Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

There are so many abandoned houses in the Village.
Rent free, but clean-up job is overdue.

[araucaria]

Ulli:

Everyone is at different levels in their stance to what is happening in this world.

Hello Ulli, good to talk with you again, it’s been a while. The middle word between fearporn and hopium is a subject that has been on my mind too. I have a few ideas, albeit nothing remotely viral in these unhealthy times. Digging deep leads towards total synonymy where ultimately anything and nothing will do – so let’s see how many half-suggestions I can pack into a single post

Let me being by stating the problem. Fear and hope are reptilian brain negative/positive personal emotions or tensions relating to negative/positive expectations regarding future outcomes. When these emotions or tensions run high they become contagious, which is what we mean by fear-porn and hopium.

This suggests that by relaxing these personal emotions or tensions, we can avoid the spread to the corresponding tensions of collective fear/hope and even produce a contagious laid-backness. So, one way would indeed be impartiality, which involves balancing the positive and the negative. It is a bit of give and take; unfortunately we have no slack on the positivity with which to reduce the negativity. All-out optimism is not the answer, except perhaps locally. In other words, hopium cannot overcome fear-porn; at best they are in deadlock. The impartial judge passes judgement: but how many mistakes does s/he make, I wonder?

Another way would be to do away with all expectations. You yourself, dear Ulli, came up with a useful concept which maybe did not go viral in the broadest sense, but certainly had an effect on this forum: you call(ed) it the… ‘here and now’.
When in the day do we really enter the here and now? At night when we go to sleep. Hypnagogia is the state where we switch off today’s worries and disconnect tomorrow’s. It strikes me as a valid term to describe the here and nowness. Alternatively, you may prefer something more removed from drowsiness; try the corresponding hypnopompic state in the morning, when the day ahead is still the future but not yet a matter of concern or delight. Hypnopompia could describe the impartial state that usually… disappears with the first splash of water or cup of coffee.

The Chinese have the phrase ‘wu wei’, which is a cornerstone of Taoism, and means ‘inaction without inertia’. Unfortunately the difference is wafer-thin between something desirable and efficacious and something that is neither of those things. I have two (French) translations, one by a Chinese describing the (in)action of a ‘Saint’, another by a westerner, describing how an effective politician best deals with social unrest through conservative non-intervention, in other words the kind of laissez-faire that has caused untold social unrest around the world. Leaving aside obscenities, ‘wu wei’ has to be one of the concepts with the most English approximate synonyms, one of the better ones being ‘effortlessness’.

What we perceive as effortlessness is often an unusual combination of superior talent and extremely hard work feeding off each other – the hardness being softened by superior motivation. So it is a ‘here and now’ developing over time: what we call skill, and the acquisition thereof. This is a concept that we do not normally apply to living itself, but to my mind such a living-skill/artistry/creativity is what is most sorely lacking at this time on this planet. It would seem to be the first thing that comes to the mind of a putative interstellar being discovering a new world: is there ‘intelligent life’ here? And the first answer that might come to mind could be, ‘Possibly: hang on a minute, it’s touch and go.’

Checking out a planet might start with climate. I have a thermometer which records maximum and minimum temperatures as well as noting the current temperature. When I see +40 and -20 simultaneously on the same dial, I know these are neither today’s nor tomorrow’s values but extremes from two winters and three summers ago. It is a kind of miniature ice core sample, with two kinds of fear porn, one at either end (burn or freeze). This would place hope (whether real or hopium) in a central, supposedly ideal position, a reactionary harking back to the good old days when climate was one long, cool, wet English summer/winter. So what is going on here?

Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine discusses evolution and its dead-ends, the supposition being that the universe has space and time enough to explore every possibility. He describes a (real) animal having its brain cells built around its alimentary canal. It can survive, just as long as it doesn’t evolve. But as soon as it starts growing a decent brain, it will starve itself to death and extinction. Meanwhile, humans have a tiny reptilian brain which kept us going for millions of years, and now faces being stifled by a state-of-the-art neocortex. What follows is my thinking, not necessarily Koestler’s.

The aforementioned animal could somehow decide that evolution is not a good idea and backtrack to its earlier successful state. The problem with this is that it presupposes intelligence that is simply not there at this stage. Evolution would appear to be in one direction only, in other words time-based. Hence anything truly reactionary (as opposed to usage of the word as a mere insult) would be a step in the wrong direction – i.e. towards a dead-end. It would seem we have been doing a lot of this in the past century or two.

