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Centropy

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:34:36 GMT

Centropy is the opposing force of entrophy, thus centropy is the staying of the energy/light making up matter in it's gathered form. Centropy is controlled by gravity in the physical level, and on higher frequency levels consciousness control. Gravitational control of centrophy in the physical level results in eventual death of all material based forms.

For this reason a time machine would have to possess it's own separate consciousness to hold it's form when moving into the higher frequency realms or it risks exploding into a tremendous energy radiation explosion.

Gnosis of the Mechanics of Time

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:35:53 GMT

I just had the realization of how the force of gravity creates the illusion of time, and also how this relates to the force of entropy. I just realized that energy moves in all dimensions at once, not just the 3 dimensions of the material plane, this explains why gravity creates time and space. I can explain that entropy is decay of the effects of gravity holding together energy into matter. Also then this makes me realize how on the higher frequency levels of reality there is no time as at faster energy frequencies light/energy is not trapped by the forces of gravity, ie: time only exists in material existence, not in the more spiritual levels. What this also means is that if you can increase the forces of entropy then you can speed up time/space and if you increase the forces of gravity then you can slow down time/space, though it is possible I have those effects reversed. This also means that if you can move outside of the effects of gravity then you can go into a place where you can reappear at any point in time/space. This process would be done through the changing of the energy frequency of the time-travel vehicle and all of it's contents. Physical time travel is very possible in real life!

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:59:44 GMT

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Tue, 22 May 2007 09:08:54 GMT

This is a very interesting article...

Fears for Democracy in India
By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
On February 27, 2002, the Sabarmati express train arrived in thestation of Godhra, in the state of Gujarat, bearing a large group ofHindu pilgrims who were returning from a trip to the purportedbirthplace of the god Rama at Ayodhya (where, some years earlier, angryHindu mobs had destroyed the Babri mosque, which they claimed was ontop of the remains of Rama's birthplace). The pilgrimage, like manyothers in recent times, aimed at forcibly constructing a temple overthe disputed site, and the mood of the returning passengers, frustratedin their aims by the government and the courts, was angrily emotional.When the train stopped at the station, the Hindu passengers got intoarguments with Muslim passengers and vendors. At least one Muslimvendor was beaten up when he refused to say Jai Sri Ram ("Hail Rama"). As the train left the station, stones were thrown at it, apparently by Muslims.
Fifteen minutes later, one car of the train erupted in flames.Fifty-eight men, women, and children died in the fire. Most of the deadwere Hindus. Because the area adjacent to the tracks was made up ofMuslim dwellings, and because a Muslim mob had gathered in the regionto protest the treatment of Muslims on the train platform, blame wasimmediately put on Muslims. Many people were arrested, and some ofthose are still in detention without charge — despite the fact that twoindependent inquiries have established through careful sifting of theforensic evidence that the fire was most probably a tragic accident,caused by combustion from cookstoves carried on by the passengers andstored under the seats of the train.

