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[Jana]

Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich in “New World, New Mind” point out that in the remains of people who lived in Europe 10,000 years ago not a single female lived to be over thirty years of age. We must be weary of idealizing what for the most part has been a brutal climb up from our forested, tree-swinging Eden. The seeds of our present civilization were laid in advances made prior to the colossal destruction that occurred around 13000 years ago. A comet impact over the Great Lakes area may have contributed to the melt water from the North American ice sheet in Lake Agassiz, over-spilling in a great flood into the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and bringing on the cold reversal called the Big Freeze. Without the heat being brought across the Atlantic by the Gulf Stream, temperatures in Europe plunged from similar to what they are today, back to glacial temperatures with average winter temperatures of -25°C. This cooling event has become known as the Younger Dryas, with cold conditions lasting about 1400 years. Again and again throughout human history such cosmic events tempered our idyllic dreams and plunged us into conditions we could barely even conceive of, let alone survive.

The author Ken Wilber has done important work around what he termed the pre/trans fallacy. According to Wilber, human developmental psychology moves from the pre-personal, through the personal, then to the transpersonal or the spiritually advanced - enlightened level. And that there is a danger in New Age spirituality and utopian fantasy to revert to mythic-magical and wishful thinking when considering the life and conditions of past eras in human history. Now that we have the luxury of doing so, the more compassion we can bring to the polarity of master/slave…the faster we can emerge to an international society of sovereign individuals, deeply served by our institutions and provided ample opportunity for greater personal realization. There is no point in fighting a battle that is already one, when our energies would be better spent on building the new, and establishing the grounds for still greater personal freedom for generations to come. No point in staying in the pen once the gate is open when there is an infinite universe waiting to be discovered and adored.

The crucial point we have to consider in redeeming the “whole human” is that the individual is not separate from the culture as a whole and the culture is composed of the karma of individuals. Therefore we must endeavor to create a civilization that works with and enhances nature, evolves rather than destroys DNA and heals rather than decimates our planetary home. The way out is found within. We must create a new mind to build a new world. Considering the enormous struggle of our ancestors, adds heart-felt determination to our creative fires. In gratitude for them we must Dream On…


“Equality of dignity' does not mean to be the same, but to accept the wealth that diversity brings, because it reflects a part of ourselves." The Millennium Quest. A Damanhurian book.

Utopian Dreams, Tobias Jones  —Book on some of the world’s ecovillages.
 

[Jana]

The ego is defined as the self, contrasted as distinct from the world and other selves. Along with the stage development of the “I-Thou” separation comes an inflated feeling of pride in our superiority to others. Borg society if you will is the culmination of the striving of the ego to separate itself out and obtain a sense of “right to life” or entitlement due to a sense of specialness or superiority. This hubris is the inevitable result of the awareness of death, which the religions have tried to assuage with ideas of eternal life or reincarnation. It is the fear of death coupled with a denial of the spiritual origins and sovereignty of the individual that are the underpinning attitudes of Borg society. The Borg is a faceless machine bent on quantity, productivity and profit, rather than quality, meaning and satisfying human experience. The Borg is the collective holding on too tightly the reins of survival that it throttles our causal flame.

I have heard it said about the virtues of corporate life, that it is advantageous to belong to the Borg for it provides certain functions, whereby the individual is allowed the luxury of focusing on their specific interests. We have yet to inquire about the virtues, nay the sheer addiction of adhering to the childlike submissive role of membership in the collective. We will find within the next ten years that the roles of dominance and submission are coming to a close as the most prominent social pattern. This is so because the structure of the Borg is unsustainable on an overpopulated planet, where it is creativity and full humanization that is needed to deal with the complex convergence of problems. Therefore not one of us can afford to coast through life partially formed for we have come to the end of our prepersonal journey, and must now enter the personal and transpersonal ways of being in order to save the species and the planet…but more importantly, in order to save our humanity.

[Nickeson]

I have alway thought it was better to lead by example rather than command. It is just more evolved, less borg-like. I suspect all the adult developmental researchers who are always the VIP elite in the Integral Province would agree. It is in this light that I would make a few editorial suggestions here...please note they are just suggestions.

