Bad and Good

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We live in a binary universe, a universe of pairs, of poles; such as black and white, up and down, dark and light, matter and energy, hot and cold, bad and good. When we consider such pairs we find that they are the same in KIND and different in DEGREE. For example hot and cold are both KINDS of temperature, they are different only in the DEGREE of temperature. We can imagine the KIND, such as temperature, as a line, a continuum, with the DEGREE, such as hot/cold, as the poles on opposite ends of the line. If we stop on any point on that line, on one side there will be one pole (such as cold), and on the other side will be the other pole (such as hot).

Now everything within Universal Existence is relative, because relationships define. Keeping with our temperature example; if we were to stop at 30 degrees C, then 10 degrees C would appear cold, while 50 degrees C will appear hot. While if we were to stop at 0 degrees C, then 10 degrees C would appear hot. As you can see, 10 degrees C can appear both hot and cold, depending on where we place ourselves on that line (depending on the relationship of our perspective). As we move through life we mentally (through experience and belief) position ourselves on the lines of universal pairs; and it is our relationship with that particular line, born from our mental position (from our belief), that defines how the things around us appear.

Like hot and cold, bad and good are polar opposites of the same KIND of thing. Just as hot/cold are both kinds of temperature bad/good are both kinds of movement. There is a universal principle of vibration, which states that everything is in a constant state of vibration – nothing is at rest, everything is moving. The terms bad and good are associated with the movement of things, and in particular these polar opposites refer to the direction of that movement.

The idea that the words bad/good are about the direction of the movement of things is something we all intuitively know. It is the action of humans, the unfolding of events, that we call bad or good. Human beings are part of life, part of the event of the unfolding of life in a particular direction (what we call evolution). The direction in which life has been moving is toward greater connection, the development of relationships where individuals group together to act as one greater system. A single cell is a system that is made up, defined, by the relationship of its individual parts. A human (and all plants/animals) is a system defined by the relationships of its individual parts, and a society (species) is also a system defined by the relationships of its individual parts.

From the direction of the movement of life we find the poles of bad and good. Bad are the movements, the actions, the events, which destroy and weaken the relationships between individuals. While good are the movements, the actions, the events, which develop and strengthen relationships between individuals to create/enhance (or maintain) systems greater than the individual that make them up. In more human terms; bad refers to behaviours which isolate and individualise humans, actions which weaken and destroy relationships (such as those behaviours based on greed, envy, jealousy, hate, and fear). While good are those behaviours which unite and connect individuals, actions which strengthen and grow relationships (such as those behaviours which stem from benevolence, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and love).

7 Ways Shaolin Monks Stay Young

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This interesting information was found at Simple Organic Life (link to the original article below) 

Basically there are seven points which we should focus on for physical and mental health – while all points are important, we do our selves great service by embracing number 6 (and 7).

1. Take Your Time

When you are doing something, be sure to take your time and to never rush things. It’s better to go at a pace that you are comfortable with.

2. Never Eat Too Much

Be sure to never over indulge yourself with food. When you begin to feel peckish then eat a little to restore your hunger to a satisfying state..

3. Control Your Anger

When you get angry be sure to have self control over this anger. This can ultimately damage your liver and intestines.

4. Pace Yourself

When you begin your work be sure to work for only 40 minutes and then stop yourself for 10 minutes. When you find yourself staring at something all the time every single day, it can damage your internal organs, your eyes, and your overall peace with the world around you.

5. Control Your Happiness

When you feel your happiness arise, be sure that you are able to control and manage that happiness. If you lose control of that happiness then you risk damaging your lung energy.

6. Mindless Chatter

Make sure that you are very limited in your speech. Most people decide either to talk or to do. It is always better to do instead of talk.

7. Don’t Overthink Things

Do not take time to overthink certain situations. Thinking requires energy. If you think too much, you can sap yourself almost entirely of all energy.

For the original article please click here

Why we need financial control

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The financial system is a fantasy (like the board game Monopoly) which has real world implications (effecting the living human beings who get caught in the economic/financial fictions). Recently in New Zealand and Australia we have seen a perfect example of how financial corporations use their knowledge of the fictional game to make as much money for themselves as they can, without regard of the costs to human lives. The case in point is Dick Smith electronics.

For a play by play brake down of how the private equity group (Anchorage Capital) brought and gutted Dick Smith, resulting in loss to shareholders, gift card invalidation, and job loss, please check out this article at Forager Funds.

The short story is simply that Anchorage Capital are really good at exploiting a system which has been designed, and which is increasingly shaped (through policy, legislation, and beliefs) to, enable a small group of humans to profit off the many. We need to ask – how can this state of things have occurred?

