Issue 154- Transmission XX23490005- May-June 2008- Planet: Starship 'Terra'


Hippie Crap Saves The World
Can better orgasms and upping your personal vibe really thwart BushCo idiocy?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
2007-May

Wanna know what conservatives really hate?

What makes everyone from harmless GOP dittoheads to ultra-right-wing nutjobs
full of rage and hiss and homophobia and blind jingoism
roll their eyes and throw up their hands and scamper for their Bibles
for reassurance that life is still repressed and we're still going to war
and Dubya is still smackin' 'round the envurment
along with them wimmin and homosekshuls and furriners?

Why, hippie crap, of course.
New-age babble about love and peace and godless pagan prayer,
organic foods and sustainable trees and chakras, divinity and luscious goddesses
and soul paths and upping your personal vibration to counter all the
venomous hatred slinging about the culture like some sort of conservative,
fearmongering weapon of mass depression. Man, they just hate that.

The incessant drive to war, the blank-eyed young soldiers,
the drab oil fields, the terse U.N. debates, Rumsfeld's ink-black eyes,
the violence and 9/11 and Osama in hiding,
Saddam's sneering and Shrub's smirking and Dick Cheney's defibrillator cranking on 11 --
these events are considered "real," they are tangible and raw and ugly and happening right now
and we've got the pictures to prove it, all over the media, grainy and grim and mean,
CNN and Fox News and frowning pundits and 100-point newspaper headlines, so you know it must be true.

Then there's you, walking through your daily life right now,
eating and laughing and screwing and paying rent and thinking for yourself,
filtering the onslaught and trying to remain connected to something divine and universal and authentic,
all while straining to put this national trend toward violence and warmongering into some sort of acceptable frame.
You are not "real" in this same way.
This is the feeling.
Your experience is somehow irrelevant;
what you do and how you maneuver this daily treachery
is an insignificant side note to the big ugly daily political machinations because hey, it's war.
It's the Big Boys. Angry White Men with very serious penis issues.
All that matters is the machine, and the money, and the oil, and the WMD and the drumbeat rhetoric.

Which is, of course, utter BS.
Here is what conservatives hate most:
the idea that you really can, and do, make a difference.
That you, hopefully working to align yourself with something deeper and more informed
and perhaps not exactly Christian, or corporate, not exactly lockstep mainstream flag-waving
God-fearing asexual consumer drone, you can affect the world, directly, right now,
in ways you might not even realize, in ways that make them tremble and wince,
in how much you laugh and love and eat and sleep and screw and breathe
and in how deeply you penetrate into the soul's raison d'etre.
But you gotta work at it.
And it ain't easy.
See? Fluffy new-age crap. They really hate that.

Here is the great fallacy of the American ethos,
the one that powers SUV purchases and spawns a billion McDonald's franchises
and gun purchases and Adam Sandler movies:
it is the notion that Americans exist in a freewheelin' vacuum,
that our daily choices don't, in fact, affect the world,
and our neighbors, and our children, and the environment and our own bodies.
It is the idea that those very choices -- foods you eat, cars you drive, shows you watch,
personal relations you have, waste you create, choices you make -- can't,
in a very real and immediate way,
erode your divine links, spit on your spiritual spark, taint your mystical meat.
Every single one, every single time.
In other words, in buying that gun, smacking that child, abusing that spouse,
screaming at that neighbor, buying that thuggish SUV, supporting that war,
wishing death upon all them damn furriners, you may think you're exercising
your God-given all-'Murkin right to do/say/drive whatever the hell you want
because you're an American goddammit and no one will tell you how to live so back off.

Not quite.
Rather, you are also injecting a deliberate dose of bitter bile straight into the cultural bloodstream, actually --
and quite literally -- lowering the general vibration of the human collective cause,
casting your vote for small-mindedness and solipsism and violence.
Yep, you are. And yes indeed, your vote counts.

Here is the gist:
The world consists of energy, billions of swirling masses of it contained in living vessels
-- that's you --
and aimed out to the world, often radiating at random, intermingling, interacting,
often uncontrolled and unaware, an enormous dizzying gorgeous complex
kaleidoscopic organism of human interaction and interplay.
We are abuzz.
We are electric.
We possess actual psychic and electromagnetic force.
Duh. It's a fact.
It comes down to simple physics.
Negative begets negative.
Positive begets positive.
War begets war, peace begets peace,
Britney begets Christina begets N'Sync begets People magazine begets "Joe Millionaire"
begets 10 million Prozac prescriptions begets a billion dumbed-down mind-sets, embittered souls. In a nutshell.

ShrubCo blindly steers the nation like a giant careening Hummer toward
the history-mauling notion of preemptive violence,
of attacking anyone who might somehow threaten the U.S.
even before such a threat is tangible.
He beats the war drum,
staffs his administration with enough hawks to start 1,000 wars,
slams the environment, cuts women's rights, etcetera and so on --
this all turns that swirling mass of energy that much more dark, vicious, angry, dumb.

And the world begins to follow.
The culture darkens, people run scared, reactionary, depressed.
The negative feeds upon itself, the tide turns,
you are hit more and more frequently with that overwhelming feeling
that we are in dire and ugly and powder-keg times,
worse than ever,
emotionally raw, politically appalling, spiritually hollow. Sound familiar?

