Eso’s Chronicles 166
History As Parabox (9)
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The West—and by now the East as well—are constructing our civilization from the glaze of a superego. This process has a life of over a thousand years. The Superego is a creature that is not alive, but is an icon of icons, a negative “artifice of eternity” (W.B. Yeats) created by governments during our historical period best described as a parabox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evmonek8_bw.

The icon of icons, the monster which the populations of Earth sees when waking in the morning and going to bed in the evening are not images ordinary artists dare to portray. The only ones - who successfully portray the superego are untutored and naïve teenagers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3I7Et9lG2g .

We may wish to ask ourselves why the Western Superego echoes back to the West as a Japanese monster or Godzilla?

The answer is surprisingly simple: the Western Superego is a monster because the wise men of the Western world project it by means of an ineffective word. The wise men of the West speak of love, of love thy neighbor, of love thy neighbor as thyself. While such love may happen in the secrecy of private life, it never happens in public life. Why does love not project itself in the public light?

Here the answer becomes complex. The Japanese child when born, comes into the world and is immediately put into a Zen Budhist straightjacket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKHvPkGqfuU . A child born in the West is, to the contrary, put in a straightjacket inside a babel of words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__AhDt9TA_Q , and the result is about the same as that of Zen: a blank mind before mind came into existence, but once in existence, it immediately goes into overdrive.

For example: Because ‘loving my neighbor as myself’ may also mean that I love myself to such a degree that when I see my neighbor suffer and endure a life that I am sure that I would not want to endure, I express my love by killing myself in protest over his-her suffering. That is to say, by my death I hope to cause the creator of the cause of my neighbor’s suffering to desist from causing him-her and me further pain. Nothing could be more direct and plainer.

Of course, the creator of pain may (and usually does) ignore me and simply shrugs shoulders. At which point another person may intercede, both, on mine and my neighbor’s behalf. However, if such an intercession has no results, then there begins a game of chess grounded on the premise that my neighbors, who see my sacrifice as ineffective, form an attitude of rejection of the individual who causes the pain and orders (in the name of sanity) such an individual expelled from the community. If the expulsion of the violent one is rejected, and to the contrary initiates further aggressive behavior from him-her, then physical punishment (up to capital punishment) may be in order.

It is at this juncture of self-sacrifice unto death and capital punishment for daring to disregard the dictates of the superego that the battle over the kind of civilizations we live in ensues. Will humankind decide that civilization henceforth will proceed according to law, which is backed by capital punishment, even the outbreak of war, or will capital punishment continue to be exercised—until the enforcer of the ‘love thy neighbor’ civilization declares him- herself willing to sacrifice his-her life to put an end to that civilizations nonsense?

The last is best illustrated by imagining Stalin, the heir of the Soviet Revolution, announce that he will leave his post of “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party” by dying a sacrificial death. Had it occurred to Stalin to do so, he would most likely have had a chance to continue the Revolution by popular demand no less. In this instance, none who had suffered as a consequence of his leadership could argue that he had endured less sacrifice than the public.

The survivors of the Revolutionary ordeal would be proud over having been privileged to be part of the Revolution; provided, of course, that Stalin was followed by a leader equally dedicated to leadership through self-sacrifice. Several post Stalin names come to mind: Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin; also the Pope, Dalai Lama, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Xi Jinping, etc.

Unfortunately, self-sacrifice has fallen out of favor. Elsewhere, I have suggested that its disregard is traceable not only to personal fears of death or cowardice, but to the imposition on the mind of a meme of fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw , which for obvious reasons holds self-sacrifice in low esteem. One such fear is the fear of death itself.

When and how the fear of death began is now beyond tracing. However, it is not difficult to imagine that it may be the result of fear of torture and death by slow torture.

Some will protest that fear of death is natural to consciousness itself. This raises the question of whether a fearful consciousness is not a consequence of deliberate emotional unbalancing and a deliberate creation of schizophrenia http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizophrenia/DS00196 . Such a fear may result when a safe environment is destroyed and causes one to discover one’s self unprotected. An illustration of this exists in Genesis 3:7, where Adam and Eve not only discover themselves naked, but where their condition is aggravated by a description of nakedness as sinful. Instead of nakedness causing Adam to get an erection and fondling Eve and Eve tempted to pet the erection and her fondler, they try hide from each other, because both are a priori enlightened that too much ‘multiplying’ will lead to overpopulation and murder. Because the implanted sense of guilt becomes so great, neither Adam nor Eve dare imagine themselves playing games in which ‘penetration’ is avoided as a matter of a radically different perspective on sexual enjoyment.

Perhaps sometime in the future when the fear of death is overcome, we will be able to engage our minds in discovering how it came about. At this time, however, it will suffice to point out that not all human beings have been fearful of death at all times. For example, at the Hindu festival of Juggernaut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut , pilgrims are known to have sacrificed themselves to this God of relentless forward movement of their own will and without anyone urging them to do so.

At the same time, there should be no doubt that the neo-Christian-led cult of fear of death was in the early days of the cult enforced by the execution of the practitioners of self-sacrificial death. True, the neo-Christians justified their actions by claiming they were stopping child sacrifice, for which I agree there is no justification. However, there are no studies of whether the sacrifice of children, animals, and prisoners was perhaps not begun at a time when an older civilization had come under attack of an age cynical about the nature and purpose of death, and sacrifice of others than one’s self was a consequence of a later and secondary cause.

