When a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Of course, I’ve addressed this before, but it’s worth revisiting because it says something about how we exist, as well as our true purpose. A tree falling does not make a sound, but it causes vibrations in the air. A sound occurs when there is a receiver that translates the vibrations. We hear a sound because our ear-structure is affected by vibrations. Sound is a complete process; it does not occur prior to reaching our tympanum, but is the result interpreted afterward, instead. It is the same with all of our physical senses. Sight is not accomplished without eyes to interpret light reflections and refractions. The light is a vibration, and the eyes perceive the vibrations, turning them into sight. Our senses function as part of a process.
A television set
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Evolution
This is actually one of my favorite anecdotes regarding evolution:
"An example of evolution resulting from natural selection was discovered among "peppered" moths living near English industrial cities. These insects have varieties that vary in wing and body coloration from light to dark. During the 19th century, sooty smoke from coal burning furnaces killed the lichen on trees and darkened the bark. When moths landed on these trees and other blackened surfaces, the dark colored ones were harder to spot by birds who ate them and, subsequently, they more often lived long enough to reproduce. Over generations, the environment continued to favor darker moths. As a result, they progressively became more common. By 1895, 98% of the moths in the vicinity of English cities like Manchester were mostly black. Since the 1950's, air pollution controls have significantly reduced the amount of heavy particulate air pollutants reaching the trees, buildings, and other objects in the environment. As a result, lichen has grown back, making trees lighter in color. In addition,
"An example of evolution resulting from natural selection was discovered among "peppered" moths living near English industrial cities. These insects have varieties that vary in wing and body coloration from light to dark. During the 19th century, sooty smoke from coal burning furnaces killed the lichen on trees and darkened the bark. When moths landed on these trees and other blackened surfaces, the dark colored ones were harder to spot by birds who ate them and, subsequently, they more often lived long enough to reproduce. Over generations, the environment continued to favor darker moths. As a result, they progressively became more common. By 1895, 98% of the moths in the vicinity of English cities like Manchester were mostly black. Since the 1950's, air pollution controls have significantly reduced the amount of heavy particulate air pollutants reaching the trees, buildings, and other objects in the environment. As a result, lichen has grown back, making trees lighter in color. In addition,
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Experiencing Nature
I've killed lots of people. I ran a guy through a wood-chipper once, and I relished every second of the event. I froze one person to the point of his insanity-driven necrophilia and ultimate demise. I've even grown a tree with a man inside. I've committed the most heinous of offenses, and I savor the administration of mental torture through the omnipotent puppetry of my work. That is the horror-fiction writer side of me.
But I also read textbooks for fun. A fan of MacGyver and a student of primitive survival skills, as well as an accomplished martial artist, I thrive upon knowledge and pragmatism. I crave detail and resolution of both the minute and the massive.
But I also read textbooks for fun. A fan of MacGyver and a student of primitive survival skills, as well as an accomplished martial artist, I thrive upon knowledge and pragmatism. I crave detail and resolution of both the minute and the massive.
Intuition, and Time the Killer
In the real world, the natural world, one begins to lose touch with the calculated bridle of secular time in what often takes only one setting and rising of the sun. This adjustment can be an uncomfortable feeling, at first—a proverbial culture shock--for anyone who has strictly succumbed to the adherence of schedule and routine in the modern world to the point of depending upon time-pieces in order to function, in order to feel as though one has place, purpose, and occupation. Without measured time, the modern human often feels lost, bored, and lacking positive or productive progression. This is called a rut, a conditioned, psychological dependency and sickness.
You Don't Even Walk Like a Human . . . or Do You?
Here’s an example of taking things to nature. There is something to be said about how much we’ve disconnected ourselves from the real world when one considers the extent to which we’ve even forgotten how to walk. Nobody walks correctly anymore, and we generally face an inevitable fate of joint problems, from the ankles upward, even through the spine to the base of the skull, particularly if one does a harder form of motivation, such as running or other high-impact sports.
In the old days, before cars, Nikes, and sidewalks, natives had been
In the old days, before cars, Nikes, and sidewalks, natives had been
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Make your own reality in three easy payments of $29.99! Seriously?
Reality exists in the form of Nature. There is no end or beginning of reality. We do not create our own reality; we simply process stimuli based upon former experiences and sensory perceptions, and even now, we utilize artificial tools to help us interpret increasingly smaller parts of reality, which respond in a manner that our limited physical world cannot comprehend. Our experiences are based upon our interpretations of reality. We use restricted parameters of language to define, discern, and categorize our interpretations. “Blue,” for example, is a color in the spectrum of natural light. It is absorbed by certain elements, and is thus translated by our eyes as a particular frequency of light. But “blue” does not exist
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Forgiveness and Revenge
To err is human, but to forgive . . . well, is also human. It’s interesting because forgiveness and revenge are human concepts, as are good and bad. They do not exist in the natural, real world. I find it extremely difficult to believe that there are humans that would willingly “forgive” anyone who shot their child in the head, kicked their dog, raped their sister, or any number of despicable things that humans do based upon way out of balance emotions. If we were a forgiving species, we wouldn’t have created prisons, guillotines, law-suits, weapons, and tactics of destruction. What right do we have to forgive anyone anything anyway? Consider this: a person bulldozes twenty acres of land, wiping out entire ecosystems and killing thousands of creatures. Or a group terrorizes and murders villages of families with infants notwithstanding. Do we forgive? Well, in a sense, yes, but not the way secular society believes, particularly not with the “turn the other cheek” mentality. Turning the other cheek was not a way of saying, “You slapped me, but I am going to turn away, forgive what you’ve done, and let it all go.” That would be ludicrous. It would make us indifferent doormats to be used and abused by those with no honor, respect, pride, and integrity. The message was, “You have slapped me, and this is disgraceful, but I am going to give you an opportunity to rethink this action, and we can either come to a resolution peacefully, or you can slap me again, and I will take you down, because I’m not to be disrespected and abused.”
Forgiveness and Revenge: Part 2
Human forgiveness means that we've qualified something with a value relative to our perspective in order to make its being compromised forgivable. We must decide, therefore, whether we can allow ourselves to move beyond a point of anger and retribution or revenge toward another, based upon the loss we’ve incurred via the actions of another, relative upon this concept. This is one of the reasons that any retribution based upon morals and ethics or values—whether cultural or personal—that are subjective cannot work globally or universally. Ethics, morals, and justice cannot be subjective.
What’s interesting, too, is that loss incurred means
What’s interesting, too, is that loss incurred means
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Listening to the Universe
Someone said to me, “Saving the dominant species means that the world would be saved,” or something to that effect. Obviously, humans are not the dominant species in the natural world. We are a prevalent species, but we are far from dominant in reality, if for no other reason than that we’ve removed ourselves from the natural role we once occupied. As a species that has chosen to diametrically oppose its Original Instructions, we have become a cancer. If we are to look at “dominant” in the context of being oppressive, abusive, and destructive, then, perhaps yes, we are dominant. But dominion doesn’t necessarily imply oppression, at least not in its purest form. “Dominion” represents being an overseer, a Caretaker. A gardener has dominion over her garden, but she does not rule by oppression; she oversees and protects and cares for the garden, for it is her well-being. We are far from being Caretakers any longer, yet we are dominant in destructive force.
We speak to the Universe in our actions and in our intentions. When an action occurs, there are ripples that emanate from the source of the action, and there are effects that occur, each one with its own ripples, and so on. There is a mesh overlay of ripples in a fabric of occurrences that happen constantly throughout existence. The more things that happen, the more disturbances that are caused, but now these natural rhythms (which are typically harmonic in the established reality of nature) are also impacted by the actions in the fabricated world of man, similar to a discordant sound interrupting a pristine symphony. Further, man’s senses are dulled within the artificial existence, and his awareness of the natural rhythms is consistently numbed. Human de-evolution or mutation is manifesting as physical detachment from reality or nature. Things occur always, but we have become so accustomed and/or numbed to those ripples that we are drowning in stimuli, and we choose to escape into our own interpretations of reality instead of living in a dual perspective of the physical and spiritual in order to discern and escape from the artificial influences, which would reveal reality. This is where the Medium or Channel would find peak potential, but this can only be accomplished by realizing that the artificial world violates natural law, which is a contradiction to reality, thus, a deterrent to spiritual awareness. In order to see reality in its purest manifestation of truth, we must abandon subjective values of society, lose our self-awareness as defined by those values, and be part of the natural world entirely, living by only the fairness of give and take without artificial influence. This is how we see pure truth and purpose.
When we function, the Universe responds. There are no accidents in the Universe, but only to humans. An accident is the undesired or unintentional result of an action we put forth. To us, when something occurs that we do not plan or did not intend to happen, we interpret it as an accident. To the Universe, actions have affects that elicit effects and often fairly predictable results. Chaos and Order happen, but there is a rhythm (unconditional love/productivity) to their dynamic. One thing causes another to happen. Our existence should be utilized as an enormous opportunity to learn how to find balance and purpose in reality. The Universe will continue to exist and function whether we do or not, but our stay on this planet can either be destructive and parasitic, and quite limited at our own doing, or it could be productive and spiritually satiating. Regardless, we will end someday. Do we end as a failure, or do we end with honor?
Humans being removed from the natural world would not cause a breakdown of the web of life. Each species is a strand in the web that functions as a whole. We humans have eliminated strands, weakening the overall function of the whole. As we continue to eliminate strands, the integrity of the whole is compromised. Further, the supports upon which the web is constructed are being weakened as we denude landscapes, pollute air, waters, and land, and continue to expand and consume. If humans were eliminated, the web could further unravel due to cause and effect, or it could begin to be re-spun. We could choose to begin re-strengthening the support system of the web so that it could be rebuilt by time and natural processes, but instead we continue to expand, pollute, and parasitize. The web will fail, and so will we. The Universe responds to what we say, but we do not heed these things; the Universe speaks, we choose not to listen. When a tree falls in the forest, we see nothing more than a tree falling in the forest. But when a tree falls in the forest, and a person is sitting under the tree not paying attention, then we call it a “catastrophic event.” We build cities in earthquake- and tornado-zones, and when our houses are devastated by earthquakes and tornados, we call it a “natural disaster.” When we see HIV and cancer and other pandemics occur as a response to our overpopulation or in response to our tampering with ecosystems and biodiversity, we do not heed the warnings, we choose to fight against them so that we may continue to expand and parasitize. Effectively, humans believe that the Universe is wrong, and that we deserve to have relative immortality.
We are a “have your cake, and eat it, too,” species. We want to have the cake so that we may admire the decorations, and so that we may smell its sweetness and enjoy the anticipation of tasting it. We want to be spoiled with possessing such a thing, but we also choose to indulge and gluttonize, devouring the cake for lack of self-control or temperance, and because we believe there will always be more cake available—maybe not for the grandchildren, but at least for us now. Let them deal with it when they get here. (Which actually means that we will deal with it in another life to come, we just don’t accept that for now.) This is an unacceptable method of existing.
Saving the humans necessitates saving the Earth and all of her inherent systems first. Saving the planet does not necessitate saving the humans.
We speak to the Universe in our actions and in our intentions. When an action occurs, there are ripples that emanate from the source of the action, and there are effects that occur, each one with its own ripples, and so on. There is a mesh overlay of ripples in a fabric of occurrences that happen constantly throughout existence. The more things that happen, the more disturbances that are caused, but now these natural rhythms (which are typically harmonic in the established reality of nature) are also impacted by the actions in the fabricated world of man, similar to a discordant sound interrupting a pristine symphony. Further, man’s senses are dulled within the artificial existence, and his awareness of the natural rhythms is consistently numbed. Human de-evolution or mutation is manifesting as physical detachment from reality or nature. Things occur always, but we have become so accustomed and/or numbed to those ripples that we are drowning in stimuli, and we choose to escape into our own interpretations of reality instead of living in a dual perspective of the physical and spiritual in order to discern and escape from the artificial influences, which would reveal reality. This is where the Medium or Channel would find peak potential, but this can only be accomplished by realizing that the artificial world violates natural law, which is a contradiction to reality, thus, a deterrent to spiritual awareness. In order to see reality in its purest manifestation of truth, we must abandon subjective values of society, lose our self-awareness as defined by those values, and be part of the natural world entirely, living by only the fairness of give and take without artificial influence. This is how we see pure truth and purpose.
