Author: emmettpeels@bigpond.com

Guy McPherson is a classic example of the age old adage: One finger pointing at others (in judgement) creates three fingers pointing back – to the judge. Professor McPherson takes exception to being denigrated for the presentation of his findings on human induced climate change and rightfully so. He is attempting to bring information into the public domain regarding the Abrupt Irreversible Human Extinction event currently underway and is constantly met with abuse from deniers and detractors. The problem is that in line with the aforementioned adage – i.e. 3 fingers, he is not the least bit concerned that he adopts the exact same attitude, approach and stance. He claims his willingness to listen  and include information from any/all sources but  this willingness comes with the stern caveat attached: that only evidenced based input will be accepted. So he (says he) will listen attentively providing the offered information is in keeping with his own set of facts any ‘new’ information that does not comply with this set of facts – that he mistakenly calls the truth – will be met with the identical set of closed ears as those he rails against. And herein is the underlying cause for the whole calamitous situation: in order to find some remedy for the dire situation we need to be able to find a place within the self that has the ability to listen without the interference of preconceived ideas and the instant dismissing of offered information: i.e. non-judgmentally as suggested by the late Grace Lee Boggs, author, social activist, philosopher and feminist:  to think more about our brains, about neuroscience—about the capacity we have to think anew. We can only do that if we understand that there’s a tendency in the structure of our brains to get fixed in old categories, to get locked into old concepts. That’s why philosophy is so important—thinking dialectically, thinking philosophically, thinking about growing our souls. If  instead we all take the McPherson approach that is to only receive information from historical facts then the outcome that is being forecast by McPherson – the 6^th Mass Extinction will indeed be assured.

PS I have emailed the professor with this exact same comment but was alas treated with the same disdain by McPherson that is on display from his army of detractors: i.e. the professor put my suggestion straight to the bin.

NB I am not an anti Guy lobbyist but I find it very objectionable when someone who insists they are the harbinger of truth remains closed to new ideas.

The actual design Mandala is representative of the Fe/Male, Yin/Yang elements; the conditions of attraction/repulsion and eventual collusion of opposites. The twelve chambers that comprise the Mandala are of course indicative of the twelve astrological houses and are also a reminder of our twelve original strands of DNA as are also depicted on the snake/helix/kundalini motif and also honouring the role of the Vagus nerve as core pathway for all heart/body communications. These phallic serpentine DNA spiralling spermatozoa are in deliberate union and contained within the female curves as engraved upon each of the house chambers and Archetype card and are together moving towards the centrifugal womb as an act of cosmic consciousness. The sexual overtones within the design are obvious and intentional alluding to the point of conception, our terrestrial beginnings and the need to consciously integrate and to express our fecund earth nature. However we are not limiting ourselves to a preoccupation in discussion about sex; the concept is in regards to our sensual nature and contact with our own organismic wisdom. It is reference to a state of being; the awareness of unity within one’s self as opposed to the act of doing in relation to sating specific carnal appetites. These symbols speak of sanctity, of wholeness and completion, of beauty, truth and integrity, of having confidence in our innate ability to ‘stand-under’ these personal qualities. This is not to disqualify our lustful animal nature or an attempt to nullify expression of our most basic desire or to acknowledge it by way of concession, condescension or compromise. Most modern day neuroses may be directly linked to the inability to fully surrender to the body’s natural inclinations and desires, processes and responses. The womb as pivot point (of the Mandala) can quickly revert to become ‘Head of the Hydra’ offering stern warning against the continuation of keeping our sensual nature disembodied. When aroused from slumber; in our root Chakra at the base of our spine – nervous system – the Kundalini serpent requires of us complete honesty when dealing with the most potent of forces that is our libido. Expression of such primal and vital energy is not to be abused, taken lightly or for granted. We are talking here of nothing less than our creative potential which is to treated with the utmost reverence and care with the squandering of this living essence to possibly result in seeing it turn into venom to strike and poison the unconscious squanderer.