Such an attack on death is traceable to an age that preceded neo-Christianity or was somehow conflated with it. Re: “The pre-Christian religions of the Germans and Celts conflated capital punishment with human sacrifice. Criminals condemned for different classes of offenses were sacrificed to different gods by different methods, among which were drowning, hanging, buried alive and the sword (Ward 1953). A similar differentiation is visible among the executions that are such a prominent feature of British and European history: hanging for commoners, beheading for nobles executed for treason, and burning alive for heretics and witches.”*

Still, death as a key personal freedom is vociferously denied by governments addicted to life in the post natural urban desert. This is illustrated by an article by Sally Quinn in the Washington Post of May 11, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/the-dalai-lamas-compassion-disconnect/2013/05/10/076bc91a-b8d5-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines .

Ms Quinns question: “Isn’t self-immolation the very antithesis of what Buddhism is about?” speaks volumes on behalf of fundamentalist neo-Christian conceits. It comes with the ID tags of a superego trapped and dead in an inverted parabox.

*Felix Padel, The Sacrifice of Human Being, Oxford, p 368.

(To be continued.)

Eso’s Chronicles 165
Our Tattered Planet (8)
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If one leaves a dish filled with candy on a table, a child sees it, and—without asking whether he-she can take a piece of candy or not—just goes and takes it, and no one says a word, it will not be long before the dish will be empty. This is, because in his-her ‘known unknown’ mind, every child is a billionaire.

If the child wants more candy and begins to cry because there in no more in the dish, and the mother has another bag of it in the cupboard and without saying much pours the bag into the dish, then all will continue as before—unless before bedtime the child gets a tummy ache.

A somewhat like situation occurred in 2008, when with some help from unscrupulous financiers, the world ran out of money and assets simultaneously, and the world found itself in a financial and economic crisis. The mother of the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve in this instance, did what the mother of the child mentioned above would do: It began printing money, lots of it. It did so on the assumption that planet Earth, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, was 10 x larger than it actually is.

As a consequence of such a faulty assumption, it soon became evident that the money that was being printed had no collateral. There was no more candy to back it up with or only a very little. While many board chairmen tried to solve the problem by running to the store down the street, it was fresh out of candy, too. A virus of some sort was attacking the sugarcane fields and everyone’s larders, and factories had stopped production.

The virus, appropriately named ‘scarcity’ made everyone aware of just how serious the crisis was. It threatened with poverty not only those who had been poor since the beginning of time and lived off the refuse of candy wrapper piles left by rich kids, but Mr. Bernank* himself. Mr. Bernank was none other than the head of the printing office of the Federal Reserve Bank. Being no dummy, he had to think and act quickly.

Mr. Bernank printed money, but decided not to let the newly printed bank notes go from the Federal Reserve to the citizenry-at-large, but to branches of the Federal Reserve banks only. These banks passed the money on to their shareholders, the billionaire guys, who as anticipated, withheld it from the public. This was done on the theory that those who were wealthy should keep their wealth, and keep, at least, alive the tourist business. Of course, they who were poor or of lower middle class would never know what they missed. This did not matter, because all of these people were poorly educated, were not readers of books, and were unlikely to put together the ‘big picture’.

 

Though governments run by banks  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_VxdLJdDU were not anything new [Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild had already uttered his famous observation (1863): “Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws”], Mr. Bernank, with authority to print money at will, became like Gavrilo Princip (assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 1914) the assassin of modern governments everywhere.

In Mr. Bernank’s head, and the heads of the banks and their directors, henceforth the bank was the government not as a potential, but for real, both de jure and de facto. What for 150 years ago (1863) was a meare projection, by 2013 was the new reality). Never mind that fiat money is not real, because inflated money can be deflated easily enough. What remains will not be sugarcane mulch, but a trough filled with sugar.

There is only one trouble with this splendid future for the rich: there will be no ride to the moon. The sugar trough, once emptied, will not be refilled with a fresh supply of candy. This is when the rich will throw a tan-trum and have themselves a war.

Unfortunately, wars are often preceded by a civil war, and as I wrote in my previous blog (164), I tend to believe that such a ‘civil war’ has already begun—on the quiet, of course—and is known by another name, re  ‘deep event’. Indeed, preparations for such a deep event began soon after WW2. The preparations were made by secret ‘think tanks’, hid—as some claim—in the folds of a ‘deep state’ www.voltairenet.org/article178312.html. The latter is a Turkish term, because the Ottoman Empire http://www.naqshbandi.org/ottomans/maps/declinemap.gif  did not die in the heads of Ottoman statesmen, but continues in modern Turkey, which not surprisingly continues with its own foreign policy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22484115 , and has had an influence on Western intelligence services, where ‘deep states’ are best hid.

It is interesting that this ‘deep event’ is engaged in actively and aggressively by the Western nations going back to WW1, after which the Ottoman Empire was replaced (1922) by modern Turkey. Western activism is natural, if one remembers that it was the West which dismantled the empire. Even so, the conflict goes back to the Great Schism between the East and the West, and that the Schism was won by the West, firstly, by robbing the East of its religion, secondly by winning the power game. While the East never acknowledged its defeat de jure, it did partially acknowledge it by adapting the Western historical perspective. In religious orientation, the Christian part of the East abandoned Basil and accepted the Western story of Jesus in replacement. In the area of worldly power, the East continues (through ‘deep state’ tactics) to oppose the West to this day, notably in the geopolitical arena stretching from Turkey, to Syria, Iraq, Iran and on East. This is one of the reasons why Turkey has not been accepted into the European Union.

