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15 Nov 2010 @ 17:49
What was left untouched during the 'International Forum on Geopolitics of Culture and Technology' [link] is now emerging at the 'II Forum on Digital Culture' [link] a logical and necessary extension, it seems:
The Epigenetics of Cultures, the short-term activations of parts of the DNA of the human race as a whole, is not promoted nor sponsored by governments. In the contrary, as John Perry Barlow, founder of the EFF [link] and famous as lyricist of the Grateful Dead, pointed out: most governments would do everything to ban or suppress this process. One of the astonishing events of the last decade was that Brazil 'under Lula' had the courage, even boldness, to nominate an artist and visionary as the Minister of Culture, a logical choice it would seem, but the most unlikely event in the rest of the world. We're talking about Gilberto Gil, of course, and his visions of the emerging culture, a process ripening over the years and yielding fruits now.
The new science of Epigenetics [link] 'teaches us' that the model of DNA which changes only over long periods of time, needs to be adjusted for a mechanism that activates or disactivates certain parts of the DNA already within a few generations. Without being aware, the priests of today's 'Science', in every aspect a 'religion', have granted traditional and New-Age Shamans the justification and 'scientific' foundation for their work.
If an event can activate or disactivate an entire portion of DNA, a Shaman may work exactly in this way. Enter modern technology: Memes spreading out in hours, covering the entire globe. While, with the exception of the Zeitgeist movies, whatever is spreading fast, is mostly part of today's predominate 'content': trash. But if 70 Million people tune in to watch a toddler saying what every toddler in the world could have said, IMAGINE, just IMAGINE, what if the message would be intelligent and relevant?
Witness the rise of the Shamans, not just plastic ones, but electronic ones: the Shamans of Digital Culture, capable to transform the entire world while sitting behind a computer connected to the Internet. As before, you might say, dreams we are enjoying since the 80s, but AGAIN, the world is ready now, the connections are made. Whoever pushes the buttons to accelerate what's already happening in the world, GLOBAL CHANGE, to be precise, doesn't quite matter and is likely to be unknown. 'Hackers', including the new paradigm of 'social hackers', that are tranceforming the 'morphic fields' of the human experience, they like to stay hidden. Far away from the pyramidal power structures of past and presence, they are the true Saints of our time. Blessed be, and if you meet a 'social hacker' these days, give 'em a hug from me and Anthony. More >
15 Nov 2010 @ 14:15
Some ask "How did we come to this point?", others "Where do we go from here?. I prefer Buckaroo Bonzai's classic quote: "Wherever you go, there you are!"
In Brazil, you need to adapt this quote to: "Wherever you dance, there you are!"
Where else would an "International Forum on Geopolitics of Culture and Technology" culminate in a concert. And, where else the music won't stop when the show is over? To the trancy rythms of a Banda de Pife [link] people yesterday night continued dancing still long after Gilberto Gil's presentation of a 'New Tropicalism", perhaps the birth of a new style in world music, blending folklorical and afro-brazilian melodies and chants with enchanting grooves of electrical sounds.
We witness a historic change, I'd say, but only time will prove me right or wrong. Nothing was said during the conference that you couldn't have heard 10, 20, 30 years ago. During the conference [link] countless deja-vus and flashbacks catapulted me back in time to the discussions in Frankfurt in the late 60's around Theodor Wiesengrund (Adorno) and Michel Foucault, into brainstormings at the Buckminster Fuller Institue in Santa Barbara in the 80's and 90's, and into the long conversations with Flemming [link] that led to the creation of the New Civlization Network [link] as a platform for the global exchange of paradigms of living-together, new structures to replace the monetary systems in 1995. Been there, done that!
Decades of talking in circles seemed to have wrought the lifeblood out of revolutionary thinking, the empty shells of words were lost over time, scattered fragments of clear thinking muddied by endless discussions leading to nothing.
NOTHING??? NOT!!!
Something has changed these days. And this change didn't start out with yet another great idea... it was a movement of the soul, a change in what we came to call by the horrible name "the morphogenetic field".
