Money’s Cloying influence….
Greetings,
Many moons ago, a man, Professor M. Yunus from Bangladesh pioneered a method to make lending possible to poor people. Perhaps, like all things, the intentions at the start were good. Help poor people get loans, so they can move up in life.
He started the Grameen Bank (Village Bank). Micro-credit.
And then the money masters smelled an opportunity, gave Yunus the Kiss of Death, a Nobel prize. And a host of other awards. And then took the process over.
Here is how it is playing out in India:
SKS Under Spotlight in Suicides
MUMBAI, India — First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewelry. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children.
Sometimes, the debt collectors watched nearby.
Bloomberg NewsA file photo of a woman receiving a micro-loan during a meeting organized by SKS Microfinance in Sadasivpet, India, on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
More than 200 poor, debt-ridden residents of Andhra Pradesh killed themselves in late 2010, according to media reports compiled by the government of the south Indian state. The state blamed microfinance companies–which give small loans intended to lift up the very poor–for fueling a frenzy of overindebtedness and then pressuring borrowers so relentlessly that
some took their own lives.
The companies, including market leader SKS Microfinance, denied it.
However, internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, independent researchers and videotaped testimony from the families of the dead, show top SKS officials had information implicating company employees in some of the suicides.
An independent investigation commissioned by the company linked SKS employees to at least seven of the deaths. A second investigation commissioned by an industry umbrella group that probed the role of many microfinance companies did not draw conclusions but pointed to SKS involvement in two more cases that ended in suicide. Neither study has been made public.
Both reports said SKS employees had verbally harassed over-indebted borrowers, forced them to pawn valuable items, incited other borrowers to humiliate them and orchestrated sit-ins outside their homes to publicly shame them. In some cases, the SKS staff physically harassed defaulters, according to the report commissioned by the company. Only in death would the debts be forgiven.
The videos and reports tell stark stories: One woman drank pesticide and died a day after an SKS loan agent told her to prostitute her daughters to pay off her debt. She had been given 150,000 rupees ($3,000) in loans but only made 600 rupees ($12) a week.
Another SKS debt collector told a delinquent borrower to drown herself in a pond if she wanted her loan waived. The next day, she did. She left behind four children.
One agent blocked a woman from bringing her young son, weak with diarrhea, to the hospital, demanding payment first. Other borrowers, who could not get any new loans until she paid, told her that if she wanted to die, they would bring her pesticide. An SKS staff member was there when she drank the poison. She survived.
An 18-year-old girl, pressured until she handed over 150 rupees ($3)–meant for a school examination fee–also drank pesticide.
She left a suicide note: “Work hard and earn money. Do not take loans.”
For the rest, go here: STORY
Our relationship with money is terminally broken. For any return to health, individually and collectively, we have to re-orient our-selves with respect to money.
Mammon Madness.
A piece of paper is worth more than a life. Especially when the implied value on that piece of paper is an electronically created one.
And some hard-heads will say “Hey, if you don’t know what you are doing, don’t do it”. And so, lacking empathy, collection note in hand, hand-in-hand, down we go.
Ponder this deeply, take a piece of money/paper and burn it ritually.
Be well.
In Truth,
Vivek
PS: If you dig into the story, the fall of SKS micro-finance really began in earnest when a pair of prominent American Venture (Vulture) Capitalists came in, smelling blood. And you want me to go dance with them? Ehhhh? 
Wag le Dog in Syria?
Greetings,
Webster Tarpley is a very well known historian/commentator, rather un-fearing and with very good sources.
Here is his False-Flag Syria alert…. for today…
Tarpley – False Flag Alert -
Blaming Assad For NATO
Murders
The Kids Are Already Dead, Slain
By NATO Death Squads
By Webster Tarpley
2-24-12
A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and have been killed by NATO death squads. The goal is to create an atmosphere of hysteria at the Tunis “Friends of Syria” conference today Friday, which otherwise threatens to be a fiasco due to the boycott by Russia, China, and Lebanon, and due to the fragmented nature of the Syria opposition. Please spread this story as fast as you can as a highest priority False Flag Alert. –Webster Tarpley
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For those who remember and those who do not, the infamous, totally fabricated, dog-wag during Iraq/Kuwait in 1990.
The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies – LIE. Behold the lie that the public behind the war – The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies…LIE. This entire story was manufactured. The “innocent” girl who testifies “tearfully”, is, in reality, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and her “story” has been given to her – she was coached.
Behold the former head of the CIA and then current President of the United States, George H.W. Bush,…LIE…through his teeth, about the incubator babies. Do you think that the former head of the CIA would make up such a story? The Incubator babies of 1990 – LOL!!! How many lives and how many bilions did this lie cost?
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And speaking of the masses, the battle for minds is being lost again. Through more lies, bigger lies, better delivered lies.
Is your discriminatory sense re-fined? To tell the Truth from the Lie? It’s hard enough, with Tavistock manuals teaching Psy-warfare monkeys exactly how to do it.
Keep the peace with-in.
In Truth,
Vivek
Greece and the lesson of Austerity
Greetings,
As the make believe, fantasy filled industrial world totters on the brink…. with Greece, the home of so much that under-pins the modern western world, there is one simple, urgent and current lesson for all of us to learn.
Austerity is going to be a given in the cycle we are currently in. The world of plenty that we can look back at oh-so-recently was a mirage. That debt-fueled chimera, peaked in September 2008 and will not ever be regained. Not in this current paradigm anyways.
So, like it or not, one way or another, austerity is in our immediate future. What lies ahead? How long is this period of lack? Who can tell how these great cycles really flow, hmmmmm? What is a year in a millennium?
And most of all, how will we react to it? In a fractal world, seeing Europe’s response to forced Austerity, I’d say not well at all. As Greeks Riot, nothing is helped/resolved or otherwise improved. More angst drawn in from the public, but the implosion of the under-pinnings of this debt-fueled will continue apace.
Self-restraint is the greatest strenghtner I know of. Self-induced bitterness (See HERE), self-induced strictures, self-discipline. To quote Frank Herbert Once Again and I paraphrase: Seek freedom and become slave to your desires, find discipline and be free.
How does one practice austerity?
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Thoughts?
Meanwhile, ponder this:
The roof of a church of St. Stephen in Germany. Symbolism, fascinating.
A couple of very interesting comments, which I will respond to soon. I’ve had a very interesting time personally, internally. Fascinating days/times.
More very soon.
In Truth,
Vivek
Owls…Wisdom and other things…
Greetings,
A few links to be shared today. For those on less than broad-band, my apologies.
The web is truly the un-foldment and the en-foldment of us connected creatures.
First, the OWL……. speech-less….
Then, some un-comfortable truth:
Then, some Medical Truth, please go alkaline. Give up meat if you can. Our evolution as individuals is based on individual choices…
And then there was this, stunning rendition from an unlikely persona…
And some amazing electronic art and music…
So much going on hmmmm? One day Syria, then Iran, then Israel, notice how Afghanistan and Pakistan have been completely taken off the head-lines?
Pivotal times, paying attention, keen attention gives rich rewards. Tch… look at those words…re-ward? You get a re-ward? Which ward? Why ward?
In Truth,
Vivek
San Onofre Update and It’s raining money in India…..
Greetings,
Did we dodge a bullet in San Onofre? Yes. And thank goodness for that. Is the Nuclear battle any closer to being won? Hardly.
Un-fortunately, every miss from here on out only means that the spring is loaded even tighter. Nuclear plants and research laboratories are popping leaks and steam vents and water pipe issues all over the map. If anyone can find a map showing recent “events” please do share…
Meanwhile, this info-graphic about Fukushima was stunning…
2011年の日本の地震 分布図 Japan earthquakes 2011 Visualization map (2012-01-01) – YouTube
More on that and more soon.
