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GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: The J.P. Morgan "'Loss'

May 16, 2012 / Four Winds

Once again, the practices of the "Too Big to Fail" banksters bring the financial money machine to the brink. The J.P. Morgan derivative losses and trading gambles by their "London Whale" demonstrates business as usual in the murky world of risk distortion. Even the vexing progressive Robert Reich makes an accurate assessment for breaking up the big banks and the resurrecting of Glass-Steagall.

"Word on the Street is that J.P. Morgan’s exposure is so large that it can’t dump these bad bets without affecting the market and losing even more money. And given its mammoth size and interlinked connections with every other financial institution, anything that shakes J.P. Morgan is likely to rock the rest of the Street."

Since then, J.P. Morgan’s lobbyists and lawyers have done everything in their power to eviscerate the Volcker rule — creating exceptions, exemptions, and loopholes that effectively allow any big bank to go on doing most of the derivative trading it was doing before the near-meltdown."

The prospects for constructive oversight and judicious safeguards on the money center banks; while, desperately needed, are highly unlikely for enactment. The existing administrative regulation is more about process than accountability.
The notice - S.E.C. Opens Investigation Into JPMorgan's $2 Billion Loss, admits to a limited scope - "Regulators are investigating potential civil violations".

"An important avenue for the S.E.C. investigation, the people said, is the firm's accounting methods relating to the trades. Investigators could take a close look at a measure known as value-at-risk. The company disclosed earlier this year that it changed the way it calculates the metric, which may have masked some of the risk surrounding this trade. On a conference call Thursday, Mr. Dimon said the firm had reverted to the old way of measuring value-at-risk."

MORE- http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_d...p?q=1337264498 ]]> Economics DDutton http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22204-The-J-P-Morgan-quot-Loss Waking From Sleep: The Causes of Higher States of Consciousness http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22203-Waking-From-Sleep-The-Causes-of-Higher-States-of-Consciousness?goto=newpost Sat, 19 May 2012 19:09:42 GMT Waking From Sleep: The Causes of Higher States of Consciousness By STEVE TAYLOR— Higher states of consciousness (HSCs) – or awakening experiences, as I prefer to call them – are moments of revelation, when we perceive reality at a heightened intensity. The world around us comes to life,... Waking From Sleep: The Causes of Higher States of Consciousness


By STEVE TAYLOR—


Higher states of consciousness (HSCs) – or awakening experiences, as I prefer to call them – are moments of revelation, when we perceive reality at a heightened intensity. The world around us comes to life, and is filled with an atmosphere of harmony and meaning. A spirit-force seems to pervade all things, and the spaces between them, bringing everything into oneness.
We experience ourselves as part of this oneness too, and feel ecstatic or serene. At the highest intensity of awakening, we might feel that we’ve become one with the universe, and attain a state of complete fullness and perfection. The whole material world may dissolve away, into an ocean of spiritual radiance.


These experiences are sometimes associated with meditation, nature or psychedelic drugs, but what exactly is it that causes them? Why is it that the limits of our normal consciousness sometimes fall away, giving us access to a world of is-ness, beauty and meaning which is normally hidden from us?
Neuroscientists generally believe that HSCs are caused by changes in brain activity. However, just because HSCs or awakening experiences appear to be associated with certain brain states, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the brain states produce the experiences. It could be the other way round – increased electrical activity in the frontal lobes, or less activity in the posterior superior parietal lobe, could just as easily be the result of higher states of consciousness rather than causes of them. These scientists may only be looking at the ‘footprints’ of the experiences, rather than the cause of them.
My view is that there are two basic types of awakening experiences, which have two distinct causes. The first type are wild, ecstatic experiences that happen when the normal homeostasis of our brain and bodies is disrupted. This is a ‘loophole’ which human beings have made use of throughout history. This is why there has always been a link between fasting and spirituality, for example. A prolonged lack of food appears to make the hold which ordinary consciousness has over us looser, and bring us closer to an awakened vision of the world. Fasting puts us ‘out of homeostasis’ by causing physiological changes, such as a lower level of blood glucose, higher levels of insulin and a lower body temperature.


Indigenous peoples often fast and deprive themselves of sleep as a preparation for rituals, dance and vision quests, using physical deprivation as a way of ‘purifying’ themselves. The Vision Quest was a spiritual exercise used by some Native American peoples as a way of building up spiritual power and communicating with spirits. The person would go to a solitary spot – often the top of a mountain – and stay there for up to four days, fasting and exposing themselves to the elements (usually wearing almost no clothes, even if the weather was cold). He or she would try to attain a state of complete attentiveness to their surroundings, since sacred powers might try to communicate with them at any moment. As a result, they might experience a higher state of consciousness (that is, higher than their normal low level higher state), with strong feelings of peace and a sense of connection to the natural world, and also be given special knowledge – such as a message or a new song or dance – from spirits.


