Going to Our Destiny

Going to Our Destiny

There’s been an egregious misuse of knowledge that involves the exploitation of the environment for capitalistic profits all the way to the arrogance of the scientific community believing itself to be inherently correct about their views of reality and the cosmos. This further involves Western society’s imposition of all their technologies upon third world societies without respect for the long term welfare of the planet and humanity at large. Please read on to understand my point. Many have written about Western society's misuse of power through the exploitation of our environment and the egregious subjugation of "primitive" cultures for personal gain, but there is far more to consider.

The point I want to make is that humanity cannot remain in the infantile stage of using technology without being responsible for the conservation of all Earth’s precious resources. What I am talking about is the growth and maturity of humanity as a whole. Yet, this GROWTH AND MATURITY can only come through an Evolution of Consciousness by way of responsible knowledge resulting in spiritual maturity.

This knowledge entails:                                                                                       1. knowledge of self - Why were you born?                                                    
2. knowledge of humanity’s true heritage and origins (religion aside, please) – Where did we come from?                                                                                  3. knowledge of the unbounded human potential – What is our ultimate purpose?                                                                                                              4. knowledge of our destiny – Where are we headed? 

Yet, not one person on the planet has the whole complete picture. We only have bits and pieces here and there. There are no religions, belief systems, schools of thought, or academic disciplines, or philosophies that have all the answers and truths necessary for all life for all time. We all need more wisdom and knowledge leading to further growth, maturity, and development. Can any one of us say that we have already arrived at the fullest measure of growth and development achievable or that our belief system holds all the answers? If so, that would be monumental human arrogance!

Listen to me, my friends.  I am not picking on any particular religion, belief system, or certain way of life.  All tribes, and ALL nations, and all peoples have something to contribute to the GROWTH AND MATURITY OF HUMANITY’S DEVELOPMENT. Not any particular religion, academic discipline, or philosophy has all the answers.

There are at least 500 Native American tribes that have contributions to make to the spiritual advancement of all of humanity. These include but are not limited to tribes such as the Hopis, Lakota’s, Sioux, Washitaw, and Cherokees to name only a few.

There are over thousands of different tribes in Africa that have some profound contributions to make such as the Dogons of Mali that hold the secret of the Sirius star system and knowledge of all the elementary particles of matter.  There are the Nubian Cushites of Ethiopia that hold the truth about the Ark of the Covenant.  In South Africa, the Mandinka shamans hold the ancient traditions of the power of water and of the Reptilian agenda. The initiated people of Kemet hold the ancient secrets of the Pyramids and Sphinx.

The Australian Aborigines have contributions about the use of the elements of all nature. They have mastered altered states of consciousness outside the box of Western society’s traditional limitations about the capabilities of the human mind.

The people of India have the Vedas, written records of humanity’s knowledge of anti-matter, anti-gravity, ancient flying machines, the human aura, chakras, and other historical contributions concerning humanity’s origins.

Additionally, ancient Chinese records and other peoples of the Oriental traditions hold prodigious amounts of information and knowledge about sciences regarding the mastery of Chi (energy), the secrets of holistic health, and medicine and many other things yet to be revealed.

An important point here is that all humanity was not at all primitive in the beginning, but highly advanced technologically as the Hindu Vedas bare testimony. All of this was without the pollution of planet Earth. Additionally, the Egyptian hieroglyphs bare testimony to a golden age, a “first time”. The Mayan Popol Vuh bares testimony to a time of worldwide abundance and then a cosmic upheaval. The Sumerian, Enuma Elish is a record written in stone of “those who from the heavens came down” with a complete depiction of our entire solar system before its discovery by Western astronomers. The legend of Atlantis and Lemuria as chronicled by the Greek historian, Plato, tells of an ancient time where unparalleled high culture and technological advancement had been achieved.

Logically, in my humblest opinion, this ought to be enough for any person whose mind has not been locked down by traditional dogma and embraced ignorance to investigate the possibility that there may have been a Golden Age in which all humanity enjoyed abundance, prosperity, peace, lived in harmony, and with a very high degree of technological advancement. Interplanetary travel was seemingly the norm. Information and technologies were not suppressed and all knowledge was freely shared.

