Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. ― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby (author of Fight Club)
One of the first lessons I learned on ZeroHedge was whatever topic or event was holding everyone’s interest, look around to find what else is happening which most people are probably too distracted to focus upon. I have little doubt that Ebola is a horrific disease and should not be casually dismissed. Between the misinformation, disinformation and blatant assumptions produced in both the mainstream and alternative media and it being an effective distraction from other vital events, I have decided to break our own web site rules (avoid fear filled click-bait topics) and talk about what we see and sense happening. Continue reading Watching Ebola→
As a full fledged product of 'the system', the concept of being mindful was initially quite confusing to me. Even after I thought I 'got it' the seductive pull of the matrix kept, and still keeps, pulling me back into the polar opposite of mindfulness.
The best description I have found of the process of being engulfed by, and lost within, the system is Lao Tzu's famous "Ten Thousand Things". Those three words, and his Tao Te Ching, so aptly describes the whirling dervish of (modern) insanity and the tearing apart of our 'self' in servitude to the distractions of the master of insanity.
The following essay by Joe Withrow, aka Joe Galt, does an excellent job of describing the art and practice of Mindfulness. At some point over the next few days I urge you to devote ten minutes of your time and fall into Joe's piece.
This journey into my medicine cabinet began quite by accident several years ago. It was born out of fear. Fear we might not have access to affordable healthcare in the future. Fear a geo-political event or severe weather emergency might leave us without required medical attention. Fear of personal suffering or worse, of watching my family suffer needlessly.
What did people do before the age of specialization? Nowadays everyone defaults to the “trained professionals” and “experts”, but for thousands of years prior people actually succeeded in taking care of themselves. Surely we modern humans have not out-smarted ourselves to such a degree we cannot take back that responsibility and become empowered. Continue reading What’s In Your Medicine Cabinet?→
