Reasons To Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig a New Zealand-born author and novelist of nine works has hit on a 'beyond-self-help' common sense approach to the disease of depression. The book should be mandatory reading for every person taking anxiety or depression drugs and every grade 10 student in the country in my opinion.

You can listen to the podcast presented by Australian Broadcast Corporation radio from the show; 'All About The Mind' hosted by Lynne Malcolm. Here's the link; All About The Mind
-A.N.

Cosmic Rant

It's not really about your heart or your brain or your intuition or even your etherial self. These are mere undeveloped synoptic impulses we detect as consciousness. It's very much mind-boggling to me that we Humans are still here on Earth considering the consciousness-dead sea shores on which we lay shipwrecked, stripped and sun burnt. Evidently, within more developed cultures than modern-day Humans, there must be rules distilled from scientific realizations that we cannot yet imagine because our processors are simply not developed enough to comprehend them. Having a glimpse of this kind of consciousness It would be a 'leg up' about existence. To grasp it would mean that we were being let in to the Cosmic Club instead of navel-gazing until we suffocate ourselves within ourselves. Look within? Perhaps. But what about 'look beyond'?

Humans, and possibly the entire planet Earth would have been terminated shortly after the First World War by one extraterrestrial force or another had it not been for a few chance occurrences that will one day be seen for what they really are. Intervention by a cosmic force of one kind or another. Perhaps it’s best to be as ameba is to us. 

We’re not really in the way except when we detonate nuclear weapons or gang up together to cause attention by killing one another. Cosmic rules that for reasons once again we cannot comprehend, must be interwoven with a clearer understanding of the reality behind Creation. It's God's back-story. Even God has got to have one. 

Wow. What if the highest world power, like the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland for instance, is in actual fact, just a spec of fly poop to the force that actually runs what we perceive as reality? It may be quite beyond the Matrix scenario without a doubt. The concept renders absolutely everything many Humans think of as normal or expected down to total primordial pig swill. And that is probably a good place to start thinking about what's going on with Humans right now. We definitely need to look beyond. –A.N.

Utopia, The Fitness Thing and Biodegradable Corpses

I heard someone on the radio today say, "Utopia 's just not gonna happen. It just isn't." I felt great empathy for him. I heard another bit about another guy who wrote a book, a thesis or wait... Yes, it was a 'manifesto' of modern living' what kind of living I do not know. I believe the host of the show mentioned which kind with aplomb and a heady bon-vivant sort of like it was a butter-dripping fact or something. Humans are nuts. His thing was about how creativity is not a special gift but a learned thing that we get better at with practice. Whatever the case, I just turned him off. Literally. On the radio. But first in my mind.

Can you imagine how little we know about the human mind and its connectedness with laws of the Universe that we have yet to discover? The laws and the Universe I mean. Sure it's fine to set the Hubble Space Telescope adrift in the far-reaches of our home galaxy, the Earth's that is, and call it lemon pie. But really. It appears to me that Humans are really not using their noodles very well at all.

Take the anti-Utopia guy for example. Holy shit just give up right? We become what we think about I've been told by wiser people, and I believe it. So if you think we're fecked, well then I guess we're all fecked. It's sad. We sit here on this blue marble and allow crazy power-hungry sadists to run our world (not the politicians, they're all too stupid) and we complain about the weather or the ball score. We're fecked all right.

Can you imagine if most of us spoke of Utopia a lot? What would that mean? Obviously we would have to allow for an indeterminate number of Utopias to exist, since if they were filtered through a million minds, there must be at least a million versions of Utopian society one would think. And what if we put together several billion of those into a simple catch phrase or tag line as people refer to that sort of thing now? Can you imagine how quickly crooked bankers and the 'Three-Sister' institutions that brokers our future on this planet would crumble and fall? "One Earth, One Future" I say. We need to start promoting the concept of Utopia around more. Every school child over the age of five or six should understand the basic concept. The idea that we are giving our kids, the future of this planet, toys that glorify war (as in realistic video-games not toy guns by the way although, still) is really ludicrous. Who's running that scam anyway? Ever thought that one through? You should try. It's good exercise. For your brain I mean.

