A Christmas Fireplace

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This is one of those strange ones, of what should perhaps be festive thoughts and ideas, but which took a rather dark turn. Thinking of times past, and how once people used to decorate a tree at Christmas to ward off evil spirits, only since the 1600’s they say, it can’t really be traced to before then. Leading me to thoughts of fireplaces, and recently have seen talk of the more elaborate ones found in grand settings, possibly being portals. So I wondered, about the open fireplace being a portal into the home, protected maybe only by the intention of those within, with charms and spells featuring throughout folklore and mythological history.

So, the thought moved on from Christmas, to the idea of vampires – and how they needed to be invited over the threshold they say, not able to gain access until you give them permission. You might see where this is going, but I will go there anyway. What if in the past, with people understanding more about evil and entities, could guard themselves against these things, and not be affected or infiltrated as much. But then time drifts on and people forget if they do not see, and a new time moves in. Of commercialism and consumerism, surely an opportunity to resurrect something that once was? Where you can take the blood red and turn it into clothing, and surround it with a story of something that will come into your house while you sleep, but only if you put out the decorations, and milk and cookies. Inviting it through the portal. And even one step further, with the ritual of presents and writing a letter to santa, signifying an exchange, and a contract for that exchange. Selling your soul for presents. A rather cynical look at it of course, as it could just as easily be said it is a ‘good’ contract, for worthy behaviour to be rewarded. But when it appears to be for grooming purposes in reality, to encourage greed and consumerism under the guise of kindness and family, I can’t help but think that it has been hijacked for a darker purpose than it appears.

And generally children are told not to talk to strangers, or accept presents from them, but when it comes to santa and Christmas, that goes out the window. I have never been comfortable with the whole thing, and clearly it has become a commercial enterprise over the last 100 years, but as with much, it seems to be a cover for a set ritual, and one the western world has been captured by. And as others have also pointed out over the years, santa just happens to be an anagram of a well know demon, an entity “that seduces humans into sin or falsehood“. Sometimes they say if there are a number of coincidences, then it is not a coincidence at all. But then again, it could just be seeing what we want to see they say. Although personally until recently, I very much enjoyed celebrating Christmas for the food, presents, decorations and as they call it ‘feeling festive’. But it has waned of late somewhat, and I do not feel that my energy should be directed towards it anymore, maybe that’s just a normal thing, growing out of the set routine that you can see is set for businesses making money and controlling peoples time, not about creating a genuine feeling. If there ever was such a thing for that time of year, we shall never know, but for what it has become I think I am happy to leave it behind…

(c) K Wicks

A Delightful Hearty Dish

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I’m going to be bold here, and call this a top breakfast, finally finding after many years a quick, easy, warm and filling morning meal. One to see you through the day, and with enough sweetness and slow release energy to see you through. If you are prone to liking sweet things and burn lots of energy just being awake, good meals are important. Although this one is not an everyday one, it’s great for when needed.

Apple – peeled and diced

Homemade butter

Cinnamon

Maple syrup

Golden syrup

Oats

Add the butter, apple and cinnamon and cook for a fee minutes until the apple starts to soften. Add the syrups and cook for a further couple of minutes. Then add the oats and allow them to soak up the syrup for a minute or two. Then serve – I have it with double cream, but the recipe I took it from on the internet had yoghurt, and used coconut oil instead of butter as they’re vegan. It’s a fantastic page by the way, so if you like youtube, check out @FitGreenMind for awesome recipes and vids.

(c) K Wicks

From The Corn

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Corn. A staple diet for many around the world, and a big component in food, agriculture and profits. But a few things linked together when I saw a couple of articles and gave it more thought, thinking of a few storylines here and there too.

Interstellar – where the film shows how it’s because of ecocide the planet is dying. Corn crops failing having a main mention, and ecocide meaning it was caused by human hand. I took it as we genetically engineered crops, it went wrong and doomed everyone.

Hybrid corn – we already eat hybrid corn they say as we have changed it over the centuries to be what it is. South America still having some of the original strains. So, there have already been changes made beyond what we know.

