Tapdancing into The Big Death:
Apocalypse Notes I
ontological destruction/shock
new world paradigm
shattering of illusion
death of the guiding concepts of the 20th century
psychotsunami : amplification of effects
Philosophical paradigm shift
psychological shock waves
zeitgeist
the shattering of the western mind
apocalyptic shock waves...the tearing of the veil/rip in reality, bursting
of the bubble.
Sexual issues
earth (animal/ecological) wind (philosophy/thinking)
Fire(technology/energy) water (unconscious)
exponential nature of change
punching through to the other side
Polarization increases until it reaches a certain threshold:
what is the term for the sudden collapse of a magnetic field?
Technology strips away privacy...
During the Permian extinction, (225 Million years ago) one half of
all marine species perished. The dinosaurs died during the cretaceous
extinction (65 million years ago). The late Quaternary extinction(1914 A.D.
to 2014 A.D. : a million species became extinct within one century. The
quickest of all mass extinctions, most species were killed off due to
habitat loss due to the killer ape Homo Sapiens. H.Sapiens violated the
first law of a successful parasite, moderation.
One fifth of all life forms will be gone in thirty years.
"The late quaternary extinction wants you!"
Sept.1st, 1914, Martha, the last passenger pidgeon, died in the Cincinatti
zoo. Passenger Pidgeons died primarily due to loss of habitat.
During the Cretaceous extinction, about one species died off every
thousand years. We're now killing off more than one species a year.
Monday, December 2, 1991
Apocalypse Now
Recently I've been enjoying a certain grim satisfaction in watching
world events unfold. The daily news confirms my belief that the thing which
is now approaching is the Beast himself, coming to devour all civilization.
We are teetering at the brink of a pit that is the darkest of all dark
ages.
The U.S.S.R.- the second most powerful country in the world- is now
shattered and disintegrating. A year ago it was a world power, but now
winter approaches and the government cannot provide enough fuel or food to
sustain its own people. The U.S.S.R. has ceased to exist. All that's left
are a mass of hungry people and thousands of nuclear bombs.
China's not doing so well either. This summer the country was
inundated with so much rain that a million or more people were forced to
flee their homes. Crops were drowned or washed away. Now China is being
plagued by a severe drought. Once again, the crops are ruined. China must
produce enough food to feed a billion people, but the weather won't
cooperate.
Meanwhile, back in smug Amerika, the people are in such a stupor
from gorging on consumer goods that they cannot comprehend the calamity
that's about to overtake them. We are not immune from the world's ills. The
weather is just as chaotic here as it is elsewhere, and unpredictable
weather makes for poor harvests.
Eat and Excrete
The human population has greatly exceeded the carrying capacity of
the earth. During this past century alone, we've forced tens of thousands
of species into extinction. Human civilization is like a mechanical beast
with an insatiable appetite. Our factories are the mouths, stomachs and
intestines of industrialized societies. We eat and we excrete. Back when
things were still on a human scale, we didn't eat so much, and our
excretions could be recycled to help make the land more fertile. But now
the stuff our factories spew out is poison to the land we live on, the
water we drink and the air we breathe.
What Man and Locust Have in Common
Modern man is like a plague of locusts of Biblical proportions that
strip bare everything in their path, leaving nothing behind for tomorrow's
hungry. What we do not devour, we pollute. Locusts start off as nothing
more than ordinary grasshoppers that eat and breed in relative harmony with
nature. But then, for some inexplicable reason-perhaps when their
population reaches a certain mass- the grasshoppers undergo a
metamorphosis. They grow darker in color, their mandibles grow larger, and
they mass together in great, voracious hordes capable of devouring whole
countries. That's what mankind has become. As long as there were not too
many of us, we coexisted with nature. But once our population grew beyond a
certain level, we underwent a change similar to that of the grasshopper. We
learned to fly on metal wings and the steel jaws of our machines gnaw on
the earth and on all other living things.
The beast I speak of is a human creation. It's nature is a mirror
image of our own nature. It is the cumulative product of all our actions.
It is like a static charge produced by friction. Two polar opposites that
grow and build until they can no longer remain apart. The beast is drawn to
us and we to it. Upon contact, all will change. Then, if we are not all
destroyed, the cycle will begin anew.
The Crux of the Problem
There are too damned many people on this earth. Malthus was right.
Given enough time, population will exceed food supply. If the food supply
problem was solved, then population would eventually exceed the air supply.
The sad fact is that humans cannot control population growth. A few
enlightened souls may choose not to reproduce, but the vast majority of
mankind keeps cranking out babies as usual.
The Solution to the Problem
The earth's human population must be drastically reduced. This may
be accomplished in two ways: an increase in human mortality or a decrease
in human fecundity. I think both methods are now kicking in. War, disease,
famine, human stupidity, industrial and nuclear accidents, cataclysmic
shifts in the earth's crust, intensified solar radiation. All are joining
forces to rid earth of excess human population. AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases will help put a damper on sexual activity while
killing off large segments of the population at the same time. Our polluted
environment is helping to reduce fertility rates. Fewer and fewer men these
days have viable sperm. The human destruction of the ozone layer is
allowing more intense solar radiation to penetrate the earth's atmosphere.
This radiation is producing an increasing number of viral mutations.
Eventually, something will come into existence which will make AIDS look
like the common cold. An increase in solar radiation is also having a
significant impact on plants and animals. Some plant species may die, while
others proliferate wildly.
