Closer To The Stars

How to deal with the emerging violence

2005-07-21T20:24:00.000Z

There is one interesting thing about Krishnamurti that was both striking and educational for the people who attended his public talks. He never commented directly on violent events happening in the world. If asked, he actually said to people: "don't feed it. Don't give it energy." What did he mean by this?

During one public discussion a transatlantic passenger plane blew apart killing everyone on board. One would have expected that he say something to people about this tragedy. He said not a word. Not a single word or comment did he make. Krishnamurti saw our own mindless reaction to violent events as being part of the problem. He himself did not "react", and he advised others also, not to react. He often said to people: "When you react to violence you feed it and give it power, you make it happen." When in reality one had to withdraw the energy from thought, which is the source of all conflict.

During the talks and discussions Krishnamurti focused on the untapped resource of the human being to know peace, which was to have a mind free of conflict and violence. He considered that this world would only know peace when the mind was quiet and free of fear. When dealing with violence he suggested, seeing it for what it is and letting it go. The violence of thought was as real as the act itself. When he said: "You live such violent lives." He meant inwardly, individually, personally in the way people think and live.

During his talks he actually carried people away from the mundane world and into a world of peace. This peace resonated in his voice as passionate and something we must all demand of ourselves. He insisted that we accept nothing less, no compromise and that to do this would mean walking away from the world. He even suggested one has to leave the violence to destroy itself, and that "opposing violence" was, in itself an act of violence. He said the two have the same root, the same cause ... the cause being personal fear and the solution being the complete ending and absence of fear.

"Indira Ghandi was shot by two of her security guards October 31 at 9:20 A.M., as she was walking from her residence to her office. Riddled by bullets, she fell mortally wounded to the earth, surrounded by growing things. She fell close to the grove of kadamba saplings she had planted that rainy season, after the June tragedy in Punjab.

"Krishnaji sat through the day in my sitting room overlooking the garden; he had watched the trees and the birds, hardly speaking and eating little. At four in the afternoon he had felt Indira's presence and had commented on the need for silence within the mind to enable her to be at peace. I could see that he was deeply moved. Late the next night he was to say, "Don't hold memories of Indira in your mind, that holds her to the earth. Let her go." His hand made a gesture towards space and eternity."

From - Krishnamurti: A Biography, by Pupul Jayakar

Krishnamurti.org

Cosmo-Politicus

2005-06-29T12:16:00.000Z

ReMember WingMakers

Watching the birth of New Man

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God,

but to create him."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

In an April 1, 1997 profile in the New York Times, Clarke speaks about his new book 3001, the latest and perhaps final in the series of books beginning with 2001:

In the world of 3001 Clarke envisions for the story, the writer of the piece, John F. Burns, says: "Perhaps most controversially, religions of all kinds have fallen under a strict taboo, with the citizenry looking back on the religious beliefs and practices of earlier ages as products of ignorance that caused untold strife and bloodshed. But the concept of a God, known by the Latin word Deus, survives, a legacy of man's continuing wonder at the universe.

"In this, Clarke is giving vent to one of the few things that seem to ruffle his equable nature. 'Religion is a byproduct of fear,' he says. 'For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?'"

2001 Space-Odyssey X-plained

One Equal Zero

2005-04-11T23:11:00.000Z

X-plore WingMakers' Chamber 6

You and nothingness are one - Krishnamurti

"You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and bank account, you may have power and be famous; but in spite of all these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of it; but it is there, do what you will to avoid it. You may try to escape from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusement; but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a separate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes. If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, then fear - which exists only when the thinker is separate from his thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them - completely drops away."

The explosion of meditation

Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. J. Krishnamurti

HAL 9000 when the screwdriver has taken over onbehalf of mankind. This sums up what all this was about... adventure aka humanity - now we are entering part 4 - BEYOND THE INFINITE - Are you READY ? Take your time & enjoy - it is fun - a game show - by Stanley Kubrick

2001 Space-Odyssey X-plained

and

Dawn of the magi

Action Without Thought

2005-04-01T16:10:00.000Z

Some have asked me why I have two blogs.
I was born with Mars in Gemini. Many ideas...

