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It Follows A Path

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I’m not sure how to lead into this one, so will just lay out the feature idea. Theorising that the rise in what we would call different sexual identities, frustrations and alternate genders is a consequence. Not just of society as I might have thought, of suppression of ‘natural instincts’ and forced family structure etc. With extra exposure to more extreme ideas and interests. And perhaps that can go some way to explain some circumstances.

However, the rise in what appears to be very confused and somewhat extreme behaviour has caught my attention, as it has with many others. And if it were indeed just consenting adults, doing consenting adult things, however deviant they may be, would not be of such a concern. But it is the involvement of minors and grooming of young to people to also be part of the ‘expression’ they have decided needs to be on show. To be validated and have an audience for that validation, with it seems a constant need for that to be reaffirmed at every turn, a conditioning of sorts. There have been a number of articles I have written around the strange sexual landscape towards children, The Face Of A Clown – In Story Town and A Slippery Slope being the main ones, although it does pop up as a running theme here and there in others. Once only a dark undertone within certain industries and corners of society, but now seemingly more out in the open every day. A sinister deviant section of society looking to thoroughly corrupt the next generation, having done it to previous ones in various ways.

But there is an added strangeness occurring alongside it, where there are many people turning their back on sexuality altogether, or don’t have any feeling towards to it, which is what this piece really is about. Not the ones who are obsessed, and want everything in life to be geared around their own personal pleasure, no, this is about the others. Who seem to be becoming the opposite, who are partially or completely disengaged from desire, and in my usual way I wondered, is it a ‘natural’ thing to occur, as speculated in The Beautiful Mice, given the conditions of society we face? Or, is a natural consequence of the extra conditions placed within that, namely, pharmaceuticals. There has been much talk of late about SSRI’s and other medications for depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders. I have already delved into the idea they have been labelling people for years to make money, encouraging people to also do it to themselves, covered in It’s A Set Up and it seems many others have noticed too. But alongside there being suggestion that some of these anti-psychotic drugs actually cause suicidal and psychotic episodes, it seems there may be a lot more being switched off than at first appeared. Or at least if people have been trying to raise an alarm, they have been quietly dismissed or ignored altogether.

So, further along from More Than Pain Gets Killed and An Error, But A Big One, it seems that there has been another consequence of some of this medications, for some people. They have lost their sexual drive, desire, or ability to feel attachment or satisfaction. So I wonder if that has led into the recent ‘changes’ we appear to be witnessing in society, coupled with more input and exposure to all sorts of concepts and imagery. Being assimilated into a thought process that is not functioning correctly. And it is quite probable, as they say, that extreme sexual deviance was always there, but was it so in the numbers we see today? Another thing that they are trying to normalise, but is that being helped along by people being encouraged into that extreme version of a human. With environmental conditions being set so that you create the frustration, not just physical, but chemically enhanced so it takes on a darker, more sinister edge as there is something beyond just an average human need occurring.

It is a hampered and stunted version, emotionally disrupted and mentally corrupted being nurtured. Some turn that in on themselves and will find destructive ways to try and express the turmoil, and others, well they turn their attention to others to ‘relieve their turmoil’. Perhaps. There are also those who notice the detachment, the shutting down of normal feelings and reactions and will stop, knowing something isn’t right. But not everyone is able to spot it, or ends up being herded along by others really believing it is there to help, or they are the problem that needs fixing. And this is where I think they are covering the main issue, with genders and identities and trying to create a very convoluted society, because then it’s much easier for the real issue to get overlooked or lost because people were afraid to ask why. Why are so many switched off to themselves, to life, and to each other? Is it simply just because we all got busy, or distracted by entertainment and keeping up with the technological demands of society? Or is it something else as well, behind it all, keeping it at the dampened and frustrated level they require to create a muted version of what we were meant to be. I wonder…

(c) K Wicks

Is Blue the Original Green?

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We are used to seeing it every day, well, not entirely every day if you live in a changeable country and climate, but mostly we know that during the day the sky is blue. A large expanse of ongoing blue, changing to black a night with the stars and moon to illuminate that expanse. I have been giving it though along the way with the flat earth, round earth debate that quietly rumbles on, and not so quietly in some circles. Wondering how it could be that they could deceive us with a fake space, and of there being a firmament which we can’t get through to escape. And there were a few things that tied together to give me this idea,

  • Plasma screen TV’s
  • A claim apparently by an Australian professor back in the 60’s that the moon was made of plasma
  • Plasma balls
  • The new show piece in Vegas – The Sphere
  • Planetariums

And the actual point of this, as with the title, I wonder if the blue we see in the sky is the projection screen we might expect with films, but is green for us. Maybe in the bigger version, blue is the go-to colour to hide, or create illusions so seamless one wouldn’t even know what they were seeing. I had already wondered too about plasma balls due to lightning sprites and leader bolts that come up from the ground during storms, looking awfully like the ones simulated in the plasma balls you can buy as an ornament.