When we function, the Universe responds. There are no accidents in the Universe, but only to humans. An accident is the undesired or unintentional result of an action we put forth. To us, when something occurs that we do not plan or did not intend to happen, we interpret it as an accident. To the Universe, actions have affects that elicit effects and often fairly predictable results. Chaos and Order happen, but there is a rhythm (unconditional love/productivity) to their dynamic. One thing causes another to happen. Our existence should be utilized as an enormous opportunity to learn how to find balance and purpose in reality. The Universe will continue to exist and function whether we do or not, but our stay on this planet can either be destructive and parasitic, and quite limited at our own doing, or it could be productive and spiritually satiating. Regardless, we will end someday. Do we end as a failure, or do we end with honor?
Humans being removed from the natural world would not cause a breakdown of the web of life. Each species is a strand in the web that functions as a whole. We humans have eliminated strands, weakening the overall function of the whole. As we continue to eliminate strands, the integrity of the whole is compromised. Further, the supports upon which the web is constructed are being weakened as we denude landscapes, pollute air, waters, and land, and continue to expand and consume. If humans were eliminated, the web could further unravel due to cause and effect, or it could begin to be re-spun. We could choose to begin re-strengthening the support system of the web so that it could be rebuilt by time and natural processes, but instead we continue to expand, pollute, and parasitize. The web will fail, and so will we. The Universe responds to what we say, but we do not heed these things; the Universe speaks, we choose not to listen. When a tree falls in the forest, we see nothing more than a tree falling in the forest. But when a tree falls in the forest, and a person is sitting under the tree not paying attention, then we call it a “catastrophic event.” We build cities in earthquake- and tornado-zones, and when our houses are devastated by earthquakes and tornados, we call it a “natural disaster.” When we see HIV and cancer and other pandemics occur as a response to our overpopulation or in response to our tampering with ecosystems and biodiversity, we do not heed the warnings, we choose to fight against them so that we may continue to expand and parasitize. Effectively, humans believe that the Universe is wrong, and that we deserve to have relative immortality.
We are a “have your cake, and eat it, too,” species. We want to have the cake so that we may admire the decorations, and so that we may smell its sweetness and enjoy the anticipation of tasting it. We want to be spoiled with possessing such a thing, but we also choose to indulge and gluttonize, devouring the cake for lack of self-control or temperance, and because we believe there will always be more cake available—maybe not for the grandchildren, but at least for us now. Let them deal with it when they get here. (Which actually means that we will deal with it in another life to come, we just don’t accept that for now.) This is an unacceptable method of existing.
Saving the humans necessitates saving the Earth and all of her inherent systems first. Saving the planet does not necessitate saving the humans.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Everything Happens for a Reason
"Everything happens for a reason." This platitude comes up frequently in our society, but it is used more as a casual, verbal sigh, utilized to shrug off an otherwise inconvenient event that doesn’t make sense in its occurrence, and which is usually attributed to Murphy’s Law. It is most often not submitted as a serious reminder of universal fate, as it is just something to say at a time when no other ready-made explanation fits some stroke of ill-fortune. Many people don’t believe that everything happens for a reason, at all. That, to me, is absurd, for everything certainly happens for a reason, because our existence is very much established by cause and effect. However, there is more to it than mere mechanics, but not too much more.
It is false that “good things happen to bad people,” and that “bad things happen to good people,” in the sense that the universe has some ulterior motive. The truth is that things happen. Further, things happen to people. That is fact. Our interpretation is subjective, regarding whether these things that happen are good or bad. Good and bad, however, do not exist in the natural world. There are light and dark, positive and negative, productive and destructive; these things are natural and real. One extreme cannot exist without the other. However, good and bad are human perceptions based upon our beliefs and preferences, not based upon universal truth. One person’s good is another person’s bad. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Things just happen. Assigning personal projections to the universe is selfish and outright absurd, but people do it all the time, and it causes tons and tons of trouble.
Things happen because of direct influences. Things also happen because of indirect and even roundabout influences. This is what the Butterfly Effect is all about. Regardless, a direct action would be represented by dropping a ball into a bucket. An indirect action would be represented by a Rube Goldberg machine that drops the same ball into the same bucket, but only after the ball travels through an extensive network of physical mechanisms, such as levers and springs. Life is a mixture of both types of influences. The confusing part arises when we don’t see the direct connection between things we do and the outcome. Things that happen to us for seemingly no reason are effects of random influences that, once put into motion, must resolve somewhere in the world, or even out in the universe. Life is a series of chaotic and ordered events, one always feeding the other, always working together. Everything happens for a reason. That’s just the way it works, whether we can see the reasons or not, and whether we like the reasons or not. But this is the one side of the issue.
Things happen as the causes of events, yes, but from the other side, we could say that there are other, non-physical influences that cause things to happen in order for us to take advantage of opportunities. Most often, these opportunities are lessons we can utilize to acknowledge something we previously ignored or something we didn’t see at all. These are opportunities to confront something we need to learn so that we may gain wisdom. It is entirely possible that our actions, being based upon personal fears and insecurities, and whatnot, are influencing our surroundings. This is fair since we do as we believe; action follows thought. This is a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, as well. In this motion, there will be repercussions of our actions, whether our actions are conscious, subconscious, or unconscious is hardly relevant, as we are still driven by our beliefs, desires, fears, and emotions. Logically, the ramifications of our actions can create circumstances that affect us in a way that we must confront these shortcomings that drive the entire process in the first place. Further, other beings can, and often will, be affected by our actions. They may be affected because their own actions put them in that place for a reason, or because they were randomly affected by the course of chaos. However, just because something happens to someone for seemingly no reason at all, certainly does not mean that it actually had no reason. Sometimes, as beings that share a common existence on a common, planetary organism, things happen to us because we are integral elements for the process of someone else’s lesson to be accomplished. This is another reason that global unification of spirit and truth need to be embraced. As a consistently functioning union of beings across the globe, and as part of the natural world once again, we will be able to make the most of these situations, helping one another and gaining the most wisdom from these lessons universally. The wrong thing to do is take it personally, or be selfish and think that the universe has ulterior, biased motives. Do not project, do not assume. Things happen. Things happen for reasons. Things happen to all beings. Seek the opportunities. Gain the wisdom.
It is false that “good things happen to bad people,” and that “bad things happen to good people,” in the sense that the universe has some ulterior motive. The truth is that things happen. Further, things happen to people. That is fact. Our interpretation is subjective, regarding whether these things that happen are good or bad. Good and bad, however, do not exist in the natural world. There are light and dark, positive and negative, productive and destructive; these things are natural and real. One extreme cannot exist without the other. However, good and bad are human perceptions based upon our beliefs and preferences, not based upon universal truth. One person’s good is another person’s bad. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Things just happen. Assigning personal projections to the universe is selfish and outright absurd, but people do it all the time, and it causes tons and tons of trouble.
Things happen because of direct influences. Things also happen because of indirect and even roundabout influences. This is what the Butterfly Effect is all about. Regardless, a direct action would be represented by dropping a ball into a bucket. An indirect action would be represented by a Rube Goldberg machine that drops the same ball into the same bucket, but only after the ball travels through an extensive network of physical mechanisms, such as levers and springs. Life is a mixture of both types of influences. The confusing part arises when we don’t see the direct connection between things we do and the outcome. Things that happen to us for seemingly no reason are effects of random influences that, once put into motion, must resolve somewhere in the world, or even out in the universe. Life is a series of chaotic and ordered events, one always feeding the other, always working together. Everything happens for a reason. That’s just the way it works, whether we can see the reasons or not, and whether we like the reasons or not. But this is the one side of the issue.
Things happen as the causes of events, yes, but from the other side, we could say that there are other, non-physical influences that cause things to happen in order for us to take advantage of opportunities. Most often, these opportunities are lessons we can utilize to acknowledge something we previously ignored or something we didn’t see at all. These are opportunities to confront something we need to learn so that we may gain wisdom. It is entirely possible that our actions, being based upon personal fears and insecurities, and whatnot, are influencing our surroundings. This is fair since we do as we believe; action follows thought. This is a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, as well. In this motion, there will be repercussions of our actions, whether our actions are conscious, subconscious, or unconscious is hardly relevant, as we are still driven by our beliefs, desires, fears, and emotions. Logically, the ramifications of our actions can create circumstances that affect us in a way that we must confront these shortcomings that drive the entire process in the first place. Further, other beings can, and often will, be affected by our actions. They may be affected because their own actions put them in that place for a reason, or because they were randomly affected by the course of chaos. However, just because something happens to someone for seemingly no reason at all, certainly does not mean that it actually had no reason. Sometimes, as beings that share a common existence on a common, planetary organism, things happen to us because we are integral elements for the process of someone else’s lesson to be accomplished. This is another reason that global unification of spirit and truth need to be embraced. As a consistently functioning union of beings across the globe, and as part of the natural world once again, we will be able to make the most of these situations, helping one another and gaining the most wisdom from these lessons universally. The wrong thing to do is take it personally, or be selfish and think that the universe has ulterior, biased motives. Do not project, do not assume. Things happen. Things happen for reasons. Things happen to all beings. Seek the opportunities. Gain the wisdom.
The Constitution vs. Reality, et al.
Several days ago I got a visit from a couple of nice young men who were on a “mission.” They were interested in offering any assistance that we may need at our household regarding any physically laborious tasks, which I found to be an awfully nice gesture. They also wanted to make sure that my family was aware that the aforementioned mission was to offer this kindness in the name of their belief system. This was not presented in a way that suggested that should we accept their offer of help with raking leaves, for example, we would become obligated to sign-up for attendance of their church services.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Listening to God
Several days ago I got a visit from a couple of nice young men who were on a “mission.” They were interested in offering any assistance that we may need at our household regarding any physically laborious tasks, which I found to be an awfully nice gesture. They also wanted to make sure that my family was aware that the aforementioned mission was to offer this kindness in the name of their belief system. This was not presented in a way that suggested that should we accept their offer of help with raking leaves, for example, we would become obligated to sign-up for attendance of their church services.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Breath
Most humans believe that although plants and insects and fish are alive, that they are devoid of souls, do not feel physical pain or emotion the way that we do, and are, therefore, inferior to us. A tree does not breathe the way that we do; it does not speak in our language; it does not eat in the same way that we do, so it must be a lesser being. It mustn't have a soul, and it doesn´t feel pain. It becomes expendable. We allow ourselves to believe that since this lifeform does not fall within the parameters of what religions teach us about souls, then we do not need to feel guilt, reverence, or remorse when killing these soul-less creatures.
Garbage.
I´m not even going to get into sentience right now, because sentience is obviously something we humans are not able to temper with reality and spirit. Sentience is what has gotten us into so much trouble, makes us arrogant killers, makes us greedy and depraved. Only creatures that do not possess our way of thinking have not strayed from their Original Instructions and become cancers upon nature. That´s us.
It was believed in primitive cultures, and has been taught for eons in Asian, Indian, and other "older" cultures, that breath is the key to spirit. It is through breathing that we establish a bridge to the spirit from our physical forms. Breath is the key to life, and it is the fuel of the blood and the energy that run though our bodies. Breath is healing, cleansing, and settling. It aids in bringing us to open states of awareness in order that we synchronize our senses and move beyond their physical restrictions to tap into the Whole. It has been said that in moving from the vastness of the Whole, that the breath of the body allows the spirit to inhabit the vessel.
The thing is, the shallow, conceited humans believe that breath must imply the very act of inhalation and exhalation that we perform involuntarily on a regular basis. Since many humans can barely see past the end of their nose, they assume that reality is whatever they project from their personal perspectives.
Garbage.
Breathing is accomplished in trees through leaves and roots. In fish, through gills. In insects, through knees. But it´s all breathing. It is all still a process of taking in gases via our prevailing atmosphere and replenishing our bodies so that we continue to function.
