don't go to the mall this weekend! terrorists are going to blow it up! dude I think you took too much ibogain and got the fear.

Not very constructive felix but whatever man. Thanks for the advice daniel. Yeah I think this crash has a lot of folks freaking out, myself included. Honestly im not optimistic about the bailout, or any bailout remedying this. I'm not some alex jones NWO conspiracy dude, but when respected journalists like amy goodman are talking about domestic military exercises to handle a vague 'civil emergency' beginning Oct. 1, I for one take note. Also, the agreements signed between the US, Mexico, and Canada back in April or so regarding the use of cross-border military operations to handle such a 'civil emergency' are troubling at best. yeah felix, nobody is saying to run to your fallout bunker, but following day after day of unprescedented bad financial news, it may be wise to stock up on a few basics.

that all of this is going to somehow be tied into the coming (or maybe not so much) election next month?

Well, October 14 is a Full Moon in Aires, a sign of new beginnings. It is also the day of the Canadian Federal Election.

I'm rather certain things will get freaky next week, if only for the full moon. But I do think it's important to not fall into some kind of hyper-Apophenia.

Regardless, I think what you've touched upon and written here Daniel, sums up the global situation pretty succintly; Economical/Ecological and the need for Preparation/Calm while considering ... every dream inbetween that remains to be seen.

Hopefully, despite warnings from many sources ( human and digital) I will still get to hear you speak at the 2012 Conference in San Francisco later this month. The whole house of cards seems to be coming down for real.peace

Thanks Daniel. Part of me hopes that this prediction gets proved wrong. We never like to see people suffering. But for the most part I welcome the collapse of the international financial system. I think we are seeing the beginning of just that.

The current system is totally fictitious. Between fractional reserve banking (banks only needing to have 1/10 of what they lend out) and the derivitaves market (these same banks borrowing from each other, borrowing against each others debt, and investing money that has not been made yet) it appears that there is very little actual money anywhere. People and institutions have begun to call in their debts only to find nobody has the money. The house of cards every wise investor has warned about for years has started to topple over.

I don't know if we need this whole system to collapse completely before we can fully sort ourselves out, or if any of it remains relevant. I don't really think this system addresses human needs, but I know the transition will be painful for all.

I agree with you Daniel that ultimately the cooperative model will win out. Organisms that don't adapt die. As do systems like our financial system.

Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi says the G7 is considering closing down the world markets until they "rewrite the rules of international finance". Also says they are considering some kind of "new Bretton Woods Agreement".

Bloomberg.com via npr's PlanetMoney

I feel assaulted with so many conspiracy theories, uncertainty and dread that they are almost cancelling each other out. If, as some evidence shows us, we co-create our reality with meditation and intention, perhaps this is the time to stage a massive "mindfulness rescue plan." I, for one, would wake up at 6:00 am or any other time to join others in a simultaneous meditation effort to, at the very least, stay grounded and present in the face of this crisis. This is completely achievable with current network technologies. Where is this kind of call to action from spiritual and other leaders? Certainly any action that connects us together as a species will have a strong, positive impact. In the face of powerlessness and a loss of control, I can think of no better way to reinforce our connection to ourselves and each other.

The Arlington Institute's Dream Report is an embarrassing assemblage of generalized cliche images of Western Civ. paranoia. Has anyone taken the time to "read" it? I'd like to echo Martin Anderson's Mindful Call to Action, as well as all of the conscientious comments from a few weeks back, when Daniel first posted this most recent project of The Arlington Institute's. Can't we envision a better future than doom and gloom?Thoughts create things, ie; careful what you wish for...THE FALL has begun, it's almost past tense by now, better teach one another how to dance in the rubble.

At Earthdance Miami, an astrologer spoke (Chris Witecki? Wisecki?) who said the astrological charts in the October and November haven't been seen since the time of the American Revolution. I don't know much about astrology, but it does resonate with the current times.

Much talk about martial law being declared. I've felt for YEARS now this would happen around the time of the 2008 elections. Looking at the recent, unabashedly pro-elite actions by Obama and the de-evolution of the GOP into a racist mob, I wonder what political side has the most to fear from martial law being declared. Also note that Palin's beloved seccesionist party considers Alaska the last refuge in the world from the powers of the "new world order."

