The Real Ghostbusters (and yeah, it turns out David Icke *IS* right)

I recently was recommended “The Demonologist” by Gerald Daniel Brittle and finished reading it a few days ago. It is about husband-and-wife demonologist and exorcism team, Ed and Lorraine Warren and was written back in 1980. Ed passed away a few years ago but Lorraine, a very powerful medium and psychic is still with us. They are nothing like the Ghostbusters as portrayed on film.

Based on maybe 1 gram of truth.

For over 40 years, the Warrens were called in by priests, clergy and victims alike, for exorcisms, demonic possessions and demonic infestations. Things which were beyond the reach of psychologists, psychiatrists and science. The book is a terrifying but important read. I could only bring myself to read it during daylight hours because it disturbed me too much.

Ed and Lorraine Warren

The rites of exorcism are still a part of the Catholic canon though it is something the Church does not like to discuss too much. As the book explains, while the Catholic Church has dispensed with antiquated teachings around Purgatory and the importance of nuns wearing habits over the years, the rites of exorcism are still around for one reason and one reason only….because they are still needed and it’s based on truth. It may be hard for those of us who have never met or experienced such a thing, in an age of pure science, where we have split the atom, broken the sound barrier, gone to the moon and peered at distant stars and suns. The fact remains that ancient evil still walks this earth.

The Rituale Romanum, the formal rites of exorcism

Case after case in the book, men and women of scientific training who were called in to deal with victims, when finally upon realizing it was in fact nothing scientific at all, but were coming face to face with true evil of a source they could not and probably earlier on, would not understand, finally gave in to the Church. Not that it’s that easy to get the Church involved either. Most priests who are called upon to do exorcisms usually have years and years of top-of-the-line academic training in a variety of disciplines, like anthropology, history, psychology, psychiatry, anatomy, theology and then finally demonology. In fact “The Demonologist” is still used in seminaries around the world. They will rigorously check the victim and the circumstances to make sure it is maybe a psychiatric or psychological case. They actually DON’T want it to be a case of possession. It’s only after they have ruled everything else out, then the dark realization sets in that they are dealing with evil, otherwordly forces.

You need years and years or training and study before you’re even considered spiritually mature, strong and advanced enough to fight and engage with a spirit during an exorcism. Many experienced exorcist priests are usually forever scarred by their encounters, either spiritually, psychologically or even physically. Many of them die at an earlier than normal age.

What I like about Ed and Lorraine’s style is that they are very, very matter-of-fact about things. There’s no woo-woo business going on here with crystal balls, turbaned psychics or seances. They make the distinction between 2 groups of spirits:

i) those of human origin, “ghosts” as we usually know them as, easier to get rid of

ii) those of an inhuman origin, these are demons and they are extremely dangerous, they want nothing less than to see mankind die or destroy themselves, even one by one, because in their books, that means a victory against Source, their number 1 enemy. That may mean driving someone so insanely crazy or pushing someone to the brink that they kill themselves or they kill others.

Lorraine Warren these days, with CPEAR

Reading the book and the list of signs of possession or infestation are items we’ve seen in movies like “The Exorcist”, scratches, disgusting smells in the room, paint and wallpaper suddenly peeling off walls, sudden drops in temperature, objects levitating and flying, drops of blood appearing .

Wallpaper suddenly peeling and vulgar words appearing underneath is one of many other signs of demonic infestation

• First point: Demons have to be invited in. That may mean Ouija Board (seriously, get rid of them) or young girls casting binding love spells. Just don’t play around with stuff you don’t understand. What shocked me was that many so-called channelers claiming to channel a spirit of someone who died, are usually channelling demons. Demons like to trick people and throw them off, so while someone may claim to be channelling a young girl who died by getting hit by a car, you actually don’t know who or what you’re dealing with. It’s like opening your door and letting anyone in.

• Second point: They happen in 3′s. Footsteps behind you, knocks on the door and no one is there, loud noises in the house and upon investigation, you find nothing.
• Third point: Demons may either possess a person or infest a place. The Warrens were called in for the famous Amityville Horror case. They were the ones who determined what was afflicting the house was an inhuman spiritual presence.

Now, this is the part which stopped me in my tracks and made me recall everything which David Icke has been saying for years.

If he’s proven right, A LOT of people will have to eat humble pie

From page 115 (Remember, the book was written in 1980):

Ed speaks of the demonic spirit showing itself only rarely in preternatural form. What does the demonic spirit look like? The question is an uncomfortable one for him to answer.

