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Awakening The Ecological Unconscious
Ecopsychology: healing our alienation from the rest of Creation
by Theodore Roszak
from: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC34/Roszak.htm
With the lessening threat of thermonuclear war, the abuse of the planetary environment by industrial society remains as the largest, most obvious form of collective psychosis in the modern world.
Are we to believe that this collusive madness plays no part in [...]

I posted some pics from yesterday’s Zombie Walk into the blog. I heard this kind of event becomes more and more popular in several cities in Germany. If you don’t have it already where you live I guess most of you have sufficient subcultural connections so it could be organized in your city, too. You wouldn’t believe how ordinary people react to a large group of zombies walking through the city. It was hilarious.

Projection is one of the most common psychological quirks and one that greatly enhances our existence once we learn how it operates in our lives. Projection, simply put is when we see some aspect of our selves which we are not conscious of in the behaviour or character of other people, generally in an exaggerated [...]

I have just bought the little "Orange Book" by Osho which I can recommend if any of you search for a collection of meditation techniques. The instructions in this book are very diverse. There are simple instructions for zazen (fortunately less strict than some instructions directly from the Japanese tradition), for meditative dancing, screaming, even smoking, nice ideas about how you can make sports a kind of meditation, old Hindu meditations, new meditations by Osho – actually about every way meditation can be done.
I found I respond very well to good texts about meditation in my own practice. A good simple enlightened text about it can often help me do it better and get much deeper into the practice.
"The Orange Book" just contains an unbelievable wealth of ideas to integrate into your own practice, especially when you feel you get stuck with your work and can’t make the necessary leap towards real achievement.
It really helps a lot to transcend whatever you are involved with.

P.S.: I hope the forum hasn’t suddenly died or anything. There’s not much activity recently, is there?

On the old KIA forum we had a section about films, music and so on. I used to recommend stuff there often. Now I just saw a film on German television that enjoyed a lot. The title is Shinobi (the one from 2005). Well yeah, it’s a ninja film and we all know how cheesy ninja films can be. But it is rather one in the tradition of Tiger And Dragon and similar films. There’s actually a lot of ninja magic even in this film which is why I think it could be interesting for you. And there are also very beautiful people and beautiful landscapes. I really found it was eye candy.
I don’t know if you know anything about real ninja magic. They have some meditative techniques and mantras for certain purposes as far as I know. Well in Shinobi we get presented with some stuff that is rather fantasy compared to what I heard. But the whole movie has such a dreamy effect that makes me wonder about what ninjas might be capable of. If it’s all a bit sophisticated I found I love ninjas now that I saw that film. Not that I would want any in my room now, you know! HarHarHarHarrrrrr! Well, some say they can be invisible. If there are any around they could be around for some while already but didn’t bother me so far.

What am I talking about? I better stop…

Just wanted to recommend SHINOBI

One place where we can leverage our effort to reduce victim playing effectively is in our language patterns. We can eliminate the tendency to use blame language and make a habit of using responsibility patterns.
Probably the worst offender is the word “should.”
“You should have,” “I should have,” “It should be like…” Any time you use [...]

