3:45am and sleep just ain’t happening. It is always the early hours that my mind starts working. I start to “analyse” and this time I was analysing “thinking”!
It has been said that “I think too much” usually accompanied by “and don’t DO enough”!! That makes me laugh. “Thinking” burns a huge amount of calories! Anyway, I was giving thinking some thought and it started to dawn on me (in more ways than one given the hour) that being an “analyst” isn’t such a bad thing, even unfettered analysis. I am well aware that my thought processes are a little random; I am also well aware that I allow my mind free reign and that it sometimes takes me to very odd places, but what is wrong with that? As I write this for example, there is no real direction! I just have a “thought” and want to see where it goes.
There are already “plenty” of minds working away in “One” area. Even on a metaphysical level, I have seen the effects of “restraining” the mind to one particular area of focus and I “think” that is folly.
A friend once explained the “cocktail effect” of food and all the other things we have around us like, deodorant, shampoo, soap, smoke, whatever. Tests carried out to decide what is “safe” to eat and in what combinations, give us a feeling of security when eating whatever it is, but, did these tests take into account the absorption of chemicals from your clothes, shampoo, deodorant? I think not! It would be impractical to carry out a test that took ALL permutations into account. Our bodies being an incredibly intricate organism can and do get affected by the tiniest of atoms/molecules and we don’t have a Scooby doo if it caused the Cancer we got or the allergy. So; I was doing this thinking and relating it to the capacity of the brain, and it’s potential. We all know it is said we only use a fraction of it and let’s be honest, some don’t even use that! Personally I believe that whatever “I” can “think” is possible. I don’t know why, but it seems to me that if I can “think it” it can be done! And I am not talking about becoming an X Factor star or making a million. It may sound arrogant but they are just simple mechanisms that are more or less “controlled” by a set of circumstances influenced by others. I met a guy here in Spain many years ago who had a yacht worth 300,000 pounds, he paid 120,000 for it and couldn’t get his head around the fact that if he wanted it re-upholstered, it would cost a load of money, “But I only paid 120k for it” he said, I replied, “yes, but it still has the maintenance of a 300k yacht”! he also bragged about, “having a 120k yacht and 250k in the bank” his bragging would be laughable if he was saying this to a man with a 200k yacht and half a million in the bank! His thinking was “limited” to numbers and costs, a very low being on the brains scale despite his reasonable financial wealth. Some would say yes, but he is being successful in “this” life! But if the person who designed his yacht had limited “His” thinking to the same level, he would not have had a yacht. All the people who make huge amounts of money are technically useless! It is the “creators” who are the worthy.
I thought about “facebook” and I thought, “What a fantastic opportunity for the human race to connect” the biggest “family” possible. And then I thought about the internet in general and must admit, I think it is the most stunning thing to have ever happened to mankind! There isn’t anything off limits now the entire knowledge of human endeavour now available to everyone! And what is it used for mostly?.............”pornography” and social networking! (Which quite often become one and the same thing online) I am astounded that after so many years of this available technology, we haven’t progressed beyond inane social sites and Porn! Sure, there are people who do use it for the feeding of the grey cells, but not the vast majority of us. I think if we did, there would be no war, Cancer would have been eradicated, and the levels of intelligence in school leavers would have increased not “decreased”! (I am talking “en masse” here not the individuals who ARE developing)
Surely we can agree that “communication” is key to growing? If so, what are we using this magic to “communicate”? A load of puerile nonsense is what! “Mafia wars! “My friend answered a question about you” on facebook apps! “Farmyard”! What the fuck! I am seriously hoping that one day soon, we will wake up to the potential the internet has given us and say “right, that was fun, diversion over, now let’s sort out the fucking mess we created” ( I am not going to hold my breath!)
My dream is that we very soon create a symbiosis between technology and ecology; it IS possible to have a “green planet” and an ubertechnical one and it IS known by those who organise us, but unless we tell them in much larger numbers than from the lobby of small groups, they will ignore it. At the moment it is “too fucking slow”!
When a disease is in a tree, it is no good pruning a visibly affected limb, you need to uproot the bastard and burn it!
Its 5am and I just went up to try and grab a couple of hours and the moment my head hit the pillow… the bloody floodgates opened!
I tried to imagine what it would take for there to be a major shift in consciousness. Bearing in mind the shift of which I speak is heavily biased towards peace and positive human growth, and I thought about the 60’s and the peace and love movement. “There were millions of them”! Fucking millions of people all wanting peace and harmony and love and a better world! The music? All about banning wars and love and peace and shit, “Man”! What the hell happened?? I tell you what happened; they were all stoned! A few went off and lived true to their beliefs and the rest capitulated and became accountants and office bod’s they continued getting stoned and it all fizzled out like a damp squib. And the machine marched on, weapons got smarter Banks got richer, and a drive to find “instant” pleasure thrived. “There” was an opportunity to galvanise a change in consciousness that was missed or defeated! We got some great Art out of it, and Music and some cracking books, probably got a lot of herpes and HPV too as a result of “free love”! “Enlightened relationships” and what have you. My feeling? I don’t think being “peaceful” about change works. We have sat around for 60 years watching Arab countries be ruled by despot’s dictators and tyrants and we have allowed it to go on so we could get “Oil”, now the people have had enough and are doing the ONLY thing that works to any degree, and it ain’t “peaceful”! The west didn’t help over the last 60 years but now we want to help them? We didn’t supply any of them “despot or revolutionary” with the means to create a peaceful solution, we provided both sides with guns and bombs! It was a cast iron gold plated inevitability they would use them, and bet your last one “a few people” will get even richer off the back of it. Hey, I am no Einstein but doesn’t it seem incredibly simple to you too! And if so, why are you not (for those who aren’t) using the social network to make a noise about it? Do you think it won’t make any difference? Well, the social network managed to get enough support and pressure to get an abused Elephant released from the scum that were “caring” for it!
Take a look at Ian Puddick on facebook, this guy was/is being terrorised by the murder squad and terrorist squad for ………..”Grassing up an adulterer to his employers”! And he has…………….662 supporters on his facebook. Now I think we can do better than that surely? Which brings me neatly on to “relationships”!
I am crap at them.
