shutting the bad thoughts out. The problem, according to Dr. Woofner, is that, like all other systems, this one, too, is subject to entropy: the superego demon is losing energy; the randomness of the mind's organization is increasing; the bad thoughts are getting mixed up with the good ones; the world is growing increasingly crazy.
----- The Surprising Link Between Homicide Rates and…Belief in Free Will
New research suggests we believe that people have choices because we want to see some of them get punished.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/free-will-nietzsche-punishment
Why we need to dispel the notion of dualistic free willI’ve always argued that philosophers spend way too much time trying to limn conceptions of free will that avoid dualism. Instead, they write books confecting compatibilism. I regard this exercise as largely a waste of time. If philosophers truly intend for their lucubrations to change the world, then I’d think that they’d spend more of their time spreading the word about our growing knowledge of how behavior is determined and less on trying to show how we have some kind of free will.
After all, it is the dispelling of dualism—still deeply entrenched in our society—that has invidious consequences not only for religion, but, more important, for how we treat and punish criminals. Really, is it more important for philosophers to tell us how we really have “free will” after all (and who reads that compatibilism, anyway), or to work on improving society by the proper treatment of those who do bad? (And I deny the claim that the notion of dualistic free will doesn’t play a bad role in our present system of criminal justice.)
I have no time to post in detail, but the pressing need for neuroscientific studies of behavior and empirical tests of reward and punishment (in other words, science) to reform of how we meet out “justice” can be seen in an article in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal by Adrian Raine, “The criminal mind.”https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/why-we-need-to-dispel-the-notion-of-dualistic-free-will/
N'enlève à vos attraits ce volume étonnant
Au temps où les faux culs sont la majorité
Gloire à celui qui dit toute la vérité (Georges Brassens)
re-ligare -
« En l’élisant (eligentes), mieux : en le réélisant (religentes), car négligeant (neglegentes) que nous sommes, nous l’avions perdu –, en le choisissant de nouveau (religentes) – d’où vient, dit-on, religio – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin que l’atteignant, nous trouvions en lui le repos. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3.
« Nous liant donc à lui, ou plutôt nous y reliant, au lieu de nous en détacher pour notre malheur, le méditant et le relisant sans cesse – d’où vient, dit-on, le mot religion – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin de trouver en lui le repos et de posséder la béatitude en possédant la perfection. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3, trad. Raulx, éd. Guérin 1864-1873
(de béatitude et béat, peace of thought/mind, eg religion)
Augustin insiste ici sur les termes eligere signifiant choisir, ce qui fait que le terme relegere ou religere peut se comprendre non seulement comme une relecture, mais aussi comme une réélection.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étymologie_de_religion
-----The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is "public opinion." Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. (emma goldman quotes)
(Mistaking group thought for collective intelligence) As James Surowiecki points out in The Wisdom of Crowds, this forming of the tight, homogenous group gives ground to group thought in a negative sense. Surowiecki gives a lot of examples of when group thought stops innovative ideas from being realized or even thought or expressed. The fear of breaking the group thought is perhaps not obvious or even realized, but is there. If you break that precious bond, you lose that comfy feeling. We’ve all been in that situation too. We have that small, tight group and in comes the Outsider with the Outsidish idea. What an idiot. He knows Nothing. We’ve already tried that. But we are the experts. And so on. The outsider must in many cases chose between aligning and thereby just provide ideas which are in line with what is acceptable ideas within the group or stay an outsider.
and an interesting confusion, notice that the hive is not outside but needs to be restored as personal overview capacity....
- You Have a Hive Mind. There is a deep connection between the way your brain and a swarm of bees arrives at a decision.
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head. And “approved by consensus” is really just a delicate way of saying that the opposition was silenced.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-have-a-hive-mind
There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.
And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.
US report foretells of brave new world : A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
-----(K.Kesey's Demon box)---
All the underlying issues raised here remain in doubt until the penultimate essay, ''Demon Box,'' a piece somewhat in the spirit of Hunter Thompson's ''gonzo journalism,'' about Mr. Kesey's relations with mad people, their keepers and a counterculture guru named Dr. Klaus Woofner, who runs the Big Sur Institute of Higher Light. Here the matter of the book's form becomes a major source of irritation, because the author invokes the spirit and authority of a major counterculture figure of the 1960's and 1970's - Fritz Perls of the Esalen Institute - without allowing us to exercise our own views of Dr. Perls and the school of gestalt therapy he founded.
