Resources
A plethora of material that encapsulate and bring together the idea of becoming and staying Awake!
Below are three Earthlings that have provided an eloquent understanding of the nature of our reality. These folks are only a beginning to learn about Conscience, Consciousness and Nature. They provide well-rounded and simple solutions to overarching problems that can change your life and ultimately the Earth!
- Mark Passio, of What On Earth Is Happening, has dedicated his life to Truth and his work could not be recommended enough. Part I - Natural Law Seminar, Part II - Natural Law Seminar, Part III - Natural Law Seminar.
- Speaking with Nature, Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth by Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts is a wonderful book. From the back cover, "Nature and the Earth are conscious. They speak to us through our dreams, intuition, and deep longings. By opening our minds, hearts, and senses we can consciously awaken to the magic of the wild, the rhythms of nature, and the profound feminine wisdom of the Earth. We can connect with nature spirits who have deep compassion and love for us, offering their guidance and support as we each make our journey through life." There's a strong connection between our destruction of Nature and our lack of connecting with Nature, reading this will help overcome such obstacles.
- Compassionate Communication or Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, PHD "has come to be regarded as a powerful tool for peacefully resolving differences at personal, professional, and political levels. Until his retirement in 2009, Dr. Rosenberg provided Nonviolent Communication training in 60 countries. He works with such groups as educators, managers, mental health and health care providers, lawyers, military officers, prisoners, police and prison officials, clergy, government officials, and individual families. He has been active in war-torn areas and economically disadvantaged countries, offering Nonviolent Communication training to promote reconciliation and peaceful resolution of differences," from The Center for Nonviolent Communication. Rosenberg's book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (book, download), states on the cover, "words and the way we think matters. Find common ground with anyone, anywhere, at any time, both personally and professionally." On the back cover, "if 'violent' means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate--judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's 'good/bad' or what's 'right/wrong' with people--could indeed be called 'violent communication.'" More from the back, Compassionate Communication is the integration of four things: consciousness, language, communication and means of influence.
Other people of note:
- Emma Goldman, "anarchist, anti-war activist, writer, organizer (Born 27 June 1869 in Kovno, Russian Empire [now Kaunas, Lithuania]; died 14 May 1940 in Toronto, ON). One of the world’s leading anarchists, Emma Goldman dedicated her life to anti-war activism and social justice organizing. Her lectures on anarchism attracted thousands and fostered dedicated community networks. She was deported from the US in 1919 due to her anti-war activism and lived in exile for more than 20 years. She lived for several years in Toronto, where she was closely monitored by the RCMP. Goldman's lasting impact on Toronto can be seen in the city's continued engagement in progressive social movements," from The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) by Thomas Campbell, a nuclear physicist who worked for NASA, suggests: "a radically new scientific model of reality unifying physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. It brings together the entirety of human experience, including our objective and subjective worlds, under one seamless scientific understanding. Laying out the implications for us as individuals and for humanity as a whole, it provides a new perspective on the nature of our reality and our purpose within it."
Quotes
A group of quotes--either Good or Evil--from writers, artists, scientists, inventors, musicians, philosophers, politicians, activists, films, etc. that have espoused Truth or Wisdom.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever," said O'Brien, while torturing Winston in the book 1984 by George Orwell.
"(...) Forward, he cried from the rear / And the front rank died (...) Listen, son, said the man with the gun / There's room for you inside' (...)" -Pink Floyd from Dark Side of the Moon
"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant. 'What good is it?'" -Aldo Leopold, a philosopher and environmental conservationist.
"To know and not to do is not to know." -Wang Yangming, ancient-philospher from China.
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." -Ramsey Clark
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -A Bene Gesserit saying, from the Dune series by Frank Herbert.
"The hand of Vengeance found the bed to which the Purple Tyrant fled; the iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head and became a Tyrant in his stead." -William Blake from the poem, The Grey Monk.
"From these great staffs, both of the old parties have ganged aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them in martialling to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed by the magnitude of the task, the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people, to sweep away old abuses, to build a new and nobler government." -Theodore Roosevelt, from A Confession of Faith, an address delivered in 1912.
"Fight the real enemy!" -Singer-songwriter, Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of the then Pope, live on Saturday Night Live, in 1992.
"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy" -Henry Kissinger was a career-politician and degenerate scumbag. If you control food, you control people; if you control oil, you control nations; if you control money, you control the world. -Another famous paraphrase that can be traced back to Kissinger, in a Rapid City Journal (South Dakota) clipping, circa Oct. 30, 1985 or a Fort Lauderdale News (Florida) clipping, circa Sept. 24, 1975.
"Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It's a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That's an extreme solution. The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it's better to give a foodstuff a value so that we're all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water, and there are many different possibilities there." -Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, a former chairman and CEO of Nestlé.
