Essays On Life On Planet Earth

[thorbiorn]

Essays On Life On Planet Earth

By the Editors of Signs of the Times: Scott Ogrin, Joe Quinn and Henri Si, has been published in its first edition by Red Pill Press. It contains the revised versions of the six booklets with commentaries from the Signs of the Times previously published under the names: Religion, The Media, The Work, U.S. Freedom, 9/11 Conspiracy, and The Human Condition.

Having read the booklets I wondered, first if I should order the new copy, and secondly when it arrived after the usual three months of transatlantic, trans-hemispheric Surface-Low(profile)-Over-Water-mail, if it was really worthwhile reading it all again. I gave it a try and soon began to notice changes in the selection and organisation of the material. Let us begin with the cover, which shows a circle with a grid inside and seven arrows pointing from right to left. The circle has two arrows on the perimeter moving clockwise and six smaller adjacent circles each with two arrows on their perimeter. What does the artwork symbolise? The circle could be the planet Earth, with its grid and matrix, which could also signify the A influences described in the book, whereas the arrows could be the movement of the Earth, or alternatively they could be expressing the daily issues of the Signs of the Times. The arrows on the perimeter could reflect the circumspection that gives rise to the six smaller circles representing the six collections of essays. One notices that the small circles on the perimeter are not placed equidistantly. Is this a hint to the origin in L'Hexagone?

The essays have no longer dates but titles. However, on page 137 there is a footnote:

See Signs Booklet: The Human Condition, March 28th commentary

If this interests the reader then try page 352: A Case for the Mechanical Nature Of The Average Human Being, because the date is now missing. The individual essay titles are not listed only the names of the collections. Basically it is not a major lack as the reader easily can make one if a pen and a pager is nearby, which it was in my case.

While reading I noticed on page 172 that Ariel Sharon is now Ehud Olmert; whereas some smaller misprints in other places have remained. I guess when Ehud goes we will need a new edition! The point is though, that many political leaders essentially are not that different; they wear a mask of sanity. Or one could say that the puppeteer remains, only the masks and the names come and go.

Most of the essays are from early 2004 with some from what appears to be 2006. Without entering into more details these are the approximate modifications made:
Religion: Some essays have been removed and some have been fused, but the order has been kept.
The Media: Several essays taken out, one added and one is moved forward in the sequence.
The Work: A couple of essays have dropped out. One has been moved forward, otherwise the same order.
US Freedom: A few essays deleted and two have been added. It has strengthened the collection.
9/11 Conspiracy: New essays have been included. Quite a number have disappeared. This is the most changed book. The allusions to some of the origins of 9/11 have been buried in the past. It is subtle, powerful and thought provoking.
The Human Condition: Abridged version of the first print with many essays removed but the order kept.

The blurb reads:

[…]an indispensable handbook for understanding the hidden reality of past, present and possible future world events.

Sure, there are many good ideas in there. And if one understands the principles of the book well, one will most likely be able to see the events of the world in a different light, and connect some of the dots oneself.

Apart from the political and social analysis, the essays describe, as the title indicates, the connection between us as humans and the world we live in. The real inspiration contained in the book, is for the reader to consider work on him or herself. Therefore it is very fitting how the blurb ends:

The Signs Team dedicate this book to all those who have found the courage to take the first step towards freeing themselves from the burden of lies and illusions and who genuinely care about the future of the human race.

Enjoy reading!

thorbiorn

 

[thorbiorn]

Index to "Essays on Life"