While we can't and never should ignore the plight of suppressed people around the world of which we were reminded direly during this International Forum, we also see the birth of the promise of a new happiness. Not merely hope, sad longings for freedom and peace which seemed to be always stay in the future and never arrived for today, NO, "Wherever you dance, there you are!"
Time to reflect about abandoning the urge, this implanted Meme of the Occidental cultures, of 'Wanting more (and more and more!)', a mind-enslaving Meme, mind you!, and to start embracing the celebration of life: "Viver bem", "Living Well", instead of "Living Better", the false mantra of consumerism, the hideous promises of a social culture destroying its own habitat in an endless greed for more and more, better and better, just to arrive at less and less.
Bye bye Tristes Tropiques, Welcome to the New Tropicalism! More >
9 Nov 2010 @ 20:53
Anarchic Transitions in Social Transformation
(or: "The 'radix function' in Morphic Field Processing"
by Max Sandor
In so-called morphogenetic fields [link] in 'evo-devo' as well as morphic fields [link] in social communities and Meme-spaces, any outer or inner conflict, and any transformation from one equilibrium into another, seems to follow a certain pattern: from an initial state, the 'organization', whether cellular or social, plunges into a confusion, a state of 'sickness', during which it is re-molding itself into a new structure before commencing to 'crystallize' into a stable shape that it will maintain until the next transformation.
It looks as if the organism itself is throwing itself deliberately into a state of disarray but once it entered it appears that it finds itself the 'way out', is 'healing itself' even when left alone, an observation that was found true countless times over the last decade of doing 'Skywork' (morphic field processing), and which, if true, has implications of tremendous proportions.
For once, it would make modern medicine look like barking up the wrong tree, coping with the symptoms of a self-inflicted confusion 'designed' to heal the organism and therefore PREVENTING the auto-cure instead of helping it. Anyone claiming this to be the case, would be subject to a severe witch hunt of course.
If we look at social systems instead of biological entities, we find less obstacles as there are (still) few 'authorities' defending their turf. Not only would it mean that a phase of anarchy is NEEDED for any social transformation but also that any INTERFERENCE during this anarchic state of society will likely result in a new equilibrium that is NON-OPTIMUM. In contrast, an anarchic transition of a group, nation, or mankind as a whole, that would simply left by itself to happen, has a chance to result in a new and saner organization.
For catalyzing social change as well as individual transformation we will have to rethink the 'way of a healer' from someone who interferes with the course of an ailment to someone who has the power of patience to guide the group or person THROUGH the valley of confusion TOWARDS a new and saner constellation of forces.
Experience with MFP (morphic field processing/Skywork) shows that it is only a matter of time until a solution emerges. The amount of time needed for reorganization depends largely on the NUMBER OF CELLULAS involved in the conflict (replace cellulas with 'persons' in social contexts).
The art of 'transforming' a social structure consists of 'guiding without interfering' with the scope of minimizing the time in the 'valley of tears' of the 'radical function' (see picture) and preventing other-determined influences to negatively impact the process of transformation.
The 'radix' model, illustrated by the radical sign, shows clearly the drawbacks of many FLAWED efforts of morphic field processing (for courtesy, I'll omit the names of the main culprits): terminating the process BEFORE its own recuperation will leave EVERYONE who participates in the dust (ghee, how politely I talk today!). Likewise, again through observations during a decade, we can safely say that any interference, indoctrination, or manipulation of reforming social constellations during MFP, will result in NON-OPTIMUM new states of organization and that, whichever new state emerges, it will NOT BE STABLE.
The time allotted for a typical MFP-session is limiting for larger social transformation challenges. The scope of such a session depends also on the PURPOSE of the 'social organism' at hand. We therefore divided our processes into three different kinds, all with their own particular sub-rules:
- Skywork, for individual and small group processing (such as families)
- teamshape, for organizations of any kind
- Kraftwerk, for large and complex structures, such as cultural and ethnic groups and nations as well as for the purpose of studying patterns of Nature Herself. More >
5 Nov 2010 @ 12:36
Yesterday night we watched "Orí", a film by Raquel Gerber, 1989, 54 minutes.