Bioengineering corn to create sterility in people. No, really. In an article from 2001 – GM crops to stop man spreading his seed, it explains the process to force sterility on people through food. Crazy stuff, eh?

Bumper harvest – apparently the US has recorded a rather good crop this year. Makes me wonder about certain ‘shortages’ being caused and reported, if maybe they then use that to flood the market with a specified source of corn.

Seed banks – many have questioned the true purpose of seed banks they have strategically placed around the world, for plants and people. In my mind it’s there as a fresh, untainted source of new stock. To skip the infected or contaminated stock, or to use once you have cleared it away when it has been deemed necessary. Sounds cynical, but it’s how it looks to me. Allowing many areas of society to be poisoned with toxins, chemicals and tinkering of all sorts of things. Putting great strain and pressure on the environment and those trying to thrive on it and in it. Downgrading it to a survivable habitat at best, definitely not as thriveable as it could be. All the while keeping the good grade stock for themselves somewhere else, or for a re-seeding program. Which may have already occurred in the past already, so we don’t even know if what we have now is original. It’s looking increasingly as though it is not.

Children of Men – the film, and how it envisions a future of sterility, by way of a virus no less, where humanity hangs on a thread. I wonder sometimes if viruses have been used so many times in films to make them a viable option in our minds. So, the other true methods can be hidden in plain sight and perhaps not even noticed.

Children of the corn – not the story by Stephen King, as that bears no relation to this. But the title sticks out to me. Making me think that the children of the corn would be the last normal generation with the new infertile version and that it will be the offspring of that generation that will be sterile. It’s hard to know really where it is headed as there really are so many points of interest to follow, but follow them I will, as best I can, to try and see where this crazy ride is going…

(c) K Wicks

A Telekinetic Idea

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Just a thought of some films, where the main character, or feature of a certain aspect for it is a special power. Telekinensis, often coupled with telepathy. With a particular focus seemingly to be how that ‘power’ came about. The following films are the ones that came to mind for this.

Firestarter (1984) – taken from a Stephen King story, and starred Drew Barrymore. A memorable watch and actually a good film. In this one, she developed pyrokinesis though being the offspring of two people who had been used for military testing, who themselves had developed abilities through that process.

Ascension (TV Mini Series – 2014) – a one series flash in the pan, but rather interesting for what it was. This will contain spoilers – the premise was a bunch of scientists decided to create a simulated space mission, where the occupants didn’t know it was fake. And they stole a number of bright children, put them into the ‘program’ and created an illusion of being on a craft, travelling through space. With an extra layer that they had been doing this for two generations already, and it had these weird rules and systems around breeding and what jobs you were assigned or what your allocated purpose was. But, the strange twist at the end, was that something happened to one of the younger members of the ‘crew’ where she sort of went atomic for a moment and created an energy charge caused by emotional distress. The ones monitoring and controlling the experiment seemed awfully happy with this occurring as they had theorised it would. And then they ended the series, so we’ll never know where they were going with that, but I will speculate on it shortly.

Stranger Things (TV Series – 2016) – a really well thought out and executed series, at least the first and second one. Went a bit weird in the third one and lost me, but the idea initially was great. Similar I suppose to Firestarter, the main focus being a young girl who is the offspring of someone affected by military testing of drugs. And who themselves have developed telekinetic and various linked abilities.

Carrie (1976) – another Stephen King one, where an isolated, lonely teenage girl discovers horrifying telekinetic powers when pushed to the emotional edge. Again, well done and worth a watch.

Dr Jean Grey (X-Men films) – A running character and one of the main ones, but has the highest ability afforded in any fictional character along these lines.

Now, having telepathic characters, or angry women who are ‘activated’ when needed to use special abilities isn’t anything new, or technically out of the ordinary when you are talking fiction or science fiction. But, when I looked at those storylines (have to admit, didn’t think of any featuring boys as the ones who get that same power), it struck me how they were all girls or women. And the running theme of most of them, is that it needs to be suppressed if it can’t be controlled. Now, that could just be a classic analogy to recreate societal ideals, or it really could be about fearing something in females, that hasn’t necessarily become known. I already speculated on women having more power than some would like when it comes to reproduction in The Creator and the Destroyer. Another film comes to mind too with that, Species.

