Here and Now...What's Happening?

[carryattune]

One, boosting your spirit. At least I hope so. Know that when this trial is.over you will once again turn plain old bricks, mortar and wood into a dwelling place that is alive and warm and beautiful, because of you. You only need to start and it will grow. But you know that. A beautiful day for you and M.

[ulli]

Life at the beach.

Seems like the women are more awake than the men.....

[dan33]

Posted by ulli (here)
Watching this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dgosa7wkfY

Never heard of it ( paraphrasing Modwiz replaying Astrid about Paul Weller. Astrid is a fan of Jam)

A classic of the Free Cinema. IF...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MEbdNvdhpUA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IhdBqizm7JU

... and a wonderful movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064881/...nm_flmg_act_32

starring Nicol Williamson, who was MERLIN in Excalibur

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZCtCQ2BYdU

[dan33]

it's almost like an id card.

[carryattune]

We saw Excalibur at a theater long time ago. For the time. Oh Lordy........what a movie.

What are the cards?

[1inMany]

Omg, I did it. My car is full. I will come back to hit the attic and sort Christmas stuff. All that's left is moving my piano and my mom's china, and that will be a job for someone else.

I'm almost ready for my new life! Thank you all so much for helping me get through that.

Much Love,

[eaglespirit]

WoooooHooooooo!!! : ) : ) : )

[eaglespirit]

You know what?
I have the "best" Daughters in the world...and Grandkids...and Family and Friends...and Son from the Other Side...
and the best Puppy Girl on the planet too : )
After what happened with me the past few months I have been re-enlightened to the Unconditional Love that is right in front of me in my life and I am ever so grateful!!!

[1inMany]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
You know what?
I have the "best" Daughters in the world...and Grandkids...and Family and Friends...and Son from the Other Side...
and the best Puppy Girl on the planet too : )
After what happened with me the past few months I have been re-enlightened to the Unconditional Love that is right in front of me in my life and I am ever so grateful!!!

From my heart, thank you for all you do and what you share. Hugs

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)
Life at the beach.

Seems like the women are more awake than the men.....

Rubbish - it's probably just the sculptor was more interested in carving a woman - it has been known

However, males and females have certain anatomical differences that may indicate greater or lesser enlightenment, or at least friendliness. My daughter was saying the other day how in one breed of horses, only the males have molars: the males and some bolshy mares.

Now there's something to chew on. You thought I was talking about the curvy bits.

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Life at the beach.

Seems like the women are more awake than the men.....

Rubbish - it's probably just the sculptor was more interested in carving a woman - it has been known

However, males and females have certain anatomical differences that may indicate greater or lesser enlightenment, or at least friendliness. My daughter was saying the other day how in one breed of horses, only the males have molars: the males and some bolshy mares.

Now there's something to chew on. You thought I was talking about the curvy bits.

Vive la difference! And since I lost that molar I haven't bitten my tongue once.

[araucaria]

Ulli, having finished my accounts, I duly watched that movie The Ruling Class last night. I try to keep my financial transactions to a minimum, but I’m afraid this is going to be a little longer. My apologies to those who prefer shorter posts.

Strangely, yesterday morning, I was looking at some poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, including Le Dormeur du Val, in which a man appears to be sleeping in the grass until at the very end you hear about two red holes in his right side: he is dead. This scene is played out in the film when the Peter O’Toole character Jack moves from JC to Jack the Ripper mode.

For those who have not seen this film, this earl is institutionalized for as long as he thinks he is Jesus Christ/a loving God, and he only snaps out of it when confronted with another madman who thinks he is the vengeful god Yahweh. (This reminded me of an episode of The Prisoner, posted somewhere on the forum, in which the hero is confronted with a doppelganger.) The idea is that lovingness is indeed a crazy aberration for these people (the problem here being that any normal person would also want him certified). Once cured of that, he is officially proclaimed sane, which is when he can start killing women and go scot-free. His foreign psychiatrist, who says ‘I have an abdomen full of the upper classes’, ends up himself going mad. Meanwhile the faithful manservant, who naturally gets framed for murder, turns out to be a Soviet spy. There is a lot of over-the-top stuff, including comedy (especially the bishop character) and musical interludes, which I suppose helps to convey the craziness of the whole thing – meaning that if you want to cringe, that is probably intentional.

This film is an interesting outside view of the typically British aristocracy (frightful). However, I think I found the Bruni film I described a while back more disturbing, because it was the self-portrait of Franco-Italian money with no intention to sound stark-raving mad. However, not being a deliberate caricature, it may have fed people’s own milder form of madness in a way that The Ruling Class could not.