A documentary, Zeitgeist-style 20+ years ago. But like the 'Zeitgeist' movies, it's more than just a documentary.
"Orí" is an hommage of a young white woman to a black man who died 400 years ago.
The word "Orí" is usually translated as 'head', sometimes as 'destiny'. In this Blog we referenced it quite often in its meaning as 'Higher Self'. As an Aramaic fragment within the Yoruba language, it is the concept of the action of 'Or', the 'light' as referenced in the Genesis as "the Elohim said 'there shall be light' and there was light". Which makes the Yoruban Archons, the Orisha, 'Beings of Light', if one would follow the common Genesis interpretation.
The multi-layered Yoruba language allows also for the interpretation of "Orí" as "that who sees". But, personally I prefer 'vibration' instead of light, comparing it to 'oro', the sound of the 'word', which aligns it with the famous 'in the beginning was the word' as the principle of the first manifestation.
In any case, the title "Orí" seems strange for a documentary about the attempt of a quiet revolution.
What would happen if some people just walked out of society, into the woods, and created there own society, free of dogmas, money-tokens, and forced labor, a society in which every race can coexist in equal rights? More >
Trailing text from Facebook page "Countdown 2012 Workshop Worldtour") (see italian&portuguese translations there [link] )
"The time has come to unite the true leaders of mankind, present and future, to not lose the chance of turning around the battle of mankind for survival in freedom and sovereignty. Time has run out for talking, prophecies, and speculations. We are calling the world's thinkers, activists, its ministers and prophets, to unite them amongst themselves and with the great Spirits of the Universe of past and present in order to make the difference in the war over the destiny of Human Beings! We inaugurated the "Countdown 2012 Workshop Worldtour" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 10.10.10, beginning with our first workshop on Saturday, the 9th of October 2010. Don't stay behind! It is sooner than you think. The world is ready for YOU to act." More >
29 Oct 2010 @ 14:46
A backflow from SOURCE into CREATION is a unique feature of a self-realized Being (Ipsissimus Verus, Übermensch, shaheen bacha (arabic), Uttama-Puriso (Pali), whatever you may call it/him/her). After æons of receiving the nurturing energies of Heavens and Earth, he finally becomes a CONDUIT for the divine energies of SOURCE to flow back into its very own creation.
The design of a process to remove blockages and initiate this backflow is given in the attached diagram. It was handed down by Orunla himself and some questions remain why it works exactly as it works, except that it WORKS like it is given.
Prerequisites:
- ability to depolarize opposites by concurrent viewing (cp Sandor's simplified Gunas-Process as given in "Polar Dynamics" 1 by Sandor/Dawson, see [link] ) and expand it to a 'quadpole' (cp Girapoli processes in this BLOG)
- handle extreme (hysteric) fears (hint: see them as polar/complement opposites to "unwanted/forbidden desires" and resolve them by the very same "Gunas Process"). THEY WILL COME UP (the last ones that were still hidden) as this is the way the Being inhibits itself from being 'cause' and remains 'effect' of the creation
- ability to separate the perceptions of internal and external 'space'
- knowing how to align one's body/backbone (with Pilates, Alexander or similar) because of sudden shifts in the main Assemblage Point (the Eshu BEHIND one's head/neck, not so much the 'derivates' as described in some literature.)
- have time available without major commitments (competitions/stage shows, etc), for at least 2 days after starting the process.. it can be unsettling emotionally and physically for a while before coming clean..
- like with any quadpole, a "quintessential" force is created/invoked (the "fifth essence") which in turns produces a partial- or full-body "samadhi" (physical peakstate). It can happen that the samadhi sets in before the force has been recognized. In this case just track the 'new' energy that creates/amplify the samadhi.
Notes:
- the 'logical' quadpole would be blue/yellow inside and not black/white (yielding the '4 powers/Ashe). You can try of course doing it that way, but the process 'runs' only with the given polarity.
