It requires believing, which typically requires trying…yet by trying, we often find it harder to believe.
Everything is connected, and thus so are we. throughout all space and time.
Our ability to communicate through that space and time requires one strong connection in a strong moment, two mild connections in a strong moment, etc…
Is it telepathy?! Psychic powers??! Intuition? Gut reaction…. Chance?!
There is a language that exists that all are born with, but few are taught to cultivate. Fewer yet dare to speak it outloud, as vulnerability is a suffocating pill to swallow.
Think about the things you are passionate about and actively pursue. Now, think about the things you are passionate about yet make no time for at all. Finally, think about the fleeting feeling you had as you considered each of those scenarios, and how infinitely different they were.
Modern society seems to applaud the ‘busy little beaver’ approach to a productive day… but maybe with a subtle change or two, we can have a more rewarding life.
Maybe it’s time to pursue a little more investment of time in YOU!!
Great hobbies are forever, and thankfully… circumcisions do not make the cut!
‘GOTTA HEAR ITS’!
“Someone would open the door and I would hide my G.I. Joes like I was scurrying to cover up a crime scene!”
“When you convince yourself something is a hobby that isn’t a hobby, you’ve made a hobby out of manipulating yourself.”
“‘Imagine circumcision at this age, four guys come in like ‘Stitch, we’re going to cut part of your penis off…’ …’It would take four guys to get that foreskin!'”
In a new day’s first blink, as your eyelids open with the slow reveal of a broadway curtain, you find yourself emancipated in a beautiful meadow. A scene which can only be described by a feeling, one of butterfly wings kissing your cheeks as they rhythmically waft the smells of endless possibility and honeysuckle dew…
Now, replay that imagery as the Jaws theme is overlaid on top of it!
Beautiful. Manipulative. Impactful. Let’s unpack the Exotics of Music!
Where to begin? How did it start? Is there an end? Does it even matter as long as there is a pattern between?
In this episode you will (a) discover where music first began*, (b) be inspired by the music you can tune into with no tech required*, and (c) decide whether Stan can sell you on a pull-out couch at a friend’s New York apartment being part of a romantic get away.
*source citation: all facts generated via a series of “aha!” moments… think for yourself and join the revolution!
A Song Against Songs… A Counter-Strike to Pop Culture Manipulation:
If you only have 3 minutes today, listen to this song and consider what it means to you. If you have 5 minutes – listen to the song, and thenread on.
It’s not about the song – or even ‘their’ message – it’s about the message behind the message, which is both abundantly clear and logical… IF ‘we think’ about it.
If your goal was to “rule the modern world” — how would you go about it?
In age of globalization and technology enables near real-time communication across the masses — if you’re goal was to rule the world, how would you do so?
Do you believe that “empires” do not exist today? Do you believe that at some point, folks “in control” stopped caring about securing MORE CONTROL?
While technological advancements ‘appear’ to have fundamentally changed the world around us — it merely changes how we ‘execute’ certain things, but it does NOT fundamentally change what motivates us — what drives us as human beings.
Empires still exist. And behind EVERY empire, there is a desire to expand it. Whether in politics or in business, it is a natural inclination — it is human. The goals have not changed — but what HAS changed is how ‘borders’ are defined, and how empires expand.
How would you Expand an Empire?
Conquering another country via “brute force” just does not fly these days, in the traditional sense. As much ‘bad’ as there in the world today, there is still something within most of us, which makes up the overwhelming majority — which DOES PREFER RIGHT OVER WRONG.
We are not perfect all the time, perhaps we are not even ‘good’ most of the time. But at the core, we want the world to be better — and if anything, hope that our ‘leaders’ are more altruistic than we are on a day-to-day basis.
To expand and maintain an empire, while ‘brute force’ may have been efficient back in the day — the most effective plan is by ‘training the minds you’re leading to put value in the things within your control as a leader’… as a royal.
