Strategy and Wisdom
This issue, the destruction of the northwoods entails many things, not just the fight at hand. Change needs to come on a deeper level. We live in a gigantic web so to speak and movement in one area of that web results in sympathetic affects in another. The point has to be made that these forests would not be endangered if the need for the products they are used for declined or was redirected, or if people cut down on their on grid electrical consumption(kill your TV!!!). The forest goes to either paper or pulp industries. Everyday I see the trains(trains always reminded me of dragons) coming from Lignotech/Weyerhauser (paper manufacturers in the Wausau area, where I live) from the Northwoods with absolutely appaling amounts of trees in tow. See the greater issue here is of balance, knowledge tempered with wisdom, and it is the foundation of all the issues we face today.
As far as I see it there is really only one thing to do, destroy these corporations at the root. If they lose business they lose money and if they lose money they lose investors and eventually they will wither and die. As to changing the logging of the forest I am doing further research on who is doing the buying and will plan action accordingly. I fear I am over my head somewhat with the mining right now. I am putting my clean legal record on the chopping block for this. I do not agree with the policies and actions of my government and the corporations that run it and if I am a criminal for it that so be it. If people do not stand up there will be no world to save, and it will come sooner than you think. I am not going to be one of the doomsday ranks who believe the world is going to end anyway so why should I care. We stand on the brink of either global enlightenment or global annihilation, and it is entirely up to us which it is. . It is a choice that is as old as the universe itself, has been presented to every generation before us and will be presented to every generation after us. What you believe is what will happen. It is the small local battles that are going to decide this and the result depends on whether we can ground ourselves and focus on what we can do and not get overwhelmed by what we can’t. If everybody who reads this, focuses on the local environmental polluters and destroyers in their area, we’ll stop this madness very quickly. Be the change you wish to see in the world and be not afraidJ
Solutions to the problems
So I have been grousing this whole time about all the problems of this world and now it is time to offer some solutions. Before I say anything else though I have to stress, because it is of the utmost importance, that what will believe is what will happen. We are the Gods here folks, stop abdicating your personal power and realize that you have the power to change everything, you must only believe. It is an incredibly simple concept, but with profound power. Stop asking for someone else to save you, do it yourself. Stop taking your prozac and blaming everybody else, wake up, start paying attention and join the momentum in the right direction. Every person counts, not to sound cheesy and quote Mulan (I do love that movie though) but a single grain of rice can tip the scales, one man may be the difference between victory and defeat.
Now beyond that I have a few ideas, some more practical than others, that I see as being the most powerful ways of solving the problems we face today. The first is stay the hell away from anything that even vaguely smells like corporate america. Corporate greed is destroying the environment faster than anything. Buy local wherever you can. Start your own business. If you find that you still have to go to Walmart every once and a while, well don’t beat yourself up, but don’t give up either, eventually we’ll turn the tide. Eventually we’ll bleed them of their money even out the wages in this country and we won’t be so poor that we have to shop there anymore.
The next solution I have is stop buying on grid electricity, simplify life and use off grid solar energy for what you absolutely cannot do with out. You’ll find the less you are around electrical equipment, the more peaceful you’ll feel. Use candles for lighting (it creates a much nicer ambiance than bulbs), get a wood stove (harvest deadfall wood around you and use your burnable garbage as fuel), start a garden and grow most of your food(compost everything!), hunt if you must eat meat, read instead of sitting in front of the boob tube all the time (you’ll be much more educated and intelligent), walk everywhere(you’ll lose weight). Don’t use paper towels and tissues, use reusable washable barmops and hankerchiefs. Buy clothes from second hand shops. Wash all you laundry on cold with environmentally friendly detergent, don’t use fabric softener and line or rack dry it. Use everything to the point of it falling apart. Save little things like the plastic containers that your sour cream and yogurt come in and reuse them as tupperware. Plant trees wherever you can (Arbor day sells them really cheap to members). Do not be afraid of speaking out. If you choose your words and battles carefully there is nothing the powers that be can do to stop you. Start cooperating with your neighbors. Why not try to start a community garden? The more we learn to work together independent of the government, the more we will be strengthened as individuals and the less they will have an opportunity to oppress us. Violent revolution is not the best solution as far as i see it, the best way is to simply turn away. They can’t profit and destroy the environment if there is no one to sell it to.
Now if you are at all like me there are a few technologies that I feel are indespensable. The internet is something that I do not feel should be abolished(hell who’d listen to me if it didn’t exist?), I feel it should be powered by off grid means, whether it be solar, wind, whatever. However I think you will find though as you reduce the electrical devices from your life, you won’t really want to spend that much time around technology. The question here is not totally eliminating technology, because that would be impossible, but simplifying and streamlining things. I have had the wonderful opportunity to spend a lot of time at an off-grid community close to where I live, and it is so peaceful, so regenerating it is amazing. They do most things low tech out there but they have small solar panels to recharge their cell phones and laptop computer, and they also use car inverters as a source of power. But there is most definately a balance and they do not plunder the land. Why we as a race have cashed in our natural world for a bunch of gadgets is so utterly beyond me it makes me cry.