"Therefore I cannot afford to coast through life partially formed for I have come to the end of my prepersonal journey, and must now enter the personal and transpersonal ways of being in order to do my part to save the species and the planet…but more importantly, in order to strengthen those of humanity who share my vision."

If one just googles "Politics and the English Language," there are a number of hints in this excellent essay on how not to sound like a dictator or a fundamentalist preacher. (Or are those two one and the same?)

However, if sounding like a dictator helps get a body through their nights, who am I to gainsay their needs?

[Jana]

Morphine and Unlearning Social Trauma
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/mice-make-morphine/
A new study by Meinhart Zenk and coworkers at the Danforth Center for Plant Research in St. Louis, shows that mice, and probably humans and other mammals, are able to synthesize morphine from scratch. Researchers think this opioid could be used as a natural painkiller or perhaps to help nerve cells communicate with each other. I suspect that it is not so much part of the enlightenment chemistry, as a means of forgetting traumatic memory, and may be most prevalent in childbirth, beaten housewives, abused children and soldiers with PTSD. As a general anaesthetic, if this morphine is produced in response to ongoing chronic stress from a hypervigilant nervous system, this might lead to a continuous loss of consciousness.

It stands to reason therefore that morphine may be part of the chemical cocktail that produces dissociation in trauma victims, during the death process and during new romantic love. As such endogenous morphine would be one of the key biochemicals that keep the pyramid status structures in place in society (or animal groups) by blissing out, dissociating and preventing the full commanding/synthesizing functions of prefrontal lobes. Thus subordinates unable to "collect and direct themselves" due to the analgesic morphine, would remain pliable to domination by a leader, boss, captain, chief, commander, terrorist or bully etc.... Plus with the prefrontal lobes down-regulated the ability to adequately filter impulses would be reduced, making the individual over-sensitive to incoming information and unable to formulate adequate social boundaries and I-Thou distinction. Without a strong sense of self this would lead to the type of mental problems we see as a virtual pandemic in the Western World today: ADD, autism, borderline, bipolar, depression, loss of meaning and direction, isolation, addiction, codependency and capitulation to errant leadership.

In this way those individuals caught in the submissive, underdog side of the power equation would slowly lose the strength to rectify the sovereign-power balance in order to establish an autonomous personal identity and personal will. Instead they would morph into the mirror image of the tyrannical influence, having their spiritual and cognitive evolution stagnated as they become transfixed by the debilitating blissful painkillers produced by the chronic social stress. Thus we begin to see more clearly the damage to the species that power-over and pathological social energies have on the emergence of a sane and liberated society. Since at our present level of development power is most likely to be abused than not, it is apparent that pyramid power models of social status are not conducive to the biological and cultural evolution of the human species. Through reeducation and practice we will simply have to modify and upgrade our behavior and our social structures in short order to overcome the wholesale enfeeblement of the majority of the human race that are still vulnerable to domination and violence by our native delinquent tendencies that are implicit in the roots of our shared animal heritage that extends well beyond the primates.

The “hybrid view” of our moral sense of right and wrong is that our judgment is both rooted in motivations and emotions and also derived from rational cognitive operations. We cannot get away from emotional affective and motivational factors in divining truly ethical behavior. Thus we see through the eyes of the Fair Witness, in considering the right and wrong of Universal Law, that an oppressive dominator suffers greatly for their infringement and usurpation of the lives of others. No matter how insane the sociopath there is still a cosmic justice at play at the chemical and archetypal level to reduce the spiritual realization of the tyrant. Global education on the irrevocable, inexorable reality of divine justice and that both dominator and submissive pole are harmed by sadomasochistic social arrangements…then perhaps we can consciously clean up our socio-political, economical, cultural and religious spheres to provide a new cultural paradigm of sane and just global human development. Rights to differentiation, individuation, originality, uniqueness, cultural preference, personal spiritual proclivity, and for the whole of vital nature are essential to humanization and to stave off the trek on the low road to greater and greater homogenization, degradation, competitive consumerism, loss of character and divorce from our natural instinct for right and wrong. Cultural development can be defined as the ability a community has to humanly satisfy its diverse and spontaneous needs (somatic, poietic, societal, noetic). In the cosmic sense we cannot provide “conditions’ for human development under the structure of the sociopathic dominator and submissive model, but must seek to rise above the unconscious reactive patterns ingrained in our animal wiring.