The man-made calamity known as the greenhouse effect is apparently
already causing world-wide weather changes. Weather is becoming less
predictable and storms are becoming more powerful.
There is no need to panic. Sit back and relax. Everything is under
control. The earth will survive. Gaia, the Earth Mother, is fully capable
of defending herself against puny mankind. She is now in the process of
purging the ranks of humanity and restoring the balance of nature. Wait and
see. Soon, a whole lot of people are going to be dead. Assuming that the
average person weighs 150 pounds, five billion people would equal a biomass
of 375,000,000 TONS. Is it possible to go from five billion people down to
three billion within a decade? At that rate, 1.3 million people would have
to die and be disposed of every day for the next ten years. That's
approximately 97,500 TONS of dead bodies per day that would have to be
reabsorbed into the earth. I don't think it's possible to kill off so many
people so suddenly, except for an all-out nuclear holocaust. Most likely,
the earth's human population will decrease at a much slower rate, taking as
long as a century to shrink down to a world-wide population of two billion.
I don't know-who could know the answers to such things? After I'm dead, I
don't really care what happens to the human race. The only way a massive
die-off might affect me after I'm dead is to drive up the price of real
estate in Heaven-or Hell. I'm sure both places will be booked solid until
the powers that be find another planet on which humans can run amok.
The way the human mind works, we learn from our own mistakes, but
rarely from the mistakes of others.
From a humorous book: "More ways to save the earth":
*Pay with large denomination dollar bills. A $20 dollar bill has the buying
power of twenty one-dollar bills, but uses only 5% of the forest resources.
* A single toilet flush consumes 5-7 gallons of water and the solid waste
adds to already taxed landfills. "Holding it in" remains a simple and
effective way to protect the environment.
Mankind, the Supreme Parasite
News: In a recent article published by Nicholas J. Demerath,
professor emeritus of anthropology/demography at Washington University said that the current world population was currently at 5 billion and was
expected to reach 10 billion by the year 2000. The most rapid population
growth is taking place in Africa, Latin America and most of Asia. "The
scientist's warnings and the evidence at hand point to extinction of our
own species by ecological suicide." Mankind, the supreme parasite, is
stupidly consuming its host.
Big news today: the giant Panda is closer to extinction than the
Bengal tiger. Now we are keeping statistics on the dying of the planet yet
nobody cares enough to change. Can't bred successfully in captivity. No
habitat. No habitat for the soul of man either. It is all becoming a
desert. The desertification of the soul. Erosion of the mind's topsoil. If
it were not for the pain of isolation, life would be totally sterile. We
are hypnotized and anesthetized to all.
Book: Century's End- "We now know that the idea of the future as a
'better world' was a fallacy of the doctrine of progress." German novelist
Thomas Mann, 1938
For some inexplicable reason, reports of multiple personalities in
the annals of psychological literature increase as each century draws to a
close. Multiple personalities resurfaced during the 1790's, the 1890's, and
now, during the 1990's.
Too Much, Too Fast, Is Dangerous
Man aspires toward God, and this is entirely as it should be, just
as the child mimics his parents. If this were not meant to be, God would
have assured that it would not be so. Man's destiny has always been to
strive higher, to attempt to reach beyond his grasp. But through his
invention, the computer, man has now seized hold of a power beyond
individual comprehension. Man sees himself as all-powerful, but in
actuality he is a mere baby playing in the house of God. And this is fine,
because if it were not meant to be, then by the will of God, it could not
be. But baby has now gone exploring in the back of God's closet, and out of
a shoe box up high upon a shelf, baby has somehow gotten his hands on a new
thing. However, as you and I both know, a baby regards everything as a toy,
even a box of matches. And just as men have always done, the only way to
learn what a match can do is to light one, and watch it burn. New things
require caution, and mankind would be wise to review the story of Icarus,
who flew too close to the sun. We have yet to grow weary of the ego's orgy
of death, yet we dare attempt to harness the powers of life. Mankind's
power outgrows his wisdom to control it. On the eve of the second
millennium, many apocalyptic cheer leaders gather to chant, "Burn, baby,
burn."
We live in an age of our own creation- an age where many people now
feel a growing disgust for humanity. Even though our technology has never
been greater, many people are engulfed by a sense of helplessness and
despair. More people than ever before are beginning to believe that the
world is dying, and it is dying a hard death, wracked in pain as if from
cancer. And many people, like Dave Foreman and his "Ecodefense" followers,
believe that man is the cancer, and the earth cannot survive so long as man
thrives.
Our children are growing up in a world of diminishing expectations.
It is they who suffer most, because they've yet to learn how to tune out
the groans of a dying planet. They have not yet learned to behave like
their parents, and lose themselves in mindless pursuit of meaningless
acquisitions.
Youthful idealism stems from one's belief of their power to change
the world, while nihilism is the result of a loss of that belief. When
faith is lost, hope is lost, and that is when people cease to live and
begin to die. Adults are accustomed to the lie, while children tend to see
and speak truth until they learn differently. If you could wipe the
cynical film off your spectacles and view life once again through the
unjaundiced eyes of youth, you might understand why so many young people
apparently believe that the world is beyond hope. Why else do you suppose
that the adolescent suicide rate has increased so dramatically in the last
twenty years?
Suicide- oblivion- comes in many forms, and those few who find life
so bleak that they would rather die, signify the existence of a greater
number who live on reluctantly, caught up in a spreading malaise.