Now my next point is a local one, and it is a transitional one, I do not mean this as a permanent fix. 25% of the energy from Weston 4 will be lost as heat in the cooling water for the generator which will be simply pumped back into the Wisconsin River. The amount of heat lost is enough to heat all of Wausau. We have the sewer systems to run the piping through and the subterranean tunnels that snake through Wausau from the days of prohibition. Using Radiant floor heating or even an old boiler system we could refit Wausau so that everybody’s house would be heated in the wintertime, for free, and we would not be wasting energy.
So there are just few ideas, I am by no means an expert so I’m sure there are plenty more ideas that I have not thought of. If you truly want to help you’ll find a way, run google searches, try to find like-minded individuals, don’t be afraid of radical change and people looking at you funny. Focus on local issues, don’t get lost in the big picture. You will find that the local little stuff tends to have an impact on the big picture, and it strikes with more power and inertia than any top down approach could ever have. The best thing you can do is change yourself, because when you do, the serenity and strength you find will shine forth like a star, and the people around you will see it and be inspired. It will be like a ripple effect to those who are in direct contact with you. You cannot hide Truth, and it will spread like wildfire once it is known.
Local Issues
The first thing that comes to my mind is the Scott Street Steak and Pub in Wausau. For those of you that dont know, the Pub is approximately 100 years old, and is a fixture in downtown Wausau. It is a piece of history. The community development authority in town here bought it and wants to tear it down to build a parking ramp for Dudley Tower, a “skyscraper’ that was thrown up in haste that nobody really wanted either except for a few rich bigwigs. Now mind you, if this parking ramp is built, as you face north, there will be three parking ramps in a row. If we are trying to build charm and character to make Wausau stand out, this is not the way to do it. They used underhanded manuvering to pressure the Pub into closing. Such as using their connections in the local paper to print articles saying it was on it’s last legs when it wasn’t, so that people wouldn’t go and the place would be forced to shut down and sell. Such as revoking their liqour license with no good explanation as to why (there has never been any problems with Scott Street obeying the law). I went to the last night it was open, June 30, and watched as at midnight the cops came in and shut the place down because the liquor license expired at midnight. They couldn’t even let the place stay open the extra two hours to have the final act, the headlining band, Corpse Show Creeps, play. What little media coverage there was of this entirely failed to mention it was almost a riot when the police showed up. There was heckling of the cops, such as people yelling “you guys are corrupt” and “fuck the police”. People didn’t move until they announced that the party would be moving to the PI, another bar in town. But they didn’t mention people’s anger. What were they worried people might take a cue from that? Revolution is simmering, and trying to hide the truth is only going to make it worse. Or did they want to give the illusion that nobody cared and further twist the truth to their own advantage? I don’t know, but there is something seriously wrong in our world that such history is thrown away like trash.
Wausau has changed so rapidly in the last three years that we are beginning to lose our sense of identity and Scott Street is the poster child of this. All over this country it is happening because big corporations are franchising their way into every town, buying out the little guy and destroying the local economy. I want to cry that Scott Street is now closed because it was such a cultural anchor for Wausau(the only decent sized stage for local music to play), there are few things left in Wausau now that have that kind of history, those kind of memories. See Wausau is a town with a lot of ignorant people, ignoramuses who have no idea of the value of history and what folly it is to destroy it. My father used to make the comment that people are born here, go to college (if they are lucky) within 60 miles of here and die here, never ever seeing the world that lies beyond Wisconsin (I sometimes wonder if that has something to do with the whole magnet theory I posed in the ELF section) I want to tear my hair out in sheer fustration at the stupidity that runs rampant around here. This lack of experience is what is doing Wausau in. All these idiots watch their TV and see all the shiny new crap that is held in front of them and they want it, totally clueless to the fact that all things come at a price and that progress rarely ever is truly moving in the right direction. I have lived in Cleveland, D.C., and Phoenix and I can tell you that there is a very dark side to progress. The poverty of the disenfranchised, the decay, the crime, the pollution, the destruction of nature. That is why I settled in Wausau because in 1996 when I came here it was 20 years behind the rest of the world. The land was pristine, the water was pristine(the lakes and stuff up north were, sadly the river was severely polluted by the time I moved here, but that has to do with the fact the Wisconsin River is the most heavily dammed river in the country and as such, it cannot naturally cleanse itself), this place was peaceful and extraordinarily beautiful. What is coming is going to totally destroy this town. But again it is only history repeating itself and that is my whole point, those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Scott Street stands a as testament to what founded this town. Lumber Barons, who chopped down trees that were the size of the California redwoods, but only they were pine trees. People who could only view the land in terms of how much they could profit from it. This is NOT what we want to attract to Wausau. This land is doomed to have the same injustices repeated until someone conciously stops it. I am reminded of an article I read about the super bowl in Detriot a few years back, where they made the comment of catering to outside wealth. Wausau is doing that and I have some very dire warnings about it. It began when the Rib Mtn Ski hill was sold. Mind you this ski hill shares the mountain with Rib Mtn state park, and so conservation should be at the top of list of priorities. They changed the name to “Granite Peak” and started cutting down trees on Rib Mountain to build more runs (they are still building more). The sheer arrogance of it appalls me, and again it is looking at the land in terms