Thoughts

Doors Of The Mind

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They say when one door closes, another one opens. And visa versa. And it seems to be used in relation to opportunity and describing being at a turning point, or crossroads in your life. Pick a road. Pick a door. But as a concept for a mental layout, I believe it also works well for some people.

Thinking of your thoughts as corridors and each decision you made or life event has a room added to the house of your life. Sometimes accessible as a memory, as if you can pop by and open the door. To glance in on what once was, for nostalgia. Or for purpose to learn from. But sometimes it is speculated, that we aren’t the only ones with access to those doors. And just sometimes, things can find their way through those doors from the other side. Either waiting for you to go back into that room, or may stray from the confines and be found wandering the hallways.

This is all talking of a waking conscious mind, there would be another layer of potential sinister when you factor in sleep and the subconscious. My article, A Quantum Leap, in Dreams may go into that more. But I am reminded of a couple of films around the above idea.

Monsters Inc – a film with very odd and creepy overtones, the doorways being a feature of how they travel to a child’s room. To scare them and steal their screams. Awake, and facing something terrifying appearing through a doorway.

Poltergeist – great films, and suitably terrifying. But appeared to have a problem with their walk-in closet I seem to remember, being the portal to another dimension.

Time bandits – it started in the wardrobe, they came out of it into Kevin’s room. Better than getting frightened for screams, he got to go on a super weird adventure.

Beetlejuice – the strange corridor they had to go down for their first meeting with Juno. Passing the caretaker, observing the room of ‘lost souls’. But this film also had the doorway to ‘Saturn’ where they were transported to when they tried to leave the house.

Coraline – a small doorway leads to an altered version of reality. Not dreaming, but while awake.

And then makes me wonder, if thoughts are perhaps portals to other places. They say you think things into existence, but maybe we just aren’t privy to all the different levels of where things exist or know where they are created. So what we believe might be random thoughts and ideas, really do create and destroy worlds, and all sorts in between. As well as there being a conscious realm, and a subconscious realm. Dreams are a strange subject too and it’s possible they could connect us to different thought dimensions, where we create worlds within them or can get sucked into them. Or all of the above, or none of them. We may never know for sure. But like I said, I do like to wonder…

(c) K Wicks

You Are What You Eat

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It’s one of those things you hear, and occasionally you might give it thought when it comes to trying to assess your diet or eat a bit healthier. Or it might be thought of when they maybe refer to overweight people eating fatty foods, or people who eat junk food. So they say, just think about what you eat.

But that’s not the saying is it. It’s ‘you are what you eat’. Funny if you imagine eating lots of doughnuts and turning into a doughnut, or like the character in Road Dahls Charlie and the chocolate factory, who ate the blueberry gum, and turned into a blueberry. But as with that last one, there was something so very sinister going on there. To show you how temptation can override even a warning, and it leads to being what you eat. Maybe that was the show and tell bit, by way of programming, but for something sweet and made into comedy or a fancy colourful musical. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down for example.

But the obvious ease by which you can get someone to ingest something, especially if you sprinkle it with sugar and name anything dubious with a strange unidentifiable code, is quite scary. Lots of people suspected additives in food and drink decades ago was causing some issues for people. Makes me wonder if that was really the tip of the iceberg, as it has been with so much else recently. Food though, is a high priority and with good reason. My article If you control the food points out why if you hadn’t given it thought previously. But that is from an angle of keeping it back from you or rationing it by way of monopolising. This one is from a perspective of where it goes after, and would appear has been filtering through. A brief look at the ‘new meat’ we have coming our way was covered in Beyond meat, or beyond ridiculous? As usual though here, I will reference a couple of films, as they go down the road of it being people turned into food and unknowingly being fed to people.

Soylent Green (1978)

Cloud Atlas (2005)

Reality however, is starting to tread a very strange and dark path. A mainstream wave of gore, simulated human mutilation and cult type fetish has appeared. Is that just a mere coincidence? That a few decades on from a burst in the horror and gore genre in TV and film, we have an overtone of that same representation now being acceptable. Which starts to make other things acceptable in some minds too. Sexy up vampires, oh look, adrenochrome talk hits the streets. Familiar concepts are more likely to be scoffed at as ridiculous or embraced, rather than have to go through the phase of being accepted as a thought. Half the job is done.

You are what you eat. Back to that, and another thing I think of when I prepare food, about how food is supposed to taste better when made with love. Now, that may be all well and good, but I bet there are some people (myself included), who sometimes make something that tastes awful, or just goes wrong. But I did wonder, about cooking and the idea of spells, and how it ties together. How you could possibly transfer an energy as well as the ingredients. If possible, it would lend even more weight to the original saying but gives it more.