A fetus breathes. It does not breathe in the conventional way that we do postpartum, but oxygen is still taken in and carbon-dioxide still released within mom´s body, and with her assistance. But the fetus is still autonomous to the point that it still inspires and expires via the lungs. The fetus has a heartbeat, it has muscle function, and it can feel pain. If breath is the key to the soul, then a fetus has a soul. Someone moved into that vessel. It is the same for all other creatures on this planet, made by the Great Spirit.
Humans really need to get out of the box and start seeing the truth.
Garbage.
I´m not even going to get into sentience right now, because sentience is obviously something we humans are not able to temper with reality and spirit. Sentience is what has gotten us into so much trouble, makes us arrogant killers, makes us greedy and depraved. Only creatures that do not possess our way of thinking have not strayed from their Original Instructions and become cancers upon nature. That´s us.
It was believed in primitive cultures, and has been taught for eons in Asian, Indian, and other "older" cultures, that breath is the key to spirit. It is through breathing that we establish a bridge to the spirit from our physical forms. Breath is the key to life, and it is the fuel of the blood and the energy that run though our bodies. Breath is healing, cleansing, and settling. It aids in bringing us to open states of awareness in order that we synchronize our senses and move beyond their physical restrictions to tap into the Whole. It has been said that in moving from the vastness of the Whole, that the breath of the body allows the spirit to inhabit the vessel.
The thing is, the shallow, conceited humans believe that breath must imply the very act of inhalation and exhalation that we perform involuntarily on a regular basis. Since many humans can barely see past the end of their nose, they assume that reality is whatever they project from their personal perspectives.
Garbage.
Breathing is accomplished in trees through leaves and roots. In fish, through gills. In insects, through knees. But it´s all breathing. It is all still a process of taking in gases via our prevailing atmosphere and replenishing our bodies so that we continue to function.
A fetus breathes. It does not breathe in the conventional way that we do postpartum, but oxygen is still taken in and carbon-dioxide still released within mom´s body, and with her assistance. But the fetus is still autonomous to the point that it still inspires and expires via the lungs. The fetus has a heartbeat, it has muscle function, and it can feel pain. If breath is the key to the soul, then a fetus has a soul. Someone moved into that vessel. It is the same for all other creatures on this planet, made by the Great Spirit.
Humans really need to get out of the box and start seeing the truth.
Masculine and Feminine Energies (stream of thought)
In the natural world the feminine is the life-bringer--not the life-maker, as that is the duty of the Great Spirit. The female gives form to life, gives it a place to "cook" with the ingredients supplied by the male. But it would make more sense, especially following the feminine role of Earth as the life-bearing, life-sustaining "mother", that the female of the species, at the very beginning, would have been created before the male. It's as if the female was meant to be the foundation, the perpetuator of life, while the male was almost an afterthought, little more than a necessary tool in order to facilitate the female's accomplishing her purpose.
The male is the protector. The role of the male is to defend the female, protect the life-bearer, preserve her safety and place, and to fight for position against other males in order to perpetuate the strongest bloodline. The male supplies the necessary ingredients, but then his role is to stand guard while the female builds his children.
I don't see how a male can rule a female. It is absurd. She is possessed as long as she wishes to be possessed by him, and he is possessed by her as long as he wishes to be possessed, but neither rules the other. They are equals with different, vital roles. The average human male thinks about or imagines erotic situations or sensations frequently (some say every six seconds, but that does not account for the duration of the actual thought, fantasy, or sensation that falls around the six-second intermissions). Men are motivated, primarily, by their genitals. Seriously. Our testosterone is created there, and we are hormonally driven to do "manly" things by that influence. We are driven to be combative, to establish territory, dominance, and to even to gather food. But we are wholly broad-sided by the female. The female is our goal, our ambition. The female makes us lose mental function, to sweat, drool, palpitate, and to follow the unyielding, otherwise insatiable drive of our genitals. In the natural world, the woman has unbelievable power. In the natural world, the man has extraordinary strength and senses, but he is no match for his own hormones when a woman catches his fancy. Men are suckers for girls.
It makes sense that the Earth is a feminine entity as a mother, as a provider of comfort and sustenance to all of the children. Women have a crucial role that is unlike anything a man can do. The role of the female is to bring forth life. What does it say about a society, in which females are pushed and nurtured into taking over otherwise masculine roles? How can a society ruled by left-brained testosterone expect to be anything but violent, destructive, and wholly unproductive? When females forfeit their natural roles to be life-bearers, then how can it not be obvious that we are very very wrong?
The male is the protector. The role of the male is to defend the female, protect the life-bearer, preserve her safety and place, and to fight for position against other males in order to perpetuate the strongest bloodline. The male supplies the necessary ingredients, but then his role is to stand guard while the female builds his children.
I don't see how a male can rule a female. It is absurd. She is possessed as long as she wishes to be possessed by him, and he is possessed by her as long as he wishes to be possessed, but neither rules the other. They are equals with different, vital roles. The average human male thinks about or imagines erotic situations or sensations frequently (some say every six seconds, but that does not account for the duration of the actual thought, fantasy, or sensation that falls around the six-second intermissions). Men are motivated, primarily, by their genitals. Seriously. Our testosterone is created there, and we are hormonally driven to do "manly" things by that influence. We are driven to be combative, to establish territory, dominance, and to even to gather food. But we are wholly broad-sided by the female. The female is our goal, our ambition. The female makes us lose mental function, to sweat, drool, palpitate, and to follow the unyielding, otherwise insatiable drive of our genitals. In the natural world, the woman has unbelievable power. In the natural world, the man has extraordinary strength and senses, but he is no match for his own hormones when a woman catches his fancy. Men are suckers for girls.
It makes sense that the Earth is a feminine entity as a mother, as a provider of comfort and sustenance to all of the children. Women have a crucial role that is unlike anything a man can do. The role of the female is to bring forth life. What does it say about a society, in which females are pushed and nurtured into taking over otherwise masculine roles? How can a society ruled by left-brained testosterone expect to be anything but violent, destructive, and wholly unproductive? When females forfeit their natural roles to be life-bearers, then how can it not be obvious that we are very very wrong?
Monday, September 22, 2008
G.A.I.T. General Track Features: Aggregate Substrates
I'm not particularly fond of the acronym, but it's what we've got, and it's just cheesy enough to be memorable. Use this list to study tracks during practice and recognize the features until they become natural for you to spot. Obviously do not to bring it as a reference to a real tracking situation.
Guild of Advanced Interpretive Trackers (G.A.I.T.)
General Track Features: Aggregate Substrates (Revised)
After Concentric Line, look for: CCC BAT BLIGHT BRAT when Tracking through detritus and other matter.
• C = COHESION (when blades of grass (especially damp ones) stick together by water molecules and compression)
• C = CREASE (A dedicated fold in a leaf, stem, or other matter)
• C = COMPRESSION (overall or general pressure in shape of foot (or other object) in substrate and detritus)
• B = BREAK (typically found in dry material, a break caused by compression)
• A = ABRASION (friction that causes damage to matter, most common between stones or other matter against stone.)
• T = TEAR (can be in any material, but caused by opposing frictional forces or rooted matter getting caught in a shoe and pulled apart)
• B = BEND (a non-dedicated fold (less than a crease) in a leaf, stem, or other plant part, or a leaf (such as grass) bent away from the node)
• L = LOFT (the relative way the substrate depresses (negative loft), lifts, springs back, or “fluffs” after recoil or pivot)
• I = IMPRESSION (like a compression, but an indentation found in a plant stem or leaf caused by something like a stone in the substrate or shoe tread after compression)
• G = GLAZING (when drops of dew, rain, or blood, etc. are smeared upon a surface such as a leaf)
• H = HAZE (dust or discoloration caused upon a plant leaf by pressure or friction (not damage, as in an Abrasion))
• T = TRANSFER (substrate or matter moved from one place to another by adhering to shoe)
• B = BIAS (directionality indicated by the bending of matter from its normal state caused by compression)
• R = RANK (an alignment of plant parts or blades of grass so that the flat sides face the same direction showing dulling or shine)
• A = ADHESION (the substrate particulates that stick to the bottom of matter following compression)
• T = TWIST (leaf attached basally to stem twisted from its natural position against stem)
Guild of Advanced Interpretive Trackers (G.A.I.T.)
General Track Features: Aggregate Substrates (Revised)
After Concentric Line, look for: CCC BAT BLIGHT BRAT when Tracking through detritus and other matter.
• C = COHESION (when blades of grass (especially damp ones) stick together by water molecules and compression)
• C = CREASE (A dedicated fold in a leaf, stem, or other matter)
• C = COMPRESSION (overall or general pressure in shape of foot (or other object) in substrate and detritus)
• B = BREAK (typically found in dry material, a break caused by compression)
• A = ABRASION (friction that causes damage to matter, most common between stones or other matter against stone.)
• T = TEAR (can be in any material, but caused by opposing frictional forces or rooted matter getting caught in a shoe and pulled apart)
• B = BEND (a non-dedicated fold (less than a crease) in a leaf, stem, or other plant part, or a leaf (such as grass) bent away from the node)
• L = LOFT (the relative way the substrate depresses (negative loft), lifts, springs back, or “fluffs” after recoil or pivot)
• I = IMPRESSION (like a compression, but an indentation found in a plant stem or leaf caused by something like a stone in the substrate or shoe tread after compression)
• G = GLAZING (when drops of dew, rain, or blood, etc. are smeared upon a surface such as a leaf)
• H = HAZE (dust or discoloration caused upon a plant leaf by pressure or friction (not damage, as in an Abrasion))
• T = TRANSFER (substrate or matter moved from one place to another by adhering to shoe)
• B = BIAS (directionality indicated by the bending of matter from its normal state caused by compression)
• R = RANK (an alignment of plant parts or blades of grass so that the flat sides face the same direction showing dulling or shine)
• A = ADHESION (the substrate particulates that stick to the bottom of matter following compression)
• T = TWIST (leaf attached basally to stem twisted from its natural position against stem)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tracking III: Movement Indicators
Movement Indicators
Anyone who has been the least bit interested in Tracking, and has looked into the science and art as presented by Tom Brown Jr., has heard of Pressure Releases. I started trying to figure these mystical Pressure Releases (more commonly known as PRs in the tracking-circle) since I was a kid. I am now in my twenty-fifth year of working on this puzzle. I started learning from the books by Tom, which presented the concept without too much detail. Mostly, as I struggled to understand what exactly he was seeing in a mere footprint that could tell him vast and detailed stories of the subject and the environment surrounding the subject, I was going by faith. I only attended the Tracker School, Inc., in New Jersey when I was in my early twenties. By that time, I had become extremely proficient in the survival skills (I had already done a primitive year in the woods in New Hampshire), and I was becoming increasingly aware of the workings of the PRs. In fact, by the time I began taking the classes at the school, I was using them more as a system of validation than a resource for information, particularly for anything that was already covered in the books. I took the basic information and concepts from the books, and I ran with it, and I began to see things that weren’t in the texts, which started me on this path of exhausting, infuriating, research and development with no way to find any validation except to find proof in the tracks.
Though the Tracker School takes the student to a certain degree of Tracking knowledge, there seems to be a cut-off point for the information. Not only have I tried to speak to Tom personally in the workshops, to no avail, but I’ve actually mailed and emailed drawings and my own definitions of these things that I’ve found in the tracks that seem to be consistent with particular conditions and circumstances. Regardless of whether I was “right” or “wrong” in the school’s eyes, I never heard anything back, except from one former instructor who confirmed one of the prs that I found, but admitted that the pr information seemed to be locked up pretty tightly at the school otherwise, and he had no other information available.
