“I’d join up and work with the Puppet Masters in a heartbeat. It’s the equivalent of being asked to work Steven Spielberg on a movie, or Steve Jobs on a new Apple design, or Mick Jagger. These are also men who have shaped empires. And in their glory I am, admittedly, a bit humbled. But not enough to be their bitch; but an honour to also play with them and check out their little slice of empire heaven…”

No, working for Steven Spielberg or Mick Jagger is a dream come true. Working for the likes of Saddam Hussein or Dick Cheney is selling your soul. And it’s pretty naive and presumptuous to think that the Puppet Masters would want you for anything other than the role of “bitch”. Puppet Masters don’t become powerful string-pullers by letting unknowns “check out their little slice of empire heaven”…

A co-worker of mine is working for Sir Paul McCartney tonight out in Long Beach. I asked him if he would fellate him if Macca so much as asked, and he said “Yes” in a heartbeat. Why? “Because he’s a Beatle” he said. I doubt my friend thinks Paul is going to start up Wings again with him on keyboards. Buty I also doubt he’d want to blow George W. Bush if asked to work at the White House for whatever reason.

Certain people deserve our respect and others don’t. Puppet Masters don’t deserve my respect, but people who write songs like “Yesterday” or direct movies like “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” certainly do.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_artic...=13461&cid=3&cname=Technology

Is it April 1st already?

One of the unalterable features of reality is that hubris always brings nemesis. To say that we need not study reality because we have the power to create our own is hubris of the highest order.

Regarding Lyra’s article: I too was at one time addicted to the Rense site. I still look at it, because much of the stuff there eventually ends up being true, even acknowledged by mainstream media at a *much later date.*

The relentless negativity, fearmongering, and misanthropy that informs the site–and Rense himself, if you’ve ever listened to the program–is soul-killing, and I could easily believe that this is the intended result. Not to mention the uncritical acceptance of anything said by Nazis and other haters as sober truth…

Rense is really the mirror image of “mainstream” outlets such as Fox News, and I suspect there is some overlap in audience, and that it is no accident.

One more thing: I have yet to meet a real, honest-t0-God activist who even knows that the Rense site exists. The lesson: people who really try to make a difference in the world–people who count– don’t spend their spare time huddled in front of their computer in fear of aliens, Zionists, Angry Arabs, MS13 members with machetes, or whatever.

In this case, without the American Empire, there would be no counterculture, ultraculture, or conspiracy theorists. Sure, the empire moved from Europe, and they had similar reactionaries over there, but you’d be hard-pressed to find such an ardent network of conspiracy theorists in Asia, as far as I know. The movie Suicide Club is a great portrayal of how the Japanese see themselves and their interaction with their media empire and the “language” of their pop culture.

The neat thing is this, and it’s simple: You only belong to the empire if you want to. The majority of the members of any “empire” are not conscious members, they belong out of necessity or birth or laziness to explore outside of their social context. The empire’s power comes from that laziness. Really, think about it: empire is founded on laziness.

Early adopters are constantly shifting, moving, trying new things out — culturally, artistically, technologically, theologically, et cetera. As they adopt new things that are deemed beneficial, it trickles down into the more mundane members of the so-called empire.

Back in the day, an esoteric few managed to carve out empires for themselves. I think that’s fucking awesome, but I can see where all the conspiracy theorists paranoia arises from. The problem is that they do not take it upon themselves to understand the nature of empire and become victims of the empire themselves, reactionaries to the fact it exists.

Choose to belong to what contexts you so desire, at whatever given moment, and the entire notion of empire becomes frivolous. I choose some elements of the American Empire, and some I see as silly. I make the conscious decision to choose. Things like the dollar and what not, if it’s not working for you, then leave. You can. It’s not advertised, obviously, but others have done it for thousands of years, so it’s not impossible. It’s up to you.

Or how about instead, make an enemy of the empire? Sure, you can do that. But let’s look at the driving forces behind this decision of yours… Reptiles? Your own lack of power over yourself? Or maybe just to fight the good fight against “evil”?

Evil does not exist. They do not exist. The empire exists because of you. Come to terms with that and only then will you be able to play the trickster from both within and out, and enjoy the paradox of both sustaining and crumbling the status quo simultaneously. They do indeed write history as they go along, but so can you. It doesn’t have to be on a global scale yet, just try mastering the subjective and interpersonal scales first.

I’d join up and work with the Puppet Masters in a heartbeat. It’s the equivalent of being asked to work Steven Spielberg on a movie, or Steve Jobs on a new Apple design, or Mick Jagger. These are also men who have shaped empires. And in their glory I am, admittedly, a bit humbled. But not enough to be their bitch; but an honour to also play with them and check out their little slice of empire heaven. In the end, my Kingdom lies within, and that is mine.

Remember, envy is a sin.