I support obama, i've donated to obama, but i can't shake the feeling he's the feyd rautha sent to "rescue" us from beast rabban.

Pres. Bush is being his usual incoherent, mindless self but somehow manages to mention the "ILLUMINATING conversations with friends" he's been having, who say that "we're gonna get through this together."

If any of you are into synchromysticism, many signs point to the dawning of a worldwide solar religion in conjunction with an "alien" visitation or UFO disclusure from one or more major governments. Possibly in conjunction with the collapse of the global financial system, we will move back to a "gold standard" of currency.

As i live in south florida i have a fair amount of provisions socked away in case of emergency but i'm still going to buy some this weekend, as we could be in for a rough ride these next few weeks. I also plan to set aside more time than usual for trance-state exploration and meditations on the heart chakra.

Ultimately it is blatantly obvious that a tremendous amount of "illusion" is crashing down in our global worldview. From a dualistic perspective it may feel like we are in for deep doo-doo and this may be true, but from a non-dual perspective we are ALL connected and this is all one big process. A brief moment of especially exotic love-play between Shiva and Shakti. We shall see.

Let the (R)evolution begin.

Im all for the mass meditation. Pardon me for restating something that may have already been said, but its just really funny (to me) that next tuesday is supposed to be when a giant space craft is supposed to reveal itself in our atmosphere. Im just as skeptical as the next guy but my intuition is ringing. Anybody?anybody?anybody?... blossomgoodchild.com for the scoop. I bet we all want it to happen, that would be great if the primates were at each others throats over their now valueless money and all of a sudden look up and fall back in dismay at some massive ship... I think an alien visitation is in order... psychological constructs made manifest? perhaps... reality is a slippery son of a gun.I dont know...its looking real bleak folks, but i keep chugging away with the positive vibes.

The instability of our social structures has been evident long enough for people to accept the magnitude of what could happen if the system fails and the kushy blanket that drapes the bubble of Western schizophrenia is ripped from attached hands. Rather then analyzing this process, I think we should be empowering ourselves by developing the yogic fluidity that personifies our shift into the Aquarian age. Then, if catastrophe strikes, we will be ready because we will have been ready because we will exist in readiness! I am not saying that this means overlooking necessary measures of self-sufficiency as far as food, water, etc. Only that the state of certainty that comes with the resulting self-mastery of yogic disciplines of whatever sort, fries the fear and hesitation that lead one to feel they must speculate. If it is a mass meditation you are suggesting, then let's just meditate.

It seems in every field people are talking about something big happening. Economics with the obvious financial crisis, the military redirecting military force to be stationed in America, even as so far as the supposed two mile long UFO schedueled to make an apperance over Alabama this Tuesday. I could be wrong, but isn't this just about the time schedueled for a Dark Age in quite a few old mythologies and such? Even if something was not set to happen, I believe the states of mankind as a whole could very well either push something to happen, or in their panic create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Daniel,

 

Here is a NY Times opinion piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10mulligan.html?th&emc=th), not brilliant, but more or less sensible, reminding us that the financial system is the cherry, not the cake. The actual production of goods and services goes on. Human beings work and create, whether the ruinously destructive financial house of cards stands or falls.

 

Not that the changes you are talking about are not coming. No doubt they are, but it is so easy to get hypnotized by "the news" and forget how much it is a specialized construct and not necessarily the "truth" about what's happening on a global scale. I learned that when I was living in a small town in a country (Haiti) where a coup and revolution happened and nobody there knew about it. I found out from listening to an overseas radio station!

 

The core of the economy is not financial sleight-of-hand. The core of the economy is people working, with special attention to work that is never paid in currency and never acknowledged as "production" by economists, like the work of mothers.

 

Marc

 

Say uncle Bob goes to the bank and asks for credit to buy whatever. He cannot pay back this loan however, defaults, and "visualisation/meditation" is going to "fix it"?? Really? Hmm.

 

"We will shortly see the collapse of the economies and currencies of the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The speed of this collapse is catching many by surprise. It will happen once their overseas investors withdraw confidence in their economies and withdraw their capital. Without being able to roll over their loans there will be a collapse of their currencies and defaulting on their international debt obligations. They will be blamed for the economic crisis that has engulfed the globe, bringing the hatred of the whole world against them.

