The Greatest Secret: Collective trauma and civilization


There is still a Great Secret out there. One that is not really a secret. But, at the same time, it is.

Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings ...

It is so secretive it is hidden in plain sight. It is such a big secret that you can visit public buildings in many major cities of the world and see evidence of it. It is such a big secret that many people have heard about it at some point in their life. It is such a big secret that you can find it on the Internet if you know what to look for. It is such a big secret that there have been wars fought and atrocities performed to keep it hidden. It is such a big secret that it is the subject of one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of humanity.  It is such a big secret that it threatens the very foundations of Western civilization.

Great secrets are kept because their overturning would set the world as we know it afire. Those who participate in the keeping of these secrets understand fully that it is impossible to hide truths. The attempt to conceal a truth only works for a while. But after a truth becomes readily available to those who seek it, instead of trying to conceal it again, all attempts are made to discount it, distort it and deny it.

Great secrets must be kept because their revelation throws everything else into question. Once a great secret’s truth is accepted, the individual and group is then forced to confront the fundamental assumptions that underlie their perception of truth and reality as they know it. The greatest secrets threaten the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of a society and, once revealed, point the way to a larger conception of reality and a broader understanding of what the world really is and what their place is in it.

But this is exactly why great secrets are kept. For the purpose of control.

In the current times, it is impossible to keep any secret whatsoever, let alone a great secret. Everything that has ever been done in the dark is now being seen in the light. All of the minor secrets subordinate to the greatest secret are being revealed. As a result, Western society is coming closer and closer to being forced to accept the greatest secret as pure, unadulterated truth.

The Elite Controllers of this WorldThe ramifications of this acceptance hold grave consequences for the plans of the currently in-fighting Elite factions and their minions; those who have invested in the suppression of the Great Secret. The investiture of belief and support into paradigm-changing secrets is tantamount to giving your life to the secret. Therefore, once the secret is revealed, the life based upon it dissipates, leaving the individual so invested bereft, left drifting upon an ideological, philosophical and spiritual raft rapidly breaking apart beneath them.

Movies point to the Great Secret. Television shows of all types. Books do also. Religion, spirituality, the manifestations of culture and society all are signposts pointing the way to the revelation of the Great Secret. Language itself reveals the Great Secret. The mechanics of dreaming and astral travel. The Great Secret is the key to unlocking the gateway to the soul.

Once a Seeker has caught the scent of the Great Secret their pursuit of it will lead them down the rabbit hole and even beyond, as the rabbit hole must eventually end and the Great Secret is boundless. Speaking about the Great Secret to family and friends will often elicit either amusement or shock, depending upon their state of consciousness. But because the Great Secret is nearing the surface of mass, popular awareness, every whispered question, every triumphant discovery of a heretofore unknown fact, every answer found that brings up multiple new questions affects the awakening process of the collective.

Once the Great Secret becomes widely known and irrefutable by any dastardly machinations of an embattled Elite or disempowered NWO technicians society as we know it will crumble and a new form of society and interpersonal interaction will take its place. This new form of society will be more egalitarian, based upon Divine and Natural Law, not the corrupted and pyramidal form of law currently institutionalized by the Roman Cult.

Collective trauma will be one effect of the revelation of the Great Secret. It is unavoidable. Some will be unable to accept the truth. These individuals and groups will deny it and potentially engage in violence in order to repress it. For others it will be too much and they will commit suicide. Truth dispels lies and some will not be able to live with their life-long complicity. That truth, once known irrefutably is like water in its purifying and cleansing aspect, remorselessly dissipating any weak or false constructs until all that is left is the pure essence of a thing.

A Shrine of the Madonna and ChildThe revelation of the Great Secret will destroy the institutional edifice of formal religion. It will destroy the institutional bedrock of the political, legal and economic systems. It will even draw the wind from the sails of those who consider themselves on an alternate path, especially those who have not challenged and overcome their most basic assumptions about reality.

These individuals, in particular, will be among the hardest hit mentally, emotionally and spiritually as they are forced to reevaluate their version of reality thereby coming to the unavoidable conclusion that they were really invested in the system the entire time they thought they were not. Being so compromised their karmic responsibility is the same at those they previously decried as being asleep, or sheeple, when they, also, have been locked consciously in vested ignorance.