The tragedy for the East in the East vs West conflict is that the East no longer has a clear memory of Basil and what he stood for. Some repressed sense of the egalitarian teachings of Basil remains among the common people, and this was taken advantage of by Lenin and the Bolsheviks (‘big idea men’, Stalin including) in forcing through the Russian Revolution (1917). Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks imagined that the Revolution was on behalf of ‘workers’/ robotniks*, industrial workers specifically, while this author maintains that the real backers of the Revolution were people who wanted a return to the days of the subsistence economy when there was no taxation, but one lived off the land and worked only as much as was necessary to survive the winter.

It was the subsistence economy that the people lost, when they lost control over their land to the proto-Westerners, the Vikings, who besides seizing their land imposed on the native peoples taxes, the first taxed item being a free gift of the wood==the animal pelt.

It is this misunderstanding over what cause the Russian Revolution was fought that continues to hamper the East from seizing the day, when it is for its seizing. Obviously, the East can seize the day only by turning the clock back, but for this to occur, the East must receive help from, both, the nature of our planet and the nature of humankind.

*Bernank—a colloquialism for Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

**Robotnik an old Chech word http://www.wordnik.com/words/robotnik . If one allows that the consonant ‘l’ may change to consonant ‘r’ (once Amsteldam = Amsterdam today), then ‘robot’ may once have been pronounced ‘lubot/ludot’, which is close to the Roman ‘ludi’ festivals or people’s festivals.

Eso’s Chronicles 164

The Forgotten Christians of Tibet (7-3)
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One may argue that the Civil War in the West has already begun. One of the screens that divert the eye from focusing on it properly is the sham war that the West is waging against the Muslims in the name of pseudo-Democracy, even while a hundred Tibetan Christians have immolated themselves to protest the destruction of their culture by a pseudo-communist Chinese government.

Unfortunately, the self-immolations of Tibetans are not backed by a clearly defined political agenda or, for that matter, on an understanding of the history of human sacrifice—either self-sacrifice or that of children and soldiers. One suspects that the reason is the universal ‘lock down’ of thought regarding evaluatinon of tactics for survival which are not convenient to governments based on capitalism.

The link at Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_independence_movement , while touching on the history of Tibet and interest groups sympathetic to the Tibetan struggle for independence and/or autonomy, has not deduced from the sacrifice and struggle goals that would touch on the interests of other people. After all, the Tibetans are not the only ones whose interests have been transgressed by the wanton self-interest of government cliques. Such self-interests include

1.    disregard for environmental interests and culture of life in nature;
2.    disregard of rights for a community to determine whether it desires to inherit, maintain, and further a culture that pre-existed the arrival of capitalist novus ordo;
3.    denial to a given community of rights to economic improvement across all social groups simultaneously and so as for improvements to endure and be lasting;
4.    denial of resources for studies and conferences which develop well thought out programs toward an improved culture of life;
5.    denial of presenting a sustainable program of economic equality, its example set by the domestic culture of life styles among the leadership and their families;
6.    rejection of solutions which deny war as one such by retooling the means of resistance consistent with principles of self-sacrifice (self-caused-death);
7.    rejection of disciplinary systems (not exclusionary of a painless death penalty) which continue to disregard items 5. and 6.

While at this point of planetary emergency, my interests span all points above, I am most interested in re-thinking the place of self-caused-death as a tool in avoiding death of others as part of a solution. At this point in our culture of death, it is essential that the slide into chaos is arrested and sectarian secular terror (which includes secularism acting as a religion of which neo-Christianity is a prime example) is be shown as the anarchy it is and brings. As mentioned in my previous blog, the criticism may begin with a look at the Chinese government, which charges me and those like me with murder, re: anyone aiding immolations will be charged with murder. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746 (see next to last paragraph of link) Generally speaking, ‘aiding’ is tied to the word ‘abetting’, which in American law means “aiding and abetting a criminal” http://definitions.uslegal.com/a/aiding-and-abetting/ . Is resisting oppression a criminal act? No doubt, for a slave-owner it is so.

What about the U.S. governmeant? http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-prison-torture-un-677/  UN human rights office says that force feeding prisoners constitutes ‘torture’. If the UN speaks true, then a U.S. government sponsored culture of terror (at least for those who become its prisoners) is opposed and fought by a culture of not-violent-terror practiced by ‘enemy combatants’. This is certainly contrary to U.S. projections of itself. Surely then anyone who supports Tibetans who have in the past and may in the future self-sacrifice themselves is along with the immolators to be considered an ‘enemy combatant’. Yes?

A murder charge and being for that reason on the receiving end of torture for harming no life but taking charge of one’s own cannot be other than motivated by the desire of the Chinese and U.S. governments to impose on everyone a sterile and deadly superego created (machine style) out its own super-self for the future ad infinitum.

Such dreams of perpetual power are nothing new. These begin in ancient times, when cultural heroes such as Gilgamesh and Enkidu of the kingdom of Uruk (on the territory of today’s Iraq) went on journeys to find the ‘plant of immortality’.

That journey, however, resembles the expeditions of the marauding Vikings: the adventures include rape, theft, violence, and death. The King of Uruk and his companion foretold, in their own way, the future.

