Author: Keith Armstrong

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As the Balance of Power in the world shifts it is surprising to find America take a back seat through its alignment with Russia, and by extension with Iran and North Korea, while China, probably the largest world economy, aligns itself with Justice and Human rights.

While no small amount of this is due to a personality clash between two presidents, one who believes he is due all kinds of homage and another who is fighting for the good of his people and integrity of his nation, international diplomacy is reduced to a kiddies playground of tit for tat with no real consideration of the issues involved. Living in a blame culture.

To always want to be a winner is a gross failing among human beings, not least when played out on a public stage. A lack of maturity is dangerous, if only for the man himself. The alienation of natural allies and the division of the world into unfamiliar blocks is second only to the climate crisis which year on year grows more intense, throwing the entire globe into a crisis unprecedented in modern times. We can only trust that it is to build a stronger global society, where concern for others’ well-being holds paramount place in the minds of humanity at large. The loss of species and cultures reduces life to a cellular, 2-dimensional, grey existence, reflecting the format of the spreadsheets which direct international finance. Yet language displays a yearning for the opposite with phrases such as ‘blue sky thinking’ and ‘thinking outside the box’. May these aspirational phrases begin to take effect to see humanity truly rise to its proper place as guardians of this world.

It does not surprise me that China has been able to develop AI capabilities at a fraction of the price of the US coders.

The first and most obvious factor being the wages the two teams would expect for their expertise. I have no idea what a difference there may be between them but I am convinced that the Chinese programmers would not be receiving the sort of wages that US coders would expect.

There is a second element however that relates to this. American companies for years have been producing bloatware, as it is called. Over programmed coding that creates superfluous routines and actually hinders concise and accurate analysis, as well as the programming of a problem.

I have an example from a small module I took at University in the 90s. It was to write a word search program looking for a certain relationship of letters within a word. The word I was looking for was ‘milk’ and its synonyms across European languages. The key feature was the combination m-l-k in that order. I wanted to be sure to catch all occurrences of this and so needed a wildcard at the beginning. The lecturer who was teaching me, admittedly a palaeontologist, was struggling to find a way when I suggested using the * at the beginning as well as further on in the coding. He reflected for a moment and then said ‘yes that would work’. While he had been wrestling with the problem of adding one or two letters or more at the beginning before the required m-l-k combination he had lost sight of the fact that it really didn’t matter how many letters occurred before the required key and so was not looking at the problem from the right angle.

Adobe and Microsoft are both examples of bloatware programming. While the open source office suites are more efficient at dealing with the same problem. Perhaps it has to do with the internal organisation of the companies, creating teams to deal with particular routines. I cannot say. What I can say is that if bloatware becomes an acceptable way of proceeding, then it will become an ingrained habit and no longer so demanding as creating elegant and efficient programming. Look at the programs that were produced for the Amiga which was limited to under a megabyte of memory. Programs had to be efficient in the way they operated to allow for the restrictions of the system.

This lead to a training in efficient programming and the expectation that it was not necessary to have a high performance CPU and a stack of RAM to produce efficient fool-proof programs.

Unfortunately Microsoft took the position that it was necessary to ‘drive the market’ in chip development and the building of ever more powerful systems. Sadly this lead to sloppy discipline in programming, and coding lost its efficiency.

But hey! What do I know? Overpaid, inefficient? Well we’ve got the whole of industry by the balls, so let them pay up. A sorry state of affairs indeed.

Imagine there was a template for living creatures. Not only humans, nor even only mammals, but also insects and all forms of moving, and even non-moving life forms.

Imagine that this template began, not with teeth, nails, skin colour, hair or tails, but with qualities such as courage, strength, honour and respect.

Imagine that these are the fundamental principles on which all Life is based. Imagine that any loss of those standards are received by all of Life as it resonates around the one or ones who infringed these principles through carelessness.

Let us extend these thoughts to include such things as promises, words, and treaties. All of which are nothing more than extensions of respect for those with whom these agreements are made.

All of these qualities may be grouped under the name Integrity.

A lack of integrity leads to loss of respect by all those around us. 

Through loss of  respect anything of value is lost. Neither heritage, nor family, nor friendship. None of these can be relied upon from those who stand by us when we have forsaken the communal, life given, principles which support and sustain Life.

Our security is gone through the crass actions or statements we have made. Life loses its values and the more this occurs, the more we take refuge in exaggerated actions, loud proclamations, raucous laughter, over-sentimental indulgence and all the other signs of drunkenness. We stand increasingly in fear of our own wrong doing and the results we see it brings us. As a result of this we become yet more exaggerated in our behaviour. We have lost the measure whereby we can gauge Life around us.