In the days that followed the incident, wave upon wave of violenceswept through the state. The attackers were Hindus, many of them highlypoliticized, shouting slogans of the Hindu right, along with "Kill!Destroy!" and "Slaughter!" There is copious evidence that the violentretaliation was planned before the precipitating event by Hinduextremist organizations that had been waiting for an occasion. No onewas spared: Young children were thrown into fires along with theirfamilies, fetuses ripped from the bellies of pregnant women.Particularly striking was the number of women who were raped,mutilated, in some cases tortured with large metal objects, and thenset on fire. Over the course of several weeks, about 2,000 Muslims werekilled.
Most alarming was the total breakdown in the rule of law — not onlyat the local level but also at that of the state and nationalgovernments. Police were ordered not to stop the violence. Some eggedit on. Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra Modi, rationalized and evenencouraged the murders. He was later re-elected on a platform thatfocused on religious hatred. Meanwhile the national government showed aculpable indifference. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee suggestedthat religious riots were inevitable wherever Muslims lived alongsideHindus, and that troublemaking Muslims were to blame.
While Americans have focused on President Bush's "war on terror,"Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in anotherpart of the world. India — the most populous of all democracies, and acountry whose Constitution protects human rights even morecomprehensively than our own — has been in crisis. Until the spring of2004, its parliamentary government was increasingly controlled byright-wing Hindu extremists who condoned and in some cases activelysupported violence against minority groups, especially Muslims.
What has been happening in India is a serious threat to the futureof democracy in the world. The fact that it has yet to make it onto theradar screen of most Americans is evidence of the way in whichterrorism and the war on Iraq have distracted us from events and issuesof fundamental significance. If we really want to understand the impactof religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently providesa deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding ofthe more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete. It also providesan example of how democracy can survive the assault of religiousextremism.
In May 2004, the voters of India went to the polls in large numbers.Contrary to all predictions, they gave the Hindu right a resoundingdefeat. Many right-wing political groups and the social organizationsallied with them remain extremely powerful, however. The rule of lawand democracy has shown impressive strength and resilience, but thefuture is unclear.
The case of Gujarat is a lens through which to conduct a criticalexamination of the influential thesis of the "clash of civilizations,"made famous by the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. Hispicture of the world as riven between democratic Western values and anaggressive Muslim monolith does nothing to help us understand today'sIndia, where, I shall argue, the violent values of the Hindu right areimports from European fascism of the 1930s, and where the third-largestMuslim population in the world lives as peaceful democratic citizens,despite severe poverty and other inequalities.
The real "clash of civilizations" is not between "Islam" and "the West," but instead withinvirtually all modern nations — between people who are prepared to liveon terms of equal respect with others who are different, and those whoseek the protection of homogeneity and the domination of a single"pure" religious and ethnic tradition. At a deeper level, as Gandhiclaimed, it is a clash within the individual self, between the urge todominate and defile the other and a willingness to live respectfully onterms of compassion and equality, with all the vulnerability that sucha life entails.
This argument about India suggests a way to see America, which isalso torn between two different pictures of itself. One shows thecountry as good and pure, its enemies as an external "axis of evil."The other picture, the fruit of internal self-criticism, shows Americaas complex and flawed, torn between forces bent on control andhierarchy and forces that promote democratic equality. At what I'vecalled the Gandhian level, the argument about India shows Americans tothemselves as individuals, each of whom is capable of both respect andaggression, both democratic mutuality and anxious domination. Americanshave a great deal to gain by learning more about India and ponderingthe ideas of some of her most significant political thinkers, such asSir Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi, whose ruminations aboutnationalism and the roots of violence are intensely pertinent totoday's conflicts.
A ccording to the Huntington thesis, each "civilization" has its owndistinctive view of life, and Hinduism counts as a distinct"civilization." If we investigate the history of the Hindu right,however, we will see a very different story. Traditional Hinduism wasdecentralized, plural, and highly tolerant, so much so that the visionof a unitary, "pure" Hinduism that could provide the new nation,following independence from Britain in 1947, with an aggressiveideology of homogeneity could not be found in India: The founders ofthe Hindu right had to import it from Europe.
The Hindu right's view of history is a simple one. Like all simpletales, it is largely a fabrication, but its importance to the movementmay be seen by the intensity with which its members go after scholarswho present a more nuanced and accurate view: not only by stridentpublic critiques, but by organized campaigns of threat andintimidation, culminating in some cases in physical violence. Here'show the story goes:
Once there lived in the Indus Valley a pure and peaceful people.They spoke Vedic Sanskrit, the language of the gods. They had a richmaterial culture and a peaceful temper, although they were prepared forwar. Their realm was vast, stretching from Kashmir in the north to SriLanka (Ceylon) in the south. And yet they saw unity and solidarity intheir shared ways of life, calling themselves Hindus and their landHindustan. No class divisions troubled them, nor was caste a painfulsource of division. The condition of women was excellent.
That peaceful condition went on for centuries. Although from time totime marauders made their appearance (for example, the Huns), they werequickly dispatched. Suddenly, rudely, unprovoked, invading Muslims putan end to all that. Early in the 16th century, Babur, founder of theMughal dynasty, swept through the north of Hindustan, vandalizing Hindutemples, stealing sacred objects, building mosques over temple ruins.For 200 years, Hindus lived at the mercy of the marauders, until theMaharashtrian hero Shivaji rose up and restored the Hindu kingdom. Hissuccess was all too brief. Soon the British took up where Babur and hisprogeny had left off, imposing tyranny upon Hindustan and her people.They can recover their pride only by concerted aggression against alienelements in their midst.
What is wrong with that picture? Well, for a start, the people whospoke Sanskrit almost certainly migrated into the subcontinent fromoutside, finding indigenous people there, probably the ancestors of theDravidian peoples of South India. Hindus are no more indigenous thanMuslims. Second, it leaves out problems in Hindu society: the problemof caste, which both Gandhi and Tagore took to be the central socialissue facing India, and obvious problems of class and genderinequality. (When historians point to evidence of these things, theHindu right calls them Marxists, as if that, by itself, invalidatedtheir arguments.) Third, it leaves out the tremendous regionaldifferences within Hinduism, and hostilities and aggressions sometimesassociated with those. Fourth, it omits the evidence of peacefulcoexistence and syncretism between Hindus and Muslims for a good dealof the Mughal Empire, including the well-known policies of religiouspluralism of Akbar (1542-1605).
In the Hindu-right version of history, a persistent theme is that ofhumiliated masculinity: Hindus have been subordinate for centuries, andtheir masculinity insulted, in part because they have not beenaggressive and violent enough. The two leading ideologues of the Hinduright responded to the call for a warlike Hindu masculinity indifferent ways. V.D. Savarkar (1883-1966) was a freedom fighter whospent years in a British prison in the Andaman Islands, and who mayhave been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi. M.S.Golwalkar (1906-73), a gurulike figure who was not involved in theindependence struggle, quietly helped build up the organization knownas RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or National VolunteersAssociation), now the leading social organization of the Hindu right.Savarkar's "Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?," first published in 1923,undertook to define the essence of Hinduness for the new nation; hisdefinition was exclusionary, emphasizing cultural homogeneity and theneed to use force to ensure the supremacy of Hindus.
Golwalkar's We, or Our Nationhood Defined was published in1939. Writing during the independence struggle, Golwalkar saw his taskas describing the unity of the new nation. To do that, he looked toWestern political theory, and particularly to Germany, where what hecalled "race pride" helped bring "under one sway the whole of theterritory" that was originally held by the Germani. By purgingitself of Jews, he wrote, "Germany has also shown how well nighimpossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going tothe root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for usin Hindusthan to learn and profit by."
