New Years Eve Rant

I was thinking of writing today.

As I speak, there is a Full Moon outside. Full Moons in the mountains of Colorado, away from the city lights where you can still see the stars at night ...it is like being on another planet. Its a magical amazing experience in light and strange and yet beautiful shadow.

As I was driving down the road today, I was thinking earlier about the magic of the day. Going out into a bright, beautiful, reassuring sunny day. After nights and nights of dark dreams and chaos. I think most people take such things as an uncontemplated given, driving their cars down the road in the sunshine. It means nothing.

I mean... has it ever occurred to you that the daytime Sun/reality is something taken for granted? I don't know. Maybe its because I am an astrologer and since I started tracking the cycles of the Moon regularly a couple of years ago, I am tuned in to a 'different' sense of space. But lately I have been very conscious of just how magical and how RARE the Sun shining on us, lighting up a few hours in this place, in a routine of alternating time and light and dark, really is. I mean, if you think about it. It only exists as we get to experience it, on a very tiny speck of dust in a very large solar system, not to mention universe, for a few hours a day in an infinite expanse, on a spiralling ball of rock and water. It is a tiny dimension of cheerful existence and stark light, at the very least. Keeping the darkness at bay for a short time and space on a fairly regular interval. Its a miracle, really.

Such things occur I think, to those of us who can perceive just how close and how real the darkness really is. Or maybe just me. This short time of brightness and cheer drives it back for awhile. Sometimes for some of us, its being able to count on the new day that gets us through this routine of being yanked back. Into someplace that is mostly unaccountable, like the rest of it all. Consciousness itself.

I have desperately wanted to write about schizophrenia. As limited as our status quo has become in defining human experience, I would imagine that what I just put down on cyberpaper would be considered as split in normal human perception as anything else. Maybe that's why I came up with it. I've been contemplating these ideas for awhile in recent time. Feeling they should be committed to a record of some kind, dedicated to true understanding of the Human Spirit.

The double standard of human schizophrenia. On the one hand, we pray to an invisible God. We think. We feel. We wish. We plan and intend. We dream. We find ourselves alternately discouraged and inspired. All things that are unprovable and immeasurable. But we believe in them so automatically that we don't even notice them as given parts of our conscious experience. How we give ourselves away and pretend to deny our true nature.

And yet, there are those that go beyond just ... trusting that 'the other side' of reality simply exists. And being able to duck out into a double standard of dismissing it all for the sake of measurable science, like everyone else. These people are forced to deal with it. For us it is an unavoidable part of our normal daily negotiation and perception of our existence. And its a darn good thing, too. You might say we are the guardians of the human race, we keep it all in balance. Or struggle to. Because we can contend with the invisible and intangible in very real ways that protect everything in its lazy oblivion. I say that because far too many of those that aren't aware make a conscious choice not to be. It serves them to be fooled. By things like say, the fake media, for example. To not know what is REALLY going on in your world because hey, then you might have to do something about it. If you had to face the truth.

Sorry. Maybe my jaded viewpoint doesn't necessarily apply. I am sure there are people who want to know the truth. So then, maybe the question is, WHO benefits from shutting off 'secondary' awareness and denying all the psychic and aware people (schizophrenics) from the validity of perceiving otherwise?

According to Wikipedia, Schizophrenia is defined as a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, hearing voices that others do not hear, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and a lack of motivation. People with schizophrenia often have additional mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

Are you kidding me?

What, you mean like, not being motivated to tow the party line in terms of how and what the powers that be have determined is a valid human life? Defined primarily by monetary worth of all things?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hearing voices (and seeing things) that are present in a secondary reality, because we are more perceptive than the status quo would like us to be, you mean?

You mean, understanding (or not understanding) what is real on a level that makes certain people uncomfortable, having to face the truth? Maybe because these people would be ostracized? Or actually force someone to act?

False beliefs like, different from the ones we are programmed to accept as politically or religiously correct?

Confused thinking, anxiety and/or depression and difficulty relating to others that is a product of stress that comes from full awareness of how freaking IRONIC and crazy the landlords really are?

Uh Huh.

Here is some food for thought.

Mental Illness: Are We Drugging Our Prophets and Healers?
http://www.vironika.org/drugging-prophets-healers/

To quote Jiddu Krishnamurti: Feb 17, 1986. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/quote-of- ... -of-health

"“Worldling” is a translation of “putthujana,” which is simply anyone who isn’t enlightened. That’s me, and you. The Buddha had his own ideas about what constitutes mental health, and by his definition anyone who isn’t well on the way to Enlightenment is insane. Quite how literally he meant it when he said “All worldlings are mad” is hard to say, but when he looked at ordinary people like us going about their daily business he saw a world out of balance — and a world that by necessity is out of balance, because it is composed of those same off-kilter individuals.

He had a term for this imbalance, which was viparyasa in Sanskrit, although the less-well-known Pali equivalent vipallasa is a bit easier on the tongue and the eye. Vipallasa means “inversion,” “perversion,” or “derangement.” Specifically, in using this term the Buddha was talking about the ways in which we misunderstand the world we live in, and the ways in which we misunderstand ourselves. Just at the young man at my meditation class was constantly misinterpreting what was happening (“See! I made that happen”) so too do the rest of us live in a virtual reality of delusion, confusion, and distortion.

What’s more, we largely share the same delusions, which means that we don’t even realize that our minds are disturbed. And thus, as Krishnamurti suggests, it’s possible to think that we’re spiritually and mentally healthy because we share our mistaken values and understandings with those around us. Collectively, our ill minds create a society that is itself ill, and we consider ourselves healthy because we see our values reflected in our fellow worldlings.""

Ahem.

Believe it or not, there is a whole 'nother ... type or species of human being that really does exist. And a completely different view of the world. Hidden in plain sight. Crucial, even, to the evolution of humanity and consciousness itself. Even to the development and expansion of REAL technology or what some might consider magic. Some would say that magic is simply science we do not understand (yet). And some things are true whether you believe them or not.