 

“Although the spirit can project itself in any form it chooses,” says Ed, “It’s appearance is an abomination, a monstrosity. To see what is really behind the phenomena is not something to be desired. To actually see the demonic is to feel ruin. What shows is something distinctly preternatural in appearance: something real enough as you can see it, but yet something not of this world.”

 

But what does it ultimately look like?

 

“Ultimately, ” Ed answers with great reluctance,” it is not human. It is inhuman. It has scales. It looks …like a reptile. That’s it,” he cautions,”I won’t complete the rest of the image.”

They can be defeated. In Ed and Lorraine’s own words.

“Sin, ultimately is spiritual immaturity, and those who are foolish enough to underestimate the value and purpose of life, actually draw the demonic to them…Asserting the positive generates a power of it’s own. Therefore being positive is the best protection against that which is called “evil”. The whole trip of life is to work with and emphasize the positive…People are looking for solutions in this world and the answer isn’t with the occult. It’s to go with the positive flow of nature, because it is good and ensures life, rather than death.”

 

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Getting burnt – Literally

If you have not heard, 21 people were treated for 2nd degree and 3rd degree burns this past weekend at a Tony Robbins Fire walk event.

Robbins is one of the best-known if not, the richest of motivational speakers out there in the world. He’s been featured on Forbes magazine dozens of times and he’s on a first name basis with folks like Bill Clinton. I’d see his infomercials on late night TV and to me, he reminded me of Jaws’ long-lost baby brother (the villain from James Bond flicks like “Mookraker”). Big teeth, big smiles and big promises. In my mind, that spelled Red Flag Alert.

Jaws

Separated at birth?

Of course you just had to buy his recordings and listen to them and watch yourself magically morph into a millionaire or billionaire overnight.  Robbins uses a lot of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) in his teachings and to me, there’s almost a subliminal mind programming element about that. I have no problem with people using NPL to break a bad habit like drugs or smoking or help get themselves out of an abusive situation. I do however have major issues with people using NLP for improving sales tactics.

This incident exemplifies one of the biggest issues I have with the New Age movement in general, that somehow if I just think the right way, I will attract all the abundance that the world owes me, that if bad things happen to me it’s because I deserved it because I wasn’t thinking the right way or sending out the right vibes. While trying to get people out of a victimization mentality, all it does is replace it with guilt and self-recrimination. It completely misses the point that there are outside forces at play in this world and that it really isn’t all about you. That bad things happen to good people all the time through no fault of their own.

I recently finished reading Chris Hedges most excellent book “Empire of Illusion”. He rightly pointed out how the New Age community is actually doing more harm than good to millions of people suffering out there. People need to wake up.

From CHRIS HEDGES
Transcribed from BookTV interview

Q: What do you think of Oprah’s role in the cultural and religious pursuit of personal wealth?

CH: Negative. Oprah peddles this fantasy that we can have everything we want if we just focus on happiness and grasp that we are truly exceptional if we dig deep enough in ourselves, and this is just magical thinking. It’s not just peddled by Oprah… I don’t want to pick just on Oprah. The Christian Right does it, Hollywood does it, Corporatism does it. Tony Robbins, self-help gurus do it… and it’s just a myth… a myth used to beat up on the poor.

There are no jobs in Camden, New Jersey. They used to make Campbell’s soup in Camden… even that’s gone… everything is gone. The school’s are dysfunctional with a gigantic drop out rate, the streets are unsafe… and to somehow tell a poor black child who’s not getting an adequate education, not being raised in an environment that provides safety and security and nurturing… and upon that, being tossed out into a city where there is no work, that they have to dig deep enough within themselves is really a way for us to turn our backs on the vulnerable and the poor. And to say, the cultural message is, “you are responsible for  your fate”… that’s just the way the corporate state wants it as it sheds job after job… as larger and larger segments of American society are reduced to a subsistence level without any kind of job security, without any kind of adequate health insurance… that it’s sort of their fault because they haven’t managed to tap into their inner strength… this is not only delusional, but in the end, I think, callous to the weak and the poor and the working class.

There should be heavy state interventions into impoverished areas in our inner cities and rural enclaves where poverty has become tremendous… I’ve spent a lot of time with military units, and the best military units never leave their wounded or dead on the field… even corpses, they still mean something, they’re not commodities although their utility to the unit is gone… and I’ve seen soldiers and marines crawl out and bring these bodies back… and these were always units with the highest morale and most effective fighting capacity. It was the units, who left their dead on the field and walked away, that rapidly disintegrated… and I think that’s what we’re doing as a nation. We need to rebuild that solidarity, that community, that sense that when you stumble and fall, I will reach down and help pick you up… if we are going to make it.

