Obama, Putin, and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn...

Check out this depiction of the nature god, Pan, from the Wind in the Willows, and keep it in the back of your mind. It will circle back around...

I find it very interesting that recently there has been sentiment circulating via the internet in support of Vladimir Putin as contrasted with President Obama. The following picture, among others, has been widely circulated on Facebook.

Funny, it wasn't long ago that this country was engaged in a "Cold War," and the dominant sentiment among it citizens seemed to be anti-communist. So I have to wonder, what could possibly be behind the growing support and promotion of the President of Russia, as juxtaposed to growing dissent for our own commander in chief, by social media?  It would seem to me that the underlying purpose here is to bring our once great nation back into the global control system, under a collectivist agenda, a mechanism for world government, global control, and the eradication of individual liberty and God-Given Human Rights from the consciousness of humanity once and for all.  This is nothing less than the final step in the elimination of human free will.  Let's go back...

The first Red Scare began in the early 20th century, following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the United States' entry into World War I in 1919 under Woodrow Wilson.  People were taught to fear communism, and as a result of this propaganda, the United States Government was able to pass the Espionage Act of 1917, followed by the Sedition Act of 1918.  You may have noticed that we are hearing a lot about these pieces of legislation recently with regard to the sharing of information and telling of the truth.

In 1898, Kenneth Grahame penned a story he called "The Reluctant Dragon," which was adapted by Walt Disney Studios (thanks again, Uncle Walt) in 1941 and made into a feature film, released on June 20, 1941.   Does that year sound familiar?  Yes, Pearl Harbor occurred later that same year.  Maybe it's just a coincidence, but just stay with me for a moment.

The second Red Scare began in 1947, after the Second World War, and was termed "McCarthyism" after Senator Joseph McCarthy.  But the Berlin Wall came down, and Communism (the Dragon) was defeated once and for all...right?  Russia has a President, and is a "Democratic" nation, right?

Now, watch the movie...

By the way, does the name Kenneth Grahame sound familiar? It may. He also wrote the famous children's story The Wind in the Willows, which offers many clues as to his political ideology and spiritual beliefs.  Would it surprise you to discover that our "leaders"--the people who rule us--have demonic, Luciferian, and Satanic belief systems that influence their dominance of us and their shaping of the world as we currently experience it?  Does the world seem wonderful right now?  Has it ever in your lifetime?  Don't you ever wonder why that is?

Our opinions are being engineered, because Free Will cannot be taken from you without your consent.  Beware of your opinions, and think about what you are inclined to believe.  If you don't we are all going to find ourselves in Gulags again.

"Sex Sells" - The mantra of the hive

If you care about your species, please keep reading.  If you care about your children, please teach them some version of what follows.

The other day I was in the kitchen remarking to my wife that these days a person can't buy cucumbers at Wegman's without also being sold sex.  I saw the word on every single magazine presented before me as I walked to the checkout lane.  The more I looked, the more I saw it.  After a while, even the cucumbers I was holding seemed to have a hidden message.  It struck me that this has been going on for a very long time, and seems to be escalating.  I was reminded of the society Mike Judge envisioned in Idiocracy.

So my son piped up and said, "Sports Illustrated."

"What?" I asked.

"I bet Sports Illustrated doesn't have that word on the cover," he replied.

I nodded.  He was probably right.  Maybe I was overstating things.  Then the new issue of Sports Illustrated came.

So my son says, "Oh my God, what the heck? Why is that word everywhere?"

Here is my answer. 

There was a bee in our kitchen that morning, and I had been telling the boys that if they just leave it alone, it won't hurt them.  I asked them why they think bees sting people, and they answered "because they're scared," and "because humans look like bears, and they are afraid that we will steal their honey."

Either way, I think fear is as close as we can get to a correct answer.  There is some good information here if you are interested in learning more about bee-havior.  Bees are interesting animals, and the idea of the hive mentality can shed some light on many aspects of human behavior today. 

"So why does fear exist?" I went on.  They thought for a moment, and came up with "to keep you safe," and "to protect you."  Good answers.  So what's the truth?

Fear appears to exist as a protective mechanism to sustain life, and prevent death and/or injury.  It is thought that the fear response resides in the most primitive aspects of our central nervous systems, but all living things appear to have this resonse-ability, including plants.  Perhaps the fear response resides in a more ethereal part of the body, but that is another discussion altogether.  It will suffice to say that the fear response is one of the most important response mechanisms that exists for living beings, and develops early on, residing deep within the organism.  