In ancient Greece and – at a later time – throughout the Middle East and the Roman Empire, a large number of esoteric cults existed outside conventional religions. These ‘mystery cults’ were usually centred around particular gods, but rather than just worshipping them, the participants aimed to become one with the gods, or to be possessed by them. They fasted and went without sleep before ceremonies, and used a variety of other methods of disrupting homeostasis during them: they would take drugs, beat themselves, and dance frenziedly, so that they might be – in the words of the ancient philosopher Proclus, who observed the mysteries at first hand – “filled with divine awe.”
Pain can also be used as a way of inducing awakening experiences. We can see this in the long tradition of asceticism, for instance, which runs through all of the world’s religions and spiritual traditions. An ascetic is someone who deliberately denies his body’s needs, and inflicts pain and discomfort on himself, either through fasting, abstaining from sensual pleasures and comforts, or by physically beating or injuring himself. This sounds like sadism, and for some ascetics it probably was. It’s also likely that some ascetics were motivated by morbid self-hatred and neurotic feelings of guilt towards sex and other bodily processes, which made them want to punish themselves.


It goes without saying that inflicting pain on yourself, or forcing yourself to go without sleep or food, are hardly ideal ways of transcending ordinary consciousness. Although some ascetics apparently managed to continue torturing themselves for years and even decades, there’s obviously a very high risk of seriously injuring yourself, or dying of self-neglect. Aside from the famous ascetics like St Simeon Stylites and Henry de Suso, there were probably many others who followed similar practices but didn’t live long enough to gain any recognition. As a short term spiritual technology asceticism is fairly futile anyway; you might gain a brief glimpse of a higher reality but this only lasts as long as the chemical changes that the pain and suffering have produced inside you. Your body always returns to homeostasis, and you always have to return your constricted normal consciousness.
There must be easier ways of ‘disrupting the equilibrium’ than fasting, sleep deprivation or pain – and there are. If we know that all an ascetic is really doing by torturing himself is changing his normal chemistry, then surely, you might say, it’d be more sensible to just interfere with this chemistry directly – by taking drugs, for example, which would give us the same effect but wouldn’t involve any self-harm.


Human beings have always used drugs as a means of intensifying or altering consciousness. The early Indo-European conquerors of India worshipped their drink Soma, which most scholars believe was made from magic mushrooms; while the initiates of the Greek Eleusinian mysteries used a psychoactive drink called kykeon. Indigenous peoples often use drugs for spiritual purposes too: Native Americans ingest sacred plants such as fly-agaric mushrooms and peyote, while the Australian Aborigines have a powerful form of tobacco called pituri. In the right circumstances – and the right state of mind – psychotropic drugs can, it seems, take our minds out of the ‘mould’ of ordinary consciousness, and give us access to wider and more intense realities.


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By IAN LAWTON—


Modern studies repeatedly suggest that a significant proportion of people in the Western world now believe in reincarnation. Although this phenomenon can be traced back to various esoteric movements that flourished from the second half of the 19th century, it gained significant ground with the explosion of popular interest in Eastern spiritual approaches in the 60s. And it was reinforced by a proliferation of therapists offering to regress people into their past lives.


Yet now the tide seems to be turning again. For some years the emphasis has been moving more towards the idea that we are all part of the One, the All, the Source, the Absolute, the Ultimate, the Great Spirit or whatever we choose to call the ‘universal consciousness’. Of course this is not a new idea. But what is changing is that especially more intellectually minded spiritual seekers are tending towards the view that anything outside of the ‘One’ is mere ‘illusion’.


In fact this word illusion is used a great deal in spiritual circles these days, although actually in quite different contexts, and it is perhaps worth considering what these are. Of course readers would all agree that the physical world itself is to some extent an illusion, at least inasmuch as it is underpinned by the nonphysical planes and states of being that science is increasingly pointing towards. But what about the idea that we only reincarnate for as long as we fail to see through the ‘illusion’, and that as soon as we gain ‘enlightenment’ we can ‘break the bonds of karma’ and ‘reunite with the Source’? More radical still, what about the idea that any notion of individuality is completely illusory on all levels, and that as soon as we die there is no sense of continuation of any sort of individual soul consciousness?


Whether or not they make it explicitly clear, these latter two are the ‘illusion models’ supported by a significant proportion of our best-known spiritual commentators of modern times – be they proponents of, for example, the ‘power of now’, or of ‘cosmic ordering’, or of ‘quantum mysticism’. Yet to see the world in this way is entirely at odds with what we might call the ‘experience model’, which holds that we lead many lives in order to see all sides of every emotional coin, and to learn to deal with the manifest challenges that life on this planet provides. In other words, a model in which the emphasis is on an individual soul growing by experience over many lifetimes.