Virtually all modern men are hooked on technology like junkies to
heroin. We all love our toys and are unlikely to give them up except under
a threat of death. Many people now accept the fact that that the world's
mounting chaos is a product of our own technology, but that still doesn't
stop anyone from using it to the detriment of all. Are you willing to give
up the immediate personal benefits of air conditioning, automobiles,
processed food or washing machines in exchange for such a vague long-range
concept as "saving the earth?" If you answer "yes", then you must do it
now. Don't sell your car or washing machine, because then somebody else
would just use it. You must destroy the offending technology and learn to
do without. The fact is, it will always be easier to whine, "somebody's got
to do something" (meaning the government, your neighbor,etc.) than it will
be to take the first step yourself.
Unfortunately, there is no immediate and direct cause and effect
link between eating a MacDonald's hamburger and lessening mankind's quality
of life.
If you look at how the people live in Mexico city or in Calcutta
and then compare that with life in New York city, you realize that man can
and will adapt, in some fashion, to almost any level of filth and squalor.
There is still a long way to go before the majority of the world becomes a
huge third world ghetto.
As long as we do not suffer directly from the pollution from our
own automobiles, we will continue to drive more than the bare minimum. If,
for example, a law was passed that required automobile exhaust pipes to be
mounted inside the passenger compartment, you would see a sudden demand for
less polluting engines. This will never happen, though, and so things will
continue more or less as they always have; we'll make our messes and leave
the house cleaning to somebody else.
I do not believe that people will stop using technology until the
system completely breaks down.
The greed mania that seems to have infected the current generation
is a natural reaction to perceived scarcity. As we sense the world's
resources drying up, we each rush to grab hold of "our share."
Another reason for greed and acquisition is that for many people,
this is the only reason to live in a world that lacks any god greater than
technology.
When the world reaches a certain level of decay, people no longer
make an attempt to fight the trend. If your whole city is heaped with
garbage, what difference is another piece going to make?
Compulsive writing is merely the regurgitating of words onto paper
in order to keep from dealing with issues closer to home. K.S. was right on
that score- I'm focused on a world apocalypse because it is analogous to
what is going on inside myself. One's opinions always mirror one's internal
state.
"New world, New Mind: moving toward conscious evolution" by Robert
Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich. Some stuff from the first few pages: "Human
adaptability can be a source of danger-consider the boiled frog syndrome.
Frogs placed in a slowly heated pan of water will not be able to detect the
deadly trend, until finally they are cooked to death. Steady-state events
are tuned out. We only notice when a change occurs in our perceptual
environment. A great way to sell anything is to claim that it is going
fast."
Some more books: "Voluntary Simplicity-toward a way of life that is
outwardly simple, inwardly rich," by Duane Elgin.
"London Fields" by Martin Amis. The novel is set in the grimmest
most apocalyptic of times.
"Economics As if the Earth Really Mattered" - a catalyst guide to
socially conscious investing, by Susan Meeker-Lowery. Some general topics
covered in the book: respect-cooperation/ relationship-place/
diversity-self-reliance/ harmony-appropriate scale. Chapter 4 deals with
"Investing in people you know. Investing in friends. I like this concept.
More books: "The Books in my life", by Henry Miller."The Solace of
Open Spaces," by Gretel Ehrlich.
An apocalypse-or force-field discharge- occurs every once in awhile
whenever the static charge builds up too much between one dimension and its
mirror image.
Periodically, two polar dimensions build up sufficient energy
potential that they are drawn together. (See Diagram B) When they touch,
the charges neutralize one another. In the process, something may occur
which is analogous to a big spark. Then again, nothing of the sort may
happen, depending on how much of a charge has built up since the last
discharge, depending on whether the two fields are compressed or not,
and, ultimately, depending on the nature of the energy involved.10
When the collective energies of the animated matter11 that exists
on this dimension accumulates a sufficiently strong "charge" in a polar
dimension, the two dimensions begin to be drawn together. The closer they
come to each other, the greater their attraction, until inevitably they
touch.
6.66 The flyleaf of the book announced:" Humanity is given, collectively
and individually, during the last two decades of the twentieth century, a
very major test in the school of life...." "The Apocalypse is an inner
process of purification and transformation which precedes the opening of
the consciousness and super-consciousness to being given the keys of Heaven
and Hell-the revelation of one's true nature and destiny."
"The coming of the Anti-Christ is the conscious recognition (and
embodiment) of our own dark, unregenerated self and its final transmutation
and integration by the higher self."
7 The information would be redundant in any case, since each of us is
capable of intuitively knowing our proper balance points.
8 It is very much within the realm of human ability-for a man who truly
seeks to know- for one to gain a vision or premonition of his own fate.
Sometimes this vision can be very disturbing-even horrifying- and in such
cases it is easy for a man to be driven to despair. However, man need not
despair, because he has the power to alter his fate one probability at a
time.
9 Energy fields can be compressed by other energy fields, until one is
forced into the other. Consider two magnets aligned so that each of their
positive poles are facing. The magnets will resist each other until a
greater force (in this case, your fingers) presses them together.
10 Some energy forms are very stable, and rather than being reactive, they
are infinitely compressible.
11 (Which we call life).
12 This is analogous to a diode in an electrical circuit, which restricts
the flow of current in one direction only.
12.5 Creativity is really just another word for originality.
13 All I could think of to say was, "I guess if you parked your car out in
the rain last night, you got a free car wash."
