Society stole my Henge.

This weekend I made the trip to Stonehenge. i had never managed to make time to visit before even though i only live a little over a hundred miles away.

All the pictures on this post where taken by myself on my trip. as i approached the Henge i could not help but notice the lack of respect the visitors had for the monolith.

there where people from all over the world who had made the journey for whatever reason to visit this wonderful place and not to pay tribute of just to bask in its history but to take amusing pictures and run and shout. i was horrified at the way people conducted themselves in the presence of suck an historical and epic place.

its not entirley the fault of the visitors though, on the way into the field that houses the stones you are given a digital audio tour machine, its like a little custom build MP3 player with a man telling you all about supposed official history.

I can’t help but wonder if the flooding of such a site with the electronics and power inside the recorders is intentional. imagine the power you would be able to feel from such an old and important site without it being tainted by our technology and disrespectful tourists.

While looking at the Henge i failed at first to be moved and then as i found a quiet patch of the path i looked on and for a moment i imagined the thousands of years that they have stood there, looking on at the world, i remembered the story's i have heard about the place. earthquake predictions, tombs time travel devices, transportation circles and so many more ideas have developed from standing where i stood wondering why they where put there.

That’s when just for a moment in my mind, i was alone looking at an enigma that would outlast myself and even the silly little gift shop that was just a few meters away.

The stones are thought to outdate the great pyramids and be among the oldest man made (maybe) monuments on the world. i was standing in the oldest place my species has ever created.  for that moment i understood how i was supposed to feel. then  a loud tourist took an amusing photo of her friend acting like she was leaning against the stone (ah the joy of perspective)

I know that things can not be looked upon as sacred forever and i know that eventually the tourists will flock to anything interesting but i think the vision of stonehenge in my mind was the majestic ideal. the enigma that i barely felt and in my mind i will remember my visit as that.

Its a shame though, while i was down in the area i also took a visit to the Tor in Glastonbury and was moved far more by an old church on a hill than i was by ancient stones of mystery.

i think i enjoyed my hour at the Tor far more because there where no loud tourists or gift shops and i was able to focus on the sound in the air (and a very quiet place it is) and look at this strange ‘thing’ standing next to me on a hilltop.

both experiences where worth having and very different, i know that the thing that draws people to stonehenge is its fame more than its history. people don’t visit the Tor so much because its lacks the fame and the hill its really a long hard trek but it really it worth it as much as the henge at least.

anyway, i have things to do and a trip to reflect on. (podcast coming soon incase your wondering)

Humans can do awesome things.

This video on you tube amazed me, this chap proves to me that when you put your mind to it you can defy gravity (well, almost)

Granted its not super natural or the usual RHE topic but skills this remarkable should be seen.

Book report- Emergency

Recently i have read the Neil Strauss book Emergency. it was first lent to me by a friend. i was only two chapters in when it became obvious that i needed my own copy.

This is not my usual read. usually i read philosophical or scientific books so a book that is advertised as a survival manual is not something that i would usually pick up but this is one is very different.

its part the diary and thoughts of the author as he makes the change from music critic to survivalist covering his training and obsessions and in part its a tip guide for budding survivalists.

its much more of a story than it may first appear though and its very well written, Strauss tells the reader in great detail about his fear of terrorism, random events and the government and then catalogues his new skills.

although he passes many of his experiences on he does not divulge very much in the form of actual usable information. its really to be considered much more of a story than manual.

i would recommend anyone to read this book simply because it is such a great story at the same time it caters too the mind set of us paranoid folks exceptionally well.

Its not a David Icke style masterwork of paranoid philosophy but it is very real and very honest, an essential read.

Recommended site - UK Column

The UK Column is the online news paper (and actual printed one) from the well know researcher Brian Gerrish who first began is research carrier by exposing the organisation known as Common Purpose.

his news paper is available for a small subscription fee (about £5 a year i believe) and his site tries to be an honest and objective alternative news resource.

they where also the first news organisation to cover the Hollie Greig case. and are advocates of the lawful rebellion movement

http://www.ukcolumn.org/

Please take the time to look.

