Stanley Monteith, The Brotherhood of Darkness

I love this lecture, and Stan Monteith's work. Unlike Monteith, I'm not an exoteric Christian, meaning I don't believe in the corrupt post-Nicene creed, but I still find great value and take great interest in his research. Here he speaks of and summarizes the work of Caroll Quigley (The Anglo-American Establishment; Tragedy and Hope; Evolution of Civilizations) who wrote the greatest works of history in the 20th century.

The Endocrine Glands

The seven glands -- ductless and otherwise -- with which occultism is primarily concerned, are the pineal gland, the pituitary body, the thymus, the liver, the spleen, and the suprarenal capsules, or adrenals. These little understood bodies, at least some of which were given consideration in ancient times but were more or less ignored during the Dark Ages, have now come to be recognized as the "dictators of destiny". Enthusiastic endocrinologists are now of the opinion that not only the harmony of the "bodily league" but also the higher aspects of man's functioning -- his morals, emotions, and thoughts, his personality, individuality, and temperament -- are to a great degree a matter of endocrines. Not Dr. Johnson's drop of green bile but the glands are what put empires at hazard. Napoleon's own pituitary -- and not the Duke of Wellington -- brought down the eagle of the First Empire. Apropos of this, ponder the words of Samuel Wyllis Bandler: "If the world, in the future, administers to its diplomats, to its highest officials, to its legislators, to its people the proper endocrines, especially anterior pituitary, and inhibit the adrenal cortex a little bit, there may be no more wars." (See "The Endocrines")

Manly P Hall, Man, Grand Symbol of the Mysteries

Ron Paul on MSNBC

Supertramp, Rudy

I love this song. I believe it is about the fact of reincarnation. "Rudy is on a train to nowhere [death], halfway down the line [halfway through life]. He don't want to get there, but he needs time." And at the end of the song "Rudy just got out the movie [life], numb of all the pain. Sad, but in a while he'll soon be, back on his train [another life]."

Time to Buy Gold?

Adam Hewison on the Gold Chart

Link to article on dangers of chlorine in drinking water.

Get Your Vaccine

Do you want any of the following vaccine constituents in YOUR bloodstream?

* Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)

* Phenol, also known as carbolic acid (this is used as a disinfectant, dye)

* Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent

* Aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease and seizures and also cancer producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote antibody response)

* Thimerosal (a mercury disinfectant/preservative) can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease

* Neomycin and Streptomycin (used as antibiotics) have caused allergic reaction in some people

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Helena Blavatsky

If one cannot, owing to circumstances or his position in life, become a full adept in this existence let him prepare his mental luggage for the next, so as to be ready at the first call when he is once more reborn.

H.P.B.

Honda Chairman Takeo Fukui

"Even the best internal-combustion engines still waste more than 80% of the energy created by burning gasoline."

Reported in Wall Street Journal, July 25th, 200

Coal Combustion

Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article.

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Jim Elliot

"That man is no fool who gives that which he can never keep to gain that which he can never lose."

Jim Elliot

Logic vs. Reason

Logic should never, ever be confused with reason. This is a grave mistake that academism (i.e., all forms of exoteric knowledge), especially philosophy, makes.

Logic's sole concern is with the development of premises (i.e. what conclusion can I derive from a given set of premises) with no concern whatsoever with the quality of those premises. It may be perfectly logical to kill somebody with several swings of a baseball bat, if you start with the following two premises:

Premise 1: Everyone who ignores me should be killed.
Premise 2: This person in front of me is ignoring me.
Conclusion: Therefore this person should be killed.

That is a perfectly logical argument (it is an Aristotelian syllogism) -- no logician would disagree -- but is it reasonable? One of my favorite definitons of the entire field of philosophy comes from Manly P. Hall -- "Philosophy is the science of estimating values." He may as well have said "Philosophy is the science of estimating premises." That is, philosophy must not accept arbitrary premises! But rather work to discover reasonable premises, i.e., premises that are valuable, premises that have stood the test of time, and contribute the most to humankind. After discovering such premises, the philosopher may then use logic to find what conclusions may be derived from them. Do you see, then, how logic is simply a tool of, and therefore secondary to, reason? Modern philosophy is completely logical but totally unreasonable (as are most knowledge areas) whereas it should be completely reasonable and only use logic to develop its reasonable premises.

