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"We must step beyond this world of everyday,
illusory thinking for our own good and for the good of our loved ones." -
Andrew M. Lobaczewski
“I prefer a painful truth over any blissful
fantasy.” - Bradley Manning
"A society that cannot
distinguish reality from illusion dies."
- Chris Hedges
"We have taken the unreal to be
real, and then tried as hard as possible to live in
the unreality we have created." - Charles
Eisenstein
"Whatever is the reality
of the present circumstances, we do not find them satisfactory.
Our
fantasy keeps creating images of future situations that appear more fulfilling
than the present one. It seems that, until we reach these
imagined goals, life
will be only preparation for a better future, not yet "the real thing."
This results in a life pattern of a "treadmill"
type of existence (illustrated by the image of a
hamster running inside a rotating wheel) or a "rat-race"
way of life.
The existentialists
talk about "auto-projecting" into the future –
always
imagining oneself in some more satisfying situation in the future and
attempting to create it.
This strategy is a basic
fallacy of human life.
It is essentially a loser strategy,
since it does not deliver the satisfaction that is expected from it.
From this perspective, it is irrelevant whether or not it brings fruit
in the material world.
In Joseph Campbell's words, it means "getting to
the top of the ladder and finding out that it stands against the wrong wall."
This fallacious pattern applied on a large scale is responsible for
reckless irrational pursuits of various
grandiose goals that result in much suffering and many problems in the
world.
It can be played out on any level of importance and affluence -
it never brings true satisfaction."
- Stanislav Grof
"The cultural belief that
we can make things happen by thinking,
by
visualizing, by wanting them, by
tapping into our inner strength or
by understanding that we are truly
exceptional is magical thinking. We
can always make more money, meet new quotas, consume more products and advance our career
if we have enough faith. This
magical thinking, preached to us across
the political spectrum by Oprah,
sports celebrities, Hollywood, self-help
gurus and Christian demagogues, is largely
responsible for our economic and environmental collapse, since any Cassandra
who saw it coming was dismissed as "negative."
This belief, which
allows men and women to behave and act like little children, discredits
legitimate concerns and anxieties.
It exacerbates
despair and
indifference.
It fosters a
state of self-delusion.
The
purpose, structure and goals of the corporate state are never seriously
questioned.
To question, to engage in criticism of the corporate
collective, is to be obstructive and negative. And it has
perverted the way we view
ourselves, our nation and the
natural world.
The new paradigm of power,
coupled with its bizarre ideology of limitless progress and
impossible happiness, has turned whole
nations, including the United States, into monsters." - Christopher Lynn
Hedges
Fantasy is defined as:an
illusion
a hallucination
fantastic
designs
to imagine; visualize
imagination unrestricted by reality
an unrealistic or improbable
supposition
the creative
imagination; unrestrained fancy
the ability to deal aesthetically with unusual
problems
to have a fancy for; to
be pleased with; to like; to fancy
something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy
governed by laws of
association which are remote, and arbitrary or
capricious
a coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not
intended for use as currency
applied principally to elaborate or extravagant
product of the
imagination given free rein
mental
invention, characteristically well removed from reality, that is whimsical, capricious, playful and
elaborate or extravagant
an imagined
event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream,
usually fulfilling a wish or
psychological need
actuating
emotional feelings
of a lively, gay, and versatile
character; it seeks to please by unexpected combinations of
thoughts, startling contrasts, flashes of brilliant
imagery
cold reading
{also known as having psychic abilities or
paranormal powers}
"The smooth tricks of scoundrels are
evil." - Isaiah 32:7A
talented and charismatic cold reader will bully a
subject into admitting a connection, demanding over
and over that they acknowledge a particular statement as having some relevance and
maintaining that they just aren't thinking hard
enough, or are repressing an
important memory.
Cold readers use the Forer effect/Barnum
statements which seem personal, yet apply
to many people. Such statements are often
open-ended or give the reader the maximum amount of "wriggle room" in a
reading. They are designed to elicit identifying
responses. The Forer effect/Barnum statements can then be developed into longer
and more sophisticated paragraphs and seem to reveal great amounts of detail
about a person. The success of the Forer effect
relies heavily on the eagerness of people to fill in details and make
connections between what is said and some aspect of
their own lives.
Statement of this
type might include:
"I sense that you are sometimes insecure,
especially with people you don't know very well."
"You have a box of old unsorted photographs in your house."
"You had an accident when you were a child involving
water."
"You're having problems
with a friend or relative."
"Your father passed on due to problems in
his chest or abdomen."
