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!