Running Through Eden

Napoleon had died just over twenty years before wine-making in the Barossa Valley in South Australia began - which was around 1842.

Grape-growers and wine-makers in Australia were not all that favorably disposed to the French -, basically a lot of them had left Europe on account of the ravaging of the Napoleonic armies and the political strata who were Napoleonic supporters.

'Barossa' is from the Spanish word meaning 'muddy' and I guess there is some muddy ground in the Barossa.

A tiny fragment of Eden Valley,
in South Australia.

The fact is though, that the big grape variety of the place - and the iconic 'Barossa' wine style based on it - is from the French varietal the Syrah. And the variety is grown on what can be somewhat dry Continental ground with a little bit of maritime influence.

The Syrah grape is the offspring of two fairly obscure South-Eastern French grapes, the Mondeuse Blanche and the Dureza.

The Barossa region is a huge expanse of fertile land, somewhat inland although experiencing some effects of a maritime climate, but dominantly it is a Continental climate that obtains.

Eden Valley is a part of the Barossa Ranges, which are a range of 'mountains,' so-called, but they have hardly an elevation of 2,000 feet at their peaks.

The long sloping sides of the Eden Valley proper make for excellent running ground.

And everything about reaching your Ultimate Destination is also about the struggle to get there.

Humans are interesting animals, because they purposely set up seemingly artificial struggles to overcome, and often those are high hurdles.

Much of the well-off middle class world today is afflicted by the social and of course personal organic and psychological blight of Depression.

The sociology of the whole thing could show many different 'causes,' but one thing you will find commonly in the reporting on Depression by medical health professionals - is that the subjects virtually all said that key aspects of (their) life were too difficult for them, or that they 'were done' (meaning defeated by circumstances, by competition, by lack whether economic or educational).

In some, typically ancient, cultures and traditions, the concept of 'being defeated' at all simply does not exist as a possibility within the mindset of the individuals from those cultures.

99% dead - and yet still that person holds onto this crazy dogmatic idea that 'you can't defeat me until you really do defeat me.' 

When you pull on the running shoes, or whatever other thing you are going to attack the long road in - you do not start out with the thought 'I will never make this.'

In fact there is no 'make it.' Because there is no ending to get to. There is only the journey. This is the way of the winner.

Destinations have many things which fit into their totality.

And there is such a thing as the totality of victory. And the struggle is the way. 

Absolute fitness of mind and body are things that go together with wine. They are necessary factors.

Food Is More Than Medicine

The kidney does not have muscles in it, although it rests next to the back muscles, and so, people often confuse kidney problems with basic back muscle pain.

Yet, the whole idea of going to doctors all the time to get 'pills' to solve organic problems flies in the face of what your doctor's own lifestyle is like.

All he does all day long is sit behind a desk and hang around with 'sick' people.

He is no living example of what a healthy person ought to be doing during their days and nights.

And frankly he has no right advising anyone on anything. ...Other than on which BMW service plan is the least expensive, and where the property prices are rising. 

Most countries admit that their health system is over-prescribing SSRIs and this nevertheless also speaks to the fact that a huge number of people think or say that they are 'depressed.'

Well that's all just great.

Who am I to argue with a multi-billion dollar industry - right?

And doctors spent seven or eight years learning stuff too... So they must know everything.

By the time someone has spent a bunch of years doing all the wrong things and they have to have radical surgery to fix something which has completely broken down - it's a bit late to talk about lifestyle and 'food as medicine.'

To attain good kidney health you need to move!

And to maintain a good liver condition you need to back off - every now and then for a short while - all of these 'amazing, brilliant supplements' and also back off things like alcohol and raw starch. 

People insist on saying that they are 'this intolerant' or 'that allergic' and most of the time they cannot discern when the active factor is too much antibiotics in eggs and chicken and raw un-proven flour - this latter of which turns into the very common 'gluten intolerant' saga. 

It is really the case today that a lot of commercially-produced 'bread' is not authentically bread but a frozen pre-fermented form of dough designed to enable lots of 'food miles' and sudden zapping by microwaves and then 'finishing' with high heat industrial toasters.

This has nothing to do with actual food.

It's 'just' water...

This is rampaging human stupidity.

Drinking great wine has nothing to do with 'getting drunk' as the objective - but so many people today are looking for a quick and relatively cheap 'way out' albeit mostly it will just be a temporary deviation from the same old narrow road they are always on.

Being able to enjoy your life also means keeping your body in some sort of reasonably good order.

And there is very little chance that a person is going to be able to expand their mind or drive it to reach great heights if they are permanently carrying pain and other organic dysfunctions.

Austerity and asceticism are best applied in short-term bursts so that they do not themselves take over as obsessions - and many people are obsessional for whatever reason.