The overall position is this: an evolutionary dead-end, like any dead end, is an open road, until it isn’t. You have to go down the road to find out, verify the blockage – or possibly overcome it, because equally an open road is a dead-end, until it isn’t. The introduction of the neocortex is a whole new ballgame: conscious evolution, or evolution of consciousness, means that we are the agents of our own evolution, possessing this wonderful power tool. And we have this sophisticated and highly effective animal basis on which to operate. The outcome is not a foregone conclusion, you have to give it your best try to have any hope of making it work. Correction, taking a sledgehammer to a nut IS a foregone conclusion, but the idea is still to miraculously extract the wholesome nut from the nutcase. So you start by accepting both these things, rather than using one as a tool to do away with the other, whether it be dumbing-down or smartening up.

People, active thinkers and passive feelers, are more attuned to one side or the other of the usual dualities. The fear can therefore be very real and its spread merely shows that the reptilian brain’s detection and communication systems are still functioning properly. Others are fully on board with the neocortex, and exploring its potential for growth, extending to AI and ultimately to all matter as intelligence hardware. This is perceived, indeed experienced, by the collective reptilian brain as such things as a population explosion, mass immigration, a cancerous growth, a killer virus or a diabolical worldwide conspiracy. This is an automatic alarm system to trigger an immediate response and, I have to say, you do this by crying out among all the everyday uncertainty, This is the Truth! Yet, to the extent that the collective neocortex has switched off this automatic alarm system, such reactions are dismissed as alarmist, extremist, fake news, or crazy conspiracy theories.

The bottom line is that truth-seeking is all well and good, but it remains a belligerent in this conflict between the little old brain and the big new brain. Clearly, if one follows the path of conflict, the little old brain has no chance, despite its vital role as conscience as opposed to consciousness. historically, or rather prehistorically, it always dictated the correct response to a given situation: that is being overridden; this is a very big deal, and my own reptilian brain hesitates to acquiesce (rather like that Russian general whose better judgment overruled the announced arrival of nuclear warheads).

Pacifism and serenity on the other hand would be a way to downplay the conflict and level the playing field. Politeness is the everyday way of dealing outwardly with one’s inner turmoil, or someone else’s, without getting into unpleasant arguments. One way of being polite is simply to accept that one rarely has enough information to make a truly informed opinion. I would define politeness as a neocortex reaction disguised as a reptilian brain reaction, in other words a case of infiltration, which is sometimes going to be detected as spyware; a pity, given that we are talking about the same human entity. Too many people speaking ‘their truth’ is a tremendous source of noise and misunderstanding – a little ‘diplomacy’ will provide a little lubrication in most situations.

As I see it, wu wei was devised at an earlier stage of our evolution as a method of calming a primitive state of these fears and other emotions, but now is both rejected as woo woo and perverted into laissez-faire conservatism unleashed, presumably because it is seen (not entirely incorrectly) as the neocortex overriding the reptilian brain function. Depending on your viewpoint, you might see this process as a collective NDE or a collective birthing. From a higher perspective, the idea of an awakening encapsulates both sides – except that there are not really two sides, it is much messier than that, with thinkers and feelers on both sides of any conflict. The ‘evil controllers’ who are driving the AI revolution – which CS Lewis presents interestingly as worship of a severed head – are the same people with reptilian responses on overdrive – financial greed, power grabbing and every kind of hedonism are all just fear on steroids, self-preservation gone mad, no control even of self, like headless chickens. Headless chickens being obvious candidates as worshippers of severed heads. So it is about keeping one’s head on one’s shoulders – you might call it personal integrity.

Confucius was right: no one is in control any more than anyone else: the ‘human race’ is not about getting ahead, not even morally or spiritually. Equanimity, forbearance, patience, we already know the human values that work; they are constructed through thought based on experience and refine reactions based purely on animal instincts. Of course there is no one word to describe what is going on. We are almost insignificant members of a huge team trying to pull together without quite knowing how or whether we can achieve a desired outcome, without quite knowing what. We may be poor players in a winning team or good players in a losing team; no matter. What matters, come what may, is team spirit, otherwise the game is not worth playing.

‘The way of the Master consists in doing one’s best and in using oneself as a measure to gauge others. That is all.’ Open-mindedness, commitment, altruism, harmony, you get my drift: no more paradoxes or misunderstandings. So this post and the term I’ve been looking for both turn out to be my… ‘best shot’.

A happy new year to all: I hadn’t noticed when writing this the reunion of old friends taking place. Perfect timing.

[ulli]

Hello araucaria and a Happy New Year to you.

The issue I face right now is this…. I feel myself being challenged.
Let my clarify:

I had asked for one word, ONE WORD!!