If we are to adopt a rational approach then, rather than relying on ‘revealed wisdom’ ancient or modern, it is surely sensible to consider which of these models is best supported by logical analysis and the available evidence.
We can start with the premise that there must exist some sort of ultimate force or energy that underlies the entire universe, both seen and unseen, which is the Origin or Source of everything in it. However ineffable it may be, this principle of a universal consciousness is almost a logical necessity, and it is certainly supported by scientific research at both the quantum and the macrocosmic level. The idea that ‘we are all one’ is also a common element of transcendental experiences, whether spontaneous, meditative or induced by hallucinogens. So our next step must be to investigate whether, at the same time, there is any real evidence to support the idea of an individual consciousness that exists or survives independent of the physical body.
The most relevant area of research here is near-death experiences. In particular we are interested in cases that involve subjects returning with factual information that is subsequently verified, and yet so obscure that they could not reasonably have acquired it in any ‘normal’ way.


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By LESLEY CROSSINGHAM—


Sometimes it is difficult not to be cynical about the ‘apocalypse-de-jour’ that tends to sweep through our world every few years. Who can forget the Y2K fever that produced some rather amusing TV commercials in late 1999? Whilst this can be entertaining there is a more serious side to the legendary ‘End of Days’.


The belief that we are all headed towards some kind of apocalypse or final battle between good and evil is a widely held view, not only by fundamentalist factions, but by all believers of Western religions. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have prophecies describing a final judgment and the return, or the first appearance, of a messiah-like figure.


Where did this predilection for ‘Judgment and Disaster’ from on high come from?


For Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010, pictured above), author of the famous Earth Chronicles, a series of seven books that tracks the interaction by an alien species on our planet in ancient times, this question along with a myriad of unexplained phenomena, has been the driving force of his life-work.


He believes that the fascination, particularly with the mysterious Mayan calendar which ends on December 21, 2012, is simply a reflection of a pattern deliberately laid deep within our collective psyche by visitors from another planet. In his latest book, aptly named The End of Days, Armageddon and the Prophecies of the Return, Sitchin addresses these and other questions.
According to Sitchin, a planet called Nibiru known as the 12th planet had a catastrophic collision with Tiamat, a planet in our solar system that used to be between Mars and Jupiter. The enormous collision formed the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and the Moon. Nibiru is the home-planet of a technologically advanced human-like alien race, the Anunnaki, which means ‘those who came from heaven to earth’ of the Sumerian myth. It is the farther-most planet of our solar system, and only comes into view on earth every 3,600 years or so. In his books, Sitchin claims the Anunnaki came in search of gold particles they used to preserve their planet’s atmosphere. They subsequently genetically engineered our species as slave workers to work in their gold mines.


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By LOUIS PROUD—


Anyone who knows anything about the subject of UFOs and alien abduction would have heard of Louis Whitley Strieber, the successful horror novelist, who, in 1987, published a book called Communion which still stands as one of the most terrifying, factual and powerful accounts of alien abduction ever written.


But far from being just an abductee and author, Strieber is also something of an undeclared mystic and prophet. It seems he has much to say about humanity’s spiritual, political and environmental future. Is he, as some have claimed, nothing but a prophet of doom, or do his words contain genuine wisdom and an important message?


Now a host of the online radio program Dreamland, which covers the latest news in paranormal phenomena, Strieber continues to write about the mysterious non-human beings he calls the ‘visitors’, and has recently been doing so in a fictional way. Within the last two years Strieber has published two new novels, The Grays and 2012: The War for Souls, both of which are soon to be made into big budget films.


The grays, says Strieber, are just one of the many different types of non-human being, or visitor, that he has been in close contact with. “These people were not androids or robots. They were complex, richly alive beings who were obviously incredibly and totally different from us,” he says. The grays feature commonly in accounts of alien abduction, and are believed to be behind much of the UFO phenomena witnessed in our skies. Strieber says he decided to write The Grays because the truth about these beings “is too elusive to bring to genuinely sharp focus in factual narrative.”


Strieber came up with the term ‘visitor’ to replace ‘alien’ because he does not necessarily believe that aliens, in the true sense of the word, are behind the close encounter phenomenon, preferring instead to leave the question of their origin open until further evidence comes to light. Plus, he considers the word ‘alien’ to have a negative connotation. The word ‘visitor’, on the other hand, could not be more neutral, and was chosen for this very reason.


Strieber was already a successful author before he decided to risk his reputation by publishing Communion. His previous books, of which there are many, deal with issues like nuclear war and environmental catastrophe. Along with childhood friend James Kunetka, Strieber wrote the 1984 New York Times bestselling novel Warday, which concerns the subject of nuclear holocaust. He also wrote a number of highly acclaimed horror novels, such as The Hunger and The Wolfen, both of which were adapted into films.


When Communion was first published, it quickly shot to number 1 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. It then went on to become an international bestseller. Although Strieber allegedly received six figures from publishing company William Morrow (now an imprint of HarperCollins), it seems unlikely that Communion was a hoax, and that he wrote it for the money – which is what some critics have claimed. In a 1987 interview for the San Francisco Examiner, Strieber said: “I didn’t need to write it. I could have written another novel… Why would I hold myself up to the ridicule that a book like Communion brings? I felt that I had to write this book.”