Obama’s brother Samson Obama denied UK visa

THIS IS FROM Panasianbiz.com – June 3, 2010

Samson Obama

Samson Obama, one of President Obama’s half-siblings, was refused entry to the UK due to false documentation. Apparently the president isn’t the only one whose documents are questionable. Samson was allowed to catch a connecting flight to the U.S. without officially entering the U.K.
There’s some rising buzz about Barack Obama’s brother Samson’s UK incident in 2009. The story is old, but is generating renewed interest.
According to BBC News, “A Home Office spokesman said Samson Obama was denied a visa after immigration officers noticed one of his documents was false. That led them to further inquiries.”
News of the World reports, “But eagle-eyed immigration officials at East Midlands Airport, using the latest biometric tests, discovered he was linked to an incident here last November. The hi-tech database revealed that Samson – who manages a mobile phone shop just outside Nairobi – was the same man arrested by British police after he approached a group of young girls, including a 13 year-old, and allegedly tried to sexually assault one of them.”
Further inquiries revealed that he was linked to a sexual assault on a British girl. He was questioned about the Berkshire attack, but not detained.
“He then followed them into a cafe where he became aggressive and was asked to leave by the owner. That’s when police were called and Samson was arrested.”

Another Spiral?

Recently another event like the famed Norway Spiral has occurred ion Australia!

THE FULL STORY HERE from Courier News Australia

David Icke: Human Race Get off your knees.

It was 6AM when my alarm began to make a noise at me, I was already awake and well on my way to the coffee pot.

I was making the pilgrimage to London to see the first talk of David Ickes new tour. i was accompanied on this trip by the only other person i know who would be interested, my mother.

We drove the 120 miles to London with ease but then when reaching the venue (Brixton Academy) realised that the closest car park was a £15 taxi ride away (as the local one was closed for maintenance) this is did not dent our resolve. soon enough (12PM) we arrived in the queue.

The atmosphere in line was fantastic there where all sorts of conversations taking place and a man playing guitar for charity, there where some people giving away copies of the UK-Column news paper (a great ready by the way, and only £5 a year subscription)

There was also a lady giving out flyers marked ‘Justice for Hollie Greig (www.holliedemandsjustice.orfg) – an important issue that has been ignored by too much by the mainstream news parasites.

There was also a well dressed man in a suit handing out leaflets about Christianity and how Mr Icke is ‘a’ or ‘the’ Antichrist (it wasn’t clear) the little article then went on to tell us that only by fearing and worshipping god can we be safe from evil. it gave us all something to read and kill the time with, it was really nice of the man and make a few of us chuckle (but the arrogance of religious converts is a topic for a whole other post) at the very least it was well written.

Soon enough we sitting down in the venue. the mumblings of the audience was a fantastic backdrop for the anticipation. Then, without warning our speaker emerged, within moments he was in full swing.

As the talk went on it picked up pace and there where many moments where he had to stop talking just to wait for the ripple of applause to stop. his message hit home for everyone!

i found it interesting that towards the end he outlined what he refers to as the wakening and made clear that there is no need for violence EVER and made sure to hammer home that racism or discrimination of any kind is wrong, for so many reasons.

As much as i would love to go into depth about the talk the content of the talk won’t. i don’t think I could do it justice but i will say that i have seen every one of David Ickes DVD’s and read 5 of his books and this talk was powerful in the extreme. Armed with the new information i left the venue feeling charged and positive but most of all i think everyone there felt empowered.

I got myself a copy of his new book before leaving and will start it on my next day off from work. this was a great day and its fair to say that David Icke is still the master of his domain and pushes the envelope with this thoughts. i wonder how long before he is proven right to the mainstream…

Mr Cameron, please, call me V

Ah Mr. Cameron, you are a waste of human skin. how do i know? because you WANT to be PM. and don’t get upset by me calling you a waste of human skin either, its not you its your job track that i  hate.

As everyone in England will probably we aware David Cameron has taken charge of the country as PM. the Conservatives party has don't a deal with the Liberal Democrat party to form a government after a rather complicated ‘thingy’ that no one understood resulted in ‘hung parliament’ whatever that means. so we are now faced with leadership from the ‘Con-Dem’ coalition. now you see the issue is that anyone who WANTS to be in charge of the country is a megalomaniac by definition and a party that will change its policies to fit with another party (that has incompatible policies) is a foolish megalomaniac. 

We have two party leaders both megalomaniacs ready to show the other how Julius creaser felt that day and we are expected to think that they are the most qualified to run the country.

Here is an idea, lets put some one in charge who is not a megalomaniac and give them the mandate to ‘make life better for everyone and try not to screw up’ maybe at least then if that person screws up people will say ‘hey at least he had a go! its not like he/she ever claimed he/she knew what he/she was doing!’

