The Collective Evolution

The Collective Evolution I & II are independent documentary films made by a group of young, conscious activists and friends in the hopes of inspiring and assisting the current "collective evolution" that seems to be happening in consciousness at the moment. Though I certainly have points of contention with the films, overall I'd say they are excellent and wholly worth watching. Check them out and let me know what you think below.

The Five Most Important Questions

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio asks and answers 5 of the most important philosophical questions everyone should consider.

Wordsmith Austin Brien Poetry

Thanks to Austin Brien for sharing these fascinating poetic observations:

Waterfall

When I feel the dragging of the world on my edges I tend to look deeper inside to find something calming there where the silence of waterfalls rush through my ears and all the distant persistent talking disappears. The world just melts like marshmallows in the microwave while purple kittens paw at the glass. It is not half empty or half full, because as you sip on it, the rim lowers with the liquid always right on the edge. Cliff top view of the world below, so far away it all looks so small but I am just a giant in the mind of my own little fantasy. And now I see all these paths in front of me endless choices of possibility, veritable yellow bricks, on the road again…. I can see things clearer now then they have ever been. White sky fades to blue so bright that it shines through you. Iridescent like an angel flying through the sky about 3 cloud banks past the rainbow you’ll see a Pegasus resting on a storm front. Ask him for directions but avoid following them because the true magic is not in the words but where they try to take you. That mix match melody of pleasantry, perfectly balanced on the nose of a seal, barking for tomorrow and waiting for the repeal so that someday people will realize just because the world is your home, doesn’t mean it belongs to you. Nothing belongs to you, not the water you drink, not the food you eat, not even the air you breathe belongs to you. The entire world is only temporary and possession means nothing. Money is imaginary, the paper is real, but the worth is inflated to be valued by the masses to keep us under control like a carrot on the end of the stick. Pointed like a needle for the injecting of some feeble twitter, brittle as melting icicles cause I’m hotter then a fever. Sliding through visions - of skin over ribbons - of silk in the hair of swimming - maidens. The truth has rotten through, stinking of garbage the piles of sewage ooze out of the bag that is our world. The only saving truth is the commonly known as the vanishing point. I dream that maybe there is a point so far away that nothing in this world can be noticed observed or even detected. Electing the defective and protecting them expecting not to get stuck in the eye when the stick of reality needs to get put somewhere, I will tell you where to put it right in your own backyard. Not miles away in some foreign country robbing precious lands of all of the natural resources. Still watching the jackals - as they are hacking on yaw - in the African backswing. Then global slavery as a result, in every person’s taxing, progressing to a possession of people all paying the important people that live in the steeple. Love the people and use things, not love things and use the people. It is hard to see through all the malformed thoughts to a truth worth fighting For-word after word sentence after sentence beating on the door of your mind trying to get something to open up. Still no one offers shelter because there is no quarter here. This is all temporary the world is only an illusion that occurs when light makes contact with anti-matter. No matter what, the image is blunt. What occupies your mind is the matter you find, right in front of you, they do what you don’t want them to do, then they front popularity so you think you’re the outsider. You are not outside, your right in the place you should be soaking up the truths they let you see right on the TV. That is the point of the distraction machine. It is corrupting yet another generation of youth glued to the tube, be it the tele or the compu. Terminate the glow box and get out on the block. Make the boat rock we should all go for a swim in the thought of turmoil being brought up on us.

Warning

This is a warning, to anyone listening, whether you’re whoring or christening. There is just this little point that you seem to be missing. The war for the future has begun; if you’re not going to fight then it is time that you run. The media onslaught keeps your mind caught in a tangent side-plot. Instead of enjoying what you’ve got, you opt for a trashy trinket trot. The knowledge of ‘growing’ is a crop that’s worth knowing, but how many people know that? We the people have become the victims of this communal capitalist crap. Predatory lending lined up with the governments deficit spending. They use this as a tool to invoke your imitations. Not every fool knows his own limitations. They are lighting the road paved with good intentions. Good as gold like the hands you hold. The people you know are the roots that you grow. These politics have taken root, leaving the average man underfoot. The rules are being written by a crowd full of crooks. As they prepare the next curriculum and tell you to follow the books. Just like the fishes are careful of hooks. So too should our spawn, in our schools, or so it looks. With a majority drop out as the metropolitan cop-out failure is expected as the kids sit being neglected. This makes them easily misdirected, connecting with the disconnected. Be it a fantasy, or something more virtual, these synthesized connections are ethereal. While that is half of the deal the problem is the lack of real. Truth is substituted for something with more appeal. Then fact is forgotten, lost and broken. The dreaded is shredded and disposed. While the fate of the world is written and composed in prose, right beneath your nose.

Inevitable

Just a note to the inevitable, I saw you coming and since I knew nothing would stop you I started preparing for everything I could imagine. While I figured there would be some things that were unpredictable, I wanted to be ready for as much as possible. As we all learn distance can make everything look small even when that distance is really just time. Time has a way of turning even the best plans into less then adequate anecdotes. Still I wanted to persevere, so I strove to come up with ideas to confront any issue that arose. Unlike the tides I could not grasp the power that drove the waves. Oblivious to the obvious lack of control, but control is not a solution. Some systems self correct, others fail creating a ripple of repercussions. I fear not knowing enough to recognize the commotion till its conclusion. Nothings wrong till its over and gone. Then when you’re expecting it to be all over, it is, it’s ALL OVER. This nothing has been absorbed into everything. Right in the middle of a vortex of vacuumed vacant space is everything we know. All so tightly sealed that, each little thing comes in “single” serving size. No free choice in this economically automated ‘dog pile of capitalist’ democracy. We can’t see past ourselves, who tries to plan a future that doesn’t include them? This is not the future that was planed by the people who are living it. I am not trying to say that what we have is not great but I am seeing a crust of corporations feeding on our neighborhoods, our neighbors and our neighbor’s neighbor too. That means you. I can understand feeding your family but who really needs a 100 million anything? I want to welcome the relief that seems so desperate to flee, with open arms of needed company. Sit down with me and let me explain what I see when I look at our reality. Life that we live, breath, and many have been laid to rest. The epitome of irony is not without its jest. The funny part is we’re at the butt of this joke. You would choke at the scope of this hoax. No matter how you prepare or, who you promote. As the words you spoke like smoke just vanish in the air. It is futile to provoke more from a bloke then a simple mindless stare. As I forge my words with absurd verbs it is the point that takes effort to pound out. With this blade of fog, in the soot I log the endless treasures of my job, as a wordsmith..

Practicing the Highest Compassion

Thanks to Druv for sending me this excellent video from Dharma Central elucidating the true meaning of compassion/love, and the Asuric demonic psychopaths who lack these genuine emotions.

Be Careful

"No heart, selfishness and no consideration for the next man or woman but why? Only focused on our own situations, see somebody suffering and we walk by. They might approach you in need of assistance at a time when their fortunes are low. You look down on them like you're better than them but the truth is you just don't know. We got angels among us dwelling in our presence. God will bless us then place someone in front of us to test us. You can't get a large sum of money or a new car then look down on people because they might not be where you are. Drunk off possessions in the root of all evil but no man can rise above the condition of his people. Don't be arrogant, erring, patience is perseverance. Learn to look inside someone instead of judging by appearance.

Be careful how you treat strangers. You may be entertaining angels who came to protect you from hidden dangers. In disguise studying your ways is what they do. The deed you neglect to do could be the one that saves you.

When trials fall on us we don't look into them deep enough. We feel them through a real small lens. Instead of understanding that it's all a part of living we resent God and turn our friends. Then help comes to you one day in the form of a person that you might not know. But out of deep ignorance and lack of understanding we ignore signs and let help go. See? Have you ever met a stranger and had a conversation and it seems like he's familiar with your life's situation? And you know you never told him but his knowledge is surprising you, speaking wise words giving guidance and advising you. Striking mental chords, blood in your veins coursing, giving you the comfort and positive reinforcements, and you start to question in your mind how it's being done. I'm not saying it's for sure but you might be seeing one.

Be careful how you treat strangers. You may be entertaining angels who came to protect you from hidden dangers. In disguise studying your ways is what they do. The deed you neglect to do could be the one that saves you.

See? You gotta be aware of your surroundings at all times. Everything is not what it appears to the eye. The thing you look down on could be the thing that saves you. These marvels are far beyond carnal. They warn you of unseen forces that might harm you. Alert you of people and things that could hurt you and unknown to you from wrong steps they divert you. The place you started to go but then decided not to. And then disaster struck, if you were there they might have got you. The time when your finances couldn't last a month more and now the left field are blessing landing on your front door. Someone you never met just approaches and starts talking, touches you saying it's going to be alright and keeps walking. It happens quite often in weakened attitudes, being rude when someone exudes a caring mood. Angels all around probably see them all the time not to mention the personal one that lives in your mind keeping you from falling and guiding you on the low. That's why it's wise to respect all people. You never know."

Peter Russell - What is the Self?

In this great short clip Peter Russell tackles the ultimate introspective question - Who am I?

Best Rant Ever

Thanks to Ravi for passing along this hilarious and spot-on rant about the US government by comedian Felonius Munk. Enjoy!

Freedom is Anarchy

All governments use violence (in the form of police/militaries) and coercion (in the form of forced taxation) against their populous. Like a world-wide inescapable mafia, all the governments on Earth force us to pay their multitude of taxes, and if we don't, they seize our assets/asses and throw us in jail. As Stefan Molyneux puts it, "the state is a monopoly of individuals with the legal right and obligation to initiate the use of force against others in a given geographical area." But of course if all humans are indeed free and equal then none should have the right to initiate the use of force against others. The videos above are for all you government-apologist, Stockholm syndrome, invertebrates who constantly cry out "but what about schools and roads Eric!? If governments don't steal our tax money, what will we do about schools and roads and national defense??" I know you think freedom is scary, anarchy sounds negative, and it's radical and extremist to point out the utter illegitimacy and immorality of the state... but... I'm just calling a spade a spade. Government is violence. Government is coercion. Freedom is anarchy.


All governments are violent and coercive, thus no governments provide or ensure "freedom" (as they constantly claim). Their laws, police, militaries, courts, judges, taxes, prisons, and debt-based money systems are all antithetical to freedom, and prevent true freedom from ever occurring. A bit of honest introspection will reveal that government is the problem, and it cannot and will not ever be the solution.

Government doesn't really even exist if we don't believe in it. The problem is that "govern-mental" means "mind-control" and everyone who isn't an anarchist, I'm sorry to say, is under government mind-control.

Laws are just propositions written by crafty wordsmiths and enforced by uniformed and robed agents of the matrix. Fiat is just "legal" counterfeiting that benefits the central bankers. Taxes are just money stolen, then poorly re-distributed. Politicians are just mafia figureheads campaigning to spend your stolen money. The whole thing's a farce and will slowly fade away when people stop believing that egoistic bullies in blue uniforms have any authority and that silly rules written on legal pads are "law."

Gravity, now that's a law. Inertia, that's a law. But the IRS claiming authority to steal a third of my income every year... that's not a law. That's a crafty piece of violently enforced legislation written by mafiosos.