"Kevin, 99% of what you do on that show is real. The 1% you get wrong is you could never get an education bill passed that fast." -Bill Clinton, former president, said this about a fictional, Television-Program (House of Cards) in which a major politician uses Coercion, bribes and murder to get ahead. Picture of Clinton in blue dress, found at a home of Jeffrey Epstein's(operative whom used pedophelia to blackmail elite or pedophile-pimp for the elite--both?)
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.” -From Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs." -Banksy
"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog! This is for the widows and oprhans and all those killed in Iraq." -Mutadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, said while throwing a shoe at George W. Bush at a press conference in Bagdad, 2008. Al-Zaidi was sentenced to three-years in prison for this stunt because of public outcry, it was reduced to one-year.
“There has been too much violence. Too much pain. None here are without sin. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror,” -From, the film, Mad Max 2 "The Road Warrior" in which the raider, Lord Humungus uses Fear, Violence and Coercion to manipulate survivors of the apocolypse. A reflection of Imperialist, Colonialist and Facist tactics of domination.
"As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we." -Joseph Goebbels was a degenerate and Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister.
"All propaganda should be popular and should adapt its intellectual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those toward whom it intends to direct itself. Therefore, its intellectual level must be screwed the lower, the greater the mass of people which one wants to attract." -Adolf Hitler, Evil incarnate.
"In the year 2000, the richest and most powerful 1% of the worlds population owned 40% of all global assets. The richest 10% accounted together for 85% of total assets. In stark contrast, the bottom half of the worlds population, divided between them barely made 1% of global wealth." -From the documentary, I Am Fishead
Books
"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people--people who have managed to stay alive and hide between the covers of a book." -E.B. White, author.
Fiction, in no particular order:
- The Word for World is Forest, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Watchmen and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- Dune (1-6) by Frank Herbert
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Non-Fiction, in no particular order:
- Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
- The Spell of the Sensuous, Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
- Voices of the First Day: Awakening to the Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor
- The Red Book by Carl Jung
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way a new English version by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Animal Speak and Nature Speak by Ted Andrews
- Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
- Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature edited by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Art
Art is Magic in the purest form! Art has the power to change our thoughts, emotions and actions. Powerful art enflames and inspires us to be better people or helps us to understand our Reality!
Gaia an oil painting by, a visionary artist, Alex Grey who has captured the human form and skeletal system, Nature, psychedelia the spirtual and mystical in a way that provokes and inspires one to understand themselves and the Universe. Check out more of his art alexgrey.com/art
Land of the Free by Mark Henson who says (on his website), "my sincere wish is to tap into the Divine Source of Being, to Consciousness, to Spirit, or whatever you may call it, that place where existence comes from, and to bring into visual reality images manifesting the knowledge revealed while in this presence. Check out more of his work, here.
Music
Another exemplary art form that deserves a section for itself. Think of a time you were moved by a melody or lyrics, such a profound moment when art can bring us to tears or produce a grin on the face. Music literally and metaphorically moves us all!
Pink Floyd has produced a number of phenomenal albums and live performances! Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here and Animals are great albums, lyrically and instrumentally. The members of Pink Floyd certainly know how to create art about Human Nature and the Zeitgeist!
"(...) Hey, you! / Don't help them to bury the light / Don't give in without a fight (...) Hey, you! / Don't tell me there's no hope at all / Together we stand / Divided we fall" Hey You, The Wall "Oooh, Ma Oooh Pa / Must the show go on? (...) There must be some mistake / I didn't mean to let them take away my soul / Am I too old? Is it too late?" The Show Must Go On, The Wall
"(...) Us and them / And after all, we're ordinary men / Me and you (...) Up and down / And in the end it's only round and round / Haven't you heard it's a battle of words (...) Down and out / It can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about / With, without / And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? / Out of the way, it's a busy day / I've got things on my mind (...)" Us and Them, Dark Side of the Moon
"Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine / Where have you been? / It's alright we know where you've been (...) Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine / What did you dream? / It's all right we told you what to dream (...) So, welcome to the machine." Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here
Black Sabbath, a rebellious, metal band that defined the genre forever! "I can't forget you or your suprise / You introduced me to my mind (...) My life is free now, my life is clear / I love you, sweet leaf (...) Sweet Leaf, Masters of Reality
“(...) Evil minds that plot destruction / Sorcerer of death's construction (...) Politicians hide themselves away / They only started the war / Why should they go out to fight? / They leave that role to the poor, yeah (…) Day of judgement, God is calling / On their knees the War Pigs crawling / Begging mercy for their sins / Satan, laughing, spreads his wings / Oh, Lord, yeah” War Pigs, Paranoid
David Hudson, a beautiful Didgeridoo player. The Didgeridoo is an Australian Aboriginal instrument used to empathize with Nature by mimicking noises heard into the flute, and to delve into deep, trance states.