As the nervous system grows and evolves into a more sophisticated network for information processing, more complex thought patterns can arise, and eventually, self-reflection and deductive reasoning are born.  However, the later additions to the nervous system which house these processes, namely the cortex and neocortex, being farther up the chain, can be short-circuited by the more primitive brain structures, often referred to as the R-Complex or Reptilian Brain.  When a life-threatening crisis is perceived, nerve impulses are thought to travel to the R-Complex, and then before they are passed on to the higher centers, are routed directly to the organs and muscles, enabling a more immediate response without the need for logical thought or cognitive rationalization.  Animals which have not evolved to have sophisticated nervous systems live their lives primarily acting on instinct, never having developed a cerebral cortex or neocortex.

So what are some examples of instinctual motivators?  What types of behaviors and elements are needed for life to continue?  Well, we need air, so breathing is a big one.  Without air, we die.  Without water, we die.  Without food, we die.  And interestingly, without sex, our species dies.  Hmmm.  Might it make sense that the sexual drive is such a strong impulse?  Some have claimed that it is this impulse that drove God himself to start the whole thing with "the big bang." 

But I digress.  

Imagine if you, as a child, were taught that water is dangerous and bad, and drinking it is a sin.  And let's say you believed this to be true.  It follows that you would feel bad about drinking water, because you would "know" that it is wrong, but you would also know that you have to do it in order to live.  You would experience cognitive dissonance, and it is likely that this would weigh heavily upon your mind, until you changed it.  You might convince yourself that water tastes bad, or that the feelings you experience are the work of the devil.  This all requires a great deal of thought and mental effort, in contrast with someone who takes the water for granted, knows there is plenty of it, is grateful for it, feels good about drinking it, and subsequently frees his mind to think about other things.  

Now imagine that the television is constantly showing you, a firm believer in the "bad water" story, commercials featuring waterfalls and raindrops as a sales tactic.  Might make you pretty thirsty.  This is a good way to keep you thinking about water, right?  This is a good way to keep you in your reptilian brain, don't you think?  And this is also a good way to keep you in cognitive dissonance.

So essentially, what appears to be happening is that the media controllers continue to show us all images designed to keep us engaged with our reptilian brains, in order to prevent us from elevating our thoughts into the more advanced rational cognitive centers.  It is primarily fear, rage, and sex that activate the reptilian brain.  They show you these things to keep you dumb, to prevent you from figuring out that they are keeping you dumb, and to make you dumber.

If you have a minute, by the way, do a Google image search for "Sports Illustrated" and see how many sports you see.

You pay for what you get....

"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law."
~The Kybalion


The frequently invoked colloquialism “you get what you pay for” often appears to be untrue.  You might think that, according to this idea, if you pay top-dollar for an item or a service, you will be guaranteed to receive a top-notch item or service in return. You may be able to remember specific examples when this hasn't been the case in your life.  You might be tempted then to dismiss this expression, and condemn it to a life of imprisonment  in some dark corner of your mind, with all of the other misleading statements you've collected in your years.

The esoteric root of the phrase, however, conveys an immutable universal law.  Sooner or later, one way or another, we always pay for what we get.  There is no effect (getting) without a cause (paying).  In Hermetic terms, this is called the Law of Causation.  In the health care industry, this law has been confounded for many decades by the ever-expanding presence of third party payers.  Now, the insurance company steps in the middle, and receives payment from a business in exchange for taking on risk for its employees.  When an employee seeks care, the insurance company is expected to pay for the care.  The doctor provides the care, and then asks for payment not from the person to whom the service was given, but from the insurance company, an impersonal entity with an address on the other side of the country.  It begins to become very unclear where the causes and effects are in this scenario, and consequently, nobody feels accountable for what happens.

During my 16 years as a dentist, I have seen the value of a doctor’s care, skill, and judgment fade into the background.  I think people still want good doctors, but the trend seems to be that we no longer think we should have to pay them.  Those insurance megacorporations with the big buildings downtown will take care of that kind of stuff for us...won't they?

I've come to see that the only way I can directly correlate value with service is to engage in voluntary direct exchange with another party, quid pro quo.  I still believe the doctor-patient relationship to be sacred, and the involvement of outside “third party payers” in the decision-making and treatment-planning process contaminates the primary goal of treatment, which is always for the patient to heal.  The best doctors are knowledgeable guides who harm no one, while they lead their patients to ever-higher levels of health and well-being.  Insurance companies are like charlatans, bandits, and gypsies along the path, whose only interest in the traveler is to cleverly lead him off the path, onto the collectivist paddy-wagon, and ultimately separate him from his money.  

Be wary, America.  The guides are disappearing.

To raise, or not to raise...

Welcome, and namaste.

