Author: MKW Publishing

Copy of a Memory

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Do we remember beyond our own lifetime and experiences? It is theorised in psychology that we have genetic memory, a basic idea of some learned responses perhaps being handed down. But not actual experiences.

I’ll thrown in a few films to delve a little further into the idea, having already written an article about Memory, from a different angle but it ties in here too.

Dark City – it is about injecting memories into people, to create a ‘personality’ which can then be studied, where also the landscape changes and all the people are part of the set up. A good metaphor for society but condensed into short periodic changes – the idea that you are pumped full of ‘education’ and ideas, and conditioned of how to go with a certain history given to you. Then over time the landscape changes, buildings go up, and come down, place names change and people move around, adapting to the changes. All playing their part.

Aeon Flux – In a future time, where the population is sterile and breeding occurs through cloning, reusing people’s blueprints to keep the human race going. But as with much, it’s not quite as it seems, and memories are a running theme throughout, an overlay of what once was being carried down through the DNA.

The Island – another cloning one, but also very much about memory, and how the original host memories were ‘growing’ in the copy despite a complete lack of experience of any of the events. Only fragmented and coming through as dreams or nightmares, mixing with the clone’s life experiences to that point, creating an odd thought process and ‘reality’.

And this is where I wondered about people as we know them in our society, and if you did have clones amongst us as some speculate, would there be something different about them? Where they were almost an exact copy, but not quite, because you lose something of the original when you copy, or at least you used to. Maybe like the photocopier to scanner difference in quality, it is an improvable formula.

Or are memories more important than we realise, and aren’t because of being reused, but because we remembering what came before. Reincarnation of the stages and life cycles that are theorised probably tie in here, and maybe why it is necessary to keep changing things in society. Making sure knowledge is lost, people are split up and their traditions replaced with new ones carefully formulated to give them a past. Keeping us all away perhaps from who we really are…

(c) K Wicks

Dreamy, or Terrifying?

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It’s a strange thing, that odd occurrence when you go to sleep that happens to many people. You dream. There have been studies, thought, ideas and speculations about what happens and where we ‘go’ when it does. Some say it’s our astral self experiencing things on another type of reality. Others think it could just be a bunch of electrical impulses creating images and thoughts while we sleep. But whatever is actually going on, you can’t deny that some of the ideas are really quite interesting. If you like that sort of thing.

Night terrors – a strange experience for those who go through it, acting out terrifying events in your dream they say. I can only presume that the normal mechanism of our bodies and minds recognising and acknowledging the ‘separation time’ of sleep, is absent in those people. And when encountering something that requires a reaction in the dream world, the body reacts in the normal realm to the other stimuli. Perhaps.

Nightmares – perhaps the lead in to the night terrors, but for most people they stop at being acted out physically in this realm, yet can seem to occur in the other one as a thought process and seem as though it is being acted out. Perhaps in a virtual reality kind of way Matrix style, because that was all done in their head, lying in a chair, only the point of death physically transferred. So, same set up for nightmares and maybe even dreams, where you are ‘plugged in’ to wherever it is that we go, and your consciousness is transferred somewhere else. Maybe the nightmares are where you get trapped in between and you are in both which is where it gets extra weird. The films Nightmare on Elm Street spring to mind here, and if you know them, you’ll know why.

Sleep realm – it’s a strange thing, to think we are kind of absent from our lives for around 6-8 hours per day, although there are speculations by some that we do go somewhere else and have ‘experiences’ there too. So, living a dual life of sorts I guess, but a subconscious one you can’t remember when you emerge back into this one. Funny to think of the terminology for it all to – you wake ‘up’ and ‘fall’ asleep. Could it be that we go down somewhere for the resting phase, and rise up again for the awake phase?