Therefore, since I have attempted to make contact several times, to no avail, I could only continue to work on this study of Tracking by creating my own version of maps, concepts, definitions, and names for my discoveries. By no means am I the creator or inventor of these things in Tracking, whether you call them Pressure Releases or Movement Indicators. In fact, the Pressure Releases number in the thousands in presentation, and they were established by Apache Trackers (on our continent, anyway) over generations. I am attempting to put together whatever I can in a few decades, and I’m not sure I’ll come close to thousands. I do, however, have a good handful, and I’ve established what I feel is a pretty solid foundation for my interpretations. I have attempted to give different names to everything from what the Tracker School uses so as not to be claiming anything that I didn’t actually earn. I admit out front and off the bat that I learned the basic PRs that are found in Tom Brown Jr.’s book: The Science and Art of Tracking, from Tom Brown Jr. However, as far as Tracking goes, all other information regarding Fine-motor and Visceral Movement Indicators, as well as the mapping of zones of the body, are by my own research into other concentrations, such as kinesiology and gait analysis, as well as—and for the most part—practical and empirical investigation, or, good old trial and error. Nobody stood over my shoulder, and nobody gave me any information regarding the intricacies, details, or advanced principles of Tracking. The advanced concepts are my own work. Further, because of this, I’m going to take out some of the advanced details and descriptions I had in this writing for a couple of reasons.
1. It has taken a lot of time and effort (and ridicule and heckling) to develop what I’ve accomplished so far. I figure that if someone else is out there teaching it to the military and police, and making millions of dollars on the information, I’d rather keep the details to myself and a very close few.
2. If you are truly passionate about it, then you can either figure it out like I’ve been doing, or you can make a decent donation toward helping my family live in this god-forsaken system and toward helping me establish my Communal Village. I’ve already given lots of information out to many people for free, and it hasn’t helped my family avoid discrimination and persecution, so I guess I’m done with that, sorry.
3. Yeah, the military and police thing? I’m not into giving even more power of information to the very entity that forces me and my family to compromise our beliefs, integrity, and health (you’ll know exactly what I mean if you read the other articles in the blog). So I’m not about to make myself a hypocrite and give this stuff out for the government to abuse. Look at what they did with Einstein’s work.
So, why am I writing this, then? Because I’ve been teaching and talking about this stuff for decades, and I’ve developed some really good concepts and practices (including Clock-Tracking and the Golden Ratio Height formula), and I figure that even if I don’t so much care about making millions for selling the information, I still would like it to be known that I did this. Even if it’s just that my grandchildren find my buried and tattered writings one day in the future, I want them to know that I was one of the forerunners in putting together this information about Tracking while most people thought Tracking was little more than identifying and following footprints. I’m putting it out because there are so many would-be Trackers out there who claim they can see things (“head-turns” is a really common one) regularly in the tracks, yet they’re asking what these more intricate and delicate indicators are. This tells me that something doesn’t jive. Reading “head-turns” accurately and consistently is not as easy as folks would like to believe it is if you don’t know what to look for. And if you only practice what’s in the books, you don’t really know yet what to look for. But that’s okay; just don’t get cocky.
This article was meant to go into Wikipedia, so it’s somewhat clinical, I suppose. If it makes it, cool. But since I am the only resource for the majority of the information here, there’s nothing to cite, and I don’t have the funding or the connections to gain any “official research date from an accredited agency” or any garbage like that, so I don’t believe it will hold up on Wikipedia. It is what it is. If you don’t buy it, it won’t hurt my feelings.
Movement Indicators—a term coined by Jeff Rychwa, for use in Tracking, to describe the responses and reactions of any substrate or surface to the influence of an applied force, typically associated with the force of a subject’s foot upon a surface. A movement indicator, or MI, is the simple result of physical force—in this application, a force of kinesiology, various gait patterns, and physiological affects—applied to a surface or substrate so that the reaction of the applied movement is recorded in a meaningful, legible way.
There seem to be three categories of MIs: Gross Motor, Fine Motor, and Visceral. As well, there seem to be three zonings or “maps” that generally coordinate these movements and influences with particular regions aligning with the body of the maker of the tracks. For example, a gross-motor movement of the right leg being placed forward of the horizontal centerline of the left foot will display movement indicators within the ball-mount and digital areas of the left foot track. However, general indicators of issues regarding the right leg, such as a muscle injury, will present within the heel area of the right foot track. Further, a movement or injury on one side of the body will show counter- or compensatory-indicators either on the opposite side of the coordinating track, or even in the opposite track altogether. This is particularly prominent with issues or injuries compromising leg functions.
Gross-motor and Fine-motor MIs seem to present as “hard” influences upon the substrate, while Visceral MIs seem to present as “soft” influences. In other words, the action of propulsion in a substrate such as dampened beach sand will cause a recoil in the substrate, which can be seen as a portion of sand being pushed backward due to wasted energy in overcoming inertia that breaks the substrate’s coefficient of static friction. The amount of substrate and the degree to which it is dislodged and moved is directly proportional to the amount of energy is used to overcome inertia and the friction in order to propel the body in a particular direction. Other elements must be considered, as well, such as the content of the substrate regarding moisture and other impurities such as rocks and foreign objects. Further, slope of the substrate and other topographical conditions must be accounted in determining the proportion of recoil to acceleration in any given track.
It seems that animals, particularly quadrupeds, move in a way that eliminates recoil, or severely hampers recoil, as they move their center of gravity in a more efficient and unified way than humans, who contrarily move in a series of stalls and starts, dropping the center of gravity into a deceleration, only to throw the body forward and push off again into an acceleration. Recoil is common in human gaits, and it seems to testify to the inefficiency of human movement as a condition of our species moving away from it natural tendencies.
Visceral MIs are the most erratic, difficult to see, and difficult to interpret of the Movement Indicators. The Viscerals are also the most difficult to convince an increasingly untrusting and skeptical society of their existence. Even in reading Viscerals and pointing them out to individuals, many subjects are loathed to accept their validity, similar to the way society has taken on difficulty in accepting many relatively far-fetched truths when introduced, such as the Earth being round, or the existence of germs, bacteria, and even atoms.
Viscerals appear to be created of energy influences primarily. Gross-motor MIs are large, physical movements of leverage and torque, whereas Fine-motor MIs are more subtle, dealing with seemingly isolated musculoskeletal and skin movements, while Viscerals are caused by fluctuation of energy, perhaps even blood circulations and otherwise invisible shifts of fascia, ligaments, and muscle fibers. However, the influences of energy seem to be logical as energy flowing throughout the body does cause things to function and malfunction; simply look at twitching muscles, the heart beating, and even random pains and itches. These are all directly related to neural transmissions by way of electrical and chemical impulses. Another grossly simplistic model of such energy transfer is found in creating static electricity by running a plastic comb through dry, clean hair several times, then holding the comb within a half-inch of a smoothly flowing trickle of water from a sink faucet. The electricity will bend the stream of water. It seems to follow that energy will directly translate from the body to the substrate with which it makes contact, leaving various patterns upon the substrate, thus indicating particular conditions within coordinating zones of the body. This part of reading the Movement Indicators in Tracking is closely related to Reflexology and other studies of energy flow and manipulation from around the world.
An example of a Gross-motor MI would be the recoil of acceleration upon the sole of the track, in the form of the substrate being pushed backward for a forward acceleration. An example of a Fine-motor MI would be the feathering of the substrate (particularly damp sand), caused by skin movement in response to the torque of the upper body and head twisting in a particular direction. An example of a Visceral MI would present as a rectangle or “boomerang” shape in the sole of the track within the zone of the bladder area indicating the bladder being full to some degree.
To make things more complicated, since the body functions as a closed system of checks and balances, there will thusly be MI that must present in order to back-up other MIs in any particular movement. The numbers of back-up indicators for any particular movement or condition would logically be staggering, depending upon the depth and size of indicators one would choose to incorporate into a reading for increasing detail and accuracy of the reading of the tracks. This is where the task of attempting to recognize, define, and coordinate all of these MIs--particularly considering that compensatory MIs can cause confusion in and of themselves—becomes intimidating at times, and daunting at best.
Composition of Visceral MIs can be of extremely fine particles of sand or dust. However, even a basic shape can show up in a particular zone as a dust-line shape, a crevasse shape, a butte, or a depression. These subtleties lend a great deal of confusion to the process, let alone finding coordinating MIs to pinpoint a particular, coordinating condition or action. Fortunately, as the body is systemic and stems from the nervous system for function, Jeff speculates that tying together MIs in order to develop more accurate and detailed readings will be much “easier” based upon the logic of synergy rather than trying to read each MI as its own entity.
It is worth mentioning Identifiers here, as well. Identifiers present in the tracks in the same way that MIs do, except Identifiers seem to appear consistently in a particular track (always in the right footprint, for instance) and for a particular subject, no matter what action the subject performs. In other words, Identifiers look similar [to Jeff] as typical MIs, but they don’t have function. Identifiers can be created by a blatant injury or anomaly, such as a wound to the sole of the foot, or a wart, for example, or by a particular deformity, anomaly, irregularity, or other condition or pathology particular to an individual. There seem to be several Identifiers in any given track, and, since they are consistent and “fixed” to the track of that subject, the combination of them may be used as a reliable method of identification for an individual that may not be found in any other individual of that species, much like a human fingerprint.
Anyone who has been the least bit interested in Tracking, and has looked into the science and art as presented by Tom Brown Jr., has heard of Pressure Releases. I started trying to figure these mystical Pressure Releases (more commonly known as PRs in the tracking-circle) since I was a kid. I am now in my twenty-fifth year of working on this puzzle. I started learning from the books by Tom, which presented the concept without too much detail. Mostly, as I struggled to understand what exactly he was seeing in a mere footprint that could tell him vast and detailed stories of the subject and the environment surrounding the subject, I was going by faith. I only attended the Tracker School, Inc., in New Jersey when I was in my early twenties. By that time, I had become extremely proficient in the survival skills (I had already done a primitive year in the woods in New Hampshire), and I was becoming increasingly aware of the workings of the PRs. In fact, by the time I began taking the classes at the school, I was using them more as a system of validation than a resource for information, particularly for anything that was already covered in the books. I took the basic information and concepts from the books, and I ran with it, and I began to see things that weren’t in the texts, which started me on this path of exhausting, infuriating, research and development with no way to find any validation except to find proof in the tracks.
Though the Tracker School takes the student to a certain degree of Tracking knowledge, there seems to be a cut-off point for the information. Not only have I tried to speak to Tom personally in the workshops, to no avail, but I’ve actually mailed and emailed drawings and my own definitions of these things that I’ve found in the tracks that seem to be consistent with particular conditions and circumstances. Regardless of whether I was “right” or “wrong” in the school’s eyes, I never heard anything back, except from one former instructor who confirmed one of the prs that I found, but admitted that the pr information seemed to be locked up pretty tightly at the school otherwise, and he had no other information available.
Therefore, since I have attempted to make contact several times, to no avail, I could only continue to work on this study of Tracking by creating my own version of maps, concepts, definitions, and names for my discoveries. By no means am I the creator or inventor of these things in Tracking, whether you call them Pressure Releases or Movement Indicators. In fact, the Pressure Releases number in the thousands in presentation, and they were established by Apache Trackers (on our continent, anyway) over generations. I am attempting to put together whatever I can in a few decades, and I’m not sure I’ll come close to thousands. I do, however, have a good handful, and I’ve established what I feel is a pretty solid foundation for my interpretations. I have attempted to give different names to everything from what the Tracker School uses so as not to be claiming anything that I didn’t actually earn. I admit out front and off the bat that I learned the basic PRs that are found in Tom Brown Jr.’s book: The Science and Art of Tracking, from Tom Brown Jr. However, as far as Tracking goes, all other information regarding Fine-motor and Visceral Movement Indicators, as well as the mapping of zones of the body, are by my own research into other concentrations, such as kinesiology and gait analysis, as well as—and for the most part—practical and empirical investigation, or, good old trial and error. Nobody stood over my shoulder, and nobody gave me any information regarding the intricacies, details, or advanced principles of Tracking. The advanced concepts are my own work. Further, because of this, I’m going to take out some of the advanced details and descriptions I had in this writing for a couple of reasons.
1. It has taken a lot of time and effort (and ridicule and heckling) to develop what I’ve accomplished so far. I figure that if someone else is out there teaching it to the military and police, and making millions of dollars on the information, I’d rather keep the details to myself and a very close few.
2. If you are truly passionate about it, then you can either figure it out like I’ve been doing, or you can make a decent donation toward helping my family live in this god-forsaken system and toward helping me establish my Communal Village. I’ve already given lots of information out to many people for free, and it hasn’t helped my family avoid discrimination and persecution, so I guess I’m done with that, sorry.