.c.1-(415) 673-DOOM;.
I see from the newspaper that there's a group in California who
have chipped in to set up an end of the world hot line. You call this
number to get a recording telling you that the apocalypse is almost upon
us. The number is 1-(415) 673-DOOM..c.1-(415) 673-DOOM;.
See the Apocalypse Live, on TV
While I was writing last night, Terry was in the other room
watching T.V. I heard an announcer say, Tonight, on channel 69, "On the
trail of the Anti-Christ!" I went in and asked Terry what she was watching,
and she said, "Some show on channel 69." I told her I thought it was odd
that the announcer would say, "tracking the Anti-Christ" since that
suggests that he is here on earth, and leaving tracks. I checked the TV
guide, but can find no mention of the program. The fact that such a program
exists, suggests that Apocalyptic awareness is on the increase.
.c.2/12/90 Night Thoughts
My joints hurt a great deal last night, and that's why I awoke at
2:48 a.m. My first thoughts were "This is the time when everything either
becomes halved or doubled"
The next thing which came to mind were the words, "In the world of
the blind, I see the light which heralds the approaching thunder. Soon all
will hear what I already see."
Then I got out of bed, went into the other room, and wrote until my
mind felt clear enough to go back to sleep. First I wrote some stuff about
my physical condition,(see medical log notes, reference #244), then the
stuff that follows.
"Forget the bad times which will soon arrive. Others with more
limited sight can see that far. Humanity is now waking up as it stands at
the abyss. Soon, all of mankind will know that the Apocalypse is upon us.
Instead, focus beyond, to the great awakening. Mankind needs hope to
sustain them in the dark days soon to arrive."
Ordinary life for me is dull and as a result I love chaos. The only
time I really feel alive is when all Hell is breaking loose. I thrive on
disasters and storms. One reason I keep hanging on to life's cross of iron
is because I have an apocalyptic vision of a world laid to waste. I pray to
God that I live to see it! No matter how the world ends, it will be a
surprise. One day mankind may be hovering on the irrevocable brink of
nuclear war, with everyone thinking that this will be our common end, only
for everyone to be smashed out of existence at the eleventh hour by a stray
asteroid. No matter what the end, it will arrive accompanied by a load of
irony. I think mankind's end will occur as suddenly as a heart attack.
Everything will appear just as it always has until the blade suddenly
drops.
Tuesday, August 18, 1992
A Hodge-podge of Notes on Dreams
Dreams of thr apocalypse, Dreaming in virtual reality: much of the
ballyhoo about Virtual Reality is simply a desire to enter the world of
dreams. Movies are dream-like. Low-tech virtual reality. Television is
somewhat similar to dreaming. There is a similarity between the 90-minute
REM cycle and the way TV programs are formatted into 30-minute segments.
A billion minds adrift in a sea of dreams. We're all plugged into
the same network in our dreams. Dreamscapes. Hypnagogic states of mind.
Jesus slept. Power dreaming. The Apocalypse is Death with a capital "D;"
pure and simple Death on a personal scale of one. Uno, you! Hold the mirror
to your face and imagine yourself on the other side. An insubstantial
reflection, an image lost in time.
An old man trembles in his bed in the middle of the night praying
to see the dawn. His life ebbs and flows through the cracks of day. At this
juncture-when the weight is released-all men become equal. All material
things fall away. What's left? Nobody knows.Apocalypse
"When encountered outside the religious framework, the apocalyptic
expectation of imminent transformation of the environment- with the
individual somehow playing a central role- is labeled pathology. This
pathology symptom in individuals is the driving force behind much of our
civilization." -Terrence McKenna
Book: Trilogues at the Edge of the West,
Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake
In the Revelation of saint John the Divine, angels come and pour
down diseases. There are plagues of scorpion-like creatures that come from
the interior of the earth.
The book of Daniel in the Old Testament is an apocalyptic,
prophetic book.
"The word "paranoid" is designed to make people not like it. There
is an implicit assumption that there's nothing to be paranoid about. In
fact, in a very dynamic and unsteady universe, paranoia may well be a true
sensitivity to the facts of the matter." -Terrence McKenna
Like building a house on the slope of an active volcano...like a
spider building its web inside a rain spout...like a dust mite living in a
gun barrel...
"There will be an intense polarization as the new millennium approaches."
-Trilogues
Adam Parfey was there. He's the publisher of Apocalyptic Culture an
other noxious off-the-wall books. He had some good tips on self-publishing.
For example, you can print 5,000 books for a cost of about eighty cents
each by having them printed on a belt press. The only restriction is that
your book can't have any photos, only line drawings.
The Armageddon Kid
I also talked to a local kid by the name of Cal Kenney, who held a
tiny seminar on the approach of Armageddon. Cal is the son of a Methodist
minister. He believes that the final conditions for Armageddon are now
being fulfilled, and that it, or something like it will happen within the
next 12 months. Cal's telephone number is
(404) 872-2523.
The Most Distant Supernova Ever Detected
The pulse of light was first detected on April 28, 1992, by the
Isaac Newton telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands. The light faded
after a month. Physicist Saul Perlmutters said "The distance of this
supernova in light years corresponds roughly to the age of the solar
system.Apocalyptic Musings
Brotherhood of the snake or dragon: both symbols represent wisdom.
The father of wisdom was Lucifer. The literal meaning of Lucifer is
"bringer of light," or "the morning star."
