An Army of the Dead

There have been a few references here and there to armies of the dead, in ancient mythology, religion and in current times we have them in stories and books, and represented visually in films and TV. I’ll mention a few to give you the full gist of what I mean.

Lord of the Rings (Return of the King) – I have mentioned it before in my article He Who Has An Army, as a convenient saviour when all looks lost. But it was the fact they were all damned, the worst of what humanity had to offer they say and were cursed for being liars, thieves and murderers. And it was only through that curse of time and death that they got to fulfil their true purpose, to fight evil and save the day.

Army of Anubis (The Mummy) – another dead army that rises when the time is right, and to that which they show allegiance calls them forth. Maybe I should have considered this concept in my article Rising, as I now wonder whether it may be something else looking to come up from The Old Underground.

Euphrates legend – this one is rather a big one, and is the ultimate in legends. Especially as it is said that when the Euphrates dries up, and four angels will be discovered and released. Not just any angels though, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse no less, bringing with them war, famine, pestilence and glory. So not exactly an army rising up, but something coming back they say to bring disaster, but written in the new telling of the religion, and interpreted by many along the way, as they weren’t actually specifically mentioned as four horsemen, or their allocated purpose. So, make of that what you will.

I can’t help but wonder though, what if the army of the dead was meant to signify those who were dead on the inside, soulless or void of being what we would call human. Almost perhaps like the modern vision of a zombie, of which I have a number of articles speculating on the ‘undead’, Not Quite In Control is one of them, looking at the idea that people’s minds have been captured and they are no longer themselves. Although, that could be said of us all, since we have all had a conditioned upbringing and have been subject to their systems and procedures for so long, are any of us ourselves anymore?

My article Gen Z looked at that conditioning, and how its effect is now being seen on a scale maybe some us hadn’t quite realised, although had thought was there based on what we were seeing in society. And rather than an army of the dead which would just magically appear and sweep the land of all the evils and wrongs, it’s turned out to be something quite different. Where probably the idea The Walking Dead had, of constant fear, isolation, infection and survival – where it was your own you had to be afraid of, like in The Road, and Book of Eli, where they show you that when it all goes to shit, people turn on their own and end up living a half-life, where it would be better to be dead that try to ‘live’ through the horrific and grim times to come.

But then part of me remembers that all of those things mentioned, imagined and portrayed, are all films, stories and ideas propagated by the media machine that conditions us all. Prepped for Disaster, or Clever Programming? already acknowledges that we create much of what they condition us to, following the breadcrumbs like Hansel and Gretal, which are well placed to lead you to the next marker or crumb, wanting you to fall Down The Rabbit Hole and get lost in the never-ending warren of tunnels and secrets that appear to have been constructed around you. And like in Watership Down, these days it’s starting to feel as though many are stuck in the tunnels, getting crushed and looking for the light and a way to the surface, before they start to fill them in…

(c) K Wicks

It’s A Cover Up

There could be any number of things I am referring to with that title, where things are covered, concealed, or whitewashed to keep the truth a secret. We all must be familiar with that being the case on rather serious matters over the decades and to this day. We now rush to use the word conspiracy to either explain the situation, or discredit people depending on which side of the fence you fall. But if we go back to the old-fashioned terms, and their real meaning, it might make it easier for some.

But this cover up is not about politics, directly, or aliens, or any actual one piece of information or idea. Although it does stem from an idea, one mentioned a few years ago and seemed as outrageous and controlling as all the others from that same quarter. To cover up the sun. As soon as it was speculated I believed it would either be a lie that they could do it, but it may ‘explain’ an anomalous event that would cover the sun and otherwise not be explainable in the normal sense, so needed a prelude to it. Like the Mayans ‘predicting’ the eclipses to enthral the masses and take control of the earth as apparently they had the heavens. A second thought followed though, and was compounded by remembering the footage from an aircraft in WWII, dropping a blanket of ‘cloud’ which ended up looking like a solid wall, to shield ships from view and from being an obvious target.

I realised then if you could disperse the ‘smoke curtain’ sideways instead of down, then you can easily start to block the sun. Now, why would you want to do that? You might ask, as I did. And with my pessimistic and realistic thought process taking the helm these days, it would seem very stupid to block the life giver to this planet, to withhold vital vitamins and health from the land, plants, animals and humans. Everything here runs on a cycle, and it does seem as if the ones calling the play, want to disrupt, control and change all that revolves around that. Messing with people’s light, their night view, their body times, their functionality, their very sense of self. It is an intrusion and corruption of life that really is unsustainable in the long term. Which keeps begging the question – what is the actual end game here? Are they going for mass depopulation by way of ridiculous regimes and really do want to cut everybody off from being able to grow their own food, raise their own family and just live a content life? The interference is so vast and penetrating, the effects will be far-reaching and long lasting.