The Great Secret is simple. All Truth is. The Great Secret is all-encompassing. It is the pass-code that unlocks every other secret that has been kept to maintain the control system for hundreds and even thousands of years. The absolute revelation of the Great Secret will even blow away those who consider themselves open-minded. Even now, every single person in the world, no matter their position in life, their wealth, their possession of power of any sort, is enslaved by a system of belief and corruption absolutely dependent upon the mass acceptance of the illusory reality.

Even those who have already been exposed to the Great Secret only really understand it intellectually. They believe it. They think they know it. They hope it is true. But there has been no unassailable evidence produced as of yet. No smoking gun. And once its truth is unquestionable, even their sense of reality and truth will morph and transform.

Until such time as public revelation of the Great Secret occurs, it remains contentious. If I wrote it here, now, you, the reader and your logical mind still has the space – and is heavily programmed – to deny its validity. You have been trained to reject it automatically from the time you first began to explore your world.

I will end by telling you that you are exposed to the Great Secret daily. Every one of you. If not in your home then out on the streets. You see it on the internet or in the movies; you can watch it on television or hear it on the radio or your ipod. You learn about it from grade school to college. You see it at the heights of social acclaim and at its dregs. You may feel pity when you see it. You may feel anger or hate. Or you may love it without really knowing why. You may distrust it and look away from it or you may embrace it and attempt to move closer to it.

The Great Secret is inside of us and it is out in the cosmos. You can look both outwards and inwards and find the Great Secret looking right back at you, singing to you, laughing with you and crying with you. It engages your deepest fantasies and embodies your most private fears. The Blackness within your mind reveals the Light.

You know the Greatest Secret.

Really.

You do.

Melanin Molecules

Trust: Changing your codes – Part II


Trust: Changing your codes – Part I

Hosea 8-7: For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

In the first installment of this series, I examined the issue of trust and how it can affect friendships, making the point that trust is something that has to be offered to the Multiverse and to Life itself, rather than to individuals. Trust cannot be taken, trust cannot be given. Trust can only be offered forth as a gift, as an acknowledgment of love, of solidarity, of belief in a larger, connected conception of Reality that goes beyond the individualized conception of self-protection and selfishness that seems to be the natural human condition. 

In explanation of that last controversial statement, let me explain further. Many might argue that trust is a natural part of the human condition; that children – when they are very young – are very trusting and that, as they grow older, life presents them with trials and tribulations that lessen their trust in people, in society and in life in general. Bad experiences, untrustworthy individuals and the experience of pain and suffering combine to create the masks that we wear to fit occasions where the exposure of our true faces might result in some type of social or physical pain or rejection. I would argue, to this point, simply that life itself is natural, so distrust, being a condition of the experience of life, is also natural.

The Buddhists believe that the Four Noble Truths - the first three of which state simply that life is desire, desire causes suffering, so life, therefore, is suffering - encapsulate the drama experienced by all people in all times and all places. The fourth of the Noble Truths states the solution to this conundrum succinctly: in order to end suffering, one must cease to desire. Trust is, many times, confused with the desire to be intimate with another. So when that faux-trust is broken, we feel betrayed.

Who hasn’t been in a social situation where someone you’ve trusted acts in an untrustworthy manner? A family member has betrayed you by taking the side of another family member, or does something that is directly counter to your interests, maybe stealing something from you, or lying to you.Children, in their experiences with their parents, siblings and society in general, get their trust betrayed every day.

Just the simple experience of having a parent tell them they can have or do something and then change their mind about it, for whatever reason, is a betrayal of trust that begins the process of qualifying unconditional trust; of creating barriers, separation between that child and his or her family, friends and the world. This process of mask creation forms the social face that becomes necessary as a wall between our true st, inner selves and the world as we age and begin to interact more and more with external society. Many of us as adults still have an Inner Child that is in need of healing, of love and understanding, as an acknowledgement that we exist and that our existence is meaningful. Learning to trust should be a large part of that healing process. 

So how do these issues of trust affect people at a wider scale? Individual questions of trust, family, friends, our personalized degrees of interactions, mirror the relationship of individuals to society, and the relationships between different societies as they interact at the regional and global scale.There is an old adage from the Christian religion that states, as above, so below. In the most abstract sense, this means that the experiences that we have as individuals are akin to the experiences that groups have when interacting with other groups and with the world at large.

For example, my relationship with a sibling may be discordant in some manner or another. I may fight with my brother incessantly, over trivial and serious matters alike. Likewise, Christians may fight against Muslims incessantly, over trivial and serious matters alike. Texans may fight with Californians over the size and importance of their states. The Flemish may fight with the Walloons over language differences and the superiority of French over Dutch culture. The examples are voluminous.