"What do we mean by idea?

Surely idea is the process of thought. Is it not? Idea is a process of mentation, of thinking; and thinking is always a reaction either of the conscious or of the unconscious. Thinking is a process of verbalization which is the result of memory; thinking is a process of time. So, when action is based on the process of thinking, such action must inevitably be conditioned, isolated. Idea must oppose idea, idea must be dominated by idea. There is a gap then between action and idea. What we are trying to find out is whether it is possible for action to be without idea. We see how idea separates people. As I have already explained, knowledge and belief are essentially separating qualities. Beliefs never bind people; they always separate people; when action is based on belief or an idea or an ideal, such an action must inevitably be isolated, fragmented. Is it possible to act without the process of thought, thought being a process of time, a process of calculation, a process of self-protection, a process of belief, denial, condemnation, justification. Surely, it must have occurred to you as it has to me, whether action is at all possible without idea."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

OPEN LION STARGATE!

CUTTING THROUGH "Spi.Mat."

2005-03-15T20:36:00.000Z

Asked during meetings with our friends & clients what it is we do to be safe, and what it is we do NOT do in order to create our new safe places networks, I felt this thirty year old classic excerpt from the Orient 4 the Occident would do justice to the vision I wish to manifest during this Piscean Uranian phase into 2010:

What is "SpiMat" ???
CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM

~ aka cut the "BS" ~

This is "A" Classic
- by Chögyam Trungpa

"There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

The basic problems of spiritual materialism are common to all spiritual disciplines.

... The heart of the confusion is that man has a sense of self which seems to him to be continuous and solid.

When a thought or emotion or event occurs, there is a sense of someone being conscious of what is happening. You sense that you are reading these words. This sense of self is actually a transitory, discontinuous event, which in our confusion seems to be quite solid and continuous. Since we take our confused view as being real, we struggle to maintain and enhance the solid self. We try to feed it pleasures and shield it from pain. Experience continually threatens to reveal our transitoriness to us so we continually struggle to cover up any possibility of discovering our real condition. "But," we might ask, "if our real condition is an awakened state, why are we so busy trying to avoid becoming aware of it" It is because we have become so absorbed in our confused view of the world, that we consider it real, the only possible world.

This struggle to maintain the sense of a solid, continuous self is the action of the ego.

Ego is able to convert everything to its own use, even spirituality. For example, if you have learned of a particularly beneficial meditation technique of spiritual practice, then ego's attitude is, first to regard it as an object of fascination and, second to examine it. Finally, since ego is seeming solid and cannot really absorb anything, it can only mimic. The ego tries to examine and imitate the practice of meditation and the meditative way of life. When we have learned all the tricks and answers of the spiritual game, we automatically try to imitate the practice of meditation and meditative way of life. When we have learned all the tricks and answers of the spiritual game, we automatically try to imitate spirituality, since real involvement would require the complete elimination of ego, and actually the last thing we want to do is to give up the ego completely.

However, we cannot experience that which we are trying to imitate; we can only find some area within the bounds of ego that seems to be the same thing. Ego translates everything in terms of its own state of health, its own inherent qualities. It feels a sense of great accomplishment and excitement at having been able to create such a pattern. At last it has created a tangible accomplishment, a confirmation of its own individuality. If we become successful at maintaining our self-consciousness through spiritual techniques, then genuine spiritual development is highly unlikely.

... In following a spiritual path we may substitute a new religious ideology for our former beliefs, but continue to use it in the old neurotic way.

... He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves "letting be". ... In true meditation there is no ambition to stir up thoughts, nor is there an ambition to suppress them. They are just allowed to occur spontaneously and become an expression of basic sanity.

If the strategy of continually creating overlapping thoughts is penetrated, then the Lords stir up emotions to distract us. The exciting, colorful, dramatic quality of the emotions captures our attention as if we were watching an absorbing film show. In the practice of meditation we neither encourage emotions nor repress them. By seeing hem clearly, by allowing them to be as they are, we no longer permit them to serve a means of entertaining and distracting us. Thus they become the inexhaustible energy which fulfills egoless action.