Meanwhile, shockingly low (from my perspective anyways) up-take on the Book/DVD/CD. Is it the money? It matters and does not really matter all at the same time. I understand fear around money.
Still entirely curious that even now, not one soul has stepped up and asked, can you prove any of it?
Curious, very curious. Just think for a moment mi amigos, a promise to participate in healing the world… I even said, if no money, write in….
Meanwhile, money is raining everywhere for people to dis-tract themselves and get further in debt.
For me, Deja-vu, all over again.
I got this in my in-box this morning. This is for an Indian audience…
The Text of the Ad says:
A trip to Disneyland, A Gold necklace, An X-box…Those wishes have been on
hold for too long. Make them come true.
Compare loan plans now!
In truth,
Vivek
Just Found this, worth sharing…. tensions releasing….. pretty spectacular, hopefully only restricted to this much beauty……
Mount Etna, Europe’s Tallest Volcano, Erupts
For the Rest, go HERE : Source
And then there is this, good news from a very high perspective, but a real tell for anyone with stars in their eyes regarding economic recoveries in this economic model: A sharp drop is Gasoline and other Distillates usage, year on year. Levels now seen since the week of Spetember 21, 2001. Hmmmmmm….
For an excellent analysis and comment stream see HERE: Source
This is the reality that Mainstream media wants to hide and Central Bankers want to inflate inflate so that the dreaded, though cyclical and welcome deflation does not take hold. Because then they cannot issue any more debt. See above for current Indian Debt Drench. The Deja Vu was from my time int he US especially 1999-2006, the tech then housing booms…
Anyone em-powered enough to play a major crank-prank, write in.
In truth, A-gain ;-)
Vivek
Songs for SONGS…
Greetings,
Quite the few days this has been, eh?
The big freeze in Europe. It’s Aquarius pouring cold water on a rather hot looking situation. But what a freeze. Look at cars and trains and buses and trucks, totally unable to deal with the environment. Terrible toll in the poorer nations already. Russia cutting back on Nat. Gas supplies to Europe because of it’s own internal needs due to the big Freeze. Now it’s working it’s way down.
England, Italy…. historic snow everywhere.
About says it about Europe and Snow.
Kashmir in India is also having a historic cold and snow snap.
Meanwhile, the US is breaking warm weather (unseasonal) recoreds by orders of magnitude.
Warmest days on record, especially in the great mid-west, are 15 to 17 degree F warmer.
Weather is definitely speaking to us.
And today is 333 days from Fukushima.
Elsewhere, terrible flooding in Queensland again. Australia continues it’s half-flooded half drought-ridden story.
Then a 6.8 earthquake in the Phillipines hours ago. Negras Island.
7th February is the date for the Full Moon/Sun opposition I spoke in my previous two posts.
Stress is in the air folks, so best to just sit back a bit, take a deep breath. Take a day off. The planet can do with as many relaxed souls as possible anyways, hmmm?
Much more on-going, sure you all follow the alt. news.
For example, Busher, the now famed Iranian Nuclear facility had a 5.0 earthquake a few hours ago. At a very suspicious 10 kilometer depth too.
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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.
The earthquake struck at 9:40 a.m. local time (06:10 GMT) on Sunday some 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Bushehr, with its epicenter registered at a depth of 10 km.
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Meanwhile, I made some music, SONGS is of course the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station…
Songs for SONGS.
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In Truth,
Vivek
PS: THE BOOK/DVD/CD Available here <<<<< it’s so we can stop fighting over OIL.
San OnoFre…. 33rd Parallel…. 4th-7th Feb Window… out on a limb…
Greetings,
Sometimes the signs tell you it is okay to go out on a limb, so I am.
While commenting on ZeroHedge and talking about the San Onofre nuclear generating station and it’s little issues, being experienced currently: Via Wikipedia…
Seismic risk
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at San Onofre was 1 in 58,824, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[6][7]
2012 event
On the afternoon of February 1, 2012, one of the reactors had a water leak which resulted in a small amount of radioactive gas escaping from a steam generator, which had to be shut down.[8]
Well, turns out it is not an isolated problem that has been rectified. As it turns out…
San Onofre: 100s of troubled tubes, gas leak
As workers began inspecting a leaky tube in one of the San Onofre nuclear plant’sreactors Thursday, federal regulators said more than 800 tubes in a second, offline reactor showed wear and thinning, although they are only two years old.
All four of the plant’s steam generators and their tubes are about two years old, installed after being delivered to the West Coast by the Japanese manufacturer of the generators,Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Some 9,700 tubes carry water from the reactor and through each generator.
“They have inspected 80 percent of the tubes in one of the steam generators at unit 2,” said Victor Dricks, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Two of the tubes have thinning so extensive that they need to be plugged and taken out of service. Sixty nine other tubes have thinning greater than 20 percent of the wall thickness, and a larger number have thinning greater than 10 percent of wall thickness.”
The tubes with 10 percent thinning number more.
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Clearly something is up at San Onofre.
This :
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And it was on 4th-5th February 1962 that many consider our official entry into the age of Aquarius
First off, look at this chart….
Don’t exactly need to be an astrologer do you, it’s quite stunning. All the visible heavenly bodies (planetary) in the sign of Aquarius……….
If that is not a significant astrological event, then I do not know what is.
From the same site:
Between February 4th and 5th of 1962, all of the visible seven planets -Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were transiting the sign of Aquarius, something that happens only every so many thousands of years. Was this the official beginning of the Aquarian Age? While the closest bunching of these planets occurs just after midnight London time on February 5th, the WHOLE two-day period from 10:57 PM February 3rd to 10:53 PM February 5th(London time) is the official entry period.
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And this 4th February, is the 50th Anniversary of the same. hmmmmmm…..
So of course I went Planetary Chart Hunting, and while not so stunning, the energy is definitely very heavy in the same direction.
This is the chart on 4th February, 2012 at 1252 hours UTC:
So, like the big alignment/crowding in 1962 was a 2 day event, I slid forward and something very interesting happens on 7th February 2012, 1249 Hrs UTC:
Do you see that? The Sun/moon opposition is exact.
Sun (Fire) in Aquarius (Mutable Water)
Moon (Water Mover) in Leo (Fixed Fire)
“Just have a feeling water is going to un-leash. We’ve really messed with that element. Fire-Water….very Nuclear feeling to that. So, perhaps a wave of calming darkness to Fukushima/Japan and Illinois and where-ever else we mixed fire and water to make power we never could really control, only restrain.”
And even the Water Bearer pours his waters from on high. In these Archetypal times I’ll take the Archetypal meanings. This year, we will see the Zodiacal Archetypes express themselves (As another Muddle Along january just did, all prudence after the excess of celebrating the Sun’s Death and subsequent re-birth.
Rest HERE
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On top of everything else, San Onofre sits on the 33rd Parallel.
From Wikipedia…
| Coordinates |  33°22′8″N 117°33′18″W |
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50th Anniversary…Remembering 4th February, a Very Important Date
Greetings,
Something came to my attention recently, that was one of those “Of Course this is tremendously meaningful, why has it been forgotten” moments. I’m sure you’ve had them too in your truth-digs.
Because you see, planetary charts don’t lie.
And it was on 4th-5th February 1962 that many consider our official entry into the age of Aquarius
First off, look at this chart….
Don’t exactly need to be an astrologer do you, it’s quite stunning. All the visible heavenly bodies (planetary) in the sign of Aquarius……….
If that is not a significant astrological event, then I do not know what is.