Look out at what has happened in economics, law, and politics (mix in corporate entertainment and media with regards to ‘perception management’ – a fancy way to describe psychological rape) over the last hundred and fifty years. We see decreased regulation and increased freedoms for corporations, while witnessing increased regulation and decreased freedoms for living humans. In conjunction to this we find that corporations (especially government) are slowly, and surely, creeping into more and more of human activity (and especially interaction).

Where once living beings were free to do as we please so long as our actions harmed none (no human had the right to interfere in our business if we obeyed the golden rule, Natural (Gods) Law – do not steal; life liberty, or property), we are now imprisoned in our own creation (a state governed by man, the kingdom of mammon). We need to register our most important things with a corporate government; such as ourselves (children), our declaration of love/faithfulness to another human (marriage), and some physical tools we may use (such as car and gun). We need licenses to do things humans have a natural right to do, such as drive a vehicle, fish in fresh water, and hunt; and permits to modify our own land/home, to hold a public demonstration of humans addressing a corporation, use some public land in an organised event, etc.

What happened to Dick Smith can only happen under our current system of social control. It is only when we, as a collective group, move toward solutions, that we will create a world (an actual CIVILisation) we can be proud of.

To find out more information about the fight of living (human beings) against the army of the dead (corporations) please check out the facebook page of our political group (Self Ownership of Decision Making Party) – especially the manifesto found in the files =)

Hermetic philosophy

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A long time ago, in ancient Egypt, there lived a man by the name of Hermes. He taught the world some of the basic fundamentals of universal existence; some believe that this knowledge was leftover from a preceding civilisation on earth (or from a race of extraterrestrials, or an angel/god/some entity from a higher spiritual plane). Some humans do not want the majority to understand universal existence, they want the rest to stand-under their rule (whether in physical bonds, or mental bonds).

These humans set about to burn the library in Alexandra (ancient Egypt), and kill all humans who spoke out the views of Hermes (or ideas based on Hermetic knowledge) – such as Jesus. Between Hermes and Jesus the knowledge was hidden from the masses, it was occulted. Some of the holders of the occulted knowledge stand in the open , behind religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), while other hide in the dark (because stepping into the public light means almost certain death at the hands of those who would do anything for power – just ask Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, etc).Nevertheless, over the last few hundred years, with the development of the printing press, and recently the internet, this information is finding its way back out again to the masses.
Whatever story you come to identify with is of little importance, what is relevant is the value of the knowledge (in terms of our perspective, our decision making).

Take your time and learn the seven principles as they are gold, especially the principles of polarity and rhythm in terms of mental processing (mood swings, developing positive states). Remember the principles as you go about your life and recognise them in all you see around you. The story of creation is a beautiful perspective also, and fits right in line with our scientific perspective of the unfolding of the universe (from energy/light matter, to the formation of denser matter through the lifecycle of stars).

The link below is to the Kybalion – a book on Hermetic philosophy. Enjoy =)

The Kybalion

Here is a PDF of the book

TheKybalion pdf

Competition in the modern world Pt II

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We have these social perceptions that the business (corporate) world is ‘cut throat’, that it is ‘dog eat dog’, and ‘you have to look after number one’. When you stop to analyse these images they are really horrific, slitting throats and eating other members of your species just to survive – and it is this emotive positioning which drives much human behaviour in a business (corporate) setting (resulting in, more than most people would like to admit, lying, cheating, backstabbing, bribery, blackmail, and murder). What kind of enlightened, intelligent, animals are we that our very model of social interaction (economics) is so good at eliciting the types of isolating behaviours exhibited by animals unable to form meaningful (conceptual – formed within mind) social relationships?

Many people may believe that it was our competitive drive, competition itself, which enabled us to evolve how we have; in fact, the opposite is true. Cooperation, social bonding, is what made our species so great; the ability to utilise our individual minds toward a common, collective, goal; to catch that mammoth, grow/collect a sustaining range of food, or provide the various specialised skills needed to assist a community to thrive. It was cooperation that enabled a nomadic species to survive for thousands of years and to eventually settle down from the nomadic lifestyle and develop small communities. Over time some small communities developed into cities; and once cities developed, well, things began to change.

It is interesting, this topic, because nothing changed, and yet everything changed for our species. When you get down to it, all human beings inherently wish to be loved, to connect, be part of something bigger than our individual self. This is because that is the natural state of things. We are all eternally loved (in that we are part of THE ALL), we are all inherently connected though our connection to THE ALL, and we are all part of something bigger than our individual self (family/species/life/THE ALL). Socialisation, like all things in existence, has polar opposites. It can be used to control individual humans, to suppress their creative expression through convincing them of a story which limits the imagination (human nature, blah, advertised ideals, blah, terror, blah – it is hard to be creative when focused on fear and consumption). In the other pole, socialisation can be used to assist all individual sparks of consciousness to understand the natural world and universal principles, the golden rule, and how our cooperation results in abundance for all with minimal work/time for each individual (freeing us to experience this heaven above the ground). We remain fractals of the underlying consciousness, eternally loved. Although a social structure has developed in which living humans are socialised into disconnection; to erroneously believe we are of limited power, that other people (corporations) have the right to judge how we live our lives under universal guidance. Nothing changed, and yet somewhere along the way, everything changed for our species.