According to many, a supernova explosion occurred in 4000 BC. Dr.
Anthony Hewish, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in physics, discovered a rhythmic
series of radio pulses which he proved were emissions from a star that
exploded around 4000 BC.
The orbit of the Galileo space craft will decay in December, 1999,
when it is over the planet Jupiter. Jupiter is a baby star with a gaseous
makeup exactly the same as our sun. Galileo is carrying 49.7 pounds of
plutonium which, under the massive pressure of Jupiter's atmosphere, will
compress and explode, igniting the planet's atmosphere.
New Drug Test
SudorMed Inc. of Santa Monica Calif. has developed a drug detection
patch which sticks to the upper arm and absorbs perspiration that is later
analyzed for traces of cocaine or the metabolic chemicals the drug
produces.
In Georgia, if a persons body fluids test positive for a drug, they
can be charged with possession, even though no drug was actually found in
their physical possession. This new patch could be applied to citizens and
could then be used as the basis for their subsequent arrest.
"We now know that the idea of the future as a 'better world' was a fallacy
of the doctrine of progress." German novelist Thomas Mann, 1938
Book: Century's End- For some inexplicable reason, reports of multiple
personalities in the annals of psychological literature increase as each
century draws to a close. Multiple personalities resurfaced during the
1790's, the 1890's, and now, during the 1990's.
Wire Taps of the Future
Police state: Digital telephone transmission technology makes it
harder for wiretappers to listen in to conversations. As a result, the FBI
and the Justice Department want a law to require the phone companies to re
transmit the conversations of any individual named in a court order. These
conversations would be transmitted to a monitoring facility.
Anti-counterfeiting technology
Cannon color copiers have a feature that traces counterfeiters of
original documents. Each copier imbeds a code into the copied image, which
is impossible to see. A special scanner extracts the code and a computer
program then furnishes the copier's serial number, allowing identification
of the registered purchaser of the machine.
Video Vigilantes
The latest thing in citizen's action against crime is Vigilante
video. This is where private citizens drive around with video cameras,
aiming them at anyone who appears to be engaged in illegal activities, such
as street-corner drug-dealing and prostitution. -Jeffrey Dahlmer's home
videos.
Americans are becoming the most watched people on earth. Our
technology is stripping away all layers of privacy. We are slowly becoming
a nation of voyeurs.
Super Car
Simms Industries Inc., which specializes in defense system
engineering, has developed an automobile security system called the
Protector. The Protector system emphasizes protection of the driver over
and above protection of the vehicle. It is designed so that all a person
has to do is push a button and they get help. It will initially cost
$2500-$3,000 dollars. The system includes a mobile unit with a receiver, a
cellular telephone, antennas, a remote control and a central office that is
staffed by operators and equipped with computer and communication
equipment. The mobile unit is activated by an electronic key coded to let
the central office know the identity of the vehicle and also a physical
description of the driver. The control box inside the vehicle has four
buttons that can signal an operator to call police, fire, medical or
emergency road services for help. When a button a pressed, a long-range
navigation system (LORAN) is triggered, allowing the vehicle to be tracked
on computer-generated maps of streets anywhere in the nation. The central
office can listen to conversations within the vehicle and communicate with
the driver over a speaker phone. The communication center can trigger
flashing lights, alarms, or even shut off the vehicle's ignition.
Symptoms of a changing/decaying society.....
America, Then and Now
William Bennet has compiled a list of Leading Cultural Indicators: trends
from 1960 to 1990: the US population increased 41% and the gross domestic
product nearly tripled. At the same time, violent crime increased 560%,
illegitimate births increased by more than 400 percent, the divorce rate
quadrupled, the teen suicide rate increased by 200 percent, and SAT scored
dropped by 80 points.
Harper's Index, February 1991
* Number of Americans robbed or assaulted last year by people impersonating
police officers: 25,000.
* Percentage change, since 1982, in the number of juveniles arrested for
homicide in the USA: +93.
Book: The Universal Almanac, 1993, John W. Wright, Gen. Editor
Pg. 233: The United States is the most violent industrialized democracy in
the world.
* In 1990, there were 20,045 murders in the USA. This was a 9% increase
over the year before.
1993
The world is destabilizing. There is no doubt about it. Virtually every
aspect of human and planetary reality is in flux.
The weather is behaving erratically all across the globe. Flood and
drought are just two symptoms of destabilization. What results is too much
precipitation in one place and too little in another. Storms are also
becoming more powerful. Meteorologists are predicting so-called
superstorms, both now, and in the future.
Continent-sized holes are appearing in the ozone layer.
Earthquake and volcanic activity has increased all across the
globe. In the early 1980's, long-dormant volcanoes began to awaken. Fires
rage all over the planet. Vast segments of the earth's plant life has been
wiped out. Rivers and oceans ooze corruption. Smoke fills the atmosphere.
The end of time. The shattering of the lens through which we view
this curious arrangement of circumstances and events which we call reality.
Twentieth-century mankind is undergoing a rude awakening from the
illusion of our era as if from a great, collective dream. The most
fundamental elements of our perceived world are suddenly called into
question.