3. Yeah, the military and police thing? I’m not into giving even more power of information to the very entity that forces me and my family to compromise our beliefs, integrity, and health (you’ll know exactly what I mean if you read the other articles in the blog). So I’m not about to make myself a hypocrite and give this stuff out for the government to abuse. Look at what they did with Einstein’s work.
So, why am I writing this, then? Because I’ve been teaching and talking about this stuff for decades, and I’ve developed some really good concepts and practices (including Clock-Tracking and the Golden Ratio Height formula), and I figure that even if I don’t so much care about making millions for selling the information, I still would like it to be known that I did this. Even if it’s just that my grandchildren find my buried and tattered writings one day in the future, I want them to know that I was one of the forerunners in putting together this information about Tracking while most people thought Tracking was little more than identifying and following footprints. I’m putting it out because there are so many would-be Trackers out there who claim they can see things (“head-turns” is a really common one) regularly in the tracks, yet they’re asking what these more intricate and delicate indicators are. This tells me that something doesn’t jive. Reading “head-turns” accurately and consistently is not as easy as folks would like to believe it is if you don’t know what to look for. And if you only practice what’s in the books, you don’t really know yet what to look for. But that’s okay; just don’t get cocky.
This article was meant to go into Wikipedia, so it’s somewhat clinical, I suppose. If it makes it, cool. But since I am the only resource for the majority of the information here, there’s nothing to cite, and I don’t have the funding or the connections to gain any “official research date from an accredited agency” or any garbage like that, so I don’t believe it will hold up on Wikipedia. It is what it is. If you don’t buy it, it won’t hurt my feelings.
Movement Indicators—a term coined by Jeff Rychwa, for use in Tracking, to describe the responses and reactions of any substrate or surface to the influence of an applied force, typically associated with the force of a subject’s foot upon a surface. A movement indicator, or MI, is the simple result of physical force—in this application, a force of kinesiology, various gait patterns, and physiological affects—applied to a surface or substrate so that the reaction of the applied movement is recorded in a meaningful, legible way.
There seem to be three categories of MIs: Gross Motor, Fine Motor, and Visceral. As well, there seem to be three zonings or “maps” that generally coordinate these movements and influences with particular regions aligning with the body of the maker of the tracks. For example, a gross-motor movement of the right leg being placed forward of the horizontal centerline of the left foot will display movement indicators within the ball-mount and digital areas of the left foot track. However, general indicators of issues regarding the right leg, such as a muscle injury, will present within the heel area of the right foot track. Further, a movement or injury on one side of the body will show counter- or compensatory-indicators either on the opposite side of the coordinating track, or even in the opposite track altogether. This is particularly prominent with issues or injuries compromising leg functions.
Gross-motor and Fine-motor MIs seem to present as “hard” influences upon the substrate, while Visceral MIs seem to present as “soft” influences. In other words, the action of propulsion in a substrate such as dampened beach sand will cause a recoil in the substrate, which can be seen as a portion of sand being pushed backward due to wasted energy in overcoming inertia that breaks the substrate’s coefficient of static friction. The amount of substrate and the degree to which it is dislodged and moved is directly proportional to the amount of energy is used to overcome inertia and the friction in order to propel the body in a particular direction. Other elements must be considered, as well, such as the content of the substrate regarding moisture and other impurities such as rocks and foreign objects. Further, slope of the substrate and other topographical conditions must be accounted in determining the proportion of recoil to acceleration in any given track.
It seems that animals, particularly quadrupeds, move in a way that eliminates recoil, or severely hampers recoil, as they move their center of gravity in a more efficient and unified way than humans, who contrarily move in a series of stalls and starts, dropping the center of gravity into a deceleration, only to throw the body forward and push off again into an acceleration. Recoil is common in human gaits, and it seems to testify to the inefficiency of human movement as a condition of our species moving away from it natural tendencies.
Visceral MIs are the most erratic, difficult to see, and difficult to interpret of the Movement Indicators. The Viscerals are also the most difficult to convince an increasingly untrusting and skeptical society of their existence. Even in reading Viscerals and pointing them out to individuals, many subjects are loathed to accept their validity, similar to the way society has taken on difficulty in accepting many relatively far-fetched truths when introduced, such as the Earth being round, or the existence of germs, bacteria, and even atoms.
Viscerals appear to be created of energy influences primarily. Gross-motor MIs are large, physical movements of leverage and torque, whereas Fine-motor MIs are more subtle, dealing with seemingly isolated musculoskeletal and skin movements, while Viscerals are caused by fluctuation of energy, perhaps even blood circulations and otherwise invisible shifts of fascia, ligaments, and muscle fibers. However, the influences of energy seem to be logical as energy flowing throughout the body does cause things to function and malfunction; simply look at twitching muscles, the heart beating, and even random pains and itches. These are all directly related to neural transmissions by way of electrical and chemical impulses. Another grossly simplistic model of such energy transfer is found in creating static electricity by running a plastic comb through dry, clean hair several times, then holding the comb within a half-inch of a smoothly flowing trickle of water from a sink faucet. The electricity will bend the stream of water. It seems to follow that energy will directly translate from the body to the substrate with which it makes contact, leaving various patterns upon the substrate, thus indicating particular conditions within coordinating zones of the body. This part of reading the Movement Indicators in Tracking is closely related to Reflexology and other studies of energy flow and manipulation from around the world.
An example of a Gross-motor MI would be the recoil of acceleration upon the sole of the track, in the form of the substrate being pushed backward for a forward acceleration. An example of a Fine-motor MI would be the feathering of the substrate (particularly damp sand), caused by skin movement in response to the torque of the upper body and head twisting in a particular direction. An example of a Visceral MI would present as a rectangle or “boomerang” shape in the sole of the track within the zone of the bladder area indicating the bladder being full to some degree.
To make things more complicated, since the body functions as a closed system of checks and balances, there will thusly be MI that must present in order to back-up other MIs in any particular movement. The numbers of back-up indicators for any particular movement or condition would logically be staggering, depending upon the depth and size of indicators one would choose to incorporate into a reading for increasing detail and accuracy of the reading of the tracks. This is where the task of attempting to recognize, define, and coordinate all of these MIs--particularly considering that compensatory MIs can cause confusion in and of themselves—becomes intimidating at times, and daunting at best.
Composition of Visceral MIs can be of extremely fine particles of sand or dust. However, even a basic shape can show up in a particular zone as a dust-line shape, a crevasse shape, a butte, or a depression. These subtleties lend a great deal of confusion to the process, let alone finding coordinating MIs to pinpoint a particular, coordinating condition or action. Fortunately, as the body is systemic and stems from the nervous system for function, Jeff speculates that tying together MIs in order to develop more accurate and detailed readings will be much “easier” based upon the logic of synergy rather than trying to read each MI as its own entity.
It is worth mentioning Identifiers here, as well. Identifiers present in the tracks in the same way that MIs do, except Identifiers seem to appear consistently in a particular track (always in the right footprint, for instance) and for a particular subject, no matter what action the subject performs. In other words, Identifiers look similar [to Jeff] as typical MIs, but they don’t have function. Identifiers can be created by a blatant injury or anomaly, such as a wound to the sole of the foot, or a wart, for example, or by a particular deformity, anomaly, irregularity, or other condition or pathology particular to an individual. There seem to be several Identifiers in any given track, and, since they are consistent and “fixed” to the track of that subject, the combination of them may be used as a reliable method of identification for an individual that may not be found in any other individual of that species, much like a human fingerprint.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tracking II
Tracking was used by ancient cultures around the world for thousands of years for many purposes. In some cases, it meant survival for a tribe whose scouts could find and interpret the tracks and movements of the enemy. But tracking was primarily a skill used for finding, following, and taking game. Tracking was so necessary for survival that it stretched far beyond the common concepts of tracking that we believe today. It developed into an art-form of sorts and a science, and ancient trackers essentially were the first forensic investigators. Their abilities were not limited to following footprints, but also included reading the landscape, interpreting signs, weather, and other animal activity. Tracking was a gateway to a holistic awareness that was crucial for survival.
Now, as a wildlife control operator, tracking was a staple of my work, as well as a key to being successful and efficient. As an Expert Tracker, there isn't the luxury--and, frankly, nor is there a necessity--of laying out tracking powder; there is no putting paper into suspect structural holes in order to assess usage; there is no wondering where to put an evictor or where to place a trap. It’s all in the tracks, and the tracks never lie.
I talked with another pest control company one afternoon about trapping large mammals—my shirt logo, which reads, “Forensic Tracker” prompted his asking for an explanation. I explained that there are several levels and methods of tracking, and that Forensic Tracking involved studying and interpreting subtle actions within the tracks. I said that tracks reveal much more about the maker than its taxonomical Family and direction of movement. Tracks told a story, and also indicate crucial elements about the maker, especially regarding our line of work. I asked him about his process of identifying and trapping a nuisance animal. He shrugged and said that he just goes to the site, if the client says they have a skunk, he simply sets some traps with skunk bait and keeps trapping until the skunks are gone.
I was baffled. I said, “but what if you’re trapping a skunk that has babies in the den?” He responded, “well you just have to take into account the time of year and assume there will be babies.”
I suppose at least that is the safe way to assume. But I don’t see that as particularly efficient. I went on to explain that my inspection consists of isolating signs and tracks of the animal involved, but also what other animals may be involved, and what draws them there in the first place. Further, if you’re trapping skunks, for example, it’s useful to know whether you’re catching the skunk from under the house or the skunk from under the neighbor’s shed, not to mention that there are often other animals sharing that space with the skunks, such as cats and opossums. If you funnel the traps off the entrance, how do you know how many to set? How do you know the client didn’t mistake the identity of the animal? (I had a call for an opossum in someone’s bathroom one night. It turned out to be a long-tailed weasel.) And in Search Tracking, for a missing dog for example, how do you maintain that dog’s trail if they’re in coyote territory with coyote-sized feet? It’s all in the tracks.
He didn’t believe me when I told him that it is possible to read pregnancy, gender, and even ailments in an animal’s track. That’s okay, though. I’m not the one wasting time with superfluous trips to check and alter my trap-sets.
Granted, I don’t always make my catch on the first rotation. I’m not a “Master Tracker.” But I can read tracks to the point that I can make more cost effective decisions and take appropriate actions. I was called to investigate skunk activity around a wheelchair access ramp on the front of an apartment building. The landlord said that the tenants had seen several skunks walking around the yard and that the animals were living under the ramp. The ramp was snugged tightly to the building on one long side, and it was flush to the ground on the other side, except for the place that the skunks dug out for entry. Now, according to biology, it didn’t make sense at this time of year for a bunch of juvenile skunks to be walking around with mom. The tenants described the skunks as, “about six inches long” from nose to butt. It didn’t follow. But weirder things have happened.
I found two sets of tracks on that day. Two different skunks had made the tracks. One set went under the ramp. That set showed me that my culprit skunk had given birth. And it was because of that indication that I had the landlord’s carpenter help me tear up the ramp the morning after I trapped mom. And I pulled out five newborns. (You can see a blurry shot of them on my website, in fact.) Mom and babies were reunited and relocated to a rehab together. This isn’t an isolated incident.
All of my technicians must learn tracking. They must be able to identify tracks, gaits, and signs, and they must be able to see tracks on a variety of surfaces from leaves to dirt to plastic and concrete, whether raccoon, mouse, or snake. It’s not easy. But it works.
Tracks display Identifiers, which are marks made within the tracks that are specific, particularly in combination, to a particular maker. There are also Movement Indicators, which show everything about the maker of the tracks and how the subject responded to their surrounding stimuli. The MIs display Gross Motor movements, Fine Motor movements, and Internal fluctuations. These MIs can be anything from a mound of substrate shoved in a particular direction to a fine ridge of dust on the floor of the footprint. There can be many forms and shapes of these indicators that typically take on associative names, such as: hockey-stick, pirate’s-hat, or chains, and they represent transfers of energy and kinesiology. In other words, indicators can be constructs of simple, physical mechanics of leverage, or they can be made of energy that moves throughout the body. If you’ve ever built up static electricity by rubbing a balloon on your hair and sticking it to a wall, or by combing your hair with a plastic comb and holding the comb near a very slow, steady stream of tap-water, you can see a dramatic example of how this energy works.