I presume you have been led here because you have a deep desire to raise your plow, although you may not know exactly what that means. Well, rest assured, you have come to the right place, and I am glad you are here. There are many layers of meaning in the expression "raise plow," from the profane to the esoteric. I will reveal only a portion of the wisdom contained within that mantra here, and it will be up to you to embark on your very own epic journey to discover for yourself what remains of the truth. Be warned, once you take the red pill, there is no turning back.

So why have I titled this blog, "Raising Plow?" Well, it all started in Dental School, when my roomates and I went to the mall and borrowed a sign. Here in Buffalo, it snows a fair amount in the winter, and there are signs around with instructions to plow operators. We were fond of making up euphemisms back then--still are--so as we pulled into an empty parking spot, and gazed upon the sign hanging boldly the concrete wall in front of us, we began to formulate an idea. What if we used the expression "raise plow" to indicate one's level of inibriation? How hilarious that would be!! Back then we were fond of drinking alcohol to dull the pain of the educational process. And so it went. We confiscated the sign, which was clearly ours to begin with, and went on about our business on that lovely, bitterly crisp, snow-filled Saturday, watching college football at Pizzeria Uno's, raising our plows.

Since that red-letter date in history almost 20 years ago, not much has changed, at least with respect to the expression, "raising plow." Even after 1992 release of the album "Raise the Plow" by Railroad Jerk, the expression remained cloaked in relative obscurity. When the Simpsons episode "Mr. Plow" aired, we laughed our asses off, but still nobody seemed to grasp the true meaning and profundity of this extraordinary phrase. Signs still abound in snowy parts of the country, and every time a vehicle passes by me with its plow raised, I tip my metaphorical hat to its driver.

But what is the actual meaning of raising plow? I've struggled with this question for many years, searching to the ends of the earth for an answer. Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole. I do still have the sign in my garage, so every once in a while I think about it, and it makes me smile. Which is what brought me to this blog. As I searched my mind for possible names, it seemed that there was a blog named practically everything. I tried nonsensical names, common names, and muddled up expressions or backwards speak. Everything seemed to be already taken. Then, in the bitter silence of my desperate solitude, the sign began to sing..."Mr Plow is a loser, and I think he is a boozer..." from my garage. I was pessimistic at first. Surely somebody had already thought of this name. As I typed the keys on my laptop, beads of sweat dripping from my brow to the tip of my nose as  my anxiety intensified with each stroke of the keyboard. And then it happened. Success!! It was available!!

So that brings me to now. What does it all mean? Well, I've pondered this question deep, and good. What I have come up with is this: the purpose of a plow is to move snow off the path so that travelers can reach their destinations, despite bad weather (the storm). Without a reliable plow man, we are essentially "snowed in." If there is a shortage of plows, many people remain stranded. When people rely on others to plow the snow out of their way, they become dependent. When you decide to become a plow man, and call Komatsu Motors (or its equivalent on the etheral plane) to rent you very own plow, you become self-sufficient! However, there are dangers on the road for a plow man. There are bumps in the road which can wreak havoc with your plow, which is the only instrument you have for moving the snow out of the way. There are mailboxes, and animals, and most of the time the road is not clear. Sometimes you will plow into a field, and maybe even a ditch. You must keep your plow lowered in order to move the snow, but when you know the road ahead is treacherous, you must raise your plow.

It is now up to you to decide what the plow represents to you. Is it literally a device that moves snow off the road? Perhaps it is logic? Or maybe consciousness? Magic? Whatever you decide, I look forward to being a part of this journey with you. For I am a plow man, and I am eager to help you find your plow...and raise it.

Peace.

The Controllers...

I'm reading a book by Paul Coelho called Manuscript Found in Accra, and the chapter on anxiety has me thinking about our situation as humans on this crazy planet, and as citizens of this psychopathic country of La Merika.

It seems to me, from my diminutive perspective, that most of the population is being led by a small group of individuals who have devised, or exploited, a method to control large numbers of individuals, and in this way they have controlled the collective human consciousness on this planet. With 7 billion humans roaming the Earth, most of whom are not aware of themselves as individual spiritual entities with direct access to the divine, control of the minds of most of these individuals gives the controllers extraordinary, some may say supernatural, influence over events on this planet, and over the environment in which we live.

How do they do this? How could they possibly do this? How can a small group of men CONTROL THE MINDS of billions of people? Well, it's quite simple, actually. They can't. The only person who has the authority to CONTROL your mind is YOU. Period. This is natural law, and it is unbreakable. It's not that if the law is broken, then the offender must be punished, it's that the LAW is UNBREAKABLE. It is true no matter what we do. However, there are loopholes in this law. A major loophole is that you, having complete and sovereign authority over your own mind, have the free will to give that authority to another if you wish. The mind is a great and powerful gift, but so is your free will. Remember how vampires can't enter your house without an invitation? This is the origin of that tale. No one can take control of your mind without your permission.