Karl Jung – who first introduced the notion of synchronicity circa 1920’s defined it as an “acausal connecting (togetherness) principle,” “meaningful coincidence”, and “acausal parallelism” – meaning that events can hold or give meaning  if they occur coincidentally with no obvious or causal relationship.

An easily interpreted example would be: a bolt of lightning strikes your grandmother’s favourite tree on the day of she dies – that’s synchronicity – where one aspect of the event appears to be related to the other but there’s no verifiable evidence, no material cause that can prove this.

In order for us to be involved in synchronous events we need to be(come) active participants – a real contradiction – to actively get out of the way. We can improve the likelihood of such events occurring in our lives firstly via a willingness to entertain the existence of such and secondly by ensuring we are ‘present and conscious’ – i.e. ready for inclusion into these seemingly random meaningful chance happenings. It matters little if you happen to be dodging pedestrian traffic in Times Square or you are the lighthouse keeper on Maatsuyker Island the requirement is always the same: the imperative is that we reside within the NOW as often as we can. The external environment is then bound – by the nature of synchronicity – to provide all the other elements. This is not to discount the Fool archetype – who looks to be completely oblivious to any responsibility or cares – just daydreaming and bumbling his/her way through life with all life’s necessities simply arriving via some invisible force – providence. The Fool’s attitude and approach to life and living: i.e. with apparent exemption from the stressors that are part of everyday life for the most of us – need to be emulated/adopted. But how – how do we become blissfully unaware of the potentially stressful laden events and able to relax away from anxiety to where we can allow the visitation of a synchronous event? The answer in theory – like most of these existential conundrums is simple? We can relax when we know we have done our best – done all that we can – and this knowing arrives not as an intellectual understanding but as ‘a feeling’ a sense.

Enlightenment:  comes from the understanding/belief that ignorance is a state of being “in the dark,” and that the finding and applying new information can bring enlightenment.

1. According to The Oxford Dictionary – enlightenment is the stateof understanding something
2. When used within various religious or spiritual traditions or settings enlightenment is “The highest state (of mind/consciousness) available and/or that can be achieved”

Examples:

1. Someone is instructed on how to drive a truck or bake a cake: they now have access to new and/or extra information that increases/improves their previous abilities and potentials.
2. A disciple of a spiritual tradition is supplied with techniques that contain the potential to quieten the internal dialogue: i.e. excessive thinking thus producing a state of conscious awareness termed liberation or enlightenment.

Awareness and maintenance of the Chiron Wound as a process contains some identical functions to the process that is often times referred to as the pursuit of the state of self-realisation or (spiritual) enlightenment. There are those who would have you believe that the obtaining of this enlightened state is the ultimate goal and the prize for those who are choosing the path of the seeker and that once attained (this elusive prize) it is ours for the keeping – never again will we be afflicted by the burden of our humanness: very little of this assertion is accurate. Enlightenment – also called by other names: e.g. Nirvana or Samadhi does indeed have as its essence the promise for each of us to reach the internal experience of stillness/peace but this experience if and when attained/granted is part of an ongoing process: i.e. the moment to moment committed effort to be in a conscious state of being present – in the NOW – and it is always about choice: i.e. where we choose to put our attention. This is not to say that on occasion we aren’t in the enlightened or ecstatic experience – swept off our feet by the beauty of the world or by something that captures our attention without us making effort/choice: but in the main both the awareness of and the tending to our wound AND the pursuit of the state of enlightenment requires that we be willing participants. Before enlightenment raking and sweeping – after enlightenment – much the same.  