We have allowed corporate values, whether it’s reality television… reality TV is essentially about Corporatism… it’s about the celebration of values that are characteristic of psychopaths: self-aggrandizement, incapacity for remorse or guilt, betrayal… one builds false friendships then betrays them… for what? Fleeting fame or a little money, and it’s writ large throughout the whole culture. We have to begin to question our value system if we’re gonna make it.

One of the most important questions is: what are we going to do about all those people that we’ve allowed to be treated like human refuse?

From his book Empire of Illusion

Rock and Redemption – Rick Springfield

I’m fairly sure Rick Springfield ruined my life.

Back in the day, a teen dream.

See, at the grand old age of 7 years old, I swore my undying love to him and only him. I’d watch “Tom and Jerry” cartoons with my babysitter after school and would wait in anticipation for the K-Tel album commercials which would show snippets of their highlighted hits, with very, very brief videos (MTV literally started that summer and videos were just beginning to take off).

Remember K-Tel records and albums?

We would wait to hear those unforgettable chords to “Jessie’s Girl” and swoon over Rick and that picture-perfect teen idol face of his. To me he was the walking definition of tall, dark and handsome. I would literally just stop whatever I was doing to just look at him.(He’s 63 now and still looking fierce. Talk about great genes…)

Springfield dominated the Top 40 charts in the early 1980s, that weird musical period where disco and punk had died in the late 1970s, a new decade had barely started and music was still trying to figure itself out. New Wave had yet to start and the later British invasion with bands like Duran Duran was still a few years off.

The Fab Five had yet to still conquer America

Springfield ended up with a Grammy for best male rock vocal AND he also had a the virtue of being a working actor at the same time as having a #1 hit. His day job? He worked on a popular soap opera, “General Hospital” as Dr. Noah Drake.

On popular soap opera, “General Hospital”

Winning his Grammy

You know when you see someone who seems to have it all and you just assume they’re happy and later on you find out the whole thing was a ruse? You meet someone and they seem to have found the secret formula to happiness, they seem to have it all effortlessly come to them, without the taint of suffering? That people who have everything must be the happiest people on Earth? You would think that by being a popular actor, a teen heart throb, a string of number one hits on the Billboard charts, an adoring fan base of millions, a Grammy, more money than you know what to do with coming in from all directions and finding the love of your life, that someone in that position would be at the top of their game and be happier than anyone else on God’s good Earth, right?

Wrong.

Behind the hits, behind the dreamy face and public facade, Rick was sinking. There was debilitating depression, something he had suffered from his whole life and then exacerbated by the sudden death of his father on the eve of his success. There was the sex addiction, a means to get out of the depression, the incessant cheating on his wife Barbara. There were constant suicidal thoughts. Finally after the birth of his son, Springfield went missing in action from the music business. His musical career completely disappeared and by the time he tried to get back into the industry, public tastes had completely changed.

That put him into an even deeper hole. With sporadic acting gigs, he was pretty much forgotten as some 1980s relic, like the Rubix Cube or the suits Crockett and Tubbs wore on “Miami Vice”.

Remember when this was considered cool?

Rick credits Buddhism and meditation in bringing him back from the edge of the cliff. He went into therapy, he worked on his marriage, he came clean on his numerous infidelities, he deepened his spiritual life. He wrote a book about it about 2 years ago, called “Late, Late at Night”. He went public on everything (and I mean everything, the book is an uncomfortable read in certain parts). The book hit the New York Times best-sellers list.

Buddhism and meditation helped

 These days, there is a documentary about to come out on him called  “An Affair of the Heart: Rick Springfield and his Devoted Fans”. He does the 80s nostalgia tours and he has a returning role as a warped version of himself on that excellent TV show “Californication”. He’s still recording and putting on an average of about 100 shows a year. He’s also been “Glee”ed, with the cast of Glee doing a cover of “Jessie’s Girl” on the show recently. He doesn’t take himself to seriously at all anymore and doesn’t expect his fans to either.

I finally saw him last year when he came through Montreal, his first time. It was a charity show and the tiny theatre was far from sold out. In fact, I’d say only half the seats were sold. Most of the audience members were ladies of a certain age who were clearly reliving their teen memories and crushes.