A couple sit and sip their cappuccino on a terrace overlooking the
Mediterranean sea. It's an awesome vista as broad as the eye can see. A
dark spot appears in the distance and begins to grow like a tiny
triangular-shaped cloud. The woman, with her enhanced peripheral vision, is
the first to spot it. The man looks in the direction she's pointing to see
a what appears to be a delta-winged aircraft high in the sky, diving at a
45-degree angle toward the earth below. But there is something odd about
this manifestation, it's behavior is quite unlike any known aircraft. This
shape appears to enlarge in magnitudes as it plunges across the sky. The
gaze shifts from the tip of the plunging shape to its colored wake, which
is only now forming coherent, recognizable patterns.
A sudden shock of complete disbelief ripples the mind's surface,
quickly followed by horrified recognition of the impossibility revealed in
the craft's widening wake. Lo! The aircraft is no craft at all, but a
wedge-shaped rip in the sky. A tear which is rapidly opening up and peeling
away like tired wallpaper on a steamy bathroom wall. Life's illusion laid
bare by a rent in the fabric of reality. The couple look at one another in
stunned terror as they realize that what they have known and grown to
regard as reality is no more real than a painted backdrop. Reality has
ripped and in doing so revealed itself as the ultimate trompe l'oel.
Book: Cambodia: a book for people who find television too slow,
by Brian Fawcett.
Thought-trends: Conceptual baubles of our age.
Most ideas have limited life spans. Ideas are born to die. Ideas
flow through the collective consciousness like freely-circulating computer
software. The prevailing ideas of our age are like free-form programs which
merely suggest rather than issuing strings of commands, as computer
software does. The majority of humans behave in accordance with freely
circulating ideas and concepts which comprise collective reality.
Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark recently spoke at the Religious Life Symposium at
Emory University. Clark was Attorney General during the Kennedy/Johnson
administration.
"Ye shall know truth, and it shall make you free." "We act on truth
as we perceive it. We live in a time that is saturated with information,
misinformation, and deception. Democracy requires an informed people. We'll
not be free unless we demand the truth." "The real question in human
survival is whether we can see the truth in time." His book: The Fire Next
Time
Book: Manufactured Consent, by Noam Chomsky.
Data is being collected. Devices say we are compliant. If they say we are
guilty, we're guilty! Noise is defined and excluded from the system. Modern
technocamoflage requires that data masquerade as noise. Its effectiveness
depends on the ability of data to masquerade as noise.
Digital technology breaks reality into pieces. Analog reality is sampled at
a specified number of times per second and is electronically stored. The
sampling rate determines the quality (how accurate it is compared to the
original) of the recording. Analog is holistic in nature, while digital is
fragmented and manufactured. As dataflow volume increases, sampling rate
diminishes. Thus,the depth and texture of media reality also diminishes.
The most quickly changing aspect of the human mind is the speed at
which it must operate. Life used to pass at a walking pace. Now it moves at
a dead run. Modern man is bombarded with information coming in from all
angles. There is little idle time for the mind to rest.
Terrence Mckenna tonight entitled True Hallucinations.
Mckenna sez: Loquatious mushrooms have spun a myth and issued a prophecy,
in quite specific detail, or a planet-saving global shift of consciousness.
He claims that much of his musing is tongue-in-cheek but I think he may be
tuned in to something on a cyberspatial sideband due to the
mushroom-thing.
Geneticists tell us that only a small quantity of our genetic code
is actually used in the process of making us what we are. The rest, they
theorize, is atavistic junk dating back to the primordial soup. However,
this unused genetic code may actually represent some vast potentiality
waiting to be unlocked by the proper chemical key.
"Why I and my companions have been selected to understand and trigger the
gestalt wave of understanding that will be unleashing the hyperspatial
zeitgeist."
Pg. 101: My companions and I have been given the peculiar privilege of
knowing that history will end."
Pg. 102: "...the real antichrist is the distorted reflection of Christ at
the end of time in the cosmic Adam-anthropos.
Triggering the eschatology: is this syncretism, or prophecy?
Gunshots in the Night
Things have changed here in Decatur. This is no longer the safe
little town on the outskirts of Atlanta. Now, when I walk around at night,
it is not at all unusual to hear gunshots in the distance. It doesn't make
me feel very secure to know that somewhere out there, someone is firing a
gun at something or somebody. The shooting has become just another night
sound, like the rumble of a passing train or the whine of a passenger jet
overhead.
Book: Out of Control, Global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first
century, by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor).
Brzezinski says that during the 20th century, only 167 million people (less
than 1,670,000 per year) were deliberately extinguished through politically
motivated carnage. Brzezinski sees more of the same in the years to come.
Book: Race Wars, by William Pannel : rough notes:
This book calls for communication and understanding between the races so
that a race war can be averted.
W.E.B. Dubois prophesied that the end of the century would end in a race war
.
Our society is in the grip of a pathology of violence. * Gang membership is
at an all-time high. * The Norman Rockwell-type police of our father's age
have been replaced by trained killers. Police violence is widespread.
Book: Technopoly, by Neil Postman
Book: When Time Shall Be No More, prophecy belief in modern American
culture, by Paul Boyer.
Changes in the way we perceive the world.......
Book: Michael Talbot: The Holographic Universe
Pg.5: In 1987, physicist Robert G. John and clinical psychologist
Brenda J. Dunne, both at Princeton University, announced that after a
decade of rigorous experimentation by their Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, they had accumulated unequivocal evidence that the mind can psychically interact with physical reality. More specifically they found that through mental concentration alone, human beings are able to affect the way certain machines operate.
Too much information results in sensory shutdown/meltdown.......