Blue screen then becomes the background of reality, but what exactly is projecting the image onto it if that is the case? Is it like a machine that harnesses and amplifies energy, creating the ‘observable universe’ as we know it, because it is created from the thoughts of people. They say we are a finite mind trying to understand an infinite world and existence, which we are unable to, so we construct a reality that is definable, and consciously comprehendible to some extent.

Blue is not natural they say. I know we do have some examples in nature of blue occurring, so one could argue that blue is a natural colour, although it could be that we have a few remnants of a previous time when the light spectrum was very different and maybe some blue things developed. Green is an optimal colour for photosynthesis, so perhaps when things were different, we had an array of blue plants and leaves, and the sky was green. Who knows. But it was the recent noting of blue things not being melted in those recent Maui fires, mentioned too in my article Show And Tell. Because it made me think of a character in Twin Peaks, a very brief moment and they weren’t seen again, but it’s what they and their attire represented. It being a blue rose on the dress which was of special significance – “Since there is no such thing as a blue rose in nature, the designation could represent cases which cannot be rationally or scientifically explained, the “impossible” cases”. So, blue could be marker to give away that things are not natural, something they couldn’t hide perhaps.

Project Blue Beam – this name has been doing the rounds for a while now, and obviously would just seem an upgrade on the Project Blue Book, which was there to apparently investigate UFO’s and related things, the speculation is that the beam version, is to simulate an invasion, to create panic and confusion. We’ll see on that, I’m not sure people are half as interested as they were on the subject, and as most of the drama surrounding them seems to be generated from America, maybe it’s just for them really.

Planetariums – a domed shaped area within a building usually I believe, with a projection of the stars and galaxies giving you the feeling of being in space. Quite possibly just mocking the reality, or part of the reinforcement needed to keep people in the state of knowing what they would like. Many people do not have what I would consider fluid thought, and often have a very firm idea or belief system that will get in the way of a thought going further. Or perhaps they already have given it thought and came to their own conclusion, and there they settle, and with all the pieces put in place for it to be so, I can understand why. Screens and things that are there to deceive should be viewed with sceptical eyes and followed with caution, perceptions of reality are being augmented along with the physical changes coming. It’s going to be a strange road ahead…

(c) K Wicks

Hair

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It may seem like just another part of your exterior, one to be managed and maintained throughout our lives, not everyone of course as not all keep their hair, but even then it is still noticed and I guess, thought about. It’s been made a thing in society too, as part of your appearance, for judgement and categorising people. A shaved head being a classic one, if you are not a prisoner, in a mental hospital or in the military, people are not sure what to make of it. We had a whole social movement which had it very much as a focus, so attitudes towards it are varied. And if you happen to be female with a shaved head, then also some assumptions and raised eyebrows follow. Although there are plenty of attitudes towards all sorts of hairstyles, this piece is focusing on two, with hair, and without.

Monks – even though apparently enlightened, or at least seeking the path to, they believe that hair symbolises worldly fashion and ego.

Native American Indians – I read an interesting snippet recently about Native Americans being ‘recruited’ by the army for their tracking skills. But once they were fully enlisted, regulated with uniform and military haircut, they say they ‘lost their ability’. Now, that could be the case, or they simply may have been forced to join and didn’t actually want to help, we’ll never know. But on the premise that it is true, I wondered if the hair really could be important.

Antenna – it is said that our hair acts as an antenna, connecting us to the energy around us as a kind of sensor. What it is sensing who can say, but the idea that we are connected to electrical energy all around us isn’t that crazy. Ever do the weird thing where you rub a balloon on your hair to make it static, then the balloon would stick to the ceiling? That’s when you activate it with the balloon rubber, who knows what goes on with other stimuli. And perhaps why certain products might be worse for your hair that at first thought, not just as it lets things seep directly into your head by way of your hair follicals, but because it might also block what is meant to get through. Over the years there have been more and more, hairspray, dyes, gel, shampoo, conditioner, glitter, straightening, hair dryers, perms etc. And that is just all for your hair, when you add up all the products being absorbed through our exterior, willingly applied by us, then it can be of concern.

Senses – we say there are five senses, the main ones anyway, and there is speculation over a sixth one for ESP related activities. So, what if our hair is actually a sense, but one which functions without our awareness perhaps. Taking in our surroundings and feeding us either information or energy, they say if your hair feels good, you feel good, maybe there is something in that. And maybe ties into the antenna idea too, as when something is sensed like the saying ‘someone just walked over my grave’, it’s often accompanied with all the hairs on your body standing on end. Or if you think you are being watched. Now, some may say that is touch, as your skin is alerted to something, but if nothing actually touched you, and you can’t see anything, is it actually your hair that has picked up something? Passing that along to the other senses to then decide on the necessary response. That may be why there has been a policy in certain institutions and punishments to shave people’s hair, under the guise of ‘health and safety’ but is ultimately to cut off one of your senses. As well it being called a dehumanising act in itself anyway, maybe there is an extra layer of dehumanising there we hadn’t quite considered. I wonder…

(c) K Wicks

(c) K Wicks

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