With regard to the Chiron Wound – our sense of woundedness has as its genesis the experience of suffering and it is the awareness and acknowledgement of this: the how it feels to suffer – that becomes pivotal element in the attending the wound and allowing it to teach us. We first need to own the experience, to acknowledge the way it impacts on the whole of our beingness and further to this the times when the suffering was/is most prevalent and having done this to integrate these experiences which can then be used to provide extra impetus in our push towards understanding and learning of lessons specific to our individual life path. And just as in the pursuit of enlightenment there is a requirement for committed effort: awareness to keep the focus on finding and maintaining a clear thoroughfare: danger can arrive should we instead put our attention on the search for obstacles. If for instance we over identify with our suffering: as Carly Simon would suggest in a line from her song I haven’t got time for the pain – “Suffering was the only thing made me feel I was alive” and by aligning with the suffering we make it our badge of honour, irrefutable evidence that we once had involvement in an occasion, an event that meant something significant in our life. And the problem becomes exacerbated if the suffering subversively morphs to become all-consuming obsession, where we fiercely defend our right to keep these feelings: high water mark – evidence of and testament to having been injured or betrayed – developing to become our way of being and relating, our whole identity and in so doing forfeit the opportunities on offer.

So in both instances we need some methodology – supportive measures to assist us – The Compass of Chiron has been designed for just such purposes.

these two seemingly separate ‘events’ are in fact interconnected and the healing of both – in unison – is the requirement. Trying to focus on one aspect without the awareness and inclusion of action towards both will fail to produce meaningful result. We need to understand (stand under) the instructions that are being offered: the messages (in the form of symptoms) from within our physiology and the evidence of ongoing abuse to not only the physical planet/ecology but wilful harm being perpetrated against us, other people and against other sentient lifeforms. Both the planet/ecology and the human body are innately designed to heal, biased towards self-repair when provided with the opportunity and supportive environmental conditions. So the first part of the equation – for the creation of the conditions conducive of support is the individual capacity to create Temenos: a sacred space wherein we can be in touch with and co-create the zeitgeist that in turn brings about self-healing and a new paradigm. This process is the moment by moment incremental practise of bringing one’s conscious awareness back to the NOW as often as can be re-membered throughout the course of daily living functions. We cannot expect the healing process to arrive from the use of an unconscious past – as Einstein would suggest “you cannot hope for improvement or try to fix the problem by using the same redundant tools that were used to create it” – the definition of insanity.

We each need to start caring enough so that those who uphold the old paradigm for their own benefit: i.e. the power elite – are shown we are no longer prepared to support their power plan with our blind consumerist mentality. We need to be willing to question our individual allegiance to and passive participation in a system that has no care for us or the planet on which we all depend. Unless and until each of us chooses to cast aside our victim status to become an active contributor to the paradigm shift – in whatever way we can -we are fated to remain in our role as plebs for the rich, grist for the mill – or worst of all foot soldiers for the war machine. The time is NOW.  Your participation does not need to take the form of Guy Fawkes’ powder keg, it may be as simple (but no less profound or radical) as forgoing the purchasing of a product known to be made via some form of abuse to either to the planet or the people: e.g. Nestle chocolate or Monsanto’s Roundup. It can be just about being committed to looking after your body and by extension your immediate environment, perhaps connecting with a volunteer enviro group might appeal – anything that is new to you and is not supportive of the old paradigm and/or the power elite will make a difference   …  and we like different!

Can we find the courage to say enough, no more and persevere with a committed incremental approach, to make decisions deliberately designed to initiate change away from the old passé paradigm and into the new?

And – “The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.  Patch Adams

Let’s take back our lives and our rights – the choice is y/ours.

