I was fortunate to spend time with an enigmatic man known as Artificer Jeweler aka John Mcwilliams, which was a special period of my spiritual journey. John taught me many things during our days together, and this time of year always reminds me of one particular interaction we had.
“Now that you are becoming aware and conscious,” John said, “you need to begin to set goals for yourself so you don’t lose the momentum you have built.”
“Like New Year’s resolutions?” I asked.
“That’s an interesting idea,” he smirked. “Let’s do that.”
By then I was used to his cryptic but mystical responses, so I knew something was up because of the way his eyes sparkled as he let out an his famous impish gnome laugh.
“Tonight’s assignment is to make two lists,” John continued. “The first is a list of all the New Year’s resolutions you WANT to keep, and the second is a list of all the New Year’s resolutions you WILL keep. Write the WANT List first, and when you have exhausted all of your ideas, then write the second list on another sheet of paper.”
That night I went home and spent several hours working on the two lists. The WANT List felt overwhelming at first, but after a while I got into writing all the things I had always wanted to do if the burdens of life hadn’t gotten in the way. After nearly an hour, the list swelled to fill the entire page and contained nearly all of my ideas of an ideal life. The second list was much easier, and I was able to quickly commit ten practical resolutions that I felt would be both realistic and helpful.
The next day, I met John in front of the local venue, where we seemed to have most of our enlightening conversations. “Tell me about your two lists,” John said as the familiar smirk crept onto his face.
“The first list contains all the things I SHOULD do if I completely changed my life to be the person I always wanted to be. And the second list contains all the things I COULD do by accepting my current life, and taking realistic steps towards the life I want to lead.”
“Let me see the second list,” he said.
I handed him the second list, and without even looking at it, he ripped the paper into tiny pieces and threw it in the nearby garbage can. His disregard for the effort I had put into the list annoyed me at first, but after I calmed down I began to think about the first list in a different light. In my heart, I knew the second list was a cop out, and the first list was the only one that really mattered.
“And now, the first list.” John bowed his head and held out both of his hands.
I purposefully handed him the first list and held his gaze for several seconds, waiting for him to begin reading the page. After an unusually long silence, he began to crumple the paper into a ball and once again tossed it into the can without looking at it.
“What did you do that for?!” I couldn’t hide my anger any longer.
John began to speak in a quiet and assured voice. “What you SHOULD or COULD do with your life no longer matters. The only thing that matters, from this day forward, is what you MUST do.”
He then drew a folded piece of paper from his back pocket and handed it to me.
I opened it carefully, and found a single word floating in the middle of the white page:
“Love”
May YOU enjoy the New Year and may all YOUR dreams manifest. Blessing you with abundance, peace, love, joy, happiness, and prosperity for you and yours. May peace reign on earth. namaste
Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans.
Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe.
Most of the major elements of the modern Christmas celebration, such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, magical reindeer and the giving of gifts, are originally based upon the traditions surrounding the harvest and consumption of these most sacred mushrooms.
“The Pharmacratic Inquisition” that talks about all of these things in detail. Definitely worth watching if you are interested in these subjects and how they influence culture. Funny how most people today don’t really know very much about the things they celebrate. I would argue that it is somewhat pointless to be a culture without knowing its origins, especially considering how much it has become skewed and twisted from its original meaning.
The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, also known as “fly agaric.” These mushrooms are now commonly seen in books of fairy tales, and are usually associated with magic and fairies. This is because they contain potent hallucinogenic compounds, and were used by ancient peoples for insight and transcendental experiences.
The Pharmacratic Inquisition: The Suppression of Direct Religious Experience, Sexuality and Drugs. Christianity’s Darkest Secrets Revealed.
This is a 3.5 hour lecture, regarding the origins of religion.
As above So below – This video covers both aspects of Christianity: God’s son in heaven, the risen savior; and God’s son on earth, whose flesh and blood is consumed.
This video is presented by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit, authors of the book, “Astrotheology & Shamanism – Unveiling the Law of Duality in Christianity and Other Religions” A fantastic foreward was written for these authors by their friend Jordan Maxwell.