To stabilise the process it begins with keeping the word we have given. That way we begin to be recognised for some measure of integrity according to those values which we uphold.

Consider triangles. There are three types of triangle. The best of these is called One, it is the equilateral triangle. All of its sides are equal and all of the interior angles are equal. That is to say there is only one length of side and only one magnitude of angle, 60 degrees.

The second is called Two because it has sides of two different lengths. This results in angles of two different magnitudes. The angles at the base of the equal-length sides are the same but the angle opposite the base is of a different number of degrees. This triangle is called the Isosceles triangle.

The last is called Scalene with sides of three different lengths and resulting angles of three different magnitudes. Of these there are three types. This type of triangle is rightly called Three. The three types of Scalene triangle are those with acute angles, those with an obtuse angle, and finally the best of these is the right-angled triangle, as it most approximates order and regularity.

For the person who has lost their measure in the world, by keeping their word and carrying out the undertakings they promise, consistently, they begin to bring order into their lives. It may take a long time, in many cases it may take lifetimes, to gain control of the impulses within life again. But, by adopting an approach to integrity, order will slowly begin to impose itself upon the whimsical nature which has guided the individual formerly.

I heard all kinds of reasons given today as to why rising early is good for the body and particularly the mood. Arguments such as get as much light as you can and so on.

There was one cause ignored for such an effect on the mood, which is undoubtedly the case.

When the Sun ‘rises’ its rays impact the magnetic body of the Earth. If you are attuned to the Earth you will hear the effects of this wave, or properly said, these waves. they change quite rapidly, especially at and just before dawn. They are audible to the human ear. I have heard them. Enough to cause me to write this short piece.

As the angle of incidence grows more acute the impact angle alters and with it the effect of the note produced. Now instead of impacting the body at a more horizontal angle it becomes more vertical and the impact more ‘weighty’ on the body. Consider the effect at midday. Here the angle will be as close to vertical as it will come that day and the ‘weight of the sun’ will fall fully upon the body. The body grows tired. The body associates tiredness with eating, so we take our meals at midday.

The feeding frenzy at lunch time leads to the desire for a siesta in the afternoon. The effect is delayed.

As the afternoon wears on the angle now, instead of hitting the body in an impelling fashion, hits it in a lagging fashion. Energy grows lower and lesser. We are ‘tired’ in the afternoon, and drag ourselves towards evening.

None of this was considered this morning, by the reporters excitedly describing the effects of being ‘an early morning person’. But then I doubt they consider themselves as electro-magnetic entities, though no doubt charismatic.

Life, and the process of life, is a controlled fire. The chemical exchanges that drive the life process in cells all take place in a fluid, water, environment. By virtue of these processes cells are nourished, cleansed, grow and reproduce. The chemistry of such exchanges is driven by the presence of Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium and other trace chemicals which allow for the fluid exchange of one chemical molecule into another. These are in minute quantities, hence the use of the term trace. They are not there in saturation.

Allopathic medicine, by contrast, hits the body with the sledge hammer of a given chemical. Not simply a cell where the exchange is needed, but the entire corpus. Every cell in the body now has to deal with a saturation of some new and alien chemical. All of this to bring about a restoration of balance to the organism. These are subtle changes which are needed, not major shifts, such as might occur through dehydration, starvation or hypothermia.

The result of this is that the body is thrown into chaos as it seeks to restore its balance against the invasion of the prescribed medication. The body has to draw chemicals, most notably water, from their places in the body to combat the effects of this invasive prescription. The result is called ‘side effects’.

There is a close connection between the large intestine and the lungs. If any one has started smoking and then stopped, to start again some months later, they will be aware of the shift of water in the body. But when a ‘side effect’ is to cause diarrhoea and another is to cause production of phlegm, or shortness of breath. There is no thought that these two symptoms might be complementary and the result of the placement of water within the body.

One of the ways that the body heals itself, with a cut for instance, is to move water and with it antibodies, to the site of the injury. Anything that causes the interference in the proper conducting of water about the body throws the body into chaos as it tries to restore its balance. Any such invasion is seen as toxicity with the body trying to battle a poisonous substance.