These people who make a living out of trying to be in charge are not the people we should let be in charge. they are sick and need help. do YOU want to be in charge? no of course not, you KNOW your not qualified so why does some privileged private schooled power hungry smug git think HE is qualified? is there a class at school on how to lead a nation? if there was i am truly glad i missed it.

 

If Guy Fawkes tried that classic stunt now he would get the vote of every person in the country, at least he was trying to do something positive! no, i cant say that, blowing thing sup is never the answer, violent protest is never the answer but if all those people would just STOP VOTING or at least write ‘NONE OF THESE PEOPLE’ on that slip then at least we would have a chance of change.

I don’t think i need a leader, do you? i would still go to work and eat lunch and take a shower if there where no people in parliament, who needs them?, i just wish that they would stop going to war and taxing me to death.

I don’t vote, not because i am lazy or ignorant of the process, I don’t vote because i do not care who is in the ‘big office’ i don’t care because when given a list of crazed power mad liars i don’t care who of them get the job, put a single honest man on that list and i will move heaven and earth to cast my vote.

even when i cast my vote though the most popular people wont get in will they? i mean, with the hung parliament that we recently faced it was a game of percentages, most votes voted for other parties but because the combined strength of the Con-Dem’ed won out they got the office, must the larger percentage of people where divided and they got the job on silly pie slices not on sheer number of people on side. Maybe next post i will have a pie chart at hand but for now, do the math and you will see what i mean.

Now, people, if you care about your country stop voting and read ‘V for vendetta’ at least then you will be as angry and cynical as me.

Size matters

This morning i sat and watched a movie with my daughter, the movie ‘A Bugs Life’ is about the battle between ants and grasshoppers.

As the movie unfolds the hero, a little geeky ant travels to the bug city, the city is a vast metropolis built from old packaging and cans. the streets are filled with all sorts of bugs, the movie even shows roads where the bigger bugs ferry about the smaller ones like busses and taxi’s. The traffic lights are made from twinkling Christmas decorations and bubs.

The whole city is under a single caravan in the middle of a corn field no more than a few meters away from the ants home, but to the ants, its a vast adventure away.

Later in the movie the bugs hide from a bird in the vast canyons of a dried out river bed. To the bugs however the riverbed was truly a deep network of caverns like the grand canyon.

Although it is only a children's film the idea of a whole world and a whole society that exists within our own without us knowing about it is a strange one.

The idea captivated me for the duration of the movie. The same idea can be applied to real life too, when philosophers and free thinkers like David Icke and Neil Kramer speak about the hidden world and the veil that separates us movies like this at least for me really hammer home the concept.

there are many great video’s on youtube that hammer home the point that we are small. in the grand scheme of things we are tiny, less than one of those ants in the movie.

if you think about how vast the cosmos is and how we are all clinging to this ball of mud that is hanging in the vast openness of space we are nothing. So when some one says that something is impossible or that we know everything about reality i am forced to remember that little ball of mud spinning about in the dark and i can it ‘fixes’ my perspective.

and this blog was formed while watching a kids movie. maybe there is more going on here.

Rise of the electric shaman?

Today I was listening to a documentary about shamanism. The thing in specific that interested me was talk about mind altering substances that allow access to different levels of reality.

As I understand it, not all shamans use psychotropic substances some use drums and dance or even fasting to obtain the altered mental states needed.

I listened to the man on the radio talk about the process of trance that overtakes a shaman as he works and I couldn’t help but think that I knew what he was talking about a little better than maybe I should.

Now, I have never taken psychotropic's but I did know what he was talking about. you see, i play video games, i play them allot and some times i play them late at night way more than i should. Last Halloween of all nights i was playing the well known Team Fortress 2. The game is a first person shooter, its done in a comic book style, it has very bright colours and is played very fast.

That night as I played the game in the dark while tired something happened to me, and I suspect i am not the only one that has experienced it. the game became crisp and sharp and everything else dropped away into the background. gamers call it playing hard but i think its more than that, i think at that moment when you realise you are being consumed for that instant by the totally overlapped reality of the game, i think that that is the beginning of a shamanistic experience, i know that the place a shaman goes is far more intense than the video game induced trance but i can see the course and i think that anyone who has played guitar hero for any length of time knows what i am talking about here.

please excuse my babbling but this is an idea that has been forming for a few days now.

