When Choice is not an Option

Canned bagpipe music glooped out the door of the souvenir gift shop as I passed, oozing like thick tomato soup into the street. 'Unchained Melody' given the tartan tourist treatment. I wouldn't want to work in that shop. Definitely time to head home.

It's a little more than a year ago that I wrote a little piece about a kundalinified bus trip home. Nowadays things are less precarious; the journey passes pleasantly enough, and without incident. I stroll indoors and into the living room. There my eye falls with considerable satisfaction upon a little line of books at the bottom of a small table. For a long while, this collection had been an unruly pile of books, reaching higgledy-piggledy towards the ceiling. I don't do a lot of reading, but enough to produce a little pile from the volumes that I had bought and read over the past two years, starting with the dreaded 'Red Book'. These comprise my current literature, and I have been reluctant to hide the books away on bookshelves, where they will immediately acquire the status of 'historical document; job done', and will in all likelihood descend into oblivion, instant anonymity.

Inconveniently, I was reminded at regular intervals that my pile of books did not win any prizes in the neatness-and-beauty stakes. Something needed to be done. Time and again I surveyed the living room, attempting to see where another bookshelf could be fitted in without cluttering the place up, or which books could be heartlessly relegated to the attic. Then, one day, it dawned on me. All I had to do was to pick up that higgledy-piggledy pile of books, turn it on its side, and it would magically become an elegant little row of volumes, a neat bookshelf lookalike. I knew all that right-brain stuff over the decades would come up trumps one day.

Sandwiched modestly amongst the heavyweights - the Red Book, the Biology of Kundalini, Climbing Days, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas (what's that doing here? It's been around for years) - is Margaret Miranda Dempsey's volume 'Female Kundalini'. It is aptly named: Margaret is female, and she has experienced a kundalini awakening.

'Female Kundalini' I would not rate amongst the more remarkable volumes in my now-horizontal pile. It is, however, an enjoyable read. The first half is a potted life history, including details of Margaret's kundalini experiences. Westerners in whom the kundalini energy awakes do not appear to fit into any particular mould. However, my bits and pieces of research suggest certain qualities that are typical. Most characteristic is a strong and distinctive sense of the 'spiritual' - many people are what we could call 'seekers'. At the same time, they have a profoundly independent streak. They are not easily classified, and do not fit comfortably into spiritual groups. Outsiders, if you will.

In Margaret's case, she undertook study and practice of Mahayana Buddhism for many years with a group, while never feeling totally happy with such group. She eventually gained a reputation as a troublemaker, in the inconvenient habit of asking questions, and left the group to go to India and explore freestyle.

As a note: not all kundalified westerners fit this mould. There are those without any prior spiritual practice or obvious endeavour whatsoever. They may find things toughest of all.            

The first part of the book, the life story, is a good read. It is the second half that is weaker. It consists of various of Margaret's reflections consequent to her kundalini activation. Some of it reads as a collection of thoughts that would not be out of place in many-a meditator's diary. I easily picture somebody sitting on top of a little hill, wide views below, sun going down, writing their thoughts for the day on a meditation retreat. It could easily be me, or you.

There is one incident, however, in the second part of the book that, for me, is a real standout. It makes the whole thing worthwhile.

Margaret attends a seminar in which the topic of honesty with regard to finances comes up. She sits smugly: I haven't stolen from anybody; I can just let this pass. Then, like a bolt out of the blue, it hits her. And she knows she has to act. No choice.

Her mind and her mum tell her she's crazy. But she has to do it. She is living in a different country now, and needs to travel abroad, returning to the place she lived twenty years beforehand. There she seeks out the shop that she worked in weekends as a student. Thankfully, it's still there, as is the man who employed her there in the first place. To his astonishment, she hands him a bag containing £300. 'You employed me twenty years ago. I used to give my impoverished student buddies money off when they bought stuff in here. I reckon it came to about £300.' This is the gist of what she says. And then she leaves.

As an interesting conclusion, she doesn't feel inspired and elated afterwards, as we might expect. She feels really crap: low and exhausted. But it's a fascinating story. A moment arrives when we simply have to do what we have to do, and normal logic doesn't play much of a role. Think you're in control of your life? Think again....    

Footnotes to Gnostics, Illuminati etc

Part One: Personal Appraisal

I think that in the previous post - Illuminati, Gnostics, and the rest - I went as far as I am capable of going at the moment, in one particular direction at least. I have been left with food for thought. For what it's worth ....

