All those high-flown ideals can lead astray as well. And can be as much a lie as anything else. It is best to concentrate on truth. (With a small t! ) That's difficult enough. Then if the ancients are correct all the other things will arrive in its train.
What did Christ say? 'Why do you call me good? Man is not good. Only God is good.' That's why the Christian churches put so much emphasis on confession. And on confessing one's flaws. By clearing away all that rubbish we finally render ourselves transparent to God. By free confession of our faults we poets begin to come under the direct supervision of the Muse. (Whom Milton equated with the Holy Ghost.)
The trouble with all those high-flown ideals is that they can so easily lead to mood-making and pretentiousness. It is far better to concentrate on being truthful about small things; and on exactly how you feel about them. This way you avoid the modern scourge of sloganising.
And, in any case, truth itself is a difficult enough exercise. Too many people want to conquer the world; when the first thing to do is to conquer yourself. That's where the Prophets begin - with 'the still small voice'. The Seer is the one who observes small things clearly; and avoids large generalisations.
It is a good idea to take heed of Balaam on his ass. And learn the appropriate lesson.
I particularly agree about the importance of culture. That is where one begins to learn discernment. And justice.
I can't help but feel that the US has been a very dangerous influence here. Its inhabitants show off too much. And put far too much emphasis on success and money and aggressiveness. So the softer virtues tend to get pushed aside, or even trampled over. And everything else becomes a protest at the resulting crudity and violence. And the trouble with protest is that it tends to make you dependent on the think you're protesting against.
“There is no alternative to discernment.” Agreed. All the noise and distractions are to silence the “wee small voice” the inner leading’s of the spirit of truth. Drugs open the doors to parasitic infections, (evil as thought forms etc) parasites foster cravings, perception disturbances & toxicity. MKUltra- perception management. Great documentary, thanks.
I especially liked the pulsating 3-D technicolor Leary part, with his face waving back and forth, and the eerie, slow and pulsating electronic gong beat. It reminded me of some Electronic music I have from the late 60's, particularly Nic Raicevik's album "Head" from 1969-70 which is a series of electronic instrumentals about drugs.
Watched it two days ago and its excellent exposure of the real idea and motivation why this Woodstock appeared in the western world and now we are seeing its evil conseuquence globally. Keep up the good work.
David Gosselin, Thank you for this research & film. I've come across the Laurel Canyon Lookout-Mountain Airforce Military connection for 20 years or so. Certainly the problem of LSD & other drugs & intoxicants were deleterious over those decades, but I believe your deeper unspoken message is that something spiritual was & is happening, for all of us, because you lay emphasis on drug & psychological manipulation. I believe your statement is of 'precaution' in hopefully achieving relevance for our time. Let's not 'throw out the baby with the bath-water'. I believe you will agree that with suicidal environmental destruction & such as nuclear-war, all around us, we are afterall, a-process-in-the-making. I'm familiar with LA & Laurel-Canyon whereabouts from living 1974-5 in the San-Fernando Valley, Grenada Hills as well as bicycling all around this Santa-Monica, Hollywood, San-Bernadino, Pasadena region & then from LA to British Columbia, on the way home.
I'm born 1952, so grew up during that time & am so thankful, peace & love became an alternative possibility to the institutional war & destruction based brutality I was expected to adopt, at the time. I was influenced by such as Suzuki-Bean, whose New York City Beatnik parents, engendered this Hippy child comic, Buffy Ste-Marie, Joan Baez. Hippy comes from 'hip' meaning: a person gracefully centered in the bodies mid hip-centre of the body. Dance, Yoga, Tai-Chi, Judo & creativity in life all start with this centering. In picking up the sacred pieces of this period, we can recognize how a Cultural society is made up of many millions & even billions of influences, speaking through each generation on behalf of life.