Over the last few hundred years cities have come to hold the majority of the world’s population, with increasing amounts of people being born and raised within the city environment; advertisements from every wall, (corporate) state education, and Hollywood entertainment. We are forced into competing in an environment where our access to resources is almost totally dependent on our ability to obtain money (which is ultimately owned by a few families hiding behind a network of corporations, and based on debt). This human competition is contrived, is the product of human minds, and so the solution starts with ideas in our mind (out with the old, in with the new mental structures – then it is easy to shape the physical world).

It was briefly previously noted that social competition is tied to our economic beliefs. So to question, and change, these beliefs is a good point of action for those who want to partake in the evolution of our social environment from competition to cooperation.

Even in a competitive environment, such as a sports team involving many people, or a work group, cooperation is needed for best success. So why do we even need our society to be one big competitive environment (especially given the negative psychological and social impacts they are proven to facilitate), wouldn’t a cooperative social environment be better for all?

Competition in the modern world Pt I

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We are socialised into believing that competition is good, that if humans never competed we would never excel, never drive to produce that great thing. This is utter rubbish. While, on the surface, it may appear that competition is driving new developments and achievements, the reality is that competition only just happens to be the setting in which these things are taking place. If there is an achievement to get, some goal that humans have thought of, we will get there eventually (this has been proven time and again – we will, one day, achieve every idea we draw into mind). It doesn’t matter if some rich philanthropist puts up a sizable prize, or if multiple corporations are working toward the goal for financial ends, or if different groups of scientists are trying to prove a theory. There could be no money offered, only one corporation with the idea, one scientist with a theory, and the goal, if it is achievable, will be achieved eventually.

What our socialisation doesn’t show us is the dark side to competition. First of all in order to compete you must be in a state of fear (simply the fear of losing). It is ultimately this fear which drives the behaviour of all human beings in competition – the only other thing human beings can be driven by is love (and love doesn’t compete). While love doesn’t compete, it does play; this is reflected in the idea we learn as children that it doesn’t matter who wins, what matters is the enjoyment of the experience, of the play. Unfortunately our economic system, the fabric of modern society, is based on competition for success (and if you don’t succeed you suffer economically). Quickly children are socialised into adults perceiving competition from a place of fear; this is because the competition of modern human economic life is filled with real physical consequences that easily stimulate the emotional response of fear (not eating, paying rent, or ‘keeping up with the Jones’s). We forget the love behind play, behind sports and games, and allow fear to drive our competitive edge (often resulting in negative mental states and behaviours, such as general depression and anxiety, excess greed/arrogance, and violence when we lose, or the team we support loses).

In this state of competitive fear there needs to be other human(s) who are not on your side; so competition by nature divides human beings, and therefore divides, or diminishes, human potential. From here we move to the more specific types of behaviours, and perspectives, which competition, by its very nature, demands from human beings. These include things such as paranoia (of competitors, agents for competitors, tying to steal ideas), and tunnel vision (where the goal monopolises the attention of the individual(s) to the detriment of other things humans need in life – such as close relationships with other human beings, and in extreme cases food and personal (physical and mental) health). Of all the things competition demands from humans beings, that which most affects society as a whole is a human being’s perspective locked into, and driven by, ‘the competitive edge’.

Most of us will view the idea of a ‘competitive edge’ as something positive, and, most of us will view this term in relation to sports. Like all things in this reality, the idea of a competitive edge is a spectrum with its good and bad, positive and negative, points (or attributes). We may view the competitive edge of a sportsperson as good when they dedicate themselves to their pursuit, train hard and stick to the diet they need, to excel in their sport to achieve what no other humans (or few humans) have done before. Although we may view the competitive edge of a sportsperson as bad, or negative, when it leads them to certain behaviours; such as sabotaging their competitors efforts or using things to gain an unfair advantage (such as drugs).

Now in sport, the negative effects of human beings driven by this idea of competitive edge (at all costs) is relatively small, in that few other humans are really harmed (sure, some people may have lost some races/games, bets may have been lost, but the overall social impact is quite small). Let us now contrast this sports based competitive edge with the competitive edge which our social (economic/legal/political) system fosters in many human beings (in particular, what is the social impact?).