In the end, Golwalkar's vision of national unity was not exactlythat of Nazi Germany. He was not very concerned with purity of blood,but rather with whether Muslim and Christian groups were willing to"abandon their differences, and completely merge themselves in theNational Race." He was firmly against the civic equality of any peoplewho retained their religious and ethnic distinctiveness.
At the time of independence, such ideas of Hindu supremacy did notprevail. Nehru and Gandhi insisted not only on equal rights for allcitizens, but also on stringent protections for religious freedom ofexpression in the new Constitution. Gandhi always pointedly includedMuslims at the very heart of his movement. He felt that respect forhuman equality lay at the heart of all genuine religions, and providedHindus with strong reasons both for repudiating the caste hierarchy andfor seeking relationships of respect and harmony with Christians andMuslims. A devout Muslim, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, was one of his andNehru's most trusted advisers, and it was to him that Gandhi turned toaccept food when he broke his fast unto death, a very pointed assaulton sectarian ideas of purity and pollution. Gandhi's pluralistic ideas,however, were always contested.
On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was shot at point-blank range byNathuram Godse, a member of the Hindu political party Mahasabha andformer member of the RSS, who had long had a close, reverentialrelationship with Savarkar. At his sentencing on November 8, 1949,Godse read a book-length statement of self-explanation. Although it wasnot permitted publication at the time, it gradually leaked out. Todayit is widely available on the Internet, where Godse is revered as ahero on Hindu-right Web sites.
Godse's self-justification, like the historical accounts of bothSavarkar and Golwalkar, saw contemporary events against the backdrop ofcenturies of "Muslim tyranny" in India, punctuated by the heroicresistance of Shivaji in the 18th century. Like Savarkar, Godsedescribed his goal as that of creating a strong, proud India that couldthrow off the centuries of domination. He was appalled by Gandhi'srejection of the warlike heroes of classical Hindu epics and hisinclusion of Muslims as full equals in the new nation, and argued thatGandhi exposed Indians to subordination and humiliation. Nehru believedthat the murder of Gandhi was part of a "fairly widespread conspiracy"on the part of the Hindu right to seize power; he saw the situation asanalogous to that in Europe on the eve of the fascist takeovers. And hebelieved that the RSS was the power behind this conspiracy.
Fast-forward now to recent years. Although illegal for a time, theRSS eventually re-emerged and quietly went to work building a vastsocial network, consisting largely of groups for young boyscalled shakha,or "branches"which, through clever use of games and songs, indoctrinatethe young into the confrontational and Hindu-supremacist ideology ofthe organization. The idea of total obedience and the abnegation ofcritical faculties is at the core of the solidaristic movement. Eachday, as members raise the saffron flag of the warlike hero Shivaji,which the movement prefers to the tricolor flag of the Indian nation(with its Buddhist wheel of law reminding citizens of the emperorAshoka's devotion to religious toleration), they recite a pledge thatbegins: "I take the oath that I will always protect the purity of Hindureligion, and the purity of Hindu culture, for the supreme progress ofthe Hindu nation." The organization also makes clever use of modernmedia: A nationally televised serial version of the classic epic Ramayanain the late 1980s fascinated viewers all over India with its concoctedtale of a unitary Hinduism dedicated to the single-minded worship ofthe god Rama. In 1992 Hindu mobs, with the evident connivance of themodern political wing of the RSS, the party known as the BJP (BharatiyaJanata Party, or National People's Party), destroyed a mosque in thecity of Ayodhya that they say covers the remains of a Hindu templemarking Rama's birthplace.
Politically, the BJP began to gather strength in the late 1980s,drawing on widespread public dissatisfaction with the economic policiesof the post-Nehru Congress Party (although it was actually Congress,under Rajiv Gandhi, that began economic reforms), and playing, always,the cards of hatred and fear. It was during its ascendancy, in acoalition government that prevented it from carrying out all its goals,that the destruction of the Ayodyha mosque took place. The violence inGujarat was the culmination of a series of increasingly angrypilgrimages to the Ayodyha site, where the Hindu right has attempted toconstruct a Hindu temple over the ruins, but has been frustrated by thecourts. Although the elections of 2004 gave a negative verdict on theBJP government, it remains the major opposition party and controlsgovernments in some key states, including Gujarat.
For several years, I have studied the Gujarat violence, its basisand its aftermath, looking for implications for how we should viewreligious violence around the world. One obvious conclusion is thateach case must be studied on its own merits, with close attention tospecific historical and regional factors. The idea that all conflictsare explained by a simple hypothesis of the "clash of civilizations"proves utterly inadequate in Gujarat, where European ideas wereborrowed to address a perceived humiliation and to create an ideologythat has led to a great deal of violence against peaceful Muslims.Indeed, the "clash of civilizations" thesis is the best friend of theperpetrators because it shields them and their ideology from scrutiny.Repeatedly in interviews with leading members of the Hindu right, I wasinformed that no doubt, as an American, I was already on their side,knowing that Muslims cause trouble wherever they are.
What we see in Gujarat is not a simplistic, comforting thesis, butsomething more disturbing: the fact that in a thriving democracy, manyindividuals are unable to live with others who are different, on termsof mutual respect and amity. They seek total domination as the onlyroad to security and pride. That is a phenomenon well known indemocracies around the world, and it has nothing to do with an allegedMuslim monolith, and, really, very little to do with religion as such.
This case, then, informs us that we must look within, asking whetherin our own society similar forces are at work, and, if so, how we maycounteract them. Beyond that general insight, my study of the riots hassuggested four very specific lessons.
The rule of law: One of the most appalling aspects of theevents in Gujarat was the complicity of officers of the law. The policesat on their hands, the highest officials of state government egged onthe killing, and the national government gave aid and comfort to thestate government.
However, the institutional and legal structure of the Indiandemocracy ultimately proved robust, playing a key role in securingjustice for the victims. The Supreme Court and the Election Commissionof India played constructive roles in postponing new elections whileMuslims were encouraged to return home, and in ordering changes ofvenue in key trials arising out of the violence. Above all, freenational elections were held in 2004, and those elections, in which theparticipation of poor rural voters was decisive, delivered a stronglynegative verdict on the policies of fear and hate, as well as on theBJP's economic policies. The current government, headed by ManmohanSingha Sikh and India's first minority prime ministerhas announced afirm commitment to end sectarian violence and has done a great deal tofocus attention on the unequal economic and political situation ofMuslims in the nation, as well as appointing Muslims to key offices. Onbalance, then, the pluralistic democracy envisaged by Gandhi and Nehruseems to be winning, in part because the framers of the Indian statebequeathed to India a wise institutional and constitutional structure,and traditions of commitment to the key political values that structureembodies.
It should be mentioned that one of the key aspects of the founders'commitments, which so far has survived the Hindu-right challenge, isthe general conception of the nation as a uni-ty around politicalideals and values, particularly the value of equal entitlement, ratherthan around ethnic or religious or linguistic identity. India, like theUnited States, but unlike most of the nations of Europe, has rejectedsuch exclusionary ways of characterizing the nation, adopting in itsConstitution, in public ceremonies, and in key public symbols thepolitical conception of its unity. Political structure is notev-erything, but it can supply a great deal in times of stress.
The news media and the role of intellectuals: One of theheartening aspects of the Gujarat events was the performance of thenational news media and of the community of intellectuals. Both printmedia and television kept up unceasing pressure to document andinvestigate events. At the same time, many scholars, lawyers, andleaders of nongovernnmental organizations converged on Gujarat to takedown the testimony of witnesses, help them file complaints, and preparea public record that would stand up in court. The only reason I feltthe need to write about these events further is that their analyseshave, by and large, not reached the American audience.
We can see here documentation of something long ago observed by theIndian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen in the context of famines:the crucial role of a free press in supporting democratic institutions.(Sen pointed out that there has not been a famine in recent times in anation where a free press brings essential information to the public;in China, by contrast, in the late 1950s and early 60s, famine wasallowed to continue unabated, because news of what was happening inrural areas did not leak out.) And we can study here what a free pressreally means: I would argue that it requires a certain absence oftop-down corporate control and an easy access to the major news mediafor intellectual voices from a wide range of backgrounds.