If everything shamans go through is to change consciousness and access other levels of reality then maybe its not to strange to use video games for this, maybe the repeated actions and light movements are ideal for the level of focus that may change your state of mind.

jut like dance or music video games give your brain something to focus on while your soul adventures.

are there other ways to free your mind? is electricity and the great inventions that it powers a new tool for the shaman?

Remember the hippies?

  The Hippie movement started in the early to mid 1960’s originally in America but soon like all good ideas spread to more countries very quickly.

THIS page on Wikipedia has some great historical information about the movement.

As the 60’s faded so did the movement and most the hippies got jobs and became respectable members of society. To this day there are dedicated believers in the ideals as well as stoned teenagers who think they are making a statement and hippy hating jokes that for some reason appear to still be relevant.

The movement was born out of dissatisfaction with society, government and the state of the world in general. the Hippies stood for change, honesty and wanted a revolution, a revolution of the mind.

The Hippy mind set is still alive and well on the internet with the Open source software movement headed up my many an aged hippy.

I must apologise for rambling on but my thoughts turned to hippies recently when the rather controversial Digital Economy Bill was passed recently over here in the united kingdom, i wont go into any great detail about the bill but it puts things in place that tighten the controls over digital copyright as well as putting more stress to internet service providers to enforce the existing laws.

it’s a strange thing because the DE Bill introduces a strange dynamic because it is a law that has been forced through by an industry and serves to do little other than highlighting existing laws.

it is in short the first step towards the death of creative freedom on the internet. soon enough there will be procedures and fee’s and contracts even to blog. it is the end game, assuming your guilt of copyright theft, guilty until proven otherwise. this will reduce the numbers of people contributing to the internet as a whole.

so, my question is, where have all the hippies gone? the world is in a much worse state now than when it was in the 60’s and with wars declared on phantoms, politicians taking it upon themselves to enforce laws that protect the music industry what can not protect its own products. lies, tyrants and oppression is everywhere. We are in short due for that revolution of the mind now more than ever.

 

In the 60’s the movement did not spread as widely as it could have done because so many people where against the idea of creative and spiritual freedom. this time however its 2010 and  everyone i know at work and in my personal life wants change and freedom so come on hippies, save us. I am not convinced that there is a more qualified group anywhere.

Sherlock Holmes, agent of propaganda.

Recently I saw the Guy Ritchie directed rendition of Sherlock Holmes. Before I go on I should say that I get yes, there will be some spoilers in here some where.

IMDB link

The movie's plot is in brief the story of a secret society within the government, and a rogue member who wants world domination. - that was the very short version.

I of the things that bother me with the story is that when Holmes is told that there is a secret society that is at work to steer mankind's destiny and is inside every major portion of the government he does not respond with anger or surprise, he is in fact quite calm about the hole thing and takes the task of tracking and stopping the rogue member.

Is it just me or is Holmes a little miss-guided I think maybe he was supposed to be outraged and try to expose them.

Then later in the story we see our loved detective actually perform a black magic ritual, he then has a vision that leads him to solve the while case. There is also a constant stream of symbolism in the story that even though does fit the plot it's there, its blatant and it is not kept secret from the characters in the story.


I am worried about this masonic/secret society propaganda and how even the main paragon like hero of the story does not flinch at its existence, its not okay to use secret society's to influence world politics. Do you really think that this is what Arthur Conan Doyle had in mind when he wrote the original work?

Give it a watch and then give it some thought, you may, like me decide that its a little creepy.

some times its all in my mind?

On an almost daily basis I am told that I am paranoid. I'm not saying that I'm not paranoid but I think I have reasons to be a little worried. As do we all.
Recently I have been entertained and educated by people talking about social conditioning through the media. Have you ever thought about what you are watching when you see a movie? A good example of what I am talking about is how in the star trek movie's the whole universe is ruled by a morally perfect military class system. Or how in 'Battle Star Galactica' its the evil Cylons that believe in a single god and the 'good' humans are into polytheisms.

Also if you do some digging you will find that the X-files spin off show 'the lone gunmen' has an episode dedicated to the idea of terrorists flying planes into the twin towers, with the blessing of the government, and this episode aired years before the real event.

There are elements of truth hidden within these things, I have never come across an explanation of this that I have really believed but it happens, and today I came across a great example of it

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/19032010/36/police-robocop-s-car-0.html

the above is a link to an article that I found through twitter. You see the movie robo-cop was set in the not-so-distant future where private company's ruled pretty much every aspect of our lives through contracting. There was also a cyborg police officer but that's not the portion of the plot that I am interested in at the moment



when the movie was made they chose a specific variant of the ford range of cars to use a cop-cars in the story. Its the only time these cars have been used for this purpose, until now that is.

