Letters From Adrock

Bro,

After today's AIM chat, I've been thinking a little more hopefully.  What I've forgotten is my adaptability to life.  I've forgotten that as bad as shit gets, ingenuity and intelligence can always get me (us) out of jams.  Falling back on all that we once were amazing at when a teenager (and before) is comforting in a way.  We are much brighter than the elite would like.  We haven't succumbed fully to the covert assault on our minds.  It's almost like what is coming is just a challenge for us.  Maybe it is exactly what we need.  Maybe it is going to show us our path, provide us our entertainment, satisfy some deep desires/needs that we don't even understand in our current state. Like I said, I fully dislike violence and I certainly don't wish to be stuck in the middle of that, but if we are stuck in the middle because we cannot avoid it, we will rise from the rubble and simply walk the fuck away.

Truth Is Greater Than Man by Gabriel Chiron

The average man or woman on the planet Earth does not seek greater truth beyond conditioned contemporary dogma of belief and disbelief. Truth is cosmic, but religion cannot handle it. Truth is metaphysical, but science cannot accept it. Truth is revelation, but government is constantly covering up its wrong doing, its corruption and incompetence, its bad decision-making. All throughout normal society is this collusion against greater truth, this mutually reinforcing idle chatter without serious inquiry, this anti-ontological conspiracy. The self-enclosed social self keeps itself oblivious to the great cosmic and metaphysical issues. When the social self, the member of society, is not talking to other social selves about various superficial nothings, it is just blanking out and staring stupidly into space or rushing about with that pressured, unhappy look on the face.

The spirit of inquiry, the search for greater truth beyond religion and science, the profound seriousness of doing real thinking, philosophy and ontology – these are almost totally lacking in humanity. Humanity is therefore subhuman from lack of genuine intelligence. The vast majority are not evolving; they do not have a viable learning process; they are stuck in first paradigm; they automatically reject any emergent facts or realities that do not fit their brain dead cognitive pattern of belief and disbelief. They watch too much television.

This very article, this particular website, is unpopular for all the wrong reasons. Greater truth is a problem in the sociology of knowledge. Any rare individual who is doing real thinking, metaphysical exploration and cosmic learning has experienced the peculiar isolation that comes with having to get along in daily life without meaningful dialogue or shared real inquiry. The people in one’s life are pre-philosophical, pre-inquiry, pre-evolutionary, pre-learning. They just haven’t got it in them. They are helpless victims of collective hypnosis. Yet most of them imagine they “think for themselves” because they avoid questioning a real thinker when they encounter one. Scientists and professional people, for instance, imagine they are quite brilliantly intelligent, though in actual fact they are rather arrogant and limited in their so-called “thinking”. The same thing is true of management consultants with their self-selected positions as experts on human learning in both individuals and groups. Business leaders in particular are often the most pseudo-philosophical representatives of learning disabilities on the planet. We cannot give to them what they believe they have already got. They, along with the political leaders, are wrecking the planet with their proud stupidities, but they refuse to see obvious things. This refusal has all the earmarks of cognitive dissonance. Most of them do not even know what that term means. It is all part of the anti-ontological conspiracy that pervades humanity as an unconscious collusion, a zombie jamboree.

Truth is greater than man. Truth is beyond social acceptance. Truth is maladjusted and cannot fit into the massively dumb patterns of ordinary relationships and activities. Greater truth is an unheeded voice in the desert, a superhuman entity of the Unknown who no one on Earth wants to meet. Greater truth cannot come to those who never bring up the possibility of it to one another. How can there be learning when learning is itself an undiscussible surrounded by self-protective defensive routines?

A lack of self-starting initiative in both philosophy and something beyond philosophy like Zen, is the other side of a self-inhibiting willful ignorance, a refusal to learn. Those who find the energy or spirit of inquiry mysterious, perplexing or inaccessible, secretly want it mysterious, perplexing or inaccessible. Cultivating confusion about all this is the easy method of remaining confused. There is no better way to avoid learning than through maintaining a posture of confusion, of playing dumb. People do not inquire beyond their knowledge because they do not want to have any disturbing shift in their knowledge pattern. The cognitive system is calm and stable through avoiding any disturbing new truth. When the juice of information is running in the same old grooves and ruts, the boring member of society can feel confident, sociable and witty. The protective shield of confusion requires being too busy to think beyond the current pattern of consensus reality. The slight learning that will take place will come only from shock, but humanity drifts into catastrophe more easily than it learns from the shocking aftermath. Lack of ontological initiative is deadly, invariably fatal, but most people do not want to ask advice from their inevitable death. It is always easier to be “interested” in philosophy and metaphysics than to develop originary ontological initiative. Many books on philosophy, Zen and far-out subjects can be read at one’s convenience as a noble avoidance of real thinking and meditation. Adding to one’s existing knowledge pattern is not shifting it, not learning, not full cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction, not genuine exploration of the Unknown, not merging with the Unknowable.