The world tree
These ancient peoples, including the Lapps of modern-day Finland, and the Koyak tribes of the central Russian steppes, believed in the idea of a World Tree. The World Tree was seen as a kind of cosmic axis, onto which the planes of the universe are fixed. The roots of the World Tree stretch down into the underworld, its trunk is the “middle earth” of everyday existence, and its branches reach upwards into the heavenly realm.
The amanita muscaria mushrooms grow only under certain types of trees, mostly firs and evergreens. The mushroom caps are the fruit of the larger mycelium beneath the soil which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the roots of the tree. To ancient people, these mushrooms were literally “the fruit of the tree.”
The North Star was also considered sacred, since all other stars in the sky revolved around its fixed point. They associated this “Pole Star” with the World Tree and the central axis of the universe. The top of the World Tree touched the North Star, and the spirit of the shaman would climb the metaphorical tree, thereby passing into the realm of the gods. This is the true meaning of the star on top of the modern Christmas tree, and also the reason that the super-shaman Santa makes his home at the North Pole.
Ancient peoples were amazed at how these magical mushrooms sprang from the earth without any visible seed. They considered this “virgin birth” to have been the result of the morning dew, which was seen as the semen of the deity. The silver tinsel we drape onto our modern Christmas tree represents this divine fluid.
Reindeer games
The active ingredients of the amanita mushrooms are not metabolized by the body, and so they remain active in the urine. In fact, it is safer to drink the urine of one who has consumed the mushrooms than to eat the mushrooms directly, as many of the toxic compounds are processed and eliminated on the first pass through the body.
It was common practice among ancient people to recycle the potent effects of the mushroom by drinking each other’s urine. The amanita’s ingredients can remain potent even after six passes through the human body. Some scholars argue that this is the origin of the phrase “to get pissed,” as this urine-drinking activity preceded alcohol by thousands of years.
Reindeer were the sacred animals of these semi-nomadic people, as the reindeer provided food, shelter, clothing and other necessities. Reindeer are also fond of eating the amanita mushrooms; they will seek them out, then prance about while under their influence. Often the urine of tripped-out reindeer would be consumed for its psychedelic effects.
This effect goes the other way too, as reindeer also enjoy the urine of a human, especially one who has consumed the mushrooms. In fact, reindeer will seek out human urine to drink, and some tribesmen carry sealskin containers of their own collected piss, which they use to attract stray reindeer back into the herd.
The effects of the amanita mushroom usually include sensations of size distortion and flying. The feeling of flying could account for the legends of flying reindeer, and legends of shamanic journeys included stories of winged reindeer, transporting their riders up to the highest branches of the World Tree.
Santa Claus, super shaman
Although the modern image of Santa Claus was created at least in part by the advertising department of Coca-Cola, in truth his appearance, clothing, mannerisms and companions all mark him as the reincarnation of these ancient mushroom-gathering shamans.
One of the side effects of eating amanita mushrooms is that the skin and facial features take on a flushed, ruddy glow. This is why Santa is always shown with glowing red cheeks and nose. Even Santa’s jolly “Ho, ho, ho!” is the euphoric laugh of one who has indulged in the magic fungus.
Santa also dresses like a mushroom gatherer. When it was time to go out and harvest the magical mushrooms, the ancient shamans would dress much like Santa, wearing red and white fur-trimmed coats and long black boots.
These peoples lived in dwellings made of birch and reindeer hide, called “yurts.” Somewhat similar to a teepee, the yurt’s central smokehole is often also used as an entrance. After gathering the mushrooms from under the sacred trees where they appeared, the shamans would fill their sacks and return home. Climbing down the chimney-entrances, they would share out the mushroom’s gifts with those within.
The amanita mushroom needs to be dried before being consumed; the drying process reduces the mushroom’s toxicity while increasing its potency. The shaman would guide the group in stringing the mushrooms and hanging them around the hearth-fire to dry. This tradition is echoed in the modern stringing of popcorn and other items.
The psychedelic journeys taken under the influence of the amanita were also symbolized by a stick reaching up through the smokehole in the top of the yurt. The smokehole was the portal where the spirit of the shaman exited the physical plane.