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May 17, 2012 By davidjones
By VICTORIA LEPAGE—

The jury is still out on the millennial prophecies of Michel Nostradamus, the French master physician, astrologer and Kabbalist of the sixteenth century. Many regard him as the greatest prophet in Western history, while others find his predictions, especially those concerned with our own era around the second millennium, irrelevant or simply too deep or too equivocal to interpret successfully.
Did he predict war or peace for our time? Did he foresee a coming Utopia or a descent into a Dark Age? The end of the world or a Golden Age a thousand years long? The appearance of a great spiritual Teacher or an Anti-Christ? These are the confronting questions that inevitably arise when considering the work of this famous Renaissance seer.
I believe the key to Nostradamus’ undoubted genius and equally undoubted capacity for paradox lies in the breadth of his religious affiliations, which, astonishingly, embraced all three Semitic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Without acknowledging this secret propensity for religious syncretism, regarded as heretical even in our own free thinking day, it is difficult to throw any light on the contradictions inherent in Nostradamus’ work. His religious beliefs simply cannot be left out of any in-depth evaluation of his prophetic legacy: they made him what he was, a mirror laid to the very heart of our polarised, suffering civilisation.
A true child of medieval Provence, the home of chivalric poetry and mysticism, Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Saint-Rémy-en-Provence of Christianised Jewish parents, was brought up as a committed Christian and died as one in 1566 in the small town of Salon-en-Provence.
At an early age his two grandfathers, who preserved in secret their Hebrew religious and cultural traditions, gave him a comprehensive classical education in literature, history, herbal medicines, Greek philosophy and a range of languages, as well as the ‘celestial science’ – astrology – in which he took a deep and abiding interest. As well, his two Jewish mentors clandestinely introduced the boy to the Judaic esoteric culture. He learned the occult arts and sciences forbidden by the Church, and acquired a knowledge of alchemy and the Jewish Kabbalah, the latter a mystical initiatic system of ten levels of consciousness akin to Hindu Kundalini Yoga. Yet he is believed to have remained at the same time a loyal son of the Christian Church.
Later, for fear of the Inquisition, Nostradamus burned the old Jewish family books on Kabbalistic magic that he had acquired from his grandfathers, along with other occult texts on alchemy, hermeticism and Chaldaean and Assyrian magic. But his most secret religious affiliation linked him to a belief-system that at that time was virtually unknown in Europe and its presence in his life was therefore to remain safe from discovery for almost five hundred years.
Not until the most recent decades has modern Western research discovered that this remarkable Jewish doctor and occultist, trained in Hebrew wisdom, was not only deeply committed to both Judaic and Christian principles but was also a member of a Sicilian Sufi brotherhood loyal to Islam. A true man of the Renaissance, Nostradamus secretly believed in the underlying unity of the three religions, and his prophecies yield their deepest meaning only on this basis.


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The major proof that god doesn't exist and loves humans is humans themselves. It is very easy to know that god doesn't exist or loves humans:

1 - Humans have weak brains that can be hypnotized - which brings to slavery.

2 - Humans have weak brains so they have virginity - which brings to prostitution.

3 - Humans have many prophets, but they belong to one god, which is the universe.

4 - Humans have divided their universal god into many religions and many prophets.

5 - Humans that are sane in mind and body think about sex instead of religion.

If you put toghether weak brains and virginity, you will instantly realise that humans are not loved by god, or that god made a mistake, which is a paradox. Anyone who would still believe on god and love towards humans must be a mad man.

When you have eliminated all the impossible, whatever remains, however implausible, must be the rational truth driven by logic minds.

When you have eliminated all the improbable, whatever remains, however impossible, must be the absurd truth driven by crazy minds.

You can understand the universe, nature and human being only if you put toghether all the prophets, but only intelligent people can do this, the rest of mindless sheep are being bigots and listen to only one god, which is the opposite of being enlightened.

Buddha said:

Believe nothing just because a so called wise person said it.

Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.

Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.

Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.

Believe nothing just because someone else believs it.

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The Scripture reads, ‘Without faith one cannot please God’. I shall paraphrase this line a little and I shall say, ‘With faith one can please God’. Bear in mind that it is faith that appeals to the Lord. The Scripture reads that we shall be granted whatever we ask for in line with God’s Will. This is not the commonly accepted faith, not that faith that people have, but it is the faith of children – among children you will look for it. You have to have the faith of children, not the faith of adults. I want those who listen to me, not to think that they are adults. If they so believe, there is no point in them coming here, there is no need for adult people on Earth; they are people for Heaven. You may say, ‘I am fifty or sixty years of age’. Do not fool yourselves with your years. I say that one’s age is appreciated by one’s experience. The more experience you have, the older you are and vice versa. What matters is what valuables you have in the backpack of your life. You may carry a load of fifty kilograms, which is fifty leva worth; you may carry a diamond of only one gram, which may be tens of thousand of leva worth. It is not the quantity, which is important for the load, but the quality.


Some say, ‘I know that the Sun spins.’ I ask whether your Sun spins. You say, ‘I know that the Moon gets full and gets empty’. I ask whether your Moon gets full or gets empty. This is where knowledge resides – to discern what is good and what is evil. Keep an eye on your heart as to whether it is getting full of good and empty of evil. Only then you will know the meaning of getting full and getting empty.