Is this your best (sniper) shot, or are you using an AK-47 hoping that one of the many bullets will hit bull’s eye?

But to be more diplomatic…I take responsibility for finding myself perplexed at your epistle.
With my 73rd birthday coming up any day now I’ve done some soul searching,
and find that my attention span has become rather short. So at first I was just skimming over the paragraphs of your post, but could not find the word I had been looking for.

But since it’s you, and showing up in our mossy village when I’m sitting here waiting for visitors and village dwellers I was pleased to see your avatar, and so I finally did go the extra mile and read every word.

I must say your post is full goodies; the product of a deep thinker.

Just one clarification about Fearporn and Hopium, as I see those terms….they are not emotional states, as you described them. Emotional states would be called fear and hope.

Instead they are directed mental bio weapons, designed to mislead the public into states of false emotions. To me those terms denote manipulative psychological mind rapes. Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy called it Mind F.cks.

If one wants to impact another mentally, in a way that is free from ulterior motives of deception and misleading, then the only way is via the truth, one that comes near something that is absolute.

And in my view every human has a hidden antenna that can pick up absolute truth when it presents itself, and that is sent forth with a motive of doing no harm.
What I wanted was a single word that matches the brevity of the two extreme terms of fearporn and hopium, but hits the center between the two.

[ulli]

“Everything works by the law of attraction”, is one of my firm beliefs.

And the other is “Where focus goes, energy flows”.

But somehow I can’t seem to see these laws working right now.
Patience, ulli, patience.

I must have the timing all wrong…and my sense of urgency was misplaced.
Then it creates blockages, and walls of dust.

I’ll be back, said the Arnold.

[mozo33]

Posted by ulli (here)
Hello araucaria and a Happy New Year to you.

The issue I face right now is this…. I feel myself being challenged.
Let my clarify:

I had asked for one word, ONE WORD!!

Is this your best (sniper) shot, or are you using an AK-47 hoping that one of the many bullets will hit bull’s eye?

But to be more diplomatic…I take responsibility for finding myself perplexed at your epistle.
With my 73rd birthday coming up any day now I’ve done some soul searching,
and find that my attention span has become rather short. So at first I was just skimming over the paragraphs of your post, but could not find the word I had been looking for.

But since it’s you, and showing up in our mossy village when I’m sitting here waiting for visitors and village dwellers I was pleased to see your avatar, and so I finally did go the extra mile and read every word.

I must say your post is full goodies; the product of a deep thinker.

Just one clarification about Fearporn and Hopium, as I see those terms….they are not emotional states, as you described them. Emotional states would be called fear and hope.

Instead they are directed mental bio weapons, designed to mislead the public into states of false emotions. To me those terms denote manipulative psychological mind rapes. Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy called it Mind F.cks.

If one wants to impact another mentally, in a way that is free from ulterior motives of deception and misleading, then the only way is via the truth, one that comes near something that is absolute.

And in my view every human has a hidden antenna that can pick up absolute truth when it presents itself, and that is sent forth with a motive of doing no harm.
What I wanted was a single word that matches the brevity of the two extreme terms of fearporn and hopium, but hits the center between the two.

our natural mind hates the truth simply because it is unable to grasp it ....

[PurpleLama]

I also was very pleased to see araucaria posting, and interestingly we (my boys and I) had just finished reading That Hideous Strength less than a week ago!

[araucaria]

Thank you Ulli and all.


You distinguish between emotions and weapons. I’d say emotions are being weaponized, because everything is being weaponized, including ‘truth’, and often involuntarily. My saying so almost comes across as some kind of terrorist attack – almost, but not quite. Stand clear: Lewis’s tower of Babel of murderous gibberish is upon us.

Happy birthday Ulli.

[heretogrow]

Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

[Harmony]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

Dear heretogrow,

Sending prayers and love to you and your dad. Big hugs

[heretogrow]

Thank you HARMONY, I love 💕 you!

[pueblo]

Posted by ulli (here)
“Everything works by the law of attraction”, is one of my firm beliefs.

And the other is “Where focus goes, energy flows”.

But somehow I can’t seem to see these laws working right now.
Patience, ulli, patience.

I must have the timing all wrong…and my sense of urgency was misplaced.
Then it creates blockages, and walls of dust.

I’ll be back, said the Arnold.

