Reconstructing Our Global Reality. We need to be brave and observe the belief structures that uphold this current way of life. All of it. Do we really believe we are “survivalists?” This belief supports our current destructive ways. Yet, I know, there is a place in all of our hearts that cries out to the injustice, to the destruction, and to the tyranny all around the globe. We need to be brave and honest. We need to ask ourselves whether or not a concentrated group of people, those who have a detached interest apart from you and I, a group of people whom create the politics that govern the distribution of power and wealth, can really be trusted to the overall wealth of the entire collective of people?
I understand the confusion, the frustration, and the desperation we feel. If we were really allowed to see all that went on in government, we would not choose to be governed at all. Politics is a practical art. Now, this is not my attempt to bastardize America. But we must awaken to our own POWER! About the Author. Lake Erie Correctional Institution, Ohio Private Prison, Faces Concerns About 'Unacceptable' Conditions. When a private prison corporation paid Ohio $72.7 million in 2011 to purchase one of the state's facilities, the company touted the deal as a "groundbreaking" move that would serve as a model for other states looking to cut costs. But in the year since Corrections Corporation of America took over the 1,700-bed Lake Erie Correctional Institution, state audits have found patterns of inadequate staffing, delays in medical treatment and "unacceptable living conditions" inside the prison -- including inmates lacking access to running water and toilets.
The state docked the company nearly $500,000 in pay because of the violations. In addition, a major uptick in crime near the private prison has burdened the small town of Conneaut, Ohio, with police there making a series of recent arrests related to attempts to smuggle drugs and alcohol into the facility. Private prison companies typically build their own facilities or manage existing prisons; the Ohio prison sale was the first of its kind. EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans. Remember Aaron Swartz. ANTILIMIT | Anything Worth Seeing. All over this World. Happening in our Lives. Gedwoods. How to disappear. Deep ecology. Future History. Fun. Idea Burst. Quarter 3. Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge discovery. LIFE. Thoughts. Search Engines. Studies.
Jerry Ashton: Happy Occu-Year 2013! The last of the confetti has been swept up, hangovers are only a memory, and a new (Occupy) year has begun. It should prove to be a doozie. And, why not? It is off to a phenomenal start. Occupy Sandy When Hurricane Sandy devastated boroughs in NYC and along the Jersey coast, former and present OWS protestors were among the very first people on the scene to lend help and support. Their organizational abilities surprised -- and awed -- both survivors as well as fellow volunteers with other organizations. Occupy Sandy's online presence, coordinated through InterOccupy and OWS Tech Ops, provided constant updating through Facebook and Twitter (#Sandy) to help juggle supplies and assistance. An "Occupy Motor Pool" of construction teams and medical committees -- advised weather-wise by forecasts from an "Occupy Weatherman" -- put volunteers directly into the heart of stricken neighborhoods and properly equipped.
Even today, their kitchen in Bay Ridge at St. Rolling Jubilee Who'da Thunk? December 21, 2012/Rhythmic Moon 9. 1.25.3.15, Kin 129: Red Crystal MoonThe closing of the cycle on 4 Ahau, Dec. 21, 2012, Blue Crystal Hand is a cosmic world event. This is a galactic shifting of gears followed and culminated by the birth of the new solar age, July 26, 2013: Yellow Galactic Seed. Closing the cycle means to bring all of humanity as one planetary family in a state of peace and harmony to this cosmically climactic point in time, the end of the Great Cycle of History. —Jose Arguelles/Valum Votan We are the extra-terrestrials. —Jose Arguelles-Valum Votan What are you experiencing in this moment? Much has been written; much has been anticipated about this date. We are in a time of the Great Unknown enveloped by a beautiful and Divine Mystery.
“We are at a point where we can no longer go backward,” said a kangaroo to me on Planetary Hand as he stared straight into my eyes. –Animal Dreaming – Scott Alexander King Collectively we are at a precipice, not knowing what “system” will replace the old dream. Like this: Palenque Event: Closing the Cycle. NS1.25.4.22, Kin 164: Yellow Galactic Seed Closing the cycle means to bring all of humanity as one planetary family in a state of peace and harmony to this cosmically climactic point in time, the end of the great cycle of history. – Valum Votan/Closer of the Cycle I invite everyone to join us in Palenque (either physically or telepathically) on Kin 207: Blue Crystal Hand — 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahaw– for the Closing of the Cycle!