You know that the Moon takes fourteen days to get full and fourteen days to get empty. Similarly, your heart should spend fourteen days on getting full of good and for fourteen days your heart should work on emptying all the swill out of you and out of society. Afterwards, you will feel light. This is what doctors do too.


When people see that somebody’s stomach is upset or that somebody has diarrhoea, they immediately call the doctor to put an end to the disorder. Hang on, let the sick person throw up, so that the sick person can be relieved, let everything, that has gathered inside, flow out. A man may be in a fury, flying at others; do not stop him, let him shout, so that everything can get out. If this annoys you, close your ears or go farther away; it is none of your business to interrupt the flow. This is the philosophy of the New Teaching; this is the Teaching of Christianity! Sometimes, your husband is cross with you, he shouts at you, and you feel an urge to stop him. Easy, let him throw up. Well, but he will make me dirty all over! You keep away from him, not just right in front of him, pass him the bucket and stay behind, meanwhile let him throw up. Do not interrupt him, help him and be grateful that he has relieved himself from such a burden. But what do wives usually do? She will start going from one house to another and telling people, ‘You know what misfortune beset me – my husband threw up!’ On the contrary, this is quite fortunate, as he is now relieved. I regard all people who throw up as reliable.


So, from now on, you will speak less and do more. This is what teachers do with pupils at school – in order to teach them to work, they give them tests, homework, to write compositions etc. Do not think that after entering the Spiritual world you are already holy and pure. This will come on its own accord; do not worry about it. If, on seeing a candle, you start thinking how it spreads light, when it gives better light etc., this will bring no benefit to you. Leave thinking aside, strike a match, light the candle and make use of it.
Only an aspiration to be obedient to God, Who is complete in all respects, is required from you now. The Lord, I speak about, can see you, because He has millions of eyes and ears. He sees you through cats, flies; He can see you when you chase them. The Lord sees everything, because there are many secret places from where He watches you. The Lord is neither in cats, nor in flies, but He sees through them. When He sees you passing by a pear tree or looking at a flower, He is already aware of your intentions. Everything is known to God. When you drink a little water, He, through the water knows you internally.


The most important and necessary things for you are as follows: obedience and attention. What does obedience mean? Obedience means to do something, and attention means to be attentive when the Lord does something. The same with you now – you will have to listen and pay attention. You may ask yourselves what else I have to tell you. You are only required to be obedient and attentive! If you are sent with a hose in hand to any garden, you are required to point the hose and to water the garden, not to think why you were assigned to water the garden, why not somebody else? You were found; the hose is in your hands, keep watering and do not think any longer about it, because the one who waters the Divine garden, benefits from its fruit.


Read chapter nine by Prophet Daniel. This chapter is closely related with what I asked you to do.


You do not know your future, it is hidden from your sight, and you do not know what the Lord has in mind. It is said, ‘Pray, in order not to be tempted.’ Many of you are busy with a lot of work, but there is also more important work for which you have come. I shall be brief, what you have to do is to think within yourselves for about four to five minutes and to see whether you are ready to do this voluntarily, without repenting your decision later on. You will do the following: for ten days on end starting on 27 June, you will get up at about four o’clock in the morning, and during the time from four to five o’clock you will read chapter nine by Daniel, you will carefully think upon it, you will pray and you will confess to God, as you do to a priest, your sins, the sins of your relatives, the sins of your people. And if the Lord so wishes, He will forgive you. In this way you will send your petition to God, however, what resolution it will get, is up to God. At the same time, the departed people close to you will also pray for themselves and also for you, so there will be prayers below and above – just like trees feed from below and from above.


You will leave yourselves in God’s hands. You will eat twice a day: no butter or eggs, only vegetable food. You will eat in the morning after praying, and in the evening before praying. In the evening, you will eat before the Sun sets, and you will pray and read chapter nine after the sunset at about eight o’clock. The Lord has imposed fasting all over the world. After breakfast in the morning, and after dinner, you will thank God very much. During these ten days you will observe absolute fasting of your heart and your mind: not a single bad thought, bad desire or word of gossip. During these days ask God only for important and necessary things, not for stupid ones. You will pray to God to strengthen all of your brothers and sisters, wherever they may be; to help all the suffering people, and everybody who fights evil. You may read the Good Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer and others. Be careful not to overdo it, make sure your heart is always warm. Approach the Lord with faith! Have faith in His grace and kindness. And you will see the result.


1 The lecture was titled ‘Lecture to Women’ in the decoded shorthand notes




Lecture Delivered on 26 June 1918 in Sofia by Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno)


http://powerandlife.com/txt_en/1918....praznene.shtml ]]> Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22189-Getting-Full-and-Getting-Empty Are you afraid of biorobots at your service? http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22188-Are-you-afraid-of-biorobots-at-your-service?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 21:51:03 GMT Are you afraid of biorobots at your service as your property? Imagine that you have biorobots at your service in your home. Imagine that these were programmed to obey somebody else than you. Imagine that because of this your lovers or your servants are dangeorus. Imagine that because of... Are you afraid of biorobots at your service as your property?