The ancient story begins with, first, with king, Gilgamesh, presenting an animal herder, Enkidu, of the country side with a temple prostitute. When Enkidu discovers that a prostitute’s favors and his pleasure of them have no lasting power, i.e., cannot give him with eternal life, he and Gilgamesh share in the same intelligence and become fast friends. They agree to go and try find the plant of immortality no matter where the search takes them. When they arrive in Lebanon, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, apparently in the belief that the secret of immortality is hid in trees, begin to ax the country’s cedars. A giantess named Hum-baba (?Great mother), guardian of the cedar forests, comes to defend the trees, but is soon mortally wounded and dies.

Humbaba is an unmistakable prototype for what later, in another story, becomes the Sphinx. The killer of the Sphinx is prince Oedipus, who is in fleeing death by amorality. By the time the epic of Gilgamesh reaches Greece, it has grown in sophistication: the search for the plant of immortality leads not only to the death of the forest, but Oedipus’ sexual adventures with his mother go beyond the pleasures of sex by seeking immortality by replanting one’s self, so to speak, in her womb. What Oedipus learns is that none of the children born to Iocaste are his replicas, but individuals in their own right. When Oedipus’ wishes fail to materialize, the city of Thebes and the wood, at the centre of which once stood the Temple of the Sphinx, turn to desert http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com

Still, literary critics continue to divert the attention of theatre goers from the fact that for playwright Sophocles’, the main theme (though the background is obscured by the actions in the foreground) is the role of death, and how its importance is ignored by those who seek power. The play ends in tragedy, the nature of which is not understood to this day.

Sophocle’s gives the riddle of his play an implicit resolution by allowing Oedipus’ daughter Ismene to escape death (evidently to later tell what really happened). But because Sophocles gives Ismene a minor role in the play proper, so do our critics give her no mind. Our mindset, kept in a hypnotized state by secular Christianity (in its Lenin-Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, and Nixon-Regan masks), cannot shake off the False Flag of the Christian lamella or, if you will, saran wrap. While the Chinese Government’s plan for the Tibetans is seen by the latter as a death trap, and the bravest of them are offering their lives in non-violent sacrifice to save their community, the Chinese leadership, obsessed with immortality clings to power through the barrel of the gun.

Eso’s Chronicles 163
The Forgotten Christians of Tibet (7-2)
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I know of course that Christianity is supposed to have originated with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. For a long time, I, too, held to that belief, but the paradox of Christianity: that it acted more like a secular religion than a spiritual religion took its toll. It made no sense why religion should be so empty of ideas and will to resist the rampage of capitalism. I began to investigate the sources of Christian beginnings.

First of all, were historical sources of Christianity itself, and those who disputed these sources. In due course, I realized that the story of Christianity that is being propagated in our day and for some centuries in the past, may be a false Flag story, perhaps even a False Flag.

The first solid touchstone for the story of Jesus as a False Flag was my discovery of an alternate version for the story of King Oedipus by the Greek writer Sophocles. Rather than go along with tradition and Freud and see the play as a story of mother and son incest, I discovered—through my long time curiosity about the whyfores of ancient human sacrifice—that the story could even better be interpreted as a story of betrayal of religion http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com and community.

The second step, the discovery of the real story about Jesus, came quickly soon thereafter. Having read Anna Comnena’s “The Alexiad” and coming across the story of the Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna in Bart Ehrman’s fabulous book “Lost Christianities”, I realized that the story of Polycarp is a twin to the story of Basil the Bogomil in “The Alexiad”. True, the available stories tell us that Polycarp merely imitated Jesus; however, it is just as believable that Jesus’s name was replaced by that of Polycarp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp . The meaning of the name ‘rich in fruit’ http://www.behindthename.com/name/polycarp is consistent with that of praise for a king, Basil, or, for that matter, Jesus. Besides, the name ‘karpos’, fruit, has an easy pareidolic association with ‘carp’, a fish. In days past, carp was the main ingredient in a dish of the poor, re gefilte fish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefilte_fish .

Once I got that far into the labyrinth, I began to suspect that the assignation of religion to a specific originator was a story not likely to be true either.

The evidence for this came from my ethnic inheritance, the Latvian language. It happens that in Latvian the most needed teaching for the solidarity of a community is passed from parents, especially the mother, to children by way of the Latvian language itself. This is not by do or don’t directives, but by word inflections imbedded in the language, the inflection that makes a word an endearment. The Latvian language is capable of endearing every word that touches object and subject, including verb. Therefore, if a child is taught to use endearments, a Latvian was/is able to endear (no doubt, with irony) even his-her enemy. Unfortunately, due to the close interlink, neither the pedagogic or political systems are interested to pass this inheritance along.

For this linguistic phenomenon to occur and maintain its potential (though ignored) to our day, not only must a language be extremely old and untouched by a superego dictating laws from above, it likely enjoyed many centuries of freedom and experienced itself as being a worthwhile and practical tool of social intercourse.

Such discoveries as above, also led me to see the name of ‘John’, which has many cognates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(given_name) (and the link gives only an inept sketch of the extensive use the name has been put to), in a new light. The name obviously reaches thousands of years into the past. One of the common links between the many cognates is that they denote travel, moving, roads, guardianship (jandarme), animal herding, kingship (Gengis), and sacred office. Of the latter, I especially note that the name of Mohammed, also lends itself to the pronunciation of Yohammed or Johan(m), i.e., John. It led me to see that the cognates were not limited to the consonant j or g as the first letter of a name, but that numerous consonants, such as b, d, g, h, j, p, v, w, and all the vowels were put to use as well.

