Thoughts

Filtering

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It seems the human body, as well as the overall ecosystem we live within, is a filtering system.

It’s quite terrifying when you look at how much we knowingly (or rather unknowingly in some cases), apply to our own skin and bodies. You know, like in Silence of the Lambs, ‘it rubs the lotion on its skin’ – like our sick industry officials like to see us apply our own toxins and ingest our own poison. And then to level up that demented process, they get our own to do it to each other through ‘professionals’ who get elevated above everyone else, a uniform, well paid, letters after their name. Suddenly they are ‘experts’ and you believe they want what is best for you. Quite ridiculous when you look at it now, but I too for the longest time, believed the lie that they were there to help us.

But women were the ones who took to it first, and I can see that vanity was used as a weapon, for many purposes. There must have been a time when people didn’t care for too much make-up, or a multitude of products, so I’m sure the marketers would have gone to town on changing that, as my article The First Fad goes into. It would have been sold as beauty, and as a standard society wanted. making men see women differently, and more importantly, making women see themselves and each other differently. Judging people on those new standards, and creating an entire ‘beauty’ market based on consumption of products. Shampoo, hairspray, lipstick, nail polish, nail polish remover, moisturiser, concealer, foundation, eye shadow, eye liner and so on. And within each category there are many more for various other things. Someone could put all of that on their body in one day. One day! And even though they could be completely harmless on their own, and may indeed have passed the safety tests as they are, how does anyone know how they react when combined with another product? And then exposed to high temperatures, either through working conditions, or weather? Chemical reactions are not always visible so it’s hard to say they would have been able to test for all conditions and possible combinations, and why should they? They just design something to do what it says on the tin, and that’s where it ends. It’s down to people to pay attention of what is in it, what is it for, what are the main active ingredients and more importantly, do they react with anything else I am taking or applying? We think of those things when it comes to medical products (well, we used to), but not so much for things that we ingest, or apply to ourselves at least daily, if not multiple times a day with various things.

Given the right conditions though and a bit of time, we know that we are able to filter our systems and ‘detoxify’ as they call it. I wonder if that’s what it is that’s so despised by the powers that be. That many have worked out they can fix themselves, with a bit of help from nature, and even nature itself fixes itself. But, as I said, only with the right conditions. If you go out of your way to deliberately poison the system, and terrain, then it has to work harder and may not do as well. That’s why if you just had bad food and drink, you might be ok, or just lots of cosmetic products, or just lots of medicine, it could still possibly manage to do its thing, to regenerate the system and recalibrate as needed. But when it’s a triple pronged attack, a pincer movement of social conditions set up to make sure that many are caught in the toxic triangle of things that were made to be viewed as normal. Food, Beauty and Medicine. And in recent years men too have been sucked into the world of cosmetics and extra products, not even counting the latest debacle involving men and make-up. They had been captured way before that to primp and preen themselves, to buy as much as women and add to the intake of chemicals.

There is also a matter of what else is going in, psychologically. How they also mentally get to us through media, education and conditioning that has infiltrated every area of life. We also need to filter what goes in there and detoxify ourselves from that too, because it all goes in, and for some, may well go straight back out again, or simply go over their head. But often things are taken in subconsciously, and integrated into people’s state of mind or being without it even being noticed sometimes. I like to think that the body and mind has adapted though, evolved even in the midst of all those assaults on our senses and sensibility. As a plant would, to filter out all the crap that it is surrounded by, so while it appears to have been grown with poisons and fed polluted water, the sunshine and energy give it extra life to shed those representatives of industry. Maybe that’s why they would prefer factory grown plants and lab grown meat, because it has no soul and no real nutritional value, to sustain the factory grown next generation they plan for, who will have no need of soul or sunlight. I guess my articles You are what you eat, and Pod life 2 cover that aspect of a possible future that awaits for some. But for where we are now, we can only do our best to avert the strange tapestry being stitched around us and try and protect nature as we know it, and ourselves, because those are the two things that seem very much on the hit list these days. Stay sharp and be mindful of your thoughts.

(c) K Wicks

With purpose, or just folly?

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Apparently they are just there to look pretty. With no purpose at all, apart from as a looking tower they say for this one in Worcester. But Folly’s are said to just be there, because someone thought it was a good idea to build something quite elaborate and imposing for no real reason other than they could. And for this one, you can see quite far from the top of that hill anyway, so what were they looking for? Good views obviously.

Broadway Tower, Worcester

They have a very similar look in my mind to Victorian water towers. Which also look a bit over the top for their purpose, but at least they gave them one to all intents and purposes. Only 5 of these are water towers, I’ve thrown in another folly there if you can spot it.