So, what do we eat? Processed food, pesticides, mechanically made items which must lack ‘heart’ to a point. So do we become soulless if we eat nothing but empty food, not just empty of calories, but empty of life and natural process? They say your body is your temple, treat it as such. It may stand to reason then that animals treated badly may pass on something, food cooked with hate too, tainted in some way by that process. Insects being on the menu next makes me think the same. Farmed insects with no natural environment at all, just another species to try and dominate and construct a ‘reality’ for. And today I see talk of it possibly being the case that aborted fetal tissue could have been put into food products. I’m not surprised, but people are not impressed, and rightly so. And maybe this will make more people start giving thought to the whole process of food production, ingredients and what happens to food along the way before it even gets to us. Because if what is being said is true, the title of this article suddenly becomes a lot more than just words.

(c) K Wicks

Kangaroos

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Some animals make you think twice, possibly. Maybe it’s just me. Penguins are one, but this post is for kangaroos. They just seem like a normal (ish) animal, on a landmass far away from where I am. So, my reference of them will only be from what I have seen on TV. But when you see them, or at least when I really looked at them, there’s something strangely humanlike about them.

I grew up watching Skippy the Bush kangaroo reruns, and seeing a cute, furry and friendly wild pet type thing going on. Not realising at all the size they get to, and how powerful they can be.

A funny episode of Mighty Boosh called Killeroo focuses on one, an odd but entertaining watch nonetheless.

Tank girl – this could be what started my brain originally on this train of thought, a few decades ago, with the graphic novels of Tank Girl. And a race of half human, half kangaroo soldiers that were bred by some crazy scientist. Which leads me neatly to what got me thinking about it again, and is a story I have mentioned before and no doubt will again.

The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G Wells) – it’s a dark, difficult and quite horrifying read really. I had to make myself finish reading it. A tale of twisted experiments on an isolated island by a crazy doctor trying to make animals more human.

Kangaroos outnumber people in Australia around 2 to 1, and I used to joke when I heard that figure, that a kangaroo army could hop and kick their way through the population before anyone knew what hit them. And laughed about the idea as a comical set up, and still do. But do sometimes wonder if what we see around us, and presume is ‘natural’, could just be remnants of a previously engineered time or place. Ourselves included in that. We only know what we think we know, but I can’t help thinking there is so much more…

(c) K Wicks

What You See

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Free Guy – sunglasses people. I’ve mentioned this film before for its simulated reality and AI aspects. But for this, it’s because it reminded me of the next film mentioned. Of there being a different world visible to you if you are wearing these glasses. Money, status, fun, opportunities and anything you could want. Unless you are one of the NPC’s, destined for a life of repeated banality pandering to the ‘elite’.

They Live – the sunglasses here too. But what they revealed in this world that was hidden, was far more sinister. Way beyond celebrity, or class, or democracy. This was full blown us and them. Using the glasses to detect your enemy, who until revealed looks just like anybody else. Those are the most horrifying monsters in movies, the ones you can’t see, whatever their camouflage.

Alice through the looking glass, I noted the mention of black and white for the kittens, and how she wonders what the world is like on the other side of the mirror. And when she does step through, finds herself in an alternate world. Sounding a bit metaverse like, and reminding me of Coraline, where interestingly there is a scene where she is thrown through a mirror, into a dingy forgotten room with ghosts. As well as the overall theme of stepping into an alternate reality.

Pensieve viewing dish from Harry Potter, an interesting device which stores memories, that can be reviewed in detail later through a misty liquid looking material. Which also makes me think of the device in Minority Report, where the viewers thoughts and images of what they ‘see’ which is projected via a liquid mechanism.

The chronovisor, this a strange device that hasn’t actually been proven to exist, but there is talk it does. And is owned by the Vatican, was designed and constructed by Italian scientists in the 1950’s. It’s said to be able to allow the photographing, viewing and hearing of past and future events. If you did have something like that, you can see why it might be kept a secret. If everyone could view both, surely some would waste their life viewing what was, and others would spend their time trying to change what was to be. Would anyone get on with just living?

Many these days get the feeling there is something else, either behind what we see, or running alongside us. Perhaps even underneath, like the upside down in Stranger Things. Where sometimes what is on the other side doesn’t wait for us to step through the mirror, maybe sometimes they find a way through to here…

They Live (1988)

(c) K Wicks

Living In Fear – an update

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I wrote an article about Living in Fear before this pandemic debacle, but feel I should revisit the subject as a number of the things mentioned have come up again.