One of the tools that I use to make my discoveries is pareidolia. A widely and deliberately overlooked method in scholarly circles, pareidolia is a device used by ‘the poet within’ every one of us. While our conscious self may pay no attention to parallel meanings or sounds, ‘the poet within’ may pick up on it without much effort or guilt. This often happens through words in a song, especially rhymes, either at the end of lines or imbedded in the text.

One word that could long ago have been put to better and more accurate use is ‘pagan’, but because of rigid academism never was. The word is far more telling when pronounced ‘pa-yan’, because then we clearly see that the prefix ‘pa-’ is meant as a put-down to the name of ‘Yan’. A full explanation will take more space than I have here, but  the pronunciation ‘pagan’ is trying to eliminate the association of ‘pa-yan’ with an archaic form of Christianity better pronounced as ‘cross-yan’ (X-yan), The prefix ‘pa’ erases the ‘X’ by reducing it to ‘pa’. X is of course nothing but a mark for a cross road , which is a place to gather and confer.

An entirely different story may be accessed through the name of ‘uriankkai’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriankhai , a forest dwelling people closely associated with the Evenks (see below). The Uriankha may have contributed to such modern names as Juri (a cognate of George), and by way of Korean to ‘orangutan’ (yorang…).

Having reached this level of familiarity and confidence, I began to look for patterns that might indicate the use of language as a tool to pass along communal values. Another language (aside from Latvian) that I read had the ability was the above mentioned Evenks (also known as Tungus) http://www.hunmagyar.org/turan/evenk/ , a herding people, who once used to follow reindeer herds with the seasons. I noted that if ‘evenk’ were to derive from the verb ‘to herd’, the verb of Jahnis (John) in Latvian would have been ‘to yanc’, which may have led to the verb ‘to dance’, originally meaning to milling around. When looking for information about the Evenk language, found little of the kind of information I was looking for. Academics appear mainly interested in grammar, not what a language aside from subject and object communicates or that it transforms itself with the help of pareidolia.

This is a long way about to come to the Tibetan people of whose efforts to resist their cultural elimination by the Chinese government through self-immolation is in current news. This Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Tibet mentions that Christianity has been noted in Tibet in the early 5^th and 6^th centuries. Along with my theory that communal-moral-religious values were passed on through language, I suggest that indeed Tibetan Christianity preceded Western Christianity. If Bön, said to be a shamanistic Tibetan religion, may also be pronounced as Yon, then we have a link not through any specific historical name, but a transmission of religious values by their imbedment in sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K_mMhZrPs  and languages.

Incidentally, Islam and early Christianity have the same roots, rather than the divisive separation created by secularist extremists on either extreme.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 162

Pope Emeritus and Christian Drones (7-1)
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This ‘cluster of thoughts’ has brought me to a difficult, and for some an unpleasant subject. The subject is difficult not only as a theme for me to write about, but to suggest as an act for others to consider as realizable.

Nevertheless, I believe there are good reasons for raising the subject.

In the previous blog (161), I suggested that Pope emeritus Cardinal Ratzinger (96 yo), reconsider as a theologian the position of the Catholic Christian superego, which was and remains the reason why princely private interest was placed before the interests of the community and thence developed in the rule of Capitalism we suffer under today.

I also suggested for the Pope emeritus to begin a rebalance of societal interests by taking a militant stance on behalf of children, who for a great number of centuries have been growing to adulthood only to realize—come age and experience—they are “survivors” of exploitation, often by means of violence. I suggested that Cardinal Ratzinger consider self-sacrifice of his life as a means to bring to the issue the attention it needs.

The superego which is cultivated today by the secular state and its institutions values the spirit only to the extent that it is a ‘virtual’ spirit, i.e., a lifeless artifice. The artifice or secularist virtual reality in our capitalist times has no relationship to “the artifice of eternity” so sweetly and lively described by Irish poet W.B. Yeats in his poem “Sailing to Bizantium” http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20310 . 

I have in mind God as Act, not Word, the Act being an event in which man participates through the act of taking. As Yeats tells it:

“Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But (take to) such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”

[My apologies to Yeats for making obvious (bolded type) changes and emphases to his poem.]

As an advocate for replacing the secular superego, with a superego inspired by the divine, I have been following the Acts of God by taking interest in the Acts of immolation by the ludi* (people) of Tibet.

As the following link from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746 tells: over 100 Tibetans have immolated themselves (doused themselves with a flammable liquid and then lit a match) in protest over the occupation of their country by the Chinese government.

Self-immolation is an Act of ‘not-violent terror’ par excellence, a theme I discuss somewhere among the first 100 blogs of these chronicles. A gruesome, extremely painful, crippling if survived, not-violent terror is one of the last desperate acts of human subjectivity in an attempt to assert its sovereignty over the superego of the State and religion seized by secularism.

[Incidentally, I do not recommend painful forms of death to anyone. Such a death, I believe, is forced on populations by governments which forbid the sale of pain-killing drugs. This intimidates actions by people and seizes God-like powers for themselves.]