Education and the importance of critical thinking and imagination:So far I have mentioned factors that have helped the Indian democracysurvive the threat of quasi-fascist takeover. But there are warningsigns for the future. The public schools in Gujarat are famous fortheir complete lack of critical thinking, their exclusive emphasis onrote learning and the uncritical learning of marketable skills, and theelements of fascist propaganda that easily creep in when criticalthinking is not cultivated. It is well known that Hitler is presentedas a hero in history textbooks in the state, and nationwide publicprotest has not yet led to any change. To some extent, the rest of thenation is better off: National-level textbooks have been rewritten totake out the Hindu right's false ideological view of history and tosubstitute a more nuanced view. Nonetheless, the emphasis on rotelearning and on regurgitation of facts for national examinations isdistressing everywhere, and things are only becoming worse with theimmense pressure to produce economically productive graduates.
The educational culture of India used to contain progressive voices,such as that of the great Tagore, who emphasized that all the skills inthe world were useless, even baneful, if not wielded by a cultivatedimagination and refined critical faculties. Such voices have now beensilenced by the sheer demand for profitability in the global market.Parents want their children to learn marketable skills, and their greatpride is the admission of a child to the Indian Institutes ofTechnology or the India Institutes of Management. They have contemptfor the humanities and the arts. I fear for democracy down the road,when it is run, as it increasingly will be, by docile engineers in theGujarat mold, unable to criticize the propaganda of politicians andunable to imagine the pain of another human being.
In the United States, by some estimates fully 40 percent ofIndian-Americans hail from Gujarat, where a large proportion belong tothe Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism, distinctive for its emphasis onuncritical obedience to the utterances of the current leader of thesect, whose title is Pramukh Swami Maharaj. On a visit to the elaboratemultimillion-dollar Swaminarayan temple in Bartlett, Ill., I was givena tour by a young man recently arrived from Gujarat, who delighted intelling me the simplistic Hindu-right story of India's history, and whoemphatically told me that whenever Pramukh Swami speaks, one is toregard it as the direct voice of God and obey without question. At thatpoint, with a beatific smile, the young man pointed up to the elaboratemarble ceiling and asked, "Do you know why this ceiling glows the wayit does?" I said I didn't, and I confidently expected an explanationinvoking the spiritual powers of Pramukh Swami. My guide smiled evenmore broadly. "Fiber-optic cables," he told me. "We are the first onesto put this technology into a temple." There you see what can easilywreck democracy: a combination of technological sophistication withutter docility. I fear that many democracies around the world,including our own, are going down that road, through a lack of emphasison the humanities and arts and an unbalanced emphasis on profitableskills.
The creation of a liberal public culture: How did fascism take suchhold in India? Hindu traditions emphasize tolerance and pluralism, anddaily life tends to emphasize the ferment and vigor of difference, aspeople from so many ethnic, linguistic, and regional backgroundsencounter one another. But as I've noted, the traditions contain awound, a locus of vulnerability, in the area of humiliated masculinity.For centuries, some Hindu males think, they were subordinated by asequence of conquerors, and Hindus have come to identify the sexualplayfulness and sensuousness of their traditions, scorned by themasters of the Raj, with their own weakness and subjection. So arepudiation of the sensuous and the cultivation of the masculine cameto seem the best way out of subjection. One reason why the RSS attractssuch a following is the widespread sense of masculine failure.
At the same time, the RSS filled a void, organizing at thegrass-roots level with great discipline and selflessness. The RSS isnot just about fascist ideology; it also provides needed socialservices, and it provides fun, luring boys in with the promise of agroup life that has both more solidarity and more imagination than thetedious world of government schools.
S o what is needed is some counterforce, which would supply a publicculture of pluralism with equally efficient grass-roots organization,and a public culture of masculinity that would contend against theappeal of the warlike and rapacious masculinity purveyed by the Hinduright. The "clash within" is not so much a clash between two groups ina nation that are different from birth; it is, at bottom, a clashwithin each person, in which the ability to live with others on termsof mutual respect and equality contends anxiously against the sense ofbeing humiliated.
Gandhi understood that. He taught his followers that life's realstruggle was a struggle within the self, against one's own need todominate and one's fear of being vulnerable. He deliberately focusedattention on sexuality as an arena in which domination plays itself outwith pernicious effect, and he deliberately cultivated an androgynousmaternal persona. More significantly still, he showed his followersthat being a "real man" is not a matter of being aggressive and bashingothers; it is a matter of controlling one's own instincts to aggressionand standing up to provocation with only one's human dignity to defendoneself. I think that in some respects, he went off the tracks, in hissuggestion that sexual relations are inherently scenes of dominationand in his recommendation of asceticism as the only route tonondomination. Nonetheless, he saw the problem at its root, and heproposed a public culture that, while he lived, was sufficient toaddress it.
In a quite different way, Tagore also created a counterimage of theIndian self, an image that was more sensuous, more joyful than that ofGandhi, but equally bent on renouncing the domination that Tagore sawas inherent in European traditions. In works such as Nationalism and The Religion of Man,Tagore described a type of joyful cosmopolitanism, underwritten bypoetry and the arts, that he also made real in his pioneeringprogressive school in Santiniketan.
After Gandhi, however, that part of the pluralist program haslanguished. Though he much loved and admired both Gandhi and Tagore,Nehru had contempt for religion, and out of his contempt he neglectedthe cultivation of what the radical religions of both men had supplied:images of who we are as citizens, symbolic connections to the roots ofhuman vulnerability and openness, and the creation of a grass-rootspublic culture around those symbols. Nehru was a great institutionbuilder, but in thinking about the public culture of the new nation,his focus was always on economic, not cultural, issues. Because hefirmly expected that raising the economic level of the poor would causethem to lose the need for religion and, in general, for emotionalnourishment, he saw no need to provide a counterforce to the powerfulemotional propaganda of the Hindu right.
Today's young people in India, therefore, tend to think of religion,and the creation of symbolic culture in general, as forces that are intheir very nature fascist and reactionary because that is what theyhave seen in their experience. When one tells them the story of theAmerican civil-rights movement, and the role of both liberal religionand powerful pluralist rhetoric in forging an anti-racist civicculture, they are quite surprised. Meanwhile, the RSS goes to workunopposed in every state and region, skillfully plucking the strings ofhate and fear. By now pluralists generally realize that a mistake wasmade in leaving grass-roots organization to the right, but it is verydifficult to jump-start a pluralist movement. The salient exception hasbeen the women's movement, which has built at the grass roots veryskillfully.
It is comforting for Americans to talk about a clash ofcivilizations. That thesis tells us that evil is outside, distant,other, and that we are perfectly all right as we are. All we need do isto remain ourselves and fight the good fight. But the case of Gujaratshows us that the world is very different. The forces that assaildemocracy are internal to many, if not most, democratic nations, andthey are not foreign: They are our own ideas and voices, meaning thevoices of aggressive European nationalism, refracted back against theoriginal aggressor with the extra bile of resentment born of a longexperience of domination and humiliation.
The implication is that all nations, Western and non-Western, needto examine themselves with the most fearless exercise of criticalcapacities, looking for the roots of domination within and devisingeffective institutional and educational countermeasures. At a deeperlevel, the case of Gujarat shows us what Gandhi and Tagore, in theirdifferent ways, knew: that the real root of domination lies deep in thehuman personality. It would be so convenient if Americans were pure andfree from flaw, but that fantasy is yet another form that theresourceful narcissism of the human personality takes on the way to badbehavior.
Martha C. Nussbaum is a professor in the philosophy department,law school, divinity school, and the college at the University ofChicago. Her book The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future will be published this week by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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What "Given" Right to Dominion?

