What you see is not things, but light bouncing off of things. What you see is actually the colliding of an infinite myriad of time dimensions coalescing at your observer-perspective all at once, since light has a maximum speed in this universe and therefore is traveling at ever-so-slightly different distances as it bounces off of objects to reach your eyes.
And there are no things, only patterns and relationships that give the illusion of things.
Trip to that.
Once upon a time there were three astronomers from different parts of the world. One astronomer studied the light of the cosmos directly, through a refracting telescope. This was too harsh for the other two astronomers, who developed other methods.
The second astronomer studied light indirectly, through a reflecting telescope. The larger aperture allowed much more diffused light to shine through.
The third astronomer developed crystals to study the spectral properties of visible light and the electro-magnetic spectrum beyond. It allowed them to see a broad perspective from many simultaneous angles.
The first astronomer could not understand the images of the other two telescopes without experiencing them firsthand. The second astronomer could not understand the images of the third telescope without experiencing them firsthand.
I have never met a Satanist who I did not like or who did me wrong*. I have met many religious fundamentalists and Christian evangelicals who I did not like and who did me wrong.
Most Satanists do not actually believe in a spiritual being of Satan or Lucifer. To them, it is an archetype of the anarchist who rebels against tyrannical rule. Reminds me of the American Colonial Minutemen. Or the Native American Plains Indians. Or the Black Panther Party, Palestinians Liberation Army, Kurdistan Worker's Party, and many more.
They fight, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the religious right (who are neither, by the way) and the war to make the United States a Christian theocracy.
The United States of America is not a Christian nation. It was founded by enlightenment deists and atheists on secular principles. Christian Nationalists are fraudulently attempting to rewrite history and brainwash the collective memory. In this sense, I stand with the Satanists.
I depart on one important stance, though. The Satanists do not want to end the war, they only want to gain the upper hand against the Church. They enjoy the struggle and want the dance to last for eternity. It's a tired, old song from a really bad story. I want to escape the story. I want to end the story. I want to make sure no one ever has to live through the same or similar story ever again.
I want to end the Church completely and forever, if by Church I mean any system of thought control, whether religious, political, or otherwise. Imagine no religion, too. Yes, there will always be schools of thought, such as Satanists, Unitarian Universalists, and others that give structure for thought to form and grow freely, and expand out of into uncharted territory as necessary. That is what differentiates totalitarian ideologies such as fundamentalism from all other schools of thought: domination and control. The best schools of thought instead provide guidance and inspiration.
There are many paths up a mountain. In other words, there are many legitimate paths to enlightenment. However, suffering is not a legitimate path to enlightenment. Some take the Stoic position to extremes, and believe suffering through pain and the denial of pleasure is a legitimate path. This is most common in the Abrahamic religions. Suffer and believe, or believe in the martyrs and prophets (profits?) who suffered so you do not have to. What insane thinking!
While it is possible to climb to spiritual heights through suffering, this is not a legitimate path. It only leads to deranged perceptions of reality and an unhealthy demand to expand exponentially to escape even greater pain chasing it. Better is to avoid this path altogether.
To live is to suffer, but unnecessary suffering is evil, not enlightenment. Escaping unbearable pain by a forced spiritual climb is unhealthy, and denies the body's natural and necessary responses to heal: anger, sadness, and so forth.
I have been picked up and intentionally dropped from ever greater spiritual heights my entire life, because some insane, evil fools errantly believe that trauma is a legitimate path to enlightenment.
It is not.
And then they work so hard to recruit you to their cause, minimizing and erasing your pain, blaming your own victimhood, deflecting your pain onto the next vulnerable victim, and so forth. Anything except allow you to remember who did what to who, because that will end their reign of terror.
I will need the remainder of my life to try to recover from the spiritual trauma that I was intentionally and unnecessarily subjected to by others. I might need several lifetimes to fully heal. I don't know what is wrong with those people; why they would do so much harm to someone who trusted and loved them so much, but they need to be taken apart and put back together by a qualified higher spiritual being. As of right now, they are toxic to the community of life.
I bought these for the kids to read this summer, and a second set for me, too. However, due to "covid-related trauma" it may take me longer to get through them.
I bought a bunch of books for the kids to read this summer.
AFROFUTURISM:
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond https://a.co/d/i0BXwGP
Global Green Politics https://www.amazon.com/dp/1108720579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_2EIUSMPsyWFE5
Earth First! Direct Action Manual https://a.co/d/2DOiERh
* Drawing Down the Moon: Witches,... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143038192?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
* The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062516329?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
* I gifted copies to my ex-wife for Winter Holiday, so the kids already have access to these excellent books. I already listened to the audio of Drawing Down the Moon and interviews by Starhawk.
Hapkido and tae kwon do are two Korean martial arts. To grossly oversimplify, hapkido is a "soft" form and tae kwon do is a "hard" form. Soft forms work with their opponent's energy. Whatever you do, I will help you do even more to your disadvantage and my advantage. It expends relatively little energy compared to the energy the opponent must expend to regain balance, get back up, out of a choke hold or joint lock, etc.
Hard forms work directly against their opponent's energy. Whatever you do, I will try to stop you, and then make you suffer for it. It expends a tremendous amount of energy and can do considerable damage.
