Happy Birthday Paul van Dyk

The 17th of December is Beethoven's 'Tauftag' (German 'baptism day'), which is the day celebrated for the entry of Beethoven into the world, since no one can be sure of his exact birthday.

In Russian the word is 'kreshenie.'

Beethoven - portrait by 
Christian Hornemann

Today - the 17th of December - is also Paul van Dyk's birthday. Happy Birthday Matthias!!!

Sunday, this coming Sunday, there will be a huge livestream 'Sunday Session' with all of us at PVD's lifestream.

But I don't think I'll stick my own webcam on and get involved in all of the messing around.

It's gonna be huge fun though, for those of us who are into this music thing.

At least nobody throws themselves into pools of mud like they do at the 'psy-trance' live concerts - you know, those ones that attract all of the DMT people! LOL

...And then a little bit later, extra hours with JES. 

The joy never ends.

She's been working out all week, I've been walking for miles trying to figure out if 'Machine Elves' are all that real and whether they can start WWIII and end it too with total absolute destruction of everything.

I'm not attributing this quote because I do not recommend DMT at all, but 'someone' pretty famous said 'Machine Elves' (which was in any case a term he was responsible for) employed 'colorful language that condensed into rotating orbs like Faberge Eggs(!)'

...And, they 'sang' things into existence.

Paul van Dyk - selfie, I guess.

Except the next thing you know people say they (the Machine Elves) are 'trans-human' and detached from emotionality.

Hmn.

So... Nothing to do with Beethoven then. Or PVD. And certainly not JES either!

Isn't that so, Nuno?

But then too, I don't think if you are in any way an artistic person, you would necessarily discount the possibility, even the reality (that you yourself may have indeed experienced) - of there being such things as 'Machine Elves.'

Too much of human life though, is focused on its inception - births and nascent life, and youthful vigor (the celebrating and idolizing of young athletes, film stars and all of that) - whereas it cannot be understand except in context of its ending: IE death.

The Zohar - indeed the deeper Torah scholarship does as well - teaches re-incarnation.

Now frankly, for me, that would be terribly exhausting - since some characters say they are able to remember most or even all, of their past incarnations! Jesus Christ surely that would be most annoying and exhausting.

The stunning novel by Virginia Woolf (whom neither Oxford University nor Cambridge permitted into their hallowed halls, as you recall, because she was a woman...) 'Orlando,' is a brilliant study of this matter of re-incarnation. And you can do a lot worse than simply watch the 1992 movie directed by Sally Potter - 'Orlando' - to get the whole story, and very properly presented dramatically in that film it is too.

Sally Potter, you will also recall, produced, directed and starred in 'the Tango Lesson' featuring the amazing Pablo Veron.

Hey listen, waddya
doing with that?
Are you planning to drink
it or are you just messing with it?
Give it here.

...Which again, is none of that from me to say that there is no such thing as re-incarnation, just that I prefer to read Virginia Woolf-written stories about it, and watch well-made movies about it, rather than worry about anything else about it.

By the way, I suppose you know that the Zohar teaches that women though, do not re-incarnate...

Waaaa?

Well, although they do qualify that by adding that 'some do' for specific reasons.

God but what is this all about, this coming and going, to-ing and fro-ing without any manuals of operation and backgrounder files for any of it??

Richard Dawkins has you creeping up from out of the primordial slime, never even giving a nod to the altruism of our early ancestors, the fungi, who consumed salt water, and who gave fresh water to the plants altruistically, only to see the plants later on give them back some much-appreciated sugar in return...

...I suppose he could care less whether any of you can recall when you were some fungi, or some vegetation still living in the oceans, and then being taken to the land and given sustenance to do it by other you - aka the fungi.

And then, when the fungi split off and headed their own way, and some other protein and sugar-converting things turned into gerbils or something.

Mind you, Quran teaches gerbils and mice and hamsters and rats are all evil and haram. 

Not sure who it says created them - was it Allah?

Allah, the Grand Author of All Evil then.

Stealth wealth.
Well, not really.

Even when the Flood happened, the mice snuck on board the Zark 'illegally' and they were causing havoc in there but the lion (who got on when Noah was able to capture it, because Allah invented the cold, flu and fever first at that specific time, giving it to the lion who was sick and couldn't eat up Noah...), well the lion sneezed out a cat from his nostrils, which subdued the mice.

True story.

Islamic true story, 100% true. In the Quran and the authentic hadiths so must be true.

Except it's mostly not in the English translations because it is so damn embarrassing.

Listen, when I say 'storms,' storms happen.

You are dealing with a different bloke here!

LOL

Isn't what we're all looking for just those few other people around the place who still retain some of that altruistic fungi DNA? Who can absorb the saltwater and give us some fresh water?

Or maybe we are those people with that ancient primordial altruistic fungi DNA bits - and we can take in the saltwater and give some trees fresh water...

If there's a bunch of children, right - and the teacher says 'here, stick your hand inside the box, and touch the glowing orb, and it will give you power to get whatever you want.' There will always be a few kids who say 'I want the Eiffel Tower!' Or 'I want to own the Moon.'

And then the teacher has to say 'Shut up Charlee and just stop being stupid.' He/She doesn't say 'stop being silly.' They say - and they mean - stop being stupid.

It's critically important to think about what you're thinking!