After a long while in which I felt I could trust everybody and felt safe and everything got better step by step I am suddenly paranoid again. And as the Aquarius that I am I will tend to intellectualise it all, definitely. I have myself surely sought my way into the chapel perilous and just some days agao still dreamed about the possibilities it offers. I have arrived there without drugs this time, none but the everyday western civilization drugs of nicotine, caffeine and alcohol in the evening. When I try to describe it it sounds stupid to me. On friday I was on my way to a place where I like to hang out with friends and on the way first saw an improbable lookalike of somebody I knew and haven’t seen for very long, then had the feeling that on the train and on the streets were exceptionally many people with strange expressions and ways of moving. Fantasizing about it was still fun and I arrived at my destination with the thought that the city was full of badly disguised extraterrestrials. The first beer and talk with a friend brought a giant inner shrug and these mildly paranoid thoughts were gone for the rest of the night. The weekend was mostly relaxed and I indulged in some creative and hedonistic activities until on some other internet forum I felt I was suddenly attacked for almost no reason by several people, felt their way of dealing with me didn’t fit how unimportant the subject of the discussion actually was. One of these persons wrote a messiancic book and wants to found an organization based on it, a fact that could also nourish my paranoia. We all became a little bitchy until moderators of that forum managed to calm down the situation and they even agreed with me that the others had lacked respect when I already thought I might have been over-sensitive. A thing I was happy about was that my new website got visitors, first many at once after I had announced the launching of the site to all my friends via E-mail but then even regularly new ones when the site appeared on Google. The site stats showed over 550 clicks last morning. Then I checked back in the evening and suddenly the stats were all set to ZERO! Although I have comments about my site in forum posts and E-mails and in the guestbook the site stats tell me no one ever visited the site so far.
The stupid thing is that that happened while I have a tendency to get paranoid during the last days anyway. It might turn out it is a technical problem. But just what it loooks like to me now is awful. I have opened the start page myself to see if that click would appear in the stats, and it did. Since then there is this one click in the stats and no new ones although the days before brought new visitors every few hours.
I really wouldn’t make anything of the events a few days ago and just see it as half my sensitivity, half bitchiness in my surroundings, nothing special. But why in the world a real event like the last one after I already felt something’s conspiring against me? The last time I was more seriously paranoid a few years ago ended with somebody physically attacking me, almost killing me. Bad luck for him was I had already sworn brutal vengeance on the ones I felt were after me. To say it clearly: as he was strangling me and I felt it wouldn’t be long until I’d pass out I seriously damaged one of his eyes which ultimately saved my ass! But because of my paranoia I was ready to beat up or mutilate anybody already who would show he’s really turning against me which I suspected all the time. Afterwards it turned out no group or anything was after me at all and the guy was just a stupid slightly fascist choleric acting on his own.
Well, what happens in such cases? I wish I knew. It is as if suspicion suddenly brings about real events that nourish it. And as I said, I have already experienced such events that had no causal relation with anything I had suspected before. But at first glance it just seems THEY are after you. Just for what reason? And that’s what never makes sense. There isn’t ever any serious reason that would justify anybody turning against you. Still you experience just that. Probably the different real incidences nourishing the paranoia have no relation with each other at all. Still they happen at the same time. And after how your life was at other times it is just very improbable that just anything turns against you at once this way. Is super-organism or the pecking order doing such things? Do other people instinctively feel the need to attack a position you might have just gained? Or is it synchronicity you bring about psychokinetically but unintentionally according to your complexes? Or am I even reality shifting or something? Or are these events hallucinations with an unusual degree of realism and duration. A the moment I prefer the pecking order/super-organism explanation in a way.
I hope this phase will be over soon and will not lead to either violence or me getting in a clinic. At least I have no obvious hallucinations but if some of my experiences are just very realistic hallucinations that would be even worse, of course. The fact that I don’t smoke weed anymore for almost two years now makes me a lot safer. And at the risk of sounding like a stupid old hippy: if you experience anything like this, don’t take drugs! Believe me!

I shall be out of touch a good bit for two weeks.

See you when return

*hugs*

Tel
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I am actually not that much of a friend of classic psychoanalysis and Sartre convinced me that it is often sadistically abused. I wanna say some things out of pure empathy, though.
Aleister Crowley was a case of a man with breasts which is not the same as a real hermaphrodite, it’s just a functionless thing nature brings about from time to time. The problem is that probably the women who felt attracted to Crowley must have had the feeling of being a bit perverted, or to put it simply: he attracted only perverted women. I suspect that none of these women were ever liberated enough to combine their attraction, which they felt was perverted, with true love. The attraction these women felt may have been combined with all kinds of complexes and neuroses, maybe often with sadism resulting from a personal understanding of male-female archetypes. This led to a) counter-sadism from Crowley to protect himself and out of frustration for never getting true love b) increasingly bigger attempts to do something that would deserve him true love from anybody during his lifetime. All of this combined with the intense formative influence of true paranormal experience. As a mystic, I believe Crowley sooner or later became conscious about the true reasons for his counter-sadism which lessened that a bit and his desperation resulted in a sense of the absurd and its humourous side.
I don’t know if any of you have ever seen the picture of that happy family: Rose Kelly, Aleister Crowley and their three year old daughter sitting on his shoulders being silly behind the proud fathers head. That paradise became destroyed by demons more terrible than those encountered by any wizard, by those of morals, aesthetics and human weakness.

The biggest roadblock to attracting what you want is if you indulge in the victim mentality. The victim is someone that dwells on what they don’t want. They abdicate their responsibility for their own lives and with it their power over it. They don’t live their lives, their lives happen to them. A result of [...]