I would also compare this fictional case of madness with a real-life case I have studied in banking families, particularly that of the art historian Aby Warburg, who was hospitalized for several years, and who managed unexpectedly to cure himself and go home. He was the eldest of the Warburgs who renounced his banking career for art. Why he did so and why he became a danger to his own loved ones I put down to his understanding and disapproval of what was going on in the family business, and when he died in October 1929, I suspect he was murdered when about to blow the whistle. Of course, his sanity passing for madness implies as a corollary the madness of the rest of them passing for sanity. He was truly mad for a while, but this is only because the rest of the time he was ‘as mad as hell’ as we say.

Another interesting aspect of the film was the way politics come into it. The earl takes up his place in the House of Lords, London’s supposedly powerless upper chamber, depicted in flashes as a charnel-house of rotting corpses covered in cobwebs. But all through, we are reminded that another family member is campaigning to become the member of Parliament’s lower chamber, the House of Commons, where he will work hand in hand with the lord. In other words, in addition to their financial stranglehold, these people wield the real political power from behind the façade of powerlessness.

This leads me to a book called The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations, by Vivian Green (1993), which has as its ‘underlying thesis that there is not merely a fundamental connection between health and politics but that political behaviour may be an externalization of private problems and personality disorders.’ She starts with the Roman emperors, who made no bones about considering themselves as gods (most notably Caligula), ending with the 20th century’s ‘”infirmity” of politicians’ (an interesting collective noun) and ‘madmen in jackboots’. While much of what she says about our psychopathic rulers is no doubt correct, I just want to mention a few areas where she may be overstating her case. Ronald Reagan was probably mad and definitely a gerontocrat, but this had nothing to do with Mrs Reagan’s recourse to astrology. And did Kennedy really suffer from psychiatric complications from the side-effects of his pain-killing drugs? If so, which crazy policies are we talking about? We know of many sane ones that likely got him murdered. And does Mackenzie King truly fall into this category on account of his dealings with the medium, Mrs L. Bleaney of Kingston? (incidentally Ben Fulford’s father was an adviser of his).

‘The influence of the talk with that woman’, he wrote, ‘is strange, it has brought me very near to the dear ones in the Great Beyond, what seems now more like the Great Omnipresent, Here and Now’.

The problem is, you see, that there is barely a hair’s breadth between the two sides of this struggle we are seeing between psychopathic rule and the ultimate sanity that we ourselves claim to have, or at least to be seeking. For the ordinary person addressing their everyday issues, both sides sometimes appear equally mad (or equally sane: Kennedy was popular, but so was Reagan). So, Carmody’s ideas about screening for psychopathy may seem evil or liberticidal to some. The difference is in the potential outcome: we haven’t seen the other side of the picture yet, just the present age-long chaos.

To get back to this film, the question is: how far have we come since 1972 in dissociating the grain of sanity in this loving Christlike David-Icke-in-purple figure from the mad earl’s madness? Well, David-Icke-in-purple was 20 years after the movie. Another 20 years since then, he is being taken a lot more seriously. Progress is being made.

[ulli]

I'm glad you watched the movie. Anyone who has been on Avalon for a while ought to do so.
It really got me thinking, too, but while I found the time to watch it
I don't have the time to write a brilliant review like yours.

Just one thing I needed to point out...which I believe to be true...as I trust the source where I found this
Both Reagans were into astrology...it was their mutual interest which brought them together in the first place.
Nothing is ever quite what it appears to be, least of all if it is an image presented by the MSM.

And I also want to say that I believe progress has been made since 1972. The Internet exists.
Of course the dark side had to work overtime to keep their schemes going...
Which means at least the rich aren't as idle as they used to be.

[eaglespirit]

...and I too feel 'big' progress is being made, soon to be not so subtle in our lives,
thank you Araucaria and Ulli.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post812239

[ulli]

Making it public, to help me believe it.
I don't miss my cats while away. No sir.
And I don't miss their song either.

[PurpleLama]

Wild Kitty is the one at my house who first serenades the humans, when the first tiniest speck of the bowl beneath the food begins to show. A phenomenon most people owned by cat are familiar with.

Of course, if the speck becomes a spot any larger than a quarter then the song of one becomes a chorus of four to six.

[araucaria]

If you didn't like the last story of a zoo giraffe, try this one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...e-9207114.html

[RichD]

Its Friday night .... it's Carl Cox ....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FSvTFAHY2QM

Oh Yes, Oh yes, Oh Yes

[dan33]

Posted by dan33 (here)
it's almost like an id card.

carryattune


We saw Excalibur at a theater long time ago. For the time. Oh Lordy........what a movie.

What are the cards?

TATTWAS Cards designed by José Antonio Portela.
You can see a new card (0.23 seconds ) XXIII, THE COMET, a black diamond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattva

Hugs Carryattune!

[dan33]

Posted by RichD (here)
Its Friday night .... it's Carl Cox ....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FSvTFAHY2QM

Oh Yes, Oh yes, Oh Yes

Yes!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3nM1U2eQtpQ