Thursday, May 30, 2013

The facility (PIC)


Photo by Sharka Todd

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

It’s no good building a house on ova-cosmic principles-



if you don’t know what those principles are!

The irony of romance


500 Days of Summer

The irony of romance is that you can only succeed-
when you are not really trying!

A Sith rules when the people...



are frightened!


Image- Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

Life is so much simpler when you-


don't worry what other people think!

People love to be left alone, which is why...

man sitting peacefully by lake
God never interferes!

If things go bad you may find yourself...

US soldiers against a wall fighting in Afghanistan

in hell, mate, Province!

Birth is savage, I am Thor! (PIC)



Photo by Sharka Todd

Saturday, May 25, 2013

When something is TOO important, it brings out our ugly side-



and this is important to witness!


Image: Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Is the world a meaningless mistake? JEFF FOSTER


Article by Jeff Foster

A man hacks another man to death in broad daylight on a London street. In Miami, a man chews another man's face off while he is still alive. In Paris, a man blows his brains out in front of a dozen wide-eyed schoolchildren.

Is it now time to sing more loudly our songs of bitterness, defeat and unbridled rage? Is now the time to give up? Was the philosophy of nihilism correct in the end? Is the world a meaningless mistake, an aberration of consciousness, a waste of everyone's time?

When confronted with 'news' like the above we can often feel so powerless, so unstable, like we are living in a world that's gone mad and out of control. It all seems like a nightmare, like some evil or dark force must be taking over. Some start talking about the nearing of the Apocalypse. Certainly it can feel like the end of the fairytale world we once believed in. Out of our powerlessness and disappointment, rage may arise, the final attempt of the ego to control things.

In the midst of the devastation we seek answers, causes, someone or something to blame, an outlet for all this confusion, this unprocessed life energy. Do we blame the killers? Their parents? Society as a whole? The human brain? The food we ingest? Chemicals? The stars? Our governments? Religions? Do we objectify the killers as sick, twisted, deluded, evil madmen? Do we go to war with them as they have gone to war with us, wishing more death upon them and their kin? Do we enter into the age-old story of good versus evil, us versus them? Do we further solidify our identification with a mind-made sense of self?

Do we curse the universe and wish we hadn't been born? Do we try to numb ourselves, distract ourselves from the realities of this world, with alcohol, with sex, with work, with material comforts? Do we simply dismiss the horror, detach ourselves from others and turn our backs on their plight, muttering and complaining about how "awful" and "terrible" things are but doing nothing to help bring about change and healing?

Do we turn to spiritual teachers who comfort us with talk about the illusory nature of life and the unreality of all we witness? Do we regurgitate words like 'nothing matters', 'it's all just an innocent play of maya', and 'nobody has any choice anyway'? Do we call what we see an 'illusion', sparing ourselves from the pain of having to confront the messiness and seeming uncontrol-ability of this relative and impermanent manifestation? Do we pretend that world events have nothing to do with us, that everything is disconnected and we are islands unto ourselves? Do we descend into solipsism? Anarchy? Do we close our hearts even more tightly than they are already closed, build our walls even higher and live in a protected state of fear? Do we give up on this world and dream of a perfect afterlife?

Do we come to conclusions about how good or bad the universe is, fixate on an optimistic or pessimistic view? Do we use the 'reality' of the news as an excuse to give up, to shut down, to forget who we truly are? Do we let the 'terrorists' win by living in terror ourselves, and terrorizing others who we label as 'evil'? Do we add to the problems that we see? Or do we use the appearance of problems to look deeply at ourselves and the way we live and treat others? Do we see the madness as a call to clarity? The violence as a call to love? The pain as a call to compassion? The terror as a call to remember and express more deeply and with more conviction that infinite intelligence that we are?

Do we condone the killings? Absolutely not. Do we feel the pain of the victims, and the victims' loved ones? Of course, for we are not separate. Would we do everything we can to prevent this kind of thing happening again? Certainly. Do we work for justice? Yes. Do we sit back and simply 'accept'? If acceptance means detachment and passivity, no. If it means coming into profound alignment with life, knowing that intelligent change and healing always emerges from a fearless plunge into the mystery of the moment, then yes. True acceptance and creative change are lovers.

In the Middle East, a Jew donates a kidney to a sick Palestinian, saving her precious life. In India, a woman feeds and washes those with leprosy, because she sees that we are all expressions of the very same consciousness and it brings her joy to live in this way, despite the names that others call her. In San Francisco, a son holds his elderly father's hand, and suddenly forgiveness happens as if by magic, unexpectedly, the weight and violence and resentment of a lifetime falling away, as if it never happened at all.

What 'news' are we teaching our children? Are we teaching them that they have been born into an essentially scary and bad and sick world, and they should live in fear and hate? Do we teach them that violence is inevitable, and 'built into' to their nature? Or do we teach them that the murder and torture we see in the news every day stems from a deep forgetting of who we are, a false and misguided belief in separation?