From the same site:
Between February 4th and 5th of 1962, all of the visible seven planets -Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were transiting the sign of Aquarius, something that happens only every so many thousands of years. Was this the official beginning of the Aquarian Age? While the closest bunching of these planets occurs just after midnight London time on February 5th, the WHOLE two-day period from 10:57 PM February 3rd to 10:53 PM February 5th(London time) is the official entry period.
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And this 4th February, is the 50th Anniversary of the same. hmmmmmm…..
So of course I went Planetary Chart Hunting, and while not so stunning, the energy is definitely very heavy in the same direction.
This is the chart on 4th February, 2012 at 1252 hours UTC:
So, like the big alignment/crowding in 1962 was a 2 day event, I slid forward and something very interesting happens on 7th February 2012, 1249 Hrs UTC:
Do you see that? The Sun/moon opposition is exact.
Sun (Fire) in Aquarius (Mutable Water)
Moon (Water Mover) in Leo (Fixed Fire)
Just have a feeling water is going to un-leash. We’ve really messed with that element. Fire-Water….very Nuclear feeling to that. So, perhaps a wave of calming darkness to Fukushima/Japan and Illinois and where-ever else we mixed fire and water to make power we never could really control, only restrain.
And even the Water Bearer pours his waters from on high. In these Archetypal times I’ll take the Archetypal meanings. This year, we will see the Zodiacal Archetypes express themselves (As another Muddle Along january just did, all prudence after the excess of celebrating the Sun’s Death and subsequent re-birth.
So, some charged days ahead I feel. And water will play a part in these coming few weeks. See the escalation upcoming in the straits of Hormuz, a Water-Way. This is no co-incidence.
It’s really time people. i hope you are diving diving, inward. every day, I “see” more and more signs of as with-out so with-in.
Our outer world is a fractal and perfect reflection of our inner world.
The Way, The Truth and The Life all pass through the heart of Darkness.
But Darkness does not have to be chaotic.
In fact, look at our world when it is lit-up (Sun or human lights)….. Chaos…at least here in India.
Lights out and slowly a calm descends.
I hope the relevance is clear……
Light = Excitation = Chaos
Dark = Incitation = Settling
So, comfort with darkness.
Comfort with One’s inner darkness.
Takes practice, I’m still at it, years and years now…. 
Let us see what this Decidedly Aquarian anniversay in this decidedly Aquarian age brings us.
Since my knowledge of Astrology is limited at best, please, any astrologer out here seeing this, please comment. Much appreciated. Thanks in advance…
In truth,
Vivek
THE BOOK/DVD/CD <<<<< HERE
Are we All so fast Asleep?
Greetings,
I challenge all of you to watch the linked video in it’s entirety, all of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuR7FvGMqk&feature=related
Words fail me of course as I am sure they do you.
This is the malaise that I have been given the healing potion for. But I cannot just spew it out, alone. Look back at every radical change-maker in history and know that their best work never saw light of day.
Take some time if it matters to you and read this and dive in the links…
Watershed Day….May this pour through a million pairs of Eyes…
The cynicism is understandable, but there is enough due-diligence material for anyone called enough to listen.
Be well.
In Truth,
Vivek
Some wisdom from Confucius, via his Rectification of Names. Thank you Spectator via comments. Amazing in-sight. And this was 2,500 years ago.
Very pertinent by the way. Very pertinent. Language, Symbol, Logo, Word.
Rectification of names
Confucius believed that social disorder often stemmed from failure to perceive, understand, and deal with reality. Fundamentally, then, social disorder can stem from the failure to call things by their proper names, and his solution to this was the rectification of names. He gave an explanation to one of his disciples:
A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.
— Confucius, Analects, Book XIII, Chapter 3, verses 4-7, translated by James Legge[3]
The Rectification of Names means that “things in actual fact should be made to accord with the implications attached to them by names, the prerequisites for correct living and even efficient government and that all classes of society should accord to what they ought to be” [4]. This essentially means for every action, there is a word that describes that action. The belief is that by following the Rectification of Names, one would be following the correct/right path. The rectification of names also calls for a standard language in which ancient rulers could impose laws that everyone could understand to avoid confusion. Without the rectification of names, different words would have different actions.
Watershed Day….May this pour through a million pairs of Eyes…
Greetings,
There is a small update on January 28th 2012 below the original post.
VAC
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Greetings,
As we have shortly earlier entered the Zodiacal month of Aquarius, the month of the water bearer and today also being the First day of the Chinese Year of the Dragon, I thought it was a most opportune date to launch my labour of passion into the world.
I received this on e-mail just now, paraphrasing:
Today, with the New MOON in Aquarius, begins the Year of the Water Dragon. Astrologically, the North Node, also called the Head of the Dragon, represents the area in our charts where we can exercise the most amount of free will. This means that 2012 is a year that our conscious choices rather than fate, will determine outcomes.
The date today (23rd) is of significance to me for various reasons and I was also delivered two signs, both long awaited and powerful.
Potent Portends.
So, let’s dive right In.
If you are really called to participate in the un-foldment of what I believe is a powerful body of deep, original knowledge and understanding, one which carries the promise of easing the world into this momentous transition we are currently experiencing very harshly…then I suggest setting aside about an hour and a half to go through the material here. It is all tied together into a larger weave, a broader con-text.
The vision behind the launch of this blog is laid out HERE
The original vision, which got me started on the path to be here today and say what I’m saying, can be see HERE.
I started my web presence scrabbling together a web-site to tell the world that I had a solution for the Deepwater Horizon Crisis.
It made it’s way to the White House (not sure how many layers away from POTUS, but high). But of course, it was never, as we now know too well, meant to be solved at all.
That first Website, morphed into my first Web Presence (by my own hands and it shows…). It is my ensign vision. What can be achieved. My rules of engagement….
Last December I recorded a video, 50 minutes long, in which I spoke of the basis of this un-foldment. Speaking my truth I called it. You can see that video HERE
The Exercise in the video above, is described HERE
Do take the time to dive around up there. I stand behind everything I’ve written.
Recently I shared one of my Ensigns, the Resonant Pyr-Cone-Amid HERE
Here is a little pre-view of some more ground-breaking ensigns, for the Bicycle, which I believe to be particularly ill-suited to the human Body and a Radical new Ski Binding and Shoe and a universal vibration damper.
Please view them in the scrolling presentation below. You can pause the screen at any point by taking your mouse on the picture (control buttons appear).
There is more. Much much more. And these ensigns too have evolved. 6 years in the baking/re-fining. They will set us free.
It might be immediately clear to some, but in my mind, it changed everything, in an instant. Remember, these ensigns are 6 years old, in in-cubation because they were not ready to come out.
Now they are. Please view them in the context of the ensign vision laid out above.
Under-lying all of this, literally and figuratively, is the CORE in-sight. I called it’s product version Andromeda Footware. This was how I introduced it.
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Andromeda Footware is the first product design out of Aadividya and as explained further below is a part of what I consider the second design science revolution.
My basic design philosophy is that we are endo-skeletal (think skeleton inside structure) creatures creating products for ourselves from an exo-skeletal (think tortoise-shell) perspective.
In practice, it can be best be described as a blend of Tesla’s Design Philosophy (Resonance), the work of Buckminster Fuller (Tensegrity or Tensional Integrity, which I believe I have evolved into Torsional Integrity) and Viktor Schauberger (Implosive Energy, Centripetal Forces and Spirals as the building blocks of nature).
The footware thus expresses a radically different view from what is currently held on human dynamics and how entire ranges of products need to be re-designed (as I have) in a way that reflects an understanding the real nature of how we, humans, work.
I believe this is one of those “turning-point” innovations and fractal part of a much larger set of radical innovations.
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As you can well imagine, I have faced vales of interest followed by mountains of resistance taking this vision to the world.