If Pope emeritus, Cardinal Ratzinger, were to commend the Tibetans for their brave deeds, he will be no more than commending the stories told about the resistance of early Christians to the Caesars of Roman Empire for their self-sacrifice rather than honour Caesar by calling him ‘God’. At the same time, the Cardinal will be taking a stand as a citizen of the state of Vatican against secular superego of China, which recently (this past January) issued a decree that stipulates:

that anyone aiding immolations will be charged with murder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746 (next to last paragraph)

Of course, ‘aiding’ is not the same thing as ‘commending’. Nevertheless, it is possible that China’s Supreme Court http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Republic_of_China  will choose to interpret ‘commending’ as being a synonym of ‘aiding’ (another name in the game of God as Word). In this eventuality, the Pope emeritus may point out that the Papal Ring was once believed to be a ‘mystical’ form of the foreskin of Jesus. At least this is the status that St. Catherine of Siena, a Doctor of the Church, claimed for the ring she wore as a sign of her betrothal to Jesus.** The foreskin or Holy Prepuce, saved http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_of_Jesus  from God’s circumcision by Catholic Christians, is the only part of Jesus acknowledged by the Church to never have ascended to heaven, but remained on Earth.

The superego of the Chinese leadership—only virtually alive—will give a laugh over such Western superstitions. However, since the prepuce of Jesus, no matter how mystical, real or unreal, now remains as the only symbol of non-supernatural divinity on Earth. It is—for that reason —the only symbol under which one may oppose the attempts of the superego of government to reduce all real life to virtual life.

Even more intimidating for Muslims and Christians is the fact that most governments of our planet support Maoist Chinese, Stalinist Soviet, and U.S. and E.U. neo-Christian  forms of Secularism. Worse than intimidating is that neo-Christianity, the mother of all Western False Flags, has infiltrated American military forces as a “religion” http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/us-military-should-put-religious-freedom-at-the-front/2013/04/26/c1befcea-ade2-11e2-8bf6-e70cb6ae066e_story.html and is fundamentalist secularist rather than pietist in orientation. While accusing Muslims of ‘terrorism’, the real terrorists are the European and American neo-Christians (whether secularists or misguided religious) now under the elitist secular flags of the Pentagon and NATO.

In sum: the secular elites of the above mentioned allegiances having successfully perpetrated a spiritual False Flag operation on their own and other territories are now perpetrating a military occupation of same by way of military drones http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22320275 .

A war of an entirely new dimension has begun.

* “Ludi” –an interesting word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi , though easily passed over. The once well known English Luddites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites , the ones who smashed the frames of weaving machines, are—irrespective of the fact that the first Luddite was one Ned Ludd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd --closely bound with the ancient origin of the word. The word for ‘people’ in German is ‘Leute’. In my native Latvian language ‘ludi’ is echoed in the name for people, re: llaudis; as well as in the word for permissiveness: llyaut or at-llyaut; in English it also leaves traces in the word ‘lewd’.

** David M. Friedman, “A Mind of Its Own”, A Cultural History of the Penis, Robert Hale, London, 2003, p. 41.

Eso’s Chronicles 161
 ‘Survivors’ of Government Games (6)
© Eso A.B.

When children become ‘survivors’ whether as dead bodies (via our memories of Waco http://politix.topix.com/img/OFEI74R1PB2VRJSD-rszw514  or Beslan http://www.ajuaa.com/news/files.php?file=belsan__9__579804876.jpg ) or live adults enduring flashbacks of government originated violence, and when nearly all inhabitants of our planet may identify as children who ‘survived’, cider turns into blood running over the edges of a cider press.

Ours is a time when Eve gives birth with sadistic pleasure as she quickly ties the umbilical cord, then stuffs an apple in the mouths of all her crying ones, exulting in the knowledge that all her Adams came wearing a military uniform, and were sent by Commanders in Chief such as Obama, Bush, Blair, Cameron, Hollande (put your favourite name here ….).

A millenium after being chased from our safe democracy, the wood, where we had nature’s goods without cost, and after enduring centuries in the desert of the city, humankind (forced by VIPs to become citizens of VIP-made desert) has become a slurry of blood flavoured with chunky bits of pineapple by government controlled cooks of history, the (privately owned) media and designers (‘look! how creative we are!’).

Though one may appreciate the dilemma of government strung out to the point of disaster (an unintended consequence of institutionalized urban democracy), to this time no ‘survivor’ has declared himself ready to be in sympathy with the ‘disaster’. This is not surprising, because no one really remembers that the catastrophe is the consequence of a series of  deliberate  False Flag events such as ‘the Resurrection’, incinerations beyond counting, ‘9/11’, ‘Boston Marathon’, all ‘inspired’ by self-made mental disasters (murderous daydreams) among the leadership and those compulsively and ‘faithfully’ creative under their command.

What if those who staged the False Flag event at the Boston Marathon had not been ‘cogs’ in a bureaucratic wheel? What if the butchering of the two Chechen youths had not been carried out with the inevitability of a machine skipping a ‘yes, no’ of a digital switch? What if President Obama had done some thinking on his own and not put his seal of approval on the Boston Marathon as the successor event to ‘9/11’?

If a “survivor” of Stalin’s gulags had been informed that Stalin had died by his own hand and left a note saying: “I took my life as a token payback for the pain that I caused with my attempts to serve both the Russian and the world community….”, the “survivor” and his-her descendants would likely have borne their personal burdens as a “chosen people” for many generations. However, such an attitude of hope for recovery is not possible in an era, where governments are proxies of banks.

I may be wrong, and instead of a golden calf, I ought to be speaking of a gold fleeced lamb, an even meeker creature than a calf, and for this reason formerly used as a sacrifice the world over. For this cause, the lamb is a sacrificial symbol also among Christians http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2224/2393174660_5d1a7cd388_b.jpg . Unfortunately no Christian banker or government official has in our time offered to sacrifice his-her career on behalf of a nation or community, Perhaps we ought to seek such a sacrifice to come from the leadership of the Christian community?