That’s what’s so appealing, addictive, and ultimately dangerous about sites like Rense.com and Cassiopaea.org - they “taste like the truth.” That’s very powerful for us humans, esp. since we were born into The Matrix; the machines/archons’ simulation is like fast food - tastes great, less filling.

Lyra hit the nail on the head: “we’re all going to get chipped” or “you create your own reality” aren’t the only 2 options. The 3rd option is creating something better, but you have to do it in objective reality.

I’m grateful to those sites, because I learned so much from them (and that’s what’s so maddening about not being able to get through to them about how unnecessarily negative and defeatist they’re being); but then you have to move on to the next stage of your journey.

Perhaps sticking it to the man by writing a passionate email to ones elected officials? That’ll teach ‘em!

Was that tongue-in-cheek or serious?

This all reminds me of the guy who decides to become a jerk to women, instead of being ‘nice’. They always say the same thing: “Now that I’m a jerk to women, they flock to me by the dozens! Forget about being a nice guy!” To which I reply: “Yeah, because you never were a nice guy to begin with. Now that you have embraced your jerkiness, you are free to be yourself, and that’s what the women are responding to.”

James, I love that insight. Totally awesome. That’s what I’m trying to do, is simply be myself, and see where that takes me. It’s taking me to places that it hasn’t previously. Your question about what fills the void is an entirely apt one as well. That’s one I’m figuring out. Everyone’s welcome to join me as I figure that out.

We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

What does that really mean? I’ve been thinking a lot about magickal uses of narrative; what if that Bush aid was coming right out and saying that the Bushies are shaping the world in their image, simply because they’ve got the balls to do so? And by studying what they’re doing, we just fall deeper into their trap.

It seems to me the antidote is to create a better reality. It sounds a bit crazy but hey, if they’re doing it, so can we.

SO what fills the void now, instead of trying to find out who REALLY rules the world? UFOs? Ghosts? Archons?

I find that kind of funny because for me, UFOs (the whole aliens, reptillian agendas, etc) and Archons (that and gnostic models of thought) were the things that dragged me into conspiracy theories.

Something I read on many of the conspiracy sites (Rense, PrisonPlanet, WhatReallyHappened, David Icke), still sticks with me today. And that is a quote by a member of Bush’s advisors (I think), and it goes something like this…

In the summer of 2002, after I (Ron Suskind) had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend—but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

I find that to be a powerful expression of what’s wrong with conspiracy theories, sites, and communities. It’s just studying and analyzing. Hell, some of us put on our logical caps and our science coats, and try to predict what will happen next, like it’s some scatterplot to be predicted with a regression line. But almost none of them actually try to DOOOOOOOO something about it. The very few times they do (i.e. Hate Bill Legislation), it’s only to protect their butts and keep themselves online or on the air. So it’s great to analyze (like analyzing a pitcher), but you can only “analyze” so much before it’s time to step up to the plate and take a swing at some of his pitches.

So the next thing to do, to “fill the void”, is to step on stage and start acting. If these things spur an emotional reaction, then fine, go with that reaction, and follow through with it. ACT OUT! If that isn’t for you, then turn to “being oneself”, like Fell said, and focus on bettering yourself, sharpening your sword, shining your light.

Nevertheless, the whole point is that we need to stop sitting on our arses, soaking up all the rhetoric, brainwashing ourselves back into the black iron prison, and ACT, either outwardly or inwardly.

Likewise, people who are tired of CT were never cut out for it in the first place. And I say, “Good for you” because your heart was never in it. Now that you are truly “aware”, you can let others continue to mine endless amusement out of it without any interference. It’s the thinning of the paranoid herd, I guess.

Also reminds me of David Horowitz– not the “Fight Back” guy, but the former Communist who now makes cash as a neo-con. He realized finally that he really wasn’t a pinko and started cashing in. But what’s funny about people like Horowitz is this: will there ever be a time when they realize that the other extreme is just as tepid?

SO what fills the void now, instead of trying to find out who REALLY rules the world? UFOs? Ghosts? Archons?

Tim, thanks for posting this. It’s been going through my head a lot over the past year or two.

Something hit me the other week while watching the Korean flic Oldboy and really stuck in a much more abstract, subjective way, in a way that I think applies to the above, too. And “alone” can apply to a whole subculture or psychographiv, in my opinion:—

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.

You’re an American, you can do something about it, and if you don’t want to or if you aren’t contracting stomach ulcers with the shit we’re in as a people then you suck.

wtf is that supposed to mean? what ‘people’?

are you really contracting stomach ulcers because of the ’shit we’re in as a people’? that’s kind of sad, isn’t it?

You’re an American, you can do something about it, and if you don’t want to or if you aren’t contracting stomach ulcers with the shit we’re in as a people then you suck.

-tc
syseng@msn.com

oh, i see:

http://noblerealms.org/wiki/index.php?...of-Body_Cosmology_of_Robert_A._Monroe