If the subject is old enough, his or her father
is quite likely to be dead, and this statement would easily apply to a number of
conditions such as heart disease, pneumonia, diabetes, most forms of cancer,
and in fact to a great majority of causes of death.
shotgunning"Shotgunning" is a commonly-used
cold reading technique, used by purported television "psychics" and "spiritual mediums":
Edgar Cayce, Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, Colin Fry and John Edward in
particular have all used shotgunning techniques in their stage and
television shows.
The "psychic", cold
reader, quickly offers a huge quantity of very general information, often to an
entire audience (some of which is very likely to be correct, near correct or at
the very least, provocative or evocative to someone present), observes their
subjects' reactions (especially their body language), and then narrows the
scope, acknowledging particular people or concepts
and refining the original statements
according to those reactions to promote an emotional
response.
This technique is named after a shotgun, as it fires a spray
of small projectiles in the hope that one or more of the shots will strike the
target. A majority of people in a room will,
at some point for example, have lost an older relative or
known at least one person with a common name like
"Mike" or "John".
Shotgunning might include a series of vague
statements such as:
"I see a heart
problem with a father-figure in your family, a
father, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin... I'm definitively seeing chest pain
here for a father-figure in your family."
"I
see a woman that isn't a blood relative. Someone around when you were growing
up, an aunt, a friend of your mother, a step-mother with blackness in the
chest, lung cancer, heart disease, breast cancer..."
"I sense an older
male figure in your life, who wants you to
know whilst you may have had disagreements in your
life, he still loved you."
rainbow ruseThe
rainbow ruse is a crafted statements which
simultaneously awards the subject with a specific personality trait, as well as
the opposite of that trait. With such a phrase, a cold reader can "cover all
possibilities" and appear to have made an accurate deduction in the
mind of the victim, despite the fact that a rainbow ruse
statement is vague and
contradictory. This technique
is used since personality traits are not quantifiable, and also because nearly
everybody has experienced both sides of a
particular emotion at some time in their lives.
Statements of this type might
include:
"Most of the time you are positive and
cheerful, but there has been a time in the past where
you were very upset."
"You are a very kind and considerate person, but
when somebody does something to break your trust, you feel deep-seated anger."
"I
would say that you are mostly shy and quiet, but when the mood strikes you, you
can easily become the center of attention."
A cold reader can choose
from a variety of personality traits, think of its
opposite, and then bind the two together in a phrase, vaguely linked by factors
such as mood, time, or potential.
People who
are naturally good at personal observations can unwittingly conduct
readings demonstrably based on cold reading without a deliberate attempt at
deception.
Cold reading, in this
context, could also simply be "knowledge of
reality." Consider the case of a taxi driver in Las
Vegas, where innumerable professional conventions have provided him with the
opportunity to gauge the characteristic
group style and demeanor of entire occupations. Knowing the six big conventions
on at the moment, as a party of five enters his cab, he can tell
followers of "The
Call" from the scuba divers, the phytopathologists from the pilots, the
doctors from the police detectives, without recourse to
anything but his personal experience.
After a person has done hundreds of cold readings their
skills may improve to the point where they may start to believe they can actually read minds. When someone questions their own
natural talent, a good psychological
understanding of
human nature learned
through careful observation coupled with good
natural intuition based upon prior experience, and begins to believe that they actually have "special psychic
abilities" then they fall into the trap of "transcendental temptation".
"Transcendental temptation" in this context is
defined as the belief that one has
supernatural
power - power above and beyond those of ordinary
men - special favors bestowed by a supernatural being or
god. Those that
deceive themselves with the "transcendental temptation"
believe they have become "little gods"- they actually
believe they have been granted
supernatural
powers.
"I will eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, that
I may rule all things by my own power; and be of myself a lord on earth, and do
what I will, as God himself doth." - Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme's
mentor, Balthasar Walther, had travelled to the Holy Land in search of
magical, kabbalistic and alchemical wisdom.
Balthasar Walther introduced kabbalistic
ideas into Böhme's thought.
When any
religious teacher comes to
believe that he or she is blessed by the
supernatural
above his or her followers then that religious
teacher has fallen into the spiritual corruption of the
sin of pride.
Magic
historian and occult investigator Milbourne Christopher warned that this form
of "transcendental temptation" may lead one
unknowingly and unwittingly into belief in the
occult and a deterioration of reason. The lives of
cult figures such as L. Ron Hubbard,
Anton Szandor LaVey,
Jim Jones,
Marshall Applewhite,
Eugene Scott,
David Koresh,
Pat Robertson,
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby,
William Essek Kenyon,
Aimee Semple McPherson,
William Marrion Branham,
Rodney Howard-Browne,
etcetera.
"Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest
truths, while reality is
fantastic. If men would steadily observe
realities only, and not allow themselves to be
deluded, life, to
compare it with such things as we
know, would be like a fairy tale and the
Arabian Nights' Entertainments. If we
respected only what is
inevitable and has a right to be, music and
poetry would resound along the streets. When we
are unhurried and wise, we
perceive that only great
and worthy things have any permanent and
absolute existence, that petty
fears and petty
pleasures are but the shadow of the
reality. Reality is
always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and
slumbering, and consenting to be
deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily
life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is
built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life,
discern its true law and
relations more
clearly than men, who
fail to live
it worthily, but who think that they are
wiser by experience,
that is, by failure. " -
Henry David Thoreau
"In reading the history of nations, we find that,
like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons
of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that
whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its
pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one
delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly
more captivating than the first." - Charles Mackay
"The concept of waiting for the big score is as ingrained in
most of us as the concept of
hope itself. We in California should understand
that more than anyone. We are Pipedream
Central." - Meghan Daum
Do you live in reality or do you live in a fantasy?
Just exactly what do you
believe?
In America today it is hard to know what to accept as fact
and what to have
reason to believe is a
partial truth or an outright
lie.
Politicians ‘spin' the truth to create favorable
public opinions for their pet projects
and to
obtain government decrees to
enrich their friends and buddies.
Religious
leaders neglect to mention the doubts that they
themselves hold as they spout their brand of dogma
while practicing their favorite sins.
Popular American culture suggests that we worship ourselves but to do so we must dive head first into the
cult of materialistic consumerism,
‘the one with the most toys wins!'
All these paths are mired
in spiritual corruption because
fantasy replaces reality.
This is reality: humans are smart mammals with a sense of
empathy and compassion;
an
understanding of that
which is evil or harmful to life and that which is good and
beneficial;
and a realization of a future existence.
The Earth's environment is a closed
system which supports all the
life on Earth.
Spewing
toxins into the
water is like pissing and shitting in your
drinking water.
Spewing
toxins into the air is like sitting
in an airtight room with a burning tire as you hyperventilate.
All humans have limited
knowledge and those who are ‘specialists' have a limited
perception due to their
lack of a broad depth of knowledge.
Mass media exists, not to
enlighten and inform, but to sell
product.
The 'product' may be a
consumer good, an
individual running for office or
an idea espoused by a ‘think tank'. (Think tank is a misnomer as 'think tank' are really just partisan public
opinion generating entities.)
Government
institutions practice
social control in an attempt to get the populace
to conform to ‘Big
Brother's' idea of how people should
live and
behave.
The
Earth is a beautiful and
wonderful place that would be much nicer if humanity did not find
nature offensive.
Nature, in and of itself, is perfect.
Humanities desire for living in a fantasy as opposed to
living in reality is
the one major thing that threatens to annihilate humanity. Those that hold
fantasy positions will make incorrect
decisions based on faulty data.
I suggest
that humanity stop the
war against reality and declare a new
war - a war on fantasy.
"We have fed the
heart on fantasies and the
heart has grown brutal from the fare."
-
William Butler Yeats
"For the
truth is that life on the face
of it is a chaos in which one finds
oneself lost. The individual
suspects as much, but is terrified to encounter this frightening
reality face to face, and so attempts to conceal it
by drawing a curtain of fantasy over it,
behind which he can make believe that everything is
clear." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific
perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?"
- Mary Wollstonecraft
To love.
Of superior grade; fine.
Amorous or romantic
attachment; love.
Executed with
skill; complex
or intricate.
Bred for unusual
qualities or special points.
Something many humans believe that is
false.
A capricious notion; a whim; liking
or inclination.
An image or a
fantastic
invention created by the
mind.
To believe
without sufficient evidence or
proof; to imagine.
That which pleases or
entertains the taste or caprice without much use or
value.
Inclination; liking, formed by
caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy.
An
image or representation of anything formed in the
mind; conception;
thought; idea;
conceit.
The mental faculty through which whims,
visions, and fantasies are summoned up;
imagination, especially of a
whimsical or
fantastic nature.
"Superstition never solved a
single problem." - Kevin T. Freeman
" Among the Romans not a bird,
Without a
prophecy was heard;
Fortunes of empires ofttimes hung
On the magician
magpie's tongue,
And every crow was to the state,
A sure interpreter of
fate.
Prophets embodied in a college,
(Time out of mind your seats of
knowledge,)
Infallible accounts would keep,
When it was best to watch
or sleep,
To eat, or drink, to go, or stay,
And when to fight, or run
away,
When matters were for action ripe,
By looking at a double tripe;
When emperors would live or die,
They in an ass' skull could spy;
When generals would their stations keep,
Or turn their backs in hearts
of sheep."