Many years ago, the social sciences (Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, etc.) believed in this theory known as Environmental Determinism (ED). The theory itself was very simple. Humans who evolved in hot climates (Africa, the Americas, etc.) were inferior to and less industrious than humans who evolved in cold climates (Europe, E. Asia, etc.), because people in cold weather climates were driven to create technologies based upon their diligent resistance to the cold environment, whereas, those in the hot weather lands had no incentive to do anything but have Siestas, party, pick and eat fruit off of the trees, run around naked and have sex all of the time.

The not-so-underlying resentment that infuses the previous perceptions continues to fuel, even today, racist beliefs about people based upon illogical and historically inaccurate environmental assumptions. The misperception of ease, and of these brown, red and black people being held in the bosom of Gaia, the Earth Mother, was internalized by Europeans used to hard, cold lives and reflected back at the Sun-blessed Peoples in a paroxysm of violence and bloodshed that lasted for centuries and that may still have not yet ended.

Ostensibly based upon Darwins theory of Evolution, philosophies such as ED became known as theories of Social Darwinism, in which the world was a battle for survival, and only the fittest survived. Disciplines such as Geography and Political Science (then known as Geopolitics), used Environmental Determinism in order to philosophically and scientifically justify racism and colonial expansion across the world.

During that same period of time, Robert Malthus proposed that the world only had a limited amount of resources, and that overpopulation would soon drive the worlds poor to the shores of the richest countries in the world, seeking solace from the sheer bleakness of their plights. Today, his followers are called Neo-Malthusians. 

Other scholars, such as  Garrett Hardin, came up with corresponding theoretical exemplars such as the idea of Lifeboat Ethics, whereas the rich countries are afloat upon an ocean of despair with all of their amenities, and the poor and unwashed masses of the world are swimming toward the lifeboat, wanting to get on, giving rise to the questions: Can the Western lifeboats carry all of the world’s populations? Is there room on the lifeboat for everyone? 

I raise these questions and mention these academic philosophies in light of the question of trust. As should be clear by now, the lack of trust among groups of people has resulted in the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Xenophobia and greed are on the rise and there seems to be no end in sight to the increasing distance growing between the richest one percent of the world’s population and the rest of us. Here, in the United States, national and global forces are working to destroy the middle class and open the borders between countries, creating an indivisible gulf between the classes that will make the American Dream more of an impossibility than it ever has been. Even so, for many Americans, the Dream has alwaysbeen just that, a dream, and no more.

More and more, the idea of biological racial categorization is coming to be seen as an anachronism, although the institutional structures that have resulted in the system of white privilege remain and generations of immigrants benefit from them daily, through no fault of their own.  This, on the other hand, is sociological racial categorization, and it is as real in the lives of Americans and people the world over as is the Sun coming up every day.  And yet, it is possible, these days, for a European-descended man or woman to say with a clear conscience, “I’m not racist, I’ve never said the “N” word or discriminated against a black, brown, red or yellow person once in my life.”  Because of our complete immersion within the culturally-delineated, institutional structures of our daily lives, these individuals are, in large part, unaware of the privileged nature of their experience unless they forcibly encounter “The Other” by way of negative encounters with law enforcement or abrupt changes in economic and social status. 

I’m reminded at this juncture of that South Park episode where Jerome “Chef” McGilroy was irate over the racist South Park flag that showed a black stick figure being lynched by white stick figures. Throughout the episode, he’s arguing civil rights with the Klan, who are clearly racist, and the townspeople, who are more interested in the town’s heritage, while the kids debate both sides of the flag question without ever realizing that race has anything to do with it at all. 

Other scholars say that the need to accumulate material goods, to hoard energy and wealth, is a result of evolutionary and environmental stressors that have shaped the experience of different groups of people. They state that ethnic groupings that have lived for thousands of years in tropical environments are different from ethnic groupings that have lived for thousands of years in maritime or cold environments. Each group has been shaped by their environment to deal with the world in different ways.

Many use the example of the Aryan invasion of India, where the matriarchal and melanated Dravidians were conquered by the patriarchal and pale-skinned Aryans, or, the more recent examples of the Maafa/Triangular Trade, otherwise know as the Slave Trade - a period which lasted approximately 400 years - upon which foundation the wealth of Europe and the Americas was built, as clear examples of the Iceman Inheritance of Europe and European-descended peoples. The need to hoard food, energy and riches against a hard future ahead is the epitome of distrust; not only a distrust of other people, but a distrust of the world itself. An institutionalized and somewhat sublimated cultural distrust whose expression has been proven valid over centuries and millennia of harsh living conditions and warfare between Clans, then Tribes, then Ethnicities, then Nations and then, finally and perhaps even originally, between Races.