It will result in the Anglo-Saxon nations sink into abject poverty; their people face starvation, disease, famine, and abject poverty. Their people will suffer greatly, as their societies sink into anarchy, as law and order breaks down, and society collapses. Their nations will be taken over by their creditors as they try and recover their debts, and their people put into slavery. It will be a time of great suffering and tribulation to its people."

http://rense.com/general83/next.htm

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BLACK FRIDAY... 
http://www.prisonplanet.com/run-on-the-system-black-friday.html 

 

Credit Crisis Commercial Paper Disaster
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6709.html

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FEMA SOURCES CONFIRM MARTIAL LAW
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From Patricia Bearson's "A Brief History of Anxiety":

 

"Anxiety is fear in search of a cause."

i know that i woke tuesday morning with the overwhelming urge to invite all of the friends of mine who have been talking about learning to meditate over to my house this saturday. i followed through, and sure enough, several of us will be meeting here tomorrow at 4:30 for some group meditation.  it wasn't so uch the urge to teach them simple meditations as the need to have people anchoring white light here that was so pressing on me.   which is interesting, as i'm fairly amateur myself, but i'm becoming more and more aware of the power of my decision by the minute... in any case, 4:30pm pst tomorrow...

This is a meditation listed as a practice "for endless courage and endurance against the entire universe" in the book "Kundalini Yoga Sadhana Guidelines 2nd Edition" that personifies the shift from fear to love. It's description is as follows:

 

One of the hallmarks of the yoga lifestyle is to pay attention to the rhythms of nature that we are part of. As we express our creativity in our culture, business enterprises and other activities we can easily get out of touch with the fundamentals of our biology, our patterns of energy and the cycles of the day. This meditation is done at twilight, as our energy naturally shifts. We take advantage of that shift and direct the change to give us strength. Yogi Bhajan commented "If the tongue is properly kept turned inside the mouth, and you start chanting, Har, then you will understand the English word "ecstasy." It is just a balance between the lower back, spinal cord, you, and the tongue. It can change your vibration, nervous system, and your central nerve, to be so strong that after practice you become very fearless. Most things we do out of fear. We think we love, but we don't. In our life, love is our attachment to our emotions, and fear is our constriction of our self-power. Bot are bad. Actually, when you are really in love you are humongous. Nothing can stop you. If you are afraid, you freeze, you can't move properly. You have two things to do: Carry the day and carry the night. You want to go to work to carry the work. Wrong. You carry the day and you carry the night. God has given you two twilights, 4 to 7 in the morning and 4 to 7 in the evening."

 

To practice (once again, this should be at twilight): Sit in Easy Pose (cross legged). Lock your hands in Bear Grip (fingers of each hand held close together and hooked with the arms out in a horizontal fashion) at the Heart Center. Right palm faces inward, left palm faces outward. Eyes are at the tip of the nose. Begin to rock the body forward about 4-6 inches, and then back to the center. This is a slow continuous, fluid movement. Move forward and back about 8 times per 10 seconds. Let the body move by itself. Do not apply physical muscle. Chant the mantra, Har, each time you move forward. Chant in the following manner: Turn the tip of the tongue back so it strikes the upper pallet each time you chant. The word comes out sounding more like "Hu(d)-uh" Generate the sound of the mantra from the center of the mouth. Har is one of the aspects of God - the Creative Infinity. Continue for 11 minutes. To finish: Inhale, suspend the breath for 20 seconds, and then pull on the bear grip with all the power in your hands, so the energy can be displaced to every part and fiber of the body. Repeat two more times.

 

Picture of the bear grip mudra

 

 

I hope people will find this meditation useful. 

we really need to be thinking of constructive ways of dealing with this situation (which as the always astute M Lazard points out, will probably not be the end of civilization as we know it - yet). i don't think that other people's dreams predict the future so much as they illustrate a collective anxiety that, without some clear analysis, may actually cause us to bring all this bullshit upon ourselves. i don't think we should be cheering on the collapse just yet. we need to prepare, to get practical about this, to create a coherent and effective alternative in the time we have left. meditation is a good thing to do at 6 in the morning. maybe we could then, calmly and mindfully, do something constructive and tangible and active with the rest of our day.