And speaking of which, I just heard that insurance companies, (the other bastards that run everything) are going to decrease your life insurance premiums if you use specific high-tech wearable gadgets that will tell them if you rode your bike to work or how many sit-ups you can do. Good God. Just give it all away people for a fifteen percent reduction in your yearly bill. Life insurance made better. Feck. When I die, I want it to be a REAL tragedy. Feck life insurance and the greasy slime-balls behind that racket. Caveat: Just like with banks, there are lots of really decent folks working in Life Insurance. Don't get me wrong. There is however is the question of morality, general decency and love of fellow man that appear to be missing at the tip of these corporations like one of Teddy's button-eyes.

So go ahead, connect with the company that built your automobile so they know where you go, what you do, how fast you accelerate and how many passengers you may or may not have. They'll sell that info to the top bidder. Really. And you just gave it away. The Insurance industry sure has balls though eh? They know how to make a profit. You sure don't. Fifteen percent they offer if you can prove on a daily basis that you are healthy and less of a rick to insure. Lesson One: Don't live near a cement company. Those trucks are big and they may run you over. And your insurance company will know when one hits you. Lesson Two: Never accept the first offer. Fifteen percent indeed.

Once your dead, that is to say your soul or essence has left your physical bio-vestle and transformed into a a different energy modality, I heard that instead of fire or rotting you can chose to become compost. Now that's fun! Just throw Uncle Bill into the compost heap. He'll be cooked by springtime. Sure would save a lot and warm cucumber sandwiches and miles travelling to places you never went when guys like Uncle Bill were still alive in their bodies. Vegetable food. Maybe that's Utopia.

The Seed of Life

Once you understand the significance of this image, there is really nothing else to say. Gaze at it for five minutes and see what happens. Don't lose your concentration. Gaze at it. 

Breathe, relax, feel, watch, allow.

10 Buddhist Sayings to Help You This Day

Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images.

1. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” 

You become what you think about or in other words: what you focus on grows in your life and from what you take your focus away from diminishes.

It means that the mind is directing our life in the way we manifest the life around us by the thoughts and directions we take with our mind. Since everything we created around us is first created in the mind, it is the tool or the interface between our self and the material world.

Another quote of Buddha with a similar message here is “He is able who thinks he is able”. This also shows the creative power of the mind and if we are able to consciously use it in that way – avoiding negative thoughts and utilizing empowering thoughts – we use it in a supportive manner.

2. “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

This is the core of personal development. It points towards the need to train and develop the mind and to free it from limits and negativity.

The other quote “The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.” makes the same point with the special notion of happiness. The mind used correctly – i.e. constructive, empowering, solution- and action-oriented, positive, truth-seeking – can create happiness. But used poorly – i.e. blaming, egocentric, negative, blinded by ambition or separation – it will create unhappiness for us. Training the mind is the key here.

The quote may also point to a transformation by awakening directly, where the mind becomes the servant of the self and not the creator of a self-image (the concept of the ego) as a replacement for the true self.

3. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” 

This points to the abundant nature of reality. The abundance mentality says there is enough for everyone, we only have to realize and live by it. It is the opposite of a scarcity mentality, where you have the belief that you always have to fight for your part in a limited world.

4. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” 

The essence of living in the present moment, the Now, is focusing the mind here and take attention away from thinking about past or future. The present moment is all there ever is to experience life directly. Past and future are only concepts of our mind and therefore are good for learning from the past or conceptual planning when it is useful, but after this there is no need for them. Especially not to dwell in them and get stuck there in the mind by constant thinking loops.

5. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?” 

Action is what counts. It means to be action-oriented and to actually do what we think, to prove what we believe by applying it in reality. Only if we “walk our talk” we are authentic and truthful to ourselves.

To apply yourself and your ideas in reality is like a proof-test for what we think is right and will work. If there is no action and therefore no testing in reality, the words or ideas themselves are of no real sustainable value.

Another quote for this message is “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

6. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” 

This is the essence of Carpe Diem – to seize the day fully means living wisely. It means to live to the highest truth we know and to rise to our highest values and capabilities.

Living wisely also means not to believe every thought that comes, but to live more from the space between thoughts, from our essence.

7. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

The so-called Inside-Out approach means to look within oneself to find the inspiration and power to act from this place. It means not to look to the outside world for liberation or happiness, but to take the responsibility for oneself and become that what we are seeking.

His second quote here “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” talks directly about this responsibility, response-ability we have inside.

8. “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

Any perspective we have on anything is only a relative truth. There are always both (or more) sides of any story. An objective perspective or an absolute truth is very hard or maybe impossible to see. But to be aware of this and to be interested to see another perspective from another person can be very mind-opening and valuable.

The matter of perspective (also described in the 7 habits of highly effective people) is a very powerful one and it is the core of most (if not all?) conflicts between people. One things one is right as long one stays in one’s own single perspective – needless to say, the other person has the same reality.

There is a similar quote by The Buddha that fits in here: “In seperateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength” which shows that if we become able to dissolve the separate perspective to a perspective of oneness with all other, we hold the key to end conflicts and to find solution and agreements suitable for everybody.

9. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” 

This quote is perhaps the most difficult one to really understand. In the first place, it is not about the beautiful nature of the flower or beauty itself. What Buddha is talking about – in my humble opinion – is to see and get in touch with the life in a flower directly, without any interference by our mind by mental concepts and thoughts of the flower.

Eckhart Tolle in “A New Earth” talks about the flowering of human consciousness, maybe you want to take a look …

10. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” 

If we are not authentic and truthful to ourselves, we build a wall around us that eventually we have to tear down again. It is then literally a resistance to the reality and our own nature where we can hide some time, but life has a way to show us our own faults in the end.

To be true to the best one knows means to come from our own best knowledge and not buy into something outside ourselves blindly, always asking: is this really true to what I know?

In resonance with this quote also is the final one by The Buddha:

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Solfeggio Harmonics 528Hz Miracle - Evolution Through Frequency

There are frequencies or vibrations that reveal, heal, enlighten and awaken. The one featured in this audio/video will align your DNA with alternate dimensions and could be helpful in meditation. However, absolute silence under the correct conditions will also accomplish this.

Sleeping is unconscious meditation. We need sleep to provide energy for our daily functioning. But it is never enough, and that is why we feel tired, confused or stressed. Meditation, is conscious sleeping and provides vastly more cosmic energy and has more healing power than sleep alone. Therefore, meditation, at least one minute for every year you have been alive in this dimension is indispensable to health, happiness, productivity and more importantly, the functioning and evolution of your eternal spirit-self. It's very important. We should be teaching our children how to meditate from about the age of five years.

Great Leap Forward: Conditional

NASA photo

I attended The David Suzuki Foundation's 'Bluedot Tour' recently. If you have not heard about it, I hope you can attend. Very simply, its premise is to work to institute declarations legislated at the local municipal level thru to provincial and then to the federal government level to enshrine the right to clean air, water and food in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms just as 119 other countries on Earth have already done.

Interestingly, the extra-terrestrial species who have been knocking around Earth for millennia are waiting for this, and also for the end to our wars. They're really quite relaxed about it. They even let us develop, test and actually use atom bombs that upset the apple cart here on Earth but also in extra-dimensional universes; so strong is the universal agreement among truly 'civilized' species not to interfere with other worlds the more advanced species will let us destroy ourselves with wars and neonicotinoids rather than mess about with our timeline.

Sure, they may poke and probe us and there's a bit of inter-species DNA floating about, but when it comes to our custodial responsibility to protect our world from bad ideas, it's really up to us. Should we ever attain peace, the hell on Earth we humans have created will almost instantly abate because we will be shown new technologies that will essentially save Earth in the cosmic short-term, allowing us to achieve inter-stellar travel. We prove we will not kill each other with anti-gravity devices and we're good to go. Suddenly, several universes and a few inter-spacial bubbles will be ours to play in. After all, when our Sun goes nova, it's kaput for Earth. We better have earned the Great Leap Forward by then.

What does this all mean? Simple; We stop killing one another, we prove we can use technology to improve our planet instead of destroying it through wars and pollution, and the prize at the fair we get is a Kewpie doll called Utopia. So, what's more important; Peace or an environment that will sustain Human life? Bit of a cosmic horse and cart scenario me thinks. Cleaning things up would be a good way to hedge our bet though. -AN