of how much money can be made from it. I used to be able to rent a snowboard and boots and get a day pass for the lift for 30 bucks, it now costs 140. Then the drug dealers started coming up from Chicago and Milwaukee and the crime started. Then they started building. The mall got sold to a company out of Ohio and I’m sorry but I have nothing good to say about Ohio, and this company has only proved my point. They are tearing up downtown with their God-forsaken greed. I think 50% of downtown Wausau is now new, and it is construction that caters to outsiders as opposed to providing the people of this town with what they would want. There was a referendum that failed a few years ago about a convention center/hotel downtown. People did not want it. But hey, somehow we got a hotel anyway, the Jefferson Street Inn. Isn’t that interesting? I know that something needed to be done to revitalize the area but this is not it. I have to point out that you never know in this town when city council meetings are. They don’t advertise them in anyway shape or form. The only place they do advertise is on the public access channel, but the bulletins from there are always three months behind. I swear to God it’s like a private club that they don’t want you to know about. They make it as hard as possible to have a voice in the decisions made in Wausau. As far as I am concerned that is corruption right there. They do not want us to know what is going on because they are doing something they know they aren’t supposed to be. And now, quite predictably, the crime is coming to a head, just a few weeks ago a man shot at an officer during a routine traffic stop. I believe that is the first time something like that has ever happened here. Outside wealth is like the Kraken of Greek mythology. They will devour anything of beauty until all that is left is their own grotesque hulk, and then they will move on. They will destroy this place, they already are. I am angry at the corporations (and I mean the government when I say that as well, they are the biggest corporation of all) but I am angry also at the intelligent creative people who used to live here that abandoned this town because they thought it wasn’t cool enough. You are just as guilty as the one’s who are destroying this place because you do not recognize the value of roots, knowing who you are and where you’re from. I stayed here because I knew what would eventually come, and I knew that this was the place to draw the line. Wausau is the gateway to the Northwoods, and it is the perfect position of strength from which to defend it. I love this town and I would die to protect it, but its kind of hard to do anything when I cannot even see my enemy, because he hides behind a veil of wealth and priviledge.
Excuse me for a moment because I need to digress. I hate rich people and I come from a very old and honorable family so I can say that, it’s not just sour grapes. My family still has a family estate in Rhode Island from when my great grandfather eight times removed was Royal governor of Rhode Island and was reelected to that position even after the American Revolution, and our family still has an ancestral castle, Ferniehirst Castle in the Scottish lowlands. There is great responsibility that comes with great power, and as such, great wealth. I was raised with this notion of service my whole life and anybody who comes from , or studies such backgrounds will know what I mean. Those who earned their money in a capitalist society certainly do not have the same code of ethics. I went to best of the best private schools my whole life, and learned far more than what I wanted to about how the other half lives (the so called better half) They are bastards. They got that way because they stepped on the backs of their workers, because they were selfish and arrogant. Those who have been given more have a duty to use that in the service of others, a message that is entirely lost on the ruling class of our country. All I have to say is remember the French Revolution? Well it can happen again, and it’s closer to that than you realize, so keep wallowing in your filthy money and power, see where it gets you. You show your true colors by even having such wealth in such horrible times. There are people dying in the streets. if you were worth the air that you breathe you would give away your money and your time, as I have, in an earnest effort to help those in need. Instead though you hide in your gated communities and buy politicians to pass laws that make you even richer, instead of fixing the social woes that face our society. Again that is exactly what happened in the french revolution, the nobility just hid in their houses and hid behind their power. People are losing respect for the government and this is why. The government is run buy corporations. Wealthy corporations that are still trying to make even more money. Those who have the money have the power, and if you don’t have money then well your a lazy second class citizen who doesn’t deserve a voice anyway. I’m sorry but some people actually have a concious. Your sugar and your mind control have not conquered everyone. The Arrowhead Weston line is another example of this. They built the powerline anyway that nobody wanted, tearing up the countryside to build Weston 4, another coal fired plant that going to further dirty our air all so American Transmission Company and Wisconsin Public Service can make their investors a tidy profit. They plan on building a Weston 5 and a Weston 6. When does this stop? These people are coming here because they destroyed where they were living and have nothing left so now they are going to come up here and consume until there is nothing left here. All I have to ask you rich bastards is at the the end of the day does that fat wad of cash keep you warm at night, does it keep you from going mad when you look at yourself in the mirror and realize what a monster you are? Or do you even feel anymore, did you sell that out as well when you sold out your integrity? Your comuppance will come and I will be dancing in the streets when it does. Wake up people before it is too late!!!
Wisdom in food choices
With the power we have gained we most learn to use it wisely. Oriental healing theory is approxiamately 5000 yrs old (from henceforth when I refer to oriental healing it is not just Chinese, but the three ancient oriental healing systems I have studied, Egyptian, Chinese and Aryveda). It is based on sound observation, intuition and experience. I cannot go into all of it, for I would end up writing a very long book, but there are some things that need to be mentioned in the context of the problems we face today. I honestly believe the natural world is a direct reflection of our conciousness, and if we heal ourselves we will heal the earth.