(See previous blog “December 21, 2012/Rhythmic Moon 9″). We will unify in love as One Being honoring the Source in a ceremony in Palenque with the Mayan elders led by Grandfather Don Marzo Yuk Quetzal, unifying the Mayan Long Count with the 13 Moon synchronometer in fulfillment of the prophecy of Pacal Votan. See itinerary below. “The Closing of the Cycle is a cosmic event, a rare passage of the aeon. The aeon is the impossibly immense cycle containing all of the other cycles, and is itself but a fractal of a divine thought moment. Kin 205 (19 December). Like this: Equinox - Books - Book Details. Global Tribe. The following is excerpted from Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance, now available from Equinox Publishing. 400 pages / 45 photos. (£19.99/$29.95 + postage) OR signed copies from the author ($30 +postage) - contact gman AT wild.net.au They occupy the Temple in the thousands.
At the dusk of a scorching day, in outfits with vivid fractal designs, alien insignia, OM symbols and geometric mandala patterns, they arrive in cohorts who've journeyed from a multitude of national embarkation points. With utility-belts slinked at the waist and dreadlocks knotted back, imprinted with futuristic glyphs, etched in tribal tattoos and marked by facial piercings, they come bearing gifts of specially prepared decoctions, meads, herbal mixes, ganja cakes, crystal powders, beer and other intoxicants, along with fruits and energy supplements they will share among friends and strangers encountered through the night, and into the day. The Fall of Man. The following is excerpted from The Heart-Mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think, available from Inner Traditions. A humankind abandoned in its earliest formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to its survival. --Maria Montessori, M.D. Holding in mind the well-known and well-worn issue of Charles Darwin's first opus, The Origin of Species, based on genetic mutation, selectivity, and survival of the fittest of those mutations, we will here consider his equally great second, ignored, and almost unknown work, The Descent of Man.
In this second work, representing the later and more mature half of Darwin's life, he shows how humankind arose through the "higher agencies" of love and altruism. Selectivity and survival, being foundational, are retained, but in service of this higher and more complex life-form. Our most ancient origins, as found in The Origin of Species (hereafter, "Darwin I"), can be graphically traced in the parade of skulls preceding us. The World Tree as Turning Ten-Dimensional Torus. The ecliptic, which is roughly 14° wide, is the path followed by the sun, moon, and planets. The Maya saw the ecliptic as a double-headed serpent, as frequently portrayed in Maya sculpture and art.
It is a foreground feature, and the four stations along the eclipticthe two solstices and two equinoxesare important markers. Their slow movement toward the Milky Way is an indication of the phenomenon of precession The ecliptic crosses the Milky Way through the constellations of Gemini and Sagittarius at roughly a 60° angle This cross is recognized by the Maya and the Indians of South America today. The ancient Maya called it the Sacred Tree, and it is depicted on Pacals sarcophagus lid at Palenque Astrophysicists, when confronted with the fact that the ecliptic crosses over the Milky Way near its central bulge, consider it a coincidence. It is said that when the gods collaborated to create the world they required three things to act upon their dream.
There is space above. Body. Welcome to the Future Nauseous. This article originally appeared on Ribbonfarm. Both science fiction and futurism seem to miss an important piece of how the future actually turns into the present. They fail to capture the way we don't seem to notice when the future actually arrives. Sure, we can all see the small clues all around us: cellphones, laptops, Facebook, Prius cars on the street. Yet, somehow, the future always seems like something that is going to happen rather than something that is happening; future perfect rather than present-continuous.
Even the nearest of near-term science fiction seems to evolve at some fixed receding-horizon distance from the present. There is an unexplained cognitive dissonance between changing-reality-as-experienced and change as imagined, and I don't mean specifics of failed and successful predictions. My new explanation is this: we live in a continuous state of manufactured normalcy. The Manufactured Normalcy Field Try and reflect on your life. The Example of Air Travel.