From my vantage point.

I remember hearing stories about Alice Cooper about when he failed to sell out the Montreal Forum, he sang one song and was so pissed off, left the stage after that in a giant huff. I think Rick could probably teach him a lesson or two on manners.

Rick came out and gave it his all. He could have been playing a stadium, it made no difference. It was an amazing, energetic show. Dude still has it, it’s his love of music and the love of his fans and it shows. A female fan in the front row had her 2 small pre-school kids with her (I’m guessing she couldn’t find a babysitter that night). Rick brought them on stage with him. At one point, he was holding the little girl in his arms and got her singing with him which then led to the entire theatre singing along with them. As I watched him, the only thing that kept coming to me was his incredible warmth and the sense of gratitude he gave off.

Rick had it all and then nearly threw it all away. Maybe the lesson here is that sometimes you nearly have to lose everything before you realize what you really have, that gratitude is a constant state of mind.

And the richest one.

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Let’s try this again…

As some of you may or may not know, my yoga article got picked up by Elephant Journal a few days ago and after a few thousand hits, several hundred FaceBook shares and many, many comments on EJ as well as Reddit, I think a few details need to be clarified.

1) I’m not an anti-white racist bigot, despite what many of the thinly-veiled racist comments there indicated.

Anyone who has read my blog and picked up my vibe knows how insanely crazy that assertion is. I mean really, Indians are actually considered members of the Caucasian race as well. One of my family branches is white and so are a great majority of my friends and neighbors. I harbour the most insane  naughty fantasies crushes on a bunch of white dudes like Henry Rollins, Michael Fassbender  and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien. My article is basically about pointing out the lack of diversity, the cultural (mis)appropriation and the excessive commercialization of yoga these days.

Who in their right mind would be racist towards *this*????

2) I don’t hate yoga, I dislike the commercialized and contrived culture which has grown up around it. There are a few of us left who look at yoga as a spiritual discipline and the immense healing potentialities it offers and actually don’t want to have anything to do with this “market or spa yoga”.  Ditto for “rock star yoga”.

Not!

3) Yes, I’m angry and frustrated at what’s happened to yoga. So shoot me.

It would seem airing anger and frustration is some kind of a taboo now and even more galling by someone who knows how to spell properly. As one reply on EJ rightly pointed out, anger is just a feeling. What’s important is how you express it and deal with it and I expressed mine in that article.

There are far more constructive ways of expressing anger.

4) Rocking the boat will not make you popular and neither will writing a controversial article.

I wrote that article to air my opinion and perhaps it was strongly worded but sometimes the only way real and meaningful dialogue can happen is by being as blunt and direct as possible. I think by being excessively diplomatic or politically correct, you end up with an argument that almost looks like a white-out and goes no where – sorry, I couldn’t resist

5) Relax, people it’s an article, not a hand grenade.

I was hoping the article would provide some food for thought and even some self-reflection. Why are you really doing yoga? It was never meant to offend anyone or their practice…Except maybe the Lululemon clad mall rats who were going to go to GLBL Yoga in Central Park.

So to my naysayers, chill. Like seriously. Chill. Wanna come over sometime for home-made curry, samosas and pistachio kulfi instead? My Punjabi Lamb shanks in spinach and tomato sauce are known to be restaurant level gourmet fare (sorry, I’m not vegetarian but I can always offer you Aloo Gobi and Pakoras instead) We can sit on my porch, eat with our hands and discuss. Just bring a bottle of wine (Vinho Verde, Pinot Grigio or Reisling) or some sangria please.

There’s no such thing as too much sangria!

Chronos and Kairos – The Gods of Time

The English language, as varied and as rich as it is, sometimes fails to pick up the nuances of spiritual language, of spiritual ideas and feelings. Sanskrit words like chakras and kundalini (did you know that kundalini in the ancient Egyptian religion was known as “The Raising of The Djed Pillar” or the Akashic Records were known as the “Halls of Amenti”?) have entered the English lexicon and the world’s vocabulary in much the same way the Japanese word tsunami became understood around the world after the 2004 disaster.

Chakras!

I personally think it’s a good thing that language becomes enriched by different influences. My only caveat is when you have shoddy or lazy translation taking place, making ideas and the spiritual realities of other peoples inaccessible at best, and grossly misunderstood at worst. This is unfortunately still going on, particularly with respect to the translation of Islamic and Sufi ideas into Western languages.