actualfreedom.com.au/actualism/.../instincts-belonging.htm
www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=299
www.dericbownds.net/MindStuff_bonbons.html
www.bethinking.org/right-wrong/.../did-morals-evolve.htm

[Jana]

The more trauma inflicted the more brain damaged people become, and in this way countries can undertake vast criminal campaigns without a peep from the praying congregation silently mouthing their affirmations. This is why a rapid opening and development of the prefrontal cortex is essential for us now, in order to mature in divine justice and cocreative agency. We have no choice but to grow up...for the alternative is to be decidedly less than human...and it is the rising seeds of the cosmic human or Christ that we live for with every breath that we take. Its not about us, it is about the health and sanity of the human continuum.

They train young men for battle prior to the full development of the prefrontal lobes...after the 29 year transit you couldn't make a killer out of a normal man, except under extreme circumstances or for direct defense of self and community.

American TV is increasingly becoming focused on white trash fluff, criminal violence and war propaganda...an example of this blatant propaganda is the exquisite new documentary on American history http://www.history.com/

This programming last night was followed by a smear campaign program on conspiracy theorists, trying to dismiss the idea that there is a globalist fascist movement.

It is interesting that The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was fought to free America from extraction, extortion and control by the British Empire. Now 2 hundred years later America itself is engaged in its own extraction, extortion and control empiralist intentions along with its sister state Israel.

The human race appears to becoming both more violent and less violent. The dividing line is apparently between those who know how to maintain their sanity and health within a sick cultural model and those who do not, and who are descending into the dust along with the extraction, extortion and control civilization itself.

Where personal sovereignty becomes essential at this point in our history more so than any other, is that with dwindling resources the global fascist (military-industrialists) will use the sick-unconscious portion of the human race to undertake their violent resource claiming campaigns. In this, no rules apply and no code of honor is applicable to such criminal behavior...and all underhanded strategies will be used.

The best that we can do in these unprecedented circumstances is to try and quickly establish a world constitution, develop a creed of transanthropomorphic universal law and associated space law, to educate all people about the reality of the destructive cultural cage they are now in and the ongoing damage to DNA, mind-body and soul, and to establish a doctrine of life-principles so convincing that even the most delinquent resistor will surrender to Eros and the Life-positive code.

Rather than resist resistance, we need a positive approach to dealing with human buffoonery. In this, the sovereign has an advantage, for the sovereign knows how difficult it is to be human with all these animal programs and bestial chemistry running on automatic. Therefore the sovereign has compassion for those who have not yet found refuge and equanimity in heightened prefrontal cortex self-regulation. It is only those not initiated into the higher neural circuits, with the consequent deepening of gratifying perception, who still seek security and advantage in power-over, subversive, predatory or parasitic behavior. These reflexive energies are merely the life-negative means of trying to overcome the unconscious suffering of being separate from Self and Source. The sovereign knows that you cannot achieve security (power) through such backdoor tactics, you just end up with heart disease or cancer and surrounded by syphocants. The sovereign therefore turns shit into roses through the parental, sheep-herding, guardian transformative capacities of our latest evolutionary boon.

[Daniel]

Damn right Steven, I'll read it 100 times to let that sink in and solidify.

And hell yes Jana!

[Jana]

Ha I miss Arik and Garwin, cosmic rascals. 

