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Sunday 22 September 2024

1:30 AM

So it's 1:30 AM and I am taking off out of the high-rise place, out the electric gates, in my old sneakers - one that has a blinking LED light on it, on the laces part - and everything is quiet.

I can see the city skyline not far away, right through an empty block that is sure to be built on sooner or later, although it hasn't been (built on) already for ten years. Quite remarkable in this day and age.

There's no one really up and around at this hour of the weekend, even here behind the main food strip.

Hey let's go to a museum!


What there is just beyond the main food drag are car places - new cars, some used cars...

Oh wait. There's a couple heading toward me, about to cross a side-street. Frankly they're weird-looking but obviously well-off; that's because they're both scrawny, underfed, fairly tall, and dressed in somewhat matching, you'd think designer old people expensive clothes: these guys (one female, one male) are possibly late fifties. Both of them have lengthy-bodied jackets and they are both wearing scarfs if loosely thrown around their necks. One has a bottle of something and the other literally has two wine glasses by their stems.

Are they coming or are they going...

Who knows. 

I run past them. 

They are chatting away to each other in rich-people conversation.

Their voices drift away from me.

Important, what they were saying? Not important? Don't know.

The night-sky is completely cloudless. A few stars make it past the ambient urban nighttime light pollution.

I generally don't run non-stop. I go back to a normal walk every hundred or so yards. I've got wrist weights on as well.

There's a museum piece.
That's over fifty years old.

...And then I start up again - if I've a mind to - and pad away softly, sometimes if I want to my cadence changes and it's almost like I'm floating and not even actually running as such.

My direction is taking me closer to the river bank, and then around underneath the main highway bridge, to my right, and towards the big casino complex that is here.

There's someone on an electric skateboard with headlights and wearing a black helmet.

I give them a curt salute and they touch their helmet back in acknowledgement.

That's three whole people I've seen at 1:30 AM in the middle of the night in a city of two million people. Sure, closer to the casino there's a few cars and there will be people there...

There's a big white pelican in the water.

There's kangaroos on the island out there, the one in the middle of the two sections of highway bridge (I just threw that in for you, JES, because I know you're reading this, and I know you like those things).

The object of these exercises is not actually running, or not just running. 

After a while I will stop and do some stretching and stuff.

...And then just start up running again, back to home.

That's also a museum piece but
it's brand new!


Nothing happens.

Nothing happens out here.

The Beijing China government's pushing of its youth into the typical huge, communist/Marxist-style, massed athletics and gymnastics programs is faultless.

There's a young guy today, in Canada, who is a master in the Northern Shaolin style. His 'front-end' name is 'Marquis' but actually, that is a title and not merely a first name. His father's family name was 'Lung' which literally does mean 'dragon' and he was the worldwide head of the official Northern Shaolin School. There is of course, also an 'official' Beijing China government 'Northern Shaolin' school today and I'm not sure who is head of that.

But those kids can tap-dance, don't you worry about that! 

I wouldn't get into a fight with any of them.

I'd run away -, I 'practice' running away a lot.

Moses (yeah you know, that Moses guy!), when he threw down his stick, it turned into, as the original language says it, a draconis. Which is not a 'serpent' but I guess you can say it is a kind of a serpent.

LOL

Why do I tell you guys all this nonsense?? ...Well, as you prolly know or have already worked out, it's what I don't tell you, right? People are not ready for it, are they, Jay (Ahmed Malkoun).



 

Thursday 19 September 2024

Closing The Circle For You

Going off the 'problems' that Professor Ammon Hillman will no doubt be creating...

There will still be quite a number of people who fairly regularly come here and read along with whatever is going on - and who will be concerned about the standard modern Western religious narratives (and by 'Western' I have to include also basic mainstream Islam these days too because this is a modern Western suburban-and-city middle class common faith) and how any of that can be squared off with ridiculous way-out 'fantasies' about ET Aliens and losers in the US Navy (among a whole bunch of places) actually filming such things and then having the audacity 'believing' such things are real and exist.

1. Hesychius of Alexandria (400AD - 500AD) was in charge of a library of over half a million books, mostly in Greek and in Ancient Classical Greek dialects. This was considerably fewer than when Julius Caesar was said to have caused the burning of most of that library, a couple of hundred years after the actual original 'Bible' was compiled (in Greek)

2. There are no, as in zero, nil, books of literature of any kind written in Hebrew, at all, anywhere, around that time when the books of the Bible were written, and then subsequently compiled into one covered 'Biblos.'