... Meditation involves seeing the transparency of concepts, so that labeling no longer serves as a way of solidifying our world and our image of self. ... There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. This egoless state is the attainment of Buddhahood. The process of transforming the material of mind from expressions of ego's ambition into expressions of basic sanity and enlightenment through the practice of meditation - this might be said to be the true spiritual path.

Whenever we have a dualistic notion such as, "I am doing this because I want to achieve a particular state of consciousness, a particular state of being," then automatically we separate ourselves from the reality of what we are.

If we ask ourselves, "What is wrong with evaluating, with taking sides?" the answer is that, when we formulate a secondary judgment, "I should be doing this and should avoid doing that," then we have achieved a level of complication which takes us a long way from the basic simplicity of what we are. The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape of instinct of ego. If anything more than this is laid onto our psychology, then it becomes a very heavy, thick mask, a suit of armor.

It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to strip out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. ... If we do not step out of spiritual materialism, if we in fact practice it, then we may eventually find ourselves possessed of a huge collection of spiritual paths. ... But we have simply created a shop, an antique shop. We could be specializing in oriental antiques or medieval Christian antiques or antiques from some other civilization or time, but we are, nonetheless, running a shop. ... Before we filled our shop with so many things the room was beautiful: white-washed walls and a very simple floor with a bright lamp burning in the ceiling.

There was one object of art in the middle of the room and it was beautiful. Everyone who came appreciated its beauty, including ourselves.

But we were not satisfied and we thought, "Since this one object makes my room so beautiful, if I get more antiques, my room will be even more beautiful." So we began to collect and the end result was chaos.

We searched the world over for beautiful objects - India, Japan, many different countries. ... But when we brought the object home and put in there, it became just another addition to our junky collection. The beauty of the object did not radiate out any more, because it was surrounded by so many other beautiful things. It did not mean anything anymore. Instead of a room full of beautiful antiques we created a junk shop!

Proper shopping does not entail collecting a lot of information or beauty, but it involves fully appreciating each individual object. This is very important. If you really appreciate an object of beauty, then you completely identify with it and forget yourself. It is like seeing a very interesting, fascinating movie and forgetting that you are the audience. At that moment there is no world; you whole being is that scene of that movie. It is a kind of identification, complete involvement with one thing. Did we actually taste it and chew it and swallow it properly, that one object of beauty, that one spiritual teaching? Or did we merely regard it as part of our vast and growing collection. ...

The teachings are an individual personal experience, right down to the present holder of the doctrine.

Q: So who are you following, more or less?
A: Situations are the voice of my guru, the presence of my guru.

... Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral. For instance, in the beginning we might approach our spiritual friend hoping to get something wonderful from him. This approach is called "hunting the guru." Traditionally, it is compared to hunting the musk deer. The hunter stalks the deer kills it, and removes the musk. We could take this approach to the guru and spirituality, but it would be self-deception. It would have nothing to do with real opening or surrender.

Or we might falsely assume that initiation means transplantation, transplanting the spiritual power of the teaching from the guru's heart into our own. This mentality regards the teaching as something foreign to us. ... This approach to the process of initiation is very romantic and not at all valid. So we need someone to personally concerned with us as we really are, we need a person to play the part of mirror. Whenever we are involved with any kind of self-deception, it is necessary that the whole process be revealed, opened. Any grasping attitude must be exposed.

Self deception seems always to depend upon a dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather than what you are now seeing. You will not accept that whatever is here now is what is, nor are you willing to go on with the situation as it is. Thus, self-deception always manifests itself in terms of trying to create or recreate a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience. And the opposite of self-deception is just working with the facts of life.

You do not have to regard the watcher as a villain. Once you begin to understand that the purpose of meditation is not to get higher but to be present, here, then the watcher is not efficient enough to perform that function, and it automatically falls away. The basic quality of the watcher is to try to be extremely efficient and active. But total awareness is something you already have, so ambitious or so called "efficient" attempts to be aware are self-defeating. As the watcher begins to realize that it is irrelevant, it falls away.