As above, so below. As we are pushed toward greater self-understanding, so must we also understand who we are as groups and as nations, and by doing so, understand where we have been, where we currently are and where we are going in our relationships with other groups and with the natural world. While Gaia may shrug, casting diseased humanity into oblivion, she will continue to exist, incorporating our ills within her very structure. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Trust between nations and peoples can only exist as a gift that we collectively choose to give to the Multiverse. There is no other rational course of action.

Strife and discord have been the rule in the relationships between groups and nations, and trust, the exception. Considering the extraordinary selflessness required in the cultivation of trust – to gift trust – it is easy to understand why things are the way that they are right now in the world. Also considering such, it is possible to take on a very negative outlook regarding future prognostications about the fate of the world.

What incentive do aboriginal Americans have to trust whites after being the subject of merciless genocide and land theft? Why should Koreanstrust the Japanese after what happened between them during Japan’s colonial era?  Why should Zionist Jews trust Muslims after every nation inSouthwest Asia rose against them the day they declared themselves a country?  And why should the enslaved ancestors of Africans in theAmericas ever trust an institutionalized system of governance and law that was formed in direct opposition to the very concept of their humanity? 

The desire to trust is beyond the Four Noble Truths and approximates the answer to the human condition, in that true , freely gifted Trust elevates human consciousness to a plane of selflessness that is exemplified by the willingness of an individual to sacrifice of one’s Self. By the ability to give of one’s Self without expecting anything in return. To gift trust, not expecting that trust to be honored.  And, by the even more daunting prospect of self-sacrifice, of freely gifted trust, in the face of death itself.

As I state in the very first paragraph of this essay, trust can only be offered forth as a gift, as an acknowledgment of love, of solidarity, of belief in a larger, connected conception of Reality that goes beyond the individualized conception of self-protection and selfishness that seems to be the natural human condition. Individual experiences and beliefs mirror group experiences and beliefs, and our very own personal stories can cast a bright light upon the stories of people through time and across space. The gift of trust is our only salvation. Beyond spirit, soul and religion, selfless trust can be considered a principled promise to our species; faith, if you will, in our proven ability to persevere and survive past all logical conceptions of our continuance.

If we do not, as a species, decide to let go of the past and move forward in trust and solidarity, the karma of the Ages shall continue to cycle remorselessly and we shall, indeed, reap the whirlwind. The sins of the Fathers gather unto infinite generations only find relief when the cycle is broken, when some person, or group, decides to rise above, to go beyond, to go within and trust. If this elemental choice is not made, the continuous cycle of inevitability is virtually guaranteed, and the resulting conflagration of Spirit and Soul might leave the present world bereft of human life, our collective legacy broken and cast, desolate, to the Four Winds.


Ain’t Gonna Study War No More …


When I was in the third grade I lived on the island of Crete, Greece. I went to school at a Department of Defense (DoDs) school, where all of the American kids went up until the 6th grade, after which they went to Dormitory Schools in Zarzamora, Spain. The very first day of class I walked in and it was a madhouse, children climbing all over the seats, screaming, shouting, and I distinctly remember a paper airplane flying through the air as I stood at the door. It sounds like a cliched memory, perhaps, but was indicative of a free and exuberant learning environment in the mid-1970s. The entire time I lived there is filled with wondrous memories and life lessons of a seemingly magical and poignant nature, but the one I’m concerned with now happened on the playground.

It must have been soon after my arrival, days or weeks, because in the memory, I still feel ‘new’, as if I don’t know many people around me. I remember standing on the concrete playground (of a kind you won’t find these child-proofed days), spazzing out like 3rd graders do, looking around. There were kids playing jumprope, 4-square, girls running around, boys chasing, all of the stuff you’d find on any playground when, suddenly, I’m on the ground. My head is ringing and I can’t hear a thing. I look up and around and see two boys, one tall and blonde, the other shorter and dark-haired, looking at me and laughing, and I notice one of the red, plastic balls that we played with for dodgeball and 4-square bouncing away from me.