 

ps.To those of you watching the skies, the spaceship ISN'T coming. It just isn't - I channeled that information from my own rational mind.

Karma yoga - the yoga of daily action. We must act and think amidst a meditative flow in order to never lose touch with our source. While a morning spiritual practice definitely is fundamental to this, we should never forget that every second is an opportunity to project the mantra of love. Moment to moment we flow, yet it remains still, constant.

A few weeks ago, I read about the Oct 14th UFO and the Arlington Institute (which also speaks of the UFO scenario) on Reality Sandwhich. Those posts affected me deeply, and so I blogged on my blog about the relationship between fear, mystery, and the false idea...

So you all inspired me to write something there, and now perhaps I can share with you what you all helped me with a few weeks back, because maybe some of you need some help now too.

 

So here goes...

 

In my personal life, I awake every day this month very unsure if my business will exist in just a few short weeks. Being a father to a three year old child and having to provide financial security for another human being, that certainly creates plenty of uncertainty and at times anxiety.

In addition, I turn on CNN or surf through Digg, Reddit, and the Huffington Post, searching out articles, opinions, and blogs on our current state of affairs with the election, economy, and the war. There are wars, and rumors of more wars, end of the world scenarios, talks of the second great depression, and all sorts of apocalyptic end of the world ideas that are being fed to us virally via online news sources.

It is very slowly dawning on civilization at this time that mystery, or uncertainty, unknown, or what ever you wish to call this third truth value, is a very real yet very uncomfortable notion to be comfortable with.

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I felt compelled to go through the various postings here and lift out fragments:

 

exist in readiness

anxiety is fear in search of a cause

do something constructive and tangible and active

moment to moment we flow, yet it remains still, constant

to be present enough in the face of the unknown

the shift from fear to love

I have recently finished reading two of your books and have enjoyed them immensely. Subsequently, I have been reviewing Reality Sandwich to see any commentary from you on the present economic meltdown and to read your views. It’s interesting that you mention in your article of the potential for a “severe socio-economic disruption within the next week”. In the last few weeks I came across a YouTube clip titled “Federation Of Light - 2,000 Mile Long Craft Will Appear on Oct 14th 2008 ?” – a date that fits in with the timing of a major world event that will shake the foundations of many. The message was channelled by Blossom Goodchild and she has provided a YouTube clip titled “Blossom Goodchild clarifies October 14th”, which is worth a look. For regular updates check out

http://10-14-08.blogspot.com/

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Forty years ago, I saw the end of the world coming as clearly as I see it today. I was as ready as I am as I type this. I've been ready. So I tend to take all these scenarios with a grain of salt. Yes, it's all happening, but chances are, not as a good movie with a build-up to a climax. You can take events from different places and times and edit them together to make a good apocalypse trailer, but if you are an individual living in one place, one day at a time, you might end up experiencing the end of the world as a regular day at the office. When I talk to people who have lived through great historical upheavals, they all tend to make this same point. History books and prophecies are like good movies -- they compress and organize the action for the sake of narrative flow and tension.

 

Marc

Wow, guys. This seems to run the gamut of possible reactions. Thank you, Marc, for bringing some much needed perspective.

 

Mr. Mysterio ... Dude ...

I bring you the immortal words of Seneca:

Tales inveniunt, quales colunt

I understand his words this way: The kinds of things people search for, they find.

But you could also read it this way: People discover (or see in the world) things that match the character of their search (or cultivation).

People, let's get real! We are not running for our lives---yet, we're sitting in front of our computers blogging. Fine, good, relax! Here is what I did yesterday. I Scored an ounce of some primo BCBUD called the "one", a super heavy indica to mellow out with, (put the sativa down). Next I bought the latest Dylan bootleg #8 release. WOW, that has put things in perspective beautifully. Yes, finally We all need to reaccess. We all know after nearly fifty years of the consciousness revolution how little we have learned. We have the power to say no to what is destroying the world, its each and every one of us and the greedy choices we make.We make the choice between consciously living and practicing evil or not every single day.The world has become full of evil, deny it. We all need to make that choice. The darkness or the light. Time is short, by every calender.Peace.