Almost unbelievably (God given opportunity), such a sacrifice is available at the highest level of the Catholic Church, in the Pope emeritus, Joseph Ratzinger. As most readers know, the current Pope Francis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis  came to office as a result of the previous Pope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI offering an unprecedented resignation (2013). The resignation is the second one in the history of the Catholic Church. The previous resignation was that of Pope Gregory XII http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-gregory-xii-pope-resign-article-1.1260755 , and happened in the year 1415, the year the famous Christian radical and heretic theologian, Jan Hus, was burnt in Constance, Germany. One of Hus’s heresies was to stand for education for children.

Those who read the link to Jan Hus to the end know the meaning of the saying “Holy simplicity”. The sentence's Czech equivalent ("svatá prostota!") is still used to comment upon a stupid-uneducated action. All things considered  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases , Benedict XVI is guilty of the ‘svatá prostata!’ not because of his resignation as Pope, but because one of the reasons for his resignation is the embarrassment to the institutional superego caused by the sexual behaviour of paedophile priests.

Why has sexual violence, including paedophilia, become such a potent issue in our time?

Is it perhaps because sex is no longer an act of nature, but an act out of the realm of the virtual?

If we look into the past, paedophilia (accepted as normal, even expected behaviour for men in ancient Greek society) has drawn increasingly negative reactions since the advent of the industrial age and the emergence of the Feminist Rights Movement, especially in its later stages. The condemnation centres on men, while the touching of children’s genitalia by mother is judged acceptable.

It is interesting to note that paedophilia seems to have drawn heightened condemnation from the societal superego with its increased acceptance of homosexuality. In other words, the campaign against paedophilia may be a compensatory activity by the superego in reaction of homosexual campaign against homophobia. Why such compensation is necessary is a subject for curiosity, but may have something to do with, both, loss of authority by religion, the arrival of an abusive (and overconfidently self-righteous) age of secularism rooted in virtual reality, and the tabu against nakedness. Apparently, such practices are ‘normal’ in a civilization that has turned wood and field into a desert, and has made its home in the camouflaged desert of the city.

It remains to note that long ago, when religion was as much part of society as nature (and biological mindset was ascendant and observing the practice of self-sacrifice, which included life sacrifice), sexuality played a profound role in the life of the community.

A self-sacrificial persona (we call it ‘victima’ today), the sacred king of a given community, would receive sexual gratification as a reward for his self-sacrifice (the sacrificer commonly was a male). There is no record of sexual exploitation of children, because the community likely interpreted such sex a paradox of sacrifice, an act analogous to child sacrifice.

The children of a community often were the offspring of the same father. In days when self-sacrifice was esteemed and in demand, women gave themselves to the sacrificial-king in the belief that the children conceived of such a union would be blessed by the Gods. The tracing of paternity of a woman’s children, was not—as it is popular to assert in our day—traceable to a collective of men (who knows who is father of which child!), but to the sacred king and the orgiastic festivals of Saturnalia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia and Ludi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi.

Given the post-modern concept that ‘immoral but legal government’ is ‘okay’ and that modern leaders seldom offer themselves in self-sacrifice to the community, the public may wonder whether the ex-Pope (mentioned above), having once stood in the shoes of ‘the vicar of Christ’ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vicar+of+christ , has given theological thought to the notion that the point of Christianity is not to Redeem the sins of government elites, but to lead society by example and denounce governments which repress the children of the ‘ludi’ to the point that they grow up to think of themselves as “survivors” of gross violence. Is it not time to demand that the Pope Emeritus takes on the cause of children and go take baptism in the river of Lethe? A public self-sacrifice by a Christian leader without, for once, resorting to violence will surely bring attention to the fact that humankind has successfully ‘survived’ governments by violence and a new age is at hand.

Basil the Bogomil, aka Jesus, called a child to him, and placed the child among the grownups. He said to his audience: “I tell you truly, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever is like this child is among the great. And whoever welcomes a child in my name welcomes love and refuses violence. (After NIV, Mat. 18)

What must a child of our time have seen to call him- and herself a “survivor” when grown to adulthood? Is not the nation he is born into led by cowards? Are the children of our age not worthy of redemption by Pope Emeritus?

Eso’s Chronicles 160

 “Escaping the Death Camp of Post-Modernity” (5)
© Eso A.B.

They call us “survivors”. I put myself among the “survivors” who were never in a “death camp” of the Nazis or the Bolsheviks. I realize that there is a dispute over who may apply that term to him or herself. http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/26071/row-over-definition-holocaust-survivor Nevertheless, the term applies to a much broader segment of humankind than the Zionist Federation through conceit for Jews suffering more than others denies others a share in.

In my own country of Latvia, where many people are survivors of Stalin’s ‘gulags’, the term ‘survivor’ has been replaced by the term ‘the repressed’. This change may have been done partially to avoid an unseemly clash between two groups of people disputing who suffered most. Clearly the word “survivor” cannot be appropriated by either myself or anyone else. It is a classic subjective word that will not surrender to Zionist superego no matter how forcefully asserted.

The decision by Latvians to designate their survivors as “the repressed”, nevertheless, indicates that fractal differences exist between the two groups of sufferers. However reluctantly one may accept the designation of “the repressed”, its acceptance suggests awareness of an irrefutable legalistic intercession on behalf of the repressor.