The Bible is simply too complex of a literary work to have sprung up standing all by itself alone without any literary sources at all.

In other words, there never was any such thing as a Hebrew Bible, originally, that is to say, from which any other thing was then 'translated into.'

The Hebrew Bible is a back-translation and every scholar knows it and has always known it.

There is only the original Greek work and this does have earlier literary (sacred) sources.

What you must conclude from this is that very probably - well actually no; certainly in fact - your 'standard modern Western perception...' is categorically wrong.

So what do the original sources tell you about the 'theology' that is the one from which New Testament ideas come, and from that lineage, all of modern religious and moral code and 'Cosmology?'

Well it tells you that in the Beginning there was a prior generation of intelligent beings, whose figurehead and king/ruler (Ouranos) was castrated allowing the perpetrator to take over and to reign - this is the identity whose symbol is the Black Cube and whose name to the Romans was 'Saturn.'

In those books of the original language Bible which deal with the Cosmology and the 'war in the heavens,' people like Enoch and Ezekiel are travelling to what today is translated as a 'place' called Heaven or the heavens, whereas in fact it is backwards and forwards to the 'Aionic.' This means to the dimensionality which is outside of Saturnian time (or Cronus/Chronos; open-ended linear Time).

In the New Testament, Jesus says people who follow Him will get to live for 'Aionic Time.'

What this means is that everything that is and always has been, must be again, but in such a way that it loops back to the Beginning... It doesn't mean each person individually forever, which is what the standard modern theology says but the original texts do not say. They say 'Aionic;' not 'Eternally.' There is a very subtle difference. Aionic - as in the Beginning.

Artemis of the Hunt.
She protects, and provides the place and 
the space, of safety.
Paris brasserie of course!


...And this means that Ouranos (not forgetting that this is who Jesus addresses 'The Lord's Prayer' to) must be returned intact.

Which is why in the Revelation, there is this assertion that the 'angeloi' come out to all parts of the world (of men) to gather up those that will be 'saved.'

From what are they being 'saved?'

From human mortality and weaknesses of course, but also from enslavement to open-ended linear Time through the scrambling of their individual spiritual compositions and of their material DNA.

Everyone who - as the scriptural phrasing has it - is 'worthy of the Kingdom' has a 'seal' and those who join into the ruler-ship of Saturn carry a sign on them. The sign is a superficial insignia forcing them to buy and trade and exchange - to economically be dependent, therefore, in order to materially, live - whereas the seal allows those people entry into somewhere.

And the 'somewhere' is into Aionic Time; this is according to the Bible, its actual language form.

Aionic time is the Golden Age before our present mortal Era, as well as everything proceeding into the Future Without Ending in its stable and complete component form.

'Angeloi...'

And that does not mean English people. 

In the original language form of the Bible and all of the Biblical source earlier texts, the ordinary human beings feared those who were engendered by the Aionic 'saba' (related people of the Aionic Realm). 

It's a big misunderstanding to keep talking about the 'giants' (of the Bible narrative) as wicked or evil; this is not even a correct reading of what the plain translations say.

Sorry no hot cars today.
Only deep fried soft shell crab.


Of course there are evil beings, part-human and part non-human - most people you know around today are that! 

'Giant' means also spiritually giant. 'Big' is not the same thing.

The circle is closed when there is a technical capability by someone, or of someone/some group, to take specific lines of DNA and re-grow from it, so long as the spiritual -, that is the inner character of that specific line or of those specific lines, fulfills the standards of what is acceptably close to 'the Golden Race.'

Which is what they termed the people who lived in the Aeon before ours.

Although I know that all you are over-working yourselves over and your mind over, is just being able to see the angeloi. To encounter them or one of them. At least one time.

Always start from the place of safety; go to the place of safety. Be, in the Aionic of safety.