A quick brief of that article was that I had observed throughout my childhood and into adult life, a theme and overtone of fear running through society. Which has only increased in the last few years as many have noticed. The MSM and money making governing bodies want you to be scared of everything, including breathing the very air around you. A sinister thing to instil in people, that their fellow human being is infected and the very air you breath can kill you. Makes for a good movie though, doesn’t it? There have been quite a few over the recent years, of viruses, infections, unseen monsters that are there somewhere, but with a fear and tension that builds. Don’t make noise, don’t breath, Don’t fall asleep. Normal everyday things turned against you psychologically, so that then you in turn sabotage yourself by way of imagination and over thinking. Following on from the hooks and lures that were placed over the years, and through various mediums to trigger a response.

Now it’s back to relentless doom and catastrophic predictions. The ice caps will melt, the ozone layer, climate change is coming, war, collapse of money, food shortages etc. Like I said, relentless. But if you happen to glance at the predictions since 1970, none have actually come true, although certain people and industries have made an awful lot of money from them. And continue to do so. With this current generation being pummelled mentally from every angle. And while all that doom is being filtered through to each aspect of people’s lives, they are also tipping society upside down. As they have in various countries over the years, the rise and fall of empires, temporary enemies and alliances, all moving and changing behind the scenes mostly. But we get to see the continuing campaign against how things are, and how they would like them to be. Keep in mind though, how things were had been set up by them too. So, it’s probably best that we don’t try and go back, because that place was still with fear as an invisible hook. With familiar, calming faces to talk you round, then alarming, in your face presentations by other familiar faces, placed for purpose.

We would do well to try and undo the landscape of fear, hate and anger that has been allowed to fester. And not carry it forward as they would like, instead find a new way to move into the future. Because if we don’t, then theirs will continue to herd us along…

(c) K Wicks

School, But Bigger

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The talk of 15-minute cities and towns is gathering pace. Meetings, consultations, petitions, and protests. Charts, projections, and bottom-line targets. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, everything is being given a corporate makeover.

Every aspect of your life apparently needs to have an ‘institution’ overseeing it. But it was an online comment that made me think of this. Of about being stuck in those ‘zones’ with the type of people they do not want to really be around on a constant basis. Which made me think of school, and how you have to spend all your hours and weekdays mostly surrounded by hundreds of people you’re forced to spend time with. And then other aspects seemed to sounds similar too.

You have to ask permission to do things, trying to earn points and qualify for a standard you have been told to follow. A restricted regime where you are given your timetable, your zones and your meal times. You will also be given your meals of what they decide you can eat. You will be told when you can take trips or have fun, and be fined or punished if you don’t stick to their schedule.

Now think about the above, is that school, or is that a 15-minute zone? Hard to tell from where I sit. The similarities I find are many, and the first lockdown was quite possibly just a test. Not just of compliance, but of practicality, to see if they could swing it that everyone stays where they are. And I realised that even if on the whole people didn’t, they would tell you they did. To make people think it worked so that they went along with it as well, or that they at a minimum believed that the ‘authorities’ had the power to make people do as they were told.

Maybe they thought because most people had been through their system of being Institutionalised, it would just work. That people would fall back in line and remember their initial ‘training’. Expecting people to revert back to a childhood state of dependency and of being told what to do. Which is what I think is a big part of this, and I have mentioning it before too in Holding us back, but of trying to diminish people’s adult lives and responsibilities. Wanting them to be like little orphan Oliver, grubby and dishevelled with an empty bowl outstretched towards your ‘caregivers’, hoping they’ll throw you a crumb when you whisper the words ‘please Sir, can I have some more’.

And that’s possibly why some people appear belligerent and have been labelled Anti-everything. Just as the ‘trouble makers’ would have at school. But after we leave that system, hopefully some reflect on those years, and come to understand that people pressures and reactions to that strange enforced regime through childhood. And the ones who realised it was a waste of time and didn’t try to fit it? Well, seems they had the right idea after all. But even back then they did a good job on all of us to make us look down on bad attendance, people with bad grades, people with a bad attitude. Now I know what type of people set those attendance standards, grades and attitudes they wanted from children, I’m not so judgey.

So to me, it does seem as though they are just expanding the school system to be a bigger, more encompassing system that gets everyone. Where they can have you as part of their institutions for life, from cradle to grave in fact. Tied in, logged in and fully immersed in their financial, emotional, medical and technological future plans for you. Unless of course, you find you have other plans for yourself…

(c) K Wicks