Thus the blog. I was clearly meant to communicate the core message, resonate it out into the world and then re-present Andromeda and everything that flowed from there. Of course, once the “Eye of the I” is opened, the in-sights keep flowing and I kept writing.
Of late, I have been shown things, from source, that I cannot share yet. But you can see a small hint here : AU Kicks a Joke
It is first time to bring some “Thing” to full manifestation. And that will happen only with the in-volvement of a lot of “co-operative” energy, positive, under-standing energy.
As it is said so well in Dune, and I paraphrase: Beginnings are a very important time to pay attention to EVERYTHING. They set the tone for everything that follows.
So came, via a nudge from Cathertes Aura, the recordings at Taj Kuteeram, Control Room Studios and L&M. And the thought of putting parts of the blog, a few new chapters, guest chapters from awesome people, with a pertinent message and some art into a book.
From the wealth of material we collated/recorded, finally emerged :
1. A 180 Plus page hard bound, hand-sewed book, made of fully recycled paper/material (excerpts shown below)
2. An hour and 20 minute long DVD with spoken word and live music
3. A 50 minute CD of a rather eclectic, single track.
This is what it looks/sounds like:
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And along with all of that, a certificate of Sharing.
The Certificate of Sharing (CoS), is my take on a Share Certificate. Any promise of price I can make at this time is complete conjecture. In a demand side world, value creation/consumption/Recycling/value creation is an on-going process.
What value attaches to these is completely dependent on how all this plays out. For a Tangential view on what value might mean, please take a look at the premise and work of JSG Boggs HERE
For getting the word out on this endeavour, I do not want to advertise. It has to happen by world of mouth. The ghost to ghost hook-up
I decided to self-publish (and record/design et. al.) so that this emergence would not be con-strained by anyone else’s desires/direction, however well intentioned.
Also pondered deeply about whether to use Paypal/Credit cards and decided not to. Too much bad energy in that whole complex for this.
So if you do decide to get the package, this is what you would do:
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1) Wire transfer the Money to the Account Details mentioned below (the total of the cost of the Book/DVD/CD + the number of additional certificates of sharing times cost of COS)
2) Send an e-mail to vivekchaturvedi @ yahoo . com AND vivekanand @ squareandc . net (please compress the mail addresses minus the spaces)
3) In the e-mail, please provide the transaction details.
4) Also please provide your mailing address and any other relevant contact details
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Look forward to what un-folds, who comes forward, what energies mingle. Time is definitely of essence. The opposing energy is hugely funded, deeply embedded and is fighting to hold on to it’s dominant but fast crumbling paradigm.
I say with deep and complete confidence that the end of the age of Oil is upon us and I have been given the key to an amazing alternative, Tech-no-logical future.
It is time to take our power back.
It is time to take powerful, co-ordinated action.
It is time to get off the tread-mill.
It is time to trim the tabs so to speak.
It is time to turn WITH the tide.
It is TIME TO BE UN-FEARING.
Let us make music and art and Truth the fulcrum, the locus for the shift.
So that they lie at the heart of this new beginning.
In Truth, With Deep Gratitude…
Vivek
AvimukT
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January 28th 2012 Update:
The first order (confirmed) and several expressions of interest are in. Fantastic.
One stumbling block seems to be the payment method. Please poll below if adding a secure credit-card facility would encourage more people to transact?
Feedback much appreciated.
Had a Superb meeting with an old friend from Japan today. Sparked a lot of possibilities for some radical collaboration. And a Japanese version of the enterprise. Thanks Nadall.
Stay warm….
In Truth,
Vivek
AU Kicks a joke, More Deep Symbolic Insights
Greetings,
In the midst of two very difficult days, Gold, that Sunny Master, gave me a humourous little lesson in understanding that I had indeed struck a chord that was true in my previous Post ( POST) about the true roles of Gold (AU) and Silver (AG) in our lives.
I’ve been wearing a pair of gold earrings for the past 5 years. Very well done and quite ornamental. Often complimented on.
Well, last evening, one of them was gone. My lesson in no attachment to gold was delivered, instantaneously. So I reached for the other one, and it just came off in my hand.
Clearly, gold is not even meant to be ornamental for me. When the worshipful ornament I’ve ensigned is ready, I’ll share it with you all here.
Also clearly, the thoughts on Gold riled a few people and many others said hmmmmmm…..thought provoking.
I was asked to add this to that thought-stream.
Look at the Symbols for Gold and Silver.
AU : A is the symbol for Hu-man. From on high, separation, the split, duality….these are the two legs of the A. At the heart, there is a connection. The lower plane of density and the higher plane of vibration meet at the heart. That is the line across. A is the Symbol for man, manu, the original One who was two. The High point of meeting is the Pineal Gland, the Source.
What really is man?
U is the symbol for the feminine. The Uterus and it’s Obvious resemblance to the letter should not surprise. The Entire Alphabet, the pure, unsullied Alphabet is in us, at every level. Every letter. It’s quite stunning when you see that, because speaking takes on a whole new dimension.
So U, the feminine, represents the descent of spirit into matter and it’s final return to Spirit above. That is how you draw it too, see?
U
Incidentally, the lines capping this stylized U of the script used here kill the letter. They (U) block off the access from above AND below. This is how the alphabet has been corrupted, by style.
So AU is Prima Materia.
AG is Silver. (A) we know well now.
What then this Letter G. The word God begins with it, so it must be humongously significant. As do of course Good and Gold.
It is also at the heart of the Symbol of Freemasonary.
In Hebrew, the language the old Testament was originally written in, it is called Gheemel (or Gimel) and has a numerical value of 3.
G represents the trinity, the 3. In it’s original form, unstylized, it is a Curve and a line, a curve ending in a line. Feminie + Masculine + Partially Enclosed space. See?
G is also Geometry, the Queen of the sciences in 3 dimensions. G is also the God/dess of this plane.
G is Also Genesis.
In Hindu Mythos the G sound is root in Geet (Song), Gandharva (Celestial Musicians) and Govinda (Krishna). Song/sound is the original expression.
AG then is primal fire and material expression.
AU is primal fire and the womb of creation.
AU is all potential.
AG is expressed potential.
Gold is the vertical Axis of Life, Silver is the horizontal one.
Gold is Convex, Radiating.
Silver is Concave, reflecting.
At least that is how I see it.
The letters, in their construct, tell a story, hmmmm?
Harks back to what I felt recently.
And this study of the alphabet and the stories they tell.
Pretty amazing.
In T+Ruth,
Vivek
Shattering Midas’s Curse…Gold: De-spell-eD
Greetings,
Today, I finally understood, from my perspective, why I’ve felt this sure-ness of the collapse of Gold as a metal of value, in any of it’s forms that it is seen today. My in-sight, which seems un-deniable at face value and deep dissection, speaks equally to Gold Lovers and Gold Haters, Central Bankers and people in general.
Gold and Silver are most commonly, obviously, easily and always linked to the Sun and the Moon. In fact, the fact that these two metals represent these two planetary arche-types seems to be more than just a little co-incidental, don’t you feel?
Peoples who are touch with gaia’s grid, and there are those people, One such people’s story is linked through a Video somewhere in the archives; say that Gold extraction at it’s current, poisonous pace is weakening the grid, gold holds enormous importance, obvious in the richness of big veins and their role in their particular geology. Gold is a holder of standing potential.
Sol
And Silver, it’s everywhere. A massive secondary extraction from primary mining for a host of other metals. And then the moon rises, it’s Golden too:
Luna
One could go on…
But just look at the difference between these two energies. Awesome and obvious, ne?
From an earlier post:
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The bright yang, male on the other hand was inert. All potential.