One thing you will certainly learn from Ammon Hillman, is that the Universe was chanted into existence, and that the magic circles of Aionians - which includes Jesus when He took many people into 'the Upper Rooms' and where they encountered the Peri-Asteron (another name for Artemis) - all use enchantments, as in entranced singing, and certain ideas about sound, to go into the Aionic state... I did not make this up; this is straight out of the Bible in its actual original language text form. The breath of life is 'Eu-pnoiea.' The magic singing is 'epoedes.' The (Divine) Light is Eu-Phos-pho-Rhea (and it is Feminine; the Jews back-translate this into the Shekinah, the Muslims Sakinatahu): the Primal Titanic Flowing of the Living Benevolent Light. We contract that, or at least the Victorians did, into 'Euphoria.'





Tuesday 17 September 2024

Bluish, Or Purple Dye...

It would be completely remiss of me to fail to make mention of the current craze in ancient text translation, which is to do with a completely blasphemous (so everyone thinks) rendering of both the Hebrew Bible as well as the original Greek One, including the New Testament and especially the 'appo-kalu(y)psos' section of the latter - by a certain Dr Ammon Hillman, (ex-) Professor of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

The material over which the estimable Ammon Hillman is making quite some controversy, is bound to reach out into ordinary-people's-ville, because he has something like over a hundred thousand 'students' formally and informally attending his on-line classes in the Classics and in the study of Ancient Greek (that is to say, particularly the language aspect of it).

I place this pic here
because our Bill Smith
loves these vehicles, and -,
in order to distract y'all from the 
absolute salaciousness of
the content from Mr Ammon
Hillman!

And so eventually, if you have not already come across the controversy, you will do so and immediately thereupon think about why it was we never talked about it before or else at least, what those of us here who contribute (many behind the scenes) think about what his controversial ideas are, say about it now.

In short, he makes a huge point of asking 'who was the naked little boy with the medicated bandage' with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and also at the moments when Jesus was arrested and when the boy is described as evading capture and running away completely stark naked (in the text).

...Well it is in there so let's not argue about that.

This one highly 'red hot' matter is an extension of his other main contention, which is namely that the 12 apostles are merely teenagers when they were following Jesus, and not the grown men that the standard mainstream narrative depicts.

So this stuff that he is saying is all broadly-speaking true: they indeed were mostly teenagers or very young men at most except for perhaps one or two older individuals that were there among them.

Hillman is fundamentally implying that this whole group are homosexuals, of course -, and for this idea he is gathering an enormous following as well as inviting a ton of florid criticism.

Where Ammon Hillman is on categorically solid ground is whenever he translates the original Greek, he does so with no theological biases and consequently comes up with what we have been saying here since forever:

Namely, that both the so-called 'Hebrew' Old Testament, and the modern Christian Bible are Hellenistic compositions that have nothing at all to do with some ancient 'Jewish' or Hebrew story about anything that actually happened to do with 'Jews' or that was ever set down in Hebrew texts anywhere at any time.

You cannot prove archaeologically that there even was a Hebrew language that could have conveyed the ideas that are now theologically carried in the Bible, and no one has ever been able to show any kind of artifact whatsoever for the figures of Moses or Solomon - in any Jewish/Hebrew context at the times those characters were said to have lived.

You're gonna need a lot of 
cooling drink
after reading this!



There was never at any stage any Hebrew written 'Old Testament' nor any of the books in it.

The 'Hebrew Bible' is a back re-constructing, in a style of Hebrew from a much later time, of Hellenistic, Greek language texts which did indeed already exist.

The 'Jesus Christ' story is a Graeco-Egyptian one. Period.

This is now - certainly in the hands of many leading academics and of course especially Ammon Hillman - a categorical fact of provable history.

I would give you the 'head's up' re Hillman's style of presenting things, though - he is quite the modern eccentric and his style is like that of someone on a serious concoction of hard drugs!

That being said his facts are not seriously contestable.

But his conclusions are coming from his own hyperventilating sense of personal discovery and achievement, and in his rush to tell everyone what he has found, he is not that aware of the missing parts of his own knowledge base.

Every single thing he tries to say is more or less, quite true enough.

Yes the Jesus group was a Greek Mystery 'cult' group, and without any doubts whatsoever, any Hellenic culture person at the time who read the accounts of what they did and what they were like would be bound to say that, well, this looks like the appearance of the Greek God of Wine, Dionysus; if the accounts being given are true reports of what went on.