Food is key here. You are what you eat. There is a priciple in Aryveda, the Vedic system I have studied, called Sattva. It basically states that the conciousness of whatever you eat will meld with yours and so you will take on the properties of what you ate. You are literally what you eat. That being said, the various convoluted, unethical porecesses our food goes through needs to be paid attention to. Agriculture in this country needs some serious revising. I am a vegetarian, so I am anti meat, but most Americans are not and we’re not going to break the carnivores overnight of their addiction to flesh. What we can do however is work out the kinks in the system so that so much biomass is not wasted. As it stands right now, 80% of the grain grown in this country goes to feed livestock. As you go up the food chain you lose a factor of ten in energy, so that when you get to something like tuna, a secondary consumer, the energy it provides is 1000% less effiecient then if you ate some beans. On top of that, in the fields of Iowa, the equivalent energy to prep the field for either corn or wheat is equivalent to three to four tons of TNT per acre. A normal grassland prarie ecosystem produces more biomass naturally than our most advanced wheat field. The supposed problem is that it’s in the form of grasses that we cannot palate. But with 80% of our grain production going to feed feedlot animals wouldn’t it make more sense to go let them graze on the natural prares? They can eat it. There were more bison produced naturally on the great plains before farming then all of the beef cattle farmed in the same area today. Not only that but it gives them a much better quality of life. I don’t know about anybody else, but my biggest beef with meat-eating is the lack of respect and dignity given to these animals, the appalling inhumane conditions they spend their entire life in. Not only would it free up farmland to grow things like hemp (which paper among other things can be made out of) but it would reduce our dependency on oil, as most commercial fertilizers are petroleum based, not to mention save a sizable chunk of change considering the government subsidizes this whole nonsense. Another thing that could be done is avoid all refined sugars. The health benefits of eliminating that and any refined grain (breakfast cereals included) from a persons diet are amazing. Sugar should be classified as an addictive drug. It was an industry founded on the suffering and death of countless Africans, and that darkness rules it still. In our current age of anxiety and stress, these refined foods further accelerate and destabilize our bodies’ metabolism. Magnesium, a mineral found in brown rice and stoneground wheat (make sure the ingredient label says stoneground because otherwise it’s been refined) directly acts to break up what scientists have dubbed the anxiety peptide the forms in the brain. The magnesium found in whole grains cures restless legs, muscle cramps and spasms and has a general stabilizing effect on the body and mind. The amount of energy to manufacture refined products, that are only slowly killing you anyway is absurd. Two thirds of grain corn is used for further processing. 45% of this goes into making sugar, The rest goes into making ultra-refined products such as ethanol (ethanol is not a fuel holy-grail). This would also significantly cut down on the algae blooms choking our waterways and causing the dead zone in the gulf of mexico. It would also cut global warming by eliminating the gases released from fertilizers and leave more trees to clean the air. Anyone who wants further information on this subject should visit http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915
On a related note, I stumbled across a myth on Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of mothers and of children. When not depicted as a nursing human mother, she was depicted as a cow. The story goes that Ra, her father found out humanity was plotting against him, he sent his burning eye (mind you Ra was a sun god) and it took the form of Hathor, who as her “alter-ego” if you will, Sekhmet(the lioness headed goddess), started destroying all of humanity. Now maybe this is a stretch, but I believe all ancients stories speak of some truth, however long forgotten it may be. We are starting to see the effects of Global warming (burning eye of the sun) and it can be directly linked with in addition to fertilizers, such things as manure from mega cattle and dairy farms(Hathor). This chokes our waterways, interfereing with the natural respiration cycles and water cycles of our world, preventing rain from naturally washing CO2 out of the atmosphere. Interesting coincidence, or long forgotten truth? I know what I think. Nurturing and nursing is not easy, I feel so sorry for the cows that are impregnated by artificial means (if your going to have a baby, you should at least have fun creating it). Their children are taken away from them to be chained up in a small isolated plastic hut, then their slaughtered to be tender meat for somebodies descerning palette. Dairy cows are hooked up to machines that are degrading (if you’ve every used an electric breastpump in public, you know what I mean) and that can literally blowup and injure a teat. And then when these cows are spent, they are discarded like trash and sent to the slaughter house. For creature that gives us so much, we treat Hathor’s sacred cows horribly.
Fundamental flaws of the Western approach to healing
In ancient britian and other areas, the role of priestess included not only being an intermediary with the gods, but a healer as well. They were trained in magic, herblore, music etc. This is great wisdom in this approach because humans are not just flesh and bone. They are emotional complex beings of several different types of energy, western medicine completely fails to see this so as a result they completely fail to heal.
Everything is interrelated. A drive through a major city theses days begins to roughly look like a drive through a transistor board, and as more and more people get sick (and believe me they know people are getting sick and they know why, it is just not profitable to cure them) the hospital more often then not dominates the landscape. Western Medicine runs on the assumption that the body is to some extent fundamentally flawed and that you cannot totally rely on the natural healing and immunity systems of the body to fix it. This is as far as I am concerned a direct off shoot of the Patriarchal thought of subjugate the unconscious, because just as the unconscious is rooted in the sacral/kidneys, so is the lymph and immune systems of the body. As a result I think there are in reality very few true success stories arising from such a healing framework. I was stunned and overjoyed to see as I walked downtown today that there is a federal initiative to see how many people really do die in hospitals. Their solution is to use a whole crap load of fancy equipment (again because their own intuition, from the unconscious, might be flawed) that uses a whole crap load of electricity and magnetism and in the end they either cut you open or send you home with a bunch of pills that are so unstable and powerful, half the time they only succeed in making you sick in a different way than the one you first went in for. Immunizations are one of the most insidious things I have ever seen. You have only so much life essence to fuel your immune system unless you practice the regeneration I mentioned previously. Pumping it full of dead viruses that cause an immune response (building anti-bodies) is capriciously spending a most precious reserve. If you bath regularly in pure water, drink pure water and eat healthy, whole foods, you will not get sick. My son and I are living proof of it.