• Light Sword and Uraeus Combined—The light sword and the uraeus are the vehicle of discernment whereby all else is dropped in order to quantum cohere to the majestic core of being. When we build up the thymus (CIA) of the immune system’s superconducting communications and open the Stargate to infinity (The Uraeus) at the center of the prefrontal cortex, we no longer have to use our physical muscles or will to defend ourself from attack, interference, loss, shattering or deconstructive forces. Rather than putting our precious energy into defense – which automatically invites attack – we are better off merely claiming the a priori nobility and strength that is already ours. Once we embody our majesty through connection to Source, we can no longer be under-mind and made less than we are…we become the new noble. But if we defend against an apparent enemy we become them, rather than focusing directly on proactively realizing our potential, without the need to fight off that which we deem counter to our weal-being (whole-integrated self). That is we cannot unify and come into quantum coherence when in resistance to any part of it. (Which provides the counter logic to the idea of holy war).

HEY: Envy is the inverse of that which we already are (aka Universal Man).

[Jana]

Ok, ok, I have had it with the problem.

A PRIORI SOULUTIONS

Any contraction and blockage in the flow of light in the body reduces consciousness and separates us from the Source and Self. Severing us off from the bliss of the unified field and our “home” in our illuminated body on this illuminated earth in the enchanted universe. This is the self-evident, inalienable grounds of a universal spirituality and the secret to all solutions to our human problems for all time.

Every negative or limiting thought contracts our heart and cuts us off from our love, soul and wisdom. Thus if we are putting our energy into defense we are not growing, and the sovereign is synonymous with the force of growth itself. Self containment, while useful in the egg stage to build energy, if kept up past gestation means that we are held back in a living death inside our shell. The more we fight with samsara, the longer we are kept from our awaiting nirvana. It is counter to growth to fight the old, we just have to embody the new. If we try and wrestle with the old, the bad or the sick, this just creates a blowback of resistance and regression.

Developing the skills to break out of our husk and be in the world as the freed noble is the solution to our suffering in problemocracy. To be sovereign you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually have to leave problemocracy. Thus we see that remaining in or battling with the problem is crazy. All our pains and fears, whether they be abandonment, isolation, lack of recognition, poverty, body pain or depression…are solved by entering the sovereign condition. So we are our own salvation and we are the only one holding us back. If we continue to beat on the problem, we remain in the problem.

To become sovereign is to say NO to death, but more importantly it is to say YES to life. But to get there we have to die to our former self continuously, and nourish the growing green shoots of our fathomless divinity (infinity). We arrive at this fortuitous condition through good parenting of ourselves. The Uraeus is composed of the Good Mother (love) and the Good Father (Will). The extraction, extortion and control paradigm of the patriarchy, Borg or hypermasculine, is simply the imbalanced, compartmentalized human.  This dys-integration reveals the need for further completion via the inner alchemy of the sacred marriage of the masculine and the feminine consciousness. Once the King and Queen are blissfully bonded the clear light of the cosmos shines through in presence, word, deed, movement, breath and touch. It is then we live in heaven on earth, with the awakened uraeus guiding our every move. Living in nirvana now with increased senses, sentience, awe, meaning, expansiveness, magnanimity and love.

[Jana]

GoogleTechTalks: The Neuroscience of Emotions. Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation.  The Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Categorization.

Martin Sereno PhD from UC San Diego holds that vocalization arose for the expression of complexity and intelligence for sexual selection prior to the emergence of the abstract conveyance of meaning through word symbols. The establishment of speech, along with the development of tool use may have been the principle drivers of the growth of the prefrontal cortex in Homo sapiens. The refinement of speech in expressing the marriage of the hemispheres and the maturity of the prefrontal cortex, will in effect set about a contagion of the evolution of sovereignty through sympathetic state resonance. As the sovereign undertakes their various daily practices in an organic flow according to spontaneous need...com-passionate meditative intent builds the hardware from which the Universe sings its sweetest songs. One example of sacred speech is in the "work-play" of Dreaming Bear, the modern day Rumi.