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The overwhelming majority of Americans agree that democracy is thepolitical philosophy of choice in the modern world, but most Americansknow very little about the WHAT of democracy as it emerged over twocenturies ago. They know even less about HOW democracy emerged and theyknow virtually nothing about WHY democracy emerged in their homeland.
That ignorance explains why many Americans are currently unable tomake a distinction between corrupt corporate capitalism and democracy,thinking them to be synonymous. It is as if we have not yet experiencedadequate numbers of political and corporate scandals to get themessage. Only flat out ignorance can explain our current position,which is essentially 180 degrees off course from what our FoundingFathers had in mind.
That ignorance thrives in the U.S. because knowledge of human rightsand democracy has been made irrelevant for both rich and poor instruggling to survive a competitive socioeconomic system which knowslittle of family and community values. In other words, capitalismnourishes ignorance as it nourishes materialism in the interest ofshallowness. Capitalism has made the U.S. into a nation in which boththe rich and poor are desperate, to thrive and to survive, respectively.
To make matters worse, for about one third of Americans, thatignorance is overt and happily maintained regardless of the facts ofthe matter. These are people who live in a world of their ownfabrication. Recent polls indicate that the average Republican has notlearned a thing in the past 5 years of the Bush administration'sincomprehensible and incompetent decision-making (1).
This is blind loyalty to god and country that goes beyond any graspof reason (2). In doing so, it simply cannot have anything to do withAmerican democracy and Jefferson's natural theology which made theChrist human and placed God in "the will of the people." In contrast todemocracy, under religious capitalism the people are assigned nodivinity whatsoever.
It does beg the question as to how Americans can feel that they havesome "given" right to dominate world politics and economics. Theycannot do so in the name of American "democracy" - because human rightsand the values of democracy are entirely ignored by the Bushadministration, by corporate capitalism and by the religious rightwing. That explains how the U.S. can be decades behind the rest of theworld's democracies in honoring human rights.
How can America hope to rule the world when it chooses not to knowanything about the reasons why democracy emerged in America and thepurposes for which we were provided a science-based politicalphilosophy that has nothing to do with religion and capitalism. Weallow for nothing but unrestrained capitalism, as if it were a giftfrom Abraham's supernatural god, albeit a gift only to the rich andpowerful.
There was a time, up until the end of World War II, when Americamade effort to be a principled nation as opposed to a monied nation. Atthe least, we did have a set of Jeffersonian principles to which wecould and did look to for occasional inspiration. In spite ofreligion-based obstacles, we did eventually give African Americans andwomen the vote.
Coming out of the Depression in the 1930s, Henry Ford emerged as theworld's leading industrialist. He knew that if he were going to sellautomobiles to average Americans, he had to pay his employees enoughmoney to afford one. He invented the policy of high salaries thatassured consumption, believing that it was morally improper for theheads of companies to pay themselves more than 40 times theiremployees' average salary (3).
That approach to progress was abandoned after World War II with thebipartisan adoption of capitalism at the expense of socialism and thearguments that sustained America from the 1860s Industrial Revolutionto the 1930s. The heads of companies today make 350 to 400 times morethan their employees average salary (3).
With the the entire left half of the American argument increasinglybanned from public consideration, it became possible by the 1970s toeasily lose one's job for not being a "team player" and for not goingalong with the utter deceit that has nourished capitalism's growingdominion over the lives of the people.
Our educational, medical, governmental and business institutionshave been covering up internal sin for decades in order to look good inthe public eye, it all coming down to appearances in order to keep themoney coming in. We are so rich and we look so good, how can we bewrong (nevermind crime, corruption and incompetence)?
Those who had a mind of their own, those who thought for themselves,those with a sense of honesty and fairness and decency, had a difficulttime surviving the past half century of social degeneration. In otherwords, capitalism has actively selected for those who do not have amind of their own, those who do not think for themselves, those open tocultural psychosis, as part and parcel of incompetence.
Those who would stand up for a touch of human honesty and decencywere seen as criminals on the outside of a transcendent and infalliblesystem of corporate leadership. This translated into a general policyto ignore the message and kill the messenger, cover up and denial. Bythe time that the neoconservative CEO Bush administration was appointedinto power, the general policy had been extended to include lying andfabricating reality in a desperate bid for increased power over thepeople.
Those who have survived capitalism with silence and those who havejoined in the pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake have uniformly had tosacrifice personal honesty and integrity in order to maintaincompetitive placement. In this sense, the survivors are as culpable asthose leading the mindless pursuit of margins and money. The currentstate of utter corruption and denial is simply the end result of wherewe have been going for half a century.
We were all too wrapped up in personal survival and/or the pursuitof wealth to notice the demise of our family farming and ranchingcommunities. Jefferson loved these communities because people who werevirtually self-sufficient have the independence required to stand up togovernmental folly and corruption. Today, all that political power,once down-to-earth and in the people, has been reassigned to a smallhandful of people placed with desperate corporations.
We are unable to affect meaningful change because most of us thatare "successful" are as guilty as the rest for going along with whatcould be seen right up front and self-evidently as a corruptsocioeconomic system. The successful are those with the where-with-allto exploit those without. There is nothing beneath the surface here butpersonal gain in a world where neighbors are not friends butcompetition.
A purely capitalistic system has no ability for self-correction. Allit knows is that money is power - as exemplified by the Republicanparty which continues to support an unjustifiable and immoral war inIraq, continues to thrive on corporate corruption and remains entirelyblind to what the Bush administration has done to the party itself andto our national image in the eyes of the world.
At the same time, the Democratic party is simply unable to make anymeaningful change, not having a clue that unification comes fromagreement on values. That is because any meaningful change in the realmof values would threaten the socioeconomic system that put them inpower and provided them access to corporate lobbying money. Bothpolitical parties have participated in the corruption that iscapitalism and both parties know that if the discussion comes down tovalues, then capitalism is lost because capitalism cannot be defendedon value-laden ground.
The stock market is really nothing but a glorified gamblingoperation in which participants are restricted to those who can affordit. The real estate market manages to keep the price of housingincreasingly high and the labor market manages to keep wages stagnantsuch that only a tiny portion of young couples can even think of owningtheir own home. Who are we to blame for the sorry lack of sexualmorality in America's young people when they are provided no option?
What are we to think about those who have become wealthy by keepingyoung couples in lifelong debt in order to pay for a house? What are weto think about all of the "successful" people who have become wealthyin an increasingly corrupt and failed nation? The American programsince World War II has been an exercise in exploitation, the havesversus the have nots, both at home and abroad, many good people havingbeen duped into loyalty, not to democracy, but to the past (4).
Do the citizens of the European Union and China believe they are offthe hook, above and beyond accountability for the state of the world?The Cheney-Bush regime would not have been able to launch an unprovokedwar on Iraq without European and Chinese money in the form of loans. Inproviding those resources for a fee, the EU and China do shareresponsibility for funding the criminal actions of the Bushadministration.
The citizens of the EU and China must recognize that their money wasput to no good human use at all, hundreds of $billions to make theMiddle East into a quagmire of terrorism and civil war. With thatrecognition of culpability, the only path to accountability for the EUand China would be to recall all their loans and simply shut the Bushadministration down, right along with the economy of the "greatestnation on earth".
With Cheney as the infallible CEO behind the scenes of an infallibleBush administration at the head of an infallible Republican party asspokesmen for an infallible capitalism, all justified with aninfallible religion, does anyone seriously believe that Bush World willnot come to an ignominious end in bankruptcy? On the upside, whenreligion and capitalism are discredited from the global political arena(the largely unrecognized Bush administration agenda), it will give theworld pause to reconsider what we mean by terms like human rights,fairness, equality and democracy.
Jefferson believed that democracy was best maintained by staging arevolution with each passing generation, about every 20 years. That wasover ten generations ago. It is time for a change. It really comes downtoday to a choice between the human rights of Jesus and Jefferson orthe legal despotism of Old Testament religion and capitalism. Thisought be an easy choice, especially for Americans who now typically andaccurately "regard the wealthiest few not as heroes but as thieves" (5).
Readings
1) PM Carpenter, Proof positive that we're absolutely nuts, The Smirking Chimp, March 15, 2007.
(http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6101)
2) EJ Dionne, Jr., Morning in America, Washington Post, March 20, 2007.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031901636.html)
3) Michael Rocard Le Monde, Ethical Capitalism: A Fragile Principle, Truth Out, January 9, 2007. (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807G.shtml)
4) Sam Harris, God's Dupes, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2007.
(http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harris15mar15,0,671840.story)
5) Naomi Klein, Conrad Black is on trial in a nation that loathes its elites, The Guardian UK, March 23, 2007. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2040711,00.html)