A medicinally-infused bandage, being carried by a young child is a standard image of the Dionysian cult rituals. 

The actual term used in the Gospel in question does mean a medicinally-infused bandage, rather than 'some brief linen cloth.'

This is a Mystery Cult
ritual thing...
Well it is!


Hillman goes off merrily down his path of implying very weirdo pedophile things - which he on the one hand adds to the clear-cut and quite sound idea that exotic drugs were being used (as in the standard religious exegesis about the passages) to 'pre-embalm' someone who was about to die, or else to assist them die early - but then he completely misses out on telling us about the other aspects of this interpretation (if you are going to bring it in at all).

I have already told you many times that this 'Mary Parthenoia' was literally an aristocratic priestess of the Temple of Athena or Neith (for the Egyptians), with knowledge of drugs and compounds that could poison, kill, and also revive from death (literally from actual death because this is the idea about the Egyptian Osiris). So none of what Hillman is saying goes against what is already known to ancient world scholars about this.

These temple priestesses are taught from an early age to handle snakes and particularly the Dipsas snake, which is not venomous. 

Now..

What you are about to be told no one can know unless they are literally part of this cult.

In the first place too, in the ancient past, it was only females who were ever allowed into these aspects of the 'mystery.'

And, only extremely high-born (IE aristocratic) females. Cleopatra would have been one such an individual - as Octavian discovered to his dismay. 

The Dipsas snake is not venomous.

What is poisonous however, is the Murex snail from Byblos (think ancient Thebes), and this must be treated first before it becomes the purple dye that is only permitted to royals to wear.

When the Dipsas snakes are fed on these Murex snails, then they do become venomous.

And, they can kill you. The venom is purple in color.

Just a purple thing.



And, there is an antidote.

What Ammon Hillman fails to mention, is that when Jesus is walking around carrying his cross on which He will be murdered, a woman comes up to him, with the Ancient Greek language name of Berenike (back-translated into Hebrew as the non-existent Jewish name of Veronica), and she places a 'medicinally-infused linen cloth' over His face.

Now of course none of this is at all properly explained by modern-day Christians because they simply don't know what any of it is about!

Berenike is not a young boy or gay guy...

And, despite that the text says when the tomb was found opened, by the women, a good-looking (the text expressly calls him that) young boy wearing a particular kind of fine cloth garment was sitting in there with no corpse around...

...you are best advised to realize that this is of course not a human 'boy' at all.

Still, you can believe whatever you want.

But, if you make the vaguely intelligent mistake of wandering into the lectures of Dr Ammon Hillman, soon enough if you have your eyes and ears open there, you will put two and two together and wake up to the connection between all of the 'electronic trance music' stuff we keep introducing all the time, and the Cult of Medea and the chanting (enchanting) of the Koreae and so on and 'ET Aliens.' LOL

If you are not completely and utterly scandalized first.






Saturday 14 September 2024

Why Are People Reporting Inability To Sleep

Dumb question.

You'd think the obvious answer would be acknowledged by people and then they could just work on the actual problem.

Let me fire away at some lunacy that occurs down here - but that will be repeated everywhere else across the globe:

Pharmacies sell Melatonin here without a script for upwards of fifty bucks over the counter, and because it is not scheduled as a 'PBS' (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) drug even on a doctor script it will cost the same. 

But why are people buying this stuff at all?

She cannot sleep...
Wonder why.


There is so much ambient UV light in this region of the planet that everyone gets heaps of Melatonin made inside their own bodies everyday. Moreover, there is a clear-cut diurnal pattern of light versus darkness and so, their body's natural body clock works easily. And this is not something debatable for ninety-nine percent of the population. 

The story goes along the lines that because someone is a so-called 'fly-in/fly-out' worker, who goes up the North West and is outside in the extreme heat and sun either on the mine-sites or maybe even on fishing boats and whatever else, and that these work phases are over more than ten days straight and then they have a week or so off back at home -, their sleep patterns are disrupted.

Well. Okay. So what? 

You sleep when you are tired. The end.

But no, these people 'cannot sleep' or they have complaints about the quality of sleep that they experience.

And then there is everyone else who lives and works around the main cities, and they just have broken sleep and are tired when they 'have to get up.'

Yep.

That's what happens when you 'have to get up.'