Before you go planning a budget for acquiring the world's best wines, buy some good quality running shoes and some running gear that you intend to wear out totally.

Pine bark extract, bilberry extract,
blue spirulina - all very good.
Also running shoes and getting up
and running; or walking.

Then, you will be on the way to learning about the Destination.

Fail to do that and you are not going anywhere fast.

You think 'Big Pharma,' right? Big, powerful, smart, important...

LOL

Absolute total dumb rank amateurs.

If Big Pharma started investing in Asian Hot Pot restaurants, then, they would be something to take seriously.

...As those of you know who have been here for some time, this place does cover a few 'strange' topics and occasionally there have been hints about events well before they happened.

And that's because we are the Yordei Merkaba. And by the way, nowhere in any ancient literature at all, does it ever say the 'merkaba'; are 'flying things' made up of two tetrahedrons like pyramids jamming into each other - aka 'sacred geometry...'

No such thing.

Even Wiki talks rubbish on this, suggesting it is in Ezekiel Chapter 1.

Well - where?

Bourbon oysters.

Where in Ez. Ch. 1 does it say any such thing at all??

Doesn't.

Yeah they got some shapes from somewhere, and for sure the idea is reminiscent of what the US Navy filmed.

How 'bout that?

LOL

Wonder who was in that thing...

Nah, not a real thing. Just a fantasy. Like sci-fi.

Isn't it.

Absolutely In The Moment

I realize I have to post this short piece right now.

I am two glasses into the Chris Ringland 2018 'Reservation' Shiraz and this is the precise 'peak of the curve' of enjoyment -, so to speak. Any more of this stuff now and maybe there will be a slow descent back down to the world that you are in...!

Art beyond design.

...It's dark, not black but such a dark red that it verges on black and it has the aroma of very expensive men's handmade shoes and shoe polish. And frankincense.

Where is that Russian Leather of mine that I hid somewhere...?

I am literally going and getting out the small bottle of classic Russian Leather that I have. And spraying a little of that in the air and on my skin to match with the aroma of the Ringland red wine.

This is a men's perfume. And it is a man's wine.

Yeah yeah maybe women can take a glass of it, and maybe they can even don the Stygian robe of 'Russian Leather' but heck, what kind of woman are we talking here?!!

Nah but this is man's stuff.

Well how actually good is this stuff?
It kicks so-called 'classic French wines'
into the weeds, dude!
They don't even come close.

A 'man' is someone who says 'to heck with it all.' And 'I am doing what I am doing and that's that about it.'

But - 'I am doing it with class and with style.' And that's the other aspect of all of this.

Yesterday the Greeks celebrated Mary's birthday. It isn't Mary's birthday...

It is the beginning of the Jewish 'month of Elul' which is a festival taken from some passages in the Song of Songs about beautiful young women in harvest time - not 'virgins.' And the Jewish religion also took some of the ideas also from Babylonian astrology. 

At least I think so but I could be wrong because now I am really verging on the 'not exactly in full control' stage. lol

...And below. Just the same girl with her coffee - right?

An Unprecedented Future

If you sink your mind into the pages and the screen images and words of the standard political media and locate your mind's center-of-gravity there, you will fail to innovate the higher possibilities about the future for human beings.

It will seem that all thoughts of wonder and enchantment were only the fantasies of childhood.

For 'seriousness' is the adult stance.

This is how the 'intelligent' and the 'successful' proceed - from adult 'responsibility' and the necessities of material survival.

The Basque people of today are from the
standard academic narrative
perspective, likely an iron age-origin
group of humans.
They are, from other people's
points-of-view, very possibly a
remnant grouping from the very large
ancient Empire of 'Atlantis.'
 PHOTO BY LEON PETROSYAN.

This is a thing which can be looked at through the wine expertise metaphor.

Yes you can 'learn' to use jargon when speaking about wine, and you can do that in complete conformity to people who have grabbed the platform when it comes to all matters of the vine and of bottles and cellars and so on.

And those other people will have usurped your own role inside of yourself - which is the one to do with who decides what you like and what you enjoy.

Of course, in Singapore you are told what you can 'enjoy...'

The whole direction of tyrannical forces, is to disallow the individual any personal rights, and only permit them to have highly-controlled access to personal enjoyments.

The individual cannot be responsible as the agent of their own affairs. According to any tyrannical rule.

The logical problem with this however, is the uncertainty over whether the 'ruling' agent genuinely possesses any sound knowledge - or is simply lording it over everyone else and mixing arrogance with ignorance alongside a constant threat of violence in order to assert their will.

But you cannot live another person's life for them... And therefore you are the expert of the experiences that you have - for instance - drinking various wines.

A new 'Golden Age' is a time
in the future; it is not now.
We are definitely not
living in a Golden Age right now.

