You Are a Collective...

... and part of one too.

It's been a long time since I've written anything. I've been meaning to, but as the Yiddish proverb says "Der mensch trakht un Gott lahkht" (Man plans and G-d laughs).

I stumbled across an article somewhere recently... can't remember where. But it was about how every person carries around a certain amount of cells that don't belong to them. Often times they are discarded by the body, but many of them remain with us for years, if not our entire lives.

These cells belong to other people. Discarded skin or hair cells that are sloughed off get eaten, inhaled, or otherwise ingested in some way by others. Kissing is responsible for lots of exchanged cells between people. Anyway... you get the idea.

This got me thinking about a subject I had written about before, and so I figured I'd build on that idea a bit.

What makes those cells that come from other people's bodies different or "foreign" to our bodies? It is the fact that the DNA molecule is different from ours, and therefore does not carry our unique genetic coding.

Cells, as we know, are living entities by themselves. We can remove or detach human cells from the rest of the cells of our body, and keep them alive. This is done all the time. Living human tissue and organs are being transported all over the world by air, truck, and rail. These living organisms once were part of a conscious being we call a "person", yet the consciousness of those "persons" is not found in those organs, or tissues, or individual cells.

Or is it?

Mapped out in your brain is a virtual image of your entire body. Amputees often experience feelings, sensations, and pain in limbs that are no longer there. These sensations occur in the brain (as all feelings, sensations, and pains do). Someone loses an arm, and the part of the brain that used to communicate with that arm is still there. It sends signals out looking for feedback and when none is received it behaves unpredictably. This phenomenon is quite well known by just about everyone and is called "phantom limb".

Metaphysicists may refer to this "virtual" body that is mapped out in the brain as an "astral body" or "light body", it is composed merely of energy and pathways for that energy.

In our example of the missing arm, we know that there is a part of the brain that communicated with that arm. But now let's imagine that the arm, after being removed is kept alive by some artificial means (blood pumped through the arteries by an artificial pump, etc). There are nerve cells in that arm that used to send signals to the brain and receive them in return.
These nerve cells have their own consciousness, their own purpose, their own will to do the things that they are designed and programmed to do.

In addition to nerve cells, there are many many other types of cells (heart, lung, muscle, bone, pancreatic, kidney, etc), each of which living its own individual life performing the tasks that they were given, unaware of a larger (super)consciousness that they serve (the human organism).

I can't help but wonder if the thoughts we think, the voices in our heads, the ideas we see and envision, are a collective result of the smaller "thoughts" put out by the trillions of cells that are clumped together to create our bodies - and when we say "I", we are actually referring to a mass of trillions of living creatures arriving at an idea by a sort of democratic process. Perhaps this is why, we find ourselves waffling between choices, trying to decide between Coke or Pepsi, or what color dress to wear. Billions of voices speaking... or "praying" to the collective ("I"), just as billions of people speak and pray to G-d in order to try to influence Him to grant their wishes or show favor to them.

Historically, we see that polytheism morphed into monotheism, and in the Judeo-Christian Bible, G-d went from "Elohim" (gods) to "Eheya" (I am). In the evolution of life itself, the idea of individual single-celled organisms competing against each other is illustrated by the polytheistic idea of multiple gods (consiousnesses) warring against each other and becoming a to "multi-celled" organism working together as one collective and becoming ("I am").

So, these foreign cells that we carry around... The consciousnesses they carry... Do they influence us? Do they speak to us? Are they resident aliens trying to cast a vote to get the attention of the higher being that is you?

There are many stories of organ transplant recipients and blood transfusion recipients having dreams of events that occured in the lives of the former owners of those organs or blood. I recall one particular story about a man having recurring vivid dreams of a motorcycle accident after he received an organ from a man whom he later discovered was killed in a motorcycle accident. These stories are anecdotal, but there are many of them and I believe that there is definitely something to them.

The Torah/Bible says "do not eat blood, for the life-energy (chaya) is in the blood".

This would also give another reason why Jewish dietary law forbids the eating of an animal that has suffered.

9th of Av - Temple Destruction

A few of you have noticed that the music on my profile, along with much of the imagery contains hidden/occultic or symbolic meanings. I also received a lot of complaints about the last song that I had up which was entitled 'Of Mercury and Mercury' by a band called Melechesh (Melechesh is Hebrew for "King of Fire"). Some of you chose to hit mute or click to another page... Only a handful of you looked up the lyrics... kudos to you folks! Mercury had been in retrograde and that song when up as the planet had entered its direct station.

Sunset tonight begins the 9th day of the month of Av (Tisha B'Av) on the Hebrew calendar. This day is said to be the lowest of all days in the year, or in other words the most cursed day in history according to the Jewish reckoning of time.