It is not the barrenness of an empty room, or an empty life that we speak,
we would get rid of clutter, and thus get room for fullness.
-Robert Henri, 1923
Health:
Decrease in Human Fertility....
Discover Magazine, February 1993
Decreasing Human Sperm Count
Pg. 12: Danish researchers reviewed 61 semen studies conducted worldwide
since 1938 and found evidence of an alarming decline in testicular
productivity. The average ejaculate volume has dropped from 3.40
milliliters (.92 fluidram or .69 teaspoon) in the 1940's to 2,75
milliliters today; a decline of nearly 20%. The average sperm count has
fallen more than 40%, from 113 million sperm per milliliter to 66 million.
Thus, today's average man only launches 180 million sperm cells at a go.
Niels Skakkebaeck, an endocrinologist at the Rigshospitalet in
Copenhagen points out that both the USA and Europe has seen a marked
increase in testicular cancer since 1940, as much as fourfold in some
countries.
The Emergence of Uncurable Diseases
New England Journal of Medicine: In a report with "ominous implications for
public health, researchers warned today that even the best treatments and
best hospitals are often unable to cure drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Doctors at the most prestigious TB treatment center, The National Jewish
Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, say 44% of the
patients treated there for drug-resistant TB either die of suffer relapses.
The high mortality rate is not due to AIDS infections because all
of the TB cases studied were from 1973-1983, well before AIDS became
widespread in the US population.
Impact of Technology on prevailing belief systems.....
FAXes to God
News: A new service of the Israeli national telephone company, Bezek, is a
personalized FAX to God. Bezek publicizes a number in Jerusalem to which
believers can send prayers via FAX machine. A Bezek employee will take the
copy of the prayer and stuff it into a crevice in the (Western (or Wailing)
Wall, the only part of the ancient Jewish temple still standing in the
city. According to tradition, prayers stuffed in the wall are likely to be
answered affirmatively by God.
Catholic Fax-a-Confession
News: a new confession box is to be unveiled in May, at Italy's
annual church fair in Vincaza. It will provide people with the option of
confessing the sins of lust, greed, and omission by fax machine.
Police State mentality
The US Supreme Court has issued a ruling that says, in effect, that the
Constitution allows an innocent man wrongfully convicted of a capital crime
to be put to death. Justice Blackmun said that he ruling is close to having
the court sanction "simple murder."
Magazine: Prison Life:
Pg. 27 "Incarcerations of women increased 261% since 1980. Of the 823,414
inmates incarcerated in state and federal prisons, females accounted for
47,691, or 5.8% in 1991."
More than one half (of women prisoners) are incarcerated for
non-violent and property related crimes.
"Between 1980 and 1989, there was a 307% increase in women arrested
for drug crimes."
"The typical female offender is under 30, African-American,
unemployed, with a high school education."
Colorado: "More than double the usual number of prisoners waived
their rights to parole hearings this year, opting to serve out their
sentences. Colorado prison director Frank Gunter says, 'with the economy
the way it is, some of them feel they are better off in prison than on the
street.'"
"Oklahoma state representative Ernset Istook proposed tattooing all
convicted felons for easy identification and implanting transmitters within
the felon's bodies to better track their movements."
Slave Labor
On of the functions of the American Correctional Association is to
organize conventions that market prison industry products. "The corrections
industry growth is phenomenal. The number of inmates in the nation's
prisons, jails, and detention facilities recently topped 1.2 million. With
this growth in mind, the American Correctional Association has unlimited
opportunities for your company to profit from this industry."
The U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Illinois has been called "Robo Prison."
According to the warden, "Marion contains the most vicious, predatory and
intractable convicts in out penal system today." Marion is also where many
U.S. political prisoners are kept. The prisoners spend 23 hours a day
alone, in a 7x8-foot cell, under lockdown. Any time a prisoner leaves his
cell he is strip searched, his orifices probed, then he is handcuffed,
chained and escorted by two guards. Marion prison is the most
psychologically oppressive environments devised by man. Amnesty
International charges that Marion's techniques amount to a special system
of psychological brutality.
According to Prison Life, robo-prisons like Marion are becoming
more prevalent. Control units are the "most troubling aspect of the human
rights situation in the U.S. prison system."
Book: Prosperity Lost, by Philip Mattera
* Pg. 136: The annual divorce rate has gone from approximately 10 per
100,000 in 1960, to more than 20 per 100k today.
* The portion of births to unmarried women has jumped from 5.3% in 1960 to
10.7% in 1970, to 24.5% in 1987. For blacks, the rate is 62%.
* Rise in female-headed households: 1960 =3D 1 in 6. 1990 =3D 1 in 4.
* 45% of black households are headed by women.
* in 1960, 38% of women were in the workforce. In 1990, 60% are in the
workforce.
The Future of Social Control:
Brave New World Revisited: Epsilons: the not-so-bright-ones.
The problem with today's breed of free-roving American retards is
that many of them are either criminally insane or virtually useless when it
comes to performing menial jobs. However, this situation could be vastly
improved through the production of genetically-designed drones who are both
uniform in temperament, emotionally stable and who also possess exceptional
memories so that they may be easily trained. What the world needs is a vast
horde of retards who desire nothing more than the privilege of working
themselves to death for the common good.