There's not much point if you desire to maintain a personal right to validate your own experiences - but then hand over the power to make such decisions, to a panel of wine judges, for example!

The recent European movie 'Perfumes' shows us the situation of one authentic expert of fragrances, who suffered a bout of anosmia, but was able to use their advanced technical knowledge to fabricate to others that they were still able to smell perfumes.

What's the guarantee that you have, that some third party who is said to be 'an expert' has all of their sense faculties intact at all times?

The truth is, the real expert of wine, is you yourself, since you are the one who must end up knowing which wine you really enjoy.

And you are an expert if you know what wine you love.

When looking at the future for human society, it is you that must know what is entirely good for you and it is you that must be able to say what kind of society will provide the human social ingredients that will fit with your nature.

But then, there is also the question of being able to discern what will be good for your inner being - and from that foresight apply determination and strength to mold your own character so as it can meet the standards of what is necessary to be a unit part of some truly elevated form of society.

To hold such 'prospectives' in one's mind, it is necessary to have creativity, vision, imagination - in short, the ability to see things that have not (yet) been; rather than merely to have second-hand visions and to always only adopt the ideas of others.

New Wine Is Being Made

In the Timaeus of Plato, details of a 'strange story but true,' contain much opaque language mostly intended not to give offense to uneducated ears, especially regarding the transition of planetary objects seen from the Earth-bound person's perspective.

(This is a very complex text, and modern understanding of it is not helped by the problematic translations made in times when we did not have anywhere near the technical advancements that we do today).

...But thus we must not confuse the narrator's account which is designed to reference human seminal perception of the passage of time as it is taken from the apparent movement of the stars, with either the narrator's actual understanding or that of Plato himself. The related passages themselves begin with the statement that 'God made it appear' (so that Man would witness a daily/nightly movement symbolic of the passage of time) and then also -, 'but these forms which seem to move faster than the others in fact are taken over by the others in reality' (thus showing us the reader, that he well understands the difference between simplistic appearance and actual celestial motion of distant objects separated by very great distances of depth between 'near' and 'far' from us and our eyes).

This text is highly unusual when considered using the most modern of mindsets that we can appropriate, since some of the text could be interpreted to say or to suggest that this version of material and even of metaphysical reality as set out in the text includes ET Alien beings as what the terminology says is 'the third tribe of creatures in the Universe, without the existence of which the Universe itself would not be complete.' These are the actual words employed; that is, the English translation of the words and phrases.

The narrator in the text (who is not Plato himself, but the highly-placed political figure Critias, who is about to embark upon his account of his relative's story about Atlantis, as learned from priests in a cultic establishment in Egypt) - first in this text (IE Timaeus) lays out the three 'tribes' of creatures as being 1. humans, then 2. animals made by the strata of gods who are only the children of some unique Supreme Being, and then 3. beings who are either the residents of very advanced virtually perfect civilizations located in (near to/around) various stars plus humans who 'graduate' to there.

The strata of gods are un-created and Eternal, being simply 'engendered' somehow directly from the Unique Supreme Being.

There have been, down through the centuries, secretive sects devoted to deeper understandings of the particular texts in question, and in these sects or cults, they extend Plato's own concept of the 'therapeutic lie' to this specific text the Timaeus - due to the fact that were it to be thought widely for example, that the 'soul' of a human, were an actual physically witnessed object, then inquisitive but rash people might go literally digging into human flesh and bone and brain (which of course some did do in the Dark Ages and even long into the Middle Ages of Western progress) to find it!

Thus the text says the 'soul' part of a human is 'invisible.' But then goes on to describe it anyway - and at a point makes mention, just as the Book of Revelation does in the Christian Bible, that certain places in very remote and distant 'cities' have a glow and a light emanating both from within the city itself as well as from its inhabitants - and it is this light that allows people to see there, rather than a resident 'sun.'

Of course, most people
today think they are
very advanced...

To cut a long story short, effectively Plato says that there are Aliens, meaning ET beings, and that these must of a kind of a 'Cosmic necessity,' be highly advanced.

And he says that in a number of places not just in the Timaeus where he does so via the mouth of its general narrator, who is one 'Critias,' whom all scholars and historians say is the same as the historical pro-Spartan, Athenian statesmen and eventual oligarch, Critias.

But if there are Aliens, ET Aliens -, and they are very highly advanced, then presumably their food and drink would also be equivalently much more sophisticated than what we are used to here on our own planet Earth -, for the moment, at least.

You might be one of the many 'richest people on the planet' and you will naturally believe yourself to be well-schooled in knowledge about wines, the great wines, the expensive wines, the best wines.

You know nothing.

Those of you familiar with the source of this music in the video below, will likely have a greater appreciation of this version of it.