I stand by the road dressed as Elvis and dance with a sign, an economic shaman, I make people buy trinkets and costumes, no harm is done, a fantasy escape for some or an exotic bedroom romp. I am a god in my own eyes a few hours a day, dancing prosperity, raining my green rays outward... I spoke out loud of the universal reset in a bar yesterday and two somehow out of place men sat down soon after, I called them out, they ignored me AND LEFT. The beast is tired and confused, don't corner it or it will scratch your eyes out in the dark... Daniel, you have much creative energy just recently, it pleases me.

 

Our days are a grain of salt crystal,

we look at the song of the pestle and the mortar grinding

our personal history to a fine powder its always good to

toss some over the colder shoulder we can't eat our words

like Bible bread but we are looking for food for thought

in the hunger of wolves standing on some city corner

looking down the canyon study of dreams is like cruelty to

animals we all know what we don't know the times of

asking, "how do we know what we don't know" have been asked and answered

we have passed that last rider of the four horsemen,

and we never knew what was meant by original sin

just another bad translation of bad indigestion

chaos is not the friend of apacalypse,

because back then they did not make the ten

commandments with a super cinematic camera

what was chiseled in stone

no cell phone hot line to God

was never really shone

so we got the biggest lie first

and the last one was really the only truth

 

the second to last cast the bone at the monolith logo

covet thy neighbor's mortgaged house ask Pogo

so we have to see the ten

this is no Joe six pack, jack! or Joe Camel with a punched cig

as the meaning of the list that was stolen

i don't give a media fig leaf over our Naked and Dead

 

originally from the Egyptian book of the coming forth by day

but those mummys are not pissed they wrapped with love

forget what they said and focus on the number

10 its from above and below

 

the ultimate world brain runs on algorithms in the pink

when the one goes through the zero they forgot to think

meditate on the fine print by dint of invisible red ink

the devil is in the detail pinned on the donkey, honkey!

(hope the machines are not rigged again, voting with a one armed bandit sure is grim)

 

oh it's all the fault of the Weathermen

the kid was 8 can't be late for important date

how we explain economics to polar bears

just learning the mystic rules of the lent blame game

those Fed and Wall street vaults are lined in loan lead

those arm chair philosophers that just could not sit still

and take the dumb down pill

with a swill of too cool aid

though if they could just blow up one bank of America

(prolly a commie pinko fag tree hugger intellectual)

and a bandaid over the gapping wound in your home of

the brave's heart...

 

..."and i don't give a damn about a greenback dollar..

spent it just as fast as i can"

 

I can't believe that nobody herein above could see in what felix wrote as mockery. I may be wrong, but I didn't get that that was a real 'alarum'.

I appreciate that kind of disrespect or humor.

C'mon.

If anyone thinks they are prophet and then saying their visions of 'doom and gloom', what's the real purpose of that? That it should come about? Give me a break. It is, when negative, an impetus for us to say "NO" or to change our ways and so avert the danger. Right? Or what?

When enough people hear and enough say 'no', then is that 'prophet' mistaken? Or is the non-realization of the 'doom' just what was intended? So, prophecy on! We are well advised by all visioning and reasoning and warning. Like the age-old advice: forewarned is forarmed. What is that 'arm'? To just accept the 'prophecy'? Hardly. To contradict it. When a prophecy speaks of an evil being done: then that is good since we can stop doing that. If it is just a 'weather prediction' and unrelated to good or bad behavior, it is just that: seeing over the horizon. And we can just say: not!

When people associate mere accident to 'moral' causes after the fact, that is ignorance and prejudice and editing to fit the facts.

When anyone can reason forward from present fact and see present fact as relating to material facts as yet unfolded, then that can be given some respect after the fact.

Not fair if they make 100 'prognostications' and calling a 'one per cent' hit as 'success'.

That is nothing more than 'hit and miss' and can be done by anyone paying attention to trends.

C'mon. We're not machines! Say it all! Mock it all!

Let the information flow.