I saw red. I charged that kid and knocked him down and, before the teachers pulled me off of him and through the gathered crowd of screaming elementary schoolers, I had pounded the back of his head into the pavement a good 5, 10 times. I remember being in the office afterwards and, rather than the Principal’s words, or some feeling of shame being my primary memory, it is the expression on this kid’s face – chastened, and kind of scared – of being beaten by someone younger and smaller than him. Neither of us got detention, or kicked out of school, or sent home for the day. It was a playground fight, and that was it. I’m not even sure if our parents were notified. And even though i saw that kid around after that, he made sure to avoid me until his family left that duty station. It was a conflict based upon power; he thought he had it, but found out he didn’t. Nice and simple. No complications.

Maybe a year later, I got another lesson after we moved on base and, in defending a smaller friend, I knocked down another, bigger boy, sending him home crying. Somehow my mother found out about it and sent me next door to their house to apologize and, as I entered the gate and walked to the open front door, I could see the boy in the dark hallway with his father bending over him, berating him, “You let that nigger beat you?!”

Needless to say, that apology did not happen. This was an unforseen complication and left me confused and wondering about this new dimension that obviously trumped and complicated our simple, interpersonal conflict.

I had no idea at that age what that word meant. I found out soon enough though, because I heard it plenty more times when we left Greece and moved to Del City, Oklahoma. There were two major conflicts there; one with a little racist who lost his steam when alone (and I left him, weeping, after knocking him down) and another with a kid who threatened my position in the nerd-herd that I avidly grazed the late-70s standards of fantasy and sci-fi with which – along with increasing bullying by larger groups (entire classrooms and friendship groups) – solidified my impression and experience of ‘my Self’ as an ‘outsider’.

O’Fallon, Illinois was just as bad. There, I was one of eight black kids in a middle school of eight hundred, which gave me a true sense of the meaning of oppression as I felt the effects of bullying and the intensity of emotional and psychic attacks while being subjected to pervasive, race-based hatred by children (again, entire classrooms) and neighborhood adults (who would not let me play with their children, come in their houses, or walk on their grass) alike. Moving onto Scott, AFB, was an intense relief, and conflicts there were based upon normal, teenage issues and decidely non-race based.

The last ‘childhood conflict’ occured as a senior in Medical Lake, Washington when I was attacked by a kid who was too slow to hit me (I left him, bleeding from the nose, tagged by a chair that he fell into, after swinging and missing me by a mile), which pretty much ended my experience with the ‘sweet science’ of pugilism. He was also decidely racist, although our conflict was primarily one of insider versus outsider, with him being the outsider in that situation. Late teenhood and skill at atheletics – as well as the birth of hip hop and my identification with the b-boy & girl movement – brought me out of the shell I had formed in response to the hostile environments of my early teen years, with the skills learned during that time period, in art, music and reading, allowing me to empathize and interact with many different social groups while still remaining popular enough to be voted ‘co-Most Talented’ Senior year.

In the totally integrated environs of Air Force bases, overt expressions of racism were legislated against and could cost the military member of the family rank or pay, which is why many who grow up in the environment come to believe that they lived in a color-blind world. In a sense, that was true, and it is definitely the closest example of the American Dream that America has come up with so far, where everyone achieves according to their work ethic and the content of their character, even though there are many individual examples, as well as group examples, of where this is less true than the ideal and yet, still, better than in the civilian world. There remain allegations and experiences of a racial nature, which are decidely hard to prove and impossible to litigate, since, when signing your original contract with the military, you give up all of the rights of civilian entities, including the right to sue the government.

When I graduated from High School and went to Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Georgia, I saw and broke up more fights there in one year that I’d ever seen in my entire life. Being an all-black environment was also a major paradigm shift for me, but there were many other boys there, and girls, from Spelman – the girl’s school across the street – who had grown up in a similar type of situation. Even though I was not a pacifist, I was never challenged directly during that year. The year after that, I was in the Army myself and certainly not a pacifist. The only serious incident(s) during this time came as social groups on the first and second floors of our basic training barracks became divided by race and I, as de facto leader of our floor and Assistant Platoon Guide, was pit, face to face on numerous occasions, with my Country and Western singing and Break Dancing opposite, who probably would have been a friend in any other context.

Almost 5 years in the Army and the onset of Desert Storm, now also known as Gulf War I, forever ended my martial aspirations although I still love a good Chinese martial arts film and feel my military pride stirring anytime I think about, talk to or watch anything having to do with the soldiers of our Armed Forces. Growing up how I did, on military bases across the country and world, and being in the military myself has left me with a deep and broad understanding of the Soldier’s life, while my own personal inclinations and experiences have always been more peaceful in nature. This contradiction strikes to the core of me as an individual and, these days, whenever I tell anyone I was in the Army, they look at me strangely and tell me how they can’t believe that I was a Soldier.