ECONOMIC-MEMORY BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO HUMANITY's ECONOMIC-SOCIETY Human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Realizing the sacredness of this calling, as a young teen, I did not take marijuana, LSD, alcohol etc. My family regularly held dining-room table 'equal-time' debates, even during conflicts, a formal call & insistence to 'Let's hear 'Both-sides-Now'. I apprenticed with my father from an early age in Design, Engineering, Architecture, Machining, Mechanics as well as building boats, houses & repair to everything of all kinds. 1968-9, I helped form a High-School Student Union, rewriting the Student-Council constitution & making formal presentations advocating to our Principal & School-Board to help implement accredited Apprenticeship opportunities for those youth who might desire.
1963, I began solidarity involvement with 1st Nations & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') peoples environment & social projects, then living & working among 1st Nations. 1968 I continued in Accounting & then 1969-71 Queen's University PhD Research projects with the Canadian & US Geological Surveys on high mountain Structural Geological Mapping. Realizing we were being a can-opener to destroying the rich Glacier, wild animal ecologies, considering total lack of effective mineral & materials recycling in our cities, both my final year PhD student, finished our research but left Geology. I have always found that when I put my faith in life & leave the institution fake security, the 'teachers' & experiences, which I receive are always of the highest quality & relevance to my life mission. 1979 I live with a Vow-of-Solidarity with all humanity. In order to make the resources for life available for all, I limit my spending of time & money for or towards the essential food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health needed. This vow formed from involvement in realizing British Columbia's Uranium Exploration & Mining Moratorium by 1982, as well as earlier involvement in Cree People's sovereignty in James-Bay concerning Hydro-Quebec Dam projects & on the Montreal Grape Boycott committee of the United Farm Workers with Caesar Chavez in California. It took me over a decade to realize the importance of living & exemplifying the important values I am committed to. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/6-solidarity
1971-80, I lived among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite, English-Quaker & American Pacifist Draft-dodgers in the West-Kootenay region of British Columbia to learn about these previous pacifist economies & movements. 1973, I was surprised when an old Doukhobor elder shared how he felt that these 'Anabaptist' ('Ana' = 'upright' or 'fully-grown' Baptism, only by free-choice, cognizant adults) communities had missed their calling as peace-economy-ecology advocates in the cities of Russia, Germany & England along with American & Canadian cities, where we had mostly come from.
Oligarch commanded western society 7000 YEAR AMNESIC OLIGARCH FAKE 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') WAR TRAJECTORY OF WESTERN COLONIAL EMPIRE.
The context of 'the Devil' is 25 years following World War 2 & some 100 million killed & genocided by both sides to the fake Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med, Agribusiness institutional colonial society we are in. Trouble is the Allied imperial colonial empire nations which killed far more in their colonies during WW2 as well as other facets of mass slaughter, have never taken responsibility for what our Oligarch control has us do.
I do subscribe to all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') many 10s of 1000s of years old GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution, which is focused on three pillars of:
1) living in the intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale of the ~100 person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), 70% of people today live within Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village-clusters) averaging 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year. All indigenous humanity kept intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale in the Multihome (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Multihomes Should be the 1st Line of nutritional, preventative & restorative Medical intervention by specialists already amongst us treating people proactively & positively in harmony with nature. Here's an indigenous model of software to regenerate community care & health https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) Time-based equivalency accounting on the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island / N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell throughout once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me.). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi ‘indigenous’ aka ‘self-sufficiency’), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices as below. example: Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation with ~110 nations across Turtle-Island (N. America) organized into ~23 Confederacies, into Continental & Hemispheric Councils. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, somewhat related to the Medicine-Wheel in simplifying an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
3) COUNCIL PROCESS is a process of individuals committed to Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues for creating Constructive Agreements, Contract delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Council is both a right & obligation in all humanity's worldwide indigenous heritage, with the right to call for dialogue & obligation to respond to such calls. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
All those high-flown ideals can lead astray as well. And can be as much a lie as anything else. It is best to concentrate on truth. (With a small t! ) That's difficult enough. Then if the ancients are correct all the other things will arrive in its train.