When we were still creatures of our bodies, the dormant male responded to the vibration of the active yin, gaining “standing” potential, which was then vibrated in the darkness, producing Cold, milky light to meet with Fire-y darkness and enable creation.
Thus the male was noble.
Noble. The word’s oldest definition is inert. A startling parallel, gold, sun, fire. Gold is the prime noble metal. Inert, will not interact with any other metal.
This is the nobility of the masculine that is dead. Far from inert, the modern day man, totally a creature of the mind, is a reactive puppet.
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It’s quite Simple:
Man is meant to become as Pure as Gold, not possess it.
The inner Alchemy was always the ultimate goal of gnostics and seekers.
We are meant to be as pure and as un-sulliable as Gold.
It is not meant to be traded in Any form.
Worshipped perhaps, as it has been for millenia, with stunning results…..
There is no point attaching anything to Gold. Not want, not desire, not cleaving…. gold is Noble, pure, un-sulliable.
In a word, Gold does not “care”. It is like the Sun, it just sits there and Shines. Please ponder this carefully. The Sun will Blind you just as easily (in seconds) as it will show you the way.
Meanwhile, we are living the nightmare of midas’s curse. Possessiveness of Gold. Such a Fool’s Errand as I can see now.
And look at Silver. Mixes with anything and everything. Just like it is most commonly found, mixed in. So many industrial, theraputic uses.
Plus, all growth happens in Darkness.
Also, Silver can be many things, just like the moon has many phases.
Silver, the Feminine, Gold the masculine.
Men, we are meant to BE Gold.
Women, you are meant to BE Silver.
So Gold is for worship and emulation, while Silver, the dynamic Feminine, but still just a pale (thank Goddess) reflection of the Sun, Always, flows around and mixes, is cause-ative, active.
Hold Gold and Silver in the inverse of their AS Above So Below (Solar/Lunar light) ratios….I thought this was funny and all the hint you really need by the way…
“Since the Moon shines by reflecting sunlight (not very well—it reflects only about 7% of the light that strikes it, comparable to a lump of coal”….
Of course Gold is Primary. As the Sun is. It is the Risen for the Sea-sun.
Very un-comfortable stances given the current, dysfunctional social order.
If there were ever two archetypes that can help sublimate to nothing-ness this crisis of the sexes currently con-suming us like fire…
Male, Gold, Transmitting, Pater, Pattern, Bright
Female, Silver, Receiving, transmuting, Mater, Matter
Pattern+Matter = Creation
The madness, mania for owning gold is a crown of thorns on the heads of the current rulers (literally, rulers, monarchs) of the world. They even manage the world through A CROWN Corporation.
A CROWN of thorns corporation that has, between Gold and Oil, driven the world to the brink. And by extracting black and pure gold at this huge industrial pace, they have weakened the grid.
Gold-en Gold and Black-Gold.
It is time to change perceptions.
Both positions, masculine and feminine, are extremely power-full and em-powering.
In real terms, Silver is true monie, plain and simple. Literally, plain and simple.
Oh and of course, only the Moon, so perfectly sized and placed, can completely OCCULT the Sun.
these are not co-incidences…
Let us be who we were meant to be first, fully, before we take on roles.
Gold, in very small quantities, to remind you of purity.
Silver only in as much quantity as you can hoist. And run with.
Really.
Now I see the picture around re-finement much more clearly.
Be Gold.
AuM…. co-incidence?
Feeling much lighter. Brighter.
Shine on, or reflect brilliantly, as the case may be.
Gorgeous, round, pock-marked, waxing, waning, moody moon!
In-vest wisely. And practice detachment..
AuM….
In T+Ruth…
Vivek
1,460 days ago….Ensign Principles…World View…
Greetings,
About 1,460 days ago, I wrote this in a document that captured my views on the world, the world of de-sign, my own world view (4 years ago), my principles of ensign.
Perhaps of general interest in what is unfolding here…where-ever you see design, read ensign. Thanks. New lexicon…
First, the Logo…
In-Dust-Real Designs for a Post~Carbon World
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Oilternative Engineeringtm
May 19, 2008
Aadividya : Original, Authentic, Axiomatic Knowledge
The philosophical design basis for AND C
Three Points of a stable Philosophy
1. Radical Innovation (In-Ovation)
2. Permaculture (True Sustainability)
3. Appropriate, Tangential and Homeopathic use of Technology
My design principles:
1. Human’s are endo-skeletal creatures. Our world (products) are increasingly exo- skeletal. Thus, we cannot interface smoothly with out own designs.
2. All good design is functionally and schematically fractal.
3. We persist in designing for first order effects (slap-ouch) while either ignoring or damping higher order causes and effects.
4. Two of the greatest technical minds of the last 2-3 centuries, Nikolai Tesla and Viktor Schauberger worked in the space of harmonies and resonance. Tesla had intuitively mastered electromagnetic resonance and Schauberger had done likewise for bio-mechanical resonance. Buckminster Fuller was the one who brought the subtle idea of a mechanical matrix into the picture. He coined tensegrity as the balance of opposing tensions. When evolved into tension which I believe visible (measurable tension is always a subset of, you get torsional integrity. These are the three cornerstones of my design philosophy :
v Design for the endo-skeletal creature
v Harness harmonics
v Torsional Integrity
v The visible universe, fractally speaking is mechanically centripetal for growth and centrifugal for dissolution. Our designed world is entirely centrifugal for deceptive growth (deceptive because the entire lifecycle is never taken into account) and only occasionally positively centripetal.
v All designs should embody relaxed tension.
v We are lopsided in our expenditure and focus if we study the current technology adoption curve. Far too many technologies get buried in the dusty, un-evolved, while we raise to spend money on user interface design. The missed point is that the root is weakly developed, you will never get a big tree.
v The exact same argument as above, when it comes to product life-cycle spending far too little in code development and far too much on market development. It looks like as a technological people, our Souk mentality has reached critical mass.
v We have to contort to our designs, whereas, our designs should mould to us. The magic is in designing for second and higher order effects of two dis-similar planes / waves meeting. Call it, ripple effect design.
Some Core Observations & Guiding Ideas
v Permaculture is sustainable philosophy in action.
v Appropriate technology is always the better solution.
v Properly empowered, people can move mountains
v Change is always uncomfortable and always possible.
v Small changes can have big impacts (Trim Tabs).
v Holistic analysis always gives you the big picture.
v A properly honed instinct will always provide a better answer than even the most careful analysis.
v Rules are always contextual and not only can but should be flexible and related to as such.
MY WORLD VIEW ( Deeply considered but by no means fixed)
v We always speak of six-sigma as a statistically improbable outcome in any normal distribution. I firmly believe, we don’t live under the same bell curve that all our assumptions are based on. We live in a four or even five sigma world from our current code assumption set. Worthy of pondering.
v Macro economic trends: The US Dollar is under severe, sustained pressure. If true impact of “Real” inflation is accounted for, the canary has already fled the coal mine.
v China is staggering under its own curious set of circumstances of a large population set “herded” into rapid “development” mode, much like India. Most of the “gains” are hype. Credit, cheap and plenty until recently (private equity had moved it into the right hands in preceding years), being the sole driver (flogger?) of growth.
v The sub prime mess (and all its attendant tentacles of cause and effect in the world financial systems) is scary with just the lit fuse sparking. When it really goes off, all bets are off. Talk of lack of understanding of higher order cause and effect.
v Energy prices are reset in the public mind at dizzying rate (12 dollars a barrel of Brent Sweet Crude is not such old memory), currently 130 dollars a barrel. Associated inflationary impact is hitting the majority of the world’s population.
v On a similar somber note, a discussion on our world’s geo political situation. Every major war in history was a resource war as is every major conflict today. There is a relentlessly hawkish bias in the global dialogue, with too many vested interests in the war – pie. Oil, minerals, territory / markets and now water. Also, in large theatre wars, multi-generational trauma creates multi-generational conflicts. Grim but true.
v An increasingly nuclear world adds the requisite potential for a runaway reaction! Our world is ever increasingly polarized with ever greater potential for conflict.
