Month: November 2021

Not Losing Our Heads

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In my blogs I am often critical not of individuals but destructive thought patterns in common use. Thoughts have a life of their own both literally and metaphorically.

I shall ignore the former for now, and we are left with what Professor Carl G. Jung called the ‘collective unconscious’. This concept distinguishes the aptitude of a group of people to have shared unconscious awareness, similar the collective movements of a flock of birds. Sociologists who have studied the actions of rioters note how humans can act with a common purpose, which is part of the legal definition of ‘riot’. More worrying is that individuals are susceptible to consciously break personal moral codes – such as ‘thou shall not steal.’

picture by Kim Aldis, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15534195

I witnessed rioters in the Brixton area of south London in April 1981 running out of shops through broken display windows carrying swathes of clothing and other looted ‘goodies’. They were almost certainly not checking clothing sizes or colours when grabbing stuff…they just wanted to steal.

At the present time the news channels are reporting riots in cities around the world. Large numbers of people have decided not to be vaccinated. This has been respected up until now but governments are getting frustrated by the numbers of Covid cases continuing to rise. Vaccination is seen as the solution to disease control even though vaccinated people still spread the virus by touch and in their breath, and vaccinated people are being admitted to hospitals. The principle benefit of vaccination is that you are less likely to die. This is incentive to the individual and managing beds in ICU’s.

What governments principally want is an end of the pandemic – an objective almost certainly shared by 99% of the population. You might ask the question then, ‘if they agree, why are they fighting?’

The problem lies as always in the detail. Generalisations rarely reveal the truth but rather hide it. Is it not absurd that the government representing the people – fights the people? It is not absurd that some people ( whether the majority or not ) disagree with the methods by which the common objective is achieved.

This is the classic ‘the end justifies the means’ thought pattern.

‘Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve moral right outcomes’. Wikictionary

The riots in Brixton were race riots by a young black community who felt they were not being given the same opportunities as other races.

They must have been thoroughly committed to their perceived morally high aim to risk skewering their life chances with a criminal record.

The question will always remain in any circumstance, what is the right thing to do?

In order to prevent ‘loss of life’ police in Holland, in the last few days, have been shooting protesters with lethal firearms. For their political masters, this method of achieving fewer deaths by Covid infection justifies the potentially murderous means to control of the population.

In the Western liberal democracies, individual rights of personal choice and freedom have been enshrined in human rights and other laws for decades, whereas the opposite is true in autocratic regimes like communist China. Should we be surprised that personal freedom symbolised by the ‘vaccine or no vaccine’ debate is held aloft as a morally high aim by Western individuals?

‘Actions can be considered right or wrong only in consideration of the morality of the outcome’. This extract from Wikitionary’s definition brings in another twist to the ends and means conundrum. How extreme can you go doing bad things to reach a good thing?

The answer for some is that humans can choose to go as extreme as they want. Terrorists who the night before are stroking their purring cats, will decapitate a human in pursuit of their ‘noble’ political aim, such as creating an ‘Islamic State’.

The most hideous of deeds appears to be justifiable in the human mind when ‘a good cause’ is the objective.

How can this stupidity be tolerated? Surely a sense of proportion and restraint should always be part of our understanding? A violent act is disproportionate to an action which is not violent.

This introduces the concept of ‘justifiably’. You might question whether the late Nelson Mandela was justified to commit terrorist acts in support of a political aspiration, acts for which he was jailed. Clearly public opinion changed over the decades as his political aims – the ANC to govern – became reality. He and his comrades were lauded as ambassadors of peace and released and accelerated to high political office.

The other day in the USA, a defendant was found not guilty by a jury of murder of two men and wounding a third using a gun. His defense was ‘self defense’.

Few people – even those untrained in law – will argue against a citizen’s right to defend themselves. It must be one of the most basic of human rights to preserve the life of one’s self…a suitably high moral mountain from which to also defend oneself from criticism.

