This is here so that I don't lose it... I got no comment.


Is Obama an enlightened being?
By Mark Morford,
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, June 6, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL



Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.


This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.


To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?


No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.


Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.


Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.


The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.



I lied; I have a comment:

Fuck you, you New Age twit...

jesus, what do they put in the water out there? That is as bizarre as "Obama is a socialist".

All of these cult of personality/Leader-lovers are sick and demented in a profound way. They should all be hospitalized...

Got lots of that jive out here in the Obama heydey. Not so much now.

The woman who was running the Tompkins County Obama idolatry-fest at the State Theatre during the primaries was reciting something similar in front of the packed house.

"She believed in Obama." Shit man she had astrology signs oozing out of her every orafice. She went on about how Obama was going to get the troops out of Iraq bring us healthcare for all and so forth. I was sitting in on this creepy affair and kept reminding everyone around me how wrong all of her points were and handed out booklets. You couldn't put a dent in their faith.

One woman was interested in what I was saying, her husband looked edgy and finally asked, "Hey honey is he bothering you?" Once out at the front door I engaged with quite a few folks and one guy threatened to punch me when I pushed him to name three Obama advisors and called him out as supporting something he knows nothing about.

Invasion of the body snatchers or something like it.

http://focus.innerworkingscentral.com/assets/images/candleinthedark.jpg
Welcome Home all Lightworkers, Star Seeds, and Divine Multidimensional Beings.

http://lightworkers.org/

Just in case you're wondering if you're one of the chosen.

I kept expecting to see maat over there hawking her superiority.
"I'm enlightened. Are you?"
"If you were enlightened, wouldn't you know that?"
"You bastard! How dare you question my elevated status!?"


I wonder if I could sell these folks some 'Holy Rocks' found at the sight of a rapture event? They are guaranteed to cure the sick, make the blind walk and give hearing to the partially clothed...

Just check this out:

http://lightworkers.org/shop/101657/akashic-record-spirit-guide-reading

$25 off, ya just can't beat that.
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I’m feeling the importance of communicating with my Spirit Guide team, hired by me at the soul level, and so I have done a Spirit Guide reading for myself. Now that I know who my posse is, I feel more grounded and more at home with these friends who have been with me for this journey. [/quote]

... about all this shit, I remind myself about the inevitability of this "unwrapping"... political and social, conservative and liberal. That whole suburban Titanic was just gonna hit that iceberg. And, once it did, people were gonna be wacked out: Darwin, Eastern religions, crystals, teabaggers, Obama, mega-churches - the works.

Still... who woulda thunk it? The late Roman citizenry would shake their heads at this shit and say, "those people are nuts..."

pretty tame...


eta:...sorry I got nothin'...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/autorank/001/carebear.jpg

You probably think this guy is some sort of joke. But no! He was a light worker too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/autorank/001/crowley-1.png

For those who cannot accept the new age,
the promise of 2012, those who won't join
the universal movement toward ... the light,
I have only one comment!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/autorank/001/austin.jpg

And when you're old and lonely, who will you have to love.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/autorank/001/strangeguy.jpg

I thought so.


Namaste my brother!

For those who aren't totally asleep, all I have to do is mention Brzinzski (can't fucking spell that name), and they say..."o, right", one relative, can blame all his advisors, but still he's sacrosanct...

asks me if I think he might be the anti-christ...that I can handle...(she's a Catholic who turned me on to Studs Terkel)...

I bet she drives a Prius - I know Crowley did...

Namaste (I really, really like this touch), my brother!


:roflmao:

if Crowley was 'better' or worse than the current crop. He was incredibly manipulative, devious and whacked, methinks they are standing on the shoulders of 'giants', Crowley, Bernays, Goebbles....

magickal masturbation?

And for Dhal above, we wear dog masks because we're cynics. Or because we like it "ruff" I forget which. (get it?! I slay me) The Temple of Isis is in the red light district, stop by any Thursday m'man ;)

John Tesh is the anto-Christ

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Most progressive 20th century ceremonial sex magicians find
uses for masturbation as a technique. However, even among
those most accepting of sexual variety, some demote
masturbation in favour of other, preferred practices (e.g.
the sex magician Aleister Crowley, who advocated anal sex
leading to the consumption of mingled excrement, blood, and
semen).[/quote]

I have read 'Diary of a Drug Fiend', a yard sale find, one of the most messed up pieces of shit ever put into print. Scrape away the goo and the underlying 'philosophy' ain't much different than these clowns, or Anton Lavey for that matter.

"She is not wearing a "dog mask", man! And she's my sister!" I think that the expression we are looking for is, "Woof"...

but the cynics were so named (kynos = dog) either because they lived like dogs (fornicated freely, ate trash) or else because of their "dogged" mentality.