p. 004: RELIGION
p. 005: Introduction
p. 006: The Devil
p. 007: Monopolizing 'God'
p. 009: Religious Dreams
p. 011: The New Religion
p. 013: The Future Ain't Bright
p. 019: Bible Stories
p. 022: Easter
p. 025: The End of the World?
p. 030: Freedom's Just Another Word For…
p. 032: Your Inner Zionist
p. 035: Anti-Israel Or Anti-Semite?
p. 038: Ground Zero Israel
p. 039: An Ancient Game Of Chess
p. 045: THE MEDIA
p. 046: Introduction
p. 047: Hope For The Future
p. 052: The Lie Or The Truth
p. 058: The Media Monopoly Trap
p. 061: Limited Hangouts and Sailing
p. 063: Is There Something We Should Know?
p. 066: THE WORK
p. 068: Introduction
p. 070: Complexity
p. 074: A Different Level
p. 079: Remove Brain From Box
p. 082: Rational Explanations
p. 088: Predicting the Future
p. 098: Lives of Quiet Desperation
p. 101: Life Is Fun! Or Is It?
p. 106: Save The World!
p. 110: Empathy
p. 114: Probabilities
p. 118: The Evolution of Consciousness, Will and Doing
p. 120: Love
p. 124: Beyond the Personality
p. 130: How Do You Do?
p. 134: A Changing Path
p. 137: For The Love of God, DO Something!
p. 139: The More I Know The More I Realise…
p. 141: Knowledge Is The Key
p. 147: Life is Illusion! Or Is It?
p. 150: Horses, Coach, Driver, Master
p. 154: The Truth Will Set You Free
p. 156: Identification
p. 160: From One Self-Aware Lump Of Matter To Another
p. 163: Pea Soup
p. 166: Food For The Moon
p. 174: Thinking - A Guest Editorial By Anonymous
p. 176: U.S. FREEDOM
p. 177: Introduction
p. 178: The American Dilemma
p. 180: Thinking About The Past, Predicting The Future
p. 185: A Presidential Farce
p. 188: Your Government And You
p. 189: America The Beautiful? You Mean The Countryside/
p. 193: La France Vous Souhaite La Bienvenue
p. 198: Listen Up America: It's Now or Never
p. 210: 'Morality'
p. 214: U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
p. 217: 911 CONSPIRACY
p. 218: Introduction
p. 219: In Fear We Should Trust
p. 226: The Cult That Wants To Conquer The World
p. 228: The Great Game
p. 231: Spain's Second Guernica
p. 233: War = Profit = Good
p. 238: Defining Terrorism
p. 240: Bush Admits Guilt In Handling Of 9/11
p. 243: War Is Hell
p. 247: Armageddon Anyone? The Truth Behind The War On Terror
p. 259: The 'Why' Of The War On Terror
p. 262: The Iraq War Experiment
p. 270: George Bush - Love Him Or Hate Him?
p. 271: Terrorizing Arabs
p. 274: Stumbling Over The Truth
p. 276: Who Are The Real Terrorists?
p. 279: Osama The Nihilist
p. 281: Governments, Conspiracies And You
p. 300: THE HUMAN CONDITION
p. 301: Introduction
p. 302: Fearing The Universe
p. 304: Evolution?
p. 306: Planet Earth - Feeding Frenzy
p. 309: Are You Fertilizer?
p. 312: Knowledge Is Liberty
p. 317: What To Do?
p. 323: Addicted To Life
p. 328: Time's Running Out, Come In Humanity, Are You Reading Me?
p. 331: Lies, Damned Lies And The Policies Of The Psychopath
p. 345: Poles Apart
p. 348: Wakey Wakey!
p. 352: A Case For The Mechanical Nature Of The Average Human Being
p. 354: The Party
p. 357: Predator And Prey
p, 360: No More!

 

[mkrnhr]

hi, can we expcect a french translation of this book soon?

 

[henry]

hi, can we expcect a french translation of this book soon?

No. We are currently working on getting 911 out and the next three books of The Wave.

 

[mkrnhr]

Thank you, getting this information I'll probably buy the english without waiting for a unprobable translation :). I am (we are?) waiting for the next three books of the wave indeed. The first volume in french is great (re-read many times) but needs some revisions in some translations there and there :P (sorry :( ).

 

[Meg]

and the next three books of The Wave.

There are going to be 3 more? Wonderful!


Edit: you meant translations didn't you....Neverminduh.

 

[Beau]

There are going to be 3 more? Wonderful!


Edit: you meant translations didn't you....Neverminduh.

No, there ARE going to be three more copies of the Wave. No ETA yet though...

 

[mkrnhr]

There are going to be 3 more? Wonderful!

There are 4 volumes of "the wave", the first has been translated into french and the remaining three others are on their way.

No, there ARE going to be three more copies of the Wave.

Do you mean the "Wave 5", "the Wave 6" and "the Wave 7"? I'm a little confused :/

 

[Meg]

No, there ARE going to be three more copies of the Wave. No ETA yet though...

Excellent!

 

[Peto]

I read somewhere that the Adventures series will be incorporated into the Wave. So I guess the next three books of the Wave are going to be based on the Adventures series.

I once copied all the Adventures series down into a doc file for review and it came out to around 800 full pages. So that's about the size of three books.

 

[Beau]

I read somewhere that the Adventures series will be incorporated into the Wave. So I guess the next three books of the Wave are going to be based on the Adventures series.

You've got it Hoang!

 

[CarpeDiem]

I have a question to Henry, if he wishes to respond, regarding Essays on Life.
How did you tore down your emotionall wall, which you have built over time not to be hurt any more (if that was your case)?
In all internet i have found only this:
from _cyquest.com
Sometimes getting to ignition can be the most difficult and frustrating thing you'll experience when working on healing your damaged emotional self. Since ignition is the most important part of the three step process, here are some techniques we've found useful for getting around emotional walls, mental blocks and fear of crying.

This list is not rigid or by any means finished. This list is merely offered as things you can try. A place to begin, if you are having trouble getting to ignition. If you'd like to share a technique that works for you, please send email.

