There are times when the souls of even those born under the lucky star of Jupiter, feel as if they were “Deep in the shady sadness of a vale.”
Sadness comes to us at all ages, because we value and understand different things at different times. And because we are sharing this planet with others who both affect us and experience their own trials and tribulations.
The problem with progress is that no one knows its aim.
People will tell you that progress will bring about the greatest good for the greatest number. We know that’s not true. People work more, have fewer leisure hours, owe more, have less social security, less peace of mind, fewer reserve resources, fewer liberties, less beauty and goodness and reason in their lives and very little spirituality.
People are conditioned and propagandized to love their country and God from earliest childhood.
Rather than a wise practice, it is a method of social control. God and country are used symbolically to emotionalize one’s attachment to the objectives of a higher class. God, country, the flag, religion, patriotism, and all the other abstractions, symbols and pretenses, are created for no other reason than to rob you of your freedom and to either limit or emotionalize your thought.
Many people are aware that most of the economic statistics released by the government have been altered in ways which make them fraudulent.
There have been two main reasons why the US Government reports figures which are not reflective of reality. First of all, figures are made to look better than they are, in order to make Administrations seem more efficient and successful. Second, figures are fudged in order to cheat people out of what is rightfully theirs.
One can learn a great deal about a people, culture, civilization. society or consciousness, by examining the nature of its God or gods.
The Judeo-Christian religion has a very peculiar conception of God. This conception shows no great depth or profundity of thought and a consciousness filled with fear, guilt, violence, along with faith and hope. God, in this incarnation, resembles a very moody and inept man. A kind of screw-up, who has to eventually send down his son to be tortured, in order to try to make things right.
Fear and negativity are the King and Queen of America at present. There are numerous reasons for this, both real and imagined.
There are so many fears, in fact, that it is pointless to deal with them individually. One must deal with fear itself. One must gain a perspective which raises one above fear. Otherwise one will use all of his energy and time dealing with fears one at a time.
Have you ever wondered why “ghosts” almost never speak?
It is one thing to gather together enough subtle substance to materialize; it is quite another–and more difficult–task to reproduce human speech.
It can be done, but anyone who has actually heard a being from this more subtle world speak, will never forget the sound. One can gain an idea of the frightful comicality of ghostspeak, by trying to make animal sounds.
Of course, among themselves, these subtle beings use mental telepathy, which requires neither speech nor a particular language.
There is usually great urgency or significance when a materialized being makes the supreme and awkward effort to speak, and to use a language that you can understand. It is downright silly to think that a ghost is malevolent, just because he is a ghost. Or that a ghost has specifically come to haunt, or to communicate with, you. Usually we have wandered into an area, which is rich in stratified sediments–residues of human activity, thought and speech–and which are being used to construct a temporary form.
One is wise to say nothing and keep on moving.
– Raphael O’Suna
Five men sat around a camp fire in Mendocino County long ago. Each expressed his fear, anxiety and resentment regarding the laws, principles and forces of the universe. One man railed against the extent of the necessary. Another feared chance. A third was in the grip of compulsions. A fourth felt victimized by karma. I most feared, resented and found incomprehensible the strain of irony in the universe.
Necessity, chance and compulsion did not seem to require supermundane intervention. Physical laws, statistical probabilities and patterns of behavior seemed to explain the workings of these three.
Karma, however, and irony seemed to extend to and from the visible and immaterial realms. These two seemed to require response, continuation and completion, partially shaped by forces far subtler than physical. Karma might require psychic consent, but who consciously consents to irony? Irony seemed almost infernal or impish. Almost a kind of black humor. Why would a benevolent power provide for so much irony? Justice often is unobservable in the torture of irony.
The next morning we realized that our philosophical and metaphysical discussions had so engrossed us, that we had left unprotected our supplies. A bear had not missed the opportunity. Thus began again our discussion of the night before.
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
Every military man, except John McCain, understands that it is a prisoner of war’s duty to free him- or herself from captivity.
The hero not only frees himself, but returns to free others. To refuse release as John McCain did, because others were not to be released, was not heroic, but arrogantly stupid. He himself must have realized the stupidity of his refusal, because on two occasions, he had to be prevented from committing suicide. So much for heroism, responsibility and the sanctity of life.
Later in life — right up to this very moment, he has hypocritically surrounded himself with corrupt and corrupting lobbyists and businessmen. Just last week, he removed from his staff lobbyists for the military dictatorship of Myanmar.
McCain, even at this stage in his life, appears to need to prove himself and to prove things to himself.
When I was a kid, no one liked a punk with a chip on his shoulders. Who was to know that those qualities would elect one president, and maybe one to succeed him?
–Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
Every family in the State of Hawaii should have one member of it research the nature and effects of sulfur dioxide and toxic metals. People among themselves should stop calling these things vog. We should call these plumes of poison “Aeroperil,” or by some other name which will defy attempts to minimize the danger.Our health and our lives are threatened. Because sulfur dioxide is a gas, and because it also contains metallic particles, only a cumbersome gas mask would provide full protection. HEPA masks will only provide protection against particulate matter.
Throughout Maui, the “mine canaries” have fallen ill. The fact that the sensitive among us have already been adversely affected should not be ignored.
Although there is no safety or security in life, an educated, united and prepared community is to be preferred to one content with illusions.
Regarding the State as a whole, a court someday may find it criminally negligent for not, at the very least, warning tourists about the conditions on the Big Island.
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