GET THE MESSAGE: MONEY, DRUGS, VIOLENCE IN POP-CULTURE
Empires are being expanded, and controlled, TODAY – far beyond the boundaries of those we learned about in History class. The technology is in place to grow them bigger than the Ming Dynasty and faster than the Roman Empire… and the systems are in place to maintain them.
The “ruling class” does so today through age-old tactics which are more effective than ever — a tactic well studied and executed by one of the cruelest and ‘brute force’ examples, in Nazi Germany…. SOCIAL MANIPULATION.
The TV shows we watch…. The songs we listen to — over, and over, and OVER again. They shape the minds of the populous, slowly, but exponentially, and ever so surely. The minds of those ruled are shaped to align in favor of those ruling. If we are exposed to “money, money, money” on a consistent basis – eventually even the most humble of us will be hard-pressed to NOT have ‘money on our minds’… That is not ‘conspiracy theory’, my friends, that is frickin’ logic!!!
And yes, even those of us acutely aware of this tactic for mass-control, are at risk. In fact, those of us “truly” aware of it, understand that there is no reason to “fear” — it is, again, a logical means to an age old end. This does not mean we need to avoid all ‘pop-culture’ songs which do not have a positive message — and it does not mean we cannot enjoy a particular show which is somewhat violent — it just means that we SHOULD be aware, and remember “all things in moderation”….
So how did a mere song in pop-culture today pique my interest? BECAUSE, using the same medium used to shape our minds — this song “Royals” STRIKES BACK with a different message.
“Royals” by Lordes: THE MESSAGE BEHIND THE MESSAGE
This song is a strong counter to the steady stream of “money, drugs, & violence” we are exposed to today.
If one were set to the rule the world, cough, royals, it would be logical to shape the minds of those you’re ruling via pop-culture. After all, if one controlled the ‘financial system’, they’d like to increase the value of it – and the best way to increase the value of a dollar is to increase our love of money.
All things in moderation – but if you’re going to listen to one song on “repeat” for a minute – choose wisely — because no matter how strong willed you are, or how cognatively disciplined you are — all things in our environment eventually “get through to us”, and once it gets through, it eventually shapes who we are today and who we will be in the future!
Song “Royals” by Lorde – The Meaning’s Above, the Lyrics are Below
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
This letter came to you from the place you’ll soon find timelessness;
We hope you get the message… before there’s a need for writing it.
Hope… a redeeming quality which you had deemed too childish;
We were born to bring revival, but grown to be survivalists.
Saw you playing “Simon Says”; so we did as Simon did…
Only shown how to rock a boat, never how to right the ship.
Since innocence seemed ignorant, we sought our bliss from sciences;
Our character’s best measured by the depth of our one-sidedness.
Taught to win at any cost…. But when we lost, our fight would end.
So this time when you teach us, can you please try “try again”?
We have the drive of motorized rides equipped with nitrogen;
While working just as tireless as the hovercrafts we’re flying in.
And we were taught to dream, but not to sleep until retirement…
There’s no peace in counting sheep, while lyin in a lion’s den!
A pill for that, a pill for this; a pill so both will strike more quick;
A pill to help us swallow all the truth of our reliances…
Now we’re living even longer – thanks to stronger vitamins;
Our ignorance was thinking it’d bring incremental life with it!
A device for that, a device for this; a device to make devices quick;
So desensitized by devices, we don’t even see the vice in it…
Now we’re obnoxiously robotic, a product of our environment…
Great at catching breaks we’ll never make the time to fix.
A fight for that, a fight for this; a fight so that the fight exists;
Standing by our right for peace, we’ll never cease the fight for it!
What goes around comes around; we found the reason spite exists.
So you can pay the piper, and in time we’ll pay the piper’s kid….
Pride for that, pride for this; pride for pride we might omit;
Pride which is tightly clinched in a fist too mighty to be pried of it.