In as much as no one is going to save us, to the extent that no one is going magically to enlighten us, the path we are discussing is called the "hard way." This path does not conform to our expectation that involvement with the Buddhist teaching will be gentle, peaceful, pleasant, compassionate. It is the hard way, a simple meeting of two minds: if you open your mind, if you are willing to meet, then the teacher opens his mind as well. It is not a question of magic; the condition of openness is a mutual creation.

I am not saying that foreign or disciplinary traditions are not applicable to the spiritual path. Rather, I am saying that we have the notion that there must be some kind of medicine or magic potion to help us attain the right state of mind. This seems to be coming at the problem backwards. We hop that by manipulating matter, the physical world, we can achieve wisdom and understanding. We may even expect expert scientists to do it for us. ... so the point we come back to is that some kind of real gift or sacrifice is needed if we are to open ourselves completely. This gift may take any form. But in order for it to be meaningful, it must entail giving up our hope of getting something in return. ... We must give up our ambition to get something in return for our gift. That is the really hard way.

... Perhaps we are not quite absolutely sure, but certainly such a miracle must mean that we are on to something, that we have found the true way at last. ... Such intense attempts to prove to ourselves that what we are doing is right indicate a very introverted state of mind; one is very aware of oneself and the state of one's being. We feel that we are a minority and that we are doing something very extraordinary, that we are different form everyone else. This sort of attempt to prove our own uniqueness is just an attempt to validate our self-deception.

"Of course I experienced something extraordinary; of course I saw the miracle; of course I had the insight; therefore I am going on." Which is a very closed-in, introverted situation. We have no time to relate to anyone else, our friends or relatives, the outside world. We are concerned only with ourselves.

... We must give up all our speed and aggression, the whole demanding quality. We must develop some compassion for ourselves, and then the open way just begins."

by Chögyam Trungpa -
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
YOU SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK

Passage To Peace - by St.Clair

Sun-Tzu & Krishnamurti

2005-03-01T21:23:00.000Z

Truth is always new, never the known.

March 1st. The ending of time. At first sight it seems odd to put together Sun-Tzu the sage commander and Krishnamurti the teacher of the world. But when we look at the message on how to manifest peace, we meet both paths, the art of war, and the pathless land.

"We are all leaders in our own way. We all face conflict and chaos in our lives, but the wise leader seeks victory beyond aggression. The Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese text known in the West as The Art of War, shows us how to conquer without aggression. It teaches "taking whole," by which an enemy is overcome without being destroyed. For over two millennia this text has been studied in East Asia. Now its tradition has the possibility of taking authentic root in the West. Anyone seeking to work skillfully with conflict can benefit from its insights. The Sun Tzu speaks to conflict from a place we call victory. Victory implies the attainment of one's objective.

But true victory is much more than that. Taking the view of the whole, it encompasses the views of both its enemies and allies. It looks beyond immediate loss and gain, going to the root of all contention. It is utterly flexible. Victory is more a way of being than a final goal. It is the ground on which we can most effectively participate in conflict."

An essay by The Denma Translation Group, authors of a new translation of The Art of War.

click on: Creative Resistance

Found here at my Argonaut Forum

Yesterday - February 28th - was my birthday #46, Pisces sun & Scorpio moon, as it was when I was born, I like that, cool, and tomorrow I start a five day symposium meeting with clients. Uranus is rolling in. The ending of time is taking place, means I can stay mid forties forever ET.

I like what I do... but I only have few books I can carry around in my many little trips. Since carrying an Ephemeris (a book with the planetary positions) is regarded by Homeland Security as suspect terrorist behavior, I always have with me instead Krishnamurti's Notebook, which is the model to my considerations of my Closer To The Stars Blog into the otherness.

To explain Krishnamurti is like stirring pudding with a piece of string, and so it is best I let the man who taught David Bohm and who adviced men like Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Eric Clapton talk for himself. The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said:

‘Truth is a pathless land’.

"Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique.He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence.

This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual.Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time.

This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."