I smile and nod, because I know what they mean. But the fire of combat that girds the loins of those inclined toward national service once filled me as well, and the closeness to deployment that I came in 1991 – being stationed in Kaiserslautern and Nurenberg, Germany, for most of that time – was a sobering time period, called to constant Alert, Unit prepared to move out as we simultaneously moved troops through the European Theatre southwards through Italy and Turkey, into the Gulf on a daily basis. Listening and reading about the stories of young and idealistic soldiers today gives rise to a pang in the heart as I recognize my younger self in them, although their experiences do not mirror the American Soldier’s general experiences in the Gulf during that 3-week period in the Spring of 1991, when that ‘conflict’ was at its most intense.

Shock and Awe was a precursor to a new generation of American weapons and capabilities and my more mature perspective, despite being formed by my own and my cohort’s life and military experiences, forces me to view these globalist conflicts as an evolution of an Agenda that has been millenia in the making. But, as a small child, traveling the globe to Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases across the country and around the world, my own personal conflicts held more importance than those that my father was supporting, as an expression of his sworn duty, the oath that he took, and that I took in my turn, to defend this country unto the Ultimate Sacrifice.

Despite the world-spanning nature of current world conflicts, warfare remains as basic as human instinct. When living in Greece, off-base, me and the other American kids would skirmish in the backstreets of Hersonissos with the Greek kids, chucking dirt clods and rocks, cursing each other and sticking to our own small clusters of America and friend groups, while retaining that distinctive American trait of ‘owning’ the ground we stood on, no matter what country we were living in. Those childish fights were fought on the basis of difference and territoriality and, even though none of us American kids were from that country, we viewed their incursions into the space we considered ours as deadly challenges. Even at the macro-level of geo-politics, the United States feels that the world is its ‘Hood.

Despite our individual and group differences, the ability of Americans, on an individual level, to break down the conditioning of social and ethnic belonging when it comes to the greater good prevails, in this sense, being the kinship group formed by those who train and prepare for the hardships of warfare. As a more mature expression of my childhood battles with other kids who were reflecting the prejudiced viewpoints of their parents, my encounter with my redneck contemporary in basic training was trumped by our shared training and there is no doubt that we would have had each other’s backs if we had been deployed to a combat zone straight off of Tank Hill, at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Despite the remonstrations of that boy’s father back in Greece, he  performed his job to the standards of his Squadron, also despite the fact that he had to work, day in and day out, with niggers whom he, apparently, thought little of in personal life.

Perhaps America should bring back the draft. Perhaps, by inculcating this younger generation of Americans with a shared sense of duty and the experience of living and dying besides other Americans of diverse backgrounds would give our country that final push into making the societal changes that need to occur in order to move us past the strict racism and classism that still permeates our society. Perhaps when a Senator’s child fights alongside brothas from the hoods of Philadelphia and New York, and the child of New England wealth serves beside the children of undocumented immigrants from Mexico, their shared experience will nullify the effects of the growing gulf between the haves and have nots in this country. Perhaps when the children of Illuminati die beside the children of the World, the senselessness of intolerance will finally make sense.

Deuteronomy 6:16
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy G-d, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

I have not been to the place of temptation (Massah), but I certainly don’t plan on testing G-d in a martial fashion, even if the situation comes to me, as they always seem to have. The choice not to fight is one that comes from either fear or strength. Having the strength to move past fear means accepting the consequences of not responding in a ‘normal’ manner, which can be dire. But it is a choice that brings peace, in and of itself, no matter what the thoughts are of those who don’t agree. And life is filled with those people, is it not? Conflict is never-ending, but this life we live is not. I think, maybe, the life-experience of the entire world, at this point, is one in which conflict has seemed never-ending. The weight of the world lies within us all, and, in the end, the fate of the world does as well.

We’ll see what happens with the any new conflicts this nation finds itself in in coming years. Libya, Congo, maybe Syria or Iran. But I know that I ain’t gonna study war no more, no suh. I experienced enough conflict during my child and young adulthood, and have experienced conflict of a different, but just as psychically damaging, type as a man.  But there are those out there, perhaps some of you reading, now, who have experienced so much more.  We all have to decide when enough is enough, and when it is time to count our blessings and cry out, “Peace, be still!”