What did Christ say? 'Why do you call me good? Man is not good. Only God is good.' That's why the Christian churches put so much emphasis on confession. And on confessing one's flaws. By clearing away all that rubbish we finally render ourselves transparent to God. By free confession of our faults we poets begin to come under the direct supervision of the Muse. (Whom Milton equated with the Holy Ghost.)
The trouble with all those high-flown ideals is that they can so easily lead to mood-making and pretentiousness. It is far better to concentrate on being truthful about small things; and on exactly how you feel about them. This way you avoid the modern scourge of sloganising.
And, in any case, truth itself is a difficult enough exercise. Too many people want to conquer the world; when the first thing to do is to conquer yourself. That's where the Prophets begin - with 'the still small voice'. The Seer is the one who observes small things clearly; and avoids large generalisations.
It is a good idea to take heed of Balaam on his ass. And learn the appropriate lesson.
Extreme idealism is just as dangerous as extreme realism/cynicism.
There is no alternative to discernment.
But while there are no shortcuts, I believe there are paths of least resistance to cultivate these higher faculties.
Culture plays a very important part here—one that has been neglected over the last half-century.
I particularly agree about the importance of culture. That is where one begins to learn discernment. And justice.
I can't help but feel that the US has been a very dangerous influence here. Its inhabitants show off too much. And put far too much emphasis on success and money and aggressiveness. So the softer virtues tend to get pushed aside, or even trampled over. And everything else becomes a protest at the resulting crudity and violence. And the trouble with protest is that it tends to make you dependent on the think you're protesting against.
“There is no alternative to discernment.” Agreed. All the noise and distractions are to silence the “wee small voice” the inner leading’s of the spirit of truth. Drugs open the doors to parasitic infections, (evil as thought forms etc) parasites foster cravings, perception disturbances & toxicity. MKUltra- perception management. Great documentary, thanks.
Outstanding! Very important piece of documentation. Thanks, Dave!
Excellent.
Those were the days my friend....it was fun while it lasted. ;-}
I especially liked the pulsating 3-D technicolor Leary part, with his face waving back and forth, and the eerie, slow and pulsating electronic gong beat. It reminded me of some Electronic music I have from the late 60's, particularly Nic Raicevik's album "Head" from 1969-70 which is a series of electronic instrumentals about drugs.
Didn’t “The Monkees” make a movie called “Head”? A crazy comic romp, absurd themes, very BEATLE- esq.
Watched it two days ago and its excellent exposure of the real idea and motivation why this Woodstock appeared in the western world and now we are seeing its evil conseuquence globally. Keep up the good work.
A revolution based on fear of soap.
David Gosselin, Thank you for this research & film. I've come across the Laurel Canyon Lookout-Mountain Airforce Military connection for 20 years or so. Certainly the problem of LSD & other drugs & intoxicants were deleterious over those decades, but I believe your deeper unspoken message is that something spiritual was & is happening, for all of us, because you lay emphasis on drug & psychological manipulation. I believe your statement is of 'precaution' in hopefully achieving relevance for our time. Let's not 'throw out the baby with the bath-water'. I believe you will agree that with suicidal environmental destruction & such as nuclear-war, all around us, we are afterall, a-process-in-the-making. I'm familiar with LA & Laurel-Canyon whereabouts from living 1974-5 in the San-Fernando Valley, Grenada Hills as well as bicycling all around this Santa-Monica, Hollywood, San-Bernadino, Pasadena region & then from LA to British Columbia, on the way home.
I'm born 1952, so grew up during that time & am so thankful, peace & love became an alternative possibility to the institutional war & destruction based brutality I was expected to adopt, at the time. I was influenced by such as Suzuki-Bean, whose New York City Beatnik parents, engendered this Hippy child comic, Buffy Ste-Marie, Joan Baez. Hippy comes from 'hip' meaning: a person gracefully centered in the bodies mid hip-centre of the body. Dance, Yoga, Tai-Chi, Judo & creativity in life all start with this centering. In picking up the sacred pieces of this period, we can recognize how a Cultural society is made up of many millions & even billions of influences, speaking through each generation on behalf of life.