Melatonin is not going to change anything there.

Our cousin is here right now, Bill.
Can you imagine? 
Not resting though.
We would, she doesn't.


You'll still 'have to get up.'

Okay so people don't make enough money easily enough to get adequate sleep through having adequate time for sleep.

Some health and wellness practitioners offer 'real sleep therapies.'

That's great. So -, they are real.

 What people need though, is authentic rest.

This is the same stupid nonsense that goes on with the medical racket claiming to be able to solve 'back pain' and 'joint pain' and arthritis - by administering pills and carrying out surgical adventures into the human body and nervous system.

Doesn't matter which way you cut it however (pun intended), unless you are breaking the speed limit you will not be able to transport a vehicle down a highway in less time than what it takes the normal traffic flow to make that journey each day.

You cannot physically really move metabolites and used dead cells around as waste through the body and filtration system in under the natural time windows it takes the cell and tissue regrowth/regeneration process to perform its function.

Yes you can block pain receptors and that will not solve the source of the pain problem.

By the time some situation has become so chronic that no amount of temporary pain relief is going to hide the underlying mechanistic reality, surgical procedures and nerve killing become a necessity - which means true restoration of full original function will never happen.

There's not much point someone such as me saying oh you can 'see' optically for real with some natural inner faculty of the mind and brain and nervous system, if the person being addressed is in a state of complete physical exhaustion!

Seems to work incredibly hard.
This is not a body double.
How is it possible?
Millions of dollars...
...could be one answer.



And what would be the exact profile and process of any genuine 'fountain of youth' cell regeneration suite of substances (because in truth there are many relevant compounds that all act in concert) - if a person is already having their natural patterns aggravated because of very adverse lifestyle conditions?

A long time ago we sent out to a few people a composition designed to increase and enhance nerve signalling acuity - this was called 'The Persian Aura' preparation.

Next up will be the Utopia Blue composition, which comprises the exact ingredients of what the servant of Alexander the Great found being used by some Siddha-Ayurveda practitioners in ancient South India. This will literally give you more pronounced effects than all of the latest science-researched things like the sulforophane from Broccolini, which switches off the aging gene segments.

But to pre-reveal some of the context for what ancient Ayurveda (totally different from today's 'modern' parroted rigmarole about 'energy' and the various 'types' of bodies and 'humors') provided to surround the main ingestion compounds, it will come as a total revelation indeed, to note the fundamental Siddha method includes this - and to list here all of the synchronous positive medical/health effects is a major task: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628526/

The hydroxy-citric acid component alone is a superfood in and of itself, way outgunning this vaunted 'wonder drug' called Ozempic which has extremely toxic side-effects.

These things take days to work through the body.

I just love the quality of the pic!


Collagen takes weeks to go to layer bones and also enter the dermis widely.

I think it is going to take the average person even equipped with a strong mind and good powers of focus and brain control at least four days to get to the stage where their whole body system will be ready to 'go to the other level' where it becomes possible to do all this 'Monroe Institute' kind of remote seeing and so on.

Four days of which the first half will be simply to get over the lunatic cadence of a badly-structured modern lifestyle and attain authentic adequate rest and be in a state of restfulness in which it then becomes possible to focus the senses into this single multi-channeled input line or pathway acquired in the individual's brain that sees all of the available data around them and is able to make sense of it in their consciousness.

How are you going to do that??

There's politics.

And the need to earn a living.

LOL

We must make the time.

And that's all there is about it.




Wednesday 11 September 2024

Some Recapping...

The University of the Western Cape South Africa this week produced a study proving that a combination of gold flakes and red wine was very quickly (within 72 hours) able to heal chronic wounds.

Well this is something we spoke about here a long time ago and also privately to those of you who have been receiving some information over the past few years from here.

As I have also mentioned recently I think I am well behind in the schedule of sending out some important additional information and also 'things' maybe and I find I am really becoming reluctant to put out into the public space - even here, which is quite 'not-all-that-public' frankly - in particular certain matters to do with quite literal 'fountain of youth' stuff...

Gold-infused jello.
Already told you about this.
Said 'Aliens' like the stuff.
Well they do!


One of the bugbears with me, or I think 'mental hitches' is that I worry a lot about people being able to live and survive through the present times and the comings (that I know are coming).