Santa’s famous magical journey, where his sleigh takes him around the whole planet in a single night, is developed from the “heavenly chariot,” used by the gods from whom Santa and other shamanic figures are descended. The chariot of Odin, Thor and even the Egyptian god Osiris is now known as the Big Dipper, which circles around the North Star in a 24-hour period.
In different versions of the ancient story, the chariot was pulled by reindeer or horses. As the animals grow exhausted, their mingled spit and blood falls to the ground, forming the amanita mushrooms.
St Nicholas and Old Nick:
Saint Nicholas is a legendary figure who supposedly lived during the fourth Century. His cult spread quickly and Nicholas became the patron saint of many varied groups, including judges, pawnbrokers, criminals, merchants, sailors, bakers, travelers, the poor, and children.
Most religious historians agree that St Nicholas did not actually exist as a real person, and was instead a Christianized version of earlier Pagan gods. Nicholas’ legends were mainly created out of stories about the Teutonic god called Hold Nickar, known as Poseidon to the Greeks. This powerful sea god was known to gallop through the sky during the winter solstice, granting boons to his worshippers below.
When the Catholic Church created the character of St Nicholas, they took his name from “Nickar” and gave him Poseidon’s title of “the Sailor.” There are thousands of churches named in St Nicholas’ honor, most of which were converted from temples to Poseidon and Hold Nickar. (As the ancient pagan deities were demonized by the Christian church, Hold Nickar’s name also became associated with Satan, known as “Old Nick!”)
Local traditions were incorporated into the new Christian holidays to make them more acceptable to the new converts. To these early Christians, Saint Nicholas became a sort of “super-shaman” who was overlaid upon their own shamanic cultural practices. Many images of Saint Nicholas from these early times show him wearing red and white, or standing in front of a red background with white spots, the design of the amanita mushroom.
St Nicholas also adopted some of the qualities of the legendary “Grandmother Befana” from Italy, who filled children’s stockings with gifts. Her shrine at Bari, Italy, became a shrine to St Nicholas.
Modern world, ancient traditions
Some psychologists have discussed the “cognitive dissonance” which occurs when children are encouraged to believe in the literal existence of Santa Claus, only to have their parents’ lie revealed when they are older. By so deceiving our children we rob them of a richer heritage, for the actual origin of these ancient rituals is rooted deep in our history and our collective unconscious. By better understanding the truths within these popular celebrations, we can better understand the modern world, and our place in it.
Many people in the modern world have rejected Christmas as being too commercial, claiming that this ritual of giving is actually a celebration of materialism and greed. Yet the true spirit of this winter festival lies not in the exchange of plastic toys, but in celebrating a gift from the earth: the fruiting top of a magical mushroom, and the revelatory experiences it can provide.
Instead of perpetuating outdated and confusing holiday myths, it might be more fulfilling to return to the original source of these seasonal celebrations. How about getting back to basics and enjoying some magical mushrooms with your loved ones this solstice? What better gift can a family share than a little piece of love and enlightenment?
Well when the hoards of angry Archangels, Alien invaders, Quatzequatel, the Anti-Christ, the vengeful warrior Christ, Tea Party Republicans, Zombies and other ‘End-of-the-World’ instigators rain down upon the Earth, if you buy this stylish “Invisible Mystic Mayan Power Cloak”‘ it will render you invisible to their wrath… it’s also meteor proof too! It’s like having the ultimate back-stage pass to the Greatest Show on Earth!
The secret of this cloak is the handmade magical miraculous fabric, an ancient Mayan rite handed down through the centuries. Deep in the rainforest of what is now called Guatemala, a small, colorful, yet invisible to the naked-eye of most unenlightened people…
Yes, the World is in the midst of a major paradigm shift, people are awakening to our Oneness, and to the idea that we can, by the sheer power of love, gratitude, compassion and yes, humor… can change the World as we know it… . for the greater good of all.
May all people on earth- whether I know them or not, whether I like them or not, they all find true happiness
May all people who are close to my heart- my family, my parents, my very close friends; they all find true happiness
May they all find true happiness. I love them all. Everybody is my friend. No one is my enemy
I am thankful to everybody for helping you at any point of time
I have gratitude for all that I have gotten
Im thankful to God for all that he has given US
If you find it difficult to find anything good in your life for which you should be thankful to this universe, remember you are the coconut of life it’s YOUR choice if u want it tropics or volcanic island.