Whereas notions of peace, individual thought, reason,
simple acts of attuned mindfulness,
of buying products and foods that sustain the planet,
of making really good messy enthusiastic generous love,
of regular laughter in the face of scowling Ashcroft or Cheney's corporate henchmen,
of reading deeply and recalling wisdom people like the Dalai Lama talk about all the time --
these things literally up your anima's vibration, add positive energy back in, turn the collective volume back up.

That postcoital buzz?
That post-party feel-good vibe?
That genuine laughter?
That gratuitously kind thing you did for that stranger?
That celebration of your body and your sex and love and spirit
in spite of mainstream religious finger wagging?
That deep meditative solitude?
Bingo.
That's the vibe you want. That's the vibe we all need.
That's the vibration that makes all the difference.

But it's also the one that takes serious work and determination
and you gotta do it every single day and it can only come from you.
This sort of luminous divine power
is messy and raw and hot and attaining more of it
can be the most difficult thing you've ever done.
But really, what else is there?
Look.
Mystics and healers and sages and scientists and philosophers
across the spiritual spectrum have known it for millennia:
More advanced and enlightened souls -- and cultures --
vibrate at a higher level, a more bright and rigorous pitch.
It's true.
Bliss and joy and notions of peace and healing and laughter and personal choice,
these things crank up the vibe.
War and angst and fear and self-fulfilling prophecies of war
and preemptive strikes and George Bush, these things slam it down.

So then. You want to really annoy the conservative warmongering powers that be?
Work your ass off to pump up the vibration.
It's deeply personal. It's hard work.
It means re-evaluating what you do and how you do it
and how you treat others, the planet, what you buy and what you eat.
It means learning.
And it also means loving harder, more raw and real, minimal BS, minimal waste,
figuring out true messy ugly slippery gorgeous divinity for yourself,
on your own terms, and then sharing it with the world.
Man, they really hate that.

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peace symbols

the origin and the ideas behind the symbols---
THE PEACE SYMBOL
the anti-nuclear emblem or the peace sign is one of the
most widely known symbols in the world.
it was invented on the request of lord bertrand russel,
head of the british ‘campaign for nuclear disarmament’
or CDN and sponsor of mass marches and sit-downs
in london. the graphic symbol was designed by
gerald holtom, a member of the CND movement,
as the badge of the ’direct action committee against
nuclear war’, for the first demonstration against
aldermaston (a british research center for the development
of nuclear weapons) in 1958. holtom, a professional designer
and a graduate of the london royal college of arts, had
originally considered using the christian cross symbol
within a circle as the motif for the march, but various priests
he had approached with the suggestion were not happy
at the idea of using the cross on a protest march.
from a design point of view, it is interesting to note that
the original sketches are preserved at the school of
peace studies, at the bradford university.
they show a symbol that stood for ‘the death of man
and the unborn child’ and that symbol was designed
from the naval code of semaphore - the code letters
for N and D (nuclear disarmament).
N is two flags, arms downstretched at a forty-five degree
angle, and D is two flags, one arm straight up and one
straight down. the ends of the ‘arms’ and ‘legs’ thicken
and splay out noticeably as they approach the circumference.
the circle itself was thick - the thickening itself has two versions:
in one, all the straight strokes are thickened;
in the other, only those in the lower half of the circle.
it is said, that the reason for the symbol being upside
down (D over N) is that semaphore is a military code and
upside down symbolizes ‘anti-military’.
the symbol was quickly adopted in the US when a friend of
martin luther king jr., bayard rustin began using it during
civil rights marches. the power of this symbol is emphasized
by the fact that various far-right and fundamentalist american
groups, during the 1970s, seriously considered forbidding it
(they have spread the idea of satanic associations and
condemned it as a communist sign). in south africa, under the
apartheid regime, there was an official attempt to ban it.
also anti-vietnam war protesters picked it up, and it was called
’the footprint of the great american chicken’ by many american
soldiers during the vietnam war era.
deliberately never copyrighted, the symbol is still recognized
in great britain as the logo for nuclear disarmament,
but is known worldwide for peace and non-violence.
no one has to pay or to seek permission before they use it.
as a symbol of freedom, it is free for all.
this of course sometimes leads to its use,
or misuse, in circumstances that CND and the peace
movement find distasteful. it is also often exploited for
commercial, advertising or generally fashion purposes.
‘we can’t stop this happening and have no intention of
copyrighting it. all we can do is to ask commercial users if they
would like to make a donation. any money received is used for
CND’s peace education and information work.’
says the campaign for nuclear disarmament website
http://www.cnduk.org

DOVES OF PEACE
one of the most recognised symbols of peace is the dove.
its origins are from the story of noah and the ark.
when the rains that flooded the earth stopped pouring
down, noah sent out various birds to see if they would
bring back any sign of land to his boat.
he was anxious to begin life again on dry pasturage.
one dove eventually returned carrying an olive branch.
after world war II pablo picasso, was responsible for
the decisive use of the dove of peace : his lithograph
designed for the international peace congress in paris,
1949, features the white ancestor of a new family of
doves. since then, graphic artists have produced an
endless series of doves of peace in different shapes.

here have been claims that the symbol has older,
occult or anti-christian associations and that it
was a ‘symbol of death’.
this fifth century illustration depicts st.peter crucified
upside-down. the inverted crucifix was known for
centuries as the‘nero cross’ from the roman reign
of the emperor nero (54-68 A.D.)
in the middle ages the ‘nero cross’ was adapted
in satanists rituals.
it can also be seen as composed of a tyr rune,
or by the rune, turned upside down
(in german ‘todesrune’/ the rune of death.)

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