As we build the actual centers for holy communication in the brain, our language naturally unfolds as liquid honey, bearing no harm and fully expressing the extent of our inner development. Thus "care," not the "have a nice day" kind of care, but real care arising from the sublime marriage at the universal core...both expresses our deepest significance and greatest meaning. Culminating evolution and furthering evolution in one through the pure expression of meaning. Meaning created from the physics of life in its erotic efforts to unite exposes the core beauty and terror of the universe in creating a two that must unite into a one to be whole. There could be no evolution without the polar opposites, and so we see the Cosmic Creatrix has the final say, and the last joke.

This awesome talk by the delectable Martin Sereno kinda explains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rconzwB422s&feature=related
 

[Jana]

Henry Laurency's work might be the best out there on sovereignty...

http://www.laurency.com/index.html    1.1  THE WILL TO UNITY
“The individualist will to power leads to division. The universalist will to unity shows the value and viability of our individualism.   When world views and life views are shattered like so many other things that have seemed certain and reliable to us, burst like the soap-bubbles they are but which it is always hard for us to admit they are, then the sense of solidarity and the need for unity become vitally important factors.  The will to unity is no will to uniformity, no standardization into robotism. The will to unity does not fight against other views or against dissidents. It is so rational that it need never fear criticism. It leaves everybody’s fiction in peace, for it knows how to find unity in diversity. The individual has a natural right to exist, to be different from all others, to be an individual with individuality. In its deepest sense, freedom is individuality. Without freedom there is no individual character, no self-reliance, no self-determination, no development. The will to unity is the strongest defense of freedom, for this will must be built on freedom as its basis. True unity cannot be enforced and cannot be won at the expense of freedom. The will to unity is incomparably superior to any psychosis that unifies all temporarily. It needs no compulsion, no force, for it is an indestructible sense of belonging together and solidarity proved in action. The will to unity makes any nation as strong and as great as it can be. Every part, no matter how small, of a nation is a part  of the whole, a whole part of the whole. The will to unity brings about a whole and gigantic power for outer unity; a power different from any dictatorial enforcement, which always bears the seed of division in it. Oppression fosters no will to unity and no faith in the oppressor’s ability to fulfill his promises of paradise.”
Preface excerpt of the translator Lars Adelskogh, The Philosopher’s Stone by Henry T. Laurency

[Jana]

Remember that when people are stuck in the Borg they will want you to cater to their primitive demonic drives...negative power games that lead nowhere. The Borg’ed will try and drag you down even whilst you want to take them to the stars…because they have little knowledge or vision of the transcendent future having not yet opened up their universal brain. Infinity is scary to those who are ferociously defending their little turf. As Carl Sagan says, “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Only through love can we break through the inertial pull of the inner and outer Borg to set our spirit free in the vast mystery of universe unfolding. Through love and compassion to act-in-love we delve into the infinite depths of our prefrontal unfolding and the new executive brain. For those living 35 thousand years ago the “Golden Age” was in the past, as they were backward looking, having seen the exploits and artifacts of the Gods and the Giants, and having the living memory of an unspoilt, pristine earth. Now in modern degenerated times we feel the surge of evolutionary force more intently as we gain access to our visionary transtemporal faculties and pick up the thread of the future. Thus we are forward-seeing and so the Golden Age that we aspire to and are drawn inextricably towards is in the far off tomorrow, that we sense fundamentally inside us today as a biological urge to Life in the fullest sense of the word.
 

[Jana]

I have 72 pitfalls to sovereignty so far...this is the latest.

• Arrogance and Hubris—Pride is distinguished as the foremost among the seven "deadly sins,” and is the sin from which all others arise. Pride is the last inflationary bubble to pop prior to genuine Self discovery. Pride tries to bandage the pain involved in having to uphold one’s “goodness” in a social world that wants to tear down ones personal self. But as we are busy trying to patch up the holds in our leaky self image, others take great glee in trying to punch new gaping holes. Such is the nature of the beast, and so we must deeply understand the inflation/deflation dynamic in order to stop wasting our life energies in this futile game. Pride or vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with our recognition of the grace of God and that we are a fractal facet of the holographic whole. Since this inflation builds in defense against that which would undermine us, by loosening the boundaries of our self-system to holt oppositional conflict, exclusion, aversion and revolt…we no longer have to “fight” to be who we are, and so our prideful defensive wall can dissolve into “unity.” The energy contained in this futile structure, can then be spent in enormously heightened creative and cognitive output for the benefit of all creation. On the other side of arrogance is all the freedom one could ever use in all eternity, and all the genius we will ever need to fulfill our dreams.

