Chateau Latour

The Chateau Latour wines - there are three of them produced each year - are the 'old school' Bordeaux style of wine.

I mean you could go on and on at length describing what any particular example of this wine tastes like, if you have tasted it, and if you had the kinds of words that are typically splashed all over 'old school premium magazines...' Except that, of course, today, there is pretty much no such thing as a 'premium magazine!' 

The 2005 Grand Vin will cost you around two and a half thousand dollars. 

Okay but let's move a touch above and beyond the rest of the world here, shall we?

So what's the secret? The secret is who will you drink this wine with. And even a few steps before that is how will you 'connect' with the worthy...

I want you to imagine that inside your mind, it is just like the planet on which you live. There is this blaring noise, my friends, going on inside your head - and it comes from all the 'truth' that everyone around you has shared with you since you were a little child, insisted on sharing with you, and still are sharing and frankly, are possibly even imposing on you by this stage likely as not without you even being able to resist all that easily.

Where we 'live' from moment to moment inside our own heads is mostly close to where all the noise is - that is, we don't see it as noise; we see it as 'truth,' and using reason, being 'informed,' moreover we have the audacity to say 'informed with facts!' Uh-huh.

 

McLaren seat back

Now let me tell you what you already know about the natural world... When you go into some lonely forest, you will walk through tall trees, thick growth, undergrowth, narrow paths if you are lucky, with the highest energy sunlight mostly captured in the canopy level, and slower frequency/lower energy light filtering down to the lower levels, until, right at the bottom, there may even be plants that have iridescent blue-green leaves, which scavenge the small amounts of red spectrum light. 

In the relative darkness down there, in the silence, then, you can start to discriminate one frequency from the other, and observe the different characteristics of each one, without being pushed around by the 'noise' of too much data and too much indiscriminate stimuli.

So... Are you getting close to an understanding of what it means, when some wise people of ancient times employed phrases like 'a still small voice?'

You know, when Zarathustra rushed out into the marketplace and screamed that he had found 'truth' or 'the' truth, and he threw his message into the blaring 'noise' that was already there, the crowd thought him mad.

Finding 'the truth' isn't even all that difficult. Keeping your mouth shut about it is intensely challenging.

You make a really large sum of money and unprepared, you will walk into a place in the forest of your own mind, that no one explains properly mostly because they have never been there and returned intact, or else, they wander lost there pretending they are 'the elite' or the 'wealthy.' 

Just a place in Barcelona somewhere

In the forests of your mind, especially if these grow up the sides of elevations, there are vast 'fog walls' which descend down upon you, and in which you will be utterly lost if you don't know what you are doing. Mountain fog is very moist too, full of actual droplets of water, and you can't see beyond ten feet in there. Depending on what side of the mountain you are, the fog may not even lift right throughout the day, and at night, you'll be cold and drenched and all alone.

Now you can carry on like most people do, pretending that you are ever going to find your way out all by yourself, but you never will. 

What do you think now? Are you coming with me up into the hills? Are you going up by yourself maybe, high up there to find the mystical blue poppy all alone, and by yourself?

LOL.

...What do you think? Now that your eyes and ears are becoming more accustomed to the silence and the dark... Are we alone? ; ) 

My friends, I am quite sure there are still many among you who have been reading here for a good long while and you are still quite sure that you haven't got vertigo, and that you know 'up' from 'down' and that you literally do have the power and the capability to judge what is really true basing it all from what you are quite sure you know and have already established as fact, or at least the factual basis for knowing what is real and what is only delusion.

     

Water Into Wine

The problem with the Sun - wonderful though it is - is that its glare, its effulgence (composition of all the colors), drowns out everything else that can be transmitted through the atmosphere. Our whole education system is built up on a powerful delusion - which is, namely, that we can look, and we can see, everything, and then our minds can understand things via that process of uncovering all and examining what we have found thus.

When you go to the opera, or to a movie theater, they draw the curtains, turn down, indeed, turn off completely, the lights and only selectively throw some light where it is necessary to shine a light, and moreover, they even make the lights that are thrown (by people who already know where to throw it), often of grades and shades of color only.

Feelings, emotions, are accessible through gradation, through coloration. 