And yet the most important nuance is being ignored which is – was the level of violence used in the act of self defense, proportionate?

I do not know about the case in the USA however I am baffled as to how a young man under 18 (a child in UK law) is able to be trusted with a lethal firearm and carry it in public at a political demonstration. I am also baffled as to how three men could approach this young man in such a way that the defendant thought they were about to kill him. Were they pointing guns at him? But most of all, I am baffled as to how the accused was able to kill two men and wound another without suffering any injuries himself. Were they unarmed?

In the United Kingdom the legal definition of self defense includes the measure of proportionality. So if someone attacks you in the street with a folded umbrella you may use your umbrella, and even your ‘Avengers’ bowler hat as well, to defend yourself. You may not pull out a knife to defend yourself an umbrella attack. This law is extended to private places so that if you should come across a burglar in your house you cannot shoot them.

I once confronted a burglar in my house when I was working as an architect in London. I used extreme verbal force which clearly scared the hell out of him. I was pretty confident in Shotokan Karate at that time and I had the option to floor him as he ran passed me to jump out of the window. But I was concerned he would fall on the radiator, hit his head and die. So instead I picked up the phone and called the police. Being an artist, I also made a pencil sketch of his face which I gave to police when they arrived. This later turned out to be a ‘dead ringer’ for a suspect a few weeks later.

My point is that proportionality is the greater part of the choice to justify an action. The end is like any future event; open to change and rarely achieved first time or in the expected manner.

We live in an increasingly fake and simplistic world. Public debate and political leadership is being reduced to three word slogans.

Thinking rationally is under threat in my view. If we lose this we will lose our freedoms and our democracies and accept whatever extremity is imposed upon us for ‘noble’ political aims.

The word has always be mightier than the sawn-off shotgun. May it always be so.

Prayer and Miracles

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Most people have some idea of what a prayer is. They will either pray on the basis of this belief or not. In the West young people are encouraged to pray in school and in some families at home as well. But as common as prayer is, I believe the question is rarely asked, ‘how does it work?’


I do not believe that prayer is a method of ‘getting things’ for yourself. It might be appealing to keep ‘requests to God’ as a back stop to failure in life, but that was never part of the deal with the Almighty. If we remember Genesis, part of the punishment for obtaining knowledge is freewill. That is, if we foul up it’s entirely our fault.


The Arabs have a saying; ‘Trust in God but tie up your camel first’. So when people ask the question, ‘how could God let this happen?’ they are imagining a perfect universe in which God is an autocratic ruler. That would be simple, but turning oneself into a victim and apportioning blame outside of oneself is a philosophy doomed to disatisfaction. It should be comon sense that camels will walk off on their own if not tied to a palm tree. We are responsible for our own actions and that was always the deal.


If you can agree with this philosophy of personal account and blameworthyness, then it is easy to adjust to the reality that God will not respond to prayers asking for earthly personal rewards.
To an intellectual where words are all that there is, this is an unsatisfactory state of affairs. They might become so frustrated by the lack of answers that they form the conclusion that ‘there is no God’. It’s logical but of course, logic does not run the Universe. If it did there would be no access to and need for spirituality.


In my own view and probably others, prayer does create change but an inward change, not outward. If you examine the palmed hands and prostration and kneeling common to many religions, it is obvious that a submissive posture and quiet mind is paramount to effective prayer. The effect of this is like plucking a guitar string in one room and somewhere else another guitar string chimes in sympathy. This is the resonant universe in which all things are connected quiet naturally and without effort. In this way, I argue, we are connected to the all powerful Creator God however you imangine that ‘Mind’ to be.


If you look at sacred imagary throughout history, minor gods and angelic forms are depicted carrying and playing musical instruments. The classic example is angels with harps, flutes and even reeds in the wind are metaphors for resonance between God and the physical world.