It was announced that in the coming months the police will be rolling out in the exact same variant of police car as the ones used in a now old movie.

Maybe pretty soon we will all be ruled by a military class system and worshipping Apollo. Never mind though, its probably another coincidence, as if!

watch me poop?

Grace academy. you have probably never heard of it.

its a sixth form college in an area of Solihull/Birmingham called Chelmsley Wood, its an area with a high crime rate and this has been the excuse for the 'people who make decisions' to put camera's in the toilets.

That's right folks, they can watch you while you pee or, err poop. well, that is assuming your a younger person in education.



the faculty are officially claiming that the camera's are not 'active' however as the school is up the road from some relatives of mine who talk to lots of people I can say with all certainty that that is not quite true they have been trialling the cameras since day one of the installation.

its shocking, culturally alone a washroom/facility is a private area. a place off the radar and most importantly gives you some private time, to err... empty your self as well as fix your makeup and straighten your hair.

on a personal level i think that putting camera's in toilet area's is a disgusting and gross tool for perverts. it should not be allowed. ever.

everyone who goes to this school should just stop going until the camera's are removed. acceptance and complacency is how this sort of thing happens.

its not good, it annoys me, and i would hope you aswell. we will be discussing it in our next episode of the Rabbit Hole Express podcast.

not dead

just letting everyone know, have been busy in real life but have not faded away. more posts to come soon i promise.

also next episode of RHE should be on schedule too!

Rabbit Hole Express, Time shifting Shelf Stoppers and more strange in the Norway sky

Rabbit Hole Express

Episode 5 - “Time Travelling shelf stoppers?”

Rabbit Hole Express is a monthly discussion about all the strange news and conspiratorial thoughts that float around the media and internet.

This episode we talk in depth about SETI opening it doors to all, a Great article about the Norway spiral, more interesting strangeness in the Norway spiral, who is Jon Hutchinson? and most of all HexDSL ponders the mystery of the Norway spiral

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the Aurora UFO: http://news.discovery.com/space/aurora-mystery-solved.html

Norway Spiral Article: http://www.enterprisemission.com/Norway-Message3.htm

SETI goes public: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18516-seti-opens-up-its-data-to-citizen-scientists.html

Jon Hutchinson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hutchison

Moscow Triangle an X Com problem?

Remember the Moscow Triangle?

http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/18-12-2009/111237-ufo_moscow-0

Yes, that’s is but here is a better picture

Well, last year when i saw the footage of the Moscow Triangle something in my memory was twitching, a deep buried thought that has taken some time to surface.

Remember the X-Com series of video games? started with ‘UFO – Enemy Defence’ ? they where very popular when i was a teenager but the later game ‘X-Com Apocalypse’ is the one that was set in a city and in the introduction video there was a little sequence of a triangle appearing above a city. here is the video

YouTube
- X-COM Apocalypse Intro

The Part of the video that got stuck in my mind is 54 seconds in and ends at 1:08

anyway im not sure if its just me but there is something eerie about the whole video in relation to the Moscow event. 

China’s doctors breeding a super bug?

I know, its not funny to use sensationalist headlines but that’s what the Telegraph have done with this report

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7168303/China-threatens-world-health-by-unleashing-waves-of-superbugs.html

From reading the article that i have linked above it is easy to get the impression that china is a backward country with bellow standard health care. well…. have you notices how there have been allot of anti-china posts all across mainstream media over the fast few months?

could it be that China’s industrialisation and moves to integrate into the global commerce has upset some people?

Anyway, i have been distracted from the topic at hand. China according to this article has over used antibiotics, recklessly encouraging the growth of MRSA type bugs.

just a thought but lets assume they have not done any of this because after all the Telegraph quotes a Swedish doctor no one has ever heard of as evidence

there are quality health care plans available in China including this company http://www.china-healthcare.us/eng/ who seem to be very legitimate.

the idea of a super bug that will kill us all has been in the psyche of the world for quite some time, with movies like ‘I am Legend’ and ‘Resident evil’ showing us mutating virus’s that destroy the world as we know it and often create an almost alien race of infected, then there was the talks of a world plague that the TV show Heroes pushed forwards a while back with on of their ‘five years in the future’ episodes.

it looks to me that Hollywood and the news media are trying to firmly implant a fear of sickness into everyone and now China is going to be the next ‘movie’ to scare us all…. well, i don’t buy it, the Chinese are probably guilty of a great deal of things as are we all but to pump this kind of hate mongering speculation is just silly.