Here is the excerpt I marked for this new year, from K's 'NoteBook', page 23 in the 2003 version - copyright Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd. - with his expanded writings found in 2000:

"But there is a power which is in no way related to that power which is evil. This power is not to be bought through sacrifice, virtue, good works and beliefs, nor is it to be bought through worship, prayers and self-denying or self-destructive meditations. All effort to become or to be must wholly, naturally, cease. Only then that power which is not evil, can be."

(Upon arriving in Gstaad Switzerland, July 14th, 1961)

THE CORE --- J. Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land.

K's considerations best summarize my approach to everything I do since I am a kid. When I arrived here in early 1959, I must have chosen some interesting entry point. A few years later I started attending the ET night school of the inter-dimensional lights... glad to see there are some of these kids around now, in their ageless timeless latest incarnation...

Cosmic Mind Contact: Essay by St.Clair

Above link opens the piece that is the summary of my underground most-viewed pdf-file book - 'Passage To Peace' - part one of CLOSER TO THE STARS

Magical Alpine Arts 2006

2005-02-16T20:43:00.000Z

Magi's Mountain

Chillon Castle - Lake Geneva

click - "SAFE PLACE MMV"

The safe place is found from within the vortex of the mind scape. Peace
- M. StC.

East-West-Yin-Yang-Kali

2005-02-05T20:14:00.000Z

KaleidoscopicAstrology - click...

The Tin Soldier - from the East.
The Warrior Magi - from the West

Spring 2001, Sun in Aries, five months before 9/11, Gunilla von Post came to see me for a consultation in my eagle nest overlooking Palm Beach East & South. She had been the friend of JFK in the fifties. Her story written in her book Love Jack was written up everywhere. Her main concern in 2001 was clear: Where is 'the safe place'? We opted for Switzerland. She is Swedish. She brought me a little present that she had picked up that morning when she came to see me on her daily walk by the beach. A dark green plastic toy soldier pointing a gun, below his feet the words: "Made in China". Mind you this was while USA lost a plane in Red China.

She said she had found that thing on the sandy beach and she felt this would give our first meeting some sort of shamanic power in SEEING AHEAD.

I studied Zen, Sun Tzu, Lao-Tzu, StarMagic and things shamanic. It did not take a Taoist seer from Tibet to interpret the sign as it stood there (and still stands here to this day) on my warrior-magi altar of collections and war trophies. In 2002 onto the Chinese New Year, Neptunian Aquarian as always, I summarized the way things will more or less pan out, and since then I have also added the solutions. The file below is vintage script, the older the original gets, the better. Better not lose the opening credits of the movie...

2020 ... Passage11 The Book (PDF)
This file opened P11 in Celtic New Year 2002. It will be added to my Chamber 11 PDF downloads. The file has a built-in two decades one generation shelf life. For when you click on it - it never self - destructs...

The Way Ahead:
The City of Gold

My application by design was soon evolved from assessing the potential damage in earth changes. Civil engineers, land scape architects, designers, crafts men and women and artists, and scientists I met over the years conversed with me and I ran it by the shamans. We have concluded we were connected into the talent. All professions needed are covered, I am grateful to say I have met and I still am meeting them, as each moon phase rolls around.

We wish a few earth ship contact centers, world wide. Hidden by the force of Cosmic magic. Sacred power points in a net work. Scenario of feasibility 2005, pre economy crash. When ten people sell all their homes in the doomed cities and politically unsafe areas or otherwise endangered earth change sites, and invest the proceeds each, say a half a million Euro in ONE 50 acres site in a hidden spot, one can begin within two years to set up the super earth ship with futuristic techno gizmos for twenty-forty select few... if twenty people do this, we get a hundred acres of sacred power point site, with more community gizmos, etc. more we don't need.

Elitist? Well, yes it gets esoteric and ecclectic, not same as ecclesiastic, more likely eccentric Aquarian. I have found the site after years of searching. The journey was interesting, it ended where it began. On that journey I found more sites. I have a whole collection now, let the bags full of Gold coins and bars find their way to the facilitators... the ongoing quest is alive... the adventure continues into the Chinese New Year 2005, All Ice in W-UnderLand.

The Elves have arrived at Helm's Deep.

St.Clair's

Passage11 The Vision

My vision from before 1999 is zooming into focus over 'time'...

