Shaman And Bears

Well of course you know we are in a proper 'bear market.'

And now all the talking heads speak of what the Fed will do next... What did it ever 'do next,' except f* everything up?

No one - and I mean no one - in the ordinary world will accept what is going to happen next. It doesn't matter that you are George Soros or Bill Gates or similar - you do not know what will happen next.

There is only one type of person who knows what is going to happen next, and this type of person is very rare in this day and age in context of the modern world. Sure there are representatives of tribal cultures who retain some powers - but even these will be having a hard time trying to convert what they perceive to something sensible for the ordinary person.

If, and I mean if, there is any thing like a shaman for the contemporary world and its people, then you will be very lucky to hear from them. And you'd better take stock of what they say and how they say it - things are going to be a whole lot different to what you've been used to and seen before.

"My mind is littered with unwanted thoughts,

in my heart the remnants of feelings I've lost.
The nights that I spent out destroying myself,
now I let 'em sneak in like a disease.

Just to blow me away.

So here I'm standing with nothing to say,
the person I've been is no longer to blame.
I'm now heading nowhere, far from what we were.
The most that I can do for you is to keep on lying,

just to blow you away,
keeping afloat.

Can't you see? The sun is shining.
I'm out of this storm,
Keeping Afloat."

This is a real shaman - a young Mongolian shaman

Just look at that phone! This is the real deal here you see - shaman are not something from out of the useless and distant past; they are the thing that keeps humans alive and able to go into the next era from the destruction of the current one. 

The computer game that shows a contemporary reliance on the mobile phone alongside the ubiquitous gun tells one story, but the shaman pic above tells the better one.

A screenshot from 'Watch Dogs' the futuristic 'lawless subculture'
 game simulation

What possible hope would the ordinary person - at any financial or material wealth level - have of comprehending how things are moving so fast, and what roads are opening up everywhere and for whom? 

The shaman has been to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and returned and lived to be able to tell the tale of what they saw there, and of who gets to go there and why and even how. And in exchange for firewater, they will be able to tell even you, David Bowie - for sure as hell you never went there!

There ain't gonna be no 'Dark Star' coming here.

Why, for the wise, and the very - exceedingly - well-informed, there are lush vines creeping around the pine tree...

Richard J. Aarden - Afloat (original mix)

And here is young Richard himself - quite the shaman!