With a sense of entitlement stemming from senseless mindfulness;
You could find us in the darkest age, describing it as enlightenment.
Until one day: a device ended the fight, a pill killed off the viruses.
Loved winning; but having won – we didn’t take much pride in it.
Then suddenly, we were blinded by a liquid leaking out our irises!
Perplexed, we entered the question in our engine: “Why is this?”
Across every generation, the gap is bridged by righteousness. It was the first message off the presses when Gutenberg provided his. The trend reflects the plight of men, who rise then fall to rise again; But the cycle can recycle; there’s no wound that time won’t mend.
SO TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Too few were too concerned…
But there’s still time to change your lesson plan, before our lesson’s learned.
Yours Truly, GENERATION ALPHA, EST 2010 Your future is our present, help us change it today.
What if you had the chance to play a game of 20 questions… with someone you knew, for certain, had all the answers?
“First question first: what’s the meaning of life?” For you to keep on asking until you get it right. “Gee, great insight… what on earth does it mean??” What it means on earth is the same as in your dreams. “Um, elaborate please! Where do I find what I seek? You’ll find it in the hiding place which only you perceive. “That’s three questions for you – still no answers for me?” Or maybe just not the ones that you think you need?
“Why answer with more questions?” To show you what they mean. “How am I to interpret that??” That’ll be the key. “Clearly understanding’s key, yet I’m trapped in ambiguity!” The key’s to find yourself; the truth’s to set you free. “Can you spell it out by chance?” In no language that you read. “Please extend an olive branch!” Please accept the olive seed. “I know less than when I started.” You’ll know more once you cease. “How long can I ask the same question?” Until you answer it for me.
“HERE WE GO AGAIN!!” Here you go again. “Why would ‘I’ go here again?” To hear it all again. “Well this time, can you say it clear?” That depends on how you hear. “You’re confusing with your words!” You confuse them with your ears. “This is all one big cycle.” I’m glad you’re seeing it show. “I think we’re digressing.” I think you’re beginning to grow. “I think ya don’t know what I think.” You think you think all that you know. “Your answers breed more questions” Your questions breed both.
“AND HERE WE GO AGAIN‼” And here you go again. “I don’t see where this is going,” you don’t see where this has been. “I’ve become a better person, and I never looked back… But I looked forward for the answers”…And you never looked back. “How many questions do I have?” Since you ask, you’re down to nine. “Not surprised you counted that!” Those with less, use more wise.
“Where will this end??” That would be a start. “I’m getting lost again…” Try following your heart. “Just enlighten me; please, all I need’s a little spark!” If you want to see the light, you need to start out in the dark. “Can’t you just point me to the grail or philosophers stone?” I can, and I have, and I will, by pointing you back home. “I don’t see how you’re helping!” That doesn’t mean you won’t. “I just REALLY wanna know!” Are you really sure you don’t?
“Well if you’re the source of truth, why do you keep me guessin?” Because it isn’t learned until discerned by the source of the question. “I turn to you once more, and get turned away again!” You turned to me, and as before, I’m turning you within. “So why does he who helps himself even need you in the end?” The conclusion can’t be reached until he sees where to begin. Before you’d only seek externally when conquering your doubt. The outward helped you inward, now going in will help you out. With no thoughts but their own, one can hear what’s hardly heard. You will find the key alone… and then see you never were.
“So discernment is the truth?” No, that’ll be the key. “and with the key, I’ll see the truth?” You’ll perceive the tree. “and what’s the tree lead to?” Truth. Living in all you see & do. As the creative root branches through all you’ve created too.
“Why didn’t you just say so?” It’s the cost of being free. Those who don’t find it for themselves, find it harder to believe. “Well, that’s 19! I got more than I could ask in a 20 question game, so for my final one: how can I help others do the same?”