Very well, then; so we have to deal instead with Dr. Woofner's ideas, yet another view of psychic life that invokes Newton's second law of thermodynamics. The human mind is Sir James Clerk Maxwell's demon box, in which the superego plays the demon, letting the good thoughts in and shutting the bad thoughts out. The problem, according to Dr. Woofner, is that, like all other systems, this one, too, is subject to entropy: the superego demon is losing energy; the randomness of the mind's organization is increasing; the bad thoughts are getting mixed up with the good ones; the world is growing increasingly crazy.
----- The Surprising Link Between Homicide Rates and…Belief in Free Will
New research suggests we believe that people have choices because we want to see some of them get punished.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/free-will-nietzsche-punishment
Why we need to dispel the notion of dualistic free willI’ve always argued that philosophers spend way too much time trying to limn conceptions of free will that avoid dualism. Instead, they write books confecting compatibilism. I regard this exercise as largely a waste of time. If philosophers truly intend for their lucubrations to change the world, then I’d think that they’d spend more of their time spreading the word about our growing knowledge of how behavior is determined and less on trying to show how we have some kind of free will.
After all, it is the dispelling of dualism—still deeply entrenched in our society—that has invidious consequences not only for religion, but, more important, for how we treat and punish criminals. Really, is it more important for philosophers to tell us how we really have “free will” after all (and who reads that compatibilism, anyway), or to work on improving society by the proper treatment of those who do bad? (And I deny the claim that the notion of dualistic free will doesn’t play a bad role in our present system of criminal justice.)
I have no time to post in detail, but the pressing need for neuroscientific studies of behavior and empirical tests of reward and punishment (in other words, science) to reform of how we meet out “justice” can be seen in an article in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal by Adrian Raine, “The criminal mind.”https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/why-we-need-to-dispel-the-notion-of-dualistic-free-will/
samedi 16 mai 2015
existentialism, gurdjief, theosophy
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism)
"Existential angst", sometimes called dread, anxiety, or anguish, is a term that is common to many existentialist thinkers. It is generally held to be a negative feeling arising from the experience of human freedom and responsibility. The archetypal example is the experience one has when standing on a cliff where one not only fears falling off it, but also dreads the possibility of throwing oneself off. In this experience that "nothing is holding me back", one senses the lack of anything that predetermines one to either throw oneself off or to stand still, and one experiences one's own freedom.
It can also be seen in relation to the previous point how angst is before nothing, and this is what sets it apart from fear that has an object. While in the case of fear, one can take definitive measures to remove the object of fear, in the case of angst, no such "constructive" measures are possible. The use of the word "nothing" in this context relates both to the inherent insecurity about the consequences of one's actions, and to the fact that, in experiencing freedom as angst, one also realizes that one is fully responsible for these consequences. There is nothing in people (genetically, for instance) that acts in their stead—that they can blame if something goes wrong. Therefore, not every choice is perceived as having dreadful possible consequences (and, it can be claimed, human lives would be unbearable if every choice facilitated dread). However, this doesn't change the fact that freedom remains a condition of every action.
A major offshoot of existentialism as a philosophy is existentialist psychology and psychoanalysis
Anxiety's importance in existentialism makes it a popular topic in psychotherapy. Therapists often offer existentialist philosophy as an explanation for anxiety. The assertion is that anxiety is manifested of an individual's complete freedom to decide, and complete responsibility for the outcome of such decisions. Psychotherapists using an existentialist approach believe that a patient can harness his anxiety and use it constructively. Instead of suppressing anxiety, patients are advised to use it as grounds for change. By embracing anxiety as inevitable, a person can use it to achieve his full potential in life. Humanistic psychology also had major impetus from existentialist psychology and shares many of the fundamental tenets. Terror management theory, based on the writings of Ernest Becker and Otto Rank, is a developing area of study within the academic study of psychology. It looks at what researchers claim are implicit emotional reactions of people confronted with the knowledge that they will eventually die.
Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual's confrontation with the givens of existence. These givens, as noted by Irvin D. Yalom, are: the inevitability of death, freedom and its attendant responsibility, existential isolation, and finally meaninglessness. These four givens, also referred to as ultimate concerns, form the body of existential psychotherapy and compose the framework in which a therapist conceptualizes a client's problem in order to develop a method of treatment. In the British School of Existential therapy (Cooper, 2003), these givens are seen as predictable tensions and paradoxes of the four dimensions of human existence, the physical, social, personal and spiritual realms (Umwelt, Mitwelt, Eigenwelt and Überwelt).
Existential therapy starts with the belief that although humans are essentially alone in the world, they long to be connected to others. People want to have meaning in one another's lives, but ultimately they must come to realize that they cannot depend on others for validation, and with that realization they finally acknowledge and understand that they are fundamentally alone (Yalom, 1980). The result of this revelation is anxiety in the knowledge that our validation must come from within and not from others.
The strictly Sartrean perspective of existential psychotherapy is generally unconcerned with the client's past; instead, the emphasis is on the choices to be made in the present and future. The counselor and the client may reflect upon how the client has answered life's questions in the past, but attention ultimately shifts to searching for a new and increased awareness in the present and enabling a new freedom and responsibility to act. The patient can then accept they are not special, and that their existence is simply coincidental, without destiny or fate. By accepting this, they can overcome their anxieties, and instead view life as moments in which they are fundamentally free. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy)
http://www.skeptic.com/insight/things-skeptics-knew-a-century-ago-about-how-thinking-goes-wrong/
http://skepdic.com/theosoph.html
Error and Eccentricity in Human Belief by Joseph Jastrow
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism)
"Existential angst", sometimes called dread, anxiety, or anguish, is a term that is common to many existentialist thinkers. It is generally held to be a negative feeling arising from the experience of human freedom and responsibility. The archetypal example is the experience one has when standing on a cliff where one not only fears falling off it, but also dreads the possibility of throwing oneself off. In this experience that "nothing is holding me back", one senses the lack of anything that predetermines one to either throw oneself off or to stand still, and one experiences one's own freedom.
It can also be seen in relation to the previous point how angst is before nothing, and this is what sets it apart from fear that has an object. While in the case of fear, one can take definitive measures to remove the object of fear, in the case of angst, no such "constructive" measures are possible. The use of the word "nothing" in this context relates both to the inherent insecurity about the consequences of one's actions, and to the fact that, in experiencing freedom as angst, one also realizes that one is fully responsible for these consequences. There is nothing in people (genetically, for instance) that acts in their stead—that they can blame if something goes wrong. Therefore, not every choice is perceived as having dreadful possible consequences (and, it can be claimed, human lives would be unbearable if every choice facilitated dread). However, this doesn't change the fact that freedom remains a condition of every action.
A major offshoot of existentialism as a philosophy is existentialist psychology and psychoanalysis
Anxiety's importance in existentialism makes it a popular topic in psychotherapy. Therapists often offer existentialist philosophy as an explanation for anxiety. The assertion is that anxiety is manifested of an individual's complete freedom to decide, and complete responsibility for the outcome of such decisions. Psychotherapists using an existentialist approach believe that a patient can harness his anxiety and use it constructively. Instead of suppressing anxiety, patients are advised to use it as grounds for change. By embracing anxiety as inevitable, a person can use it to achieve his full potential in life. Humanistic psychology also had major impetus from existentialist psychology and shares many of the fundamental tenets. Terror management theory, based on the writings of Ernest Becker and Otto Rank, is a developing area of study within the academic study of psychology. It looks at what researchers claim are implicit emotional reactions of people confronted with the knowledge that they will eventually die.
Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual's confrontation with the givens of existence. These givens, as noted by Irvin D. Yalom, are: the inevitability of death, freedom and its attendant responsibility, existential isolation, and finally meaninglessness. These four givens, also referred to as ultimate concerns, form the body of existential psychotherapy and compose the framework in which a therapist conceptualizes a client's problem in order to develop a method of treatment. In the British School of Existential therapy (Cooper, 2003), these givens are seen as predictable tensions and paradoxes of the four dimensions of human existence, the physical, social, personal and spiritual realms (Umwelt, Mitwelt, Eigenwelt and Überwelt).