As far as I am concerned, corporate heathcare is in it for the money, in direct violation of the Hippocratic oath that all physicians make. They are greedy, egotistical oathbreakers and as a result I feel that they deserve no less than being destroyed, not necessarily destroying them as people, but that their healing “art” should be destroyed. In addition, modern Psychiatry is hell on earth. First off, Freud was a coke-addict that cheated on his wife. Secondly whereas I think he did have some great insights I think he fell into the common trap of western thought that things should be simple, they should be black or white. Heaven or Hell, right or wrong, a direct off shot of Christian Dualist thought. To take any drug, whether it be street or pharmacuetial, operates on the fundamental premise that a person is not good enough they way they are. I’m sorry but we are created the way we are for a reason, and letting a person’s conciousness be taken over by a drug is beyond horrible. It strikes me as being the same category as possession. I have taken psychology in college, and I could barely get through the course, not because it was over my head, but because of the inhumane, numb and removed approach it took. It was horrible to open up my book to see picture of animals that had been experimented on with switches mounted on their skulls and electrodes in their brains. As a supporter of animal liberation and a person who has done animal rescues this was beyond disturbing to see. Mahatma Ghandhi once said “the greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged in the way in which it’s animals are treated”. This cruelty, this inhuman atriocity that that is animal research is what all of western medicine is based off of. Again, if looked at through the perspective that what is present at the beginning of something is what will rule it throughout it’s entire existence, it is no surprise to me that they have become what they are.
Taking back the wand of double power, oh yeah
Chrisitian thought teaches that the unconscious, the realm of dreams and of the dark goddesses, is evil. There is a whole gambit of woes and ills that arise from this condemnation of our “lower” self. In my studies the subconscious arises from the sacral chakra or the kidneys and it is associated with element of water. It is the root of fear, of sexuality, of security, of intuition, of prophecy and psychic power and of one’s sense of others. It is very the basis of our being. It is also the font of immortality, the Tree of Life of Genesis, cleverly hid inside of us, where few dare to look. This condemnation of natural law and function was the reason Christianity was reviled in the first three centuries of it’s existence. It was not until Constantine in the 300’s adopted it as the official religion of the Roman empire did it become popular, and Constantine did it as a way of uniting people (just as with the mythical King Arthur), and thus controlling them better. Don’t get me wrong, I think Jesus was a prophet. However, I also think he was an adept and one of the most powerful ones the world has ever seen. I have heard theories that he was familiar with Egyptian magic and that quite possibly Mary Magdalene might have been his wife, and that she was a Priestess of Isis. I think everyone is familiar with the symbol for the American Medical Association, the two serpents curling around a staff. That symbol’s name is the Caduceus Wand, and it is the wand of Thoth or Tehuti, the ibis headed Egyptian god of wisdom, magic and of utterance. He is the scribe, patron god of Egyptian physicians and keeper of secret knowledge. The symbology of the wand is directly related to the cult of Isis. The one serpent is the solar serpent, the essence of light, the other is the lunar serpent, the essence of void. In the sexual magic of Isis, and in Tantra (although they only have one serpent, the Kundalini) if one knows how to do the visualizations, at the moment of orgasm you can charge up the bodies of the two participants with these serpents and resultant subtle magnetics, regenerating the couple past their original form until they shine like the stars and are the gods themselves. All they have to do is think of something and it will manifest. Sounds vaguely similar to the miracles performed by Jesus if I might be so bold. It is a means to immortality and it according to legend is how Isis brought her consort Osiris back to life. I find it horribly ironic that the AMA, who in my opinions only seems to make people more sick, adopted this most holy symbol as theirs. If I ever have my own practice, I will have a gigantic picture of Tehuti with his wand of double power (the Caduceus Wand) on the front door where everybody who drives by will see it. It is also no coincidence that Tehuti is sometimes pictured as a baboon with an enormous phallus, and that phallic worship was common in Ancient Egypt. The wand of double power can be a euphamism for a man’s penis, and it speaks directly to the regenerative power of love-making. I have to say it, regardless of how it may make me sound, if more people busied themselves with love and pleasure, the world would be healed. It is the reset button on a person. No matter how crappy a day you may be having, the bliss found in the arms of your lover can fix anything. It is a harmless release of emotion and negativity
The roots of the subjugation of the feminine
If we’d just learn to share and not be afraid of each other this would all stop. Looking within results in the inevitable conclusion that we are all one and so we all want pretty much the same things. There is nothing to fear in your fellow man, if you would only look. So many people live in the terminal state of loneliness and few ever figure out why. So many people look to material wealth as a way of filling the hole, and the more they consume the less they truly live, dooming themselves to a downward spiral of greed and paranoia, because with all this material wealth comes the fear of it being taken away. It is a story as old as society itself. Why humans moved to agriculture instead of hunting and gathering had nothing to do with it being more efficient, or more healthy, it had to do with wealth, storing up reserves. I have to point out that we moved in this direction after the last ice age, which I’m sure must have scared the pants off our ancestors. Just as it is today, unresolved fear turns into anger and anger turns into greed and egotism hence the start of the selfish practice of agriculture. I believe it was a direct reaction to the ice age and the introduction of fear into our world. And when man started trying to control his mother the earth, he also started trying to control the mother of his children. Humanity originally started out as egalitarian. Fear and egotism was the birth of patriarchal society. Trying to control those two factors in his life resulted in the inevitable domino effect of attempting to control his wealth and resultant paranoia that his neighbor was going to steal it, the start of fear of one’s fellow man. Sadly humanity has not been able to step back and effectively see this and so it continues to make the same mistake.
