The full, though still unfinished, picture was image of something I showed a few days ago, and with a colour filter applied.
Why the massive increase in tattoos, piercings in the very modern era? Because the spirit of the age is materialism, and thus the mind/soul of those immersed in that spirit is on identification with the flesh, and to an unprecedented level. So the spirit tries to merge absolutely with the flesh. In the apparent absence of a higher spiritual reality, it tries to brand itself in the physical. The sense of higher or spiritual truth is intrinsic to us and so that powerful yearning for truth and union will be there, but here it attempts to fulfil itself with the flesh - in a time where the prevalent ethos informs there is nothing beyond flesh/matter. So here is where truth is attained.
Obviously I could go on alot on this, but this is the brutal shorthand.
In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba and only removed them as a result of threats by the United States, which resulted in a deal. Guevara told the British Daily Worker newspaper soon after, ‘If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of the United States, including New York. We must never establish peaceful coexistence. We must walk the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims.’
The words of an insane psychopath. And which also shows, when someone has willingly opened themselves up to the nakedly demonic, and then in full conscience, or absence of conscience, commit to that choice, rational limits can go out the window. Joy in destruction and nihilistic chaos is the deeper desire.
Just to mention this book which I’m currently reading in digital form, and would definitely recommend. Very readable and interesting.
This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various occult techniques. He visited the ancient monastic republic of Mount Athos in his native Greece, where he was brought to a knowledge of Jesus Christ by the saintly Elder Paisios (1924–1994). Nevertheless, believing he had only found “part of the truth” on the Holy Mountain, he chose to give the “same opportunity” to Hindu yogis that he had given to Elder Paisios and other Orthodox monks. Thus, at the age of twenty-five, he embarked on a trip to India, where he undertook his search in the ashrams of three famous gurus, one of whom (Babaji) was worshipped as a god. His experiences in India, along with his subsequent encounters with Elder Paisios on Mount Athos, are recounted in the present book in vivid detail.  |
The Vatican has announced that sadly its mission to send Woke Pope Francis to the moon in an effort to defeat climate change has had, for now, to be postponed due to intense and frightening opposition which it is receiving from elements within the Far Right. The Vatican feels it cannot now guarantee the safety of those involved in the mission due to the volume and nature of threats from such extremists.
“Nothing is worth becoming a martyr for,” said a Vatican spokesperson.
The initial story of the declared mission can nostalgically be read about here.
From the biography, Saint Paisios of Mount Athos.
‘A monk once went to ask the mysterious recluse Elder Herodion about indecisiveness; he had two thoughts (logismoi) and knew not which to follow. Before he had asked, Elder Herodion told him, “Do not let opinion divide you; you should divide it.”
From Athonite Fathers of the 20th Century.
[This is all very shorthand rather than fleshed out, which would just take too long and unnecessary anyway.]
“Of all the monopolies enjoyed by the Soviet State none would be so crucial as its monopoly on the definition of words. The ultimate weapon of political control would be the dictionary.” (Robert Tucker ‘Stalin and the Uses of Psychology, 1956).
And in line with this, there was a strong focus on writing and re-writing dictionaries in the USSR after 1950.
Thus in our age, with the same ‘progressive’ ideology and cult, children are for example urged to pick their pronouns. Reality is undermined and re-assembled. The essence of the pronouns stuff, etc is that the human no longer inhabits reality, but is a cult member in the very active neurological structure of their minds. That is part of why addictions are so difficult to overcome. The addiction of course involves the external substance or activity to which one is addicted, but in a deeper sense it is this internal mechanism of the mind that has to be re-shaped. With the behavioural addiction, we have to again and again put the brakes on these habitual and addicted pathways of the mind.
And also to mention, madness is specifically the inhabiting of an intellectual hallucination. The person identifies to a great degree with a reality distorted by the delusional filter of their disturbed selves. And thus again with the modern ideology in action, “I identify as . . .” something other than what is - and this delusional identification is raised to the throne! A coup has taken place. Thus revolutionary ideology - reality is overthrown by the ideology/ intellectual hallucination.
And because it’s a cult in the obviously toxic sense, anyone not in the cult is deeply questionable, while anyone clearly opposed to it is vilified as, for example in Leninist terms “an enemy of the people” - and so inferentially not even a person! - while in the modern Western version, the threat to the cult is a racist or misogynist or fascist or whatever. Something utterly evil anyway. The all-good cult is threatened, the threat in its contrary state is by definition all-evil. Let’s rally to the cause and defeat these evil bigots!
And if you have ever encountered a cult in the more minor sense, if any threat particularly to the leader of the cult, even in the most seemingly harmless sense of not treating the leader as infallible, the cult members will unite as one like bees protecting the hive or queen, and act to repel the threat. And this is the core of “ Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The cult members go nuts at the appearance of this very unlikely threat to the cult. If it seriously needs stressing, people talking of things like “birthing persons” are most certainly deep in a cult.