Think about the monumental structures we see worldwide: the pyramids all over the world and now found even in the oceans as off the coast of Japan. What about Baalbek, where some single stones cut from solid granite are the sizes of the largest cruise ships sailing the oceans today. Then in Peru, there are the Nazca Lines that can only be seen from air, and in the UK, Stonehenge, along with other monumental structures. These things were not built with primitive technologies, but with highly advanced machines, devices, and energy sources nowhere seen today! If no known technology or equipment today can possibly duplicate the building of the pyramids and monumental structures such as Baalbek, then is it even logical to think that they were built with anything less advanced?

Yet, as geological, historical, and astronomical records indicate, the Earth’s and humankind’s demise came through a series of catastrophic events. Several catastrophes took place on a Galactic scale with a series of cause and effect events following in succession that left Earth and its populations in the wake of devastation.

Humanity actually de-volved down from a state of high spiritual development and technological advancement to the primitive ideas now held by those who exalt the limitation of knowledge and the present exploitation of the resources of our planet. The misuse of technology today and the suppression of knowledge that would advance civilization are Western society’s mode of operation. This paradigm supports and exalts the actual destruction of the planet out of fear of change from an old paradigm historically shown to have created and maintained all the antagonistic behaviors and divisions witnessed today.

Whether to stay in a state of primeval sustenance without any modern technology or to embrace the exploitation of Earth’s resources through the labor and at the expense of those disempowered by technology, BOTH WAYS ARE SURELY WRONG! Now, it may be outside the box of popular beliefs, but I will say that there are societies within the cosmos that have advanced technologically without the ruin of their home planet as was once the case here on planet Earth.

Hear me now. We must not fail to understand the necessity for growth and maturity of the human species here on planet Earth. This goes beyond the repetitive loop of doing the same things over and over again that have long since shown to be ineffective in creating harmony within both the eco-system and among all the human family. Growth and maturity involves first, the free exchange of knowledge without the restraints of any historical religious dogma, political propaganda, or even theoretical scientific doctrine politically derived that blights all progression towards a right understanding of the unbounded human potential.

Did you get that? Humanity has an unbounded potential for growth! That growth will come through an evolution of consciousness that involves knowledge and spiritual maturity.

Humanity cannot stay in kindergarten doing things in a primitive way. And hear what I am saying. I do not mean to sound racist, but what some call the “white man’s technology” is actually far more primitive in its misuse, than the bow and arrow once used by America’s indigenous populations chiefly because it destroys the ecological systems upon which all life on the planet depends!

Yet, I feel reasonably certain that the vast majority of all peoples are opposed to environmentally polluting technologies! There are cabals from banker barons, mega corporations, the military industrial complex, politicians, the English monarchy, the Illuminati, and other behind the scenes that are carrying out this Earth polluting and genocidal agenda. Most that carry out this agenda are merely pawns of a more sinister cartel not actually human at all but ALIEN ET’S OF THE REPTILIAN KIND. (See, David Icke’s book, The Biggest Secret.)

Now just ask yourself, why the serpent, snake, and dragon are so prominent in so many ancient cultures all over the world. How did so many ancient civilizations come to have the same ideas about these reptilian creatures? This was long before the canonization of any Bible and all these societies were separated by oceans. I will suggest that it is not the majority of flesh and blood humans who are responsible for the calculated sabotage of our environment and home planet. They, too, all have family, relatives, and friends living here on the planet and having to share the resources. Does it make sense that any human beings would deliberately destroy the planets resources and eco-system knowing that their own offspring would inherit a world incapable of supporting life???

Remember, only snakes, crocodiles, other reptiles, and vermin can successfully live in the swamp.

Jioni wrote it and I love you all!