Indian Muslims praying. Unfortunately there’s still a lot of disinformation on Islam in the West.

To anyone who has read the bulk of my postings, it’s becomes very obvious that I’m heavily influenced by Gnostic and Native thought. While I am not a devout Anything and I usually cast a leery eye towards organized religion, I will tip my hat when they get some things right.

In this case it’s the Greek Orthodox Church, and the greater Orthodox Church in general.

The Orthodox Church actually have two words for Time.

Chronos: the basis of the word chronological, is time as we can record it and experience it, the sequential moments of our lives, the time you see on your watch, diaries and on calendars. The time of reality. The time of quantity.

Chronos aka Father Time

Kairos: Cosmic timing, when the gods determine when something happens, when things happen when they happen, over which no one has any control over. Spiritual time. The time of quality. The designated time ordered by the Cosmos, when opportunity comes knocking.

Kairos: When Opportunity knocks

In a Chronos-dominated world, living in Kairos becomes all but impossible, when you’re constantly trying to beat the clock to wake up on time, get to work on time, leave the office by a certain hour, time your workouts etc. etc. etc.

Kairos has a tendency to sneak up on us in two ways, usually in the form of unexpected, pleasant surprises or it’s opposite, when we suddenly hear of some unfortunate news. Kairos has that ability to yank you back into a deeper reality and shake you of of your day-to-day lethargy and remind you of living in the Eternal Now. I think the longer you stay in touch with Kairos, the easier it becomes to accept grace and the travails of day-to-day life.

I also think that’s partially why so many people are attracted to things like fortune telling and astrology. It’s almost as if they are guide posts to those Kairos-based moments. (When will I get that dream job? When will I meet the love of my life? When will I be famous? Is this my big break?).

It usually never works

I personally have a very laissez-faire attitude about these things. They happen when they happen. Put your intentions out there and let go of them and let the Universe do it’s thing. It’s probably impossible for people who are results-driven but forcing outcomes  hardly ever comes out the way you want.  Instead, it opens you up to possibilities and gifts showing up when no expectations were involved.

I remember one night in Washington, DC. I was on my way home from a spoken word show. It wasn’t late and it wasn’t a bad neighborhood at all. I was literally 100 feet away from the bus circle and subway station when a car suddenly pulled up beside me. Normally, when a car pulls up beside me, my first thought is that they want to ask me for directions. So in my naivete, I stopped walking. This time, two men got out and they both were wearing bandannas over their faces, bandito-style, which I thought was odd. Next thing I noticed was the one in front of me suddenly had pulled a gun on me. It didn’t sink in what was happening because it was so alien to me. So I just looked at the barrel of the gun and then looked up at the guy, right into his eyes, and the first thought that came to me was “No – it’s not time yet”. The second reaction was a feeling of utter rage and disgust at this person. I was pissed off and kept thinking “How dare you do this to me, who the fuck are you?” and so I just walked away without saying anything. I was expecting the bullet to rip through my back any second but what happened instead was that my reaction confused the two guys. The got back into their car and drove off.

I just accepted the moment as it was and ended up walking away with my life.

(Two years later, they were caught. They had been terrorizing that area for awhile and it turned out that they were two disgruntled employees of a local restaurant who had shot and killed their manager, execution style, through the back of the head and left him in the freezer room.)

Tom Hanks’ film “Cast Away” really shows up Chronos and Kairos at work in a very dramatic way. After many attempts to leave the island, one day a door shows up on the shore which he’s able to make a boat with and eventually leaves the island and is rescued. He returns home to find his sweetheart has married someone else. He tracks down the woman who had drawn angel wings on a FedEx box he had during his time on the island, something which kept him inspired to go on living. We don’t really know what happens after that.

And therein lies the mystery of Kairos. It happens when it happens.

Theoretical versus Practical

Like everyone else, I’ve read the blogs, watched the YouTube videos, read articles and then some on what we need to do and get this revolution in consciousness going for real. Authors, speakers and film makers like Michael Tsarion and Chris Everard point to the history of these controlling groups, the language of symbolism that they use, the rituals and so forth.

Michael Tsarion

Chris Everard. (Why do almost all conspiracy research guys always look grouchy? Is it a prerequisite?)

Researchers like David Icke rightly point out that there is no cavalry coming, that it really is up to us to join in and fight back peacefully, that we outnumber them by the millions and billions. None of that is controversial.