Please again listen with your <3 this inspiring spell should you find it hard to get to sleep tonight;
Just remember the homeless family who has no bed to lie in.
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Should you find yourself stuck in traffic; don’t despair.
There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege.
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Should you have a bad day at work;
Think of the man who has been out of work for the last three months.
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Should you despair over a relationship gone bad;
Think of the person who has never known what it’s like to love and be loved in return.
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Should you grieve the passing of another weekend;
Think of the woman in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for -15.00 to feed her family.
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Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance;
Think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that walk.
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Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror;
Think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.
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Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, asking “what is my purpose”;
Be thankful. There are those who didn’t live long enough to get the opportunity.
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Should you find yourself the victim of other people’s bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities;
Remember, things could be worse. You could be them!!!
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Should you decide to tell the above to a friend;
You might brighten someone’s day!
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YOU are a wave of the ocean. You may be the most powerful, most thunderous, most beautiful and most inspiring wave of this ocean. But in the ultimate analysis you are just a wave. And the destiny of a wave is to merge again into the ocean. One day your little wave will also merge in the ocean of existence. Contemplate on this and understand the reality. We all are simple and ordinary in front of this huge cosmic play that is going on.
A profound event has occurred at Occupy Seattle Wednesday October 27th. To join in solidarity with our fellow occupants of Occupy Oakland… Starborne Sound set up a full sound system under permit, with a line up of 4 bold electronic music producers, raining vibrant dance music upon Westlake Center. The resources pulled together for the dance event has been the strongest burst of creative expression so far seen in the Seattle occupy movement, creating a wide range and volume of people, there was no violence, and no trouble with the police. This form of creative expression affirmed that ‘Open heart and art’ has generated the most positive experience of unification Occupy Seattle has seen so far. This experience is an example to the Occupy Movement to aim our creative imagination at optimum level for this peaceful protest.
There are many doing their part to activate this movement that is taking place in thousands of locations world wide. Finally a movement where 99% of the worlds population can be involved in progression of a transmutation of our planet. We live in societies where greed is what drives our survival. Everybody is waking up to the fact that there is not solidarity within the concept of money itself. Recognizing that 99% of this planet is suffering to survive because of a corrupt system. We are knowing now that we are NOT out numbered, we are the majority. We have the greatest potential because we are awakening and knowing that our true expression of heart and mind is what will create real harmony and unity upon this earth.
We have a innate gift within us called our imagination. Our imagination gives us the power to have creative freedom within our own mind. There is a difficult struggle to activate our creativity because of countless restrictions forcing oppression upon us since birth. Our creative expression is the most powerful peaceful weapon every human being intrinsically owns. Any force being projected from the 99% will be most effective if it is the opposite of what the 1% is exerting to the world. If fear is what is driving them, love is what can drive us. Since weapons are being forced upon us because of fear, it is essential that we use any form of art to convey a conscious message to our brothers and sisters.
This article is a summoning to all human beings to evoke your creative abilities in this now. This is a summoning to all proclaimed artists that may not yet be involved in this movement. This is an awakening to all people to know our best work will instigate the most effective and profound change. Let us all use our full arsenal of imagination and ingenuity to shine a bright and brilliant luminescent force field upon our fellow human beings… to the 1% and especially the 99%, so that we may be a pure example of harmony. Opening our heart and minds to work in unison with one another aligning ourselves with our divine purpose to create the manifestation of peace on earth together.
I offer this affirmation for you to affirm within one self…
May I call forth abundance, prosperity, health and wellbeing as my natural birthright, and I have the will to manifest my birthrights abundantly so that I may I attract to myself the people, projects and creative ideas that fire my passion. My higher vision is active, and I view all levels of being with the eyes of truth and the heart of loyalty, kindness and compassion. I harmonize myself with the new energies of the earth, I pledge myself to work for the emergence of the light, and I call forth the magnificence of all that I truly am so that I may spread this attunement throughout all humanity to induce a natural state of being with our planet.
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God’s messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity.
Ludwig Boltzmann’s struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.
The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.
Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