If anyone wants to compare or investigate propoganda and a 'slanted' environment: check out

www.atlantisrising.com

in their forums.

Compare the fluidity of thought that takes place on RS with that forum or environments. Page after page is filled with 'knowers' of 'it all' and continuous dogmatism or castigation. Back and forth. No evolution.

Page after page of quoting of scriptures and justifying bigotry and much 'moderation' by people obviously not 'neutral'. Amazing. Disgusting to me, yet amazing too.

RS is a treasure. They don't seek 'donations' and have no option for such. I think they should have such an option. A pay-pal button so users can subsidize the workers who make it available.

We play with 'pretend' 'trillions' and 'billions' and 'millions' and these are all just words.

When 'just words' lead real lives being lost and homes being lost and 'flip this house' creates joy? - - - a 'house' a 'home' once owned by a widow or an orphan or veteran results in some imagined 'profit' by some fiend and we don't object or say 'no'?: fiction has created an ugly reality.

Maybe readers here are not aware: cities all across the USA have undergone a movement of predatory developers influencing small-town and large-town and city councils to accede to the idea that 'old folk' or cripples shouldn't live in city centers and so the drive was to drive such out of 'high value foot-space' dwellings and transported to cheap 'elder-care' 'centers' elsewhere. Usually to areas where grocery stores, shops and clothing stores are miles apart rather than blocks apart as is common in 'downtowns'.

This is objectionable in the extreme.

Developers are greedy folk and live as if they had no kin. They only live as if they were ever young and out for all the money RIGHT NOW!

Sharks. Woe.

If the Arizona was set on 'buildable land', we'd have no 'Pearl Harbor' memorial. It'd be rebuilt by now. Just like the World Trade Center tragedy cannot afford to be a 'Memorial'. It is too valuable 'foot space'. Traffic of imaginary 'billions' and 'trillions'.

Homes razed for 'row houses' and 'condos' and widows and orphans and veterans sent off to yonder shanty-towns. Miles from everywhere. Till even farm-land is not justifiable for the sake of 'foot space per dollar'.

Minor crimes punished with prison and prison far from mother and kin so visitation is unlikely. 'Unreasonable punishment' rendered acceptable: by imaginary dollar.

And this is 'justice'? This is 'right-use-ness'?

God-forbid: this is 'lovingkindness'?

And people say what? Not 'no'. Just: 'glad that didn't happen to me or mine'?

Really?

And if it happened to another, and you only don't object because not 'yers', you feel safe?

You feel safe?

And when such approach your parents, their home, your kin? And you think 'business' will help you? And 'government' is on 'yer back'? Who is your defender? What medium does lovingkindness use to protect you and yours? Business? Developers? Walmart?

And you don't say 'no' now because . . . ? <

Who is buying? I read a little blip in the WSJ a couple weeks ago, China has been buying large chunks of stock to prop up the markets. This was explicitly stated. And they are not the only ones. Volatility at an all-time high, you will definitely see big losses this week.

   Yes, this is vindicating for those of us who despise capitalism, but this was planned by the banking elite who have already extricated themselves from harm's way. What they plan to do is "save" us by instituting their order, or ETs will show themselves and say "we can help you humans. listen to us." However, the Heavenly Host is here, far outnumbering the negatives. Their plans will not go as desired.

   There will be no third-dimensional human consciousness on Earth after 2012. It is important that the ruling elite know this, so that they know their plans are in vain. The New Jerusalem is not of this earth. Those who need to will go to other afflicted planets for continuing education. This form of consciousness is a mistake, and has been nothing but a disaster from day one. It is Lucifer's fault, but even Lucifer (who incarnated in the person of Gurdjieff and inadvertently caused the Russian Revolution just by his presence) had a much higher ethical code than the Draconians (reptilians) who followed him. They were afflicted from a previous regression, and carried his new-fangled policies to insane levels. They have no emotion, no conscience. They are all mental. Look at the grays. *But even a few grays are incarnating as humans, taking on large karmic and emotional burdens to readjust themselves. So **THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU CRAZY FUCKS**

   Even Gurdjieff (who was a crazy bastard) had contempt for money. I could go on and on about the problems of this form of consciousness, but the results speak for themselves. None of this was commissioned by God.