Remember, resistance is a very slippery and clever animal. What works one day will likely not work the next. You will need to become as clever and persistent as your resistance. The more you cry your old pain, the more you loosen up your old stuck behavior patterns and beliefs, and the easier it will be for you to get around your resistance. It has taken many years for your resistance to learn a multitude of slippery ways to keep the feelings down, and it has been a matter of survival that it do so. But now we want to reverse those behaviors, because our survival now depends on letting the feelings move. It will take some time, and experience of doing it, for you to learn a multitude of ways to get around the multitude of resistance behaviors.
• Jump Start With Grief - This may seem like an artificial way to get to your pain, but trust me, sometimes a little artifice is necessary.

Let's say you feel a welling up of pain about a situation. You are aware of the rage, or grief or whatever, in your body, in your throat, behind your eyes, but you can't seem to cross the hidden barrier of your resistance to letting the feelings out. Sit down and watch a sad movie. If you have a video tape that you can rewind and watch the same sad scene over and over again, sometimes the repetition is helpful. Listen to a really sad song, one that you know will make you feel a lot of grief. Remember a past sad event, the loss of a loved one, the loss of a beloved pet. Try to let the sad feelings well up and spill over into tears.

The idea here is to trigger yourself into tears through the grief door. The door to grief is not as well guarded, the barrier is not as thick, as that holding other feelings. In most societies, grief is the ONE acceptable emotional expression, and often during times of grieving, our emotional backlog takes advantage of the opening to squeeze through and express, as much as it possibly can. Our emotional parts are always seeking healing and expression, even when it seems they are not. If you can use this less-guarded doorway to move your point of consciousness to the "other side", once you are there in your emotional self, you will be more able to connect with, feel, and cry your other pain.
• "Crossing the pattern" - One very good way to stop the acting out and get to ignition is by "crossing the pattern". Where an accumulation of pain has become an ingrained pattern of behavior, the only way to get past the resistance there is to go against the pattern.

Let's say for instance that I have a pattern of blaming rage at a particular person, and that pattern keeps me spinning in rageful activities that never reach rageful ignition. For instance, I yell and call that person horrible names, sometimes we fight, and my journal is full of pages and pages of raging words, and some nights I lay awake and spin in scenarios -- in my minds eye, I succeed in telling them off, winning the fight, having the last word! But these activities don't result in tears. I write and imagine and sometimes yell, but I don't get ignition.

I need to cross my own pattern, stop my own acting out.

This means I try to come up with a behavior that is the opposite of what rage wants to do. For instance, the resistance pattern wants to yell and lambast and call names... I may then need to refuse to allow the rage to say any words. No words at all. The frustration of this may be enough to cross the pattern and get the feelings to ignition. I may pretend I'm very small and say "Please don't hurt me". That might allow rage to feel its vulnerability and trigger it into ignition. Then I might find fear surfacing, as well as the rage. OR, I may imagine the person I'm angry at standing before me in sorrow and shame, giving me permission to be angry, telling me I have every right. Sometimes that's all that's needed to stop the spinning and get the rage really moving. And once it's moving, then I might find hurt behind the rage, as well as the rage.

A Word About Rage & Forgiveness: If you find yourself spinning in blaming rage and getting nowhere, try telling yourself that you love the one who hurt you, that you forgive them. Try to let yourself really FEEL forgiveness, just for a second or two. What this "pretend" forgiveness will do for you is to trigger the deeper levels of hurt-rage or terror-rage that are underlying the rage pattern's spinning. Follow that, allow it, cry all the way through these deeper levels. Eventually you will reach real, true forgiveness feelings, but don't force yourself to be there before you are.

If the pattern is saying "It's not safe to cry", try saying "I'm totally safe here and now". If the pattern is saying "I am total shit and deserve to die", try saying, "I'm the most important creation on the planet!" with enthusiasm. Whether it's true or not is not important. What's important is to do something opposite to what the frozen resistance wants to do. Jostle your pain enough to bring it bubbling up past the wall of resistance so it can cry.
• Role Play - You can do this alone, but sometimes it's also helpful to have a trusted friend to participate with you. When role playing, it's important to proceed with care. Again, the important thing is to get to ignition. If you find yourself just spinning in words and scenarios, stop and try the opposite role, or try some other technique.

Become the small child inside who is hurting, and try letting that part of you speak without censor. Become the self-hate part of you that is hating you, let that part speak to you all the horrible things it wants to say.