These MIs are very difficult to discern without a guide. And they change shape, position, and texture, because the body is a malleable organism. Just when you think you’ve finally pinned one down for a particular, coordinating action, it will change or vanish altogether and make hours of hard work turn into a frustrating disappointment. But they are there. And when someone shows you what to look for, they become easier to see. However, for me, even after twenty-five years of trying to figure out the art and science of tracking, I have not been able to put together complete combinations of MIs for all situations. I get by so far on being able to pick out key MIs and extrapolating by using other clues, for now. There’s just too much to figure out for one person in one lifetime, but it doesn’t mean I’m not trying.
Now, as a wildlife control operator, tracking was a staple of my work, as well as a key to being successful and efficient. As an Expert Tracker, there isn't the luxury--and, frankly, nor is there a necessity--of laying out tracking powder; there is no putting paper into suspect structural holes in order to assess usage; there is no wondering where to put an evictor or where to place a trap. It’s all in the tracks, and the tracks never lie.
I talked with another pest control company one afternoon about trapping large mammals—my shirt logo, which reads, “Forensic Tracker” prompted his asking for an explanation. I explained that there are several levels and methods of tracking, and that Forensic Tracking involved studying and interpreting subtle actions within the tracks. I said that tracks reveal much more about the maker than its taxonomical Family and direction of movement. Tracks told a story, and also indicate crucial elements about the maker, especially regarding our line of work. I asked him about his process of identifying and trapping a nuisance animal. He shrugged and said that he just goes to the site, if the client says they have a skunk, he simply sets some traps with skunk bait and keeps trapping until the skunks are gone.
I was baffled. I said, “but what if you’re trapping a skunk that has babies in the den?” He responded, “well you just have to take into account the time of year and assume there will be babies.”
I suppose at least that is the safe way to assume. But I don’t see that as particularly efficient. I went on to explain that my inspection consists of isolating signs and tracks of the animal involved, but also what other animals may be involved, and what draws them there in the first place. Further, if you’re trapping skunks, for example, it’s useful to know whether you’re catching the skunk from under the house or the skunk from under the neighbor’s shed, not to mention that there are often other animals sharing that space with the skunks, such as cats and opossums. If you funnel the traps off the entrance, how do you know how many to set? How do you know the client didn’t mistake the identity of the animal? (I had a call for an opossum in someone’s bathroom one night. It turned out to be a long-tailed weasel.) And in Search Tracking, for a missing dog for example, how do you maintain that dog’s trail if they’re in coyote territory with coyote-sized feet? It’s all in the tracks.
He didn’t believe me when I told him that it is possible to read pregnancy, gender, and even ailments in an animal’s track. That’s okay, though. I’m not the one wasting time with superfluous trips to check and alter my trap-sets.
Granted, I don’t always make my catch on the first rotation. I’m not a “Master Tracker.” But I can read tracks to the point that I can make more cost effective decisions and take appropriate actions. I was called to investigate skunk activity around a wheelchair access ramp on the front of an apartment building. The landlord said that the tenants had seen several skunks walking around the yard and that the animals were living under the ramp. The ramp was snugged tightly to the building on one long side, and it was flush to the ground on the other side, except for the place that the skunks dug out for entry. Now, according to biology, it didn’t make sense at this time of year for a bunch of juvenile skunks to be walking around with mom. The tenants described the skunks as, “about six inches long” from nose to butt. It didn’t follow. But weirder things have happened.
I found two sets of tracks on that day. Two different skunks had made the tracks. One set went under the ramp. That set showed me that my culprit skunk had given birth. And it was because of that indication that I had the landlord’s carpenter help me tear up the ramp the morning after I trapped mom. And I pulled out five newborns. (You can see a blurry shot of them on my website, in fact.) Mom and babies were reunited and relocated to a rehab together. This isn’t an isolated incident.
All of my technicians must learn tracking. They must be able to identify tracks, gaits, and signs, and they must be able to see tracks on a variety of surfaces from leaves to dirt to plastic and concrete, whether raccoon, mouse, or snake. It’s not easy. But it works.
Tracks display Identifiers, which are marks made within the tracks that are specific, particularly in combination, to a particular maker. There are also Movement Indicators, which show everything about the maker of the tracks and how the subject responded to their surrounding stimuli. The MIs display Gross Motor movements, Fine Motor movements, and Internal fluctuations. These MIs can be anything from a mound of substrate shoved in a particular direction to a fine ridge of dust on the floor of the footprint. There can be many forms and shapes of these indicators that typically take on associative names, such as: hockey-stick, pirate’s-hat, or chains, and they represent transfers of energy and kinesiology. In other words, indicators can be constructs of simple, physical mechanics of leverage, or they can be made of energy that moves throughout the body. If you’ve ever built up static electricity by rubbing a balloon on your hair and sticking it to a wall, or by combing your hair with a plastic comb and holding the comb near a very slow, steady stream of tap-water, you can see a dramatic example of how this energy works.
These MIs are very difficult to discern without a guide. And they change shape, position, and texture, because the body is a malleable organism. Just when you think you’ve finally pinned one down for a particular, coordinating action, it will change or vanish altogether and make hours of hard work turn into a frustrating disappointment. But they are there. And when someone shows you what to look for, they become easier to see. However, for me, even after twenty-five years of trying to figure out the art and science of tracking, I have not been able to put together complete combinations of MIs for all situations. I get by so far on being able to pick out key MIs and extrapolating by using other clues, for now. There’s just too much to figure out for one person in one lifetime, but it doesn’t mean I’m not trying.
Tracking & Movement Indicators
In order to be a well-rounded and effective Tracker, I don't believe in studying only the Movement Indicators. (Some circles call them "Pressure Releases" based upon the teachings of Tom Brown Jr., but since I didn't learn these from him, and since I'm developing a list of functional indicators, I will only refer to them as Movement Indicators or MIs, so as not to infringe or plagiarize.) That wouldn't be realistic because Tracking is not restricted to one perspective or paradigm.
Personally, I study things like:
Landscape (Glacial impact, topography, etc.)
Water flow
Flora
Fauna
Ecology
Forest age and composition
Sunlight
Wind
Weather
Substrate conditions, structure, and make-up
Travel routes
Draws
Concentric lines
Bird activity
Human activity (roadways, distant smells, sounds)
Skeletal structure
Animal biology
Foot Morphology
Clinical Gait Analysis/Kinesiology
Natural, Physiological Gait Analysis
Stride, Straddle, Pitch, Trail Width
Dust & Grit Impressions
Fingerprints
Signs:
Rubs
Chews (and dental morphology)
Scratches
Smudges
Scrapes
Scat and Urine (smells, composition, make-up)
Hairs from different parts of the body
Blood spatter
Kill Procedure
Feather Morphology
Decomposition and associated Entomology
Burns (bark, bones--whatever)
Litter
Breaks, bends, tears, creases
Basic Mycology
Nutrient Impact on soils, invertebrates, flora, and up the chain
Pollutant Impact
Tracks
Movement Indicators
It's all Tracking. There is no "right" or "wrong" method; there is no one better way than another. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a matter of how much information you want from the scene and surroundings.
I just happen to be extremely passionate about the movement indicator element because it gives me more accurate detail on a deeper level of knowing the maker of the tracks.
Again, I wouldn't waste my time if it was invalid or useless. It's part of my job.
Identifiers are like tags or fingerprints that are specific in their combinations to a particular maker, and they present consistently no matter what the maker may do to try to camouflage them. Identifiers are important when tracking a specific subject, such as a missing person, or, more commonly in my experience, a missing- or “nuisance-“animal. At this point, aside from developing an ability to establish identifiers in tracks, I have been able to identify movement indicators representative of these functions (barring general locomotion):
• Full/Empty Bladder
• Full/Empty Colon
• Knee injury/ailment
• Back injury/ailment
• Male/Female indicators
• Menses
• Carrying objects over five pounds (in either hand, both hands, or on back)
• Arm movements (major positions)
• Head Turning, lifting, lowering
• Internal shifts and disturbances in several areas:
o Stomach/abdomen
o Sinuses
o Lungs/Diaphragm
I’ve noticed that there are at least two major “maps” of zones for discerning the gross motor, fine motor, and internal indicators, and much of them overlap. As well, many of the gross motor indicators present in the opposite places that they occur, making reading tricky at times. There is much research to do, as I am working alone to develop a system based upon methods supposedly established by generations of native trackers.
I’m also confident that the indicators I am discovering are useful to identify internal ailments on at least an elementary level for use in Chiropractic treatments, for example.
It's relatively easy to see the gross motor mi's (recoil, overthrusts, sweeps, etc.) and to practice getting to know how they work. That's the beginning. As you become proficient in one medium, take it to another and become proficient there. Even in one medium you will not see the exact same overthrust every time you do a specific turn, but there are reasons for that that simply have to do with the body not being a robotic machine. You will, however see the same overthrust for that turn every single time.
If you want to figure out the fine motor mi's, start with something "simple." Walk through your box. Then walk through your box carrying a ten-pound object. You'll see a difference, but you won't know why. Then you'll look closer and after a while you'll think you found it. Then when you do it again, it will be different. Now do this hundreds of times. Eventually, you'll figure it out. This is what I've done. Nobody stood over my shoulder or gave me documentation on this stuff.
But this neither precludes nor excludes any other element of Tracking. Study EVERYTHING, and find your own comfort level. The point is to find your place in the progression of elements where you feel satiated with your Tracking. The cool thing is that the progression is limitless.
Personally, I study things like:
Landscape (Glacial impact, topography, etc.)
Water flow
Flora
Fauna
Ecology
Forest age and composition
Sunlight
Wind
Weather
Substrate conditions, structure, and make-up
Travel routes
Draws
Concentric lines
Bird activity
Human activity (roadways, distant smells, sounds)
Skeletal structure
Animal biology
Foot Morphology
Clinical Gait Analysis/Kinesiology
Natural, Physiological Gait Analysis
Stride, Straddle, Pitch, Trail Width
Dust & Grit Impressions
Fingerprints
Signs:
Rubs
Chews (and dental morphology)
Scratches
Smudges
Scrapes
Scat and Urine (smells, composition, make-up)
Hairs from different parts of the body
Blood spatter
Kill Procedure
Feather Morphology
Decomposition and associated Entomology
Burns (bark, bones--whatever)
Litter
Breaks, bends, tears, creases
Basic Mycology
Nutrient Impact on soils, invertebrates, flora, and up the chain
Pollutant Impact
Tracks
Movement Indicators
It's all Tracking. There is no "right" or "wrong" method; there is no one better way than another. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a matter of how much information you want from the scene and surroundings.
I just happen to be extremely passionate about the movement indicator element because it gives me more accurate detail on a deeper level of knowing the maker of the tracks.
Again, I wouldn't waste my time if it was invalid or useless. It's part of my job.
Identifiers are like tags or fingerprints that are specific in their combinations to a particular maker, and they present consistently no matter what the maker may do to try to camouflage them. Identifiers are important when tracking a specific subject, such as a missing person, or, more commonly in my experience, a missing- or “nuisance-“animal. At this point, aside from developing an ability to establish identifiers in tracks, I have been able to identify movement indicators representative of these functions (barring general locomotion):
• Full/Empty Bladder
• Full/Empty Colon
• Knee injury/ailment
• Back injury/ailment
• Male/Female indicators
• Menses
• Carrying objects over five pounds (in either hand, both hands, or on back)
• Arm movements (major positions)
• Head Turning, lifting, lowering
• Internal shifts and disturbances in several areas:
o Stomach/abdomen
o Sinuses
o Lungs/Diaphragm
I’ve noticed that there are at least two major “maps” of zones for discerning the gross motor, fine motor, and internal indicators, and much of them overlap. As well, many of the gross motor indicators present in the opposite places that they occur, making reading tricky at times. There is much research to do, as I am working alone to develop a system based upon methods supposedly established by generations of native trackers.
I’m also confident that the indicators I am discovering are useful to identify internal ailments on at least an elementary level for use in Chiropractic treatments, for example.
