Politics of the Predator

It is the natural tendency of any bureaucracy to grow exponentially.  Politics, which is always tied to economics, becomes about controlling and regulating every aspect of life.  Laws are not about what humans can do, but what they cannot do.  And power misinterpreted as control is founded on competition for limited resources.  Ultimately all resources become limited in this type of system, a system of control.

Our democracy, a fiction at best, thus is not about freedom.  It is about creating a game where the least common denominator dominates the most talent and profits from it.  The structure thus becomes about preparing the young for a game that has always been rather than developing natural talents for innovation and creation.  Given enough time, this system of controls will begin to create feedback loops.  Individuals who, knowing they have no real power, choose freedom at any cost in the face of the dominion of the many which in actuality are being controlled by the few.  And we then execute these marginals as symbols of holding onto the myth of freedom for security.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Black Enso

Take a drive, take a walk, spend an hour away from humans, this is a great start to silent practice…. Better yet, spend a year or two away from the dramas.  Stalking the silence was easy it seemed yet easing back into the cacaphoney of human energy can be difficult by comparison to the leaving.

When the predator first rears its head in a boisterous “no-way-you-can’t-leave-the-way-you-have-worked-walked-maintained-the-common-human-story”, death seams the only answer to its demands.  But even death is part of the game the predator plays.

To defeat the predator we recapitulate.  At first this recapitulation is all about externals, stories of others and demands of others.  Then it shifts to our reaction to others, our energy in relationship to others.  Finally it’s all inside your head and the predator attacks our very existence.

The only way to not be a sugary morsel of victimhood to this onslaught is silence.  Practiced, steady, disciplined silence.  We become quiet first, but more deeply we become silent.  We stop participating in the grand story that is constantly bombarding our definitions of normal.  And at first it’s rather energetic because we had devoted so much energy to the same ole’ story.

Form and Emptiness

Enso

Reality as we conceive it to be is a matter of fixating our perception and maintaining the patterns.  The patterns are hidden in our assumptions about the way things work, the information we get from our feedback loops of mother culture.  Mother culture is no friend to true freedom because the bulk of perceptual fields that the greater human band of awareness is there to limit our perception to a mode of preserving the fixation of our assemblage points, the mechanics of how we see the world.

Shifting our perceptual framework, our seeing, requires that we look beyond the gravitational field and weight of commonly held perceptual frameworks, known as the common mold of man, or the overwhelming weight of our combined perceptions as physical beings and belief that this is all we are.  This is but one band of awareness in a greater field of infinite bands of awareness that are possible.  The seer know by direct experience that these bands, all bands of awareness are self fulfilling, self limiting, and self sustaining systems that move along direct lines of fixated perception.  To shift perception is a masterful act of the warrior of freedom.  In fact it is THE master act of the warrior of freedom.

Creation-Destruction

Amber Glow of Awareness

Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.  A warrior’s commitment to freedom is bounded by the responsibility we are willing to take for the destruction we do to create freely.  From this, we clear the way for something new, something more.  The average person lives within a tight band of patterns and behaviors to which they build up resistance to the universe at large.  The average person sleeps within these patterns and knows nothing of the accidental creation/destruction this lack of commitment implies.  Random acts of destruction are relegated to a place of victimhood and fear, never knowing that it is our creativity that opens the door to more.

We as humans are hardwired through a succession of genetic encoding and environmental shifts that have occurred over the last 6 million years to adapt.  It could be argued that we need rapid changes to wake us up to the hidden potential ever present in our genetic code.  We need challenges to perception to remind us that we are who we really are and that the universe is a random order generator, which has brought forth awareness.  If we are not free of the patterns, we succumb to the tidal waves that these rapid shifts create.

Creation-Destruction

Amber Glow of Awareness

Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.  A warrior’s commitment to freedom is bounded by the responsibility we are willing to take for the destruction we do to create freely.  From this, we clear the way for something new, something more.  The average person lives within a tight band of patterns and behaviors to which they build up resistance to the universe at large.  The average person sleeps within these patterns and knows nothing of the accidental creation/destruction this lack of commitment implies.  Random acts of destruction are relegated to a place of victimhood and fear, never knowing that it is our creativity that opens the door to more.

We as humans are hardwired through a succession of genetic encoding and environmental shifts that have occurred over the last 6 million years to adapt.  It could be argued that we need rapid changes to wake us up to the hidden potential ever present in our genetic code.  We need challenges to perception to remind us that we are who we really are and that the universe is a random order generator, which has brought forth awareness.  If we are not free of the patterns, we succumb to the tidal waves that these rapid shifts create.

Special

“It’s because we simply cheated ourselves all the way down the line.  We thought our lives, by analogy, was a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose by the end.  The point was to get to that end, success or whatever, or maybe heaven after you are dead. But we missed the point the whole way along.  It was a musical thing and we were supposed to sing or dance, while the music was being played.”  OTT – One day I wish to have this kind of time.

A warrior’s humility is not the humility of the average man.  Got it, but does that make us in any way special.  Hell know!… In fact it makes us the same as the average man.  One of the traps of any path, any way, anything we practice is that we think we are getting the right answer, the right way and the world makes more sense to us than any other human in the world.  (We sometimes forget that the insane apes are us!)  In fact there is nothing special about the warrior of freedom’s path in comparison to any other path whatsoever.

We progress through the four battles of life, we build up personal power, we align with intent and so often we forget that everything is aligned with intent and has power to say nothing of freedom.  Every person, plant and animal has the same freedom that we do within the realm of the position of their assemblage points.  To walk a path of freedom is not in anyway superior or special to any one else, rather it is a dance of knowledge and awareness of the panoply of creation and how amazing the universe is in creating awareness in all its variations.

Family and the Art of Recapitulation

What warrior of freedom does not run into the difficulties associated with family.  As Don Juan noted, we reject the contract that our parents are raising us to be food for the predator.  This contract made eons ago is passed down through a host of patterns and default behaviors called culture.  The job of family and our parents is to raise us to survive in that culture, that limited controlled perception of reality.  The hidden agenda is to fixate our assemblage points on patterns that are comfortable, rituals that are celebrated, and values that distract us from freedom.  The main foundation of most parental agenda is to raise children to take on their pattern (narcissism at its finest – reproduce our self importance in our children) and pass it along to successive generations.  It is a sustainer’s mentality.

Warriors of freedom are indebted to the world for this life is a perfect scenario for us to practice and become free.  To do so we align with freedom, intent and the creative impulse of the universe to constantly challenge the pattern for newer and deeper means for awareness to express itself.  This creator’s mentality is always at odds with the sustainer’s mentality and nowhere is this more evident than in the stories and patterns, which were hard wired into our brains at a young age by our natal experiences.

Thus the warrior erases personal history.  This means going after the energy, which is trapped in us from a young age through patterning and repetition.  We can move through recapitulation by following energetic lines of patterns to their roots.  We can recapitulate by focusing on parents default behaviors that we have picked up.  We can recapitulate by seeing our own behavior as inherited experiences.  But we can never blame, that is the victim mentality and the realm of the predator.  Our familial culture has no awareness of these patterns.  If we become strong, then when we gather enough energy, the warrior can stand in the face of family detached and at ease.  This is the point where recapitulation and the predator throws it all in our face.  Our natal patterns are comfortable.  It’s enticing to return to the womb of our mother culture.  Once we have removed or disconnected the patterns from ourselves, it is in relationship with those individuals that offers the deepest recapitulation possible… to not get trapped in the comfortable patterns that are ever present in those who do not recapitulate them.