[Jana]

I have cracked the status code of dominance/submission chemistry that upholds the brain debilitating social structure of the competitive material society. It resides foremost in the gut, with the enteric brain's neurochemistry and the consequent health of assimilation/detoxification in the GI tract. Thus determining the blood and brain neurochemistry and the state of the entire bodymind and consequent behavioral responses and adaptations. And I have found the perfect herb for counteracting the harmful consequences of dominator energy on a subordinates digestive system. As a MAOi it conserves serotonin in the GI tract without causing nausea, thus increasing motility of peristalsis and preserving the digestive health. With greater digestive power selfhood is maintained and self-definition, discernment and focus is sustained. 

[Jana]

It is the MAOi side of ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis caapi (powder from iamshaman.com). Just one 00 capsule in the evening relaxes out ones GI tract and entire bodymind, generating enormous energy availability through the loss of neurosis and anxiety. This counteracts the endogenous morphine interference of GI motility that occurs with status poisoning...opening up the entire bodymind and personality. Dream life is also greatly enhanced. You will notice a sense of "opening" or clarity in the prefrontal lobes...so I need to go look and see how serotonin functions in this area. Definitely the opening of the circulatory system improves visual acuity within 10 minutes of taking the caapi powder into ones system. Note that unlike Syrian rue which creates nausea, this herb seems to produce no uncomfortable or debilitating side effects and seems to derepress all the effects of general systemic shutdown and inhibition.

[Jana]

Regional brain concentration of the monoamines Noradrenatin (NA), dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) and were measured in dominant and submissive cats in a predatory competition test and in predatory behavior of single cats. A submissive position in the predatory hierarchy produced an increase in concentration of NA in the hypothalamus, a decrease of DA and 5-HT in the hippocampus and a decrease of 5-HT in the prefrontal cortex in comparison with dominant cats. The effects of predatory aggression and predatory behavior in a social situation increased the concentration of DA in the hypothalamus of the submissive and dominant cats as compared to single cats. Additionally, a lowered NA concentration in the midbrain in dominant cats compared to single animals in the predatory situation was observed. This suggests an empowering, ecstatic mechanism for group bonding and group high between members of individuals involved in war, gang dynamics and scapegoating. It also points to the biological drive to achieve a higher position in the hierarchy in order to maximize the sense of aliveness and empowerment and lower the anxiety chemistry.

In a localized area of the prefrontal cortex, where thought and action are orchestrated, the number and ratio of serotonin receptors were found to be directly correlated to the activity of another part of the brain called the amygdala. The amygdala is the emotional part of the brain, which regulates the fight or flight response. The subgenual prefrontal cortex is one area where communication, or cross talk, takes place between the impulsive, reflexive amygdala and the more logical, staid prefrontal cortex. Serotonin receptors in this region set the tone as to how we behave or respond in stressful situations. Subjects with a higher number of serotonin 5-HT1A receptors relative to the inhibitory 5-HT2A receptors in the subgenual prefrontal cortex showed less brain activity in the amygdala. The serotonin 5-HT1A receptors seem to help control the extent to which “rational discussion" in the subgenual prefrontal cortex modifies the reflexive response of the amygdala. Individual differences in these serotonin receptors and the resulting discussion between the subgenual prefrontal cortex and amygdala determine whether we are more vulnerable to develop depression in the face of stressful and difficult life circumstances.

The “amygdala hijack” is a term coined in Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence. When threatened the amygdala can irrationally respond sending a rush of stress hormones floods the body before the prefrontal lobes (regulating executive function) can mediate this reaction. Basically an increased expression of serotonin in the prefrontal lobes affords greater regulatory control over the fight/flight response of the amygdala. In “civilized” society this heightened self regulation would amount to increased status in the power hierarchy.