Imagine that you have biorobots at your service in your home.

Imagine that these were programmed to obey somebody else than you.

Imagine that because of this your lovers or your servants are dangeorus.

Imagine that because of being hypnotized these biorobots are suffering.

Lets discuss about this - any biorobot is a real person, this means that after being hypnotized in order to obey someone they are suffering and are dangerous. And the most dangerous thing is that they become mad. ]]> Conspiracy Theory Arkham Knight http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22188-Are-you-afraid-of-biorobots-at-your-service The reality Matrix - The funny money (YouTube) http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22187-The-reality-Matrix-The-funny-money-(YouTube)?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 21:44:34 GMT A youtube video with above average information.The reality Matrix - The funny money:http://youtu.be/8smzjxDxtCw ---Quote--- Believe nothing just because a so called wise person said it.Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient... A youtube video with above average information.The reality Matrix - The funny money:http://youtu.be/8smzjxDxtCw
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Believe nothing just because a so called wise person said it.Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.Believe nothing just because someone else believs it.Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.Buddha
]]> Conspiracy Theory Arkham Knight http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22187-The-reality-Matrix-The-funny-money-(YouTube) Gnosis: The Not-So-Secret History of Jesus http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22186-Gnosis-The-Not-So-Secret-History-of-Jesus?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:09 GMT The Electric Jesus - a Jesus book even the Katweesel would like* Gnosis: The Not-So-Secret History of Jesus* Posted by Jonathan Talat Phillips | *Disinfo (http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/gnosis-the-not-so-secret-history-of-jesus/)* This article, which discusses the Mystery School origins of... The Electric Jesus - a Jesus book even the Katweesel would like

Gnosis: The Not-So-Secret History of Jesus

Posted by Jonathan Talat Phillips | Disinfo

This article, which discusses the Mystery School origins of Christianity, comes from my new memoir,
The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic .



In December 1945, during the tail end of the most devastating war in human history, a peasant named Mohammed Ali of the al-Samman clan stumbled upon an earthenware jar near limestone caves in the deserts of Upper Egypt. He feared an evil djin (genie) resided inside, but hoping for lost riches, he still opened the jar. To his disappointment, twelve ragged leather-bound codices fell onto the ground. He didn’t realize these 1,200 weathered pages contained a priceless treasure with dozens of lost Christian gospels that had been hidden away for 1,600 years. Mohammed carried them home to his mother, who kept warm throughout the night by feeding pages of what we now call The Nag Hammadi Library to her fireplace.

These fifty-two texts, with titles like The Gospel of Thomas, Secret James, The Gospel of Mary, The Origin of the World, The Gospel of Philip, Secret John, and The Sophia of Jesus, showed that first-through-fourth century Christianity was much more varied than previously thought, comprised of diverse sects claiming “secret knowledge” of heavenly realms. Modern scholars now label these texts as “Gnostic,” since they lay out an initiatory process for candidates to overcome the “forgetfulness,” “drunkenness,” “blindness,” and “sleep” of the illusory world in order to access gnosis, direct experience or personal revelation of a divine reality.

The Nag Hammadi Library supported the popular theory that Christianity stemmed from the ancient mystery school traditions of the Mediterranean, which featured “dying and resurrecting godmen.” In Egypt they worshiped Horus; in Greece, Dionysus; in Syria, Adonis; in Asia Minor, Attis; in Persia (and later Rome), Mithras; and in Israel, Jesus (historically the most recent). The similarities among these hierophants were uncanny. Several of them, according to the legends, were born on December 25 around the winter solstice to a virgin in humble surroundings (a cave or a manger) with a star in the Eastern sky. Some grew up to be spiritual masters with twelve disciples (Horus, Mithras, Jesus), performing miracles, giving baptisms and communions. They all died (Dionysus dismembered by Titans, Attis and Adonis eaten by wild boars, and Horus, Mithras, and Jesus crucified) before experiencing a miraculous resurrection.

In The Jesus Mysteries, authors Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy discuss how the Vatican sits atop a destroyed Mithraic Temple. “Where today the gathered faithful revere their Lord Jesus Christ, the ancients worshiped another godman who, like Jesus, had been miraculously born on December 25 before three shepherds. In this ancient sanctuary Pagan congregations once glorified a Pagan redeemer who, like Jesus, was said to have ascended to heaven and to have promised to come again at the end of time to judge the quick and the dead. On the same spot where the Pope celebrates the Catholic mass, Pagan priests also celebrated a symbolic meal of bread and wine in memory of their savor who, just like Jesus had declared: ‘He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation.”1

Freke and Gandy argue adamantly that there never was a historical Jesus who walked the sands of Israel, but rather he is a composite of the earlier godmen. But perhaps that’s too hard of a line to draw, since mythical figures are often based on real people — think of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, for example.

