While I suspect there is more to the background operations going on, for example the CIA putting 'clicks' in to electronica (music) to balance the two hemispheres of the brain and ease the 'pop' or 'awakening' (meaning they're not entirely against us), when it boils down to it, the individual must choose whether they live in a benevolent or malevolent universe. If they believe all the bad stuff they read about what they're up to they'll bring it into fruition in the 'final judgement', which is us, on our own facing the dragon.
If we find the right perspective, it all looks like so much theatre. Even death is not the end. It's just a curtain call, retirement to take off the make-up, and a return to the stage the next night after a good nights sleep.
"... the individual must choose whether they live in a benevolent or malevolent universe."
Or perhaps a completely indifferent universe? Or one that is both at the same time, depending on your relation to it. Or one that started out as benevolent, became malevolent but is transitioning back to benevolent.
One of the problems of communication is our framing of questions as a dialectic - a choice between only one of two alternatives, usually framed as 'good' or 'bad.'
You constantly see this technique (Hegelian Dialects) being used to manipulate us into opposing camps, the old 'divide and rule' strategy of British Imperialism. Recognizing that, and realizing that there are more possibilities than just the strictly binary choices being offered is key to breaking free of their influence.
To get to the point where one truly breaks free of the dialectic one must face the dragon, and to do that one must be confident not only that it exists in the first place, but in the ability to defeat it when it appears.
It might be ye auld divide and rule- a relatively negative trait it might be added, but it's also a principle in the reality of this electric universe; take a cathode (negative) and an anode (positive). Out of darkness blinding light appears. Light is the most positive metaphor there is.
I would be cautious when using physical analogies like positive and negative. If you look at the atom, only the simplest atoms (H and He) contain only positive and negative charges, while the rest have a number of neutrons (no charge) which are critical to the composition of matter, which itself relies on at least two other forces, the strong and weak nuclear forces, to sustain what we call the 'material world.'
Also, when comparing electric charges such as possessed by protons and electrons, one has to account for the fact that the proton is approximately 1836 times as massive as an electron, so something other than electric charge is clearly at work there.
But yeah... dialectics is hard to break free of since we're taught to think that way from day one.
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"Caitlin's article is about metaphysics."
Are you sure? "Dominated By Narrative" to me suggests a semantic level analysis. Metaphysics is a fuzzy concept that has a different meaning depending on who you talk to. Semantics OTOH seeks to nail down the precise meaning of the words we use to communicate, otherwise we risk talking past each other. Maybe Caitlin could tell us which category is appropriate here?
Metaphysics is fuzzy for some but not for others, it depends on the level of intuition inherent in the person from birth.
She talks about 'inner work' too. That means addressing ones own self in ones own mind. Investigating the source of pain, humiliation, anger, stress, hate etc. and who/why/when/what/etc. causes it.
The more one recognises what triggers the emotions that we act on, like crappy politics or murderous Lahaina fires as an advertisement for non-flammable Hardiboard, the more ones consciousness rises.
Consciousness is the name of the game. There is nothing else.
Sit down, Boomer. You're the same Puritan idiots who have been whining about this for 350 years in order to avoid that capitalism has priced your childish little workshop game out of existence.
Stop making up slave stories and crush more narratives.
Hey friendly little Doomer, I'm not a Boomer. But thanks for thinking I have that much misplaced confidence in the nature of my own material supremacy.
The article is linked. If you're capable of reading it, you be the judge, you've obviously extremely good at judgement, so you'll fly through it and prove it to yourself, no effort on my part. It is precisely what they were and have been doing. You just have to decide if the world is all doom and is gonna go boom, or if it'll be happily ever after the chaos the next seven to ten years subsides.
The CIA is a research and development company, not a supervillain from 1970s Saturday morning cartoons. They try a lot of weird things in their labs, in the same spirit as Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. Some pan out. Some don't.
I've worked in audio engineering. This is pseudoscientific crap.
Your complaint is nothing more than THE 400+ YEAR ONGOING Puritan totalitarian drama about any cultural ritual that doesn't enforce Christian reproduction, same as they have been excreting since the day they achieved political significance.
I'm sorry, was I complaining? I don't know what working in audio-engineering has to do with metaphysics, but you clearly need to assert some authoritah, and that's just fine. Go nuts. Are you familiar with Boards of Canada?
Do you know much about neurology or the patterns the electricity of the brain make? I've never gone too in-depth, but when I listened to certain electronic music I could read complex medical documents and astrophysics and take in much more with the background sound than without it.
In the document, if you read it, they are saying that the clicks fire up a section of the mind like a laser. Without it, the mind has the average capacity of a candle. (Some don't even have a candle.) So I had experienced this before knowing anything about the document, reading about it made sense from experience.
I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone, you can be the superior one. Funny you should mention Max Weber, I quoted him elsewhere today from his Protestant/Capitalism book wiki page. Cheerio.