It's relatively easy to see the gross motor mi's (recoil, overthrusts, sweeps, etc.) and to practice getting to know how they work. That's the beginning. As you become proficient in one medium, take it to another and become proficient there. Even in one medium you will not see the exact same overthrust every time you do a specific turn, but there are reasons for that that simply have to do with the body not being a robotic machine. You will, however see the same overthrust for that turn every single time.
If you want to figure out the fine motor mi's, start with something "simple." Walk through your box. Then walk through your box carrying a ten-pound object. You'll see a difference, but you won't know why. Then you'll look closer and after a while you'll think you found it. Then when you do it again, it will be different. Now do this hundreds of times. Eventually, you'll figure it out. This is what I've done. Nobody stood over my shoulder or gave me documentation on this stuff.
But this neither precludes nor excludes any other element of Tracking. Study EVERYTHING, and find your own comfort level. The point is to find your place in the progression of elements where you feel satiated with your Tracking. The cool thing is that the progression is limitless.
Friday, August 08, 2008
"Money" revisited
Money equals life. It equals the food we can eat. It equals the space we are allowed to occupy. It equals the clothing we wear. It equals the comforts of homes.
Even if you plant a garden, you must have a place to do so, which costs money, and you must have access to water, seeds, and even tools and equipment, such as a plow and fencing, in order to properly maintain the plot and make the most efficient and cost-effective return for your efforts. But no matter what, living, in modern society, costs money. There is no true freedom anymore, because society has a grip on all we need to survive, and in order to obtain those essentials, we must be part of a system of economics.
Money equals happiness. Money buys nice things, good clothing, entertainment, healthier foods, more efficient vehicles and more land. Money is also equal to the obtainable types of depravity in modern society in all forms of contraband. Money equals generosity in the form of donations to a charity, while it also measures sycophantic behavior in the amount given to celebrities, whether they are actors, singers, or sports stars.
We will readily spend billions of dollars on politics, religions, wars and entertainment--as well as other depravities—yet we still have masses of poverty-stricken families in the economic society. Even destitute people will find ways to come up with money to support their addictions and cravings.
Money equals freedom; it is restitution for some crimes committed, and it is a cost of bail, as well as the potential for legal defense in the attorneys we can purchase.
Money is the god of our society, for it rules all life, health, and happiness in the majority of our culture and species.
There are few who understand that true happiness is not found in the provisions of money, but realistically, these people must know that not partaking in the economic system means having no access to the necessities of survival. Having more money means having a better life.
We give money readily to the celebrities, and that means they deserve a better life than we do if we are not celebrities. People who sing songs, throw balls, and play-act are better than we are. People born into affluent families are better than the rest of us, and they deserve a better existence than we do. Most of our society says that this is not true, but we know that it really is, otherwise we would have to face the fact that we really do worship materialism, instant gratification, and depravity.
Those with more money are allowed to own more land. They have no idea of how to be Caretakers for the land, but those of us who do know are typically not interested in contributing to the system of economics. We know that money corrupts, and it supports materialism and destruction.
The modern system of economics supports technology, which is the foundation of artificial existence. Artificial things—things made by humans and that are not found in the natural world—make up the fantasy world in which most humans exist. In order to maintain this dream-world illusion, money must move throughout the system. By supporting this paradigm, we support the overpopulation of humans (which is a provable fact that propagandist, disinformationists in denial will try to justify, but can easily be disproved), the over-extraction of natural resources, the spreading of diseases to all species worldwide, the pollution of the air and waters, the destruction of established forest ecosystems, and so forth. It is a fact that participating in the economic system supports destruction of nature and life.
Money only equals life in the artificial world.
Money also equals a new kind of economic Darwinism or Natural Selection called Eugenics. Eugenics means that in spite of one’s inferior genetic traits, such as lack of fur, poor eyesight or hearing, lack of the proper, biological “tools” to survive and propagate in the natural world, one can still not only survive, but thrive in the artificial world. In fact, the artificial world bolsters genetic deficiencies and anomalies. No matter what the physical condition of a being, if that being gains money by being corrupt, depraved, throwing a ball, or having a nice voice, or being conditionally “attractive,” that being is entitled by economic status to have a better existence than anyone with less money. That being is entitled by the standards of the artificial world to pay less to live, yet to leave a larger impact of damage upon the environment that we all need to survive. And by contributing to this system, no matter what one’s income status is, we support eugenics.
Eugenics means that if I have more money, I get privileges that even your sick child does not get. The rich have health insurance or at least enough money to pay out-of-pocket. The wealthy have better schools. And since money equals life, power, happiness, and health, if I have more to spend, then I can buy more favor than other people can. It means I get preferential treatment. It means that I get organic food and solar power and more land than you do, in spite of your knowledge, spirit, or genetic superiority. If I live in a poor community, then even the foods and resources available to me are going to be limited and governed by money. Just by my place in society, I may have access only to inferior necessities than others do, who have more money to live in more prosperous areas. I always thought that a body of water, such as a lake, would be accessible by natural right to anyone for swimming and fishing. However, humans “purchase” and “own” lakeshore property, and they have “no trespassing” signs and boundaries that prohibit others from accessing the majority of these bodies of water save for miniscule public landings. Having more money means one can afford to be in denial, and one can afford to think only of one’s own welfare because they have tricked the rest of us into giving them more than we have.
We are not allowed to not participate in this system. We must pay for all of our needs. That means that if we want to live, we must pay money to live. That is an abomination. That means that our people have determined that money is god, and that this idol rules over all inherent freedom and rights. I cannot leave this system because it is now impossible to survive anywhere without being charged for a place where the land is viable enough to live freely, and where there are no ill-effects of the detrimental impacts of our sick society. Even now our society is actually developing new ways to alter the amount of sunlight to hit the Earth, as well as to change weather patterns.
What if some of us do not wish to contribute to this system? What if we do not want any part of living in the artificial world of greed and idolatry? What if we do not wish to have the weather tampered, or the waters polluted, or the land paved? Where do WE go while the rest of the humans destroy this place? I ask again: To whom do we take our grievance if the highest authority is the source of the destruction and depravity?
Even if you plant a garden, you must have a place to do so, which costs money, and you must have access to water, seeds, and even tools and equipment, such as a plow and fencing, in order to properly maintain the plot and make the most efficient and cost-effective return for your efforts. But no matter what, living, in modern society, costs money. There is no true freedom anymore, because society has a grip on all we need to survive, and in order to obtain those essentials, we must be part of a system of economics.
Money equals happiness. Money buys nice things, good clothing, entertainment, healthier foods, more efficient vehicles and more land. Money is also equal to the obtainable types of depravity in modern society in all forms of contraband. Money equals generosity in the form of donations to a charity, while it also measures sycophantic behavior in the amount given to celebrities, whether they are actors, singers, or sports stars.
We will readily spend billions of dollars on politics, religions, wars and entertainment--as well as other depravities—yet we still have masses of poverty-stricken families in the economic society. Even destitute people will find ways to come up with money to support their addictions and cravings.
Money equals freedom; it is restitution for some crimes committed, and it is a cost of bail, as well as the potential for legal defense in the attorneys we can purchase.
Money is the god of our society, for it rules all life, health, and happiness in the majority of our culture and species.
There are few who understand that true happiness is not found in the provisions of money, but realistically, these people must know that not partaking in the economic system means having no access to the necessities of survival. Having more money means having a better life.
We give money readily to the celebrities, and that means they deserve a better life than we do if we are not celebrities. People who sing songs, throw balls, and play-act are better than we are. People born into affluent families are better than the rest of us, and they deserve a better existence than we do. Most of our society says that this is not true, but we know that it really is, otherwise we would have to face the fact that we really do worship materialism, instant gratification, and depravity.
Those with more money are allowed to own more land. They have no idea of how to be Caretakers for the land, but those of us who do know are typically not interested in contributing to the system of economics. We know that money corrupts, and it supports materialism and destruction.
The modern system of economics supports technology, which is the foundation of artificial existence. Artificial things—things made by humans and that are not found in the natural world—make up the fantasy world in which most humans exist. In order to maintain this dream-world illusion, money must move throughout the system. By supporting this paradigm, we support the overpopulation of humans (which is a provable fact that propagandist, disinformationists in denial will try to justify, but can easily be disproved), the over-extraction of natural resources, the spreading of diseases to all species worldwide, the pollution of the air and waters, the destruction of established forest ecosystems, and so forth. It is a fact that participating in the economic system supports destruction of nature and life.
Money only equals life in the artificial world.
Money also equals a new kind of economic Darwinism or Natural Selection called Eugenics. Eugenics means that in spite of one’s inferior genetic traits, such as lack of fur, poor eyesight or hearing, lack of the proper, biological “tools” to survive and propagate in the natural world, one can still not only survive, but thrive in the artificial world. In fact, the artificial world bolsters genetic deficiencies and anomalies. No matter what the physical condition of a being, if that being gains money by being corrupt, depraved, throwing a ball, or having a nice voice, or being conditionally “attractive,” that being is entitled by economic status to have a better existence than anyone with less money. That being is entitled by the standards of the artificial world to pay less to live, yet to leave a larger impact of damage upon the environment that we all need to survive. And by contributing to this system, no matter what one’s income status is, we support eugenics.
Eugenics means that if I have more money, I get privileges that even your sick child does not get. The rich have health insurance or at least enough money to pay out-of-pocket. The wealthy have better schools. And since money equals life, power, happiness, and health, if I have more to spend, then I can buy more favor than other people can. It means I get preferential treatment. It means that I get organic food and solar power and more land than you do, in spite of your knowledge, spirit, or genetic superiority. If I live in a poor community, then even the foods and resources available to me are going to be limited and governed by money. Just by my place in society, I may have access only to inferior necessities than others do, who have more money to live in more prosperous areas. I always thought that a body of water, such as a lake, would be accessible by natural right to anyone for swimming and fishing. However, humans “purchase” and “own” lakeshore property, and they have “no trespassing” signs and boundaries that prohibit others from accessing the majority of these bodies of water save for miniscule public landings. Having more money means one can afford to be in denial, and one can afford to think only of one’s own welfare because they have tricked the rest of us into giving them more than we have.
We are not allowed to not participate in this system. We must pay for all of our needs. That means that if we want to live, we must pay money to live. That is an abomination. That means that our people have determined that money is god, and that this idol rules over all inherent freedom and rights. I cannot leave this system because it is now impossible to survive anywhere without being charged for a place where the land is viable enough to live freely, and where there are no ill-effects of the detrimental impacts of our sick society. Even now our society is actually developing new ways to alter the amount of sunlight to hit the Earth, as well as to change weather patterns.
What if some of us do not wish to contribute to this system? What if we do not want any part of living in the artificial world of greed and idolatry? What if we do not wish to have the weather tampered, or the waters polluted, or the land paved? Where do WE go while the rest of the humans destroy this place? I ask again: To whom do we take our grievance if the highest authority is the source of the destruction and depravity?
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Of Secession, Warriors, and the Elusive Truth
In my writings on this blog, it is easy to see that I strive to adhere to natural law above all manmade law, and that if we, as a species, wish to survive and insure a healthy future for our progeny, we must abandon our fantasy-land existence and overcome our fears of mortality and our desires for power and luxury.
My purpose is to provide information based upon Universal Truths so that we may all find our true selves and our true place and purpose; so that we may learn to temper our spirits and become reasonable by existing from a neutral center based upon the reality of the natural world instead of as defined by artificial parameters of a manmade world; so that we can stop the devastation that we cause upon the Earth to the environment and to other species; and to preserve the well-being of ALL forms of life, and not just our own.
In order to accomplish these things, we must all embrace the Truth—the same Truth about which Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, and Buddha spoke—that creation is reality, and that manmade ethics and materialism are distractions and depravities that will taint our spirits and cause degradation of our species to the point that we become a cancer that consumes the lands and eliminates itself. Unfortunately, most people of the modern world are in denial of the state of existence we occupy: living in a dream-world and losing our connection to the reality of nature.