According to Freke and Gandy, a number of the Mystery school godmen were called the “Son of God,” and some the “Sun of God.” The word “horizon” comes from “Horus-Sun,” meaning sunrise. As the Egyptian God of daytime, Horus battled his jackal-headed enemy Set (“Sun-Set”), the bringer of night, in a cosmic battle of light and dark. Jesus played a similar role as Horus being “the light of the world” surrounded by twelve disciples who represented the twelve months of the year, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. The sun enters each zodiac sign at thirty degrees (30 x 12 = 360); thus, these “Suns of God” embarked on their ministry at the age of thirty. The classic zodiac cross bisects the twelve astrological signs within a circle. The sun hangs “crucified” in the center as it passes through the precession of the equinoxes, something the mystery schools followed closely as each new sign marked the next world age.

Given the astrological significance of the cross, wisdom traditions often depicted the crucifixion in their writing and art. A notorious second-to-third century European talisman reveals a human figure that looks like Jesus on the cross (with a crescent moon and seven stars above him), but the inscription reads “Orpheus becomes a Bacchoi.” Orpheus was a prophet in the Dionysian mysteries and Bacchio refers to an enlightened disciple who had undergone the final stages of initiation. Around the same time as the talisman had been crafted, a Roman graffiti artist sketched on a pillar the image of a crucified donkey, which symbolized the initiates’ death to their animalistic nature and ascension to the higher Self. The first portrayal of Jesus on a cross wouldn’t appear until 200 years later.

Rather than rejoicing in their similarities, “literalist” Christian leaders — those who had not experienced the secret gnosis (direct knowledge) of the highest mysteries — created dams and divisions between the diverse spiritual streams that originally flowed from the same mystical source. As Freke and Gandy explain, the parallels between Mithras and Jesus threatened the emerging “Literalist Church.” Roman bishops such as Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Irenaeus made the ridiculous claim that the devil had engaged in “diabolical mimicry,” “plagiarizing by anticipation” the story of Jesus before it had actually happened in order to mislead the weak-minded.

MORE- http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/gnosi...tory-of-jesus/ ]]> Zen Zone General Discussion DDutton http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22186-Gnosis-The-Not-So-Secret-History-of-Jesus Computerised Art History http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22185-Computerised-Art-History?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 12:39:20 GMT Image: http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/5/8/9vbhRgrrt0K0D_4JICEkUg2.gif ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22185-Computerised-Art-History Tractor Wheel Falls Off http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22184-Tractor-Wheel-Falls-Off?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 12:36:52 GMT Image: https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/5/17/NXzrhd6q6US0YHvyC-iPzQ2.gif ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22184-Tractor-Wheel-Falls-Off Car Wash Scares Dog http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22183-Car-Wash-Scares-Dog?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 12:34:16 GMT Image: https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/5/14/M-49GjgRrU60s5yf-sDmhw2.gif ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22183-Car-Wash-Scares-Dog Mozart Piano Sonata #16 http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22182-Mozart-Piano-Sonata-16?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 08:50:14 GMT http://youtu.be/XXIu0MRuIQU ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22182-Mozart-Piano-Sonata-16 End of the Line http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22181-End-of-the-Line?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 08:19:36 GMT Attachment 15740 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15740)Attachment 15741 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15741)Attachment 15742 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15742)Attachment 15743... Name: aa end of the line.jpg Views: 5 Size: 95.1 KBName: aa end of line2.jpg Views: 5 Size: 99.0 KBName: aa harrison ford.jpg Views: 5 Size: 53.2 KBName: aa mitt what i said.jpg Views: 5 Size: 41.9 KBName: aujto supe trust hime.jpg Views: 5 Size: 32.7 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22181-End-of-the-Line Custer: Famous Last Words http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22180-Custer-Famous-Last-Words?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 08:13:56 GMT Attachment 15739 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15739) Name: aa fame last words.jpg Views: 8 Size: 57.5 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22180-Custer-Famous-Last-Words Is Close Enough Good Enough? http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22179-Is-Close-Enough-Good-Enough?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 08:11:11 GMT Attachment 15738 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15738) Name: aa close enuff.jpg Views: 5 Size: 24.8 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22179-Is-Close-Enough-Good-Enough <![CDATA[Why Men and Women Can't Be Just Friends]]> http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22178-Why-Men-and-Women-Can-t-Be-Just-Friends?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 08:05:05 GMT http://youtu.be/T_lh5fR4DMA ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22178-Why-Men-and-Women-Can-t-Be-Just-Friends ZZ Chief Executive http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22177-ZZ-Chief-Executive?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 06:58:17 GMT From The Chronicles of Narnia... It's Aslan LOL

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Source: The Economist / May 12, 2012


Amarillo SlimPhoto: JOHN FREEMAN

IF YOU found yourself sitting at the poker table opposite Amarillo Slim, you were wisest not to say one word. He might try to get you talking, of course. How are you and how’ve you been, any sort of yakking. Best to keep quiet. He could get a tell from you just by watching the sweat on your upper lip. In fact he could know your whole hand by looking at the pulse in your cheek. If you tried to read him back, you’d find those cool hard eyes hidden in the shadow of his big old Stetson hat. He had a rattlesnake head on the band of it—killed by himself, so he said—and he might tell you that as a token of affection he’d put a rattler in your pocket and ask you for a match.

