Eso’s Chronicles 174

Mother of Solutions (V)
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While philosophers such as Slavoy Žižek proclaim that there is no alternative to global capitalism: “The true message of the notion of the Third Way is that there is no ‘second way’, no alternative to global capitalism so that, in a kind of mocking pseudo-Hegelian ‘negation of negation’, the Third Way brings us back in the first and only way. Is this not global capitalism with a human face?”*

What escapes Žižek is that unnoticed by the ranks of “…professional and credentialed opinion leaders, particularly journalists and academics”,  http://www.globalresearch.ca/media-disinformation-and-the-conspiracy-panic-phenomenon/5336221 (see 3rd paragraph) the recently arrived ‘new age’ of Internet Populism is challenging the status quoers at their tame song and bringing solutions to problems unimaginable to ‘credentialed opinion leaders’ (Žižek among them).

I have mentioned this war, denied and as if behind the curtains, in previous blogs (167), when I touched on the subject of the Tibetan immolators, a type of warrior not seen in the West since the days of Jan Hus, the Christian heretic unsympathetic to Christian conventionalists (proto-capitalists Catholics). In 1415, nearly 600 years ago**, Hus chose to be burnt at the stake (in Constance), rather than surrender to the dictates of the Habsburg Emperor Sigismund. That the immolator or self-sacrifice is a warrior to be taken seriously is evidenced by the fact that the government of China has threatened to stick anyone who aids or gives succor to self-sacrifice with a charge of aiding and abetting a criminal act.

As if to underscore the issue of the reappearance of self-sacrificial warriors (whether of Tibetan or other origin), a Sri Lankan Budhist monk recently set himself on fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMtBikwFvyY to protest animal slaughter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22681763 (a crime perpetrated in the service of the inhabitants of the desert city) and the intrusion into Sri Lankan culture of minority religious faiths (such as neo-Christianity and neo-Islam), both born of and sympathetic to capitalism.

The Sri Lankan government condemns the Sri Lankan media for video taping the event and not forewarning the government about what was about to take place; and may bring charges against the video journalist. One of the reasons for the action of the Sri Lankan government is the claim (of what the BBC reporter Charles Haviland calls ‘ultra-nationalists’) that the “Sinhalese ultra-nationalist ministers in the government have praised the incident as an act of self-sacrifice for the good of the country.”

While I am opposed to immolation by fire due to the extreme pain, suffering, and body mutilation it causes, I am not opposed to waging war against government military type of violence by self-sacrifice.

Military type (gang) violence has long plagued all nations and cultures on our planet. Foremost among the initiators of this violence are governments, which enslave-recruit young men to do their bidding.

The first among overt practitioners of violence are of course they who serve in government led armed forces. These are followed by government opponents who borrow their resistance tactics from government example. Muslim terrorists who arm themselves with strap-on explosive devices, and while sacrificing their own lives in the act, know of no or have no moral qualms about slaughtering innocent people who happen to be nearby as a result of chance. While ostensibly fighting on behalf of Islam and the traditions of Islamic nations, the Islamist terrorists ultimately fight for but an Islamic form of capitalism, which as such will not bring any better solutions for Islamists than Christians.

What is the solution?

The solution stares us practically in the face. Put simply, it is a radical change in methods of fighting war. The method puts an end to violent attack or defense, and is replaced by fighting war by means of self-sacrifice. The war employs no bullets or explosives that are used against others. There are no burials of the dead accompanied by honor guard rifle salvos. Indeed, there are no grave yards, but everyone who sacrificed his-her life has their name and a short bio entered into a permanently available internet scroll accessible through a special ‘spot’ on the menu bar on every computer.

One of the missing links in the Tibetan Budhist self-sacrifice effort is the failure of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community to provide for all to see a memorial scroll for its not-violent soldiers. By failing to provide for their own, the Tibetans fail to bring the message of their method of fighting a war to the attention of the world, at the same time as the community fails to significantly change the world for the better and do the missionary work that needs to be done.

The platform for the honor scroll can be provided by any already existing platforms, and such a platform may, beginning with the UN and the support of all ‘AntiWar’ platforms, have an almost an infinite number of sponsors representing many causes of civil society.

The sole bonding mechanism, so to speak, however, should not be the cause, but the not-violent and self-sacrificial method used to fight for the cause. Ending war as we know it, is in itself one of the great causes. However, before this can happen, humans need to change their attitude toward death.

*Slavoy Žižek, “The Universal Exception”, Continuum, p 149.

**Jan Hus was imitated by Jan Palach, who immolated himself in 1968, protesting the Soviet invasion of Chehoslovakia.

Link of interest:

Venner suicide: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22620143
Women immolate http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22697399

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.