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Your Dating Style:
Honest Relationship (Self-Directed)

You like to have an honest relationship with someone. You may or may not be faithful, but you would always tell them what's going on with you.

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"LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat"

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:31:55 GMT

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
volmarr goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a pirate.
desertfaith gives you 1 mauve pineapple-flavoured wafers.
isnorden gives you 1 teal grape-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
karina tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
kathryn0442 gives you 6 blue cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
nefri gives you 10 purple strawberry-flavoured gumdrops.
prettyinpaayal gives you 7 light blue orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
princessjasumin tricks you! You lose 6 pieces of candy!
quotamour tricks you! You get an eraser.
syntheticsweets tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
trasharama tricks you! You lose 3 pieces of candy!
volmarr ends up with 11 pieces of candy, and an eraser.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Interesting!

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:44:51 GMT

Yellow Self-Existing Warrior

Tone 4: Self-Existing - Measure & Discipline

Yellow Warrior is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.

Yellow Warrior, the galactic guide, is a mystic ferryman on the return path to the stars; allow Yellow Warrior's staff to ferry you to the spiraling vortex of cosmic consciousness. Yellow Warrior is the grace of the descent of the dove. Embody the mystic gift of trust in direct guidance. Through trust, you journey to the place of 'no time' and limitless light. There you will undergo the transformations to embody solar heart and mind.

Yellow Warrior is a conduit for cosmic communication, offering access to the universal web of consciousness. This is the web of the Mayan mystic spider that weaves intergalactic threads, the conduit of interconnected consciousness. Yellow Warrior is the spider in the web, the grid connection for divine communication. Receive these ripples of knowing from Yellow Warrior's web through the central axis in your spine, your staff. Accept this gift of knowing in grace, as you would receive the morning light by turning your face to the Sun. Grace is an unexpected touch, a blessing given in love, a natural gift from the universe. Use the power of love like an electrical current to serve the light. Open fully to feel and receive it!

The number for Yellow Warrior is sixteen, the number of unity with the cosmic foundation of resonant evolution. As you embody the ferryman's staff, you become anchored in your connection to cosmic consciousness. Holding within you the foundational steps of the trinity, you carry the "Christed one" into the world. As a living mystic, you are the conduit of the spiraling galaxies that creates a union with cosmic consciousness. Sixteen may also be seen as the beginning of another octave - a higher octave characterized by organic balance and the new Earth under your feet.

Yellow Warrior's colours are indigo and gold, combining the limitlessness of the night sky with the freedom of the daytime Sun. If you desire to access grace and trust, focus on these colours.

Yellow Human is your Higher Self & Guide.

Yellow Human is the grail, the golden fleece, the philosopher's stone, the alchemical transmutation that turns baser materials into gold. It is the cornucopia, the paradox of emptiness and harvest, the still place that lies open and fallow, receiving the gifts.

Yellow Human offers you the gift of beginner's mind in the fullness of union. Be receptive. Yellow Human is preparing your circuits for transformation. Become empty, that your thirst may be quenched by the bounteous gifts poured from the chalice of the spiralling galaxies. Open and receive all that Yellow Human offers in the chalice of your own body.

Eb asks you to strengthen and clear your physical vessel in order to prepare for the expanded energies of higher mind. Your chalice of self is being purified through vibrational adjustments in the brain/body system. With this quickening, adjustments are made and your circuits of consciousness are naturally transformed. Often this process is accompanied by the sensation of being altered or "rewired". Higher centers of the brain and the light-sensitive pineal and pituitary glands are being activated to contain more light. This penetration brings you to a critical threshold, creating enormous change at the cellular level. It also activates soul memories and expands your concepts of reality.

With this expanded consciousness, your brain/body system is being cleared and fine-tuned so that you can create a sluiceway for the activation and acceleration of cosmic consciousness. This penetration of frequencies and its accompanying quickening is like upgrading the 'hard drive' of your biocomputer and activating the 'hidden chip,' the unused parts of your brain.
This is the foundation and awakening of your light body, a body crafted from the expansion of interstellar light within every cell. This body exists in and out of time and space and is able to experience and communicate freely with other dimensions and times. This is the resonant body within those whom Jose Arguelles calls the Servant-Warriors: "those humans who fully realize the dream light body within the physical body and understand the circuitry of the human organism - who use the light body to navigate the electromagnetic waters which we call the universe."

The development of the light body involves strong interaction between Spirit and self as you prepare for entrance into the expanded chalice of Essence Self. In preparing this vessel, you enter into the rites of passage inherent to cosmic consciousness, and such rites eventually burst any false containers of self that cannot encompass the expanding chalice.

In meditation, expand to include all that you are. Then bring that feeling of expansion back into your physical self. In this process, you create a complex stability, opening a chalice of self that is fully rooted in human form. With this expansion, you are freed to explore within a new center that, paradoxically, seems to have to center. Yellow Human reveals the secret of being essence within form, everywhere and nowhere, "nothing" but present in all things.