MY PERSONAL JOURNEY:
A Short Biography:
VivekAnand can be best described as a unique, out of the box thinker, with a deeply intuitive understanding of the world, technology and business and the ability to connect dots in new and unique ways.
Key Posts and timelines:
12 years in the Indian Navy (Cadet through Lieutenant), various tours of duty as Electrical Engineering Officer, finishing service as Aide-de-Camp to Governor of Karnataka in Bangalore
12 years in The United States of America, MBA in Entrepreneurship and NPD at Rensselear Polytechnic, Director of Technology Strategy for a Fortune 50 Defense and technology Conglomerate, various posts in successful Silicon Valley companies
3 years in India as CEO of a Japanese Mobile Software Company
Champion Sportsman (various Sports), Multi-instrumentalist musician, incisive writer, Etymology buff, Digital Artist
The last six years have been about a deep invert spiraling, “know thyself” has been my core driver and has brought me some astonishing in–sights into our world. Also, was completely impecunious for many years (post the dot com bust) and learned that lack is a great teacher. I was guided to various practices, most considered “ Esoteric”.
The trigger event that launched what I call the second design science revolution was watching the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia”.
NEW PARADIGM :
The body is central to design. Everything, going deep into the rabbit-hole is User Interface design, at every layer.
v In a fractal world, that makes our task really, really easy. With the right block design, we could live / play in a legoland.
v A well designed structure needs a well designed infra-structure and so on down the rabbit hole. As close as we can reach to the heart as to why we do and what we do, the more minimally elegant, effortless and graceful the outcome.
v As we would all be well advised to use Occam’s Razor in life, we should apply it with equal, ruthless skill to the art of design.
v Force / Vector flow is always an excellent start point for design visualization. Feeling that flow, is even better since the optimal design then simply suggests itself.
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS :
1. Motive product design
2. Retrofit systems enhancing, core safety, performance and Reliability. Radical/Alternative Motive systems design
v Bicycle
v 3-Wheel vehicle
v Alternative steering mechanism for ALL vehicle classes
v Alternative suspension systems
v Redesigned Parachute system
v Regenerative braking system
v Aeronautical systems
3. Core products :
v Water treatment systems
v Sewage Management Systems
v Alternative, low-cost, super – dwellings
v Man-Machine Interfaces
4. Sporting gear redesign
v Every major sport
v Primary and safety equipment
5. Musical Instruments :
v Various
For Potential Partners:
Aadividya (AND C) is being birthed as a demand-side oriented, experimental product design company, with radical takes on new product innovation. Primary spend will be on people and rapid prototyping (technology demonstrators) of experimental designs, to be brought to market through licensing deals with innovative start-ups or major industry players.
We also hope to put many useful designs, like a radical Prosthetic Design into the public sphere for the greater good.
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I was trying to upload pictures of another ensign from 6 years ago, my take on skis, but it wouldn’t let me. Tomorrow then.
Does this resonate?
In T+Ruth
Vivek
My First En-Sign….. Vishwakarma’s Pyr-Cone-Amid.
Greetings,
Today, I want to share with you my first true, downloaded from up above in it’s completeness En-sign.
I saw this in meditation for a client who de-coded to go in a different, more traditional direction.
It is from Vishwakarma’s Mind, perhaps the world’s first Fully Tunable Pyramid.
Vishwakarma is the Universal Architect.
The sacred-ness is in every fractal part of the Pyramid/Cone combination, playing, as you can see, the Penetration/re-Penetration game with the earth and the inter-twined notion of the sexes, a 3 dimensional Yin/Yang structure.
I was shown also that 365 of these, localized to conditions would come up at key ley-line crossings all over the globe.
Being tunable in many respects, a totally balanced, torsionally self-stable and self-stabilizing structure, breathing, musical……it will multiply and pass into the earth-grid as well as inside and all around… harmonizing sounds.
It will do what it will do, eh? They can be large or small, only in perfect proportion.
The first one will come up in Nagaland, for very good reason. An Indian renaissance is in everyone’s best interests, for very good reason.
How does it make you feel? And where exactly will it find it’s first point of penetration/creation?
Pyr-Cone-Amid…..
Cone of Fire in the Middle
That is who we are……
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In T+Ruth,
Vivek
A big wave of appreciation to The Good Doctor Witte and JayLaz, who brought the vision to paper/computer and model. It’s a-coming.
Truth…
Greetings,
This is the Final final pre-cursor/trailer.
Next week…launch.
Meanwhile, my fiercest critic said arrogant and salsey in the end. Not intended as such.
Caveat Emptor!!!
This is my truth and I’m very comfortable sharing it.
Look forward to your keen and insightful interactions. (hint!).
It’s 50 minutes and 36 seconds of me talking.
Fore warned is….. 2 armed…
Click here for the video ———— >>> Truth
In T+Ruth
Vivek
Nadall…look at her eyes….
Maa Haa Kaali
In darkness lies the root of light.
All roots begin in darkness.
A Slice of My Life in Pictures…
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2012…. the year of Anomaly…
Greetings,
What a year eh? What a time. What a series of events leading to today.
And what will 2morrow bring?
Sometimes it feels like we are all at a cusp and as we all know well, there is many a slip between the cusp and the lisp eh? Or something akin to that anyways.
Every moment in our life is a perfect balance point between history and the future. The dance of potentiation/creation/dissolution does not depend on us. Nor can it do with-out us. In fact, it is with-in us.
Make sense? I thought so.
Feels like 1999 all over again in so many ways. Only, in this case, it’s not midnight we await with bated breaths. It’s a whole year. And what will it bring?
What I see is a fractal in-stability. inner and outer seams, slowly starting to come apart.
I see that we will all have to con-front more and more things that we do not understand.
It will be the year of the Anomaly. The year we accept that deviation IS the norm!
To accept that, we need to understand that we are changelings, from first to last. Breath that is.
So, with a big hug all around and wishes for ever deepening insight and understanding all around, I’ll see you next year. For some of us, I hope that is in the flesh too! Thank you all for lighting this outpost up with your energy.
Breath, time, resonance, nuance, quintessence, depth, understanding and most of all….
Grace, Gentleness and Generosity all around…
In T+Ruth…
Vivek
This is what it looks like
World…
Greetings,
My mind is a little spun up today. The news-stream in the last week or more has been so bizarre, what is a man or a woman to make of things? In general.
I thought I’ll do a multi-link post, but perhaps you’d rather just listen to a general take and use Google if called?
So, in America (which, if I may remind you, Accomplished it’s Mission (Remember Booosh, remember boooooooosh) in Iraq, leaving the nation and it’s people battered for Demoncrazy, infra-structure in ruins…..such kindness)….
a. Thousands of people lined up outside stores for hours (days?) on end in Ummmmmerikka, fought pitched battles, rioted, broke bottles, necks….and goodness what else… to get their hands on the re-re-leased Nike Air Jordan. Yes, losing life and limb for a pair of shoes. Worth killing and dying for….
b. Groups of teenagers fought pitched battles with themselves and the police, leading to the complete lockdown of the Mall of America, the world’s largest retail monstrosity. Chairs were thrown, pockets and bags were picked, faces broken, shots fired…yes, shots fired.. why? Because of a rumor that Lil Wayne and Big DuckMcFuddyeah might be in the mall. A rumor of a rumored visit by two rappers. hmmmmmm…..clearly this is a society and people that re-present the “hope (which I recently discovered rhymes with pope, nope, dope and downward slope)” of tomorrow.
imma kllah for sum shooze
Gimme my booze and B
Itches, like a sore
Inna ma hed
Sumfukker bled
Fo ma shooze
So that is one take on Heymerica.