If the pharmaceutical industry was to move its focus from profit to wholistic well-being, and to recognise the significance of water and its movement within the body, there may be some hope of improving the quality of life for people, instead of now, trying to alleviate a single condition in isolation with total disregard of the other physiological processes involved in maintaining life. Where there is a worldwide market there is an opportunity for widespread research into the effects of the ‘medications’ they ply us with, if only the persons suffering reported them and the data collected and analysed. Instead what we find in Britain is denial by the medical profession that such a side effect is associated with a given prescription. The patient knows this to be the case for themselves by simply stopping the medication and finding the symptoms disappear.

The over consumption of meat is not beneficial to the body, but has any research into diet and the incidence of bowel cancer been carried out?

One thing is clear we will never eradicate death, and until the race faces its mortality, it will continue to hide behind one condition after another – today it is fashionable to state prostate cancer and dementia as causes of death – in a vain belief that death will never happen to them. And that, despite the disappearance of one species after another on a daily basis from the world today.

Nothing arises without a cause. A cause gives rise to those things most like itself, before it gives rise to things less like itself.

Consciousness gives rise to Universe. The Universe does not give rise to Consciousness. Consciousness bubbles up into the Universe, percolating through various layers of Itself in diverse states. Consciousness enfolds Itself to create a bubble within Itself. The primary aspect of Consciousness is reflection. Folding upon Itself it reflects its nature within the enclosed bubble. The reflection of Light is Absence of Light, or Darkness, this enclosed Darkness we call Space. It is Consciousness in a reflex condition. Space is called Night and Kali (Time). Typically identified as a Conscious, usually Feminine, Being.

Following birth we are trained to observe objects. Carlos Castaneda speaks of this in The Second Ring of Power, being the agreement commonly shared about the shape and appearance of the world. When a child recognises this it joins the rest of the family and this becomes the dominant perception of the world. The work of the Shaman, the Sorcerer, is to access an alternative view of the Universe. This may be described as a parallel vision, or as the awakening of the Siddhis in Yoga.

But objects, the study of material science, are only crystallised forms of Consciousness, or Forms composed of Crystallised Consciousness. The process of Crystallisation is described in various schools, the clearest of which would seem to be the Yogic or Sanata Dharma, in which Mind proceeds in a series of condensations through Ether, to Air, to Fire to Water to Earth, each layer adding a further property to the growing list of limitations, wrapping around Consciousness pure.

Since each layer is merely Consciousness in a modified condition, Consciousness pure can permeate them all. It is this which is described above as ‘Consciousness bubbling up into the Universe’.

In individuated consciousness, the end result of the condensation described above, Consciousness witnesses itself through the lens of an isolated entity, the self, or jivatman. It peers out through the cage of the senses on to the world at large. Being taught that this is the only reality, it perceives what others tell it it will perceive. No matter the extraordinary instruments built to augment the auditory and visual senses of the human being, the direction of attention is ever outwards, even when peering at subatomic expressions. What that ‘I’ sees is only ‘Not-I’, increasing the sense of separation and reinforcing the conception that the ‘I’ is an isolated fragment of a material, accidental Universe.

When it looks inwardly it perceives organs, cells and atoms, which are themselves merely crystallised Consciousness.

If the question is asked ‘Who Am I’ or ‘What am I’ the exploration of Consciousness itself begins. Depending on the quality of the teachers encountered the answers to those questions will either reinforce the material, isolated idea or begin the journey towards Consciousness that Castaneda refers to as discovering or passing through the ‘Crack in the Universe’. Hesiod referred to this as the Yawning or Chaos, which word means the Gap. This is known in all the major Spiritual traditions under various names but essentially refers to uniting individuated Consciousness with that over-arching Consciousness of Space and from Space the return to the Undivided Ocean of Consciousness usually envisaged as White and fluid, and referred to as the Cosmic Ocean, or the Sea of Milk and Honey.

The mistake that is made by material science and its adherents, is that this Unified Consciousness is not aware of the individual. That Source Being of Consciousness is described as ‘a Loving God’, ‘the All Powerful’, the Tao and the One, according to the tradition and intentions of the spiritual path so naming it. Since it is the source of Consciousness and with it of Self-Consciousness, it is necessary that such a source will itself be aware of its own existence and far from being disinterested in the struggle of the individual who has attained to such a Unity will be most encouraging towards that one to ensure that complete union is, and will be, attained. In some traditions this is known as uniting (yoga) with Parama Purusha, the Supreme Personality.

Hardly needs repeating. Ethically bankrupt food production.

When the birds as an entire range of species relies on the sky and the heavens, the sun, moon and the stars, to lead their lives in harmony with themselves, closing them in sheds under electric lights is not only cruel but maddening.

Can we expect human society to grow healthy when it does this to its neighbours?

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