ET-Worlds in Collision

2005-02-01T15:12:00.000Z

Green Comets, Blue Stars & Red Dragons...

I predicted in my three free books that the world's nations will restructure when Pluto reaches Capricorn One, when the tribal leaders will emerge, and that the shamans of the four 'nations', NEWS (North, Easth, South & West) will make the call for a tribal world. You learn to observe nature, to be one with it, and it starts to talk back to you. Some shamans can talk with animals, spirits, and even with rocks and trees. They were told by the trees: 'St.Clair is welcome. Thank you. We know he is an ET.'

This kicked off huge awareness in Tsunami mode!
click - Michael St.Clair @ RumorMillNews 1.1.2005

The hot-linked above thread opens on a series of articles by Sorcha Faal at whatdoesitmean.com - and as you know we ET-shamans do not like any division. In Aquarian Age times we will be in on this together in the same earth ship, navigating through the worm hole wormwood aka PX-Vulcan.

The link below opens to the world of DUNE:

"Oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters."

Dune World

- i like Frank Herbert's 'DUNE'...

Click: Ending Disputes - by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Zen Master has practiced & observes his advice.

Tequila SunRise LookingWest

2005-01-31T12:59:00.000Z

Memoirs...

Frankfurt, 31st January 2005, aka Imbolc.

Three years ago, to the day, I told all my clients and friends, even inside of a glossy printed monthly Florida Magazine Astrology column - 'CloserMagazine' - and I gave the advice: Pack up and become downwardly mobile, but at the least have gold bars and private jet stand-by at the ready, and we are now on DefCon1.

Most people thought I was insane, and bear in mind this was post-9/11, so I answered well you friends then are in denial. In reality I had explained in written documentations to my clients as of 1997, and in public by 1999, how the movie earth changes and worlds in collision would be played out.

In terms of chess we have now seen the opening gambits: 9/11 help help, Iraq

Iran, save the grid points of planet Earth... And the part that was the most interesting, apart from what happened to me between when I arrived in Florida in 1991 and when I left the Caribbean Tropical Circus of Florida in 2003, was my shamanic conversation with the Dolphins and the Herons...

click BlueStar Heron

~ Saluting North, East West & South - NEWS ~

The Hurricanes came as I predicted, three in a row, closely designed to match a pattern of Scalar energy at work as the ETs take out base after base: Ivan Driver, Tropical Jeanne, Bonnie - and eleven or more Taiphoons, Volcanos & Quakes in China, Korea, and in Japan, and... then meteorite or ET strike? Tsunami 1.1. Indonesia, Asia, Diego Garcia - All gone, except the sea gypsies who listened to their shamanic knowing.

SSN711 submarine San Francisco in Guam looks like it did a 50 miles an hour frontal into some magnetic field shield; and I take that as a shamanic sign for San Francisco the city after the whales beach due to too much sonar. But the whales have gone galactic now, we know them as the Cetacean network of the sky dolphins, aka Twinklers...

MAGICAL :

8th of February 2005 ~ Neptune-line-up...
Next up... Chin up ! Chinese New Year at: Passage11

After the Celtic New Year, Happy New Year to all my friends around the world on our shamanic event, 21st of March, I will tell you among other things about ETs I met, and about how my astrological life of forecasting the times and advising my friends and clients became my real life art work & fun... ;-)

Check my power-blog -
Chamber 11 Predictions : The Pisces Blog

And come back here where we chat...

In 2006 we will live Mars-in-Gemini-memes.
You power-bloggers know what that means.

SaturnRetro FlashBack.

2005-01-31T12:46:00.000Z

CLOSER TO THE STARS
by St.Clair

My blog is called 'CLOSER TO THE STARS' because that is me and how I live - closer to the stars.

My old friend and painter Jack Barry - have not seen him since I left Palm Beach FL in 2003 - always told me that every day above ground is a good day, and that my astro books & smart work was all very well and good, but that my real book would be simply the narration of my colourful life, when I would get a chance to Blog-It-Down...

So here we go. Closer To The Stars.