As far as 'social and political analysis, observation, comment' goes, there are far better people than me out there. Quicker on the uptake, more nimble of mind; more knowledgeable, more astute. Where I am pretty good, I feel, is on two fronts. Firstly, I can connect what is happening now with the longer game. As any lower league football team will tell you, there's a place for the long ball. Neil Kramer is good on this perspective, or used to be (I haven't kept up with him much in the past two years), and John Lash is brilliant in a hit-or-miss way. But many alternative commentators etc miss this necessary dimension completely. 'The longer game' is a question of maintaining a perspective, and of seeing everyday happenings as often small parts of far longer and deeper processes.

The other area is that of connecting 'today's news' with a metaphysical perspective - a spiritual or multidimensional perspective, if you like. Societies can be more or less inimical to self-realisation, and modern western ones are purposely antithetical to the individual, since the awakening of 'self', or 'Self', translates as the death of the Illuminati-slave patterning of human activities. A healthy society is one which recognises, permits, encourages, even, the supreme human endeavour. While in modern mainstream it doesn't get a look in.

This metaphysical perspective also involves not getting caught up in, and identified with, the menus and restricted dualisms presented to us as 'reality'. It is easy to do this: to end up seeing any situation through the lens of the constricting mainstream. Many 'alternative' commentators end up doing this to varying degrees. Even our good friend styxhexenhammer666 is not exempt. I like his style, his approach, his take on freedom, censorship, this type of essential stuff. But when I listened to him recently speaking about Maduro and Venezuela, he did roll out the 'socialism, bad; capitalism, good' banner. The metaphysical angle which I try to maintain here, avoids these simplistic either/or polarities. Socialism vs capitalism is a kind of false dichotomy, for one thing. And I don't want to play the 'good versus bad' game with topics like this. Socialism is often bad, I submit, as described in the previous post. However, the reality is more nuanced. Mel Fabregas is another presenter (again from the USA) who rolls this one out; understandably, since I believe he is from a family which braved the open sea to get from Cuba to USA. However, that Cubans and Venezuelans have undoubtedly suffered deprivations is not entirely the result of their socialist systems. Cuba is a nation that you could hardly expect to have been ultra-prosperous when most of the world was prohibited from trading with it, due to the bullying which has been characteristic of successive USA administrations.

The issue is not socialism/capitalism: it is the illuminati-style mindset, a phenomenon which exists outside and beyond any social or political configurations. This mindset can bend anything to its own nefarious ends, and is beholden to no particular social or political system. It is amoral in the very worst sense of the term. Communism: no problem. Liberal democracy: yes, I think we can use that. Socialism: yes. Capitalism: yes, yes. Socialism and capitalism are a ping-pong duality, which we can play until the end of time if we so wish. There has to be a third and 'higher' element which comes into play. Basically, what system you have is not primary: it's the consciousnesses of the beings involved. A 'better world' can happen only with the developing of wider consciousness, with the superseding of unconsciousness with self-determination and realisation. With the fostering and prioritising of individual magnificence. Which brings us nicely to....

Part Two: Kali Yuga

Yes. Back down on Maggie's farm, back in the good ol' Kali Yuga.....

It's the thing about the Kali Yuga. The bad guys always win. Once it was pointed out to me, it was so obvious, I had to laugh. I mean, it's self-defining: the Kali Yuga, the Age of Darkness, is by definition, that - the time when the bad guys win. That's what makes the Kali Yuga what it is.

And the good guys? Well, the good guys fight, stand up for all things of goodness and beauty, not in the hope or expectation of winning. They do it simply because it's what they do. They can't help it, they have no choice. It's part of what makes them good guys. They do it simply because it has to be done. It's an inner compulsion, even, we could say.

Brexit and the bad guys. The bad guys treat Brexit very seriously. For them, it's a battle lost, and in a Kali Yuga the bad guys aren't accustomed to losing any battles. They showed their true colours in their response to that referendum result. If they were people of honour, they would speak thus: "Well, we are sad to learn that you have voted to leave our lovely little club. You will be missed. However, we fully endorse the democratic process above all else, and shall endeavour to do everything we can to ensure a smooth departure. And to make things easy for the future, for everyone."

Needless to say, it hasn't been like this. Not that all the blame can be laid at the feet of folk outside the UK. Appointing a 'remain voter' to manage Brexit (ie Mrs May) has to be part of a pre-arranged stitch-up. Doesn't it? Before a crucial top-of-the-table football match between Manchester City and Liverpool, City aren't going to bring in the Liverpool manager, Mr Klopp, to mastermind their tactics and ultimate victory, are they? It seems as crass and ridiculous as that to me.