Some things are of course, perfectly obvious - we can listen to dirges from funerary rites all day long, watch bathos-filled movies from Hollywood recounting sad tales of misery, suffering and woe, especially of lost loves and love that never was. And then we can all turn up on the doctor's doorstep next day complaining of depression. And he can give us some prescription drugs that will numb various parts of our 'brain-body' interconnections, and if we are extraordinarily lucky, he will give us some manufactured, synthetic impersonation of 'happy' too.

So what does it feel like to be a good person? What does it feel like inside, to be satisfied? Or what (does it feel like), to be astute? Or to calculate accurately, complex and differentiated categories of things which all impact on each other to attain a singular consequence or outcome? Or what, to live in outright luxury, or to be very rich, or to drive Lamborghinis and Ferraris and Rolls Royces, and to drink expensive wine among glamorous people all the hours and days of your life, and to sleep well when you are tired?

Does it really take actually being in those environments - or does it take a complex frame of mind first, to really apprehend the available complexities and ranges of emotion entailed when these experiences are at their optimal peak.

God celebrated with alcohol when he Blessed Abraham...

Now because we are all pretty damn stupid creatures, requiring to literally be taken by the hand and smashed against some obvious wall before we admit anything that we really don't understand and are too juvenile to make sense of right off, and also too filled with baby-like ego to accept that we don't know what it really is... ...I will make you hurt first before we go take a drive in that Aston:

This is Tim Buckley's 'Song For The Siren' and the form of music is incredibly ancient, being a threnody - sang by the female gods once at the Dawn of the Creation of Man, also when a great war is ended, and again one time it will be sung at the End of Mankind. The type of singing is known as 'mouth singing' and although this particular song is relatively easy to 'hear' and make sense of the words, most of these types of songs are completely incomprehensible unless you are very intoxicated - or unless the words are right there in front of your eyes in the full light of day(LOL; get it?).  

Pantone Color Of The Year

Pantone, as you know, is a corporation - an American corporation - that is highly specialized in color technology and 'color matching,' and these pursuits and the technical and industrial know-how that belongs to the corporation, allows for important developments in paint manufacture, and application of dyes, paint and color processes to things like cars and print material, design and many other endeavors.

In modern movies and entertainment and marketing, Pantone has had a major influence over the years and has always been used especially by Hollywood film directors and movie production designers.

Production design publicity photo - Casino Royale 2006
...for Pantone color of the year 2008 'Blue Iris.' Which is a kind of
a Palladium or Florentine Iris purple.

And, that is not necessarily true any longer.

There are some major artists whose producers still go by these standards - for instance Katy Perry and her production team are very obviously adherents to them.

Pantone to some extent, is an utterly weird corporation - because they have somehow managed to commercialize what is essentially a set of human 'mind tools,' and an underlying belief in 'philosophy' in a very genuine definition of the word.

Pantone each year comes up with a declaration of a Pantone color, which expresses the obtaining zeitgeist.

So if I just keep punching on the 'Bond' example again for this article, we will see this year, a radical abandoning of classical ideas like Pantone color matching within the production values - along with the abandoning of other fundamentals inside the franchise itself.

My outlook on the Bond franchise specifically, is that Martin Campbell was the last director with any professional idea of movie production quality in that franchise, and even he must have had enormous pressure against him when he was making the movie because you can see the elements where his hand and eye constructed the frames and the 'movement' in the scenes, and where someone was clearly overriding him.

Anyway... This year, 2020, the Pantone color of the year is 'Classic Blue.'

Officially, Pantone has said that color 'has always been an integral part of how a culture expresses the attitudes and emotions of the time.'

I use 'Classic Blue' inside the story text of the 'Q Disclosure - Rainbow Bombs' book.

...Just saying. It's in the part where the Los Angeles celebrity's house gets blown up. And you will note the technical opposite tone - which is Mandarin Orange.

Also, just sayin'.

Well, not really just saying because in the next few articles I will be diving in (that's the phrase they love to use on YT now) ...diving in deeply, to find and then lay our intellectual hands onto some amazing concepts about optics and the philosophy of optics as espoused by Al-Farabi, and Platon, and others.

Belgian Beers And Women

Now if you leave out the impossibly rare Wesvleteren 12, then in my view the best beer in the world bar is Leffe Brun.

Belgium is, of course, these days the center of global grand politics, and we'd best leave it at that.

Where all this came from I have absolutely no idea at all because the Belgian people are simply not like those you would tend to associate with Christine Lagarde and Jean-Claude Juncker and any of that toxic, poisonous coterie of European Union globalist characters.