I arrived in Florida in 1992 after Gulf War 1, as Clinton was about to take charge of the shop. My first years in Florida were - partying at "Ocean's Eleven" and "Flow" aside - uneventful until 1995 when Pluto moved into Sagittarius. That is when life of a star gazer started to be fun, and when some people wanted to know what I knew.

By 1996 my friends and I were talking about Saturn's role as a facilitator in the future pole shift. Now it is nine years later, and we are actually in the slow pole shift but no one notices, well anyway, the earth changes have begun, and the show must go on. I kept myself busy, studying, meeting and advising people.

In 1997 Jack Barry told me would be about time I wrote down my predictions and go to work. So I did. By 2003 my three books were written and now my web sites are up so everyone can see for them selves. A lot of what I wrote has already happened. Much more will happen. It is all in my free books. Why free? So no one says it was not made available in time.

So far, my 2020 narrative is still ahead of its time, so I have time left to blog down my life... while I look into my Obsidian Mirror - aka The Atlantis Oracle:

Oracles become your allies when you know their language intimately well. One thing is certain: You need to love and live with the cards and handle them almost daily to become used to them. You can consult Atlantis Oracle at any time you feel like it. However, some times are better than others. A new moon marks new beginnings and a full moon night completes the cycle, so you are given an especially clear view twice a month.

Ask yourself what you want, or need to know, and then meditate for a moment on the issue at hand. Try to avoid asking what is going to happen for this will be revealed to you in due time. Rather, ask what this issue is about - its purpose or meaning in your life - and what you should do or how you should deal with this situation. Be calm, cool, objective, and open to new possible solutions. Set aside previous conceptions of what should be or desires to control what will happen.

In the years to come we can orient our oracular communication towards the space ships that are making their presence known to us at night with their brilliant and beautiful pulsating lights. My ET friends asked me to give you the Oracle.

So when you are ready... click any card: The Oracle

The one story that by far stands out the most, is my own 9/11, which was to the day when I finished my 2nd book:

>> Icons Of Destiny <<

Passage11 went on-line on March 31st, 2002, with my radio-show "Passage11" in Florida... ;-)

The time I look foward to most, apart from the eternal Zen-Now, is Pluto at Capricorn One, emergence of a tribal leader, in 2008-2009: JEB Bush getting ready to become #44... until then... see you later at my safe place... ;-)

INTER-BEING

2005-01-01T11:11:00.000Z

Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
of the Order of Inter-Being

- by Thich Nhat Hanh

((These are 'precepts' or as its author also calls them: Mindfulness Trainings, and as such they summarize in simple words the entire work by the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. I wish to thank my brother who found this and drew my attention to it. If you like this type of work or the line of thought developed here, you can also study my astrological work.))

1. The First Mindfulness Training: Openness

Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist teachings are guiding means to help us learn to look deeply and to develop our understanding and compassion. They are not doctrines to fight, kill, or die for.

2. The Second Mindfulness Training: Nonattachment from Views

Aware of the suffering created by attachment to views and wrong perceptions, we are determined to avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. We shall learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to others' insights and experiences. We are aware that the knowledge we presently possess is not changeless, absolute truth. Truth is found in life, and we will observe life within and around us in every moment, ready to learn throughout our lives.

3. The Third Mindfulness Training: Freedom of Thought

Aware of the suffering brought about when we impose our views on others, we are committed not to force others, even our children, by any means whatsoever - such as authority, threat, money, propaganda, or indoctrination - to adopt our views. We will respect the right of others to be different and to choose what to believe and how to decide. We will, however, help others renounce fanaticism and narrowness through practicing deeply and engaging in compassionate dialogue.

4. The Fourth Mindfulness Training: Awareness of Suffering

Aware that looking deeply at the nature of suffering can help us develop compassion and find ways out of suffering, we are determined not to avoid or close our eyes before suffering. We are committed to finding ways, including personal contact, images, and sounds, to be with those who suffer, so we can understand their situation deeply and help them transform their suffering into compassion, peace, and joy.