Prayer, in any religion, can have the effect of stilling the human mind and spirit to become in harmony with the God-self, that is the tiny part of the Creative Mind within ourselves. This is hidden reason why Muslims are required to pray five times a day, to keep the inner Divine strings humming constantly.


Resonance, to paraphrase the prophet of Islam, Mohammed, (sas) can move mountains.


Tibetan monks in 1939 were recorded by Kjellson levitating huges rocks up a mountainside to build a monastery. They used the power of their long musical horns arranged in a specific pattern and backed by rows of humans in prayer.


By becoming One with the Universe we can create events that we want.
This is part of the paradoxical nature of being alive in which a human with freewill can direct that freewill to union with the Creator of freewill and thus a ‘connection’ that is not connected…as in two strings vibrating in harmony.


So we move on to miracles. I said at the begining that prayer is not a means to get what we want. That was not quite true because there is an exception and that is miracle making.
There are rare moments (and by that I mean very rare) where Divine intervention at a resonant level as described, can make a humble individual ‘all powerful’.

Jesus the Christ was revered for his miracles, some of which are described quite literally in the Holy Bible and some allegorically. An example of a literal miracle is raising Lazarus from the dead, something Jesus was taught to do by the gnostics of the time. An example of an allegorical miracle would be turning water into wine.
In the old testament we have the Israelites being chased by the mighty Egyptian army and trapped by the Red Sea. One faithful follower entered the waters and started to walk. At the point where his head went under water the seas parted.


So if we ignore the allegorical stories about miracles as having another purpose, we can see the common theme that real miracles happen when an individuals or a collective’s very existence is in danger of extinction. It may not happen at a time and in accordance with human desire.


Delay and misdirection are caused by the impurity of our human resonance with God, not the other way around.
As the old saying goes, ‘the pot always calls the kettle black’. So the sooner we stop ignoring or doubting His prescence within each one of us, the sooner our lives will change.

You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy

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Quotation from ;The Great Reset by 2030 – World Economic Forum

What do the bad guys usually want? From the Blofeld’s and Goldfingers of our imaginations to the Alexander the Greats and Caesars, we might think the answer is, ‘world domination’.

In our present era, there is indeed smoke in the air warning us of a world conflagration. The word ‘global’ is something we are accustomed to hearing; in a way that would not have been, say one hundred years ago.

Since then, we have had round the world flights and sailing navigation’s and of course two world wars. Now we are told of a global climate emergency. Global is the new National.

Sadly, for we had to wait until the sea was lapping at our toes and the wind spinning away our hats before taking responsibility – if that was achieved at the recent COP 26 in Glasgow. Those living near the sea may be wise to go out and buy aqualungs.

picture credit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Concurrently we have yet another global emergency called the ‘pandemic’. This could also have been better prepared for, as humanity has been fighting virus’s for it’s entire history and has never been so well armed to respond as we are today; even if the common cold has escaped elimination.

And then there is China, and the Chinese Communist Party. When I studied China in school fifty years ago, the Chinese people went around on flocks bicycles and ‘stuff’ was made in Hong Kong. Now the Chinese are the center of the world’s commerce and principle producer of goods. This is driven by low wages, long hours ( ‘search engine ‘ the numbers 669) and economical (though global climate harming ) global traffic and trade. Most Pacific rim nations view the highly capable Chinese military as their principle threat and many human rights organisations lay numerous allegations of inhumanity, at the door of the Chinese leaders.

First Chinese bicycles. Historical artwork of people riding bicycles in Shanghai, China, in 1900. Taken from: Histoire de la Locomation Terrestre, published in Paris in 1936. Credit Science Photo Library

Is all this global Covid, Climate and China just chance or should we be suspecting ‘foul play’ on a scale never conceived of before?

If humanity feels it is being forced into a corner with basic freedoms being taken away, why is this and who is doing it?

In my view the ‘giant at the top of the bean stalk’ is technology. No one ever voted for new technology. A few scientists have had second thoughts on realising how destructive their discoveries are e.g. the A-bomb…but most inventions, like the washing machine, set us free.

