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...One of the benefits of 'having' to go to outside meetings with rich people, is that sooner or later someone brings out a large dish of sizzling baked Camembert with Turkish bread. The red wine tends to have been already brought out, more or less right away as soon as everyone is there.
You know, 'rich' - is a debatable proposition in my hands.
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You should have seen the jaws literally drop (they actually did drop) and the mouths stay open when the document with qualified numbers like '300 million' was opened and the key points referred to in the verbal discussion.
These guys are all talking in circles all the time about how the 'Chinese are naturally conservative,' and how property is a 'defensive' investment. And then the numbers they talk are a few million and how so-an-so (someone they know personally) is maybe worth fifty million.
The global (Western global) property markets are wildly over-blown and fraught with all kinds of risks that no one ever talks about.
Inflation is well-and-truly afoot in real economies everywhere and there is no such thing as a 'defensive' investment right now.
What we are looking at, is a political system beyond its use-by date but with no obvious process for how to fix the problem.
It isn't at all obvious that violent revolution will achieve anything other than ever greater and ever more radical suppression by armed thugs.
This week in Australia the media is full of a story about one gay police guy murdering two of his former gay associates and 'disappearing' their bodies - with the deliberate back-drop in the media about cops not being permitted to join in the Sydney Mardi Gras (gay and LGBT parade) because of the killing by this gay ex-cop.
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The apparent motive for the killing was that his previous associates had been trying to evict the person from some residence they owned...
No doubt a dwelling place is a socially necessitated material acquisition of most people's lives - although to the stunned and wordless continuing amazement of my erstwhile dinner table business colleagues, I said that I would happily pack my Code-Of-Bell sling-bag and live in the streets with the poor people to show fellowship with them, albeit I would still have my Fiji Water in said sling-bag.
They thought I was probably joking - on one level they thought that - but on another level they were taking note of my document inclusive of its '300 million end-users and buyers' and subconsciously thinking 'who-the-f* is this guy with permanent cash on him and a Code-Of-Bell sling-bag with bottles of Fiji Water in it...'
Can I ask your opinion on the books and methods of John Matthews and David Spangler, who write about their experiences working with the Sidhe and describe practical exercises such as meditating on a glyph (haha, KP)?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah! I want to hear about that!
DeleteWhat do they say about meditating on glyphs?
DeleteJohn Matthews' book is the one that talks about glyphs, well, one glyph he calls the "Great Glyph" that looks like a swirly with a line down the middle. There are pictures of it in his book and on the cover. He first sees it when he enters a passage grave, and the Sidhe instruct him to "sit before it in contemplation" in order to contact them. He makes a tracing of it and later uses it to initiate conversations with the Sidhe. The book has a few exercises at the end, and one says to put the glyph up on a wall, with two candles on either side, study it, let it sink into your mind while stilling your thoughts, then close your eyes and follow where the Glyph leads.
DeleteSo essentially the same as the "remote view" protocol. I don't really see a difference, except that they create their own glyphs, and also would probably object to this characterization because it is not "scientific."
DeleteWell never mind. "I don't really see a difference" probably poor choice of words. I should have said "so a lot like..."
DeleteThis is something my mother and grandmother would have more assertive views on that do I. They were both 'of the blood' as they say, and certainly knew about Spangler and Findhorn and 'Matthews' I'm not certain about except that the Matthews Family - there was a specific Matthews Family group - were mixed up in the same group of Brits where Joanna Lumley's father was living and being an Army Officer. The late Forties and early Fifties was the last gasp of the big league literary book publishing era and if anything, it died from its own success... There is always much one can garner from accounts of those with practical day-to-day living experience in the Celtic traditional ways and as I would have said by now somewhere, Gerald Gardner worked for my father at one time, both as a recognized college historian and as a collector and researcher into the spiritism practices in Asia, AND as a rubber estate supervisor of exporters but not the actual growing and rubber tapping. Gardner was very well respected by several Sultans in Malaysia and also knew the princes of Thailand (Siam, in those days). Spangler is slightly (well, Findhorn was, certainly) less 'edgy' than Gardner, since Gardner and the New Forest circles were literally formal traditional Anglo-Saxon witches as such. Findhorn and those associated and who were public to the extent that they published, were mild and literary - but you know, we should not underestimate their influence on the modern 'organic foods' culture. ...For me Gardner is at least more direct and expressive about the way that certain witch tradition people have very straightforward access to the other worlds. Those people never do 'just tell' what techniques they employ or what words, what actual language and so on, all the rites and rituals and as far as I'm concerned you have to see somewhere in the 'line' of whatever story you are being told, that there is a female figure there who is 'directing traffic' and handing across the knowledge and the power. Don't know enough about Spangler's work to be able to tell - I have read him but do not recall all that much and it was a very long time ago now. You'd have to think he has some reasonable knowledge and it may be possible to extract some elements of it. I think since then, Tolkien has obscured a lot of this kind of material by falsifying the UK's magical traditions, though making it popular - but at the same time, Findhorn and maybe Spangler too, are stuck in a kind of romanticizing of the past and 'primitive' mysticism and fairy societies. The reality is fairies are not time-locked and they are not in linear time anyway.
ReplyDeleteI suppose this is a fine place to drop this word that seemed to come to mind while doing something similar to what is described here https://portalsconnect.com/glyph-exercise. Instead of the "Great Glyph" I was thinking about something else. The word is "viernalyt."
ReplyDeleteNice word. Has a certain brevity (typical of the offworlders) and much euphony about it. You should establish it for the humans as a neoligism - that way they will accept it without too much argument.
Deleteahaha. alas my little goal of having a little group of at least 3 folk in a telegram channel, who can submit "targets" and "views" via a bot for viewing and targeting by the other members of the channel, has encountered its first snag.
DeleteThe bot is to preserve anonymity and allow people to engage in the process without the need for a central figure to judge "accuracy" and guide the process along down those preconceived roads.
DeleteBack on track now. I have been granted one of the most amazing description of trees... all people should be engaging with the world around them in this way. SHOULD. yes I can say that for all people. As humans we have no right at all to the place if we try to prevent others from engaging with that, either knowingly or not.
DeleteAlso I can say with total sureness that this current trend of developing "intelligence" in computing machines is absolutely fucking stupid and also completely deplorable. The question should be how to "get down with" and "use" the vast intelligence that is everywhere all around us, and not how to build a little of it in a machine somewhere to service our trivial immediate needs and desires.
DeleteTo become "concomitant with" the limitless intelligence that exists here, within the planet. That is the idea I was trying for. Sure, computational AI has its role. Intelligence is something else, like a natural resource, except without the limits of consumption.
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