5. The Fifth Mindfulness Training: Simple, Healthy Living

Aware that true happiness is rooted in peace, solidity, freedom, and compassion, and not in wealth or fame, we are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those in need. We will practice mindful consuming, not using alcohol, drugs, or any other products that bring toxins into our own and the collective body and consciousness.

6. The Sixth Mindfulness Training: Dealing with Anger

Aware that anger blocks communication and creates suffering, we are determined to take care of the energy of anger when it arises and to recognize and transform the seeds of anger that lie deep in our consciousness. When anger comes up, we are determined not to do or say anything, but to practice mindful breathing or mindful walking and acknowledge, embrace, and look deeply into our anger. We will learn to look with the eyes of compassion at ourselves and at those we think are the cause of our anger.

7. The Seventh Mindfulness Training: Dwelling Happily in the Present Moment

Aware that life is available only in the present moment and that it is possible to live happily in the here and now, we are committed to training ourselves to live deeply each moment of daily life. We will try not to lose ourselves in dispersion or be carried away by regrets about the past, worries about the future, or craving, anger, or jealousy in the present. We will practice mindful breathing to come back to what is happening in the present moment. We are determined to learn the art of mindful living by touching the wondrous, refreshing, and healing elements that are inside and around us, and by nourishing seeds of joy, peace, love, and understanding in ourselves, thus facilitating the work of transformation and healing in our consciousness.

8. The Eighth Mindfulness Training: Community and Communication

Aware that lack of communication always brings separation and suffering, we are committed to training ourselves in the practice of compassionate listening and loving speech. We will learn to listen deeply without judging or reacting and refrain from uttering words that can create discord or cause the community to break. We will make every effort to keep communications open and to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.

9. The Ninth Mindfulness Training: Truthful and Loving Speech

Aware that words can create suffering or happiness, we are committed to learning to speak truthfully and constructively, using only words that inspire hope and confidence. We are determined not to say untruthful things for the sake of personal interest or to impress people, nor to utter words that might cause division or hatred. We will not spread news that we do not know to be certain nor criticize or condemn things of which we are not sure. We will do our best to speak out about situations of injustice, even when doing so may threaten our safety.

10. The Tenth Mindfulness Training: Protecting the Sangha (community)

Aware that the essence and aim of a Sangha is the practice of understanding and compassion, we are determined not to use the Buddhist community for personal gain or profit or transform our community into a political instrument. A spiritual community should, however, take a clear stand against oppression and injustice and should strive to change the situation without engaging in partisan conflicts.

11. The Eleventh Mindfulness Training: Right Livelihood

Aware that great violence and injustice have been done to our environment and society, we are committed not to live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. We will do our best to select a livelihood that helps realize our ideal of understanding and compassion. Aware of global economic, political and social realities, we will behave responsibly as consumers and as citizens, not supporting companies that deprive others of their chance to live.

12. The Twelfth Mindfulness Training: Reverence for Life

Aware that much suffering is caused by war and conflict, we are determined to cultivate nonviolence, understanding, and compassion in our daily lives, to promote peace education, mindful mediation, and reconciliation within families, communities, nations, and in the world. We are determined not to kill and not to let others kill. We will diligently practice deep looking with our Sangha to discover better ways to protect life and prevent war.

13. The Thirteenth Mindfulness Training: Generosity

Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, we are committed to cultivating loving kindness and learning ways to work for the well-being of people, animals, plants, and minerals. We will practice generosity by sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. We are determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others. We will respect the property of others, but will try to prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other beings.

14. The Fourteenth Mindfulness Training: Right Conduct

(For lay members): Aware that sexual relations motivated by craving cannot dissipate the feeling of loneliness but will create more suffering, frustration, and isolation, we are determined not to engage in sexual relations without mutual understanding, love, and a long-term commitment. In sexual relations, we must be aware of future suffering that may be caused. We know that to preserve the happiness of ourselves and others, we must respect the rights and commitments of ourselves and others. We will do everything in our power to protect children from sexual abuse and to protect couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct. We will treat our bodies with respect and preserve our vital energies (sexual, breath, spirit) for the realization of our bodhisattva ideal. We will be fully aware of the responsibility of bringing new lives into the world, and will meditate on the world into which we are bringing new beings.