For the freedom loving democracies, life, in my view, is about to become a whole lot less free. To understand the means to this end one must only look at China and how it uses technology to control in fine detail, the lives of it’s citizens. CCTV cameras produce images with names and numbers floating above each face in the supermarket or airport concourse. Money as cash has long gone as it cannot be traced. Instead citizens wave their phones at tills in shops and the transaction goes straight to CCP headquarters…just in case they might need it.

picture credit : My London

By the time it reaches Europe and the USA I predict mobile phones will enable our governments to more or less monitor and control our lives. Everything you are and do will go to a special sealed circuit board in your phone. It will be called your ‘Freedom Pass’. Sounds okay doesn’t it, but read on. Interestingly Elon Musk has other plans to insert this techology directly into your brain, something that may be used instead of or as well as mobile phones. Both will of course be presented as benefits to the individual.

‘Everything you are’ means your personal details and bio metrics, consumer profile, money and possessions, travel, education, health and politics.

‘Everything you do’ means your work and leisure, credit and tax records, work skills and placement, travel credits, health status, voting credits.

The first of these should not surprise us as this is what computers do and have been doing since the 1990’s. What we haven’t reached yet is the experience of having our money and assets frozen because we voted for the wrong party ( oh yes, you will use your phone to vote ) or our self drive car restricted to no further than a five mile radius, (known as a withdrawal of travel credits ) because we put up a post on social media criticising the government.

Cleverly your ‘Freedom Pass’ will measure your ‘credits’ not take your ‘freedom’ away. It will just take credits that you were awarded for following government protocols, away. Your fault, not the governments.

If this future shocks and horrors you then there is an alternative, but be warned, it is not for the faint-hearted.

picture credit Maribyrnong City Council

The alternative is to throw your mobile phone into a lake. Some of us lived before mobile phones and before domestic computers and I can assure you, life was fine and dandy. Birds sang, beaches were clean and people made love not war.

If you fancy this lifestyle today it is probably because you are spiritual. I mean by this that for your life is not just about local gossip and watching TV and going to the supermarket – the sort of life style acted out on the TV soaps.

Those who have a deeper vision of what it is to be human and free will probably be either extremely rich ( so that they are part of the Global Government Party ) or spiritual. By spiritual I encompass all religions and those who have a feeling of a Divine presence or if you prefer ‘goodness in life’. For them it is not important if the supermarket refuses to accept payment because their money credit has been taken over by the State. There is an option, an alternative lifestyle that is not ‘Mad Max’.

You will have to leave the cities, where 50% of humanity have already been funneled. Eventually most people will eventually be sent to cities in order to ‘protect the environment’ or ‘preserve a scientific special interest zone’ or some other ‘desirable noble cause’. In reality it is to put the sheep in their pen.

Freedom lovers will vote with their feet and choose to live in small self-sufficient communities in remote locations. The governments will be powerless to stop this because they will not need to. People living ‘off the grid and off the net’ are no threat to what governments are aiming to achieve. However hard you try to grow just corn, there is always a corner or a dip in the field where weeds grow. Governments know this.

picture credit: Educalingo

There will be ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ in most countries across the globe. The sheep will be tended for their basic needs but under the watchful eye of the sheep dog. The goats will move to the wild lands, too high for sheep, too few in number for the sheep dog to chase.

Perhaps you will see in front of you the stairs that enable believers to climb into the ‘New Earth’ as Dolores Cannon calls it. Your vibrational level will change your perception fundamentally. Dolores uses the metaphor of an aircraft propellor which becomes invisible when it changes frequency of spin.

So even though your are still here , you will not be. What was important in the material world will become inconsequential. As a Tibetan monk once told the Dalai Lama after 18 years of captivity by the Chinese, ‘I was in danger twice. Both times because I came close to not forgiving my captors.’