Maybe it is out of place or stands out to our eyes sometimes, because they are built to a standard and aesthetic we appreciate, but are no longer capable of building. Instead we get used to the grey concrete soulless architecture we now have, and just accept the bland. The times of great are past, it is now Grey Britain, with even the sky struggling to show its true blue nature. But sunnier times will come again, and these dark days were are in now will also become times of old, and long lost tales of the past. I wonder if anything will still be standing from now to show we were ever here…

(c) K Wicks

If Truth Be Told

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It’s not a popular subject these days, telling the truth. We seem in a time when telling the biggest lie and running with it has become a game, a competition of sorts. And the twist to the game is that while the lies are out there, there is a mechanism quickly trying to swallow the truth. Like the game Hungry Hippos, and the hippos are the deceivers, big and bulky at all corners of the board. And the truth gets fired around the board from all angles. With the purpose then to gobble up the truth, to make it disappear and then ‘win’.

But there are various reasons people hide from the truth, or try to deny it and some who will even just plain rewrite it. But now, when it is more important than ever, we find a myriad of lies and deception spanning decades. An intricate tapestry of deals and forecasts, models and a plan to engineer society towards a ‘common goal’.

And in that pursuit, the truth seems to be a consistent they would rather not have, not at our level anyway. Confusion and mystery helps to create an instability, lack of grounding and feeling of no roots. Waiting for someone else (who lies for purpose), to tell you your history, your background, to give you mental grounding. But they don’t. They feed you what they have now termed ‘misinformation’.

Within truth, there are two types in my view, personal truth and the overall truth. One is subjective, and one is absolute. The personal subjective one, takes thought to deliver usually, or should. Taking into account what that truth means to that person, and whether they will perceive it in the same way, accept it or deal with it. And as we know, honesty doesn’t win you any friends they say, so there are small things along the way to let you know how important it is, but they don’t teach you how to navigate it, chose when it’s appropriate, or how to deal with the fallout from it.

The overall truth can be a bit blunter, because it is not personal, it just is. You may be personally affected by it, but that doesn’t change it. And that’s why they say the truth can be ugly, or the truth hurts. You’d think those two would be associated with lies, wouldn’t you? But no, the most shocking thing these days appears to be honesty and being observant of reality. To stand up and admit you are wrong, and actually be sorry for it and try to make amends is a long-lost attribute. At least for most in the public eye. Busy moving onto the next lie before the fallout from the first is even felt. Despite the amount of time spent watching these people in your living room on TV or on your phone, once you find out what type of people they are, ask yourself, if they weren’t a ‘celebrity’ would you have someone like that as a friend? Would you have them in your living room in real life taking up your thoughts and time?

Truth is always there though, solid and consistent. Because the lies do not remove it, or change it, they just cover it for a bit and gradually wear thin around it, often needing further lies to try and keep it at bay. Even though some may try to paint over it to hide the shining brightness of truth from getting through. Seems like painting a solid gold bar with crappy black paint, with it beginning to chip, crack and peel back as soon as it starts to dry. The current black paint seemingly being the media and governments, all branches of it. Desperately trying to stem the real information being shared and digested, and the misinformation from being discovered and revealed. Trying to build barriers and boundaries to herd you through the lies, trying to make people ignore the truth as it is, and believe a different version they would prefer to be real. Like a dark covered motorway of lies with billboards, barriers and false lights shining in your face. But just beyond it are the trees, fields and truth. The good, the bad and the ugly truth that is needed to be able to move forward and accept what is wrong to be able to change it. That’s why they want to steer everyone into the dark covered tunnel…

(c) K Wicks

Monopoly

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The game and corporations. Not everyone played, or enjoyed monopoly the board game in their childhood. The game that could last for days, needed strategy and a want for money and property, a proper primer for the ‘game of life’ you would have to play in later years. A banker in charge of all the money, they get to be the controller, the one who holds it all. How many of you liked being the banker? Did you also make a play for the high-end properties? Mayfair and Park Lane were the rich and luxury purples in the UK version. Bringing in the most revenue if you were then lucky enough to be able to build your houses and hotels. But what the game doesn’t teach you, obviously, is any shred of reality about how it actually works in the real world. And why should it, it’s just a game after all.

Maybe it would help people to understand how strange it gets in the real world though if it was closer to the truth. When at first it seems like a normal set up, with normal rules, like in the game. But if the banker half way through the game suddenly decided you owed loads in interest and they could decide the rate of that interest, it would change the game a bit wouldn’t it. And that they were going to charge you for just passing their coloured square, not even landing on it, you wouldn’t want to play, would you? Because it would become obvious that the banker, or your opponent was in fact doing everything they could think of to make sure they take more from you than you can make. In real life, the systems in place are just obstacles that your opponent has placed there to hold you up, slow you down, and side-track you altogether. As we are seeing now in the economic landscape, they found a way to do a power move. I’ll explain the chain as I see it, as I believe it’s been with us for a while, but stepped up a gear when the ‘pandemic’ rolled out. The first lockdown targeted small and family businesses, allowing franchises and corporation chains to remain open. Then dishing out loads of money in loans, which would be payable, with interest, that would help later when they need to move things along, either to tie people into new rules, or to take them out of the equation. Changes in other local and national rules within the lockdown also screwed many. Having to prepare for business, then be told at the last minute the rules had changed, allowing more cost and expenditure before they pulled the plug. Coming down heavy handed on those who tried to take a stand, imposing fees and fines.