The metaphor of the ever-expanding chalice is a powerful spiritual tool. This chalice represents the eternal container of light, ever filled with spirit's fire and nourishment. It is the metaphor that represents the form in which your full potential can manifest. Each stage in your journey feels like the final one, but each stage then opens to an expanded form, releasing you into the next stage of consciousness.

All the gifts of the macrocosm pour out of the universal cornucopia. With an open heart, empty yourself to be filled with the fruits of your true desire. Through the temple of your body, lift the chalice of your expanded self and declare that it is filled with truth and clarity. Feel the ecstatic union with your full potential as a human being.

Meditate on the cornucopia with you at its center. Lift the chalice of your self-generated energy vortex to greet the vortex that will descend from above. As an open vessel, prepare a place to receive Yellow Human's gifts. When you flow in unconditional love, all the fruits of the universe rush toward you for benediction.

Bathe in love's essence as a child splashing in a pool on a hot day. Connect with others in joyous union. Use the broom of Yellow Human to sweep your day clear of past experiences and the issues and obstacles of small mind. In the spirit of Yellow Human function on all frequencies and power bands. Your cup is filled with the nectar of sacramental union. Be fulfilled by the great harvest of love!

Red Serpent is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.

"I am the flint and tinder of the sacred fire," reads the meditation for Red Serpent. In the Great Mystery, flint and tinder represent the instinctive combustion that initiates movement in the physical body toward union with Spirit. When flint and tinder are brought together, the spark of divinity awakens and ignites the fire of your essence. Red Serpent invites the purifying spark of the sacred fire, the kundalini, to align and integrate your body, mind and spirit. Red Serpent can help you uncover apparent blockages in specific chakras to clear an align them. If you are working on a process of purification, invite Red Serpent to assist you.
Red Serpent's symbol is the serpent, representing healing and wholeness. This Mayan medicine can remove toxins, rejuvenate and transform dis-ease. Red Serpent is also known by the Maya as the kultanlilni, or kundalini, the energy that moves up from the base of the spine and out through the crown chakra. There are two aspects of this force, the ida and the pingala, representing its male and female polarities. One of the ancient secrets of Red Serpent is the activation of higher states of consciousness through balancing these two polarities so that they dance within us as one. Another metaphor for this serpent energy comes from the Mayan words luk umen tun ben can, or "those absorbed by the serpent of the sacred knowledge." When the seven chakras are fully activated, one experiences an enlightened state.

Red Serpent represents the basic structural apparatus of your motivations, instincts, desires, and your innate movement toward wholeness. Red Serpent asks you to shed the skin of your past and step into the fires of alchemical transmutation. In this, rebirth is revealed. This desire is an innate response encoded in the depths of your being.

With the energy of Red Serpent, you learn to use the innate intelligence of the body. In this culture you may have become separated from this wisdom. It works like this: when you suppress and ignore your issues, your body receives and retains the unconscious metaphors of that which is ignored. This may be expressed through physical symptoms that bring your unconscious issues to conscious awareness. When this happens, work toward a more conscious relatonship with your body - and work with the physical metaphors in order to heal yourself on all levels.

The body has a specific kind of consciousness through which messages are clearly delivered. In fact, the body itself is a living metaphor that mirrors your mind, emotions and spirit. However, the body also remembers all it has experienced, and consequently holds the consciousness of the past within it, including past wounds and traumas. In healing these, remember the innocence of your body. Treat it with love and respect. Open yourself to be aware of its messages and metaphors rather than storing them. Be willing to look at the positive intent beneath any symptoms or physical process your body is using to communicate. Explore whatever it may be asking you to see.

In this alignment process, you can use images or energies that come to you in meditation or dreams. Journey through your body to catalyze and explore any sensations, colors, shapes, or images. In these times we have a profound opportunity to transcend both our physical and our spiritual genetics. The body's integration provides an unparalleled opportunity for personal evolution. Learn to expand and utilize your senses to access your body's wisdom and vitality. Don't 'think' about it; simply allow your body to sense intuitively the solutions necessary for change and growth.

Red Serpent also represents the connection between powerful physical/ecstatic experiences and the light of higher consciousness. This is an initiation of awakening through the body and senses, rather than in negation of them. As Jose Arguelles says in The Mayan Factor, "Like the Maya, we shall understand that the path to the stars is through the senses." Within the body are held the keys to fully awakening our consciousness. This deeper understanding is expressed in tantric practices, where spirituality and sexuality are integrated and honoured as a means to enlightenment. Red Serpent represents the integration of mind, body and spirit.

Red Serpent is associated with the sacred tools of the drum and the rattle. Drums and rattles can break down old patterns or bring energy into alignment.

White World-Bridger represents your Challenge and Gift. With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime.

If you find yourself disturbed by or denying any painful processes, be willing to look at how you might embrace death. Death is a natural part of transformation. Sometimes we are brought to experience symbolic deaths such as loss, divorce, illness, or separation from others. Embrace these seemingly dark or difficult experiences; they will release you from attachments and expectations, clearing you to more fully receive the light. If you find yourself in a dark corner of depression or despair, White World-Bridger offers you a lifeline, a way out. Allow your burdens to be lifted into the sweet release and forgiveness of White World-Bridger. Don't give up. There is always someone somewhere who can help you. Reach out to a friend, a loved one, a therapist. Know that you are comforted and supported in love's unconditional embrace.

Another shadow of White World-Bridger is the desire to be in control, which can move into fear of death. This fear may be expressed as an imbalance in your physical, mental or emotional well-being, or as an exaggerated focus on the body, health, money or addictive activities. Look at the consequences and possibilities that would be presented by your symbolic death. The transformation offered in White World-Bridger is found in surrender, release and forgiveness. Through awareness and clear intention, old patterns can magically shift, offering you a loving hand that shows a new way.

Blue Night is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you.

Blue night is the dark mystery within, the journey into self, that place to which you can always retreat to garner the gifts of your process subjectively. You are being asked to enter into and explore your process subjectively. Blue Night is the immense field of potential found in the depths of human emotion and feeling. The touch of Blue Night is like the moment you crawl into bed and feel yourself surrounded by warmth, darkness and peace.

Blue Night's abyss holds the potent evolutionary playing field of all possibility. Here, as in the aboriginal dreamtime, there are no distinctions between then and now, real or imagined, dream or dreamer. In this expanded field, all things are not only possible but are constantly in the process of creation. In the framework of dreamtime, limiting constructs of "ordinary reality" such as time, space, and linear causality are freed into an expanded system, with unlimited access to ALL realities.

Dreamtime holds powerful opportunities. It is a field where potential, past, and future are held in the same matrix as the present moment. If such a construct is foreign to you, stretch your mind and entertain the possibility that you could help to dream a different reality into being. Enter into the mystery where reality is actually created.

