2012: Happiness Redefined

We all seek happiness and we all define happiness differently. But who among us can say they are truly happy? Why is the outcome – the real happiness quota in the world –so at odds with our desperation to be happy?

Is there a sinister plot that prevents it – some cabal – whose objective it is to control our minds to foil our intention to be happy?

Perhaps there is a problem with our goal.

Real happiness is contingent on being content. I cannot be content knowing the condition of the world. How can the pursuit of happiness be considered a worthwhile goal when there are so many who do not have the opportunity to even consider the luxury of "happiness"?

The pursuit of happiness has been promoted as a standard the individual is challenged to achieve – do we have “the right stuff”? Are we a “winner” in the race to happiness?

Ironically, for the majority of us, the pursuit of happiness produces conflict, and within this conflict –this unwilling to be left out of the “happiness party” – answers are sought in spiritual supermarkets of “bliss”, “drug stores” and all the myriad amusement parks teeming with all the other disillusioned refugees of happiness.

“Happiness for 2012” is the redirection of our energies, our lives, and our intention to find working solutions that provide relief and comfort for the millions who die every day from lack: to not dismiss such ideas as “ideals” beyond the reach of our capabilities – but to take on our inertia and our acceptance of the world as it exists.

Happiness is within our reach:

It is self-responsibility, self-honesty and self-forgiveness.

I ask myself: what am I capable of doing –– is it writing, is it teaching, is it running for political office – and then applying myself as best I can.

Without dignity for all there can be no happiness for the “one.”

2012-Youtube is our Mirror

Youtube is a dragnet; a drainpipe that collects the images and thoughts that show us who we are, in this moment. Watching the “most viewed” videos illustrates the spiraling of the human as technological consumers – the feeding on our own debasement: never actually going anywhere, never actually understanding anything, never actually creating anything – just using technology and our bodies for abuse and self-promotion.

Whether it’s “the young girl” discussing getting ready for a night of “shaking her ass” and “hooking up” or “the rapper” ejaculating with a cartoon firehouse penis while slapping an asian girl and showing her liking it (5 million views on this one since yesterday.) These videos present the greatest consumerist hype of all: the “religion of self” – the lifeblood of the Consumer Cult with videos generally watched in private; the technological super structure for our secret selves.

Youtube provides a great service, showing us the full range of what we have become: from innocent civilian casualties of Homos, Syria to corporate stooges like Hodgy Beats and “Tyler the creator.”

Youtube shows us our “NOW” and it’s not pretty.

To keep going the Consumer Cult must keep humanity off-keel – “Occupied Humanity” – by sense assaults – shocked and stimulated by the chaotic rapidity of social change. In this confusion and instability, desperate slaves to consumption “cherry pick” reality – we choose what we want to be real – a psychopathology wherein we believe “our brand” of reality is what we say it is – like the Ekhart Tolles who advise us to stay in “the now.” So I can pick which NOW I want to be? Can I be the video of Taylor Swift singing instead of the Asian girl who enjoys being slapped in the face?

“There is no path to follow, there is “no way”, there is just self-honesty, here as life” Bernard Poolman.

2012-Making the Golem Real

How was I able, throughout so much of my life, to justify separating myself from what was actually occurring on this planet – spending so much of my life within the world of spirituality – how did I justify the idea that my responsibility for the earth and all who are here was “less than” the concerns of a delusional “spirit body”? By using myself as an example of misguided intention, can I draw conclusions that help explain how this mechanism works on a global scale – where each of us chooses to see our lives and our bodies as mere teleportation devices to the god realms?

In Jewish tradition there is the story of the golem. The golem is a Frankenstein-type creator, a "dumb" or "helpless" stand-in for the creator. The golem will, for the most part, do the bidding of the creator.

Everywhere I look I see golems. I see the golems I have created and I see the larger golem entities created by the collective. My golem was a silly and dangerous fool, charged with a belief system that energy should be controlled and directed to transcend this world and that this transcendence of physical reality was superior to what was here; superior to living here and taking responsibility for what is here.

My Golem hung around with other golems in well-appointed social clubs of the mind where they discussed invisible worlds and “spirit guides” – amusement parks of “oneness”, never-never lands are where all needs are met – where the starving and abused people here from earth laugh off the “unreality” of their karmic lessons. These silly golems busy themselves reading each other’s palms, contacting spirit “guides” and wrapping cords around each other for “ritual sake.” All the while the world is going to hell and the great lie is perpetuated – that there is somewhere else to go for salvation; that we don’t actually have to create heaven here on earth and that all is well in a ying/yang balance with God at the helm.

It seems God has his own Golems: This past week: Monsanto, for the first time ever, was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/france-pesticides-monsanto-idINDEE81C0FQ20120213

“I’m alive today” says the farmer, “but part of the farming population is going to be sacrificed and is going to die because of this.”

And in this story (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/dow-and-monsanto-team-up-_b_1256725.html)

“In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation's two leading producers of agro-chemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce to reintroduce the use of the herbicide 2, 4-D, one half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange, which was used by American forces to clear jungle during the Vietnam War. These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.”

