Month: July 2022

Time

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It’s a funny thing time. It can stretch on forever or be over in the blink of an eye. We are beholden to it in the modern age, and it’s not by accident. But is it natural? Were we always slaves to the order of it rather than just taking part in the process of it. Was there always an order to it? Has it always run on a cycle, a countdown with a reset date? Like each night at midnight when we ‘reset’ the day to start over. To run the simulation again and again until it eventually reduces the cycle back to zero. But on a bigger scale.

We have our time divided up and dictated, whether we like to admit it or not. The system of our whole day being split into three eights to command a separation and categorising of our time. Work time, down time, sleep time. All very ordered. For industry of course, and the working part of those hours used to be much higher and has changed over time depending on the needs of the corporations, not because of the needs of the people, although it’s painted as such.

And to facilitate the above, we have clocks everywhere. Alarm clocks to frighten, sorry, startle you out of sleep to start your work day. If you are lucky enough to not have to start with an alarm, it can only be a good thing. Your body gets to decide on what terms to start the day. But so much of our daily routine involves and revolves around time and breaking it all down by way of numbers. Clocks being integrated into most parts of your day, to wake you, get you to school, or work, clocking in and clocking out as they say. In your house, on your wrist, now on your phone. TV Programmes arranged by time slots, everything organised by time. Yet it passes us by quite unnoticed sometimes. Hasn’t the time flown by one might say. As can it drag on and seem an eternity, depending on the activity at hand.

The church also plays their part I have noticed. Bells ringing, every quarter hour, and numerous times to signify the hour change (after 1 o’clock obviously). It’s around 96 times a day I think they chime, for timekeeping purposes of course. Nothing to do with the hypnotic rhythmic tolling periodically.

As a society, we are set on a calendar (which has been changed and altered I might add, but for this we’ll go along with what we are told, with some places running on a different one). With years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds. And from day dot, having this instilled in us through our childhoods and for the rest of our lives. Along with our age, which is marked by an annual ritual acknowledgement of it, and having multiple tasks, laws and expectations placed upon it.

It can also really tamper with a person’s stability and sensibility if you mess with or rearrange someone’s timeline or knowledge of it. But is that only because people are given a timeline to work within, so without that, you have no grounding or starting point. Imagine if every clock you passed was keeping a different time. And each day things didn’t have a specific reference point for anything, it seems like it would be hectic and chaotic. And perhaps it would without a different system in place. People like to have a starting point, to know where you came from, what you are doing and ideally where you are going. Time can reveal all of these things, if there isn’t a truck load of obstacles in the way and human interference. Time will tell as they say.

We know, or appear to know that time is fixed in our daily lives, past, present and future. Yet we dream and fantasise about travelling backwards or forwards through it. Capturing the secrets of the past, or to reveal the wonders and worries of the future. But the conundrum of either only being able to view said events, or of being perpetually doomed to keep trying to fix something you never can isn’t a happy one. Maybe it’s a good thing we can’t, as far as we know anyway.

Time waits for no-man they say, and it marches forth whether you are taking part or not. But that makes it sound as if time is an entity, rather than a mathematical system of numbers to calculate us into conditioning. As if we have a choice and that time is not our enemy, who is following and stalking us to our fate as we are led to believe. But more a friend, who we can walk with and will be with us to the very end. Depends on your perspective I guess. Your time is up, is another saying we have, to make us think we are a personally on the clock, that we have a set time to go. Like we are programmed to expire and do so because we believe it to be true. Who can say for sure.

It could have been as simple as night and day, afternoon and morning, I’ll never know.

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A Witch, How Convenient

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We know the stories, Salem witch trials and King James I and his hunt across Europe in the 1500’s. Multitudes of woman, and men tortured and killed under the guise and heading of ‘Witchcraft’. For years I believed the story too, as it was told. But as with everything these days, I began to give it a rethink having picked up more information along the way.

My first inkling, other than the systematic system of lies woven into our taught and learned history, was a small fact about alcohol. I’m interested in social history and how we got to these systems, procedures and regulations we see today, so randomly looked this up. I wanted to know when we started licensing alcohol and regulating it and learnt that women headed the trade originally, then came upon this article last year which renewed my interest in the subject – Women used to dominate beer industry.

Showing how women dominated the trade, wore black pointy hats, and had big cauldrons to ‘brew’ the beer. Sounds like an easy leap doesn’t it. Especially when you realise after the ‘witch’ clearances, it appeared it was an industry and land grab as with many other incidents throughout history. People got rid of their competition or problem by shouting ‘Witch’ – even on their own family sometimes. Stupidly simple, swift and effective. They say that men took over after that and women lost their place within that particular industry, and possibly others, I will have to delve further.