Belgian people are highly educated, that is, they grade very much higher than average of the OECD countries.

I don't think they are very good self-promoters though, but admittedly, they lie in the midst of a range of excellent self-promoters - Germany, Holland, France. Maybe they just gave up at some stage and retired into their beer houses...

A wise move, I consider.

Here's a music video clip from a Dutch duo of DJ's and music producers. The song was a really big international hit and forever and a day people around the whole world assumed the model in the music video was 'just' a model who was mouthing the words.

Charlotte Bruyn

She wrote or at least co-wrote the song lyrics, and sang the song that you are hearing. But no one is credited virtually on any of the produced versions and it's one of those things that happens - or happened - especially in the peak phase of the live 'dance/trance DJ' show era.

Now in a couple of days or so Hans Zimmer will come out with bits and pieces from his latest commission - the sound track for the new Bond flick. Hans is a German from Frankfurt; but we won't hold that against him. 

It really takes some doing though, to capture energy and style in these creative efforts and sometimes,you need the cast, the personalities, the story-line, to make it all work together, to give something human and real to the production. Well, I guess we'll see what transpires.

But I don't think it is going to be 'Belgian fried chicken and Belgian waffles with black pepper maple syrup and vanilla cream butter,' with Leffe Brun on the side.

Without Getting Sued...!

Sometimes when you state a fact it's still a risky enterprise because the fact itself can be a bit misleading in the wrong hands. 

General Soleimani's entry in Wikipedia is extremely positive towards him, written entirely from the perspective that he was an Iranian figure exclusively, and encourages a romantic view of the General, making his life virtually a fable of modern Iranian folklore imbued with the moral that he was probably the number one opponent of ISIS in the whole region. As well as a warrior against drug trafficking.

Soleimani comes from a very large family whose current living members - cousins and nephews in particular - mostly all live in the West.

Ben Soleimain rugs - charcoal and gold

Some of them run Persian carpet shops in London, some very large design studios, some interior decorating businesses - in London as well as Los Angeles. Some others have businesses in Switzerland, some in Germany, some in France.

The Wikipedia entry observes General Soleimani's involvement in crushing drug trafficking in the border parts of Iran. ...This is a bit like saying that in many past years, the CIA crushed drug trafficking in Afghanistan, and also in many South American countries. What is really entailed though, is that they crushed opposition drug trafficking. So if I mentioned the phrase 'Air America' it's not necessarily going to be viewed as slanderous or libelous against today's CIA, is it. Hopefully. You know, six ways from Sunday and all of that...

This much is totally true - General Soleimani was not a Salafist. Many of the armed groups under this black flag banner are Salafists. The 'black flag' is moreover a trade-mark symbol directly out of Islamic eschatology but it is one that is completely misunderstood, even by modern-day Salafists. 

The coming of the 'black flags of Khorasan' signals the end of the world - at least in the sense of the end of tyranny and the overt dominant sway of Shaitan in the human world.

Dasht-E Lut - the salt desert of Iran

Khorasan being some uncertain, almost mythical area, possibly comprising northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan, and Central Asia.

I believe that many parts of Islamic written material, and also its oral tradition, are nothing less than a text-book of supernatural ideas, most of which have some genuine source but rarely seen within the present-day renderings of what those passages really refer to. And so when people use them, it's a bit like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice... 

Mansory custom Mercedes, Geneva Show (recent).

One of our contributors just sent some pictures of the Dasht-E Lut desert taken from a para-glider. And probably we won't be able to post most of them here just yet!

Wikipedia's eulogizing of General Qassem Soleimani is a valuable exercise because when you see the unadulterated vision of a particular side, you find out who they are in their own mind. There's nothing wrong with that.

The Wikipedia entry never says how Soleimani suppressed the incipient student revolt of 1999 under Seyyed Mohammad Khatami - the 5th President of Iran who was ousted in 2005. Khatami is a friend of Klaus Schwab. I don't think this Schwab is related to Charles Schwab the other banking identity and rumored relative of Katy Perry and definite backer of Donald Trump.

Khatami was a proponent of the ideas of Al-Farabi - who we talk about in the up-coming Amazon book 'Q Disclosure Rainbow Bombs.'

Which is currently available in free review copy form for at least the next week or so.

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