It was on this day that Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. Since history has a way of repeating itself, it is recorded that on this very same day the second Jewish Temple was also destroyed later on by the Romans in AD70.

A year later on this day, the Romans finished off the city of Jerusalem with a final seige that razed the entire city.

On Av 9, AD135 the Bar Kokhba revolt collapsed, the city of Betar was destroyed, and Bar Kokhba was killed.

In more modern times, it was on this day, that Germany declared war on Russia in WWI.
On Av 9, 1942 the first transports carrying Jews into Treblinka.

The extermination of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto began on this day.

Rather than lament over the past, I believe it is important to apply the past as lessons for the present. For all we know, the past is a myth and the future is a dream. The present moment... the current nanosecond is the only reality that truly exists.

So what do these histories, legends, myths, stories, and fables have to teach us?
That we, as the living Temple of the divine, will one day meet the same fate as the temples of Solomon, Zerubabel/Herod, and a great many other holy edifices. Death is coming for every one of us... how we live at THIS very moment is the only action of any consequence.

Outside of the sensory world, there are many temples that we build and destroy on a daily basis. Each of us has the ability to repair them or to heap even more destruction upon the ruins of the old. Which we do is simply a matter of the choices that we choose. Heaven and hell are within....

I know the pieces fit

'Cause I watched them fall away

Mildewed and smoldering

Fundamental differing

Pure intention juxtaposed

Will set two lovers' souls in motion

Disintegrating as it goes

Testing our communication

The light that fueled our fire then

Has burnt a hole between us so

We cannot see to reach an end

Crippling our communication

I know the pieces fit

'Cause I watched them tumble down

No fault, none to blame

It doesn't mean I don't desire to

Point the finger, blame the other

Watch the temple topple over

To bring the pieces back together

Rediscover communication

The poetry

That comes from the squaring off between

And the circling is worth it

Finding beauty in the dissonance

There was a time that the pieces fit

But I watched them fall away

Mildewed and smoldering

Strangled by our coveting

I've done the math enough to know

The dangers of our second guessing

Doomed to crumble unless we grow

And strengthen our communication

Cold silence has

A tendency to

Atrophy anySense of compassion

Between supposed brothers

Between supposed lovers

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit

I know the pieces fit
~Schism by Tool

Global warming hysteria vs. scientific facts

It was discovered earlier this week by a blogger that NASA needs some help with their math. NASA had calculated the warmest year of this century to be 1998, which was touted by AlGore and his bunch of Sicko supporters as evidence of global warming and the need to do SOMETHING NOW!!!

Well, NASA screwed up! They forgot about a little Y2K bug, which skewed their data, and so the warmest year of the century is actualy 1938.

Today there are 600 million cars on the road and nearly 6.5 billion people on the planet.
In 1938, there were barely 2 billion people on the planet.

In 1968, there were only 169 million cars on the planet. I don't have the figure for 1938, but it sure as hell was a lot less than 169 million.

So, the warmest year took place when there were one-third the number of people on the planet, using a hell of a lot less electricity, less appliances, no computers, no TVs (not enough worth mentioning anyway), no home theatre systems, no central air conditioning, no microwave ovens, etc.

There were also less cows being raised to feed fewer humans... and we know that bovine sources of CO2 are very great. We also had about 1/10 the number of automobiles on the planet or less even (extropolating from the 1968 figure)... no jet airplanes, very few propeller aircraft compared to 1998 (and much smaller). We also had no drive thru/fast food restaurants, no massive gas-guzzling SUVs, etc.

We also didn't have fat-ass Algore flying around in his Gulfstream telling the rest of the world to stop producing CO2 or else they must buy "carbon credits" from a company that he is a shareholder of...

CO2 is a natural by-product of all living things and an essential part of the cycle that is life itself. To put a tax on this is to put a tax on the very act of breathing... which we know is every democrat's dream.

The following ice core data from Greenland shows that the climate has been very stable for the past 10,000 years. In fact it shows a very slight dip in global temperature in the past 1000 years!

Those of you who are old enough to remember (or may have forgotten) these same morons tried a similar scare-tactic in the 1970s with "Global Cooling". They were running to congress in a panic trying to get them to authorize all kinds of tax levies on commercial activity to prevent an impending ice age (and our own extinction).

The same so-called "climatologist" experts were demanding that we actually build soot factories in the arctic circle... massive, collossal smoke stacks that do nothing but burn coal and wood so that they can pump CO2 in to the upper atmosphere and create a "global warming effect" to stave off the coming ice age! What a bunch of morons!!!!

Here you see the cover of Time magazine from December 3rd, 1973 on the left.

In 1975 Newsweek featured an article detailing this nonsense.