     

The American Culture of Fear

The American Culture of Fear 
Some folks have been celebrating since the announcement of Osama Ben Laden's supposed execution. But have we as a culture become less disquieted as a result of this announcement or merely temporarily pacified in our mistaken notions holding perceptions manufactured by those who would manipulate our thoughts?                                             

Considering that the American population comprises people from every conceivable culture on the face of the planet, still the prevailing culture may be characterized as one of free capitalistic enterprise, nationalistic pride, and a belief in the sovereignty of every citizen.  The various ethnic cultures coming here frequently do so because they perceive of America as the land of opportunity.  America’s globalization in free enterprise supports investments in the endless markets of capitalistic ventures that attract many hoping to gain fortune and the other amenities derived from US citizenship or the association thereof.  Many coming here have a good idea about what they typically want and expect ─ often having a working knowledge of the necessary roles they must assume to achieve those goals.  Others, unfortunately, may come to America wearing a façade concealing hidden agendas with sinister goals.  The culture of those so motivated consider themselves as having a religious mandate fortified by belligerence and enforced by a self-sacrificing and murderous fanaticism they believe will secure a place for themselves in an otherworldly paradise (Marinoff, 2007).  Clearly, compatibility between the cultures of theocratic governments of the world and the encroaching globalization from capitalism does not exist.                                                                                                                               

This incompatibility, thus far, has resulted in the most infamous day of the 21^st century – the terrorist invasion initiating the holocaust at the World Trade Center we call 911.  From that time forward, American society has become increasingly acquainted with the now familiar axiom, “culture of fear”. 

Wikipedia defines the term as the “.  .  .  perceived prevalence of fear and anxiety in public discourse and relationships and how this may affect the way people interact with each other as individuals and as democratic agents” (Culture, 2008).                              

Subsequent to 911, public understanding of the “culture of fear” in social usage has been shaped by the media’s presentation of ensuing events relevant to the government’s impotence in protecting its citizenry from outside invasion. None of us went unaffected by the sudden realization that we as a nation could be so vulnerable to the startling scheme of an otherworldly culture making a political statement in blatant remonstrative fashion.  Ever more telling, an immediate victimization of thousands had occurred right before our very eyes highlighting this culture of fear while producing a climate of disorientation in which possibly thousands more came to suffer the phenomenon known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD (Bacon, 2008).                                                                                                                                           

On 911, from near and far, the response from emergency personnel all across the country was predictably immediate and swift.  The public at large knew under these tragic circumstances what the response from emergency medical worker, firefighters, and law enforcement agencies that day would be (Kaplan, 2007, p. 126).  The brave men and women that risked their lives in service to others in an attempt to reduce the carnage of that catastrophe are all to be applauded, honored, and acknowledged for the sacrifices freely given on that fateful day.                                     

Yet, the climate making for a culture of fear has forever been etched into our minds and entangled upon a landscape that previously held the notion of inviolate security. Many of us became afraid and suspicious of anyone that looked remotely “Arab” and some of the paranoia remains apparent to this day by the discrimination and frequent acts of violence against totally unrelated and uninvolved members of Islamic denominations and nations.  For US citizens, the ramifications and historical dynamics generating the emotional impact imposed upon those that would have chosen otherwise, have shaken America’s notion of a supposed invulnerability. Prior to 911, perhaps most Americans took for granted that as a nation we were secure within our own shores from the ravages of foreign invasion.  Perhaps many of us believed we could continue to sit daily and comfortably watch our television programs that sometimes portrayed foreign excursions, while pacifying ourselves with the notion, “It could never happen here.”                                 

Well, lo and behold, what seemed like a normal sunshiny Tuesday morning on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the place termed as “the world’s capital city,” it did happen.  For people like Stephen King, surviving the aftermath of that horrendous day involves the difficulty in comprehending a radical faction within a culture justifying their Jihad (Marinoff, 2007).  For the Saudi Arabian radicals responsible for the 911 act of war, it became a “noble” act to fight a “holy” war in defense of Islam even if it required the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians and their own suicide (Johnson, 2003; Marinoff, 2007).                                                             

The differences that lie in a cosmology far removed from the customary images, typical conduct, observations, and responses that American society takes for granted (Kaplan, 2007, p. 126) and a strict theocratic government, culture, and society cannot be overestimated (Johnson, 2003; Marinoff, 2007, p. 445-446).  For the strictest Saudi Islamic, answering the question posed by Typification as “Who am I and who is the other,” (Kaplan, 2007) the answer might be something like, “I am the avenger of Allah, defender of the faith ─ death to the infidels” (Marinoff, 2007).  For a sovereign citizen of America such as Stephen King, the answer would ordinarily be the role he has assumed, “I am a fire fighter and citizen of the United States of America” and all the meaning inherent within that role as an emergency rescue worker.                           