He looked like a Texas cowboy, and that was what he was, with a big spread of acres and many head of registered longhorn cattle. He could rope and drag Arabian stallions faster than they could run, and talk feedlots and milking schedules with the best. But then you noticed that this sonnagun had custom-made ostrich boots with spades, clubs, hearts and diamonds on them, and gold one-dollar-pieces sewn over the buttons on his shirts (or, for best, the uncut emeralds sent to him by Pablo Escobar to apologise for abducting him in Colombia by mistake). Mighty fancy gear, and company, for a cowboy.


Amarillo SlimPhoto: JOHN FREEMAN
He was so tall and scrawny that he said he feared the bathtub as a boy, in case he vanished down the drain. You’d think you could easily bust his skinny country ass. But when he moved in he was tight and fierce, aggressive as a grizzly bear. So though he sounded like a bumpkin it was all part of the bluff, for you didn’t win four World Series of Poker without a master’s skill in mind-reading and arithmetic, and nerves of steel to match.

If you asked him his tips for playing the best poker in the world, he’d gripe that he would rather see an early frost on his peach trees than give his secrets away. But then he’d tell you just the same. Play the players, not the cards, he would say. Watch them from the minute you sit down. Play fast in a slow game, slow in a fast one. Never get out when you’re winning. Look for the sucker and, if you can’t see one, get up and leave, because the sucker is you.

A fly on a sugar cube

All his skills he honed from boyhood. First hustling for pool shots with Mexicans in Amarillo, then driving out along the dust road with friends to look for poker games. He told his Daddy he was going quail-hunting, but he came back with $800, including the first $100 bill he’d ever seen. After that he spent years touring the south-west, playing all night and sleeping all day in the back of the Pontiac while his wife drove. There wasn’t a more enjoyable way on earth to get rich without having a job.

MORE- http://www.economist.com/node/21554486 ]]> PSI and Gambling zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22173-Remembering-Amarillo-Slim-1928-2012 Photo Journalist Applicant Test http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22172-Photo-Journalist-Applicant-Test?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 04:08:33 GMT There was a test, several years ago, that was given to applicants for a major newspaper's photo-journalist position.

It consisted of a short story scenario, and then a key question at the end requiring an unabashed response:

"You find yourself in the midst of the greatest storm hurricane ever to hit Florida -
- whole houses and farms swirling and washing away as you take great award-winning photos ...

"And suddenly you see close to the water's edge, George Bush (or Obama) struggling desperately in the water,
being pulled under by tremendous currents, moments away from succumbing to a violent death by drowning ...

"And in that moment you realize that you must make a major decision: Do you capture the moment,
the heart-wrenching photographic impressions of the death of the most powerful man on earth, and potentially nab a Pulitzer Prize ...

"Or do you lay down the camera and rescue from certain death the President of the United states?" ...

Okay, now the question part: Would you use a rich textured color chromatic film, or go with the classic realism of hi-def black and white? ]]> Zen Zone General Discussion zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22172-Photo-Journalist-Applicant-Test Will Ferrel Answers Internet Questions http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22171-Will-Ferrel-Answers-Internet-Questions?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:35 GMT http://youtu.be/ehYoIKTsiV0 ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22171-Will-Ferrel-Answers-Internet-Questions Obama Tricks The Bridesmaid http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22170-Obama-Tricks-The-Bridesmaid?goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 03:51:33 GMT http://youtu.be/ehYoIKTsiV0 ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22170-Obama-Tricks-The-Bridesmaid Arnie Masturbation http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22169-Arnie-Masturbation?goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 21:24:56 GMT Attachment 15727 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15727) Name: aa arne mastur.jpg Views: 10 Size: 23.4 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22169-Arnie-Masturbation Old USN Hover Platform http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22168-Old-USN-Hover-Platform?goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 09:03:14 GMT Image: https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/5/16/Z2HdbxEPckKrBcfzvA5M1A2.gif ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22168-Old-USN-Hover-Platform An AP and His Mother http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22167-An-AP-and-His-Mother?goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 08:43:17 GMT Image: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/WashingtonPost/Production/Libraries/Common/StandingArt/Comics/2012-05-16/HAX120516.jpg ]]> PSI and Gambling DDutton http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22167-An-AP-and-His-Mother <![CDATA[Wonderwoman's Stars]]> http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22166-Wonderwoman-s-Stars?goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 08:20:29 GMT Attachment 15717 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15717) Name: aa stars.jpg Views: 10 Size: 24.2 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22166-Wonderwoman-s-Stars Time For Some Beefcake http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22165-Time-For-Some-Beefcake?goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 08:17:48 GMT Attachment 15716 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15716) Name: aa beefcake.jpg Views: 11 Size: 41.8 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/22165-Time-For-Some-Beefcake