Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Are you being watched ?

Caution: Reader discretion is advised. This intensely counter intuitive material is written for a select audience who clearly know that life is just a ride.

Long Long time ago, when the banyan trees were still filled with birds and bird watching meant precisely that, there lived a group of happy go lucky birds perched on various branches. One among them was a particularly restless one and used to hop from one branch to another all the time. Once in a while this little birdie used to watch another bird which was perched on a higher branch. The one on the higher branch was not restless, in fact it hardly appeared to move , but its gaze was constantly fixed at something vacant. The little birdie never gave this a second thought all its life and gradually grew older, remaining restless all its life ( meanwhile, during its growing years it became a champion of flight ). As luck might have it , One fine morning, the little birdie ( which now is old though ) realized that its life is gradually failing and its gaze fell on the original bird which never ´moved´. To its surprise, it realized the original bird never grew older , nor did its vacant gaze change. Filled with surprise , the little birdie ( now oldie ) for the first time, took the other bird rather seriously. With great tentative steps , it hopped on to the higher branch and perched itself near the original bird. The moment it did, it figured the original bird was its own self which was watching itself all thru its life. The little birdie simply saw what it missed all its growing years. It was the one watching itself all its life. The watcher and the watched are one and the same. We are the ones we have been waiting for ..all thru our lives , all thru our restlessness. The question is , which side are you , the one on the higher branch or the one restless !!!!!!!!

This is a story as i recall from memory , but is surely from ancient indian folk lore. The same idea ( ofcourse independantly ) was presented in a Russian book titled ´An Adventure in Higher consciousness´

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The bells of Truth

Step 1: Money is powerful and it can do things for us. The entire world knows it. But the monetary note is usually a debt made by the govt with a promise to return the value it bears to the bearer. Its a promisary note. It works because we all beleive in the promise. Also, we all beleive in the promise because we know it works that way from experience. In other words, we make it work and we crave for it because it works.



Step 2 : Digital money. I do not even need the notes, but if my bank statement shows a number , I am credit worthy. People would trust me. I would be given plastic and I have everything i had in step 1. This time the world is putting its trust in banks. In step 1, the world was putting its trust on a promisary note signed by an organisation which is authorised to print on paper in exchange for value.


Step 3: Lets do one thing. Lets put our trust on some arbitary material and make the whole world beleive in it. It will become all powerful.People would be sweating and toiling all day to acquire that mateial which became all powerful and scarce because we choose that material to rule us.



Step 4: Lets not have a master and lets trust ourselves rather than placing our trust in paper , plastic or grass. What would happen ? If we do that, the world would be a garden of eden by the next sunrise . We do not have to earn money or work all our lives to become credit worthy and then spend that credit in buying a house or buying goods which are NOT rare in the first place. Check out the Zeitgeist movement or Project Venus on google.



Now, Lets be certain about one thing. Somewhere in the future , people would be reading in history books that men and women around 2010 era , lived and died trying to earn money which was created by an incredibly powerful human organisation which inturn resulted in global slavery and scarcity for things which are essentially infinite in nature.



Human beings in the future will build things which would last. they would not need money to have a house or a car. They would be mass producing these things and everyone on earth would be having them and energy would be free. Why should there be a cost to anything. Nothing is scarce in the universe. We need technology which can harness these infinite free resources and there will be no poverty. The world would be truly wealthy. Lets not crave for money , lets crave to create things which would last forever. 6 billion people can put their minds for one day to go for things they all need and create ´weapons of mass creation ´. Why run around all day long to have money when we can directly create what we need by having global unity. We have already created the first free system. Its the internet. We all spend at least 2 to 3 hours everyday accessing information from the net which is basically free. How did we do that ? do we pay for watching youtube. Do we pay wikipedia. Do we pay for any of the things we get on the net ? And isnt the net getting richer by the day with information and almost everything we essentially need ? If we can do this in digital space , we can do it in physical space too. Why not create a factory which builds composite houses day in and day out. All the material could be free like glass which is made from silicon or from renewable energy. Machines can do repeatable things once we have a energy source driving it. They do not break down in ages. Why not use them to create. Its time we break from our slavery and look at the world in a totally new way.

Friday, April 2, 2010

The Last Revolution

If an animal goes on a hunt and spends all its energy in the chase and ends up gaining lesser energy than it spent, it means its a bad hunt. If it happens regularly, the animal is in trouble.


If a computer spends all its resources on booting itself up and there is nothing left to run the apps, you can be sure that the system is failing.


Now, its a fact that politicians and other people at places of power work hard. They are not as bad as we think they are. However, their job demands them to spend every ounce of the resources they have to serve themselves or their own networks. This helps them position themselves better. That’s the only way they can rule, else they are out of power. Whom does this really help?



Lets take a step back. This is weird stuff. Everything seems upside down. The maximum injustice ever done in modern times was meted out thru lawyers ( who are supposed to uphold justice ) , doctors destroy health ( I have a friend who suffers more after a surgery than before ) , universities destroy knowledge ( mostly, by turning individuals into robots to serve the society, is that knowledge ? ) . Governments take away freedom (aren’t the police supposed to protect you, why do they make you feel as if you are supposed to fear them? ) , major media houses destroy information and the list goes on and there no need to elaborate. Think about your own job. Chances are , you would be doing something which helps none ... except ... filling your own sense of insecurity which was created by the society in which no one truly fits in.



To revolt is hard when you can't see what you are revolting against. It gets tougher when people are drugged with fear and rules. Something is terribly wrong when we can't see that everything is upside down. It might serve us well at the moment to serve master and be happy in an inverted world by becoming inverted ourselves. But how different is it from a computer using all its resources trying to boot itself or from an animal which uses all its energy to gain lesser energy.


Human beings did solve this issue in the past. Instead of chasing meager food which was getting increasingly rare, they stopped, recognized the problem and became smart hunters by hurling spears or casting nets. That proved to be a revolutionary step in evolution.



Have we not reached a situation where we got to again stop , think and radically change the way the game of life is played ?



Man is not the last word of nature. The universe is full of a greater amplitude and hopefully we are given a choice as to how we wake up. Is it the soothing bells of Truth we are going to heed or the jarring alarm bells of systemic failure and extinction.


The last revolution would be this inner revolution again. We may not know what it is. If it is told it becomes a different kind of slavery to a new tyrant. May be the secret lies in a a luminous & conscious choice to look up into our higher self and prepare the descent of something which is beyond human , beyond mind and belongs to the realms of the Gods. There could be nothing more revolutionary than This.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

2009 - The Year that Was : Calender Compilation

Calender Compilation - 2009

Taken at La Marcesa photo courtesy : Me

Pyramids near Mx city : Photo courtesy Arturo

Metepec church

Taken at Taxco : Calderario Azteca.

Some where in MX City.

Taken in the room. Tortoise in north direction.






Photo courtesy Shilpa.B





Old university at Guanajaoto - pic courtesy me.







country side ( central MX ) - Pic Courtesy myself :)