Are we teaching them to give up on their dreams because there are bad people out there intent on stopping them? Are we teaching them to give up on love, and give up on compassion, and give up on change, and give up on humanity, and give up on joy, because of all the 'news'? Are we teaching them to focus on what is wrong with the world, to cling to the 'negative', to sing songs of defeat and disillusionment? Are we blinding them to the 'negative' by focusing only on the 'positive'? Or are we teaching them to acknowledge the violence of the world, the pain of it, but to see that all this sorrow is part of an infinitely vaster picture, a picture where everything is interconnected and everything makes a difference and everything is in balance and nothing is set in stone?

Don't use the 'news' as an excuse to stop living your truth, even for a moment. Don't believe for a second that there is a force called 'evil' in the world with any power whatsoever to win over Life. Terror cannot win, for it emerges from a gross misunderstanding of our nature. We are only hurting ourselves, stabbing ourselves, blowing ourselves up, and deep down, we know this and have always known. A wave can never be separated from the ocean, or from any other wave, and beyond our differences in opinion and belief, we are all movements of the One Life, the true Power, beyond the worldly 'power' of guns and meat cleavers dripping with blood. Teach your children the realities of the world, yes, but, more importantly, teach them the realities of their hearts and the hearts of those they call 'others'. Let the current play of violence actually serve to deepen your conviction in that timeless and unshakeable gift of Presence that you have always known, and reconfirm your intention to end all violence in yourself, to live as you know you can live. Don't allow the 'news', or at least the stories selectively presented to you as the 'news', to distract you from Truth.

Keep your eyes on the prize.

Jeff Foster

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Without art I’d just be a shmuck-

Picasso with hands pressed against window pane

like everybody else!

Picasso

In life, you don’t get what you deserve...



you get what you THINK you deserve!


Image: Star Wars Episode 2, Attack of the Clones (film)

Impenetrable God shield.



Archangel Michael.

It's important for animals to suffer and die-




so their lives more closely resemble ours!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Many people are stuck in towns and tragically...





miss the insect symphony at night!


Illustration by Paula J. Becker.

Cricket singing described- WIKIPEDIA



The sound emitted by crickets is commonly referred to as chirping; the scientific name is stridulation. Only the male crickets chirp. The sound is emitted by the stridulatory organ, a large vein running along the bottom of each wing, covered with "teeth" (serration) much like a comb. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing. As he does this, the cricket also holds the wings up and open, so that the wing membranes can act as acoustical sails. It is a popular myth that the cricket chirps by rubbing its legs together.

There are four types of cricket song: The calling song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet song. An aggressive song is triggered by chemo-receptors on the antennae that detect the near presence of another male cricket and a copulatory song is produced for a brief period after a successful mating.

Source: Wikipedia

If you can reset your mind to zero,



you can learn a thing or two!

You’re coming with us: your mind is faulty and you’re a danger-

Actress Frances Farmer being dragged against her will into psychiatric care

to both yourself and other people!

The EMF pollution from a laptop is 5,000 worse...



for you than global warming!

However, there are solutions!

The end of wire is fast approaching...



and I, for one, am glad!


Image: Sleuth (film)

Monday, May 13, 2013

German officers relax in a Paris sidewalk cafe.



During the German occupation of Paris during World War 2.

What are the dark forces?


by Matthew Ward

The dark forces is a gigantic force field of negative thought forms that meanders throughout the universe looking for lesser evolved civilizations to enshroud in darkness. Although this vast field has the ability to manifest into whatever individual forms it envisions, it rarely does because its goal is to capture an entire civilization by enshrouding it in darkness.

Thus darkness is the dark forces’ offspring, you could say, and it can be likened to a cloud cover that is so dense that the people feel lost in the miasma. And indeed they are lost insofar as conscious awareness of their beginnings, of their god and goddess selves and of their inseparable connection with the Supreme Ruler of this universe and all other life forms herein.

Give thanks for all you receive...



and your life will be good!

The first part of life is to absorb the teachings-



And the second part, to forget them!

Compulsory schooling puts people in the mindset of being “fed” life…


Which is bad for individual self-determination and get-up and go!

Human will is something we need to develop so that the life we lead reflects OUR WILL, not the will of others who don't know what's best for us. 

Compulsory schooling, where lessons are "fed" to the student, without them having any say in the matter, overrides individual will and results in the production of young adults with poor will power that just go along with the herd.

The high rates of youth suicide and depression is a sign that young people don't have the tools to deal with life in a constructive way.  A big part of this is, I believe, due to the fact that young people have never been given the responsibility form a young age to chart the direction of their own life, as they should be.  Instead, the just accept what comes their way and if it is unpleassant they just bear it rather than charting a new course for themselves.

The answer to this dilemma is to give child more say in what they do, in all areas of their life, until they reach the point where they are in full command of their life, creating the life they want to lead, not an unsuitable life that's been handed to them by unknowing adults. 

SHARKA TODD