Or maybe it was one of your great ancestors who someone mistakenly believed was wearing a dog mask..;)

AWOOOOOOOOOO!

stylized dog-head masks. The Cult of Isis (along with Christianity) was one of the more popular "Eastern Religions" that were infecting Rome during its later decades - as is view by many as part of a continuing deterioration of the Roman populace.

However, that being said, I do have some "dog-faced" relations...just sayin'...

but since its bound to be read by all of six people, I've had relations with a few pugs

I've been reading Alan Woods long series on the class struggle in Ancient Rome. When hes not off on some tangent its pretty good. I wouldn't call it "concise" or definitive, but its really not bad and it is accounted in a fairly linear manner which helps to keep things mentally organized I think.

I think you and Anax know way more about the Romans than me though. I took a class Glory that was Greece/Grandeur that was Rome one semester. Mostly we looked at slideshows of the aqueducts and stuff but I did have to read the Aeneid and the Satyricon.

I also learned that Alexander the Great "studied under" (in the literal sense if you get the joke) Aristotle

I'm impressed that so many people know Crowley by his image.

It's a "Golden Dawn" in a sea of internet dreck;)

...for the modern intellectually dishonest leader who invokes ritualized violence to maintain power.

But what about those care bears?

I had to buy that way back because it was so offensively outrageous. It's a load of crap, like Crowley's entire act, but the cover was cool. Dog masks...snap it Frenchy!

I can't believe that people paid attention to this lune but they paid attention to "W" - his grandson (according to odd ball rumors).

That masturbation stuff is the other end of the strange spectrum beginning with "abstinence." That is, I suspect, the origin of the modern social tactic called "austerity."

Where's "my brother"? Has he forsaken me?

who is all over Crowley. Its kind of bizarre. Grant Morrison. Hes written all the big comics too, X-Men, Batman, don't know which others since I don't follow comics much anymore

and "social tactics" so I guess I'll throw it out there.

Watcha reading recently Auto? A while ago Anax mentioned a book called Women's Evolution: From Matriarchical Clan to Patriarchical Family. The author Evelyn Reed is pretty respected and still bandied about in Trot circles especially.

The book not the blubbering drivel the title (patriarchy blah blah blah) might suggest, Reed is a very serious anthropologist and social commentator.

I actually recommend you start about page 425 because thats where it gets most interesting. It is an extension of Engel's work (Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State) which I think is a companion/recap of Marx's studies over the last 10 years of his life which were focused around the work of an American named Lewis Henry Morgan.

Morgan was sort of a Ward Churchill type only he wasn't a flake like Churchill (or at least it doesn't filter through very much) and his work was topnotch. I think that is one of the sources Anax draws from when he mentions the Iroquois (Mohawks, etc).

Some of what Reed is on about is mainly refuting the more base/crude scholarship in anthropology in the 70s and is thus polemical. I understand the field come a ways since then (BP might be a good person to ask on this too). Anyway, some more of the book is a bit technical/arcane and some of it comes across as pedantic, but the message/thesis is crystal clear.

The thing that sticks with me most is a passage from Homer where he sings a woman's praises for the many cattle she brings to her clan.

Antiquity is where Reed stops and in some ways I feel thats where the story begins, but think of this as The Hobbit, the standalone prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

(incidentally, that was the most awkward 6th grade book report ever. "Its not a dirty word, his name really is Bilbo!")

Take my advice though, and start with the Chapter around page 400-420 though. Its hot.

Everyone sort of went through a "Crowley-phase"...

That fine band was the favorite of the artist who did the show.
[link:www.zappinternet.com/video/MaWgLipYiv/Captain-Beefheart-Electricity|Electricity]

my mom is a dog?? She does have a Roman nose. Hmmm, pugs are pretty small dogs Kid...nothing implied here, ;)

(Ok, I am a bitch...)

Yer musical taste are fast & bulbous.

A fellow traveler!

Nice [link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BLM3iiBkA|cover] of this [link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wtHYyERls|cover].

Now here's the low yo yo... I saw the Captain and the Magic Band live twice. Once
at the "Hollywood Bowl" in the 60's. My "cool" aunt decided to expose the pre-teen
Collins to some rock and roll. Bunch of total losers but then the Magic Band came out
and rocked the house dressed as pirates! Changed my life! Then I saw them in NYC at
a great hall on 44th, can remember the name. I was more suitably atuned. It was
transcendent. And they were still doing those "Famous Flames" moves...just amazing.


Thanks for the flash!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/autorank/cover.jpg

I thought Scott Baio was the antichrist but I'll go with Tesh due to that
screaming bummer new age music thing he did.

They are even insulting when they are recruiting...

I'm not sure how she does her serious scholar to let-me-tell-you-some-Trotskyism segues and then transitions back again... but, with a little care, the book is terrific.