While Jewish “survivors” may claim that they were designated to suffer death sooner or later, “the repressed” are aware that while their repressors exercised no mercies that would or could save them from death, they were placed in the gulags as enemies of the Bolshevik led Soviet Socialist order. While millions died in the Gulags under most miserable and merciless circumstances (over 790,000 people were tried in 1937, of which over 353,000 were shot, and over 430,000 were sent to prison or gulags), the surviving ‘repressed’ cannot claim that if they had the stamina or fortune to survive, they would have ended in a sealed trailer exposed to Zircon gas.

Whatever the arguments over the choice of words, the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) were undeniably unilaterally and violently occupied by the Soviet Union, and the subsequent executions and deportations were perpetrated on populations of countries which the Soviet Union had renounced as part of its territories by treaty. Thus, the dead as well as the deported and enslaved may defend themselves as a having suffered arbitrary exposure to sham trials, physical violence and death, and those who did not succumb are “survivors”. The only way the occupier of the Baltics could have hoped to escape being called ‘the repressor-occupier’ was to see itself in the position of the repressor for eternity—which repressor obviously did not succeed in.

Just like the ‘survivors’, ‘the repressed’ (a word selected by the superego, i.e., ego of law) have turned their horrific experiences in an inward suffering, and many have found solace in being able to gather as a solidarity that shares in a common experience. As such, the groups may manifest political power either on their own behalf or on behalf of the larger community about them, which in and of itself may knows little or nothing about the experiences of concentration camps and gulags. The larger community may learn about the gulags best from one who survived them: the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn , who wrote several books which record his experiences in Soviet labor camps, including “The Gulag Archipelago”. [Excerpts: http://www.colegiobolivar.edu.co/high_school/Academics_11/11_Data/11_Data_econ_poli/THE%20GULAG.doc ]

The above “survivors” and “the repressed” belong to the time and events that happened during the first half of the 20^th century. I took part in this period as a child, during its last 17 years (1933-1950), and I claim my “survivorship” from the point of view of a child and youth (I am writing this in April, 2013).

The first defense of my claim is an unwanted and coerced participation (unerwuenchte beteiligung) in violent times and their traumatic after effects. It may surprise the reader that such an ‘unerwuenchte beteiligung’ / coerced participation is the experience of most of the children who lived or live through wars and other violent events, including extreme poverty and neglect of education. The children of our forebears, no matter how difficult their physical environment, seldom if ever experienced or had to survive such physical and psychological  neglect when making their home in the wood where they survived in as animal herders.

Today the coerced ‘beteiligung’ of children in violence brings to mind the children of Afghanistan and Pakistan (exposed to U.S. drone attacks), Palestine (subject to IDF rubber bullets and seizure of their parental homelands), and such who visit trashcans and trash heap anywhere on our planet. All such children will, if not today, then at a later and more reflective point in their life, think of themselves as “survivors” regardless of what the superego of the Zionist Federation says they may think.

When we broaden the scope and the numbers of people who may describe themselves as “survivors”, such people may soon, if not already, represent the majority of our planet’s inhabitants. When among the “survivors” are included children, and the state of “survivorship” is perceived from such a broadened perspective, it changes utterly the way society may view modern politics and its leadership.

The prevailing attitude of government ‘law makers’ in ruling and lording over society is: “It may be immoral, but it is not illegal”, i.e. immorality by way of our ‘law-makers’ achieves legalized status. Even if the superego of these ‘law-makers’ is without fault, it presents the gene of altruism with direct challenge from a sadistic superego. This means that government governs with the help of the barrel of a gun, and that such a government must be short circuited and discredited by all means at hand which do not use violence.

This is the time when the genes of altruism give a “survivor” a nudge to react to the repression with an act of resistance. Perhaps even more unbelievable is the fact that no “survivor” knows when he-she will react. Yet we may be sure that a “survivor” has the subjective tools by way of experience to react sooner or later. We may also be sure that the “survivor’s” subjective experience dictates to him-her to resist without use of violence.

Though it is less than a decade before the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the first gulag (1919) and two decades before the establishment of the first concentration camp (1933), there has not as of yet emerged a clear philosophy of action for those who survived the conditions and times of these institutions. The exceptions, emergences that are with us for all their contradictions, are two fundamentalist orientations—that of the Jews and Muslims. The Jewish reaction may be summed up in the words “never again”, backed by a determination to react with extreme violence to any threat to its community. The Muslim reaction sums up the reaction of Islamists in the cry 'Allah ek akbar'. ('God is great'),  and going on the attack strapped in a vest filled with dynamite and blowing one’s self up at a military gate or doorway or after gaining entrance into as crowded a place as possible.

The fundamentalist oriented individuals of both mentioned communities show great selflessness in their willingness for self-sacrifice, except that in both instances self-sacrifice is neither ‘pure’ nor ‘without fault’. The self-sacrifices of both groups slaughter and shed blood of innocents and leave themselves open to the criticism of being ‘cowards’, that is, “suicidal terrorists” (the Muslims on an individual basis, the Jews as a cmmunithy), both exhibiting inability to self-sacrifice themselves in or through an act of ‘pure’ protest that does not kill people by sneaking up to them from behind and killing them unaware. Why is this?

Is it some king of a merciful act of highly developed civlization to ‘kill people dead before they know it?’