Existential therapy starts with the belief that although humans are essentially alone in the world, they long to be connected to others. People want to have meaning in one another's lives, but ultimately they must come to realize that they cannot depend on others for validation, and with that realization they finally acknowledge and understand that they are fundamentally alone (Yalom, 1980). The result of this revelation is anxiety in the knowledge that our validation must come from within and not from others.
The strictly Sartrean perspective of existential psychotherapy is generally unconcerned with the client's past; instead, the emphasis is on the choices to be made in the present and future. The counselor and the client may reflect upon how the client has answered life's questions in the past, but attention ultimately shifts to searching for a new and increased awareness in the present and enabling a new freedom and responsibility to act. The patient can then accept they are not special, and that their existence is simply coincidental, without destiny or fate. By accepting this, they can overcome their anxieties, and instead view life as moments in which they are fundamentally free. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy)
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF(BBC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
http://skepdic.com/gurdjief.html
http://skepdic.com/theosoph.html
Error and Eccentricity in Human Belief by Joseph Jastrow
mercredi 6 mai 2015
RMS Lusitania
En plein conflit mondial, les Britanniques ont sacrifié leur navire et 1 200 passagers pour accélérer l’entrée en guerre des Etats-Unis.(https://fr.news.yahoo.com/7-mai-1915-naufrage-lusitania-1200-morts-torpillage-043742164.html)
Few tales in history are more haunting, more tangled with investigatory mazes or more fraught with toxic secrets than that of the final voyage of the Lusitania, one of the colossal tragedies of maritime history. It’s the other Titanic, the story of a mighty ship sunk not by the grandeur of nature but by the grimness of man. On May 7, 1915, the four-funneled, 787-foot Cunard superliner, on a run from New York to Liverpool, encountered a German submarine, the U-20, about 11 miles off the coast of Ireland. The U-boat’s captain, Walther Schwieger, was pleased to discover that the passenger steamer had no naval escort. Following his government’s new policy of unrestricted warfare, Schwieger fired a single torpedo into her hull. Less than half a minute later, a second explosion shuddered from somewhere deep within the bowels of the vessel, and she listed precariously to starboard.
The Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes.
The
world was outraged to learn that the war had taken this diabolic new
turn, that an ocean liner full of innocent civilians was now considered
fair game. The sinking turned American opinion against the Germans —
demonstrating, for some, the incorrigible treachery of the “Pirate Huns”
— and became a rallying cry when America finally entered the war in
1917.
But
in the years that followed, unsettling questions clung to the Lusitania
case, contributing to a persistent hunch that the ship had somehow been
allowed to sail into a trap. (Or, at least, that important aspects of
the story had been assiduously covered up.) Why had the British
Admiralty failed to provide a military escort? What was the cause of
that catastrophic second explosion? Why was a British cruiser sent to
rescue the Lusitania’s dying victims suddenly called back to port? And
what about Winston Churchill, then first lord of the Admiralty, who
conveniently left Britain for France just days before the sinking? What
did Churchill know, and when did he know it?
Shortly
before the disaster, Churchill had written in a confidential letter
that it was “most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores,
in the hopes especially of embroiling the United States with Germany.”
Afterward, he all but celebrated the sinking as a great Allied victory,
saying, “The poor babies who perished in the ocean struck a blow at
German power more deadly than could have been achieved by the sacrifice
of a hundred thousand fighting men.”
The
Germans, for their part, argued, and with good reason, that the British
had long been using passenger liners like the Lusitania to ferry
troops, weapons and ordnance from supposedly neutral America to
war-weakened Britain. The Lusitania, in fact, was known to be carrying
many tons of war matériel that fateful day (including four million
rounds of ammunition, samples of which the Irish divers discovered seven
years ago). The U-boat captain, Schwieger, was surprised that a single
torpedo had sunk such a massive ship — and so quickly. Yet from his
periscope, he noted a second explosion, apparently the same one that so
many aboard the ship also felt and heard. Over the years, many people
have contended that this second explosion was very likely caused by
secret stores of volatile munitions — like aluminum powder or guncotton —
that detonated within the ship’s holds.