- cp the Toth-Diagram: Irosun-Ogunda-Ogbe-Oyeku are used to open up the energies of Ika-fua, 'birth of wisdom' for Iwori-bara (the heavenly child)
- another way to see the configuration: in the Hermetic Ifá-Numeration we see the resolution of Irosun-gunda yields a resolution of the 'traditional' 3 versus 4 conflict (Eshu or Ancestors?)
- do NOT try to 'want' the 'backflow' to happen. This would block the "want/can/must Triad" in Ori (Higher Self) which is indicated in this diagram ONLY for this reference here and is otherwise not 'part of the process' as such.
Lastly, ignore the above if don't know how to do the above just from its description..
21 Oct 2010 @ 14:07
[Note:
the following was written as part of materials for the first post-workshop meet-up groups of participants of our Countdown 2012 Worldshop Worldtour [link] . It is of such an importance that we posted it here for everyone to have a glimpse.]
"Dynamic Colloidal Leadership Vs Static Pyramid Models"
As we experience dramatic and accelerating shifts in consciousness, globally and individually, we have to revise what we think we know for sure, the bastions of traditions and frozen concepts, not to challenge rebelliously just for the sake of contradiction like children often do with their parents, but with a clear mind and a critical eye for our own belief systems that were never examined in themselves but taken for granted.
One of the pillars of social domination and suppression which mirrored down in the New Age Memes as 'sacred' and 'unshakeable' truth is the myth of the pyramid as a superior model for everything from focusing energy to social structures. This concept is not only dominating 'secret societies' and justification for royal sovereignty but has been thoroughly implanted in the mind of our civilization as 'natural' for the leadership structures from communist to democratic systems.
Just a brief analysis of the flow of information in pyramidal hierarchies shows the complete lack of redundancy and therefore a minimal error-tolerance. Even 'mixed' and 'multi-level' models, while enhancing error tolerance, are still prone to critical paths of systemic failure due to structural deficiencies. Diving a bit in the history of these models, WHICH PERVADE OUR SOCIETY AT LARGE, will show that they are largely self-imposed (cp Ruefli&Storbeck: [link] ) and are therefore clearly contrary to the 'scientific method'.
But let's leave the theory aside and look directly at living systems: nature doesn't arrange itself in pyramidal hierarchies, far from it. Which yields to the argument that stops all arguments: the pyramid as a god-given structure. Period.
Another view, or rather belief-system, if we look closely, is the that the refined Human mind would be superior because it can impose square angles on a nature that isn't square (Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma"). This may be very appealing for minds that are about to evolve from literal to symbolic abstractions but for systemic thinkers, as Buckminster Fuller has shown sufficiently and abundantly, it is just simply a ridiculous outflow of the hybris of 'pyramidal authorities' (sic!) bound by exclusively linear thinking.
Let us now look at dynamic social structures and its so-called 'morphogenetic fields', We investigate these structures since over ten years using three different modalities: clusters of individuals such as families (which we dubbed 'Skywork', see skywork.org), task-oriented groups (dubbed 'teamshape' teamshape.com ), and larger global structures (recently dubbed 'Kraftwerk' orunla.org/kraftwerk ). Each of these modalities, while following certain common standards since they are fractal instances of social interaction as such, have their own rules of engagement to bring about a solution or establish a new trend. We know of other groups that work in that direction, most notably Otto Scharmer's 'Presencing' and Hellinger's 'Constellations'.
One aspect that became obvious VERY fast, was the observation that social structures gravitate towards triangular structures [link] following a principle already described in the Indian Vedas thousands of years ago (the 'Gunas') and that they start crystallizing following a scheme outlined in [link] before clustering OR subdividing in a fractal fashion.
Invariably, the results were unmistakable: stability and survival in social structures is gravitating towards cells which are fractals of the structure pointed to above.
For a lack of a better name, we called it a 'colloidal leadership structure'.
We use 'colloidal' in the sense of it being a 'state of matter', a 'condition of order' within particles. (see [link] )
In a 'colloidal leadership' scenario all subgroups work towards the common goal with a minimal set of agreed-upon rules, Notable is the complete absence of 'personal command lines' and the ability of modifying its own rules as needed to adapt to the challenge of the task at hand.