JUST GIVE THEM 20 QUESTIONS! Then listen to them speak! How you learned how to learn is how I’d teach you how to teach. For every soul speaks differently, each language is unique. But each one has a key; tailor-made for them by me. And forcing the key will more often lead to broken locks and pride. But fortunately, the doors made to be opened from inside.
So note this, as you notice folks roaming off the road: Sharing where ya been does more than showing where to go! They won’t believe what you know ’til they perceive it on their own; They’ll care little how big you are, but they’ll respond to how you’ve grown. For while there are many different paths, there’s only one summit. And the key to life is love… …but that’s not what it’d be if I took the choice from it.
an optimist?! NEGATIVE! just positively positive the secret of the universe relies upon the opposites for context in our populous, how competent are colleges? took a lot of ignorance to comprehend what knowledge is it’s a problem which is relative, its apparent we adopted it it’s extremely unique, so commonly it’s moderate. see the glass as half full with a modest bit of cockiness; but if ya never topped it off, the cup would still be bottomless.
without a winter would a summer even be a thing? if I never had a fall, would ya ever see me spring? it’s sink or swim; but what’s a swim without a sink? I think that I know – therefore I am, I think. we peak then plateau, and we gradually shrink no matter how far ya go, ya always on the brink.
Do you have the opposite problem? it’s likely it’s so: answer with yes, or no – it’s residing in both. a friend, or foe, above, below – in binary code the ebbs and flows, they come and go, a high and a low
we want yes without no, wanna know without lessons never had the answer, but want it without question seek some direction: east ‘n a south; north ‘n a west from chaos there is order, we’re an organized mess it’s simply complex, we want a grade without a test wanna win, no contest; wanna host? be my guest! every notion we protect, all the motions we object; are all perpetual at worst, and immoveable at best.
beauty is skin deep… but how shallow is sight? when beauty’s best seen by the beholder who’s blind can ya find an absent mind present in a moment of time? in some cases ya capitalize; others, lower than swine. but it takes both to take off – a case where all the pigs fly and its the lowest swine who go most high, hoggin the sky‼
Do you have the opposite problem? answer it wise: the answers black and white but may range from day to night no wrong or right, narrow or wide, just a demand to supply the secret’s too revealed to hide, so expect a surprise.
find depth in our shallowness, fulfillment in our hollowness our future leaders will rise from those who can follow this.
Want to tap into a super power you may not even have realized you had within you? Check out Ido’s article above on a tool for intuitive writing! It’s an amazingly powerful, yet amazingly simple, tactic for you to grow any direction you’d like — up, down, inward and outward!
It took me nearly 3 decades to understand how to effectively leverage “intuition”…. 3 decades….
….And considering I was a creative writer/poet from the moment I could write AS WELL AS the fact that I’ve been able to lucid dream since I was a young child — it is that much more amazing that it took me THREE DECADES to first appreciate, learn, and then leverage the creative power of intuition…..
We ALL have it within us, but some of us are further removed from this source than others…. and again, I went nearly THREE DECADES while being about as close as you can get to this source (in the good ‘ol dream-scape of creativity). But like many things, it is hard to appreciate somethings value until it is experienced for ourselves…. (and hey, I didn’t even realize that “lucid dreaming” was somewhat rare for people, or that the concept even had a name, until high-school— and I certainly didn’t realize how certain aspects of life can serve as a tool to hone a gift which exists within us for, amazingly.. AGAIN, THREE DECADES!!)
So if you don’t have the patience to wait for three decades like I did on the hope that eventually “it all clicks” for you one day, but would still like to learn how to tap into the super-person in you —- start with Ido’s article on “tool for developing intuitive writing”!
By taking some time IN THE MORNING and doing “stream of consciousness writing”, you are allowing the intuitive in you to speak, and allowing your conscious mind to listen. Start somewhere and eventually you can go anywhere!!! 😀
“Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” ~Albert Einstein
Genius is a title which is typically received long after the creative moment occurred. Here are 4 tips to maintain the creative genius which you WERE BORN WITH!