See, at this stage, as I tried to show earlier regarding addiction, it’s not a belief about something external to the believer, but their very neurological state is one with what is believed in, the belief and the believer are the same phenomenon, and thus deconditioning is so deep or all-encompassing a process. And especially if the cult is on such a massive and all-encompassing level as is now, and where its adherents or cult members have generally no idea they’re even in a cult!
Rock band, Countercultural Icons of Humanity, the offspring of the seminal Rockstars Against Freedom, have a new song coming out: I Was Cutting Edge Roughly Half a Century Ago.
The song is said to be full of an almost heartbreaking sense of yearning both for the past and for the future.
This is kind of an annoying picture in that I don’t like it very much, but it’s also maybe interesting enough that I can’t justify not working on it and giving it a chance to get to some proper finished state.
“ On the road of our approach to God stands the world– we must pass through the understanding of it. Every man has a mission connected with the world. Everyone must know it according to the power given to him, in as much as knowledge can’t come until the gaining of virtues; everyone must develop beforehand a moral activity of relationship to the world. A mainly negative attitude to the world frustrates salvation itself. The world is imposed on everyone as a stone for sharpening his spiritual faculties,”
St. Dumitru Staniloae (Orthodox Spirituality. St. Tikhon Seminary Press, pg. 205)
From this article Ascetic Strength
Gellerio is an electronic musician from Mordovia, while the far better known Divna Ljubokovic is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music, who has an amazingly powerful and pure voice. I can’t embed the song here, so here is the link instead:
There is of course nothing more refined and full of integrity than the progressive liberal, even if he or she is white.
And regarding Malcolm X’s description of the liberal as a deceitful fox, think of one of this ideology’s key words, fluid, like with someone’s gender identity. Well beyond the particulars, why is this word so key? If someone is fluid, they have no fixed values or identity. A conman or a pathological liar is fluid, someone with deep psychological, or in truth spiritual, problems diagnosed as borderline personality disorder in their sense of self is fluid, someone with no morals is entirely fluid - nothing is fixed, stable, every position, every loyalty can shift.
And I’d say it’s pretty certain that it is people immersed in the traumas termed, for example, borderline personality disorder who are easy prey to things like gender identity and transgender ideology - where they are offered a supposed answer to their unstable sense of self. “We’ll help screw up your sense of reality, pretend it’s a healthy confusion and unstability, which is fuel for our agendas, and then offer the supposed fixed solution to the confusion where stability will be attained.”
I’m more posting this for the few lines said by Dave Rubin at the end here. It can take an awful lot to deprogramme cult members, and to be honest, if anyone is plugged into the mainstream media, then they are deep in a brainwashing cult. And unless they stop being plugged in, then they won’t get out of it.
By Rembrandt who kept darkening this image to the point the cross on the right is barely visible. An earlier state of this etching below:
Something I’ve previously written here ages ago, but this is how it irrefutably goes:
Something out of which messy initial state I’ve at least been trying to see if I could sort out and turn into a proper piece.
A generally reliable insider, embedded within the very guts of the entertainment industrial complex, has revealed that the Corporate Whore franchise has begun working on a new series, a perhaps more cerebral affair than we are used to, and appealing perhaps more to the intellectuals amongst us, titled: Corporate Whores Embark on a Career in Journalism and Discover that the Far Right is Everywhere.
I recently watched on YouTube the Colditz tv series from the early 1970s, based on, at least somewhat, the book of that name by P.R. Reid, centred on the Colditz prisoner of war camp during World War Two, specifically used to house Allied military, particularly given to escaping from prisoner of war camps! As said, it is an excellent series, and especially brilliant and sensitive is the performance of an actor Bernard Hepton, who plays the German commandant in charge of Colditz.
Well, in the back of that and some viewwpers’ comments, I checked out another series from the same BBC production team (back when the BBC could better justify its existence) called Secret Army, based again, at least loosely on truth, and this time focused on a Belgian resistance movement in that war, helping return Allied airmen to the United Kingdom. The fact that Bernard Hepton again is central meant it was at least worth checking out, and allowing it some leeway for a pretty humble budget and minor flaws, I thought overall it was really superb and addictive. The final series of three, is like Colditz, a bit of a diminishing in standards, especially with the sidelining of Bernard Hepton due to other acting commitments, but anyway, below is a link to the series.
Though dating to the late 1970s, it seems to be a surprisingly active target for the copyright police on YouTube, so this is the means I thankfully found to watch the series:
The dialogue from another scene from the screenplay I’m writing below. To emphasise this is for an as yet unmade film.
The entertainment industrial complex of course never sleeps and word of the newest projected Corporate Whore outpouring has just surfaced, which has a working title of Corporate Whores Attain Nirvana.
I’ve been writing a screenplay for an as yet unmade film, and below is an extract from one of the key scenes:
A man was invited to a party, and so there he went bringing with him a really excellent wine. Upon arriving he was greeted and was asked to pour the wine into a bucket along with all the wines other guests had brought along also. However he shocked everyone by declining, and so he instead he left.
I don’t know whether I’ll leave this quick piece as is or add it to it - and take the chance of ruining it - but here it is anyway.