Meanwhile the Haymaker swingers in Unwashedington, passed a new law (Called the NDAA), which meant they could declare any Sheepizen of the Untied States an enemy combatant or terrowrist or some such, basically fascist power grab, carte blanche power.
Yo, gimmie dat.
Not a good sign at all. A noose is tightening. The heat is being turned up fast now and yet le froggie thinks the water’s fine, so fine.
The overwhelming feeling that an Orwellian, 1984 is descending upon us in 2011 is a good feeling to pay attention to.
Why? Are you really asking why? Okay, it’s because every step that tightens your noose or raises the heat a degree is one you agree to take. It’s the system, a weird glitch in the all powerful’s power.
Quick analogy…. most here understand computer/software basics. Ever wonder why “malicious” Malware always asks you to click on something, a file, an icon a link….. something that initiates your willing entry into the spider’s net. You click, you step forward in the court-room, you sign up without reading 40 pages of legalese fine-print. Well, you did it.
Caveat Emptor is the rule, don’t be anyone’s fool.
So, the chains are self worn. Such is how the “system” is set up. see the Devil Card in the major arcana of the Tarot. Two humans, with chains around their necks. Standing at the feet of Baphomet. But, interestingly, the noose of the chain is so big, they could easily be slipped off.
It’s self-bondage. All good, has it’s place and then comes a day you do actually slip the chain off.
I know I know. Tis the season to be jolly? Gay? Mind games in every way. Gay = Homosexual. Gay = Happy.
So the rabbit hole seems to be longish. Tumbling further to Yewrope, where a desperate battle is being staged (yeees, staged, of course it is, such Drama, Sar-Cozy, Merkel, Mer-Cozy, Sar-kel…. two against the tide. There are now two “Unity” givernments in Yewrope, the Nay-shuns of Grease and Italy. Grease is on the skids, so to speak. Yup, un-elected Unity governments whose sole purpose is to push through Banker enforced austerity on the people. Unity Government. Scary. Even scarier is their being described as technocratic government. Yes, the technocrats will save us all. God save the us-saving technocrats and bless them too, eh?
Technocratic Unity Governments. Mark that name, because a lot of places are gonna get em!
Italy is meanwhile, adulterating it’s Olive oil. Need I say more? Indeed, low grade OO’s from lesser regions of the world, were mixed with toppofino Italiano olio olivo, to make it but a weak representative of truth in geo-tagging.
Speaking of tagging, the Orwellian British State got Orwellian-ier…some security firm won a grand snoopery prize, because their system can simultaneously tag and follow hundreds of people in a crowd, individually. Their software is going to go on GREAT Britain’s 700,021 security camera apparatus.
And boy, I’ll tell you what, the developed world, like it’s shining exemplars the once great B and it’s cross pond something, and Oz down below…. such spirited people.
So spirited. Always in high spirits. Or was that always high on spirits? Whatever. Such endearing and enduring images of the “First’ world must surely make villagers from the “Third” world want to upgrade their world, eh?
By the way, where is the second world? I want to go there. It never makes the news, must be really peaceful. Either that or Yellow Journalism has not been discovered there…yet. All the more reason.
Hey, if some second worlder’s are reading this post, can you get in touch? Thanks.
So, the first world, in pictures…
Left out with the trash: A woman apparently incapable of standing lies defenceless on the streets of Cardiff
The one above really says it all eh? All pictures (there are many more) from: SOURCE
Ahhhh, life in the first world. Cheap booze, cheap life.
A Brawly good life, eh? Brawlly good.
What about Indya you might ask.
Hay, indya. Well, India is abuzz. Like a giant bee-hive people are glued to this that or the third thing. Cricket is on, so that takes out a good percentage of people from circulation. Hey, that rigged sport? The one that everyone knows is rigged to the bone and the ball and the run? That cricket?
Yup, cricket is on. The Gods of cricket are at play, heaven’s be praised.
Even more interesting, India is seeing the Attack of the Stand up Comic.
The Attack of the Stand Up Comic. They are coming from all shores. America, England, Australia, Canada…funny men and women.
So what. So what? Laugh dude. No no, not really. You see, the stand up comic is the great de-sensitizer.
See how many times Whoopsie Goldberg says Fuck in fifteen minutes of stand up? Or how many times that spindley, high pitched funny man says nigger? Western audiences have been trained, like pavlov’s dogs, to laugh at denigration.
that is right. Stand up comedy is denigrating. Starts with self-denigrating (I’m so forgetful, my mom is so…whatever), but up the chain, the big boys and gals? They denigrate everything that means anything and make us laugh. They make it okay to say fuck 400 times in 15 minutes in front of 500 sheep and hear them bleat back their laughter in return, like clockwork.
So, India is being softened, but more like pounded like flax into softening up. First they soften you, then they give you a credit card.
Soft people are easy to manipulate. See? So yes, leading names of the comedy industry are raining down on India teaching it to laugh at it’s god’s being called monkey-man and Elephant Boy.
The trend is clear ladies. Because you know who else is raining down on us?
Televangelists. Hallelujah! Huge stadia, teeming with soft people, waiting to hear the magnetic voice of Brother X from The Lord’s TeeVee. bling Bling, Golden thrones and all. Speaking in tungs.
The call of the Father is growing. The father now offers a $1,000 reward for your belief in his kingdom.
The heavenly father’s agents are everywhere…
Oh and we are trying to get rid of corruption. Yes, India is finally taking the bull by the proverbial horns.
In a master-stroke, a particular gent is forcing legislation to control the legislators.
Hey, foxie said the said gent.
Yep?
My hen-house needs guarding.
Sure thing, I’m all over it.
it seems people are willing to give up life and limb behind sloganeering and head fakes. It seems people cannot see anymore. It also seems like they cannot listen anymore. Barely here even.
Just about present, mostly absent.
Indya is really something to behold. It’s all happening here. Wild stuff.
It’s the Wild East, kind of like the Wild West, only different.
YeeeeehaW! i am a Kleptocratic, mercantilist, nepotist.
You get my gist? i’m on the list.
The A list.
It’s a birth-right with little left.
Hey, gimmie dat!
Same story, everywhere, really.
Fukushima is slipping (well, it was really over in the first week, now the effects are already showing up). Three top TEPCO officials have died of suspicious causes. hmmmmmm…… Fukushima is the DNA shredder event. Still flowing, spewing, radiating, into the water now, maybe the groundwater even.
And meanwhile, back in the US of a, BP won a fresh set of deep drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico.
Perhaps enough said for the moment. That last piece is really two much, ne? BP will be re-drilling the GOM.
Too grinchy Vivek. C’mon, smile, tis the season to be Jowly.
Well, I’ve eaten some excellent bakes, seen glorious moons, been shown and had great doors of opportunity and perception open…am still taught daily by the cats.
But Us humans. The death of empathy…that is what i’m feeling, deeply.
More soon. Book in Hand, CD in Hand, DVD in hand. Now who is going to buy them, ehhhhhh?
We will see.
Take good care. Be warm. Listen deeply.
We are at the cusp of a great shift. no doubt. I’m feeling it and I can tell so are you all.
no volunteers for the land envelopment project? none? no one? no friend of a friend who does organic farming and always wanted to see India/ Or that crazy green builder you know perhaps? Or a de-sign student, fresh out of somewhere, eager to leap into what promises to be a rule-bending game-changer?