While I suspect there is more to the background operations going on, for example the CIA putting 'clicks' in to electronica (music) to balance the two hemispheres of the brain and ease the 'pop' or 'awakening' (meaning they're not entirely against us), when it boils down to it, the individual must choose whether they live in a benevolent or malevolent universe. If they believe all the bad stuff they read about what they're up to they'll bring it into fruition in the 'final judgement', which is us, on our own facing the dragon.
If we find the right perspective, it all looks like so much theatre. Even death is not the end. It's just a curtain call, retirement to take off the make-up, and a return to the stage the next night after a good nights sleep.
"... the individual must choose whether they live in a benevolent or malevolent universe."
Or perhaps a completely indifferent universe? Or one that is both at the same time, depending on your relation to it. Or one that started out as benevolent, became malevolent but is transitioning back to benevolent.
One of the problems of communication is our framing of questions as a dialectic - a choice between only one of two alternatives, usually framed as 'good' or 'bad.'
You constantly see this technique (Hegelian Dialects) being used to manipulate us into opposing camps, the old 'divide and rule' strategy of British Imperialism. Recognizing that, and realizing that there are more possibilities than just the strictly binary choices being offered is key to breaking free of their influence.
To get to the point where one truly breaks free of the dialectic one must face the dragon, and to do that one must be confident not only that it exists in the first place, but in the ability to defeat it when it appears.
It might be ye auld divide and rule- a relatively negative trait it might be added, but it's also a principle in the reality of this electric universe; take a cathode (negative) and an anode (positive). Out of darkness blinding light appears. Light is the most positive metaphor there is.
Not sure what you mean with the dragon metaphor.
I would be cautious when using physical analogies like positive and negative. If you look at the atom, only the simplest atoms (H and He) contain only positive and negative charges, while the rest have a number of neutrons (no charge) which are critical to the composition of matter, which itself relies on at least two other forces, the strong and weak nuclear forces, to sustain what we call the 'material world.'
Also, when comparing electric charges such as possessed by protons and electrons, one has to account for the fact that the proton is approximately 1836 times as massive as an electron, so something other than electric charge is clearly at work there.
But yeah... dialectics is hard to break free of since we're taught to think that way from day one.
Caitlin's article is about metaphysics. That's the angle I'm speaking from.
"Creation by mere thought! Why haven't I seen this all along?"
https://youtu.be/f2BYyeS-fIU?feature=shared
That was brilliant.
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"Caitlin's article is about metaphysics."
Are you sure? "Dominated By Narrative" to me suggests a semantic level analysis. Metaphysics is a fuzzy concept that has a different meaning depending on who you talk to. Semantics OTOH seeks to nail down the precise meaning of the words we use to communicate, otherwise we risk talking past each other. Maybe Caitlin could tell us which category is appropriate here?
Metaphysics is fuzzy for some but not for others, it depends on the level of intuition inherent in the person from birth.
She talks about 'inner work' too. That means addressing ones own self in ones own mind. Investigating the source of pain, humiliation, anger, stress, hate etc. and who/why/when/what/etc. causes it.
The more one recognises what triggers the emotions that we act on, like crappy politics or murderous Lahaina fires as an advertisement for non-flammable Hardiboard, the more ones consciousness rises.
Consciousness is the name of the game. There is nothing else.
>CIA putting 'clicks' in to electronica (music)
Sit down, Boomer. You're the same Puritan idiots who have been whining about this for 350 years in order to avoid that capitalism has priced your childish little workshop game out of existence.
Stop making up slave stories and crush more narratives.
Hey friendly little Doomer, I'm not a Boomer. But thanks for thinking I have that much misplaced confidence in the nature of my own material supremacy.
The article is linked. If you're capable of reading it, you be the judge, you've obviously extremely good at judgement, so you'll fly through it and prove it to yourself, no effort on my part. It is precisely what they were and have been doing. You just have to decide if the world is all doom and is gonna go boom, or if it'll be happily ever after the chaos the next seven to ten years subsides.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf
The CIA is a research and development company, not a supervillain from 1970s Saturday morning cartoons. They try a lot of weird things in their labs, in the same spirit as Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. Some pan out. Some don't.
I've worked in audio engineering. This is pseudoscientific crap.
Your complaint is nothing more than THE 400+ YEAR ONGOING Puritan totalitarian drama about any cultural ritual that doesn't enforce Christian reproduction, same as they have been excreting since the day they achieved political significance.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/manners-deference-and-private-property-or-elements-for-a-general-theory-of-hierarchy/
I'm sorry, was I complaining? I don't know what working in audio-engineering has to do with metaphysics, but you clearly need to assert some authoritah, and that's just fine. Go nuts. Are you familiar with Boards of Canada?
Do you know much about neurology or the patterns the electricity of the brain make? I've never gone too in-depth, but when I listened to certain electronic music I could read complex medical documents and astrophysics and take in much more with the background sound than without it.
In the document, if you read it, they are saying that the clicks fire up a section of the mind like a laser. Without it, the mind has the average capacity of a candle. (Some don't even have a candle.) So I had experienced this before knowing anything about the document, reading about it made sense from experience.
I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone, you can be the superior one. Funny you should mention Max Weber, I quoted him elsewhere today from his Protestant/Capitalism book wiki page. Cheerio.