My point is, lets not bash them for this just yet, after all since the H1N1 circus has left town the media are looking for the next opportunity to print ‘The end is nigh’

Be Safe, Don’t Visit.

Today I visited the George Eliot Hospital in the city of Nuneaton here in the UK.

Upon trying to get a parking ticket upon arrival i was greeted with a simple yet worrying message as the picture bellow shows.

you can Click for a larger version or see the closer picture bellow

My local Hospital, the place that my family would go in the even of an health emergency is in the middle of an outbreak of an RNA virus known as Norovirus, as soon as i returned home i checked the trusty internet for more information (link provided)

To be fair to the George Elliot hospital they do have a message on their home page regarding the issue.

it reads: “The Norovirus sickness and diarrhoea bug is currently prevalent in the community. Please help to minimise the risk of this spreading to our patients by refraining from visiting wards if you are feeling generally unwell, especially if you are suffering from diarrhoea or vomiting.”

I also found on the BBC news page a mention of the issue as well (only when i looked really hard that is)

now, my worry is that my local news paper did not report the issue, there was not a warning given to the person that i was taking to the hospital either. so, you really don’t know about it at all unless you are buying a parking ticket.

wikipedia (my source for all things factual, for better or worse) has this to say

“Severe illness is rare: although people are frequently treated at the emergency ward, they are rarely admitted to the hospital. The number of deaths from norovirus in the US is estimated to be around 300 each year, with most of these occurring in the very young, elderly and persons with weakened immune systems. Symptoms may become life-threatening in these groups if dehydration is ignored or not treated”

So, it kills 300 people each year in the US, correct me if i am wrong but if you take away those who had ‘underlying heath problems’ from the H1N1 deaths and i think you may find that the Norovirus is at least as worrying as swine flu, yet there's no talk of it my my local paper and there is no Tamiflu equivalent on offer (thank the maker)

here are some other quotes from the wikipedia article that i thought where worth pointing out

“Hand washing is an effective method to reduce the spread of norovirus pathogens. Sanitizing of surfaces where the norovirus may be present is recommended. Alcohol rubs are not very effective at dealing with Norovirus.” – that's comforting,

“the prevention of nosocomial infections involves routine and terminal cleaning.” – revolutionary advice, clean stuff!

A little more fringe for a moment

One of the other things that i noticed while reading about the Norovirus was that its ‘marketed’ as acute gastroenteritis that develops between 24 and 48 hours after exposure, however it is an RNA virus, and for anyone who is familiar with the writings of Micheal Talbot or even some of the newer David Icke books then you may recall that RNA is the tool that allows our DNA to decode the reality we live in, so isn’t an RNA targeting virus a worrying thing?

 

Tamiflu, pointless placebo or government provided killer? well, that's the topic on another post entirely but if you do some research you will find people who have already spoken in some depth about it (Alex Jones for one) my point is that the media could have latched onto this tiny little outbreak and screamed pandemic very easily, or is could have gone unnoticed or simply diagnosed by the hospital stall as a H1N1 outbreak instead.

Its interesting to see how things are handled by the media and by the NHS, but more importantly if its not safe to visit the hospital how is it safe to be in the care of the hospital?

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Episode 4

Telepathy talk and the Norway Spiral.

 

A show about the alternative way of looking at things, yes some say its a conspiracy show, we talk telepathy, the Norway spiral, time travelling vandalism and well paid pyramid builders. 

this episode is a break from the normal style for us as we focus more on the interesting stuff that we have seen on the internet over the past month as well as out main topic. we even review some books.

in the main topic we go in an unexpected direction and talk more than a little about Mentalist's

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Book Report: Valis, Philip K Dick.

Valis By Philip K Dick

I have literally JUST finished reading ‘Valis’. I have consumed it in just a few days. I do not read allot of fiction and would usually not write a ‘Book report’ about it but this is a little different, was first pointed in the direction of the book when listening to an interview with Neil Kramer on Red Ice Creations Radio.