Trump, whatever you may think of him personally, is another battle lost. Not good for the globalist elite and their 'liberal' fan club. Not good, not good at all.

Having reread what I have written in this article thus far, I submit that it is rather dry and turgid! That's what you get for spending too much time and energy on those themes of illuminati worldview, conniving and manipulating against Brexit etc.

Strangely, martial language has begun to turn up in some recent blog pieces: wars, battles, fighting, winning and losing. Not generally characteristic at all. In terms of personal experience, Kundalini is predominantly a force which has evoked warmth, softness, fellow-feeling; feminine in an almost exaggerated way. More recently, however, it has woken up a very different type of energy. It has got into certain corners of consciousness, and activated a type of energy which feels adamantine, crystal-clear, hard and sharp. Warrior-like. In Tibetan Buddhist symbolism, the bell's ringing has aroused the dorje, the vajra. In Hinduism, read Shakti rising, where she eventually finds and embraces the awaiting Siva. It is Beauty kissing the sleeping Beast. Where there is Venus, there too must be found Mars, the martial language..

War Heroes

War heroes. War heroes? Well, I wish things were always as straightforward as that.... More like sacrificial lambs, sometimes. Brought needlessly to the slaughter in their thousands. In their millions.
Not so much heroes as utterly disposable pawns in someone else's dark and dirty game.

I originally intended to write a full piece on this. In the end, I haven't the heart, the stomach, to do it. I leave you to fill in the blanks yourself.

Take World War One, though. What was that about? Really? Some Bosnian Serb puts a bullet in the head of an archduke-to-be (who, by all accounts, nobody cares for very much anyhow) and before you can say 'Dig me a trench' half of Europe has been laid to waste. By the end of the four-year debacle, there are nine million combatant and seven million civilian deaths. Additionally, the political geography of the continent has been miraculously rearranged; coincidence, of course. No more Austro-Hungarian Empire. No more all sorts of stuff. No more Tsars in Russia, replaced for the benefit of all and modernity by Lenin's Bolsheviks. A new world was emerging, as a result of the sacrifices of our war heroes.

The trenches. Imagine the trenches. I'd rather not, and even with effort I find it difficult. What if it was all a bit, well, unnecessary. The official line fed to the lambs, sent bleating to their fate, their fate in the bloody trenches, wasn't quite true to what it was all about. A possibility that doesn't sit comfortably, does it? It certainly shouldn't do. So we had better not dig too deep; no knowing what we might find. Might all be a bit problematic....

Meanwhile, the heirs to that which remains unspoken sit smugly in their well-appointed offices in Brussels and elsewhere in Europe. The game - politely put, reorganising the political landscape of Europe still further - continues. To deny continuity between the tragic past and the dark, repressive present, is naïve at best. And the propaganda arm of the campaign, led in the UK by its state-sponsored broadcaster the BBC, is relentless and unremitting in its distorting, selecting, lying, omitting, in order to further the cause. If only more people knew the extent to which their minds are twisted and manipulated by the dirty little fingers of mainstream media, with the BBC at the helm. Scruple-free, morality-free.... Actually, some people may just prefer not to know.

That's all. As I write today I feel good. Yesterday, though, the whole thing was making me sick. And that is no good at all. If 'their' nefarious ways make you sick, then they have won. Then it's time to reframe oneself, as I did yesterday afternoon. On  a hill, among the trees, the wind whispering in your ears. Life returned to its senses. Don't let the bastards get to you.      

 

Gnostics, Illuminati, Anarchists, and Others

Part One: Gnostics and Illuminati

There are plenty of stories about how we got to be as we are. A few have made it on to Pale Green Vortex over the years. Here is one that hasn't. It's a story about Gnostics and Illuminati, and it's a good one.

It concerns the Magi, the Magian Order. They hung around in what is today north-west Iran, around 6000BCE. So goes the story. They were seers, shamans, skilled in multidimensional phenomena, the sort of things that seers and shamans are all about.

Then came the great divide. Like a great fall, really. Some, the telestai, continued to use their knowledge and magic for positive purposes. For 'the Mysteries'. Through a series of transformations and geographical migrations, they eventually became what we now call the Gnostics.

The others, however, the breakaway group, took their mystical knowledge and power into the world; that is, the worldly world. Into statecraft, the manipulation of peoples. Mind control, social manipulation. Power politics. They were the germ of what became known eventually as the Illuminati. Mystics of darkness, power for the control of the mass of humanity. Not good, not good.