Life-force Entropy
Each day in America, hundreds of thousands of birds and mammals are
slaughtered for food. Tons of fish are killed and processed. Each day, huge
numbers of abandoned pets are killed in government-operated animal
shelters. Each day, countless squirrels, possums, raccoons, birds, deer and
assorted pets are killed by automobiles. Each day, thousands of people die
in hospitals. The rate of births and deaths has never been higher. Most
animals used for food only get to live a fraction of their normal
life-spans. This further increases the life-entropy. Every time a life is
cut short, the flow-through increases.
Within the next century, more than five billion people will die.
Average human weight of 150 pounds x 5,000,000,000 =3D 750,000,000,000 pounds of human flesh. 750,000,000,000 / 2,000 =3D 375,000,000 tons of human flesh.
Within the next 100 years, mankind will have to figure out a way to
dispose of 375 million tons of human flesh.
If each person requires approximately 1500 calories of food per
day, and the average person's life span is 70 years, then 38,325,000
calories are required to sustain one person over the span of hisherit
lifetime.
38325000*5000000000 =3D 1.9162517
Food
* 16 tons of food will feed 32,000 people for one day:
(1 pound of food per person).
Five billion people now live on planet earth.
5,000,000,000 divided by 2,000 equals
two million, five hundred thousand tons of food per day.
Over the span of 70 years,
one person will consume approximately 12 tons of food.
According to "Network Earth," it takes one thousand gallons of water to
produce every pound of food we eat.
Earth mass =3D 5.976 x 10^27g; volume =3D 1.083 x 10^27cu cm
Dr. Charles P. Kindleburger is an 82-year-old professor emeritus of
economics at MIT who is a stock market historian. He says that 60 years of
studying manias back to the Middle Ages has taught him that "people don't
learn from their mistakes. We forget."
Semi-Relevant quotes
"In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth". An
abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we
emerge, to our universal chagrin."
"Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the
apex if not the end of history."
--E.M. Cioran French Philosopher. Aphorisms:
"When they made a desert, they called it peace." -Tacitus
"Hell is truth seen too late." -John Locke
"Forced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving there's no need
to do so, everyone gets busy on the proof."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."-Goethe
"The new always comes in with a sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is
dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous or
subversive." -Henry Miller
"Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the
rafters of which are rotten and worm eaten, and those who embark on them
are fated to be shipwrecked." -Buddha
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes
prohibitive." -Wm. Buckley
"It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the
obvious." -A.N. Whitehead
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden
path throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
-Voltaire
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as
though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things
that seem than by those that are." -Machiavelli
"When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has, he
dies of his whole life."
-P'eguy
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe." -H.G. Wells
"We are continually living a solution of problems that reflection
cannot hope to solve." -J.H. Van den Berg
"The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next."
-Edith Hamilton, author of "The Greek Way"
* In medicine as in life, until the mind has been prepared to see
something, it will pass unnoticed, as invisible as if it did not exist.
-Ovid, ancient Roman poet.
The most significant transitions involve a time in Hell.
* Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
-Saint Paul, the
Apostle
Buddha got his enlightenment instantly, in a flash, but only after
he had studied for fourteen years.
* I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events
have controlled me. -Abraham Lincoln April 4, 1864
*Thus in the days of fables, after the floods and deluges, there came
fourth from the soil armed men who exterminated each other.
- Montesquieu Espirit, Book XXXII
* Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
* Every man bears his death within himself, as the fruit bears the stone.
-Ranier Maria Rilke
* Do you not see how necessary a world of pain and trouble is to school an
intelligence and make it a soul? -John Keats, Letters
* We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making
the darkness conscious. -C.G. Jung
* Observe constantly that all things take place by change and accustom
thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much
as to change the things which are, and to make new things of them.
-Marcus Aurelius
* The mad mind does not halt. If it halts, it is enlightenment.
-Chinese Zen Saying
* To see truth, contemplate all phenomena as a lie. -Thaganapa
* Molecular psychology represents the most fundamental heresy ever
committed by science, and we will have to embrace it. We will have to look
into the mirror, surrender illusion, and make peace with the fact that
we're staring at a machine. -John Franklin, Molecules of the Mind
* The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
-Lao Tzu
* Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up by ruling over a
desert.
-Albert Camus
You dream you are the doer,
You dream that action is done.
You dream that action bears fruit.
It is your ignorance, it is the world's
delusion that gives you these Dreams.
-Bhagavad Gita
* We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
-George Bernard
* A nation never fails but by suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Almost two thousand years and no new god! -Friedrich Nietzsche
* Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running
money! Molloch whose fingers are ten armies! Molloch whose breast is a
cannibal dynamo! Molloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! -Allen Ginsberg
* Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal.
-Albert Einstein
*There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every
shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
-Ovid, Metamorphoses
*There are two fundamental laws underlying physical change in the universe.
One is the law of polar reversal. In all things we see the seeds of their
opposites...The other law of change is periodicity. This law manifests in
cycles and rhythms.
-From The I-Ching Workbook, by R.L. Wing
*"I think we are living in an age of increasing polarization."
-E.F. Schumacher
*"The psychopath may indeed be the perverted and dangerous front-runner on a new kind of personality which could become the central expression of
human nature before the twentieth century is over."
-Norman Mailer, "The White Negro," in Voices of Dissent-1958
.
*"Paradoxically as it may seem, modern industrial society, in spite of an
incredible proliferation of labor-saving devices, has not given people more
time to devote to their all-important spiritual tasks; it has made it
exceedingly difficult for anyone, except the most determined, to find any
time whatever for these tasks." -E.F. Schumacher
* Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo