Alex, Learned more from just watching your videos in past 6 months than my past 30+ years of education. A simple thanks wouldn’t be suffice. Wishing you a long, prosperous and happy life. Greetings from India. I wish more people watch you and get enlightened.
Excellent article. Bizarrely, covid, the scam of all scams, has turned my life around for the better. Losing my business and house in Spain and having to move back to very rural west Ireland, my family and I have been reborn.
The absolute absurdism of that time totally changed my thought process and my strategy on life and living. Opening my heart and mind to god and nature is all I did. Freedom to me means not being in debt to a bank or a drug, eating the best nature has to offer, drinking cold water after boiling it, never listening to or reading the media, talking to my wife and kids about life and love everyday.
As an Irishman you most probably have a great advantage of adaptation over most other Northern Europeans, in terms the rigidity of their perception. In the early 70s a lad working often in South Wales I noticed the Welsh people like the Irish were so much more real and chilled than southern Englishmen.
Moving to Australia for most my working life I had more Irish friends than any nationality.
Ironically I now live on a mountain in a natural park in Southern Spain, although do miss my good friends in Australia, I have never missed Southern England, except perhaps the beer and the long cool walks.
I'm saddened by the amount of people who think the solution is to leave the beautiful USA. The problem is global because the problem is the globalists who wish to control the world. It isn't that hard to know the names of the .0001% who hold the power. But what I see around me now are people who continue to abide by their rules and think voting for the next leader is the answer. I don't have the answers, but I think we need to reject the idea that anyone is coming to save us. We need to stop looking to the rich and powerful for answers. They are false idols. We need to hold them accountable for the harm they cause.
Yes, Tina, I agree. Running away to another country - often to live a richer life materially where their dollar goes further - doesn't sit all that well with me. I can see moving out of the city to a rural or isolated area, but one must consider making a living, even a humble one. I think the secret is not only finding a community of like minded thinkers but actively contributing to it.
Sure, immersing oneself in other cultures is enriching in spirit and mind as well as monetarily. I only meant that I hate for Americans to throw in the towel and give up on being our best selves right here at home. We can't let the bastards win.
Having had to battle scads of drug addicts right here on American soil has made me want to leave even though my ancestors came to America on the Mayflower. There is a lot of criminal activity and violence in Colorado. If I were an illegal alien, I could also get healthcare but as one who was born on US soil, that is not an option so I, too, am hoping to get out of this country. Oh, and then there are the oh so charming cops that paid me a visit for not talking to a drunk, homeless man in the park. Surely there must be something wrong with me for not doing so….? I asked if they did not have some barking dog call to attend to. This is America now.
Spot on Alex. “Left” and “Right” are the preoccupations of the battery-farmed. The actual distinction is only between the Control Freaks and the Free-Rangers.
"Particularly for Westerners, the idea that living could be good and enjoyable in some of the backwards, or inferior places scattered beyond the golden West is so alien, it doesn’t even compute. "
I found out that the lie of the Good Life only in the West was a lie. I lived in Thailand for 8 years, and we are going back. The west is doomed.
Granted in many countries such as Thailand social services are scarce and is user pays but people don't pay much in tax, however in the West the services are reduced every year while the taxes are increased.
We all need to return to a simpler, relaxed lifestyle.
You hit the nail on the head. Thanks for this idea. It is overwhelming how totally western populations have been brainwashed into believing the lies of the mainstream media. I think your analogy speaks to the reality of modern human life in industrialized urban centers. We have been removed from the land which is the source of the magic of life. The logic that emanates from this insulated existence creates the vulnerability we have that leads to adopting the false notions fed to us in the all encompassing media surrounding us. I would add that the religions now dominating civilizations globally add to this vulnerability. If you can believe in an all powerful male god in the sky, why not believe in the world of the chicken coop?
I recently watched a YouTube program, presented by a German master astrologist, Dr Christoph Niederwieser. He said, we are entering in the 2020-ties an entire new planetary constellation, which is unique in its potential for deep change. The age of Aquarius.
The books which inspired me most in my life (which I red thirty years ago and still appreciate), are written by the Russian author Pjotr Ouspensky during the 1940-ties: "The Psychology of the Possible Evolution of Men" and "In Search Of the Miraculous".
Thereby is said, that four states of consciousness are available for men:
1. The sleep.
2. The state after we supposedly wake up and live our lives. He called it the illusion of being woken.
3. The state of Meditation: witnessing the present moment: our true reality, our birthright state of mind.
4. Observing the objective truth: living blissfully & permanently in the third state.
When we enter the third state of consciousness, there are no thoughts, because all our thoughts are related to the past as a remembrance, or to the future as a projection. Both, nor the past or the future, are our reality.
He introduced an active sort of meditation, called 'Selfremembering' or 'Divided Attention'.
Thus, we can practice Selfremembering in any action or activity in life. And what's stunning, after some months of doing so, one realises, that 90% of our problems are just in our heads. And: one don't needs any intelligence in order to avoid unpleasant situations: even an one-cell-creature tries to escape unpleasant surroundings.
We get straightforward uninterested in bullshit jobs or relationships. Or in ugly or unharmonious surroundings.
Because if we are emotionally present to the actual moment, our intuition suggests us immediately to stay, to act or to leave.
It's genius.
After I started practicing Selfremembering during my Psychology study in the 1980-ties, I had to quit my university career, because it felt shallow and pale. So I learnt being a carpenter, opened my own business and moved back to rural Croatia.
Every evening I come home tired, dusty, sweaty, enjoying the first cold beer, having dinner together with my lovely wife on the porch if our self made wooden house.
I have moved around as a military brat during the Vietnam War, went to high school in Japan and also rural Texas, and have bike toured and back-packed with my family around the world.
We are human animals with certain human needs, which are not well met in out fancy zoo, with our chemically processed, but lifeless feedstocks, and abnormal patterns of life, so constrained, not engaging other plant and animal, or even human life.
Meeting our core human needs first, allows us to do other, specialized things, but we have become like caged chickens pecking click-boxes on screens for small, prompt rewards.
(Pula, Croatia was a very nice visit on our world-tour, and we did some scuba there. Croations seemed easy to engage, humanly efficient at tasks, and not stuck-up. I would never dis. Yugoslavia, myself.)
Thank you for great chicken farm analogy of modern life - a very sad picture conjured up- but then I remembered some chickens have already flown the coup & running regenerative chicken farms themselves & the eggs are superlative & life for all is honest & true
I love your work Alex, but remember that 'nature is red in tooth and claw', that big fish eat smaller ones etc. The human drive for power, wealth or whatever, fits right into this natural order, unless tempered by 'civilization', ethics, religious faith, law, fear, or whatever again. We have managed to selectively 'breed' by rewarding the limiting factors right out of our time, and are stuck with the consequences, - unless we somehow manage to selectively 'breed' them in again. The people and powers that prospered in the 'matrix of greed' will hardly support such 'reverse selection' to a 'matrix of self-moderation', so how do we get there?
Alex, this essay was inspiring, affirming and well put. I am so glad to have found you and your commentary. I have noticed that besides a fine intellect you have a good caring heart. ~ from the hinterland of Arkansas USA. (I hear the flock of chickens next door. They sound content.🫣)
I was brought to usa due to company transfer at the age of 27, after 26 years here and a lot of suffering and other things I am done yet stuck in here not easy to uproot but this is getting out of hands the way we are heading, I know places like those pictures you shown, I know about the tech you comment as I was brought to build software. Technocrat that was deceived by providing something that could help us not destroy us, control us and enslave us even more than we are nowadays.
If only knew then I would not be writting now.
Alex 100% aligned he knows deep down the same as others like me feel when in one of those places.
Alex, Learned more from just watching your videos in past 6 months than my past 30+ years of education. A simple thanks wouldn’t be suffice. Wishing you a long, prosperous and happy life. Greetings from India. I wish more people watch you and get enlightened.
100%!! Alex is like Neo. Once he realized his power, he became a force to be reckoned with.
Excellent article. Bizarrely, covid, the scam of all scams, has turned my life around for the better. Losing my business and house in Spain and having to move back to very rural west Ireland, my family and I have been reborn.
The absolute absurdism of that time totally changed my thought process and my strategy on life and living. Opening my heart and mind to god and nature is all I did. Freedom to me means not being in debt to a bank or a drug, eating the best nature has to offer, drinking cold water after boiling it, never listening to or reading the media, talking to my wife and kids about life and love everyday.
God bless you and your family.
As an Irishman you most probably have a great advantage of adaptation over most other Northern Europeans, in terms the rigidity of their perception. In the early 70s a lad working often in South Wales I noticed the Welsh people like the Irish were so much more real and chilled than southern Englishmen.
Moving to Australia for most my working life I had more Irish friends than any nationality.
Ironically I now live on a mountain in a natural park in Southern Spain, although do miss my good friends in Australia, I have never missed Southern England, except perhaps the beer and the long cool walks.
I'm saddened by the amount of people who think the solution is to leave the beautiful USA. The problem is global because the problem is the globalists who wish to control the world. It isn't that hard to know the names of the .0001% who hold the power. But what I see around me now are people who continue to abide by their rules and think voting for the next leader is the answer. I don't have the answers, but I think we need to reject the idea that anyone is coming to save us. We need to stop looking to the rich and powerful for answers. They are false idols. We need to hold them accountable for the harm they cause.
I am saddened, too, that America failed humanity.
Yes, Tina, I agree. Running away to another country - often to live a richer life materially where their dollar goes further - doesn't sit all that well with me. I can see moving out of the city to a rural or isolated area, but one must consider making a living, even a humble one. I think the secret is not only finding a community of like minded thinkers but actively contributing to it.
American destroyed itself with greed and arrogance.
Sure, immersing oneself in other cultures is enriching in spirit and mind as well as monetarily. I only meant that I hate for Americans to throw in the towel and give up on being our best selves right here at home. We can't let the bastards win.
Having had to battle scads of drug addicts right here on American soil has made me want to leave even though my ancestors came to America on the Mayflower. There is a lot of criminal activity and violence in Colorado. If I were an illegal alien, I could also get healthcare but as one who was born on US soil, that is not an option so I, too, am hoping to get out of this country. Oh, and then there are the oh so charming cops that paid me a visit for not talking to a drunk, homeless man in the park. Surely there must be something wrong with me for not doing so….? I asked if they did not have some barking dog call to attend to. This is America now.
Spot on Alex. “Left” and “Right” are the preoccupations of the battery-farmed. The actual distinction is only between the Control Freaks and the Free-Rangers.
Well-said!
"Particularly for Westerners, the idea that living could be good and enjoyable in some of the backwards, or inferior places scattered beyond the golden West is so alien, it doesn’t even compute. "
I found out that the lie of the Good Life only in the West was a lie. I lived in Thailand for 8 years, and we are going back. The west is doomed.
Granted in many countries such as Thailand social services are scarce and is user pays but people don't pay much in tax, however in the West the services are reduced every year while the taxes are increased.
We all need to return to a simpler, relaxed lifestyle.
Which part of Thailand do you prefer? I want a place free of high humidity, bugs, lizards and snakes :-)
Do you prefer living in a place where nature is dead?
I don’t like Insects. Living in the North is best.
I love insects and warmth and live in the South. Diversity rules.
Diversity these days is a two edged sword 🤷♂️
Good point! :-)
I've lived in Thailand and loved the lushness. But it was hard to get used to the critters.
Wildlife is everywhere in Thailand. Even in a penthouse a'ment in Bkk you'll get insects and lizards.
I can't handle humidity anymore, so have a hard time choosing a preference. But that's why a/c was invented :)
Yay for a/c! I didn't have a/c except for short visits in Bangkok.
You hit the nail on the head. Thanks for this idea. It is overwhelming how totally western populations have been brainwashed into believing the lies of the mainstream media. I think your analogy speaks to the reality of modern human life in industrialized urban centers. We have been removed from the land which is the source of the magic of life. The logic that emanates from this insulated existence creates the vulnerability we have that leads to adopting the false notions fed to us in the all encompassing media surrounding us. I would add that the religions now dominating civilizations globally add to this vulnerability. If you can believe in an all powerful male god in the sky, why not believe in the world of the chicken coop?
Paul, Thank you for articulating what I would write if I were a better writer. You speak for me, and I imagine - for many.
The picture of the caged chickens is heartbreaking.
Yes, but I loved the one of the owl sitting on the little blond girl's shoulder 💖
I recently watched a YouTube program, presented by a German master astrologist, Dr Christoph Niederwieser. He said, we are entering in the 2020-ties an entire new planetary constellation, which is unique in its potential for deep change. The age of Aquarius.
The books which inspired me most in my life (which I red thirty years ago and still appreciate), are written by the Russian author Pjotr Ouspensky during the 1940-ties: "The Psychology of the Possible Evolution of Men" and "In Search Of the Miraculous".
Thereby is said, that four states of consciousness are available for men:
1. The sleep.
2. The state after we supposedly wake up and live our lives. He called it the illusion of being woken.
3. The state of Meditation: witnessing the present moment: our true reality, our birthright state of mind.
4. Observing the objective truth: living blissfully & permanently in the third state.
When we enter the third state of consciousness, there are no thoughts, because all our thoughts are related to the past as a remembrance, or to the future as a projection. Both, nor the past or the future, are our reality.
He introduced an active sort of meditation, called 'Selfremembering' or 'Divided Attention'.
Thus, we can practice Selfremembering in any action or activity in life. And what's stunning, after some months of doing so, one realises, that 90% of our problems are just in our heads. And: one don't needs any intelligence in order to avoid unpleasant situations: even an one-cell-creature tries to escape unpleasant surroundings.
We get straightforward uninterested in bullshit jobs or relationships. Or in ugly or unharmonious surroundings.
Because if we are emotionally present to the actual moment, our intuition suggests us immediately to stay, to act or to leave.
It's genius.
After I started practicing Selfremembering during my Psychology study in the 1980-ties, I had to quit my university career, because it felt shallow and pale. So I learnt being a carpenter, opened my own business and moved back to rural Croatia.
Every evening I come home tired, dusty, sweaty, enjoying the first cold beer, having dinner together with my lovely wife on the porch if our self made wooden house.
Bingo.
It’s been so long since I read anything from Ouspensky that I have forgotten most everything. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks Alex. That's the obvious analogy, sadly...
I have moved around as a military brat during the Vietnam War, went to high school in Japan and also rural Texas, and have bike toured and back-packed with my family around the world.
We are human animals with certain human needs, which are not well met in out fancy zoo, with our chemically processed, but lifeless feedstocks, and abnormal patterns of life, so constrained, not engaging other plant and animal, or even human life.
Meeting our core human needs first, allows us to do other, specialized things, but we have become like caged chickens pecking click-boxes on screens for small, prompt rewards.
(Pula, Croatia was a very nice visit on our world-tour, and we did some scuba there. Croations seemed easy to engage, humanly efficient at tasks, and not stuck-up. I would never dis. Yugoslavia, myself.)
A precise manifesto. Let's dwell in a beautiful new world!
Thank you for great chicken farm analogy of modern life - a very sad picture conjured up- but then I remembered some chickens have already flown the coup & running regenerative chicken farms themselves & the eggs are superlative & life for all is honest & true
Love it! Technically the expression is 'flown the coop' but I like your 'flown the coup' much better! Intentional or not, thanks for the smile 😎
I love your work Alex, but remember that 'nature is red in tooth and claw', that big fish eat smaller ones etc. The human drive for power, wealth or whatever, fits right into this natural order, unless tempered by 'civilization', ethics, religious faith, law, fear, or whatever again. We have managed to selectively 'breed' by rewarding the limiting factors right out of our time, and are stuck with the consequences, - unless we somehow manage to selectively 'breed' them in again. The people and powers that prospered in the 'matrix of greed' will hardly support such 'reverse selection' to a 'matrix of self-moderation', so how do we get there?
Circumcision...
Ho, ho, ho ...
Alex, this essay was inspiring, affirming and well put. I am so glad to have found you and your commentary. I have noticed that besides a fine intellect you have a good caring heart. ~ from the hinterland of Arkansas USA. (I hear the flock of chickens next door. They sound content.🫣)
"All wars are bankers wars". The 'state' is the people working for the bankers
Good words Alex. Thankyou for your contributions to these subjects!
I was brought to usa due to company transfer at the age of 27, after 26 years here and a lot of suffering and other things I am done yet stuck in here not easy to uproot but this is getting out of hands the way we are heading, I know places like those pictures you shown, I know about the tech you comment as I was brought to build software. Technocrat that was deceived by providing something that could help us not destroy us, control us and enslave us even more than we are nowadays.
If only knew then I would not be writting now.
Alex 100% aligned he knows deep down the same as others like me feel when in one of those places.