All good, just curious. If you have any resources you’d like to share, please do. It’s bare land, I want to steward it well.
in T+Ruth
Vivek
Fractal Animal…hypnotic….
Greetings,
The Cobra. Snakes in General. Ancient. Why do they send a thrill up your spine? Why do they F-Righten us?
is this fear-some or is this just being-ness and the Fear is all us?
All the time?
Cape Cobra
Picture from this excellent source.
http://www.charcoalremedies.com/snake_bites
Hssssssssss….. the sound of fire meeting water…
In T+Ruth
Vivek
Re-capitulation + Collaboration
Greetings,
An interesting afternoon today, as I went with my buddy Sanjay to visit his farm. We are going to put up a structure en-signed by me on the property as a meditation and meeting hall. It’s a Pyramid with many interesting features and a lot of matha-mythic, sacred and resonant features. i’ll un-fold and share that story as it progresses.
Being in open spaces is always a liberating feeling. I took along an electric helicopter I fly and I could just let it soar, high, high… good fun. A bee kept trying to fight it and being swept away by the wash.
Bee vs. chopper, it was quite an un-even fight and worth recording. But alas, I was bereft of recording devices, but had the joy of flying high and far. It’s an awesome, self-training hobby.
So, the talk was of green buildings and radical designs and such. Yash, a progressive thinking builder was the third person. So, now I have the opportunity to en-sign 20+ acres near Bangalore into an awesome bio-sphere. How cool is that? Very I thought and the mind is brim full of ideas. Alternative energy, holistic spaces, dimensional spaces, flow, elements, animals….
I’ll look for ideas as this progresses…. Stephen, I know you will have a few. Perhaps an apt time for your India visit? Anyone else feeling called to come? If so call, and if it feels right, come. Lot’s to be done.
And then there was this element of security and why we need bars on windows….
And it struck me that the best thief is the person that architect-ed the house. Or built it. Always leave back-doors.
Same for all systems. Software companies leave back-doors, or vulnerabilities because they want to be able to remote manage their software if they can and get away with it. or mine data, whatever.
But the maker/de-signer knows the best places to bet back in, or can leave such places on purpose?
True for any de-signed, constructed, architect-ed system.
True for the meta-system we grew up in And each of the sub-systems in it. BAck-doors upon back-doors.
Often triggered by symbols, sounds (Bells are a great example, sirens another, the power innate in alphabet, well before words or sentences are constructed from it…nursery rhymes… Ring a ring of roses, here in India? It was the plague song from Olde England. Why is it celebrated in India. All Indian kids laugh and dance and sing it….. the tales we are told, the egregores that are embellished, worshipped, deified… sports…on and on and on… war, TV……), these back doors allow us to be continuously reset to our lower, un-evolved minds. Even something as innocuous as potty humor.
It’s a trigger to a childish state (not a child-like one).
So, if we understand the fractal nature of the uni-verse and use the software analogy, we are walking un-aware of how much vulnerability we have to being yanked around by control impulses, the back doors for which are embedded in our education system, in our social rituals, in relationship dynamics as we have been made to believe they should be, embedded by our parents (who ever wants to give up control? Most of it is now sub-conscious… most people run on auto-pilot, say things that are expected or programmed responses anyways)…….. visual symbols like the heart symbol, so powerful for it’s innate associations.
And each of these back-doors create our inner schisms.
So ,we need to re-examine, re-wind, re-capitulate.
The shaman’s journey of re-capitulation, living in exqusite detail, his or her entire life, closing all the doors left open, so they may be whole again. Con-vex. Able to hold something.
Right now, we walk like leaky sieves…. visualize that.
So, read up on re-capitulation. Rather than have the famous death-moment flash-back, go back voluntarily. Old fabric needs care. threads weaken. And doors left open long ago need to shut, gently and for-ever.
Very, very, very em-powering.
And it means facing up to who you were, which is never easy. Ordinarily remembered pasts have rose-tinted halos. Re-capitulation is real. Visceral.
I’ve done it. A lot. A lot. Deeply.
And then, this absolutely amazing collaboration.
Erin, an amazing, professionally trained dancer (at the best schools in the US), danced with the best companies, Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher, who came to me via Deepintheartlifewest (thanks Nina the connector) was moved by one of the CD trailers. I sent her the music on her asking, and the magical result was this:
http://inthespaceofcreation.blogspot.com/2011/12/dancing-in-eternal-aum.html
Check it out! Dance and Poetry by Erin and Music by yours truely.
Thanks Erin, beautiful work.
So, relax these coming days, the sun is getting quieter, weaker.
Then three days in the tomb. Born again on the 25th, but then we enter the 5 days out of time. It used to be a perfect world, 360 days a year. An arc for each day.
Now it’s all sped up. And so are we.
Breathe out….deeply…..
In T+Ruth
Vivek
Horus
This, That and the 4th Reich…
Greetings,
It’s been quite a week and then some. Life is beginning to take on shades of the unstable earth it would seem. Up and down and around and around.
Good training for the times we are in.
So, in this age of iron, it seems we are to be drenched in irony. Today is the ironical, cynical day of infamy as the Iraq occupation officially comes to a close. Yes, the contractors had shredded the fabric of the country enough that they could now leave it for the real vultures to move in. The drug peddlers, the pornographers, the snake-oil salesmen… basically the mafia.
Imagine that, you take a nation of people, sub-jugate them for 14 years with all manner of heniousness and then uni-laterally move in an bomb, rape, destroy, rip, shred, defile…..mindless violence, un-justifiable violence…. and then leave it to the wolves. Iraq. The home of the fertile crescent. It all started there.
So it all started there again, as it all ends. And so, as the US BOWS out of the country in all but name, get a load of this creepy photograph.
And if you feel so called, Google Chancellery. Very interesting word/history and it’s many meanings and associations.
A U.S. flag flies in front of the Chancellery building inside the compound of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad December 14, 2011.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Hmmmmm………..
And this:
And then there was this….
Little Girl...
And this…
Little Boy with POW father
What do you say or do?
Iraq is officially over so that Iran might officially begin?
Afghanistan is soon to be officially over so that Pakistan may officially begin?
Power of the explosive kind really deafens you, corrupts you, de-sensitizes you completely.
And each of these bombs dropped and shots fired, around the world…. has stories spinning out of it of loss, despair, drugs, prostitution, displacement, harassment, refugee status, fleeing, terror, stench… just imagine that and multiply it by the numbing numbers (see that? numbers….. and all along you though they were meant to help you count!!! they are NUMBers)…
The joke is on us, US, them….. and the irony of mission accomplished II is deeper and stranger.
But onwards and upwards eh?
I myself went on a pilgrimage these last few days. To visit the Lord of the Seven Hills, Tirupathi. Ancient deity, richest hindu temple institution in the world. Obscenely rich. billions of dollars worth rich. That trip needs to be documented. Extreme on so many levels of the human experience. Quite the journey…
I’m uploading a very large file, video on youtube. the last of the pre-cursors as I struggle to weave together the deep and wide context in which the book etc. are coming out and how I see them as a rallying point. Will share link as soon as the upload is complete.
Meanwhile… and more soon…. take good care, the darkest days are upon us now, literally and figuratively.
the Sun is approaching it’s annual death point… and we are nothing but sunlets. So, pull back a bit, breathe a little deeper…..sit/stand/walk/talk fully. Slower perhaps.
The days between 22nd and 25th December are and should be especially quiet, paid attention to…
The last ten days of every year are loaded with deep significance, at many levels. It’s good to pay attention.
Some recent pictures …
Yin&Yang in my Garden