Take another example,

Premise 1: All elephants are pink.
Premise 2: My father is an elephant.
Conclusion: Therefore, my father is pink.

That is a perfectly logical development of premises. But no philosopher, not even the moderns, would declare that the argument is reasonable in any way. Academic philosophy, mathematics, and most areas of knowledge, are completely obsessed with logic but none of these disciplines are concerned with being reasonable. That is the reason that philosophy has become the obscure discipline it has, the reason it is ignored by the world at large, is because modern philosophy has, in fact, forsaken its most sacred duty, that is, not to estimate the qualities of argument (logic) but to estimate the quality of premises!

Policy on Mercury Contamination

“Public health policy that asks expectant mothers to give up certain foods while allowing industries to continue contaminating them is absurd.”

Sandra Steingraber – “Having Faith: An Ecologists Journey to Motherhood”

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes

The Root Cause of CFS/FMS Is Typically "Bad" Molecules

CFS/FMS is typically caused by "bad" molecules that bind to good molecules inside the body and subsequently inhibit their function. Sounds simple? It is very simple conceptually. However, there are many bad and many good molecules, and tracking them is hard work. This is not for the faint of heart. We define "bad molecule" rather loosely as a molecule that can take an internal biochemical system down. The good molecules typically involve:

* enzymes (chemical that converts one chemical to another chemical)
* neurotransmitters (sends a message from one nerve to another)
* neurotransmitter receptors (the area of a nerve that receives message)
* hormones (chemical used to control a processes within the body)
* cofactors (ingredient used to make a chemical)
* cells in the immune system (when these go down; bacteria, virus, and fungi go up)
* cells and parts of cells such as the cell membrane and mitochondria

The bad molecules are typically:

* heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, silver, tin and barium
* natural and synthetic chemicals and poisons (e.g. carbon monoxide, drugs)
* pesticides (e.g. DDT)
* natural toxins such as H2S (i.e. hydrogen sulfide, that results when fungi and bad bacteria in gut ferment sugar).
* toxins resulting from natural waste products produced by the body that are not filtered out properly (e.g. free radicals that cause "oxidation" of "good" molecules).

Damage to enzymes due to bad molecules is a MAJOR issue since enzymes are used to regulate and synthesize MANY processes in the body. If a tiny bad molecule binds to a big enzyme molecule, it can take it down. Enzymes have a defense system to guard against this from occurring (e.g. thiols), yet if those defenses go down for a short period of time, the enzyme can go down, and sometimes permanently. Enzymatic damage is a BIG issue with CFS/FMS.

Problems caused by genes (i.e. a pathology that runs in a family) are similar. Each gene produces a protein (all genes do this). And a bad gene (one that messes you up) typically binds to something good and alters its function, in a manner similar to that which is done by a bad molecule such as a heavy metal or a pesticide.

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Butyrate (i.e. Butter, Greek βούτυρος) is Important

Butyrate Is The Most Important Colon Nutrient

Butyrate is one of the main nutrients used by cells that line the colon (last meter of your gastrointestinal track). If one is low here, they can easily supplement Butyrate, which is available from most health food stores [why not just eat butter?]. Butyrate synthesis can be inhibited by H2S and Sulfites.

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Mercury Encourages Leaky Gut

Mercury can also inactivate enzymes in the liver, inhibiting it's ability to filter the blood. When this occurs, more waste products build within the body (the liver's job is to filter the natural waste products secreted by the body's cells), and the immune system becomes more sensitive, causing it to attack things which are not harmful (i.e. allergies). And when allergies develop to foods, the gut can be attacked by the immune system, and the person can develop Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). And then the small intestine wall inflames and becomes permeable to the large bacteria and fungi molecules in the gut, which leak into the blood, challenging the immune system further, making one more allergic, and inducing Fibromyalgia pain after they affix to joints and soft tissues.

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I think this little paragraph sums up many of my health problems over the past 20 years of my life.