We are (collectively) in the predicament we are in – i.e. an extinction event – due to the continuation, the choice to operate under the pretence that we (as a collective and as individuals that make up the collective), know what we are doing – that we have got it all sorted. Very few are willing to consider the reality: i.e. we have no idea what to do with our life, fewer still will admit to this and fewer again would be willing to find out leaving virtually nobody interested in taking any right action to address the situation. Small wonder we are on the verge of planetary annihilation and were I looking down from on high (which I am) and had to make the decision as whether another chance should be given I would instead deliver the thumbs down. The blatant and willful decision made daily by each of us to choose our own hedonistic lifestyles above the care of the home we share will inevitably result in the forfeiture of said home. It beggars belief that all of our attention is fixated upon celebrity scandal and consumerism: who did what to whom and can I pay less for an item I don’t need.  C’mon people Now ……

I’m not for one second suggesting that I don’t need the master’s agya – in fact, this is the point – I know that I do need it but why do I need it? Maharaji’s dad used to say (on a regular basis) a crocodile is a crocodile, a fish is a fish and a gorilla is a monkey – making his point that all the animals know what they are and how to behave in relation to this understanding whereas humans on the other hand? Maharaji says “Man’s (and I’m sure this is the use of the royal Man’s which of course includes da chicks) truest nature is to be at peace”. I definitely recognise within myself something not quite right: i.e. the missing piece is missing peace but my question is why? Why do we as a species have the need of instruction from the outside regarding the fundamentals of what transpires on the inside: “our truest nature”. This situation: man in need of guidance and assistance – has been so for centuries where a teacher would appear that seemed to ‘know’ something that the rest didn’t ‘know’ but that they wanted to ‘know’. Returning to me as petri dish there is a part of me that responds to this message: i.e. the idea that there definitely is something to know – but it would seem that I am one of a very limited few. If it is so that to be at peace is my truest nature – and therefor the same for all wo/men – why are there so very few that have the desire to consciously attempt being conscious? Due to my experience of how I feel when (in that peace as I) I follow the master’s agya I can say with as much certainty as might be conjured and applied that the missing piece is this knowing – the knowledge and because only the tiniest of numbers (of people) actually have access to this understanding and experience we have now collectively both men and women – brought our home: i.e. planet earth – to the brink of annihilation. The vast majority in western first world communities are wilfully ignorant: they do not want to know, the preference is to remain in a state of hedonistic sleep walking. It would seem there is a flaw in the design, the default setting has been applied to the wrong part of the psyche so that instead of being awake and making our world better we remain asleep and make it worse.

The morning light arrives – without a guarantee

And brings with it the offer of a moment

My errant logic thinks

Before me is the promise of another day

No guarantee

My father was a gambling man

My mother would say

I wouldn’t bet on the sunrise – no guarantee

 

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission

be on the watch – there are ways out

there is light somewhere

it may not be much light but it beats the darkness

be on the watch the gods will offer you chances

know them – take them

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death death in life – sometimes

and the more often you learn to do it

the more light there will be

your life is your life

know it while you have it

you are marvellous

the gods wait to delight in you

 

Make Love not War – Peace, Love and hedonism.

The generation of people born between June 14^th 1939 and 19^th August 1957 were riding the crest of a wave which peaked with possibility, promise and a proper chance at an evolutionary rise in consciousness: a real paradigm shift and the opportunity to serve. Unfortunately so seduced did we become by the egoic and hedonistic (leonine) notion of (self) importance and entitlement that rather than pursuing the opportunity for planetary caretaking and evolution we opted instead for a might and mine method of rulership – (a style more in keeping with our self-sanctified image), an unquestionable approach to sovereignty over our domain and in so doing forgot that the sword of royalty and reign that we wielded and swung so self-righteously had another edge – the sacred law that brings the balance to such power: Noblesse Oblige and the requirement to take care of the kingdom and all who live therein. With the refusal to acknowledge our betrayal of the heartland and the accompanying need to apologise for our misdeeds: the abject abuse of power over place and people, the land now expects remuneration, retribution – a price to be paid. The time has come, restoring the balance means that the cost will be in direct proportion i.e. equivalent to the size of the misdemeanours and the misdeeds – get ready here comes Uranus in Taurus and anyone who has ever witnessed the angry Bull will be rightly alarmed. The shameful conduct by the perpetrators and the victim stance adopted by the condoners will ensure that all will be held accountable, none are innocent – there will be no prisoners taken, no survivors spared.