Hi Ulli, it is interesting that you mention the law of attraction as I am currently focusing all my energy on exploring/understanding the four main Universal Laws which are:

1. The Law of Attraction - like attracts like.

2. The Law of Deliberate Intent - what is intended and held resolutely within thought, word and deed manifests.

3. The Law of Allowance - allowing what is intended to manifest while using the observer mode to be awake and aware while continuing to hold the focus without being rigid as to the outcome (allowing thought to think!).

4. The Law of Balance - applying the first 3 laws and focusing within the present moment.

I think you have, without realising it, answered your own question about the law of attraction when you say "I must have the timing all wrong". It is time itself which is causing the apparent problems with attraction... Also interesting is that 'patience' is akin to the Law of Allowance.

The concept of time is in reality a no thing. It is an invention of the mind or ego recorder so that the events of experience can be perceived, analyzed and recorded. Inasmuch as the energy vibrates at such a slow rate at the 3rd dimensional level, this process is at such a slow rate that it appears to be in sequential order so that chaos is not experienced within the recording process.

It is necessary that this be understood so that the concept of the new paradigm coming into existence when it is perceived is understood. When a sufficient number of mental foci desire to create this experience for themselves, it begins its manifestation process within the flow of creational thought energy. It literally already exists, it is just that the energy flow is so slow that it is not perceived or brought into the experience at the 3rd dimensional level until the sum of vibratory oscillations reaches the total necessary to manifest into realized experience.

As each understands the density of earth’s surrounding space and the slow rate of the humans experiencing in that space, it is possible to grasp the understanding of why it appears to be a time oriented process. In excessively simple terms, the thought process travels outward into the aqueous (fluid like) energy of the creational flow at a much more rapid pace than it returns as manifested reality.

The focused thought process when fueled by emotion moves quickly through creational energy. As it leaves the dense field of energy, it becomes finer or vibrates more rapidly. It is the return trip, so to speak, in the manifestation process that slows in its oscillation rate. The law of attraction magnetizes the object of the focused thought that was “sent out into the creational field of energy” and it is returned to the point of origin.

When the point of origin is vibrating at the slower rate, it appears within the sequential time orientation to manifest very slowly. If during this sequential experience, the focus is withdrawn or sufficiently weakened, the magnetic attraction process is aborted.

Embracing the Rainbow - George Green

I highly recommend the trilogy of books the above quote is from, all available in the PA library..

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Geo...20Paradigm.pdf

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Geo...20Becoming.pdf

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Geo...%20Rainbow.pdf

[Harmony]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

Thinking of you heretogrow, sending all our love and prayers each day

[ulli]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

The challenge to all of us who love life is how to come to terms with the portal of transformation.
Intellectually I have been converted, after getting many messages from the beyond, as irrevocable proof of their survival, and now know that life continues in the invisible worlds.
But emotionally I am a wreck, currently suffering anxiety about my 93 year old mother in law.

I want to take your hand so that we can comfort one another.

I made a pact with my mum, before she passed over in 2006, to send me signals.
It worked, and I received endless messages; proof that she was always nearby.

Not so many now, 15 years later, but the first few weeks after her death there were so many that it blew my mind.

[PurpleLama]

Oh damn, I just put my full name on the forum. Let the fireworks begin, lmao. I deal with sevens, not threes. Tens are ok with me. Or, do I deal with threes, too?

[Delight]

Why am I putting this here? It is because the WOO is growing exponentially. We must be flexible in our minds and open in our hearts to thrive.


Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/vppnpx

[justntime2learn]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

I'm sending everything that I have to you and your father

[Delight]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
Please if you are the praying type please say a prayer for my dad! He is septic from a UTI in the hospital, double jabbed, not expected to make it. He was nothing short of a genius in his day, has several patents under his belt and is one of the kindest people you would ever meet.

I am just seeing this note. Sending my prayers too.

[heretogrow]

My father is fighting off his sepsis well. Your prayers are helping. He is having trouble get his heart stable but he is expected to pull through. He will need some long term rehabilitation so he will staying a nursing home for a few months. ThAnk you for all of your prayers and your kindness as well.

[Harmony]

Posted by heretogrow (here)
My father is fighting off his sepsis well. Your prayers are helping. He is having trouble get his heart stable but he is expected to pull through. He will need some long term rehabilitation so he will staying a nursing home for a few months. ThAnk you for all of your prayers and your kindness as well.

So very pleased to hear your Dad is recovering and I am sure you must be exhousted as well heretogrow. I shall continue love and prayers with holding a place for your dad's full recovery

[justntime2learn]

Both Jill and I are up to snuff. (Doing well)

It's been a long time since we went into town together like we did today.

I'm convinced there's a collective on PA that is most helpful.

Again, much love to all