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The GUT
KellyPrettyBear
reply to post by lostgirl
Layoff the booze
layoff my friends. word.
In the meantime, most of y'all are making this an incredible thread. Thank you. I'm working on some replies now.
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RedCairo
I ran across these quotes, and I was thinking about the whole "control system" and bucking it. I thought this was an interesting insight into that.
"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is #-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
-- Terence McKenna
"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."
-- Terence McKenna
"Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe."
-- Terence McKenna
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Let’s outline the defining characteristics of a pendulum: A pendulum feeds on the energy of its adherents and thereby amplifies its swinging A pendulum tries to attract as many supporters as possible, so that it can receive as much energy as possible. A pendulum sets its group of adherents against all other groups (Look at us! We are better than they are). A pendulum is aggressive in blaming all those that don’t want to become its adherents, and it tries to win them over, neutralize them or remove them all together. A pendulum puts on good-looking and attractive masks, it covers itself up with noble aims and plays on people’s emotions, in order to justify its own actions and win over as many adherents as possible. One could say that a pendulum is an “egregor”1 by nature, but that is a rather narrow definition, of course.
The concept of an “egregor” does not reflect the entire spectrum of possible interactions between man and energy based information structures - pendulums. Pendulums play a much greater role in people’s lives than it is customary to believe. It is possible to illustrate how a pendulum consumes energy from its adherents by using the following example.
Imagine a full stadium, where a dramatic game of soccer is taking place, things are getting tense, fans are raging...Suddenly, one player makes an unforgivable mistake and because of that his team loses the game. A storm of anger descends from the fans upon the player - they’re ready to tear him apart. Can you imagine what a huge mass of negative energy lands on the head of this unfortunate player? You’d think that having suffered such a monstrous blow, he would die right there on the spot. But that doesn’t happen.
Instead, he’s alive and healthy, although somewhat crushed by feelings of guilt. Then where did all the negative energy go? Well, the pendulum harvested it. If it had not done so, the person at whom the crowd aimed its anger would have died, while the glorified star would have flied up to the sky. I won’t be the judge of whether the pendulum is an animated being or simply an energy form.
Whatever the case, it is of no importance to the Transurfing method. The important thing is to be able to recognize a pendulum and to avoid participating in its games, unless there is something you can gain from such an interaction. It is very easy to recognize a destructive pendulum, as it has one defining feature. It is always competing with other energy structures just like itself, fighting for control over people. A pendulum has only one goal – to capture as many adherents as possible, in order to get as much energy as possible. The more aggressive a pendulum acts in its fight for adherents, the more destructive it is, meaning that it poses a threat to the fate of an individual person.
Bybyots
Baddogma
Neither here nor there, but concentric circles have a decided relevance when stuck inside a subtle (and not so) system of control and trying to read the mind of the head Mengela/Skinner-esque puss bucket (or Mozart/ Mom Theresa if you like) who designed it.
The GUT
Alexander hangs out with indigenous Shaman.
Kantzveldt
...from the ancient Sumerian perspective that would be the Anzu bird, from the native American the Thunderbird, so in that sense the case has everything, nuts and bolt craft, perceptual distortion and shamanic/demonic possession type experience, mystical orbs, the works...i need to learn how to summon an Anzu bird
Sumerian Flying Wing
The GUT
reply to post by Rosinitiate
You've noticed those doubly-narrow beadies too, eh? His eyes are like a medium-sized thumb-width apart. And often all Dirty Harry squint. Unfortunate physical characteristic, or window into the soul?
edit on 4-2-2014 by The GUT because: (no reason given)
Willtell
reply to post by Rosinitiate
excuse this rant but it makes me a little sick to see this.
Baddogma
reply to post by Rosinitiate
Rose, due to the same compound (maybe, mine was favored by the 60's luminaries) my friend and I held a ten minute conversation before we realized neither of us was speaking out loud... weird as heck and others point out we were both under the influence, but it happened.
Apparently, it's fairly common. I'm glad I didn't enter his head, though, as I was much prettier.