 What I think keeps many people back is fear and it’s an understandable reaction. That fear is closely related to the impulse to survive. You have kids, a mortgage, a car and retirement savings to make on a monthly basis. In an unsteady world, people are afraid to walk away or give up their comforts in order to resist a system, which I am positive, even if many of them won’t admit it, is slowly killing them also. It’s the regimentation of work, it kills creativity, spontaneity, and I also suspect libido but don’t quote me on that.

You think most of humanity actually ENJOYS facing traffic like this everyday, to and from work, to pay the bills?

 Authors and lecturers pass on the message to lose the fear, that it’s all an illusion and in some cases that if we just love enough, or shine enough light then it’s all going to be A-OK. I wish it were that easy, I think if more practical advice and a new way of looking at our civilization were presented, then some alternatives can hopefully be realized. What I do see is a lot of rhetoric, wishful thinking, bizarre visions from channeled sources (let’s not go there)  but not enough practical advice.

Not likely to happen.

The only people who I do see strategically making plans and concepts for a post-capitalistic world are surprisingly, the anarchists. Now before any of you freak out over that word, anarchism is much more that a bunch a thugs running around breaking windows and looting stores. Real anarchism is essentially about citizen-directed movements and organizations. The internet, before it became super commercial, was anarchist in nature. So are many cooperative movements and organizations. It’s about the people who work the mills also own the mills.

Different kinds of anarchism and their respective flags

Even under the umbrella of anarchism, you have a variety of types of anarchism like anarcho-syndicalism (which Professor Noam Chomsky is an advocate for), eco-anarchism espoused by the likes of Murray Bookchin and anarcho-primitivism which believes in a  going-back to the land philosophy and it’s biggest advocates are writers like John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen.

Bookchin was a very serious and prolific writer on anarchist ideas.

While I don’t agree with everything he says, I cannot deny that Derrick Jensen is one powerful writer, visionary and poet. I first read “A Language Older than Words” about 7 years ago and I was hooked. I read his other tomes,”Endgame Vol.I and II”, “Welcome to the Machine”, “The Culture of Make Believe” and ‘What we Leave Behind”.

Watch the talk and you won’t have to read these books, but you’ll still be missing out on some fantastic food for thought.

Jensen makes the point that civilization by its nature of cities, and cities based on the import of resources it requires continuously to prosper, are inherently violent. If your water supply runs out, and the next town has water, you’ll just go take it.  That in essence, our civilization is based on an understanding of violence, either implied (Give us your water or else)  or real (i.e Iraq). This violence permeates every aspect of our culture, from the objectification of women (do you only see her as a series of orifices which porn and the sex industry tells us) to the violence in families and in the media. Jensen rightly points out that because it’s everywhere, we’ve become numb to it. What I really admire about his work though is that he offers alternatives, even if it may make us uncomfortable. Like entering into a relationship with Nature. Speaking to the trees, the land and the animals. He gives some ideas where many New Agers fail.

I think the biggest failing of many in the so-called spiritual community is that they still ground their thinking based on a capitalistic model of abundance which is actually very anti-Nature at its heart. Chris Hedges said it best when he defined capitalism as essentially the commodification of absolutely everything including human life. And THAT has nothing spiritual about it.

This is a long watch, Jensen is not a very camera-friendly subject. His speaking style and his writing style are very different also but it’s worth a watch because he points out many things which serious alternative thinkers fail to consider or pick up on.

Incarnation: T or F?

For those of you out of the conspiracy theory research loop, the last few days have finally cemented David Wilcock’s status as a colossal fraud.

Wilcock, along with his cohort Benjamin Fulford, claimed that based on “insider information’ by an informant named “Drake”, at the beginning of July, there were going to be mass arrests of Illuminati members. It also involved some convoluted story involving triad gangs like the White Dragon Society and a trillion-dollar lawsuit, gold being hoarded up in China somewhere and finally culminated to Wilcock apparently receiving death threats and breaking down in tears on Project Camelot.  (If  all this sounds confusing, it is, it’s as mixed up as Wilcock’s mind).

I never liked Wilcock. He always struck me as a little disingenuous and what really tipped the barrel for me was that he was arrogant enough to go so far as to claim that he’s an incarnation of Edgar Cayce  because a) they look like each other and b) apparently they have similarities in their natal astrological charts and on the basis of this, we’re somehow supposed to believe him.