But it made me wonder, as I have done previously, about what other gifts and skills may have been targeted by jealous or fearful people. I’ve long thought that natural healers and seers used to exist (and possibly still do today), and that many would have seen them as a threat. It’s also not helpful to some if people can ‘read you’ or know what you intend if you are of a devious nature. That’s why intuition these days is encouraged but used against you as soon as you display it or people catch on you have it. They want you to reveal it, so they can make you mistrust it. They wouldn’t want people knowing what they could really do and are actually capable of.

To be able to remove your business or personal rival must have been an advantage for many. As we see today, once you have something in place to ‘deal with’ those labelled, many terrible things can happen. I believe that’s why they killed some, people with powers were a threat to them. And the rest, people who just knew too much? Well, I think asylums probably helped a bit there. You could just lock someone away forever if they wanted them out of the way. They were also used to get rid of people who were just a mere inconvenience to some, in the way or selfishness or inheritance. Don’t misunderstand me though, these are not just tools of the past, they continue to this day. Just with different names, labels, methods and gains.

Many people didn’t fall for the ruse though, and were unwittingly then caught up in it themselves, because those who perpetrate the atrocities will do all they can to keep them either hidden or make them acceptable. And there will always be people who are thrown to the wolves as they say. Nuremberg being an example of that, and quite possibly we will see another one of those types of trials in the very near future over the latest scandal upon the masses. October I am told it will happen, but as with everything we are given a ‘heads up’ for, only time will tell…

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Then and Now

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History is doomed to repeat itself, and other phrases of that nature, presume to let us know that if we don’t learn the lessons of the past, we will be fated to the make the same mistakes thereafter.

But I do not think it’s that simple. One cannot simply make the mistakes of 100 years ago for example, they were of their time, we are instead making all new ones. And it’s easy to distract people from now, by making them think of then, and that is where for some, the correlation ceases to exist for them in the now. But methods and ideals of the past as we are told, are being used currently, so they become present realities rather than long lost metaphors or atrocities. One I am reminded of by way of the current farming situation growing all over the world, is the famous photograph of America. The one with the huge pile of buffalo skulls, with the caption that to get control of the native population and control them and their land, they wiped out nearly their entire food supply. Control the food, control the people (covered in the recent article If you control the food). Another of those ‘past’ sayings that has remained all the way through the last century and now serves to haunt us. Because that is where we are. After they have tried to persuade, coerce, herd, manipulate and even kill people into following their plan, this is their last big guaranteed winning card. Or so they think. Because they need everyone to comply and go along with it, early on. To get weary of the toil, of the pressure and continuous threats to safety and wellbeing, for it to grind away at any hope and happiness there once was, and in its place to remain a useless and needy specimen.

People have actually started to push back, to pay attention and realise the depth of the situation. Indeed, there may be an element of disruption in their plans to overwhelm Europe with immigration, and in their digital net being cast to include more of our daily lives. But it’s not going smoothly or to plan it would seem, it appears there is a hurried, chaotic and disintegrating air about it while it unfolding around us. We can see it and feel it. Well, some can. But it feels as if a cycle is coming to an end, that there is a predetermined clock ticking down, bringing something with it. I suspect there is a very good reason we are distracted by Time and the powers that be make sure we have it drummed into us, and constantly repeated throughout our lives. As they do with history, regurgitating ‘facts’ and dates all lined up neatly into a chronological order so they can use it and refer to it as needed, to solidify their version of events and the past in our minds. Because if we did not know about history, how could we possibly know if we were doomed to repeat it? And maybe that’s part of the problem, and why we do repeat certain things or will always be doomed to the same fate. We are creatures of repetition and replication, it’s our comfort zone as humans, or for most. Maybe because foolishly somewhere there is a belief that ‘it will be different this time’ but it never is. Unless you can break the cycle you are doomed to repeat by way of education. The system of indoctrination is vast and far reaching, going back generations and means we are all Institutionalised in some way.

Yet, despite them ‘educating’ us in history, we only know what they decided to teach us. So much of it has been omitted, fabricated, bastardised, mistranslated, personally interpreted, stolen, hidden or destroyed. So, we are left with fragments of truth and real history scattered throughout a patchy timeline at best. As if the past and knowledge are a jigsaw puzzle, let’s say a 1,000 piece one. You get given 5 pieces that are real pieces, and 50 that are not to start you off, and then asked to decide what the picture is. You don’t really know, so you’ll have to ‘trust’ what they tell you it is or decide to wait and see. Throughout your life however, you start finding more pieces of the jigsaw, small pieces here and there in odd places, sometimes a handful at once. And as the picture begins to emerge, you are realising that it isn’t anything like you had been told it would be. Starkly different in fact. So, you want more pieces of the puzzle, you want to know what it is they didn’t want you to know. Because the only way things can be hidden away, is because they are known and exist as a piece of the puzzle.

We all may have our own jigsaw puzzles on the go, or not, and some people may be just fine with the given version of our past and history and for them there are no more questions. But for some of us, it does seem that there is an awful lot to be uncovered and rediscovered, and it really is starting to feel as if we need to get on it, time is getting on…

Men-an-tol, Cornwall

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