On Understanding

Those that are not capable of understanding life's deepest mysteries (including the primordial why questions that science has outlawed) are, through nature's infinite grace, not plagued with any particularly intense pain when they inevitably misunderstand them. Ignorance is bliss, they say. But, those with the capacity to understand them are plagued with misery and pain until that capacity has been fulfilled -- and, at the end of all their battles, and through the aforementioned grace, these select few find that all the pain and suffering was, in the end, worth it.

Supertramp, C'est Le Bon

C'est Le Bon

I never knew what a man was supposed to be
I never wanted the responsibility
I still remember what they tried to make of me
They used to wonder why they couldn’t get through to me,
’cause all that I had was this music
A-coming to me
And all that I had was this rhythm
A-running through me.

I took a tip from the man in the ministry
He said, my son, better work in the factory
Well there were days I can tell you quite honestly
I saw myself winding up in the military
So lucky to have all this music
A-coming to me
I’m lucky to have all this rhythm
A-running through me
I’m watching the movie go down
Around, about me
I’m watching the marry-go-round
Go down about me.

I said, lovers, you’re needed in the garden
’cause there’s a lot of crazy people
Who’ve forgotten where their heart is
And they don’t give a damn
About hurting those flowers and those trees.
C’est le bon, sailing on and on...

Sometimes I wonder where my life is taking me
Sometimes I wonder what they all expect of me
Well there were days I can tell you quite honestly
I saw myself winding up in the monastery

’cause all that I have is this music
A-coming to me
And all that I have is this rhythm
A-running through me
I’m watching the movie go down
Around, about me
I’m watching the marry-go-round
Go down about me.

I said, lovers, you’re needed in the garden
’cause there’s a lot of crazy people
Who’ve forgotten where their heart is
And they don’t give a damn
About hurting that small child in me.
C’est le bon, sailing on and on...

Listen to the song, click here.

Rational Thinking

I'm listening to lots of lectures now, and for the past three months, i also borrow lots of books (buy then return) -- mainly books on philosophy, but not the academic stuff. i think i've graduated from academic philosophy, which is nothing to do with the real stuff.

The process i'm going through, i would hardly call personal, but it is, at the same time, very individual. That is perhaps a mystical distinction, but one that i don't make any apologies for. The universe is itself a mystery, a riddle.


Nevertheless, understanding is inherent in the universe, or at least, inherent in the universe is its capacity to create beings capable of understanding it. it is irrational to believe that a universe would create beings with the capacity to understand and yet not allow that capacity to fulfill itself. so, i believe in knowledge, and truth and I believe there are an infinite number of illusions, but only one truth (UNI-verse).

The illusions all result from man's emotions stealing from his mind. only the mind can approach to understanding, not the emotions. the emotions only cloud judgment and inevitably lead mind towards false conclusions based on the inevitable bias that emotion creates. this is the problem of the era of the modern "scientist" who relies on science for his survival -- it is impossible that such a situation would cause the scientist to be impartial about his own knowledge and discoveries. as a result modern science has reached an incorrigible state of corruption, in all of its fields of endeavor

(including "psychology" -- e.g., the word psyche means "spirit" in greek and yet there is no psychologist alive that believes he is studying spirit -- he is studying, simply, electronic circuits embedded in an organic matrix, and not because he inherently believes that, but only because such activity perfectly befits current materialistic values. spirit is a ridiculed notion among biased knowledge seekers, and, to the atheistic scientist, the universe created god rather than the other way around).

the predicament of the human race at this stage of evolution is that emotions are vastly more developed than thought. the emotional (irrational) human spends his undeveloped life STEALING from his mental faculty -- using mind to justify emotions and for hardly any other purpose -- the search for truth is ridiculed because mankind is unwilling to confront the fact that in his search for truth his emotions always get in the way and color his thoughts.

the only way out of human undevelopment is growth, which is evolution, which is long and painful. in the interim there is always the tiny minority who put the search for truth ahead of personal desire, even the desire for personal existence -- these are the martyrs and advancers of all human societies (e.g. the copernicus' and the galileos, and the socrates' and the christs and the mohammeds the pythagorus' etc., etc.). The quality of a truth seeker is that he does not worship blind faith nor does he fall into the trap of worshiping Doubt (the God of modern thought) -- both are extremes and therefore indications of dominance of the mind by the emotions. rather he walks the middle path, never doubting that truth exists but never relying on anything more than his own experience and intuition in the search for it. the truth seeker has the important faith that when he has sufficiently divested himself of his own ignorance, truth will make itself apparent to him. Mind can never be anything more than an organ of diminishing error, it can actually never possess truth, it is truth that reveals itself to mind as a reward for mind correcting its own mistakes.