Yes, it's a fine story. How much credibility it comes laden with, I would not like to say. It has its sources, bona fide. But, let's face it, it's pretty much impossible to know these days what was really going on last week; what chance do we have of confidence with regard to anything from 8000 years back? History, a discipline which I once felt rested upon 'hard facts' I now see is anything but. It is the most fragile of studies, where distortion of 'reality' is the easiest of pursuits and the norm, even if at times unwittingly so. Fake news; fake history.

Let's not be too romantic about the past. It's a mood which comes over me from time to time, I admit. But humans have, most likely, always been nasty to one another on occasion. Fighting for scarce resources, for decent pasture or fertile growing land. For water, for another tribe's beautiful women. Or for fun. But for long it was a local, small-scale affair; manageable. Then something happened, went wrong. People got big ideas, states became big and powerful, and the modern world mentality took root.

It's one of my less orthodox notions but it's this: things haven't changed much for a long time. The pattern was set literally thousands of years ago; hence the manner in which the story of the Illuminati makes sense to the soul today. The technology has changed, the geopolitics has got reconfigured time and again, but the essential is uniform. The overall patterns, the overall dynamics. Read about the Romans and it's uncannily familiar. It's the same themes recurring, the same battles being fought on different soil. Primarily the war for power of an elite few over the great majority of humanity. It's important to bear that in mind when taking stock of 'current events'. They are simultaneously new and not new at all. It's an ancient game, replayed, recurring. That's the perspective that's needed.

Part Two: Collectivism

Socialism; collectivism. I've never, at any moment in my life, been sold on politics. I've always had the sense that politicians, whatever their leaning, are largely a bunch of ne'er-do-wells, not worthy of any great trust or respect. All the same, it's been quite a thing for me.....

When I was young, it seemed clear. Socialists, the left, Labour people, were more like the good guys. They cared about justice, were concerned for the poor, the unprivileged, the downtrodden. In contrast, the righties were egoists, bent on self-aggrandisement at the expense of the majority. Cunning, ruthless, uncaring. They were the Establishment, and they were bad.

Somewhere along the line, everything started to change. Today, the Establishment no longer consists of Tories, or proper Conservatives. It is, instead, the hive home for a whole bundle of 'social democrats', 'liberal democrats', 'progressives', whatever crass term they like to use. In Britain, Cameron, Clegg, May, Sturgeon, Miliband, Corbyn (I suppose), Blair, Brown, from today and the recent past, all belong to the same club. Softly-softly socialism, collectivism. A liberal semi-totalitarian elite.

So a great transition has been effected, where 'radical' has now seamlessly become establishment. Sadly (for me) I know a goodly number of decent folk who continue to believe that 'left', 'socialism', is somehow for the general good, a force for change. They don't seem to recognise collectivism when it's already here....

Collectivism is 'Big State' society. The problem is that it is not for the benefit of 99% of the population. Not really, other than in the form of flat screen TV and Facebook. In truth, socialism, or collectivism, is a slave system, where the vast majority of people are encouraged to become robotic sub-humans. Numbers in a hive. Above and beyond, there lives the super-elite, who live on the blood and hard toil of the masses. Take a look. Soviet Russia, Mao's China, Venezuela, it seems, the EU. That's what you see. Not what you want to see, but what you actually see. Socialism means slavery. It's one of the great con tricks of the modern age. And it's in your back yard as I write.

Part Three: Slaves of Atlantis

Here's another story. We owe a great deal to Plato for it. Most modern mainstream 'academics' (read 'trusted children of Machiavelli in the pay of the super-elite') will tell you that Plato's story of Atlantis is a fantasy, a metaphor, or suchlike. They are looking at it through the lens of 21st century theory, which makes a hard-and-fast distinction between 'fact' and 'fiction'. I don't think that Plato, pre-enlightenment, more-or-less contemporary with Buddha, saw things in quite the same way. Anyhow....

Atlantis. It was. so the story goes, populated by people of wisdom and love, light-years ahead of modern humans in spiritual gnosis and the technological advancements which accompany knowledge of the working of higher dimensions. The time arrived, however, when some of their number began to get naughty. Control and manipulation, rather than spiritual illumination, became the order of the day. A bit like the Illuminati story. Some say that they began to develop human/non-human hybrids, who became perfect worker underlings. Whether true or not, Atlantis morphed into something of a slave culture.