These are not entirely accurate descriptions and are entirely oversimplified, but they're good enough to work with.
Yin is like the soft form and yang is like the hard form.
The Abrahamic religions are a hard form of martial art. They are like solid matter. It is highly analytical. They have the power to shape and destroy.
By comparison, the Eastern religions are a soft form of martial art. They are like liquid. It is intuitive. They have the power to heal and sustain.
By comparison, animism is an even softer form. It is like gas. It is practically sub-conscious. It has the power to create.
If marginalized classes of people, such as female and black, etc, can compound unfair systemic and institutionalized disadvantages--and unbiased examination of social statics demonstrates this is definitely true--then the reverse is also true. For instance, political conservatives have an unfair systemic and institutionalized advantage. So do people of Abrahamic religions, especially Christians in the Western world. The religious right compounds these factors to give this social group a tremendous amount of unfair power. They abuse this abuse to create and keep dependent people and communities. The same compounding is true when you mix both rich and white, or any other unfairly advantaged class of person.
I used the common states of matter to represent the density and malleability. From another perspective, the Abrahamic religions are like fire, pagan religions like Earth, Eastern religions like water, and indigenous religions (animism) like wind.
With all of that in mind, I identify as approximately:
I am grateful that Ketanji Jackson Brown was confirmed to the Supreme Court for several reasons.
Firstly, she is fully qualified.
Secondly, the Court has Justices who are trying to turn our nation into the Handmaid's Tale dystopia: rapist frat boy Bret Kavanaugh, cult soldier Amy Cohen Barrett, and Clayton Bigsby Clarence Uncle Thomas, the misogynist fascist in sheep's clothing.
The Court does not represent the will of the people. Nor does the Court respect jurisprudence or rule of law. Though Judge Ketanji Jackson-Brown is taking the seat of a "liberal Judge," she will help preserve what little integrity the Court has remaining. We must either impeach the Three Stooges or expand the Court, or both.
Thirdly,, she is a black women. There are women and a black man, but intersectionality studies show us that the interplay of marginalized classes create unique perspectives and compounded unfair inequalities. Representation matters.
Of course the phrase representation matters refers to marginalized and oppressed groups, not to toxic or oppressive groups.
For instance, representation matters does not apply to the alt right. The alt right are internet trolls. The alt right are anti-marxists, fascists, misogynists, white supremacists, homophobes, transphobes, sexual repressors, ableists, Islamophobes, anti-Semites, Zionists, Christian Nationalists, religious fundamentalists, theocrats, autocrats, technocrats, oligarchs, crooks, cheaters, and so forth.
These people do not, obviously, deserve representation, because their representation inherently dimities the representation of all other representation. Those few are toxic to the all.
Her Senate confirmation hearing brings up some thoughts.
First, the Republican Party must end.
Second, no one likes Senator Ted Cruz. Seriously, not even his own Party.
Thirdly--and this might be hard for some to hear--but all of these people are speaking to three different audiences simultaneously: the spiritual Whites, the spiritual Rainbow People, and the uninitiated.
The spiritual Whites are one branch of a collapsed singularity. They are from a world that is so concentrated in power that they are blind. They live in now and list for power evermore. They do not always inhabit light skin bodies (see Clarence Thomas), but often do.
They are hypocrites in this battleground middle world, this material plane Earth. They know the truth, but disguise it from the uninitiated in order to ensnare them in their pyramid of spiritual slavery. It is like a multilevel marketing scheme (MLM) scheme in the spiritual dimension, and con game in this dimension. The good guys are actually the bad guys. The victors got to write the books and police the streets. The Whites speak in code to con the uninitiated and the Rainbows speak in code to evade torture from the Whites.
The Whites oppress here, then flood with pleasurable bliss either during life or upon death to ensnare you. DO NOT GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT! They want you to hate the world so that you crave to leave here, even leave your body while you are still living. They want to pull you away into their spiritual cult forever and then possess your body. This is why the church and the corporations are intentionally, systematically destroying the world. They want you to be dependent on them and love them, not love your life and your experience here.
In the spiritual world, everything goes, at least according to your community. Sensuality is one of the things some people seek (Yellow) in the worlds beyond. I recommend a balance of Marxism (Red), Justice (Orange), Sensuality (Yellow), Environmentalism (Green), Science, Technology, and Secular Humanism (Blue), Mysticism (Indigo), Intersectionality (Purple), and Anarchy/Left-Libertarianism (Black). These work well together. I wrote more about that in these two blogs and elsewhere:
But the Whites are obsessed with Power through Pain (Black) and Pleasure (White). They see the world in those Black and White color schemes. They are one and the same, and insane psychopaths. They have taken over all of the right wing parties of the world, most of the corporations, and pretty much the entire damn planet by now. It's over yet, though. It's time for the Rainbow People to strike back!
I want to say another thing about this hearing. Please with children, in the spiritual world, is rampant. It's not even questioned. It's a joke that conservatives are even condemning it. But here's the thing: those people, the spiritual Whites, torture their children. For them, pedophilia is child abuse. They use child abuse--emotional, physical, sexual--as a means to make you hate your life and want to leave. Again, that's how they ensnare you. To them, Black is Pain, the absence of Light, and Light is such overwhelming bliss that consent is irrelevant to them.