The Book is something of an anomaly, I honestly could not go into any depth on it even if i tried but i would say that ‘Valis’ is not a science fiction book but instead it is a semi-fictional theological work where a character searches for an entity that may or may not be god.

the story moves through themes involving the duality of time, popular culture and mortality.

It is a heavy read and in places appears to make no sense, the sense however is occluded by the drip fed nature of the story. If your interest is in the nature of reality or searching for higher meaning then its an amazing read.

Best Fit Theology.

Best Fit Theology is the name i have given to a phenomenon i have began to notice in society.

I think its been around for a while now, but to be honest i am not sure, it would seem that rather than sitting down and having a good old think about the universe people would rather pick the religious system that best fits their life.

As you may have noticed i am breaking up the seriousness of this topic with random and amusing theological motivational posters. i think if anything this adds to the stoic nature of the message i am going to try and convey.

 

If you live in mainland England and come from one of those passively religious families you may consider yourself a member of the church of England or as is better known, a protestant.

if you come from a catholic family you will probably be less passive in your beliefs but still quite sure your soul is safe.

There maybe many Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists reading this but i have little experience in those faiths so i don't know for sure that you are all passively faithful and unquestioning. for the sake of argument I am going to assume if your honest that's probably how you are.

My quest here is to try and wake you up to something. and please excuse me here, as I am not a member of any religion (this will become clear later) and i think all of them are probably right. I think that belief in its most basic form is a wonderful thing. however i would like to ask a question.

Why do you think you are correct?

I know, its a bold question and whatever religion you are has thousands of years of history (maybe more, maybe less) and smarter people than I have been part of all of them.

I am not arguing that your system of faith is incorrect, or correct. i am simply asking you to have a go at seeing the other side.

if your a Christian (any one of the 30+ denominations that i am aware of) have you read the bible? have you read the work of the religious competition?

i think we owe it to our immortal soul to make sure its in safe hands. just because your family are sure that Jesus died for our sins why are you?

shouldn't you check, just make sure that your religion echoes love and salvation to YOUR soul?

 

I think that people, ALL people should read and learn and understand and question and never become blinkered by faith. its important in all religions to ‘love’ and what’s more loving than trying to understand, do you think any creator you may have will disapprove of a philosophical yearning that HE/SHE/IT put into you in the first place?

The native people of Australia talk of dreamtime, a concept that i am only familiar with in passing (at the moment, i will read more as soon as i have time) the basic idea as far as i understand is that the creator sends a part of himself to the earth to become a person and experience an epic story. then upon death that part of himself tells that story, then that shard may return to experience a new story or stay and be part of the creator again. its a wonderful idea, is it true? i don’t know but i would not tell some one they are wrong for believing this.

I heard a historian named John Anthony West say something the other day on a radio show i listen to that made me think. i can not remember the exact wording but he said this

If a life that lasts one minuet is born at night in a storm it will never know there is anything else, when he his told of a summers day he will this it is nothing but a legend.

yep, i think i nailed the basic point he was trying to make (my memory is rubbish when it comes to wordings, i remember the concept but not the wording)

The point he was trying to make was that even though you think you know everything about your reality its based on such as small moment in cosmic history that it may as well be that moment in a dark rainstorm.

 

There are many other more hip religions you should look into as well, granted some of them are bonkers. That faith of the Ceiling cat who is locked in an eternal battle with basement cat

Don't forget the secret cult of the Flying Spaghetti monster, and the crazy ‘Last Tuesdayism’

yes, there are many choices but why stop at one. but what ever your do, please have a think about it, and never tell anyone they are wrong, that's just rude.

So, I have prattled on for quite a few badly assembled paragraphs now, and bashed theological complacency for long enough.

you’re probably wondering what i believe by now. a while back (years in fact) i was thought i was a child of the pagan mysteries, then i thought that Buddha was a safe bet. Time passed and i followed the breadcrumbs of my ideas, threw some out, got some new ones and at this moment i think that the universe its self it a/the (G)god (not sure on capitalisation in my soul or in that sentence) i think that time is probably a lie and we are all part of it.

I also think that Bill Hicks had it pretty close when he said this back in 1989

“we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves”

I follow no religion so i have no bias. That being said i may have one one day, that's cool, after all in the end no matter what you think of your creator he still thinks your pretty cool, unless there isn't one, or he is you…. but you get my point.

Ill leave you with this random song lyric….

Did music save your immortal soul, my my, miss american pie… [some other lyrics i cant remember] and i knew i was out of luck the day the music died.