God’s golems are busy destroying the planet. WTF is God thinking? And while “Rome burns” the silly golems of the new age are gathered along the Hudson, up the valleys of Hollywood and tucked away in cabins in Bozeman believing, “Humanity is moving toward a planetary civilization with growth pangs …and while the world can still be seen as a rolling hell pit, a significant historic shift in values is also evident and many of us are experimenting with models of a freer, fairer, more eco-conscious lifestyle.” (http://www.cosm.org/)

The Golem is spirituality, religion, and consciousness. The Golem says, “2012 points to anew potential in human consciousness, a transitional portal in alignment with galactic center.” (http://www.cosm.org/)

The Golem will never be able to show us any real change because golems never challenge the actual system. The Golem accepts and promotes polarity, separation and hierarchy as necessary for growth. The Golem believes in deficiency and our inability to solve the basic problems of providing food and shelter for all.

That's why the Jews considered the Golem to be a dumb schmuck.

The TINA Phenomena

TINA is an acronym for "There Is No Alternative." TINA prevades our world, creating a vaseline screen of denial; pulling the world out of focus so we don't have really see the nightmare that is our current monetary system.

The reason so many can't hear – and won't hear – about alternative solutions is because they will not imagine an alternative. Beyond the fraudulence of this massive brainwashing there is an important point to remember: there is no going "off the grid" on this one. By continuing to accept the world monetary system the way it is – by continuing to accept the way we have allowed corporate interests to supersede the interests of what is best for us – we are the actual creators, culprits. We are responsible.

So to all the alternative folks ... to anyone who thinks they exist as "outsiders" ... no one gets out of this – we are all responsible. Yes, we can exist passively with our "TINAs" in tack, but when we have been presented with working alternatives such as the Basic Income Grant and Equal Money are we not suffering from a serious pathology if we do not try these options?

Investigate Equal Money and the Basic Income Grant. Obviously, these altenatives are not going to happen "overnight"; but with each one stopping our individual TINAs (not our Tina Turners!) and standing together, we can support each other and all the millions trashed by our current system of greed.

2012: World Transformation - The How-To

Video By Sunette Spies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8jE_Bj8-4

2012 Eckhart Tolle's "Buddhism Light"

Nothing Tolle says is unique. He has taken knowledge and information, mostly from Buddhist teachings, and created a western soft drink that doubles as a stool softener for the suppressions and guilt of the affluent.

What is it that brings people to Tolle?
They want answers, they want methods, they want to feel good – and Tolle delivers. He provides endless explorations and sidebar excursions for his acolytes. They call him "Master" and he smiles, agreeing in his "humble" schoolboy sweaters.

He provides sophisticated justification for staying in the "NOW" — teaching that if you just feel pleased with yourself at how PRESENT you are – to ALL that "COMES UP" – "in consciousness" – that's all that is required; what a relief!

Tolle is the Viagra of the New Age movement. He keeps it up – his endless soft-spoken smugness, this lifelong job of staying in "awareness"– longer than anyone; even the Dalai Lama (and I've sat through some excruciatingly long DL teachings) thought possible!

While the world is teaming with untold suffering, "Mr. Relaxed" holds court for the spoiled brats of consumerism. No practical solutions are offered to help ease the REAL suffering in this world — no— the con job here is that you NEED to FOCUS on YOURSELF and your needs and desires before you can do anything practical for others.

There is never a call to action. Never a calling out about the nature of our true religion here on earth: MONEY. Never a response that will give incentive to his audience to apply their vast resources to help repair the death spiral we have created in the form of consumer capitalism.

You know what, go f*%k yourself, Ekhart Tolle….oh, wait – that's what you're doing.

Governments are only Here to Serve

I don't claim to be a scholar. I am not an academic, I do not work in the press but I am an aware and watchful citizen and I will speak out against what I see as an ever-expanding globalist hegemony that diminishes the inalienable rights of the individual in subservience to the authority of the state, or the corporation, or to the ever-increasing merger of the two.

If I could actually believe that our think-tanks, scholars and press were free from the influence-peddling of corporate interests, and if, in some way, I could believe that the US fights the wars it fights for the cause of democracy – and not empire maintenance and building – then I would not be so convinced that articles such as the one below are trial balloons set out to destabilize what is left of our participatory democracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.htm

In this February 6th column by Adam Liptak in the New York Times entitled, "The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution" Liptak writes, "The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights." This article cites a study written by Council on Foreign Relations fellow David S. Law. It attempts to spin the idea that the inalienable rights of every citizen are "relative" and that these values can, and, should be amended, depending on the needs of the times. The underlying assumption here is that it is the state "grants" us the rights we enjoy as citizens.

The US constitution is in service to the people, not the people to the constitution. The values of equality and the right to fair trial and free speech are not gifts of the state. The state is the vehicle that protects all, equally, under the law. The creeping menace of our age is a prescriptive authoritarianism that seeks to recast government as "governance" – a governance of mutable rights, laws and principles that are adjusted according to the whims of self-interest and corporate interest disregarding the principle and consideration of what is best for all.

Investigate the Equal Money Solution. We can create a world that is best for all, starting locally with projects such as the Basic Income Grant and extending globally, this time without the globalists.