And are being felt already. Countries known for consistent good Weather have been feeling it, and ours with its ever changeable and choppy weather has also taken a turn for the worse in some places. Now, you could say it’s just normal weather, and we have been lucky to have what appeared to be a ‘stable period’ and we could get used to seasons and certain temperatures. And, there is no way to say for sure that wasn’t controlled either even way back, as we only think weather modification technology is new and given some of the strange things of the past, I don’t discount it entirely. But as we only have been keeping weather records for around 200 years, and not even everywhere, I realised their predictions are based on a very small set of data, with limited understanding of the bigger model.

And maybe because we think we have perfected growing food hydroponically, and can trick plants into believing a certain light is the sun, maybe people have also been tricked in a similar fashion. I think of the Star Trek film where the inhabitants of a planet are to be tricked with a holodeck recreation of their world, so they can be removed without noticing and putting up any resistance. And I wonder if it’s a Logan’s Run play, to convince lots of people that outside is unsustainable, and to make it appear so as best they can, to herd people away from that last bit of natural living we have and are connected to. The Sky. The Sun. Ra. The Life Grower.

(c) K Wicks

Be Mindful of the Labyrinth

The thought started with the film from 1986, and of the spell cast by her own words at the beginning, and the final realisation that she alone could break the spell. And although she had to physically speak the words to break it, it was the mental adjustment to understanding that she was pivotal to it, and the root of it, that led to being able to break it.

But what was it she was really breaking, a spell? A hypnotic state, or just a carefully constructed illusion that the mind created and adjusted to. Making it ‘reality’. And the word labyrinth meaning “an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one’s way or to reach the exit“. That could easily be description of thoughts, and ideas and mental pathways rather than physical ones.

And the clock that features so heavily, with the pendulum of time ticking away, like a watcher of your mortal self, prompting you to try and solve the mystery or get to the conclusion before your time is up. Just as we do in life, giving thought perhaps to the how’s and whys of it all, knowing we have an expiry time and date, just not being privy to what that is. The other noticeable thing about it, was the number of hours, being thirteen, and not the usual twelve we are used to. Because there has been talk of when we used to have thirteen months in the calendar year, and of changes to the timeline, or rearrangement of things past to how we know them today. My article April New Year, Don’t Be Fooled looks at the calendar subject a little more. But the idea that you are trapped in a labyrinth of information is an easy one to imagine, with blocked and hidden doors and opening, just as in the movie. With traps and tricks to deceive and distract you, and a charming, persistent ‘character’ to seemingly encourage you as well as trying to bewitch you to fail.

But what of the other representations we have of them, multiple examples on cathedral floors, topiary of them, they have been drawn, written into stories, and even built in ancient times they say with the mythical Minotaur Maze. It is also said there is a huge lost maze underneath the ground in front of the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, so they are not a new structure or idea by any means. I can’t help but notice that there is a similarity of the round ones to the cerebral structure of the brain, as we are told, with the square ones looking geometric and harsh in comparison. And we do have an abundance of mazes too in the same formats, even using them for various experiments with animals, In A Maze goes into that a bit more. It is starting to seem as though we are trapped in one, whether it be a physical maze, and a mental labyrinth holding us back so we never work it out who can say for sure. Or as if we are playing out this mental existence within the parameters we have been set, as they insinuate in The Matrix, making us believe that the majority were actually comfortable and happy with their constructed and automated ‘lives’ plugged in to the mainframe.

What is it precisely we think we are going to get out of or escape from I wonder? Again, we have many representations of escapes, of freeing humanity or bringing a great evil to an end and stopping ourselves being used for someone else’s ‘greater good’. Why do we have those ideas? Have they placed there like so much else, to make us fight something that isn’t as it seems, creating a thought process of fighting to save what you have, even if that is what holds you down? Wouldn’t that be the ultimate trickery though, to make the people fight to save that which enslaves them, and any who do might start to realise end up getting stuck in the labyrinth, until maybe one day we all come to realise as she did and understand what the words mean “You have no power over me…”

(c) K Wicks

Homemade Gummy Sweets

Thought about something new to try and make, and homemade gummy bears caught my eye. First time using gelatin, so the very first attempt failed, but tried again the next day and it worked out pretty well. So orange gummies it was, closely followed by strawberry ones the next day after that. Can’t wait to try other flavours when I run out…

(c) K Wicks