Edgar Cayce and David Wilcock side by side

The mystic of Virginia Beach, Edgar Cayce

Sorry Bro, I’m just not seeing it

Wilcock is a proven fraud. Back in 2009 he said that Full Disclosure would be taking place any day now, meaning that governments were finally going to come clean and admit to the existence of UFOs and alien races. It never happened. And now this mass arrests bullshit. Anyone who takes Wilcock seriously after this seriously needs to have their heads examined.

But this got me thinking about people who are real incarnations, not proclaimed or assumed ones.

I mean we know the Dalai Lama is the 14th incarnation of the Tibetan Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteśvara.

The Tibetan Bodhisattva of Compassion – God form

And in human form

Here’s a look at some people I’ve come up with who certainly are much more than meets the eye…

Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen and Sir Isaac Newton

Both are geniuses in the pure and applied sciences

I make no secret of the fact that I’m crazy when it comes to great music and rocking out. Brian May is considered to be one of the best rock guitarists ever. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #26 in their Top 100 Best Rock Guitarists of all time. He was also responsible for writing some of Queen’s top hits including “We Will Rock You” and “Fat Bottomed Girls”. Dude is not only mega talented, he is fiercely smart as well. He dropped out of his doctorate program in astrophysics to pursue his musical career in Queen. Then 30 years later, he went back to school and got his PhD in astrophysics. His thesis was  entitled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”  and he is currently Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

Sir Isaac Newton was also a mathematician and physicist. We have him to thank for coming up with calculus and half the laws surrounding mechanical physics and understanding the laws of gravitational motion. Little known fact: Dude was a serious student of alchemy, astrology and religion. According to his calculations the world would end no sooner than 2060.

Here’s a wonderful interview with Brian May which gives you an inkling of where he lies on spiritual matters:

Professor Noam Chomsky and any of the Old Testament Prophets

Typical Sagittarius Philosopher prophet, Noam Chomsky

Being a prophet is very hard work. The prophetic assignment is not always portrayed as positive and prophets were often the target of persecution and opposition. They usually spoke truths which no one wanted to hear and often went against the grain of society. In some ways they were rebels. You see this over and over again if you read any of the old religious texts. Practically every prophet from the Old Testament were ostracised. Same thing happened to Mohammed in medieval Saudi Arabia. Buddha also upset the apple cart and pissed off some of the Brahmin Hindu priesthood. People who challenge the status quo often have to pay a high price for it.

For over 50 years, Professor Chomsky has challenged American foreign policy, the occupation of Palestine, the mechanics of globalization. You name it, he’s taken it on is some form or other. With over 100 books behind him, Chomsky is considered the most important living intellectual and is the only living intellectual in the Top 10 of all-time quoted intellectuals in the Social Sciences Citations Index (he’s at number 8, between Plato and Sigmund Freud). In a most just world, he would have won the Nobel Peace Prize a long time ago but seeing as corrupted the system is, it’s war criminals like Henry Kissinger who get it instead.

Why do I think he’s a possible incarnation of an Old Testament prophet? Chomsky comes from a line of ancient Hebrew scholars. His father was a renowned Hebrew linguist. You have to remember that before the establishment of Israel, Hebrew had been a dead language for many, many years, much like Latin is these days.  Chomsky’s commitment to fighting the good fight and his moral outrage is unparalleled in today’s word of bland talking heads and morally impotent academics.

(I know he’s a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, and I know this will never happen but I would love to get him in a regressionist’s chair one day and see what comes out of that marvelous mind of his.)

This is my favorite clip of Chomsky:

Dr. Norman  Finkelstein and  any of the Old Testament Prophets

Another Sagittarius Philosopher prophet

I find Dr. Norman Finkelstein to be one  amazing individual. It’s not the fact that he’s a student and close friend of Professor Chomsky’s. It’s not the fact that he single-handedly unmasked the Holocaust Industry in the same-titled book.  It’s not the fact that he’s the son of two Holocaust survivors who drilled it into his mind that the Jews have a special duty to protect and speak up against ANY persecution, given their own history and experiences. It’s not the fact that he regularly blows the whistle and lets everyone know that the Emperor is indeed wearing no clothes.

It’s his courage and his passion. It takes an enormous amount of bravery to stand up to the Jewish lobby of the United States and the American Industrial complex which is its closest ally. Finkelstein also paid the price for it. He’s been kicked out of every college he taught at, never mind the fact that all the students walked away saying his lectures were transformative experiences. When he was up for tenure at DePaul University, there was a virtual manhunt against him led by Alan Dershowitz, his nemesis. Finkelstein, like Chomsky, are one of the few from that rare breed of intellectuals who speak the truth and don’t give a damn who that affects

Here’s what I mean:

GroupThink = Colossal Failure (usually…)

More proof that this standardization of the way people think and behave has infiltrated meditation, prayer and spirituality.