But for a wild, fictional, speculatory theory one could say that women have almost been feared at some point, and it was deemed necessary to bind them, hold them down and condition them to believe they are weak, and powerless in the bigger scheme of things. At the mercy of patriarchy and male domination, beholden to rules and standards set and enforced by them, leading to a rather downtrodden percentage of the population. I also notice though, that isn’t entirely true, as if you look back through history, and fiction, women have possessed great power, or authority. To the point of terrifying in some cases, witches, goddesses, sirens and more. Vengeful, devious, filled with rage and unforgiving torment in more than a few stories. And it may well be that it’s trying to be brought out and harnessed, as it always is portrayed in the films, caused deliberately with a view to control it. But that kind of thing surely is just fiction, isn’t it?

Tornado from wallpapers.com

(c) K Wicks

The Five D’s of Society

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Further to my article The Three D’s of Conversion under Coercion – I realised there are others, that go a long way towards people’s ability to be part of ‘the system’. Things which seem to facilitate the indoctrination process or at least make it a smoother process, at least for mayhem. It causes quite the stir when people or society are just trying to be ‘normal’.

Delusion – this plays a big part of many lives, whether it be a personal delusion, or a group one, people have a great ability to indulge them. And there are plenty of things that will play into that, ego, experience, need and circumstance. And I can’t always say it is a bad thing with a destructive end, as it may serve to help people as a coping mechanism at certain points in their lives.

Desensitisation – being switched off to reality, seeing it, experiencing it, but not feeling it. Again, there are a few reasons that may occur, but if you add to the amounts of toxins and chemicals we willingly ingest, that could play a key role there. More Than Pain gets Killed goes into that a little more.

Denial – or lying as some like to call it, for what it is. Lying to yourself or others, it is denying the truth. Which to some may not seem like a lie, because you think it is an opinion. But as in my article, If Truth be Told, there are two truths – personal ones and absolute ones. And the personal ones are the opinions and what you hold true to you, and the others are supposed to be facts. But the lines are being blurred between the two currently, and personal opinion is being touted as absolute fact. Disturbing to say the least. Yet it is the mechanism for denial that allows that trait to run riot, to override logic and reason is clearly there in many, the consequences of which we are seeing in society as it is also being facilitated by certain areas of society. To what end we can only wonder, but it seems to be there to destabilise cohesion and create a discord within oneself and others. Perhaps.

Deception – seems to be a strategy trait, to gain an advantage over your ‘opponent’. Because once you go down that road of deception, you are playing a game, and that person becomes your opponent, whether people are actively aware of it or not. You want to win, or to have more than them, or to keep something from them so are seeking to deceive for a purpose, and more often than not, it’s for a selfish purpose.

Dysfunction – not quite as easy as the others, although they can all be down to perception and opinion. But if someone adapts to the dysfunctional, therefore does it then become normal? And if you are surrounded by it, and act in the same way, how are you to really know it even is dysfunctional? And by default, doesn’t that then make it ‘normal’. Which is why maybe when you see people living in different conditions to you, or in a different way, it might only seem dysfunctional to one side of the view. Or what we now see as normal, was once viewed as batshit crazy. All a matter of timing and perspective, I guess.

Once you start to really look at how people function, and how much of it has been moulded by institutions and society as a whole, I guess the big D of disturbing comes into play, to overshadow all of the above, dragging with it doom, disaster and destruction as they might like us to believe. But I can’t help thinking that is just how it appears, that delusion has been used against us all, to keep us playing along with what we are told is the bigger picture, and the ‘greater good’. But maybe it needs to be scaled back a bit, for more personal responsibility for your thoughts, and to refocus on your surroundings and life, before they take your full attention for something happening somewhere else, to someone else. There is a time to be mindful of out there and others, and there is a time to bring it back to you, it’s about knowing when which one is right…

(c) K Wicks