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been blessed beyond belief.  And to test G-d by succumbing to the sensual temptations of rage and conflict would certainly leave me lost and, at this stage of life, probably end in the loss of my life. In this perspective of life, running with the bulls only makes sense if you’re caught in an improbable event, such as a stampede of escaped cattle, and not a conscious decision to subject yourself to a life-threatening albeit popular cultural event on a whim or, worse yet, a drunken binge. Life is too short, our destinies to great to waste them cultivating thought processes and ways of Being that do not result in the elevation of our minds and souls.


Rings of Reality V: Self and Race


One of the primary methods through which the Multimedia Effect (ME) works to isolate and segregate the outer Selves from the core Self is by encouraging identification with the body. From height to weight, sex to race, the actual, physical appearance of the body comes to represent the outer Selves belief systems and ideologies in the journey through Time and Space. The subjugation of the Selves to the overriding cultural milieu necessitates the fetishization of the body in order to encapsulate conceptions of Reality within the confines of materially-oriented culture. At the most abstract, Nationalism and institutionalized Religion become pious exemplars of dedication and allegience to the State, and, more importantly, to the overriding cultural modalities of the day.

The cult of Individualism has a long and sordid history within the evolution of social consciousness. As the culmination of succedent eras of cultural and economic appropriation, Globalism succeeds in its transference of values and ideals stemming from Western moral and ethical mainstays across a planetary spectrum, its technological sophistication masking a very basic, human drive toward excess accumumation of material wealth based upon an underlying fear of deprivation. The Evolution of Corporate Entities as agglomerative collectivities amassing obscene amounts of wealth for a priviledged few stands at the apex of a pyramidal hierarchy of intention that represents the impetus of a materially-based culture millenia in the making. The inbred xenophobia of the Globalist system is, perhaps, an indirect result of a consciously directed effort to dominate and control the world’s markets through economic and political control. In addition, the widespread dissemination of western media (movies, music, etc.), the English language as the language of the Global Era, clothing and foodstuffs through Aid agencies (USAid, Goodwill, etc.) serve to foster an appearance of encompassing benevolence, affecting all aspects of material culture in societies subject to the good will of the developed nations.

At the interpersonal level, the body stands for cultural representation, with race and sex preening at the apex as immediate and indisputeable signifiers of either belonging or exclusion. At the zenith of Globalist culture stands the white male exemplar, followed by the white female. The hierarchy descends from those heights through the shade of yellow, red and brown to the depths of blackness, adequately and ably represented by diasporic Africans the world across. As mentioned in previous essays, these bodies, traversing western cultural spaces, out of place and time, represent the Other, an oppositional force to the perceived norms of societal space. In America, for example, a black body in what is perceived to be a white environment can be a cue that results in either exclusionary or inclusionary behavior, dependent upon the type of place and overriding zeitgeist of that space in time. In another western country with a different history, Germany, for example – where the experience of Blackness has a decidedly different history than that of the U.S.A. – that same black body in a percieved white space experiences a different reception based upon Germany’s peculiar history and cultural complex.

Given Globalism’s perceived multicultural veneer, some discussion of cultural appropriation and the theft of the black body may be helpful. The hoary beards of hook-nosed Elders nestle upon cloaked and sunken chests hoarding hardened hearts that hearken back in time to the early formation of Christianity, the Middle Ages of Europe (Ashkenazim and Sephardic Jewry, the Talmud) and beyond; the Curse of Ham and the experience of the Moorish Invasions of the Iberian Peninsula lighting the way to the Triangular Trade Era, otherwise known as the Maafa, and the accumulation of wealth and power west of the Atlantic ocean, in the Americas.

The reluctant approbation of the theft and transportation of black bodies from the west-central coastlines and interior of Africa to the Americas, by the Cardinal of the Indies – Bartolemew de las Casas - after the near-extermination of native populations, resulting in 400+ years of European ownership of black bodies, has birthed a rich tradition of racial and cultural stereotypes that the Multimedia Effect (ME) continues to employ to this very day, hour and minute. As the repository of this cultural history, all black bodies within western cultural space are subject to the residual effect of association by racial affiliation, each becoming representative of the whole in the eyes of the majority-white population, which is, for the most part, an unconscious imperative of the Globalist system as it attempts to normalize the interrelationships of its component sub-cultures. In effect, ages-old racial animus is played out daily at the individual, familial, societal and worldly levels of aggregation.