Women need to take it upon themselve to educate themselves, acknowledge what power they do have and learn the unify with other women. We can return to an egalitarian society if we as women band together and do not give men what they want until our demands have been met. If every woman in the countyr banded together what would the abusive assholes that seem to be springing up by the thousands do? Kill us all? No, they would be forced to behave themselves. Women have phenominal power, they need to learn to use it though and they need to learn to stick together in communities. In the long run everyone will benefit.
The social problems we face today are a result of the subjugation of the feminine
There is a plethora of social woes facing us right now. I have theory about this. The Earth is our mother. The feminine in our society, just as with the Earth, suffers from a total lack of respect. We humans are the most spoiled brats out there for what we do to our Mother. Single mothers have to have one of the worst lots in life possible. I should know, I’m one of them. On a typical eight dollar an hour job, it is impossible to live unless you’re on state benefits. I’ve spent the last two and a half years finding this out the hard way. If you do go on state benefits, the government uses it as an excuse to go after the father, saddling him with child support payments that are diffucult to keep up with and looming threat of jailtime if they do fall behind. Forced responsibility never works, especially when the father is as poor as the mother, it only breeds resentment. More and more I see the young strong males in our society in jail, not because they are innately bad, but because they are falling through cracks in our justice system. A man in our society has a right to be angry. We should have been left a greater legacy than what we actually have. They are doing what only comes natural (making love) and paying with their lives in essence for it. There are some exceptions, but I think most men genuinely care for their babies and want to help them grow. There’s a saying, the more laws the more corrupt the government. Unless you have a college education it is impossible to live. In order to survive on nothing, I grow my own food and I walk everywhere, I have to have a roommate because I cannot afford the rent on my own.On top of that, our society has a messed up attitude towards children. They are treated as if they are better than adults. The social services system in our country is a complete failure. Somewhere in the 9 months your baby is gestating your supposed to totally get your head straight and be this perfect mother. But what if the mother herself was abused? Is that not valid and does that not need to be addressed? But families are being torn apart because of the fact people in our society can not stop judging each other long enough to see that we are all human and no one is flawless. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We need to address the reason why people are beating their kids as opposed to relying on quick fixes that aren’t really fixes at all. Cursed is the tree that bears fruit, especially when it bears alone. This judgemental mindset shows a total lack of responsibility and imagination on the part of American adults. We are raising a crop of spoiled ill-prepared children as well because you’re a monster if you would dare lay a hand on your bundle of perfection. I love my little boy, but he can be an unholy terror when he wants to be. Babies, just like adults, are a combination of both forces of creation and destruction, good and evil if you must label them as such. They need to know boundaries, and they need to know them right away from the start, otherwise it results in confusion and personality problems later on. It is better to express displeasure and anger immediately than let them build until people are so rageful at their children that they do cross the line.I swear some people look at kids like they are supposed to save us, that adult life is flawed and only this new life has the power to change anything. It fits in totally with the throwaway attitude shown buy most people in this country that instead of working with what is already created, we simply throw away anything that requires any creative effort to fix and just make more cheap plastic crap, its true for household items, buildings, cars whatever, it is a very clear trend towards the whole yang constantly creating, always new mindset. We have surrendered our own personal power and asked our babies to save us. Does anybody else see a few problems with this? We are the gods, and we have the power to change anything, we must only imagine it and believe in it strongly enough. People need to start seeing this divinty within themselves, before it is too late. With the abdication of power comes the total lack of responsibility in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. People are afraid because of this, and we are afraid because we do not look within and most people have absolutely no clue as to what really makes them tick. The subconscious, the essence of a person is something to be subjugated and ignored in patriarchal/Christian thought, and because of this people do not know themselves, do not know what they are capable of and hence fear.The unconcious is the underworld that the Dark Goddesses of ancient mythology ruled over, the reflective yin side of our society that is practically nonexistent these days. Women can be described in terms of the moon. Just as the moon rules our menstral cycles we are kind of manifestations of it. There are the three “living” phases of women, maiden, mother and crone, corresponding with the visible 3 phases of the moon. But then there is the fourth hidden face of women, the death crone. This is something that scares the hell out of patriarchal conciousness, because this is cold, unfeeling merciless death. There is a darkness within all women that freaks most men out, and that women are taught to ignore or hide, but it is there for a reason. Death is a passage to new life and just as a pregnant woman must consume to nurture the new life within her, so does the cosmic Great Mother consume to feed her children. It must happen. If you want you should read up on the Sumerian Goddeses Innana/ Isthar and Ereshkigal, or the Greek Goddesses Demeter and Persephone, or the Egyptian Osiris and Isis/Nephthys, or Lilith the first wife of Adam and the “Hand of Innana”, or Hekate, or the Japanese Izanami, I could go on, the point is there are startling similarties in the myths and a very relevant truth for our time to be found. There is an underlying connection in women’s mythos and mysteries. The man who can look this darkness of women full in the face without fear and come to terms with it, is the man who is king of the universe.