The controllers are very clever, though, and they have learned the way the mind works. They have worked very hard over the centuries to occult this information, and to demonize those of us who seek to understand it for ourselves. I invite you to think about the following hypothesis, and ask yourself honestly if it makes sense in your life.

From Coelho: "Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it--just as we have learned to live with storms."

Does any part of you feel a spark of rebellion when you read that? Something inside you that says, "to hell with that, I'll find a way to CONTROL the storms so my loved ones and I no longer have to fear them!" This is where the pathology begins. A controller-sponsored television PROGRAM might hone in on that spark, and speak directly to it. You WANT the control, because it means safety. You FEAR the storm. Since you don't realize that your thoughts influence your reality, as well as the reality of those around you, and to a lesser degree, everything else in the Universe, you SEEK a savior to protect you from the storm. You are presented with a savior figure, which can take many forms, and you BELIEVE that the savior will protect you. You freely GIVE UP your sovereignty and your own free will, and submit to the thoughts and will being conveyed to you by the makers of the PROGRAM. Finally, you ADOPT those thoughts, beliefs, and soundbytes as your own, and you become an ambassador for the controllers. You have invited the vampire into your house, and you have been bitten. God begins to fade.

The controllers have honed their craft and purified their bloodlines over many centuries, distilling, purifying, and amplifying the desire to control with each successive generation. You have within you all that you need, and indeed all that ever can exist, to protect you from the storm. You have within you direct access to the divine realm, if you will just slow down, breathe, be quiet, and listen for a moment. The world has become a very noisy place, and the voice of God is but a whisper.

For the time being, the controllers appear to have the upper hand. Most of humanity has not yet awakened, and many ask what can possibly be done. Change in the world begins inside each one of us, and the condition of the world is the result of our collective thoughts and beliefs, leading to our words and our rhetoric, which finally leads us to our actions. We are the ones who take action. Often we justify our actions with the phrase, "I was just trying to do my job." This is an unfortunate and dangerous side-effect of the adoption of the redeemer complex. When you give up the responsibility for protection to something outside yourself, you also give up accountability for your actions. God disappears.

But no matter what you decide, rest assured that the storm will indeed come, and in the end, you will have to face it alone.

Right Thought

Thinking about "right thinking" today. Someone recently asked me, during a group conversation about all the things that are wrong in the world, "well, what are YOU going to do about it?" The question was delivered in a bit of an angry tone, and I felt myself bristle immediately as I tried to muster up an answer. I thought about it, and I really didn't have a good answer. The truth is, I don't know enough about what is really happening in the world to even venture a guess about what can be done to change it. The answer I gave was that all I feel competent to do at this stage in my life is to learn more about the truth--the objective reality that exists beyond my twisted perception--and connect with others who are interested in doing the same. Of course this was not satisfactory, but as far as I was concerned, there was a bigger question here, one which I don't think my assailant was interested in considering. The question is "what can I do?"

So let's start there. What can I do? Well, I am reasonably certain and confident that I have the ability to change my own perceptions and behavior. I can begin to understand more deeply what I believe and why I believe it. I can begin to take an honest look at how I act toward others, and I can try to uncover what it is that causes me to act that way. I can begin to listen more closely to the words that come out of my mouth, trying to perceive the inflection with which these utterances are delivered, and perhaps decide whether or not I wish to continue speaking in this manner. Lastly, I can step back for a moment, and take a candid look at the things I do.

So the answer to the question, "what are YOU going to do about it??" ["it" being the world, an injustice, or anything external to the self] is nothing, but not in the way a pessimist would dismiss the value of right action on the basis of perceived futility. No, the truth, at least as I currently understand it, is that there is nothing I can do which will directly and effectively change some condition which is external to me, because there are billions upon billions of additional influential factors simultaneously acting upon that very same condition. That condition may change, but if the condition involves conscious volition, it will change only when IT decides to. My actions and my words may influence it, but they do not change it. Even in the most extreme case of coercion, a choice is made between resistance and avoidance of suffering and/or death. Such it is with consciousness and free will.

However, I can indeed change my own patterns; I can change my beliefs, my words, and my actions. I can "be the change." I can turn my gaze inward to discover what within me finds a particular condition offensive, deplorable, or otherwise unacceptable. Perhaps when I meet the shadow within myself who is responsible for this negative emotional response, I will realize it is this to which I object, and the external condition will no longer be unacceptable to me. Perhaps when I discover the truth, I will still dislike the situation, but I will realize that nothing can be done to change it. And maybe I'll find out that the situation is indeed deplorable, and needs to be changed. Only after I have cleaned my own house, however, am I prepared to start out on that path.