Of the many consequences, the seeds for a culture of fear took deeper root in a society already grown accustomed to the prospect of unexpected tragedies.  From a climate already fertile with fear came the post traumatic stress disorder keeping Stephen King, a retired fire fighter, in the painful grips of dysfunction.  Here for King, the typification that Alfred Schultz (Kaplan 2007, p. 126) spoke about being loosely defined as knowing what to expect of others in a particular situation because typical behaviors characterize certain people, (126) broke down to an atypical situation unlike any that King had ever encountered.  There was no standard frame of reference for a correct response, no means of prediction for any logical sequence of events, no prepared knowledge for making assessments of patterns relevant to a likely outcome of the situation (Kaplan, 2007).  In his role as a fire fighter, King may have wondered, what do I do, how do I do it, and with perplexity, he may have thought, “I don’t know what to do.”  Such a realization for the  highly organized role of fire fighter, which has authoritative procedures typical of all emergency rescue workers, left King as stated in his own words, “.  .  .  like a walking zombie, literally” (Bacon, 2008).                                                                                                        

In the after math of surviving the horror of the event, he communicated that the things keeping him occupied – holding together his frame of reference now for him no longer mattered (ibid, 2008).  Perhaps for the first time following 911, King’s role as a firefighter was clouded with uncertainties.  Not having a clear picture relevant to what he’s suppose to be doing, where to go from here, and how to get there disabled his psychological locus of control  (Neill, 2006) as the American paradigm he once knew had shifted severely.                                                                     

Within the culture of fear, the probability of Stephen King’s response was predictably high.  First, the dysfunction of not accepting the horror of the 911 event meant it could not be processed (Bacon, 2008).  Secondly, since he could not access the memory of what had occurred, the suppression of the memory caused the lost of his sense of direction; what had been significant to him before now no longer mattered.  Thirdly, the sense of having lost direction resulted in the post traumatic stress disorder rendering him dysfunctional.  As contradictory as it sounds, in order for King to process the horror of the memory, he had to relive it, but with the acceptance that the tragedy would occur in the face of an inherently ongoing culture of fear (Bacon, 2008).                                                                                                                                

JoAnn Difede at Weill Cornell Medical College stated of those suffering PTSD like King, “If they can’t access the memories, then they really can’t process it and get better.”  From this it can be reasonably surmised that King and others like him are suppressing those painful memories and this keeps them locked into a patterned of dysfunction.                                                       

For retired firefighter, Stephen King, the apparent cause of PTSD lies in America’s culture of fear catalyzed by a lost in the sovereign security that he had formerly enjoyed as an American citizen.  For him and possibly millions of other Americans, the vulnerability of a nation that held pride in its autonomous dominion had now been laid bare and open for the entire world to see.  Both shock and humiliation are not too strong of words in describing the evident experience that much of the American population after 911 suffered.  Succeeding the negativity of 911, King needed to resolve what the appropriate role for himself would now become in American society that could give him a new definition of his purpose (Kaplan, 2008, p. 127).  He had to face not only what this would mean to himself for “getting his life back,” but on a universal scale an all-encompassing meaning when considering the fact that not only was America vulnerable to outside invasion, but now, this was known to the entire world. 

Jioni wrote it!

Works Cited

Bacon, A. &. (n.d.). 911: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Retrieved November 29, 2008, from     Kaplan: http://www.pearsoncustom.com/fl/mpl_kaplan/                                                  

John P. Hewitt, D. T. (2007). Social Psychology. (K. University, Ed.) Boston, MA, USA: Pearson Custom Publishing.                                                                                     

Johnson, C. H. (2003, January 14). Terrorism as Mass Tort: Responsibility for 911. Retrieved December 1, 2008, from Saudi-American Forum: http://www.saudi-american-            forum.org/Newsletters/SAF_Essay_03.htm                                                            

Kaplan University. (2007). Social Psychology. Boston : Pearson Custom Publishing.       Marinoff, L. (2007). The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes. New York and London: Sterling Publishing Company 2007.                                                        

Neill, J. (2006, December 6). What is Locus of Control. Retrieved December 1, 2008, from Psychology Class tutorial Related constructs:     http://wilderdom.com/psychology/loc/LocusOfControlWhatIs.html