If this seems to theoretical, have a look at the most successful accomplishments of recent times: projects like Linux, Wikipedia, even the Internet as such, are based on the colloidal concept and NOT on the pyramidal structure.
Back in the mid 1990's, Flemming Funch [link] and I spent innumerable hours discussing the organizational structure of the dream of a 'New Civilization' (from which the New Civilization Network [link] was born in 1995). We dived into all kinds of models, from Flemming's Holoworld to my 'Freeworld' design and J.Fresco's Venus Project. (some of them outlined in my BLOG-precursor 'The Logs of JD Flora'
[link] ).
These days we witness the biggest challenge to the ruling class the history has ever seen: Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist Movement [link] which promotes Fresco's Resource-Based-Economy (RBE) to replace monetary-based systems.
It's sudden success was only possible because its basic Meme was allowed to 'run free' and naturally develop a colloidal social structure. If it averts the danger of re-crystallizing in pyramidal or other linear structures, it may very well be unstoppable.
Yet, as the pre-calculated drama of this year election in Brazil unfolds (see previous BLOG entry), we can see that the pyramidal powers ALSO start employing colloidal strategies to change, or more precisely 'manipulate', public opinion. Of course, the goal in this is to cloak the true powers-that-be and to reaffirm and solidify the pre-existing pyramidal power structure, a barely masked global feudalistic umpire. More >
20 Oct 2010 @ 22:50
If you thought the Obama-craze was funny, you'll have a ball with what's going in Brazil right now. If you cringed, like me, you'll scratch your head in disbelief.
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, Brazilian politicians show you that it can.
Of course, if you don't live (t)here, you could put it aside as a scurrility of a nearly-emerged Third-World-Country that declared independence "only" 188 years and 6 weeks ago and still needs to lay down the shackles of feudalism. NOT! Most of the mud-slinging strategies and infamies of this year's presidential elections have been IMPORTED!
Joseph Marie de Maistre is known as having coined: "Every country has the government it deserves."
But he also summed up what's happening in Brazil's election right now, and perhaps he gave the inspiration to it, who knows:
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
And so we find the wife of candidate A going to the streets telling people that candidate B would "kill little children". That's religious-speak for "abortion" which her husband, candidate A, while in office as Health Minister, legalized in the first place. She also conveniently forgot that she aborted herself earlier in her life but this all doesn't matter, it's about defaming candidate B and the lower it gets, the better. And it's just one item in a long list of defamations, circulated openly by 'bishops', 'reverends', and 'fathers', all of them 'holy men in their churches', demonstrating the practical application of the commandment of 'love thy neighbor' by designating candidate B as a new 'Adolf Hitler' and the candidate for its vice as a 'convicted satanist'. So you have it! Of course, the election laws prohibit political defamation but, this is Brazil, mind you, and some of the highest judges of the country not only stand-by in this charade but even tried to create a last-minute law to require voters to present two identification documents, practically eliminating most of the poor voters from voting. In favor of candidate A, of course.
Again, take notice, this state of affairs is symptomatic for today's democratic systems. It's the SYSTEM, stupid, one is tempted to say, but enough of violent communication for now...
Is a system change such as Fresco's 'Resource Based Economy (RBE)" possible in the light of the massive manipulation at all levels? Again, let's make it clear again, Brazil's situation is not much different than that of the United States or Italy, regardless of who will be winning this ridiculous and disgusting election process.
As long as there are "..honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. (Maistre)”, the fight for honest elections is hopeless and doomed from the beginning.
Only a massive change of awareness at all levels of the society can have a chance and even then, the empire WILL strike back, violating the country's own laws as demonstrated in Brazil, or create new laws to break the old ones like in Italy and the US.
The old paradigms have been impressed on the population so massively and thoroughly that only a wide-spread success of a movement like the Zeitgeist [link] has a chance to bring about a change in consciousness on a larger, global level, a change that is needed to prevent the collapse of our civilization.