Dreams – and what of that process that occurs when we are submerged into the subconscious, we call it dreaming, but what is it? Just a recreation of all the input our daily life throws at us, being downloaded at night for storage they say, just like a computer I guess taking a back-up or archiving information. But it really does seem to be more complex than that, and although studied, it appears we still don’t actually have a clue. I wonder sometimes if that’s part of why they want a chip in people’s heads, and to try and get into their heads as they put it, because it may just be access to the other ‘reality’ that is created through the sleep process. Maybe.

And that’s where the potentially terrifying bit comes in, that there is somewhere else you ‘go’, where you can’t control when, or how, or what and are at the mercy of that. And is it possible that once something knows you can move between the worlds, and is not maybe restricted by two states as we are with sleep and awake, that they move freely between the two. Either we bring something back with us, or it follows us, or possibly always had its own route. Things we can’t see with our open eyes, yet in our sleeping state, we appear to ‘see’ without having our eyes open, so what it is we are seeing with? And who is to say that something is not there just because we don’t ‘see’ it, we are calibrated to be able to view certain spectrums of light so maybe there are things there invisible to us, yet they are there. Being named as apparitions or ghosts perhaps when a glimpse is caught, or if someone has a slightly different ability to everyone else and can see more than others. You just never know…

(c) K Wicks

Compensating, But For What Precisely?

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There is talk of reparations, for peoples of times gone by and their descendants to ‘get justice’ for the past. And in principle, I can see how that might occur, with our tendency as a species to live in the past sometimes, and having emotional triggers for it placed so carefully within society. And before I go into the interesting point I want to mention, I want to say that encouragement of this type of thing by the authorities, very neatly takes you away from thinking about justices that should be occurring now. Like, it’s ok, ignore what’s happening now, we’ll just say sorry and chuck some money your way in a few hundred years, if you catch my meaning.

But upon seeing a post about someone being quite miffed at the suggestion of reparations from the UK, because Britain had used 40% of its wealth to abolish slavery in 1833, not even fully paying back what was borrowed for it until 2014. So, I looked further, thinking that it seemed an awful lot of money to borrow and wondered who might have lent it and who in fact may have benefitted from it. Not far to look before you see the name Rothschild pop up, but upon reading the details of the arrangement, I can’t help but think it was all for show, as is much these days so why would it be any different back then? The terms initially of ‘abolishing’ slavery were only applicable to people up to the age of 6, yes, 6. Any over that age was transferred to what they were calling ‘apprenticeships’ – which then morphed into something else. Probably leading in neatly to ’employment contracts’ and paying taxes, making the slaves think they were free, but by constructing society in such a way as to make sure they were tied to be workers for their ‘master’ for the long term, or as we know them today, employers. Yet they were already there hundreds of years before, from 1351 with the Statute of Labourers – part of the moves covered in A Working Strategy. So, people on this island have been tied into certain working conditions for quite some time, with the rules of the slavery being less brutal than other regimes and methods.

And those employers along the way have become slaves to the bigger picture now, being used as middle men, muscle and mercenaries against their own. Divide and conquer as the saying goes. And with those taxes they pimp from us, they then use them to further the enslavement. Also, by publicly calling off slavery by way of payments to compensate all those slave owners, you tie in that country to debt, 200 years of it in fact. Then can conveniently be used as propaganda now, to sow further division and greed amongst the people. As well as making some very wealthy people through that reimbursement, using that borrowed money and taxes. A shift of wealth and a new regime, sound familiar?

Moves in certain countries currently to make a big thing of offering indigenous people and minorities loans has not gone unnoticed. But to me it serves two purposes, and neither of them are to help the ‘people’. Firstly, it ties them into debt they had previously been denied for, loans, mortgages etc, potentially clamouring for them as it had been out of your reach for so long. Secondly, it then causes tension between the people being offered what appear to be better rates and deals. But that’s just how it appears, and the recent inflation rises should be a lesson. That it’s a scale of debt they like to start you on, so it builds up gradually and you are in it for life as they say.

There is an anonymous saying which seems apt here –

‘I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves’

So, rather than play their little game of jealously, anger, debt and slavery, we should be working together to undo the ideas that created it all in the first place.

(c) K Wicks