This
nagging question of the second explosion is one of many Lusitania
riddles that persist to this day. And with the hundredth anniversary of
the ship’s demise almost upon us, the subject would seem to be ripe for a
new and fresh interpretation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/books/review/erik-larsons-dead-wake-about-the-lusitania.html?_r=2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
mardi 28 avril 2015
American Exceptionalism: The Rhetoric and the Reality
the US American culture has proven to become an
extraordinarily dangerous imperial threat in the world. And our
behavior is consistently and exceptionally brutal and pathologically
violent at home as well as abroad, since our oligarchic ruling structure
is exceptionally fearful of genuine people power wherever it manifests
Eurocentric values of systematic violence and arrogance were introduced into the New World in 1492 when Italian Cristoforo Columbo, sailing under the Spanish flag, invaded the West Indies. Columbus’ log stated, “with fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.” Eyewitness Bartolome de las Casas described unspeakable behavior that “no age can parallel….cruelty never before seen, nor heard of, nor read of.” The Indigenous possessed no vocabulary to describe the bestiality inflicted upon them. The Arawak Indians were virtually wiped out in 40 years.Our original English Puritan settlers established the tone of sacred superiority. “We shall find that the God of Israel is among us….For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” Since the early 1600s, prior to creation in 1789 of the formal US government, groups of armed adventurers and frontiersmen (operating as paramilitary death squads) alongside various European militaries, engaged in almost constant bloodshed with the “beastly” Indians, carrying out one of the greatest genocides in human history.
Eurocentric values of systematic violence and arrogance were introduced into the New World in 1492 when Italian Cristoforo Columbo, sailing under the Spanish flag, invaded the West Indies. Columbus’ log stated, “with fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.” Eyewitness Bartolome de las Casas described unspeakable behavior that “no age can parallel….cruelty never before seen, nor heard of, nor read of.” The Indigenous possessed no vocabulary to describe the bestiality inflicted upon them. The Arawak Indians were virtually wiped out in 40 years.Our original English Puritan settlers established the tone of sacred superiority. “We shall find that the God of Israel is among us….For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” Since the early 1600s, prior to creation in 1789 of the formal US government, groups of armed adventurers and frontiersmen (operating as paramilitary death squads) alongside various European militaries, engaged in almost constant bloodshed with the “beastly” Indians, carrying out one of the greatest genocides in human history.
The Colonies Began As Private Commercial Enterprises
The corporate control of our government that we decry today has been with us more or less since our nation’s founding. The early “settlers” did not come seeking business or trade with “savages”, but were in effect employees or indentured servants of private commercial, corporate enterprises of stock-holding London investor-based companies who magically received grants from the Crown to develop lands inhabited by Indigenous in what are today Virginia and Massachusetts. The settlers were charged with the grunt work of planting and harvesting crops which were then sent to England to satisfy investor needs for quick profits in the New World. Many of the men we call our “Founding Fathers” – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Morris, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin – were early speculators who claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of Indian land. The Founding Fathers vision was an “empire of liberty” [Jefferson], “imperial republicanism” [Madison] and a mercantile, imperially expansive nation – a new “American system.” Theirs was not a vision of democracy. In George Washington’s second term as President he declared that emergence of “democratic societies” threatened the new republic.
http://www.brianwillson.com/americn-exceptionalism-the-rhetoric-and-the-reality/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/challenging-american-exceptionalism/5
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Republican_Noise_Machine.html
The corporate control of our government that we decry today has been with us more or less since our nation’s founding. The early “settlers” did not come seeking business or trade with “savages”, but were in effect employees or indentured servants of private commercial, corporate enterprises of stock-holding London investor-based companies who magically received grants from the Crown to develop lands inhabited by Indigenous in what are today Virginia and Massachusetts. The settlers were charged with the grunt work of planting and harvesting crops which were then sent to England to satisfy investor needs for quick profits in the New World. Many of the men we call our “Founding Fathers” – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Morris, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin – were early speculators who claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of Indian land. The Founding Fathers vision was an “empire of liberty” [Jefferson], “imperial republicanism” [Madison] and a mercantile, imperially expansive nation – a new “American system.” Theirs was not a vision of democracy. In George Washington’s second term as President he declared that emergence of “democratic societies” threatened the new republic.
http://www.brianwillson.com/americn-exceptionalism-the-rhetoric-and-the-reality/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/challenging-american-exceptionalism/5
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Republican_Noise_Machine.html
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