ECONOMIC-MEMORY BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO HUMANITY's ECONOMIC-SOCIETY Human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Realizing the sacredness of this calling, as a young teen, I did not take marijuana, LSD, alcohol etc. My family regularly held dining-room table 'equal-time' debates, even during conflicts, a formal call & insistence to 'Let's hear 'Both-sides-Now'. I apprenticed with my father from an early age in Design, Engineering, Architecture, Machining, Mechanics as well as building boats, houses & repair to everything of all kinds. 1968-9, I helped form a High-School Student Union, rewriting the Student-Council constitution & making formal presentations advocating to our Principal & School-Board to help implement accredited Apprenticeship opportunities for those youth who might desire.
1963, I began solidarity involvement with 1st Nations & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') peoples environment & social projects, then living & working among 1st Nations. 1968 I continued in Accounting & then 1969-71 Queen's University PhD Research projects with the Canadian & US Geological Surveys on high mountain Structural Geological Mapping. Realizing we were being a can-opener to destroying the rich Glacier, wild animal ecologies, considering total lack of effective mineral & materials recycling in our cities, both my final year PhD student, finished our research but left Geology. I have always found that when I put my faith in life & leave the institution fake security, the 'teachers' & experiences, which I receive are always of the highest quality & relevance to my life mission. 1979 I live with a Vow-of-Solidarity with all humanity. In order to make the resources for life available for all, I limit my spending of time & money for or towards the essential food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health needed. This vow formed from involvement in realizing British Columbia's Uranium Exploration & Mining Moratorium by 1982, as well as earlier involvement in Cree People's sovereignty in James-Bay concerning Hydro-Quebec Dam projects & on the Montreal Grape Boycott committee of the United Farm Workers with Caesar Chavez in California. It took me over a decade to realize the importance of living & exemplifying the important values I am committed to. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/6-solidarity
1971-80, I lived among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite, English-Quaker & American Pacifist Draft-dodgers in the West-Kootenay region of British Columbia to learn about these previous pacifist economies & movements. 1973, I was surprised when an old Doukhobor elder shared how he felt that these 'Anabaptist' ('Ana' = 'upright' or 'fully-grown' Baptism, only by free-choice, cognizant adults) communities had missed their calling as peace-economy-ecology advocates in the cities of Russia, Germany & England along with American & Canadian cities, where we had mostly come from.
Oligarch commanded western society 7000 YEAR AMNESIC OLIGARCH FAKE 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') WAR TRAJECTORY OF WESTERN COLONIAL EMPIRE.
The context of 'the Devil' is 25 years following World War 2 & some 100 million killed & genocided by both sides to the fake Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med, Agribusiness institutional colonial society we are in. Trouble is the Allied imperial colonial empire nations which killed far more in their colonies during WW2 as well as other facets of mass slaughter, have never taken responsibility for what our Oligarch control has us do.
I do subscribe to all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') many 10s of 1000s of years old GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution, which is focused on three pillars of:
1) living in the intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale of the ~100 person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), 70% of people today live within Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village-clusters) averaging 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year. All indigenous humanity kept intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale in the Multihome (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Multihomes Should be the 1st Line of nutritional, preventative & restorative Medical intervention by specialists already amongst us treating people proactively & positively in harmony with nature. Here's an indigenous model of software to regenerate community care & health https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) Time-based equivalency accounting on the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island / N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell throughout once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me.). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi ‘indigenous’ aka ‘self-sufficiency’), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices as below. example: Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation with ~110 nations across Turtle-Island (N. America) organized into ~23 Confederacies, into Continental & Hemispheric Councils. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, somewhat related to the Medicine-Wheel in simplifying an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
3) COUNCIL PROCESS is a process of individuals committed to Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues for creating Constructive Agreements, Contract delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Council is both a right & obligation in all humanity's worldwide indigenous heritage, with the right to call for dialogue & obligation to respond to such calls. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
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