Anoter favorite of mine, MGMT. A disco, poppy 2000s-era band that has powerful lyrics focused on human nature and satire. “(...) Oh / Forgiving who you are / For what you stand to gain / Just know that if you hide / It doesn't go away (...) Little Dark Age, Little Dark Age
“(...) Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives / I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin (...) This is our decision, to live fast and die young / We've got the vision, now let's have some fun / Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do? (...) Forget about our mothers and our friends / We're fated to pretend / To pretend (...) I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and diggin' up worms / I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world / I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home / Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone / But there is really nothing, nothing we can do / Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew (…) We were fated to pretend / To pretend (…)” Time to Pretend, Oracular Spectacular
"(...) Who needs information? / When you're living in constant fear (...)" Who Needs Information, Radio K.A.O.S, Roger Waters
"(...) Hey bartender over here / Two more shots / And two more beers / Sir turn up the TV sound / The war has started on the ground / Just love those laser guided bombs / They're really great / For righting wrongs / You hit the target / And win the game / From bars 3,000 miles away / 3,000 miles away / We play the game / With the bravery of being out of range / We zap and maim / With the bravery of being out of range / We strafe the train / With the bravery of being out of range / We gained terrain / With the bravery of being out of range / With the bravery of being out of range / We play the game / With the bravery of being out of range" The Bravery of Being out of Range, Amused to Death, Roger Waters
"(...) We watched the tragedy unfold / We did as we were told / We bought and sold / It was the greatest show on Earth (...) They checked out all the data on their list / And then the alien anthropologists / Admitted they were still perplexed / But on eliminating every other reason / For our sad demise / They logged the only explanation left / This species has amused itself to death (...) Amused to Death, Amused to Death, Roger Waters
Miscellaneous
Another section that includes articles, documentaries and other items imparting Wisdom.
- Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration - ver . 1 From the Suquamish Tribe, "Read the full text of the 1854 oration by Chief Seattle, a leader of the Suquamish people, who rejected the offer of land purchase by the US government." A tearjerking speech that questions the colonialist mindset.
- Erica Goldson's epic, valedictorian speech, from 2010, at Coxsackie-Athens High School. Speech, Transcript.
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. A great piece worth reading about maintaing the sanctity of the Internet.
- Article: The Observer Effect: Seeing Is Changing.
- An article that discusses The Stanley Milgrim Experiment, from the American Psychological Foundation: Obeying and Resisting Malevolent Orders.
- A powerful short story, The Gift's of the Fool
- Magical Egypt by John Anthony West, a documentary series that will blow your mind, dude!
- Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove by Alex Jones
- Who Is Bill Gates? by The Corbett Report
- America: Freedom to Facism by Aaron Russo.
- Born Rich and The One Percent by Jamie Johnson
- Occupy the Farm by Todd Darling
- The World According to Monsanto, documentary by Marie-Monique Robin.
- Food Inc. by Robert Kenner
- Earthlings, documentary, by Shaun Monson
- Ungrip and Esoteric Agenda by Ben Joseph Stewart
- The Matrix Trilogy directed by the Wachowski Brothers
- Mad Max 2 "The Road Warrior" and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga films by George Miller
- Monty Python's: Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life by Terry Jones
- Yellow Submarine, animated flick featuring The Beatles
- Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
- Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket and 2001: A Space Odysee directed by Stanley Kubrick
- JFK by Oliver Stone.
- An introduction into Anarchy--a path to Freedom.
- David Graeber in conversation about Bullshit Jobs with the SRSLY Wrong podcast.
- The Ultimate History Lesson(Parts 1-5), an interview with radical-teacher John Taylor Gatto.
- Artist, Mark Henson, discusses the importance of Art and its Power to Create meaningful Change. Visionary Art as a Catalyst for Social Change.
- I'm Allowed to Rob You! a funny, simple sketch by Larken Rose that describes the illegitimacy of taxation that even a Statist could understand!
- The Empire Files discuss the JFK Assasination with Oliver Stone. Also, How the Pentagon Runs Hollywood and the shaping of "American Exceptionalism" through media and film.
- Sala Tiatia, a local youth educator, talks about The Power of Words.
- An interview, by Bill Moyers in conversation with Noam Chomsky. They discuss The Powers That Be and politics in 1988.
- This great, animated satire railing against the Police State. Film the Cops from The Big Lez Show.
- Media-Opoly a banned SNL animated-sketch.
- The Survival Podcast discusses Guerrilla Gardening.
- Our connection to Nature, video.
- Indigenous and Native People have the Solutions--it's time to Listen! A video, featuring, Lyla June, 3000-year-old solutions to modern problems.
- New Zealander gives a TedTalk on Mana: The Power in Knowing Who You Are.
- Another archive, focused on Anarchist literature and writing: The Anarchist Library
- Internet Archive a free-library for books, documentaries and other media.
- copblock.org
- James Freeman, policing the police, find him on YouTube.
- Techlore creates video content about cybersecurity, FOSS, privacy and more.
- Whitney Webb's site, Unlimited Hangout where she researchs the tech-dystopia, Epstein (among more) and what to do about it.
- The Corbett Report independent journalist providing Solutions to our problems.
- Legendary conspiracy-theorist, David Icke's website.