But it needs a 'spiritual tangent', a side-force of spiritual 'Aufklärung', and not just the disclosure of the absurdities of the world's economic system. "Aufklärung" does not mean 'enlightenment' as it is commonly translated ('enlightenment in German is 'Erleuchtung'). "Aufklärung" means literally "clearing up", it is a PROCESS and not a sudden event. It means to systematically strip one's belief systems of the past and start seeing for oneself. It is on-going work and not a god-given flash of insight.
This is why we here at the Sandorian Grove decided to concentrate on radically expanding spiritual awareness in our 'Countdown 2012 Worldtour' campaign [link] . And we are not alone! All over the world people start waking up to the fact that they need to wake up as Beings and go beyond the rotten spiritual paradigms of the past. We see with great joy films like "2012 Time for Change" by Daniel Pinchbeck, directed by João Amorim from Brazil, for example, and I'm convinced we will see many more laudable efforts coming up soon.
After all, it IS an exciting time to live in! The devil's advocate would say: it was the outrageous misconduct of the world's leaders that FORCED the people to wake up, in other words perhaps we should be thankful that there are not hiding their greed and deceptions any more !?
We don't want 'hope' that only will be betrayed blatantly.
We don't want to chant any more 'WE CAN'.
Now we will simply "ENGAGE IN CHANGE"! More >
What started out as a prank is taking a more serious dimension. The "Passion 4 Truth" Movement [link] has offered their support and webspace on their site because, let's face it, the problem not exists but it *is* serious.
We will update the program as we go along here and on the new site at [link]
SA, Serfs Anonymous
It was a about time...
And, if you think you're not one the nearly 7 billions on Earth who are SERFS, meditate upon
Today's Lemma:
"Nobody is more a slave than who thinks who would be free without being it."
"Niemand ist mehr Sklave als der sich für frei hält ohne es zu seyn."
from: Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Volume 14 - pg 259, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Cotta, 1817
SA's 12-Step Program consists of:
* Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our destiny - that our lives had become unmanageable
* Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
* Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our True Self as we understood our True Self
* Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
* Step 5 - Admitted to our True Self, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
* Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have our True Self remove all these defects of character
* Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
* Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
* Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
* Step 11 - Sought through communication and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our True Self as we understood our True Self, praying only for knowledge of our True Self's will for us and the power to carry that out
* Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other Serfs, and to practice these principles in all our affairs More >
24 Sep 2010 @ 19:13
If we look carefully at the cultural&social distribution of conglomerations of people such in cities without a design enforced by nature or city architects, we will find certain recurring patterns. To name but a few, the traditional rich people that control the power structures are residing in the Westside of the city, the newcomers, managers, and production leaders aggregate in the Northern part, the workers and 'lower classes' move to the Eastside, the low-to-medium income groups and artists prefer the Southern part of the city.
Analyzing the preferred and optimal distribution of energies around the human body (such in in the Girapoli 3 and 4 Peakstate configurations [link] ), we come to similar conclusions.
A similarity of optimal functional distributions for human bodies and the environment they live in has already be described in the Vedic text Vaastu Shastra [link] .
Western architects, so far, did not progress further than a systematic employment of the golden mean. Even futurist projects like the Venus Project [link] places the geometry of resource distribution above the social well-being of people living in its cities in which the old, traditional landmarks have been moved to museums because they were in the way of energy efficient design considerations.
If we superimpose the Toth diagram over city maps (e.g São Paulo, Brazil, in the picture), we can study such a natural 'gravitation' of social groups towards certain places in even more detail than the already very refined design principles of Vaastu Shastra. We can find a 'living proof' of both the Vaastu Shastra principles and the more specific Toth diagram.
To hint to an explanation of this phenomenon, we can see the '16 Universal Principles' ("Olodu" in Ifá), as representing the 'hidden variables' in David Bohm's Quantum Theory. Within the fractal design of the Universe, we are able to recognize the distribution of energies within structures optimized by nature, regardless of its size. Whether the human body, a house, or an entire city, we can discern these basic principles at any given level. More >
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