In today’s parlance, and, as an example of cultural appropriation, Hip Hop’s domination of the Global scene is seen as an affirmation of the multiculturalism and inclusivity of the Globalist agenda. The unspoken assertion is, “look at the African-Americans, blinging and singing, rapping and tapping their way to the heights of material success. If the children of slaves can do it, anybody can!” Appealing directly to the sensual and economic, hence, material, aspects of the Self, the forms of Hip Hop expression represents the dreams and desires of their primary consumptive audience. The shift in emphasis from conscious Hip Hop – in the late 1980s – to “Gangsta Rap” and “Booty music” reflected a conscious decision on the part of music moguls across the spectrum as this music became more popular with white, suburban teens far removed from the Urban jungles referenced in those sordid, misogenistic and formulaic fantasies of fast women and easy money gleaned from a burdgeoning and, possibily, govenment-instigated dope game. This shifting of of Hip Hop’s primary audience from black American to white American (who make up between 60 – 70% of all Hip Hop music purchased, by most estimates) audiences mirrors earlier examples of white American cultural appropriation of black American musical innovations in America, namely, Jazz and Rock and Roll.

Being a multi-billion dollar industry, the black bodies represented by Hip Hop music and videos represent dollars and cents, their beauty and atheletism a subliminal reference to over 100 years of conscious genetic manipulation. The Skinner-box-like apparatus known as The Projectsmagnify cycles of violence and disfunction while the surrounding anthropogenic landscape takes on the appearance and desolation of an area rent by urban warfare. In these locales, economic opportunities are strictly limited, while those businesses which are  present are controlled by new, immigrant ownership cadres that do not look like those who reside there or corporate chains that do not hold a vested interest in the well being of those selfsame residential populations. While, in the mainstream and cable-based mass media, the predominant stereotypes regarding black men and black women (Project Populations) are replayed over and over again, becoming background to the elevation of Eurocentric appearances and norms which appear as neutral or overtly positive exemplars when held against the perceived degrading and immoral representations which have become all too familiar in the Hip Hop world. These differences are often highlighted overtly in commercials and shows, although hardly ever mentioned directly, a method of affirmation and reinforcement that runs on a continuous cycle of repetition, day in and day out. 24/7, 365.

Continuously subject to such stimuli, the outer Selves of individuals of all races become saturated, immersed within this virulent stew of xenophobic programming that acts to reinforce the institutional biases of a system that finds certain groups of people at the top, and other groups of people at the bottom. In the Now, to the eyes of many, it seems that what had previously been evident as societally and institutionally enforced segregation and repression has now become a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty and disfunction. What is usually left out of the equation, though, is the Multimedia Effect (ME) and its insidious effect upon marginalized populations. Taken alongside historical realities ranging from the devil’s deal of integration, where black communities were divided rich from poor and children bused from their neighborhoods to suburban or cloistered neighborhoods, to the questionable influx of different types of drugs into previously thriving black communities, the constant bombardment of the outer Selves, sheltered by black bodies, continuously reinforces their status within a society that sees them primarily as entertainment fodder and criminals, as reflected by the current makeup of prison populations the country across.

Racial animus continues to act as a release valve for societal pressures. Close observation of the employment of race during times of national crisis (911, Katrina, etc.) and even during election cycles reveals the conscious manipulation of programmed prejudices awakened by codes and key words that are clearly understood by certain populations, while remaining ambiguous enough to allow for official disassociation. For those black bodies attempting to navigate the cultural space of the Now within the confines of the Globalist imperative, nearness to the center is akin to walking a tightrope, with the slightest misstep resulting in imprisonment, lifelong economic privation or death.

The stakes remain as high as ever, the thin veneer of civilization masking the roiling imperatives of genetics and the yearnings of spirit and intention tears and Truth bursts to the surface without warning as individuals war within and amongst themselves for Self and group control. The battles between the outer Selves mirror the battles between external Selves, mirrors of Oneness, more alike than different, segregated and isolated by design and conscious intention. It is only when we access the core Self that the outer Selves fade away in the light of that inner brilliance that banishes all darkness and brooks no separation of destiny and choice. Winning the inner battle must, of necessity, precede the victory of good over evil, yet another turn in an endless spiral of spiritual and material progression.

The Ring Series

Rings of Reality 1: Introduction

Rings of Reality 2: The hijacking of consciousness

Rings of Reality 3: Self and body

Rings of Reality 4: Self, society and world

Rings of Reality 5: Self and race