I seek emancipation in order to shed the perversions of modern existence and to move away from the corruption of economics and manmade-biased justice, but I’m not sure I see the efficacy of appealing to a dishonorable culture of terrorism with honor and passivism. Further, a true Warrior does not immediately resort to violence in order to enforce a point or justice. Instead, a true Warrior seeks balance through peaceful, but not pacifist means. In other words, following the essence of Aikido, for example, a true Warrior did not seek conflict or control through strength, power, or clout—that would make a person nothing more than a bully or terrorist. A true Warrior also did not sit idle and wait for the Universe to solve all of the problems created by Man—as some modern folks suggest is the right thing to do. I submit that this attitude provides us indemnity from accountability and responsibility for cleaning up our messes and helping ourselves. “God doesn’t help those who don’t help themselves,” correct? As well, that mindset of letting the Universe handle our problems reminds me of the anecdote of the man who sat on his roof in a flood praying to God to help him. [When a floating log came by with people hanging off of it, and they offered him help, the man said, “No; thank you. God will save me.” As the waters rose, a man in a row-boat came along and offered help. The man on the roof said, “No; thank you. God will save me.” And he continued to pray. Then, as the waters rose closer to the peak of the roof where the man now perched upon his chimney, a helicopter hovered above him and dropped a ladder. The man shouted, “No; thank you. God will save me.” And the man finally drowned. He approached God and complained, “Lord, I was faithful to you, and I prayed for your help. Why did you let me die?” And God said, “Pffft! Whadd’ya want? I sent a log, a boat, and a helicopter!”]
My point then is that in order to obtain peace, one must be willing to embrace what may be inevitable conflict and seek a productive resolution. In other words, if I am attacked, I will not simply sit idly while you beat me, because that is not a viable resolution to the conflict. Instead, I will embrace your attack and seek resolution that benefits us all. A Warrior understands this. A Warrior understands that his actions cannot be based upon his interpretations or biased concepts of Truth and Justice, but that they must come from a Universal Truth in order to be righteous and just.
The concept of “turning the other cheek” is part of being a true Warrior, but it does not mean to let oneself be abused. This pseudo-enlightened mindset of pacifism is not realistic, and it has been proven over and over throughout history that it is also ineffective against a corrupted entity. Jesus was assassinated. Gandhi was assassinated. And so have many other martyrs been killed in the name of peace. But modern society is still overwhelmingly selfish, greedy, depraved, twisted, and destructive to Creation, as well as defiant toward natural laws. No, the enlightened Warrior does not sit, because if you sit still, you will be destroyed by that thing you oppose. The Warrior is realistic, and there is more than one way to stand-up for oneself without resorting to violence. But if violent acts are made upon the Warrior, then the Warrior is prepared to redirect those actions into a viable resolution.
Sovereignty is an inherent right, because no being should be ruled by another. So utilizing the legal system (which means supporting the legal system that is not real and is the way of the oppressor in the first place) to fight the system in order to gain the sanction of the system for an inherent right seems wholly illogical. If you need to defer to a power in residence to allow you your freedom, doesn’t that mean that you are still ultimately ruled by that power?
Since the U.S. makes the laws, the U.S. can change, interpret, and bend the laws in order to win and gain what they want. This is not a new concept. You can sue the U.S. all you want, but you can’t win if they don’t want you to.
I absolutely understand seeking sovereignty in light of the situations that others, such as the Lakotah, for example, face in their society. Poverty, disease, abuses of many forms, loss of culture—I get that. If for no other reason, then I at least honor their efforts to seek restitution and justice for the horrific conditions set upon them by the deceit and terrorism brought by the United States. I wish them all the luck and power for their effort. But I am not so “fortunate” to be part of a nation within a nation. I was born into the modern, Western culture. Regardless of the base of my ancestors, I was born here, on this soil, and I am native. And at birth my inherent freedoms were stripped, just like yours. I understand the Truth of the Universe and natural law, and I do not wish to contribute to the modern system of economics, eugenics, materialism, power, and destruction of our Earth. I face a different kind of discrimination and persecution from what others face, as I am expected to mind my place because of my birth, not in spite of it, and I am the outcast in a society of people who do not understand what reality is anymore. I have lived in the natural world by using the old ways, and I have a connection to nature that most modern people do not understand anymore. I want my inherent freedoms back, but I cannot even begin to be heard, let alone to bring my case to any forum that understands Truth. Where does one go for justice when the highest power doesn’t even see Truth?
I am tired of being pushed into despicable conditions of living, abuse from schools and those in positions of power, and being backed into a proverbial corner. It is not uncommon to be ridiculed and insulted by others when discussing Truth, even though Total Prosperity is a concept that works in favor of all life in the natural world. I’ve even been told that all of the information I have gathered from uncountable resources over the past twenty-five-or-so years is completely made up of “misinformation and disinformation,” while all the information that everyone else has researched is apparently absolute fact!
I speak on behalf of Nature. After having lived primitively in the natural world, I have gathered knowledge of Truth, and the information in my writings is, and has been, proven. Therefore, I will persevere and attempt to bring Truth to all people, because it is only through natural law and a unified consciousness of reality that we can hope to preserve the welfare and Total Prosperity of all beings.
I wish there was a way for people to band together and reclaim our birthrights, to reinstitute the Caretaker ways of aboriginal people worldwide in order to begin a model of bringing back health, vitality, and balance to the Earth, as well.
I have to believe that there are many others in my situation who wish to live a non-destructive lifestyle out of the grasp of any modern government, as well as to make efforts to stop the pollutions and destructions that compromise all other life and the potential for us to reclaim our inherent freedom to live upon the wild lands without facing the harms brought about by those pollutions and destruction. I would really love to bring everyone together to move toward the change that needs to come, not with violence, not with passivism, but with resolution of Truth and Total Prosperity.
My purpose is to provide information based upon Universal Truths so that we may all find our true selves and our true place and purpose; so that we may learn to temper our spirits and become reasonable by existing from a neutral center based upon the reality of the natural world instead of as defined by artificial parameters of a manmade world; so that we can stop the devastation that we cause upon the Earth to the environment and to other species; and to preserve the well-being of ALL forms of life, and not just our own.
In order to accomplish these things, we must all embrace the Truth—the same Truth about which Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, and Buddha spoke—that creation is reality, and that manmade ethics and materialism are distractions and depravities that will taint our spirits and cause degradation of our species to the point that we become a cancer that consumes the lands and eliminates itself. Unfortunately, most people of the modern world are in denial of the state of existence we occupy: living in a dream-world and losing our connection to the reality of nature.
I seek emancipation in order to shed the perversions of modern existence and to move away from the corruption of economics and manmade-biased justice, but I’m not sure I see the efficacy of appealing to a dishonorable culture of terrorism with honor and passivism. Further, a true Warrior does not immediately resort to violence in order to enforce a point or justice. Instead, a true Warrior seeks balance through peaceful, but not pacifist means. In other words, following the essence of Aikido, for example, a true Warrior did not seek conflict or control through strength, power, or clout—that would make a person nothing more than a bully or terrorist. A true Warrior also did not sit idle and wait for the Universe to solve all of the problems created by Man—as some modern folks suggest is the right thing to do. I submit that this attitude provides us indemnity from accountability and responsibility for cleaning up our messes and helping ourselves. “God doesn’t help those who don’t help themselves,” correct? As well, that mindset of letting the Universe handle our problems reminds me of the anecdote of the man who sat on his roof in a flood praying to God to help him. [When a floating log came by with people hanging off of it, and they offered him help, the man said, “No; thank you. God will save me.” As the waters rose, a man in a row-boat came along and offered help. The man on the roof said, “No; thank you. God will save me.” And he continued to pray. Then, as the waters rose closer to the peak of the roof where the man now perched upon his chimney, a helicopter hovered above him and dropped a ladder. The man shouted, “No; thank you. God will save me.” And the man finally drowned. He approached God and complained, “Lord, I was faithful to you, and I prayed for your help. Why did you let me die?” And God said, “Pffft! Whadd’ya want? I sent a log, a boat, and a helicopter!”]
My point then is that in order to obtain peace, one must be willing to embrace what may be inevitable conflict and seek a productive resolution. In other words, if I am attacked, I will not simply sit idly while you beat me, because that is not a viable resolution to the conflict. Instead, I will embrace your attack and seek resolution that benefits us all. A Warrior understands this. A Warrior understands that his actions cannot be based upon his interpretations or biased concepts of Truth and Justice, but that they must come from a Universal Truth in order to be righteous and just.
The concept of “turning the other cheek” is part of being a true Warrior, but it does not mean to let oneself be abused. This pseudo-enlightened mindset of pacifism is not realistic, and it has been proven over and over throughout history that it is also ineffective against a corrupted entity. Jesus was assassinated. Gandhi was assassinated. And so have many other martyrs been killed in the name of peace. But modern society is still overwhelmingly selfish, greedy, depraved, twisted, and destructive to Creation, as well as defiant toward natural laws. No, the enlightened Warrior does not sit, because if you sit still, you will be destroyed by that thing you oppose. The Warrior is realistic, and there is more than one way to stand-up for oneself without resorting to violence. But if violent acts are made upon the Warrior, then the Warrior is prepared to redirect those actions into a viable resolution.
Sovereignty is an inherent right, because no being should be ruled by another. So utilizing the legal system (which means supporting the legal system that is not real and is the way of the oppressor in the first place) to fight the system in order to gain the sanction of the system for an inherent right seems wholly illogical. If you need to defer to a power in residence to allow you your freedom, doesn’t that mean that you are still ultimately ruled by that power?
Since the U.S. makes the laws, the U.S. can change, interpret, and bend the laws in order to win and gain what they want. This is not a new concept. You can sue the U.S. all you want, but you can’t win if they don’t want you to.
I absolutely understand seeking sovereignty in light of the situations that others, such as the Lakotah, for example, face in their society. Poverty, disease, abuses of many forms, loss of culture—I get that. If for no other reason, then I at least honor their efforts to seek restitution and justice for the horrific conditions set upon them by the deceit and terrorism brought by the United States. I wish them all the luck and power for their effort. But I am not so “fortunate” to be part of a nation within a nation. I was born into the modern, Western culture. Regardless of the base of my ancestors, I was born here, on this soil, and I am native. And at birth my inherent freedoms were stripped, just like yours. I understand the Truth of the Universe and natural law, and I do not wish to contribute to the modern system of economics, eugenics, materialism, power, and destruction of our Earth. I face a different kind of discrimination and persecution from what others face, as I am expected to mind my place because of my birth, not in spite of it, and I am the outcast in a society of people who do not understand what reality is anymore. I have lived in the natural world by using the old ways, and I have a connection to nature that most modern people do not understand anymore. I want my inherent freedoms back, but I cannot even begin to be heard, let alone to bring my case to any forum that understands Truth. Where does one go for justice when the highest power doesn’t even see Truth?
I am tired of being pushed into despicable conditions of living, abuse from schools and those in positions of power, and being backed into a proverbial corner. It is not uncommon to be ridiculed and insulted by others when discussing Truth, even though Total Prosperity is a concept that works in favor of all life in the natural world. I’ve even been told that all of the information I have gathered from uncountable resources over the past twenty-five-or-so years is completely made up of “misinformation and disinformation,” while all the information that everyone else has researched is apparently absolute fact!
I speak on behalf of Nature. After having lived primitively in the natural world, I have gathered knowledge of Truth, and the information in my writings is, and has been, proven. Therefore, I will persevere and attempt to bring Truth to all people, because it is only through natural law and a unified consciousness of reality that we can hope to preserve the welfare and Total Prosperity of all beings.
I wish there was a way for people to band together and reclaim our birthrights, to reinstitute the Caretaker ways of aboriginal people worldwide in order to begin a model of bringing back health, vitality, and balance to the Earth, as well.
I have to believe that there are many others in my situation who wish to live a non-destructive lifestyle out of the grasp of any modern government, as well as to make efforts to stop the pollutions and destructions that compromise all other life and the potential for us to reclaim our inherent freedom to live upon the wild lands without facing the harms brought about by those pollutions and destruction. I would really love to bring everyone together to move toward the change that needs to come, not with violence, not with passivism, but with resolution of Truth and Total Prosperity.
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