In any case, eventually, through many thousands of years of evolution mankind will realize that the proper use of mind is not in the justification of the emotions -- but rather direction of mind towards the source of itself (know thyself). Knowledge is possible, because mind itself has a source and the source is knowable or mind would not have been created in the first place. But the source is difficult to know because it involves wresting mind from the domination of emotions.

The search for the source of mind involves reasoning as opposed to intellectualizing. Intellectuality is a celebration of the arbitrary -- it is not evil or even wasteful. It is to the mind what sports is to the body, the latter being a celebration of arbitrary physical activity. Intellectual activity can be just as mentally fulfilling as sports are physically, but the real work of the body is in it's own growth and survival, and the real work of the mind is knowing its own source.


I am only beginning to touch upon the rational or reasoning faculty, and part of my process is expanding my own capacity to think rationally. Human reason is not cold and calculating -- it is exactly the opposite -- it is warm and enlightening. To reason properly is to behold the fountain of truth -- Pythagorus said that Deity is a being whose body is composed of the substance of Light and whose soul is composed of the substance of truth -- he was truly a rational thinker.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Intro to his book, "Raja Yoga" -- (I didn't put it in all caps, just too lazy to change it).

EACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE.
THE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINE
WITHIN, BY CONTROLLING NATURE, EXTERNAL
AND INTERNAL.
DO THIS EITHER BY WORK, OR WORSHIP, OR
PSYCHIC CONTROL, OR PHILOSOPHY, BY ONE,
OR MORE, OR ALL OF THESE—AND BE FREE.
THIS IS THE WHOLE OF RELIGION.
DOCTRINES, OR DOGMAS, OR RITUALS, OR
BOOKS, OR TEMPLES, OR FORMS, ARE BUT
SECONDARY DETAILS.

Morphine, Head with Wings

A Head With Wings Lyrics

I got a head with wings (x3)
And I can see so far away I can see so clear
You would not believe the view up hear
I got a head with wings
A head with wings
Now I'm floating around up here way above the clouds
So high about the ground
And the only thing that holds my head to the ground
Is this one little skinny string
I got a head with wings
A head with wings
I got a head with yea oh
A head with wings
I got a head with wings (x3)
And I can see so far away yea so far away
I can see the shadows fall across your face
I got a head with wings
A head with wings
I got a head with yea yea
A head with wings (x2)
Yea (x2)

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Early this week, I discovered the alleged occult significance of the third ventricle of the brain plus the two lateral ventricles. This brain structure looks like a head (the third) with two wings (the laterals) coming out of it. I googled "head with wings" and got this song by Morphine -- I think they saw what I saw. I think the mythical figure of Pegasus also symbolizes the third ventricle plus the two lateral ventricles -- especially because Pegasus is depicted as being ridden by Poseidon, who is the watery power of mind (Jove/Jupiter) -- this is important because the ventricles are filled with "liquid mind", i.e., the cerebro-spinal fluid. Davinci, and others, have apparently claimed that the third ventricle especially is the place of the "community of the senses", i.e., where all sensory information comes together and is integrated to form "experience". Manly P. Hall claims that the thin membrane between the lateral and third ventricles, the tela choroidae, may be a type of "ear drum" of the brain via which experience on the objective or physical realm is communicated to the mind body of man, existing outside of his body (if you believe in such things -- c.f. Manly P. Hall's "Man, Symbol of the Mysteries"). Note the song lyric, "And the only thing that holds my head to the ground is this one little skinny string." The skinny string may be the spinal cord itself which is the extension of mind/brain into body, and the only thing that keeps us rooted to "the ground" -- i.e., the material plane of experience.

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