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What TAOIST energy workers could bring to the table is the sorely neglected study of the ENERGETIC nature of money and wealth. Particularly in seeing the parasitic, debt-based, fractional reserve, fiat money, crony capitalism system for what it is -a global vampire squid, leeching the life force out of humanity, actively impoverishing the majority so that a few soulless individuals can lord it over them.
BUT also in seeing how money has a PLACE in society, not to be rejected. The very root of the word is related to Matter which is related to Mother. I believe it was no accident that the alchemical metals gold and silver were the monetary metals. The word for money in many languages is the same as silver. Thus these metals have an intrinsic VALUE (also linguistically related to vitality and virtue), an energy which exists in addition to the trust that people put in them. Thus, contrary to what we are told, real money is not JUST a means of exchange that shells or yak dung can suffice but if it is to LAST, it has to be a store of WEALTH.
The original bankers/priests stored the wealth – grain, gold, silver etc in the temple. They held the TRUST of the people. When they issued receipts in clay tablets and later paper – these receipts only held value in the TRUSTWORTHINESS of the issuers and the TRUST of the people that they were backed by real wealth.
As we all know, that trust was misplaced and we now have paper and electronic digits backed by broken promises and lies enabling the greatest rape that humanity and this planet has ever endured.It is no coincidence that the dark heart of central banking – the Bank of England employed one Isaac Newton as master of the mint and who subsequently devised the gold standard. It is also no coincidence that he was a devout alchemist and took the post after undergoing the alchemical nigredo. As Keynes said, Newton was not the first scientist but the last of the sorcerors!
Who is it that deliberately sets up this “perfect storm of conditions”?
These things – Rwanda, Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge or Stalinist Russia are deliberately socially engineered situations, set up by people who understand the dark side of human nature only too well.I meant service with a smile, thats on all day!
Although, these days air stewardesses are becoming more like sick, unhelpful organs!You could find no better start than the writings of Plato himself. Easy to find on the net. I can come to no other conclusion that he is talking about a real place and people that once existed and not some Utopian/Distopian metaphor.
Dylan
I agree with you that thats where we are now ( and have been for the last few thousand years) but does it always have to be that way?
“For hate men seek a weapon, for fear they seek a shield —
“Keener blades and broader targes than their frantic neighbours wield —
“For gold I arm their hands,
“And for gold I buy their lands,
“And for gold I sell their enemies the yield.Yup, sounds like the military-industrial complex at work in ancient times too.
Good justification for the wealthy man (dives) as represented by the British Empire which kept an uneasy peace but also divided and conquered.
And Kipling was a Mason of course, don’t you know?
Can’t a Yogi of his level continue onwards after death in some form. It may not be th last we have heard of him.
The question is what is truly left of any government these days? They have nearly all been hijacked by the military-industrial complex. We, the people. fit the bill.
Its important to remember that these people have always played both sides of the coin, they supply weapons and other equipment (for huge profit) to all sides concerned. They foster destruction of both sides. Then they come in afterwards and make more profit from the repair jobs, the reconstruction of infrastructure, the exploitation of the natural resources etc etc. They have their grubby fingers in the “peaceful” side of economy too, if you can honestly call free trade peaceful or benevolent. This Janus aspect is what makes them so deadly efficient.
Dylan
Seventy years ago a highly decorated Marine Corps general, disturbed by his participation in various military interventions, declared that WAR IS A RACKET and that we need a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to guarantee everlasting peace to our nation.
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
— Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
WAR IS A RACKET
WAR is a racket. It always has been.It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
Thanks Michael, they were good answers.
I guess our sense of outrage and corresponding will for justice is also part of the natural order.
Regarding Immortality as a form of service, perhaps by continually renewing the life force within ones body, by resonance, one contributes to renewal of the land. Grail legend. No need for the old king to die, as long as he keeps rejuvenating himself. And no need for scapegoating as a desperate, debased attempt to stay in favour with)in control of the universe.
Dylan
To unfold who we really are sums it up for me.
There is a reality behind these seemingly superhuman exploits. The growing up is not about dismissing them as fantasy but realising that they are side lights along the true path.
The blood, sweat and tears mentatlity actually intereferes with fighting efficacy, and dropping that and learning to truly focus,centre,root,align and integrate your body, mind and spirit in the midst of turmoil is the true work in martial arts as in anything else. Its not laziness and flowery hands and its not beating your head off a brick wall.
Buddha came from an Indian warrior clan as I remember. Anyway the notion that chinese martial arts come from Buddhism is Buddhist propaganda. And the idea of loving your opponent is not solely Buddhist either.Bruce Lee WAS an outstanding martial artist, jealous wing chun practioners apart, as many anecdotes show, in addition to being a good show man.
It was martial arts that lead me into Chi Kung and I’m sure that applies to many of my generation. We started after watching Bruce Lee kick the Big Bosse’s ass and also wanted to kick ass if we are honest about it. That is the great thing about true martial arts, it transforms and matures as well as protects.
Dylan
Would you include war for profit as part of the “natural cycle of expansion and contraction of the human population”? Basically thats the reason along that thousands and thousands are dying not just directly from conflict but also as a result of displacement of populations and disruption of agriculture, lack of nutrition, medical supplies etc etc. I am sure that you Michael, having encountered this kind of artificially induced suffering first hand are aware that this die-out is not entirely natural, unless you include conspiracy for mass murder as also part (the shadowy part) of the natural order.
I’m not saying that death is unnatural but premature death or murder is another matter.“In this light, dying and death are simply completion of the offering cycle.”
How does immortality fit into this picture? Is it a selfish act of holding onto the life force or can it also be an offering, a form of completion?Dylan