In becoming a conscious dreamer, you can assist in literally creating a new reality for yourself, as well as constributing to the larger dream that is emerging. By focusing on this creation, your thoughts and intentions are projected at superluminal speeds across the crystal grid network that encompasses universes. This energetic field seeds, supports, and empowers the creation of an unfolding reality.

At a certain point, when a critical threshold of energy has been focused on a clear intent such as world peace, the underlying constructs of reality shift and a new reality begins filtering into human experience. Make no mistake: great change is seeded by conscious dreamers who understand and know that they are co-creating the larger dream.

Among other things, the dreamfield will bring to the surface your psychological polarities and core issues. These are the belief constructs you learn from society and experience, such as likes and dislikes, values and attitudes. You naturally attract the situation that promises integration, but through conditioning and habitual behaviour, you may choose to compensate, staying in a fixed pattern to protect your position. This choice will create only momentary relief, because the issues will keep being drawn back to be integrated. Thus, you may often find whatever is blocked or hidden manifesting into your consciousness through a dream, a body symptom, or a relationship. Often you may resist the new and the unknown. You may avoid going over your "growth edge", because it may be asking for a shift in your underlying belief structures. Yet profound growth is possible through working with this charged material. Through following it into the darkness, you bring into the dreamfield the light that will carry you to wholeness and fulfillment.

In working with the growth edge in your dreamfield, often it is important to catalyze enough energy to free the stuckness and fixed patterns. By following or amplifying the feeling, your increased awareness will lead to the root of the issue thas has been separated from consciousness. Hidden within the unused channels of your perception are clues to the mystery that will integrate and release the restrictive pattern.

A meditation for Blue Night is, "I am the darkness that is the light and the stillness that is the dancing." This meditation perfectly describes the paradoxical energy of Blue Night, the place of darkness from which all light emanates, the no-form abyss that contains all possibility. In finding this still point of Blue Night, you can access any expression of the light. The energy of Blue Night simply asks you to be still, to allow that expression to take shape from the darkness. From the darkness of Blue Night emerges the Essence Self. Sit in stillness, embracing the journey of insight and integration.

The colour of Blue Night is black, which represents the womb of the larger self, the receptive condition necessary to receive the light fully. Black is also an access route to the wisdom of the unconscious, the mystery of the abyss where you can tap into the collective dreamfield for insight and creative ideas. Blue Night also includes the shades of gray, symbolic of the merging of light with the darkness. If you wish to work with the energy of Blue Night, visualize black.

Your Tone is Tone 4 - Self-Existing

Order, definition, discrimination, natural cycles, meaningful alignment.

Four is the ray of measure, the alignment with natural cycles. It is the square, the base of the pyramid, the solid foundation that unifies the lines of directional force. Four is the diamond asking you to utilize tools of discrimination.

Now is the time to manifest your dream or vision. Look to natural logic, order and definition - these gifts support the whisperings of your creative spirit. You are the architect who manifests your dreams! Open the door and call forth the sacred Four. You are being brought into meaningful alignment, bringing healing into this cycle of your life.

The four directions offer you assistance in understanding universal physical laws. Use measure as a tool of consciousness to mold time, form and space. Now is the time to focus, to connect tangibly with the undefined. Take your ideas and give them discipline and form. Develop the ability to discriminate without creating separation or judgement. Channel your creative energy constructively, generating the power for practical manifestation!

The Friends With Benefits Meme

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:38:10 GMT

There's at least one person on your LiveJournal who wants to date you or sleep with you.

So let's play........FRIENDS with BENEFITS

The rules are simple...

If you want to date the person who posts this, send him a message saying "I'm yours."

If you just want to sleep with the person and stay friends, send him a message that says "I'd hit it."

SCARED??? You only live once!

THE TWIST IS YOU HAVE TO REPOST THIS and see who replies!

All responses will be screened.

Wed, 31 May 2006 13:59:24 GMT

You scored as Green. The Green Party believes in an America where decisions are made by the people and not by a few giant corporations. Their environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society co-exist in harmony.

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Green

100%

New Democrat

95%

Old School Democrat

75%

Libertarian

55%

Pro Business Republican

35%

Foreign Policy Hawk

Socially Conservative Republican

What's Your Political Philosophy?
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Mon, 15 May 2006 03:53:25 GMT

Thu, 11 May 2006 21:36:55 GMT

I found this great place to shop... http://www.cryoflesh.com

Tue, 02 May 2006 15:35:11 GMT

More info about those aliens that crash landed in London awhile ago...

Mon, 01 May 2006 16:10:48 GMT

Today is buy nothing day!!!!

Quiz:- "What kind of Goth are you?"

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:44:52 GMT

Take the quiz:
What kind of Goth are you?

Cyber Goth
You are a Cyber Goth! You would love to look into the future to see what new things we could learn. The past is nothing for you. You like neon colors and blacklights. Keep dancing like a machine!

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New Article: Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:58:55 GMT

I can relate to this, maybe my situation is no-where near as bad, but it's a similar idea....

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.

INTERESTING QUIZ!!!

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:17:07 GMT

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Your personality type is RCUEI

You are reserved, moderately calm, moderately organized, egocentric, and intellectual, and may prefer a city which matches those traits.

The largest representation of your personality type can be found in the these U.S. cities: Reno, Tucson, New Orleans, Norfolk, Austin, Washington DC, Albuquerque/Santa Fe, Portland/Salem, Greenville/Spartanburg, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis and these international countries/regions Iceland, Greece, Argentina, Czech Republic, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Sweden, Slovenia, Norway, Hungary, Indonesia

What Places In The World Match Your Personality?
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Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:09:54 GMT

Which country should you REALLY be living in?

The United Kingdom

You have pride in yourself and pride in your country. You believe that history and culture is an important factor to the future of your country, and that traditions and values should be upheld. You love your scones and tea, and reading soppy romance novels. The UK is where you should be...

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Aliens Crash Land in London!!!!

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:14:50 GMT

Wow! Check it out! Sure hope they are friendly!

Happy Maha Shivratri!

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:51:33 GMT

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:27:53 GMT

Mystic Theurge

18% Combativeness, 23% Sneakiness, 76% Intellect, 69% Spirituality

Brilliant and spiritual! You are a Mystic Theurge!

Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you�ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you�re an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't.

The Mystic Theurge is a combination of a cleric and a mage. They can cast both arcane and divine spells, and are good at both, making them pretty terrifying on the battlefield. They have more raw spellpower than just about any other class.

You're both intelligent and faithful, but not violent or deceitful. I guess that makes you a pretty good person.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 2% on Combativeness
You scored higher than 20% on Sneakiness
You scored higher than 62% on Intellect
You scored higher than 91% on Spirituality

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