- THE GHOST
The Greeks and Romans frequently formed
their opinion
of the success of any enterprize in which they were about to
engage,
from the flight, or from the chattering, or singing of birds.
The Augur, whose office it was to expound to the people the meaning of
the omens,
is supposed to have derived the name, or title of the office,
from avis garritus, the chattering of birds.
"Superstition, from the Latin
word "superstes," surviving, is the symbol surviving
the idea which it represents; it is the form
preferred to the thing, the rite
without reason, faith become
insensate through isolating itself. It is in
consequence the corpse of
religion, the death
of life, stupefaction substituted for
inspiration.
Fanaticism is
superstition become
passionate, its name comes from the word "fanum," which
signifies "temple," it is the temple put in place of God, it is the human
and temporal interest of the priest substituted for the
honor of
priesthood, the wretched passion
of the man exploiting the faith of the
believer.
Superstition is
religion interpreted by stupidity;
fanaticism is religion serving as a pretext to
fury. Those who intentionally and maliciously
confound religion itself with
superstition and
fanaticism, borrow from stupidity its
blind
prejudices, and would borrow perhaps
in the same way from fanaticism its
injustices and angers. "
Eliphas
Levi
There really
are vampires.
Vampires do not
literally physically suck
blood.
Vampires suck the
life from an individual soul. Vampires have sold themselves to
spiritual corruption and must
suck life from other human's souls to
sustain the corrupt fantasy they
have placed in their own imaginations in place
of reality.
There really are
zombies.
Zombies are not
literally physically dead.
Zombies walk around in a haze and are
unable to 'see' reality
because they live in a
fantasy reality.
Zombies suck the life from other human's souls.
Zombies have sold their
souls to spiritual corruption and must suck
life from those around them to
sustain the corrupt fantasy they
have placed in their own imaginations in place
of reality.
Physically 'zombies' actually do
exist. Individuals that have been deprived of salt
and have undergone hypnosis through Voodoo in the Carribean actually do
behave like the ‘zombies' in The Night of the Living
Dead.
the truth about magic and magicians
"Magic involves making the improbable possible.
It's learning how even the slightest change you make can have a radical effect
on the internal system of your psychology/spirituality, and the external system
of the environment and universe you live in." - Edward Wilson & Wes
UnruhThere are two types of magic.
The first type, Magic
Kingdom magic - the Walt Disney variety, exists only in the minds of its
creators.
The second type, Natural Magic, exists in actuality in the
Existent Reality of the Creator and Sustainer.
A magician is a practitioner of magic,
sometimes considered to be equivalent to an enchanter; a necromancer; a
sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer; witch or wizard; one who practices the black
art (of deception).
The name "magician" derives from the magus, an
ancient Persian priest, and the cognate maghdim, a Chaldean term meaning wisdom
and philosophy.
Magicians perform "magic tricks"(deception) to amuse,
entertain and divert the attention of an audience.
The word magician is
sometimes used in a complimentary way to describe an individual whose
formidable skill or art seems to be magical: a magician with
words.
the truth about wizardsThe word
wizard may come from the Persian
word wazir. The
wazirs belonged to the ruling classes of the
civizations of Central Asia.
Wazirs were also called
Tajik, men of the pen or
wise men. The term wizard is a bastard child of
wazir brought to the West by the knights of
the First Crudsade and was typically bestowed upon men of learning, the
Alchemists.
the truth about bankstersThe fractional-reserve bankster
system is a bankster system in which only a fraction of bank deposits are
backed by actual cash-on-hand available for withdrawal. The remainder of
customer-deposited funds are used to fund OTC derivative loans that the bank
makes to other memebers of the Syndicate of the Soulless. Most
of those fiat paper money funds are later redeposited into associate banks,
allowing further lending. As bankster deposits are considered fiat paper money
funds in their own right, fractional-reserve banking permits the bankster paper
fiat money supply to grow to a multiple of the underlying reserves of base
money originally created by the syndicate of the soulless' central banking
system which is staffed almost exclusively with Vampires.
As interest is
charged on these paper fiat money funds all individuals taking loans find
themselves in competition with all other individuals taking loans as the money
supply can only be as large as the original paper fiat money funds. The
overage, interest, requires that a percentage of loans fail as the supply of
money can never equal the principal (original money loaned) and the interest
(overage).
Fractional-reserve banking is the current form of banking in
all countries worldwide.
Headquarters of the bankster Vampires is in
Basel Switzerland.
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