NOTE: My personal experience with this has been that self-hate moves quickly into resistance and is very difficult to get to ignition. If you are spinning in words and the hate/rage is not crying, abandon this tactic. Also, let things move in response. I spent two minutes in the self-hate part, and then I had to collapse into heartbreak for half an hour, from the part of me that felt so hurt by my own self-hate. Whatever the feelings are that surface, let them all move. This is not meant to be a rigid process!
• Get Physical - Let yourself go really deeply in to a scenario, act it out physically. Punch a pillow, hit yourself with a pillow. Try not to do any actual damage, but sometimes doing something physical or in role playing helps to get the feelings moving.

I have an old couch I pound and kick. Sometimes while I pound, I yell "I HATE you!" over and over again. This only works if you let the feelings surface to tears. If you find yourself just pounding and never getting to ignition, you need to use a different method. Your rage is just using this physicality as another means to avoid itself. Do not let yourself get stuck in Phase One activity.
• Hold Still - Just be absolutely quiet. Be WITH your feelings. You'd be surprised how much feeling will bubble up when you just be still and quiet and don't try to talk or think or move to distract yourself from your pain.
• Write It Down - This can be a very helpful technique. I have written many rage-filled letters that never got sent. Although I have to be careful, I can tend to get lost in the words on the page. Always try to remember it's not the words that matter. The goal is to get the tears flowing. If it doesn't bring up tears, try something else.
• Talk to Your Feelings - Your emotional self is alive and has an awareness of you. Reach out your arms to your feeling-self, and let him/her know that you WANT to listen. If you've been hateful and judgmental of your emotions, you might want to try apologizing to your tender self, let him/her know that you accept him/her now. Then sit down to listen. Really listen.

Here's where point of consciousness comes into play. Your point of consciousness when you start this exercise will be with your mind. You will need to slowly shift your point of consciousness to your emotions, in order to let them join with you and cry and heal.
• Imagery - Your imagination is one of your greatest gifts, and one of the most effective tools for getting around resistance. The best example I have is when I am frozen in terror of God. The terror does not allow me to feel safe enough to open to God, and yet, God's love is the very thing I need to be able to cry the terror and heal the old wounds. I feel caught between a rock and a hard place in this conundrum.

 

[henry]

The text you published has some good ideas. It is written from the point of view of archaeological excavation: the slow uncovering of the different layers of memories that have built the walls around us. The ideas given are all useful, and I have used many of them.

What it doesn't discuss are shocks.

I've found that the ideas above are both preparatory work for shocks and necessary follow-up work after shocks. The two go hand in hand. They do not, however, replace shocks to the system, those moments when one feels vertiginous because some fundamental postulate one believes about existence or oneself is shown to be dramatically wrong.

One instance could be the abrupt realization that something you have been doing, all the while thinking it was done for the benefit of someone you say you care for, has been hurting them and was done out of self-interest. While that realization may come as the result of a drawn-out process, I think the odds are better that it will really hit you in the gut if you are given a mirror.

If we do the first work day in and day out, we are laying the groundwork for a quantum jump. The shock releases the built-up tensions and you are able to break through the wall and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. The subsequent work solidifies the breach, rendering it permanent. If it isn't done, then you fall back behind the wall again.

You see something of shocks being given to members of this forum, and you notice that some people go running off while others understand the gift and use it. Shocks don't have to be violently delivered. Sometimes it can be a simple statement of fact.

Mirrors and shocks bring up the question of group work. As Gurdjieff said, no one can get out alone. You need the support of the network, of others who are able to see you. It is easier to see the programmes and blind spots of someone else than it is to see them in yourself. Working with a group of people, as we are here in the forum and in our private Yahoo groups, allows us to see ourselves through the eyes of others who are all working towards the same goal.

It is the network that is the surest means of breaking down the walls.

At the beginning, we break down some smaller walls by learning to open ourselves to others, showing parts of ourselves that we usually keep hidden. As confidence and trust builds, we are able to gradually reveal more and more. As we become more open, we can receive feedback.

Of all of the techniques, it is the use of the network that I have found the most useful, but only if one is doing the other work at the same time.

 

[Psalehesost]

I'm currently re-reading this book. As an aside, I think it ought to go on the recommended books list - it describes and illustrates many basic concepts and understandings in a very clear way.

The previous time I read it, back in 2009, it was very hard to focus on - something like The Wave was much easier reading for me. After some time of slow on-and-off reading through the first parts of the book, gradually it was easier by then. I remember it seemed to fill in some pieces more clearly in my perspective, in general, on the issues it goes through.

This time, it is much easier to focus on the contents - not sure of the exact nature of the block I experienced last time. It prompts quite a bit of thinking, reflection - tying together things into a greater whole. (for those so inclined, heavy smoking recommended while working with it, so as to recharge the brain!)

Somehow, again, things sink in deeper and perspective grows in mentally working through the material.

So for that I recommend it - especially for those for whom, as is the case for me, understanding often remains all too theoretical and distant.