The moment arrived when Gaia-Sophia, Great Goddess, had had enough of this nasty nonsense. Thus came volcanoes, earthquakes, terrible cataclysms, and Atlantis sunk beneath the sea forever. Saved were the few truly wise ones, who foresaw the disaster, and escaped to.... the Poles, Tibet, are favoured venues, locations where good magic, good mysticism, lived on.

Why I am reminded of present-day EU whenever my mind turns to the slaves of Atlantis, I cannot imagine...… OK, the EU is a developing slave culture, for the benefit of a small elite intent upon a project of globalisation (read 'glob-isation', where everybody  is a little 'glob'). The real enemies are not terrorists, Islamic extremists, mass murderers. No. They are those who stand up for national identity, pride in place of birth, the individual human being, even. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of global collectivism.

The sentiment behind Brexit needs to be a healthy one. People are simply fed up with being told increasingly what to do by bureaucrats who they have no idea about, thousands of miles away. Similarly with 'national' and 'populist' movements across Europe. Putting details and niceties aside, I take them all as a good sign.

Hollywood, maybe, has taught us that slaves are poor people with nothing. This is not necessarily true. In modern times, they can live affluent lives, with new mobile phone devices every couple of years, annual holidays abroad, and the rest. They are, nevertheless, slaves, confined within a little box. And the EU does not care to treat its slaves very well at all. If they are really naughty slaves, such as the Greek ones, then they will be punished mercilessly. And even well-behaved, submissive slaves, like the German ones, are readily abused, with mass uninvited influxes of people from cultures that are not at all compatible. No wonder people are fed up.

The EU is the perfect flowering of the virus of the Illuminati 8000 years ago.

Part Four: Anarchism

There is no way out. Not within the parameters of the box.

It work on different levels. I deplore the EU model because it demeans human beings. More metaphysically, and where I really come into all this, spiritual realisation is not a transfer of 'the drop of water melting into the great ocean', into a vision of a collective 'all is one and the same'. It is a matter of self-determination, self-realisation, self-actualisation, outside and beyond any identity with group, be it political, cultural, religious. It is ruthlessly individual, personal, even. And it is this process which collective theory discourages, indeed seeks to eliminate from human possibility altogether. The realisation of the collectivist dream spells the death knell of individual aspiration, barring the few who are truly exceptional. Conversely, the realisation of the individual spells the death of the slave collective. It is actually the only solution.

Strict non-alignment politically, ideologically, is the name of the game. As soon as you begin to identify with any -ism, that natural purity of openness will start to close down. And that openness is a requisite for real spiritual gnosis. It is what is meant by that more 'ooh, aaah' term, the Void.

I find myself frequently in accord with those who term themselves nowadays 'libertarians': believers in freedom of speech, freedom in thinking; in the individual, self-determining human being. Another word that I often resonate with is 'anarchism' - which, in its more profound meaning, is not so far removed from 'libertarianism'.

In my mid-teens I undertook a personal education in fringe politics. I became a Marxist for about a fortnight, until I recognised its inherent contradictions, and intuited that it just wouldn't work. Then I found political anarchism. It was mainly through the lives of Bakunin and Proudhon, neither of whom I felt hugely enthusiastic about. But the spirit of political anarchism came through and has remained.

The thing is: we don't need a lot of governing really. Most of it is unnecessary slave control, that's all. The vast majority of people, whatever their nationality, religion etc, are reasonably OK. A certain amount of regulation of trade, transport, and so on, is needed. But as little as possible, and as much of it as possible should be local. This is what I mean by being anarchist-inclined. Government, but a little bit, carefully circumscribed, and light-handed. And predominantly local. That's all that's needed, really.

It's not my place to go into the fineries here. It's a general principle, that's all, and I don't deny that there are problems. But I suggest that, for bringing an end to the Illuminati-lookalike mould that is shaping our world, it is the only solution. Anything else, and the mess continues, inevitably so.

Link to John Lash's article about Gnostics and Illuminati:
                   
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mistic/gnostic01.htm

Images:

The Nag Hammadi Codices, prime source for info on Gnostics
Artist's impression of Atlantis

And, for your infinite edification, a relevant ten minutes from our buddie in the USA, Mr HexenHammer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y1FWSBBB6s

     

Diaries of Dystopia, page 67

If we stand back a little, zoom out if you like, we can see a grand archetypal drama being played out at this very moment. Not only is it a drama, it is a war. There are battles lost and battles won; it is bloody and it is nasty.