You will have to find a way to 'survive' virtually in hiding in a manner of speaking, from the normal daily world. And that could mean keeping a low profile right in the middle of some urban area or even a city but all-in-all it means stepping away from ideas and lifestyles that cannot bring you anything but trouble and physical stresses. and health-wise, things are only going to go from bad to worse as far as most of society is concerned.

It is really true what Dr Suneel Dhand keeps saying, that the food intake largely is now a 'pro-inflammation' source for too many people - who basically just refuse to stop doing this kind of insanity.

But then, they do it because it seems in their minds that they have no choice.

What does it really matter how much money you think you are making when the cost of living is killing you just to stay where you are doing the job/s that you are doing, and the food and lifestyle entailed is literally organically damaging you?

At the same time it's pointless for someone like me to just seem to be sitting on the sidelines and presenting no positive solutions.

And this brings me to the 'problem' - such as it is.

You (and not me either) will never be able to derive solutions from standard information and data sources and social and technical/technology systems as they are available to the public generally. The system is designed to block you from attaining clear-cut positive and beneficial results.

Right now I am trying to work on a set of filmed full suite expositions of technologies and natural chemical compositions that give truly stunning, amazingly interesting effects on any given subject.

Pear and citrus.
And gold flakes on top.


But at the same time I am really pointedly aware that I don't want ideas and processes stolen and have fall into hands that will turn things into banal commercial and 'professional'/academic and academia-led dumbed-down virtual nonsense...

Last week I watched the graduation ceremony for a local University's Medical and Pharmacy Faculty, and I personally knew half a dozen of the people receiving their plaudits in their gowns and sashes. One or more had discussed with me the filming thing I am talking about in some paragraphs above here, but I am stepping right away from anything in that direction (with them or using anyone from that arena).

No I think we'll be taking what we know away rather than be introducing it to the whole entire world at large.

I mean on the one hand it should be perfectly obvious in any case that red wine (resveratrol, anthocyanins) and gold flakes (anti-inflammatory) might or would, have beneficial effects organically (and the skin is the biggest organ) - but it is not obvious that there really would ever be some naturally-occurring 'fountain of youth' compounds anywhere. So let's let the Big Pharma industries and the med-science and bio-med research foundations and all of that jazz work it out themselves!

Moreover what's the point living physically 'in a more youthful condition' and yet be working - that is, over-working - your body to death because of society and economic forces and conditions.

So here's some economic directions, at least:

The Dollar (USD) is weak because of Central Bank-caused inflation and currency devaluation through over-issuance. Gold and Silver are strong also because of that setting. The more the Fed lowers interest rates at this time the more it causes (price) inflation to happen.

It does not matter how much either stocks or real estate appear to rise across the board as capital values, because the costs of living are also rising but this latter thing happens as a transaction (sales, velocity circulation) every moment, whereas you sell your house only once over the term of its capital when held by you. Institutions 'can afford' to hold actually worthless assets that depreciate over the long term and require maintenance (costs to keep) over the short term - you cannot.

Looks much much better in real life
than in the pics of it.
Is low and sleek and pretty in reality.


As the Dollar weakens and inflation rises salaries and wages cannot keep pace and hours worked must be piled up in order to gain even a reasonable living. 

Companies fail to make good profits because their boards only have to meet or slightly beat fake low-held 'risk free' interest rates. 

The picture is grim.

You might have to still own a property but you must not be in the position of holding stocks at this time.

You might not (be able to) own property but you must be holding gold and silver. At this time.

There is a lagging effect on the trickle down of dollars from errant Central Bank debt issuance and the time or the moment when these dollars start chasing limited goods. Prices must rise. And they rise a long while after the excessive debt is raised.

So in this climate what would be the point of suddenly regaining a meaningful amount of physical organic 'youthfulness' if you are unable to economically make use of it?

...Will we still tell you about the 'fountain of youth' stuff?

Maybe. If you want it and some of you have a right to it too because you have been powerful financial supporters along the way. 

Red wine jello

But correct me if I'm wrong but you also want a way out of the wider world's economic mess, right?

And you should want that before indulging in this 'mythology' about what Alexander the Great's servant found when he went out to get some spice supplies in South India - right?

Right? Or not right?

Which one do you want?

First...