Water
What Wikipedia says about water(abridged):
Water cycle
The biosphere can be roughly divided into oceans, land, and atmosphere.
Water moves perpetually through each of these regions in the water cycle consisting of following transfer processes:
-evaporation from oceans and other water bodies into the air and transpiration from land plants and animals into air.
-precipitation, from water vapor condensing from the air and falling to earth or ocean.
-runoff from the land usually reaching the sea
Most water vapor over the oceans returns to the oceans, but winds carry water vapor over land at the same rate as runoff into the sea, about 36 Tt per year. Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute another 71 Tt per year. Precipitation, at a rate of 107 Tt per year over land, has several forms: most commonly rain, snow, and hail, with some contribution from fog and dew. Condensed water in the air may also refract sunlight to produce rainbows.
Water runoff often collects over watersheds flowing into rivers. Some of this is diverted to irrigation for agriculture. Rivers and seas offer opportunity for travel and commerce. Through erosion, runoff shapes the environment creating river valleys and deltas which provide rich soil and level ground for the establishment of population centers.
Water is considered a purifier in most religions. Major faiths that incorporate ritual washing (ablution) include Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Shinto. Water baptism is a central sacrament of Christianity; it is also a part of the practice of other religions, including Judaism (mikvah) and Sikhism (Amrit Sanskar). In addition, a ritual bath in pure water is performed for the dead in many religions including Judaism and Islam. In Islam, the five daily prayers can be done in most cases after completing washing certain parts of the body using clean water (wudu). In Shinto, water is used in almost all rituals to cleanse a person or an area (e.g., in the ritual of misogi). Water is mentioned in the Bible 442 times in the New International Version and 363 times in the King James Version: 2 Peter 3:5(b) states, “The earth was formed out of water and by water” (NIV).
Some faiths use water especially prepared for religious purposes (holy water in some Christian denominations, Amrit in Sikhism and Hinduism). Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism. In Neo-Paganism water is often combined with salt in the first steps of a ritual, to act as a purifier of worshippers and the altar, symbolising both cleansing tears and the ocean.
Water is often believed to have spiritual powers. In Celtic mythology, Sulis is the local goddess of thermal springs; in Hinduism, the Ganges is also personified as a goddess, while Saraswati have been referred to as goddess in the Vedas. Also water is one of the “panch-tatva”s (basic 5 elements, others including fire, earth, space, air). Alternatively, gods can be patrons of particular springs, rivers, or lakes: for example in Greek and Roman mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three thousand Oceanids. In Islam, not only does water give life, but every life is itself made of water: “We made from water every living thing”.
The Greek philosopher Empedocles held that water is one of the four classical elements along with fire, earth and air, and was regarded as the ylem, or basic substance of the universe. Water was considered cold and moist. In the theory of the four bodily humors, water was associated with phlegm. Water was also one of the five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy, along with earth, fire, wood and metal.