For those of you out of the yoga-world loop, in recent weeks there has been a major backlash against GLBL Yoga, a mass-sponsored event which was supposed to be a mass gathering of yogis in Central Park’s Great Lawn, in NYC.

They were trying to raise over $675 000 for what was supposed to be a “free yoga class” with yogilebrities (as of today, they are at $13 000). Yogadork and The Babarazzi have explained it in far greater and better detail. The comments left there under their respective posts are priceless and truly shows the disconnect corporate sponsors have with your average Joe and Jane who just want to do yoga and mind their own business doing it.

The GLBL yoga campaign came with a slick, laughable video filled with celebrities like Christy Turlington and Naomi Watts urging people to give and join in the fun. There were gift bags depending on the amount you gave, and even a chance to practice yoga in the front rows close to these yogilebrities. According to event planners, this was supposed to somehow gather the positive energies of thousands and “build unity and foster community in cities around the world, tapping the collective energy and human spirit of the urban environment to create large-scale, crowd-funded yoga events.” (How? By dispensing this yogic energy into the ethers by farting together?  And to achieve what? World peace? Nuclear disarmament? Saving the tigers?).

The whole thing is kind of sad if you ask me. It shows a few things in my mind:

1) The complete disconnect the corporate yoga world seem to have in understanding the intensely personal nature of your own personal practice of yoga (or anything equivalent for that matter) and how it’s NOT for sale

2) It’s basically an outdoor  party for fuck’s sake using yoga as an excuse. Please call it one. Having thousands and thousands of people doing yoga in Central Park on a beautiful summer’s day in their high-end yoga-wear has nothing to do with “tapping the collective energy and human spirit”. This is marketing at it’s worst. 

If  ”tapping the collective energy and human spirit” is what you really want to do, then go to India’s Kumbh Mela which has 70 MILLION people show up to pray together, including sadhus and reclusive hermits who come out of the woodwork to join the festivities.

Or learn from Freddy Mercury and Queen and the performance they gave at Live Aid back in 1985….

Or the Filipino prisoners who have a lot of time on their hands and decide to do something creative instead…

When you have grand events like that, with thousands or millions of people in unity even for a second, magic happens. Literally. I’ve experienced it first hand at rock concerts. Some of my friends have experienced it at European and World Cup Football matches.

Sometimes the energy levels are high enough that it literally blows the roof off the stadium. It usually involves emotional participation from both the performer and the audience and the audience have to “want” to be there with the leader or performer to pull it off. It’s a two-way relationship and a delicate, balancing act too. Too much bravado and people get pissed off. Too little energy and people leave. These things can’t be orchestrated or planned. They usually happen spontaneously. If they are pre-planned, you usually walk away with a feeling that the whole thing feels fake or contrived. Or bored.

 I just have to think of Depeche Mode’s performance in Montreal in June of 1990 and practically everyone I know who was at the show was literally buzzing for months afterwards from happiness.

For a so-called synth-techno band, Depeche Mode have killer audiences and consistently hit the ball out of the ballpark

Contrast that with Madonna’s show in 1992 during the Girly Tour at the Olympic Stadium and what an awful disappointment and bore that was despite all the choreography and costumes and hype.

Talk about a piece of crap

And then in its worst form, contrast that with the Guns’n Roses show when 50 000 rioters went berserk at the same time after Axl Rose decided to be a fucktard and walked off the stage after 6 songs and after fans had paid an arm and a leg for tickets.

 

In its negative form it can end up looking like the Nuremberg Rallies…

Or Chinese kids doing calisthenics ….

Or an American megachurch….

Weird.

I know sometimes these mass-scale events take place to make a point or a positive statement, for example when millions of people took to the streets to protest the Iraqi war before the bombing started. While I personally think that sort of thing is commendable, just showing up is a good thing when you want to make a political or economic statement.

February 15, 2003 anti-war protest

However when it gets into the realm of the spirit and the soul, I don’t know, I get the feeling energies become confused or diffused and the end result is that you don’t actually achieve anything meaningful or lasting.

Once again, I think intention here is key. If it’s about one person (or celebrity) being an attention whore or being grandiose, it usually fails. If it’s about the entire group, it moves on to a whole other frequency and changes the experience completely.