On the one side, there is the archetype of self-determination; self-realization, self-actualization. And on the other side is the collective archetype of the well-oiled, unified, yet ultimately mindless global group - a group comprising several billion pre-individuated beings. These are the players; these are the options.

The war is being executed on different fronts, and is implicated in many current situations. One is Brexit. 'Self-determination or the group?' is the subtext to a lot of what it's all about. Many Remainers just don't get it. I try to avoid speaking about Brexit - not once has it been a fruitful topic of conversation - but I happen to know quite a few Remainers, and some of them seem unable to stop talking about it; maybe still incapable of absorbing the reality which has dawned. The thing is, they invariably go on about job security, house prices, nurses and the NHS, holidays abroad, and that's it. They just fail to understand that, for some people at least, it's about more than that.

Folk are simply sick and tired of being told what to do and what not to do. By committees and institutions far away, in Brussels, Germany, or somewhere. By folk with whom they have little in common culturally, and folk for whom they definitely have not voted, or had any say in putting in their place of influence. They don't want to be told, without consultation, who can and who cannot come into their own nation and set up house next door. I think that's quite reasonable. But the fact that it's not purely about jobs, but about matters of 'soul', seems beyond a lot of Remainers.

I also note, humbly and reluctantly, that some of my old Buddhist buddies, and lots of other 'spiritual types' also fail to get it. Maybe they are swept away by fantasies of Unity, of 'Oneness'. This they confuse with creating a uniform global group, which they erroneously believe will usher in an age of love and peace. In the case of the Buddhists, it's doubly ironic, since I always understood Buddhist practice as taking place in the mould of 'development of the individual', and therefore superseding group values altogether.
 
Then there's the media. He or she who controls the media controls information and thereby controls - or at least profoundly influences - the public's notion of the world. Social media - the great battle ground today. I noted recently how the social media giants cannot be expected to be impartial: they are big corporations, with big corporation people running them. And they are increasingly influenced and infiltrated by the leading dark exponents of the Kali Yuga. The EU is apparently especially keen on 'regulating' Facebook. But social media remains a problem for the prophets of global mindlessness. When Tommy Robinson can put Panodrama, an hour-long expose of the underhand strategies of the BBC on YouTube, and within four days have nearly 100,00 views, that's a problem. A big problem. (update: up to over a million views, March 3).

Tommy Robinson. Tommy Robinson. I'm not saying he's a nice guy, or a good guy. Actually, I don't imagine he's an especially nice guy. Nevertheless, that's not at all the point. I don't think Tony Blair or Hilary Clinton or one of a whole number of politicos are very nice or good people. However, I'm not trying to shut them up by closing down their social media outlets. Which is precisely what has been happening to Tommy Robinson.

It was only a couple of days after his (totally fascinating) programme about his treatment and projected crucifixion at the hands of the BBC went out that his Facebook and Instagram accounts were permanently closed down. Pure coincidence, of course. I recommend catching his prog on YouTube, but I'd be quick. There's no knowing how long before it's taken down.

It was while watching Tommy Robinson that I had one of those light bulb moments. A bit belatedly, but that's how things sometimes go in my life. It concerned why such an enormous thing is made of newly-defined 'crimes' like sexism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, hate speech. Guilty of one of them, and you're as good as dead. They are simple, tailor-made ways to shut up people who you don't like, who disagree with you. The tiniest transgression, and you can be taken down, if so desired.

It is selective, as is clear from Facebook, for example. A person of a certain inclination can say something about a person of a different inclination that is 'hateful' and no action is taken. However, a person of another different inclination says something similar about a different kind of person, and it's on the front pages, the BBC Propaganda at Six programme, and that person's account is shut down. There is no impartiality. It is transparent, transparent, transparent.

So the battle continues. I don't like warfare, and shy away from such imagery in general. Here, however, it seems appropriate. The Big Guns are running scared - they must be, to resort to adopting such obviously totalitarian tactics. Who are we with? David or Goliath? The heroic individual or the controllers of the slaves of Atlantis? I hope the questions are rhetorical....

The UK. It's a funny place. Home to so much invention, innovation, creativity, all products of an attitude of open-mindedness, of freedom. It's kind-of still there, but there's this totally totalitarian element nowadays, completely shameful. A mind-control police state mentality, which lots of people just go along with, but which needs to be brought down somehow if we want anything resembling a healthy society.

Here is the link to Panodrama. Recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz5pnqu3CsA

And here is our buddie Styxhexenhammer666 speaking about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGM5cqs8MOE