The lack of initiative in consciousness, the deliberate suppression of energetic awakening, is the fundamental tragedy of ordinary human existence. Without the spirit of inquiry (which means daily drifting in an unmagical life) the average human being is committing spiritual suicide. Any real thinker who is awake to all this will have to directly witness this ugly problem in his or her personal relationships. The stupid stare of heedlessness becomes a heavily familiar sight, an ever-present heaviness of the psychic atmosphere. It becomes tempting to deny one’s human needs if it would liberate oneself from the company of self-enclosed, thoughtless and deliberately confused idiots who cannot understand why one is so seriously provocative about philosophical and evolutionary issues. This is why one of the principles of the Sufi Way is solitude-in-company. It is because the companions are not going to be inquiring, thinking and learning. They are going to remain stuck in their self-enclosed head trips and their shallow talk when one is not around. They are going to stonewall any real thinker/explorer in their company, even if they are emotionally attached to the physical body and personality of such a real human being. The common anti-ontological conspiracy becomes the unconscious psychological torturing of anyone who has begun to awaken and exercise genuine intelligence. Therefore, it requires an immense psychological strength to exercise personal philosophical and spiritual initiative on the-planet-of-the-apes we call Earth. One becomes a local alien like The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Truth is greater than man, so it becomes a long, lonely and difficult road for an authentic human being who is in the world but not of the world. The sociology of knowledge is a misnomer. The sociology of ignorance is a more clear perspective. The psychological pressures that come with the awakening of genuine inquiry into greater truth are indeed daunting. The loss of normalcy can become a prolonged personal devastation requiring extraordinary strategies for personal survival. Many of the teachings of the New Seer, Juan Matus, as given to Carlos Castaneda, were in and around this problem. The warrior-traveler, the explorer of the extraordinary unknown, will have to deal with terrible tensions in all the necessary ordinary relationships with the mentally blind and dull, the neurotic and shallow, the silly and proud. People can be emotional or nasty, but they are incapable of learning.

In a world where a university education is false and for the most part useless, it is difficult to find an alternative route up Mount Analogue. The university student needs an inquiry into greater realities that his or her professors cannot handle. To keep alive real learning while simultaneously having to accumulate false learning is no easy task. One lives the life of a cognitive double agent. One has to be convincingly post-modern and skeptical to avoid being socially martyred over real metaphysics. This is because Truth is going to remain greater than man, which will inevitably cause pain in your personal relationships.

©2005 Gabriel Chiron

A Conversation about reality - My Dinner with Andre

Thanks to Adam for passing this on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68JLWyPxt7g&NR=1

Jordan Maxwell, On Astrology

"The church doesn't want you to know the name of the tune. ... All religion is based on astrology."

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6wo5l_jordan-maxwell-astrology_tech

I love watching videos online that under 2,000 or sometimes 200 people have watched. Take a look.

George Carlin Told It Like It Is

I was happy to see a coworker pass this along today. It means people out there are thinking for themselves (something the Establishment doesn't want us doing). It also means at least one person out there woke up a little bit today. Thanks again George.

George Carlin ladies and gentlemen:

"We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the fucking planet?

"I’m getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I’m tired of fucking Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

"Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we’re a threat? That somehow we’re gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet…the planet…the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!
We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

"You wanna know how the planet’s doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet’s doing. You wanna know if the planet’s all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic…asshole.

"So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that’s begun. Don’t you think that’s already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let’s see… Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh…viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

"Well, that’s a poetic note. And it’s a start. And I can dream, can’t I? See I don’t worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we’re part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron…whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while."

FKN News

Tonight I stumbled upon Deek Jackson's "FKN News" on YouTube. Fast-paced, funny, and informative take on what's happening out there. Have a look/listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGPHJLCJc-o&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK22Ofn_qqs

Delayed Sleep Phase and Waking Life

Not so much of an actual post here as it is my need to do something while I wait for sleep to come. I'll post something more provocative soon.

"Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily rhythms relative to societal requirements. People with DSPS generally fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

...Have you seen Richard Linklater's Waking Life? (Thanks Kurt, for turning me on to it back in the day.) It taught me about lucid dreaming. I was able to lucid dream once after watching it and trying to do so for a night or two. As I walked down the street at night I looked up at the stars. For a moment, I was aware that I was dreaming and chose to fly. It felt good.

Waking Life also introduced me to radio talk show host Alex Jones (check him out on YouTube/Google Videos - right or wrong, he's definitely a thought provoker) and posed the very poignant question,

"Which is the most universal human characteristic, fear or laziness?"

You can watch Waking Life here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7583894250854515095#


Enjoy friends. More soon.