What I say about water:
Water in most magical/metaphysical frameworks in feminine. Water is what we are predominantly made of, what this planet is predominantly covered in, and what naturally washes CO2 out of the atmosphere, into the seas and lakes and rivers where it eventually bonds with the sediment and other carbon. Water is also the element of emotion, security, sexuality, and just as the moon rules water and affects the tides on the planet and in people, the condition of our water is manifest in traits of the human psyche. We, just like the planet, are 70% water. Too often this is overlooked. Water is a living ecosystem as well, teeming with organisms of all sizes. Two things we do our water that need to stop are clorination and flouridation. Chlorine breaks up vitamin E, which a lack of can lead to cancer, cataracts, macular degeneration, alzheimers and parkinson’s disease. Flouride inhibits the bodies natural ability to heal tooth decay (you heard that right, cavities can heal themselves if you consume enough silica) and it has never been shown to prevent anything, flourine is the stuff that has been shown to halt tooth decay, but what we put into city water is flouride. On top of that flouride is banned in most European countries and is classified as a tranquilizer in oriental medicine. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it for awhile. They’re putting tranquilizers in our water. So often people want to sterilize everything but what they don’t realize is that the chemicals used to do so are equally as harmful to us as whatever organism they were intended to kill. Toxins and chemicals build up in our bodies and can be linked to all sorts of stuff. On the topic of peoples obsession with sterilization I should bring up another point. Little bacteria mutate, and they want to survive no matter how inhospitable an environment they are presented with. You can never kill 100% of anything(that’s why that bottle of lysol says 99.99%) and so that remaining percent adapts and learns to thrive on your newly sanitized countertop. But these little guys are something entirely new because they had to mutate to survive. Now couple this with the fact that there is beneficial bacteria and there is harmful bacteria. You need things like acidophillus to live, otherwise you cannot digest things. Also 70% of your immune system is in your intestines. Whether you like it or not we are infested with bacteria, I think that just as we are a combination of atoms, our life comes from the combination of all these little organisms (mitochondria were bacteria that were assimilated into cells). What is outside gets inside your body by one means or another and by sanitizing your home you created a world of mutant bacteria that can thrive off of the toxic chemicals you saturated it with. Do you see where I’m going with this? Those mutant bacteria get inside you and reek havoc on your immune system, especially if antibiotics are added into the mix. True health comes when you can recognize that you cannot just kill off bacteria, we need them to live. What you have to do is learn to create and environment where the healthy ones survive and shut out the harmful ones for you. Eating a diet of whole pure foods is the best way to do this. Water is the same deal. We need to cultivate a healthy living water supply as opposed to trying to kill everything off and in the process slowly killing ourselves. In our culture of excessive meat eating which leads to overheated bodies, temperments etc, algae (chorella, spirulina and wild blue-green) counteract by being extremely cooling. If our water ecosystems were pure and we were able to drink out of the streams and such like our ancestors, we would naturally consume low levels of algae constantly, reaping their health benefits. Also these algaes encourage that healthful intestinal flora I was talking about in addition to being having the highest concentrations of B vitamins and protiens of any natural food and generous amounts of iron and fatty acids that are essential to healthy nervous system function. The chlorophyll molecule is identical to the hemoglobin molecule except for the fact it has magnesium instead of iron as the central atom. So it is the natural treatment of choice for anemia. That’s in addition to the trace minerals found in natural spring water.
Hopefully I’ve proven my point that a lot more attention needs to be paid to our water. We need to start removing dams so our rivers can purify themselves and work on cultivating healthy LIVING water ecosystems. Water is so completely fundamental, it would fix most of the problems we are having on this planet right now. As I have said water is the element of the unconcious and just as our collective unconcious is riddled with problems, our natural world is a reflection of that. People think we are separate but we are all one. Just as the Gaia theory states, the Earth and all of her children are one gigantic, dynamic, self regulating organism. If we heal ourselves we will heal the earth and vice versa.
Mining
On the subject of the military, the Navy and water, the water of the Chequamegon faces another threat, a very old threat that unfortunately has left a lot of damage already, mining. Two companies, Kennecott Minerals and Nicolet Minerals, part of the multi-national corporate conglomerate, the Rio Tinto Group, have been doing some mining in the Northwoods, near the Flambeau Indian Reservation, and in Crandon (which by the way is the whole reason the Arrowhead-Weston line was first conceived, to feed the Crandon Mine).. They put a moratorium on the mine in Crandon, which was originally proposed by Exxon who in turn sold their rights to Nicolet Minerals. The Flambeau mine has been closed now for 8 years and there is water contaimination already. There during the run of this mine was talk of exploratory drilling for uranium and possible storage of nuclear waste. Kennecott Minerals is currently trying to push through a certificate of completion on the restoration and reclaimation of this mine, a certificate of completetion that they will probably use to make themselves look better to their next unsuspecting victim.
Personally I have several major problems with mining. For one it’s dirty, not only physically but what is does to the general feel of any place. I used to live in a town in Pennsylvania called West Pittston right on the Susquehanna River. It was a mining town (actually the whole Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area was old coal mines) and I swear the sun never shined. It had this bleak oppressive suffocating feel all the time. Hurley has the exact same feel. Second of all mining leaves gigantic holes in the ground. Take Rib Mountain in Wausau for example. On the west side of the mountain there was a quarry run by 3M. From the highway or the town it looks like some giant took a bite out of the mountain. The management company that bought the ski hill renamed it Granite Peak, which as far as I am concerned was pretty much a gigantic billboard saying “hey this mountain is made of granite, wanna come scoop some out?” not to mention the arrogance of changing a name that has been in place since the founding of the town. Mountains are places of power, they are holy. They are places where us landlubbers can come a little closer to heaven. Anyone who has been trapped in a storm on a mountain knows what I mean. I do magickal work on Rib Mountain and the force I project is multipied by a 100. We should not be taking away our mountains piece by piece. As to under ground mining, it is dangerous, people die regularly, there is water contaimination as I mentioned before and it destabilizes the ground, causing sink holes, earthquakes and Tsunamis (again caused by undersea earthquakes). I am reminded of the Balroch from Lord of the Rings, and the comment about there are older and fouler things (than orcs) in the deep places of the world. Whereas I am pretty sure some gigantic fire/shadow demon is not going to crawl out of some abandoned mine and wreak havoc on humanity, demons are euphamisms for destructive forces. What are we releasing into the world with things like uranium and oil? Things that nature intended stay in the ground? Think about just the effects of those two things, the greed, the bloodshed, the pollution that each of those two thing have caused (don’t forget about plastics, they are oil based) and see if you can’t see my point about demons. The Balroch is the least of our concerns.