So much money being made from the misery of the country, and being funnelled where? Not back into the country, by any means. It would seem to have been a grand money laundering scheme, to take out as much wealth, savings, stability, community and future prospects that they can. And still it continues. Travel being disrupted still while they drag the Brexit drama along still, adding more time and money to processes that have been mastered for as long as we could trade, but clogged up now with red tape, and opportunists forever trying to get their piece, rather than make it work for all. And within the travel industry, we have a completely failing tourist industry, by design too of course. Although most of the hotels who were bought in the early days by government, whether they were just worried because they thought they would go down, and took the bait, or they want the country to fail, who knows for sure. But they are just there for current purpose, as I believe there will be no need for hotels with the future plan they have for this island. So it won’t save them, just temporarily give them an income, while allowing the drain of the country’s finances to continue. People shouldn’t understate how important the hotels have been in this, as they have facilitated the rather large daily bill the government is covering. Putting the debt further onto the people they are bleeding dry.

The utility companies stepped up next to play their part. In a stunning display of greed, we get our household utilities increased at a stupid rate for no good reason. Cue the desperate business owners with bills higher than their entire turnover. Next wave of small businesses started to close shop, with stress after stress and with no end in sight, I can see why some threw in the towel.

Then we get to the interest rates, a deliberate and steady increase in those too, helping anyone with savings, and damaging those with interest-based loans and variable mortgages on the ground. Now after years of uncertainty, possibly grief and loss, losing your business and being unemployed, you then have to contend with losing your home, or at least having the thought of that being thrust at you constantly. And in case you might have had a few spare pounds still, no fear, they increased all the other bills too, and fuel to really make you feel the squeeze.

Supermarkets came forth next to show it was going to be a coordinated effort. Price gouging and taking advantage of people when they are at a weak point economically, being quite the opportunist. All of them from what I can gather. Still sort of competing with each other, but really it seems more about how much they can add to the label before people stop buying the product. They also have played a key role in this, being able to dictate and control people in the early days of this, stickers on the floor, plastic screens, washing down trollies, heavy handed security, counting people in and restricting access. And even now they quietly install their barriers, monitors, self-service tills and screens to watch you while you do your shopping, and to help be a part of the digital lives they want us all to lead. So, you can scan into the supermarket, just like all the other products in there.

And politicians. Who could overlook their role in all this. It is now out there for everyone to see how self-serving they really are. Athough having an allegiance to something, it is not the country they purport to serve. We have all been terribly misled over the years, and duped into believing the set-up, in democracy and the rule of law. It’s become starkly obvious that the set-up was there to make them rich, democracy was a cover to pretend they would agree to order, and the rule of law serves them and if it turns out there is a way to turn one to our advantage, they make efforts to change it. Again to be in their favour. How can you get justice when they own the courts and the judges and write the laws?

What we are subject to is a stunning display of grotesque corporate obesity, where they have gourged themselves on us for so long, that they have lost sight of their toes and what is even real. No longer able to function properly, or move, instead trying to consume more and more to sustain the morbid overload that is out of control. Each department of it acting as a distorted limb that can’t hold up anymore under its own weight, grabbing at anything it can as a crutch, which too ends up being crushed under its enormous greedy mass. We would do well to try and remove ourselves from its reach or grasp, and stop feeding it as best we can. I get the feeling it’s reaching a critical mass at this point, for their greed, and our awareness, so it will be an interesting time ahead…

Spirited Away (2001)

(c) K Wicks

Starting From Nothing

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During a conversation about the theory of dimensions, thought, imagination, the simulation hypothesis and the creation of existence, a thought occurred to me and a film came to mind to represent the thought (as does happen).

The Neverending story (1984) – not the whole film as such, but the culmination of the adventure, of the realisation that the world of Phantasia and everything they knew, was disappearing into nothing. Because thought and imagination were no longer feeding it from the ‘real world’. And when The Nothing had consumed all in its path and stripped it all back to just darkness, a name had to be called and it stopped. Remaining was one grain of sand. Just one. And from that grain of sand, the whole world was created with imagination. It was thought into existence. My piece Creating a nightmare reality going into an angle on that).

Atem – this leads on from the last point rather well and is what I thought of next. “Atem is the primordial god in Egyptian mythology from whom all else arose”. A god who thought or spoke himself into existence.

And although I have mentioned Atem and this next paragraph of info in my piece Is it really the machines we should fear? I think it ties into the idea of consciousness, and what we perceieved as an existence at this point in reality.

“Tulpa or Tulpamancy – “is a concept in Theosophy, mysticism, and the paranormal, of an object or being that is created through spiritual or mental powers”.

So says Wikipedia. But it’s an odd concept and instantly made me think of when some children have imaginary friends, and they are told it’s fictional. Weird that when adults do it, it’s a real thing. But not acceptable for all, because it does seem that there is discussion whether the whole Tulpa thing is real, spiritual and paranormal, or just a sign of loneliness and mental illness.

But the concept that everything we know as the universe, where and how it began and the start of existence could have been just a thought is an interesting one. And they do say, it all starts with an idea…

(c) K Wicks