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How We Are Just Like Rotten Fruits

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How We Are Just Like Rotten Fruits

A fruit has fallen off the tree and now lays on the ground. It sits and waits there for someone to come and enjoy it’s succulent nectar.  Days go by and it just lays there, exposed to the elements. Everyday that goes by, it wilts further and further as the insects find it’s way inside.

It wrinkles up and rots till its no more until the the only thing that remains are its seeds.  As the seeds lay on the soil awaiting rain so that it may sprout some new life and go on living as another tree.

We are rotten fruits. With everyday that goes by we wilt further and further. We lay waiting to enjoy the nectar of life, but we just continue to sit there, every year that passes more, another wrinkle.  Our insides being devoured by doing things we hate to go on living. It gets devoured by the stress that our environment has created in what has become our superficial world. It gets devoured by negativity, by hate, envy and by our conditioned minds.

We rot from our core, from the inside out. Carrying all this negativity in our lives until the day we lay in our death beds rotting for, awaiting the last few days when we become just bones. As life went by in an instant. All the hate, envy, negativity were all for naught.

For some of us we would have planted our seeds. We would have dropped those seeds during our rotted life, but do we continue to enjoy those seeds that we planted or do we allow them to fall in the same trap that has made us a wilted rotted mess.  Do we allow this cycle to breed and fester in our seeds or do we continue to let them rot as you did and perhaps maybe they can figure out how to enjoy the nectar that is life.

We become bones, life would be no more. There is no second chances, no coming back from what you have known as your life. All the hate inside us, all these learned traits that have made us regress as a being. Doing things we hate just to go on with this perceived existence. Just putting all our time into that and not enjoying the nectar of life or enjoy the nectar that has become of your seeds life, as they now spend more time away from you.

When every moment should be spent cherishing life with them during their childhood. Teaching them love, instead of hate. teaching them respect. Instead we allow the schools and the TV to teach them everything, which festers and breeds the negativity and the conditioned mind.

We would become those bones and what kind of impact would you have left in this world, other then the continual division of us all. The continual hatred for one another. The continual negativity would be what we would have left in this world. All the money we amassed really would not mean squat.

Money has become a plastic bag suffocating our lives. We stay confined in that bag rotting away. We go on with this thought that we would have the money to start enjoying our lives when we are older.  But we don’t realize that we could rot in an instant.

There is no tomorrow, but today for tomorrow may never come. The next microsecond could be our very last. We go on with this thought that we will last forever.  That money has blinded us from the world around us. All we are concerned about is making more of it, so that we can somehow better ourselves and better the lives of our seeds. So we can be happier from the misery that we have created.

We go on with a false happiness when deep down we are miserable of what life has become. All that money would not bring time back.  Time missed out with your seeds, time missed out doing something you love, because you were too busy doing something you hate.

Many would say well this is life. What can you do. You need money to live and that is where we go wrong. We have accepted this cycle, this way of life. The government has become one of those insects eating our insides as they have limited our true potential to go beyond. We are the most responsible for limiting our minds true potential. To think of ways of bettering not only ourselves but this world, so that we may all bloom together.

It’s only when we unify, only when we allow love back into our hearts, only then can we progress together in this world. I don’t have the answers to everything, as i always say, the answers are locked up deep inside your heads. Each of us holds the key, but we gave those keys to the government and said here you tell us how we should go on living and have accepted this way of life.

So now we are rotted fruits, one bad apple spoiling another as we spoil this beautiful world that we should all call home. Life should not be a rotted journey through time. It should be a beautiful manifestation. We should not limit ourselves and the world around us, we should embrace it and expand our minds to be as infinite as the universe. Embrace our lives and each other. The changes start inside all of you. Starts by changing your perception. The day we finally rot away, we should leave a positive impact in this world.

Will you remain a rotted fruit or would strive to change it. The truth of the matter is, we will all rot in the end, but how we rot is up to you. Do you rot by the negativity that weighs us down or do we rot by the positive lives that we have lived.

We only have that one life in this fruit that is our body. Make it count. Live life, do things you love. As Alan Watts once said, “you do that and forget the money”.   I know in this world we can’t get far without this money, but again we have to find ways to better our lives and that’s what we should be striving for. For a better world, for a better tomorrow.  That’s the impact that i want to leave behind, as i fight for a better tomorrow. To leave a blueprint for the seeds that blossom to follow and so that they can evolve that blueprint further, instead of the same perpetual cycle.

Feel free to leave your comments down below on what you think of this blog.

Do you think we are rotted fruits?

Do you think we live in this negativity. Do you think this world can’t ever change. Do you think money is our life blood or the plastic bag. Thanks for reading. Peace and love!

 

Disaster Shamanism

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This following article was not written by me. but it encapsulates how I feel. How I view my world.  Many are of us are awakening to a new world and this awakening is happening due in part to people such as myself and others who may be these “disasters shaman”, who  have gained that connection to nature and are spreading seeds of change. We hear nature, yet ignore her.  Enjoy the article. Leave comments down below or on the author’s site, link below. Peace.

Z, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

“For what one needs in this universe is not certainty but the courage and nerve of the gambler; not fixed conviction but adaptability; not firm ground whereupon to stand but skill in swimming.” –Alan Watts

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, and human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation.” -Simone De Beauvoir

What is Disaster Shamanism?

Disaster Shamanism is a form of post-modern shamanism. The main task of a disaster shaman is to visit local and non-local environments that have experienced disasters (natural and/or cultural) and do what it takes to help philanthropically (not necessarily monetarily), using shamanistic, psychoanalytic, and eco-centric tactics, and to respond as a healer within a Eco-psychological and shamanic cosmology.

Disaster shaman are New-heroeswho realize that the only thing that trumps moderation is volition. It is for this reason that disaster shamans choose to “listen” to nature over culture. They listen to nature in order to figure out how to live moderately so that others may moderately live. They use a nature first culture second approach so as to avoid the smokescreen of aggrandized human opinion, and to get through to the healthy/unhealthy cosmic order that is the voice of Gaia (mother Earth). They use this knowledge to heal, holistically, any and all eco-psycho-cultural environments.

Disaster shamans are preeminent guides for escaping the Pyramid of Civilization and they are skilled in the art of re-wilding and diagnosing nature deprivation. They bring balance and tonality to an otherwise atonal world, using peaceful resistance and civil disobedience to accentuate where modern-man has become excessive. They harness the two-fold power of healthy, global change with the concepts of Eco-moral Commitalism andEco-moral Tribalism.

The many make one lifetime into less; the wise make one lifetime into many. Disaster shamans are intent upon making their one life into many. They do this by devoting themselves to a nomadic lifestyle; one that expands horizons and blurs the lines drawn between cultures. They live “horizonally” like James P. Carse‘s Infinite Player, understanding that boundaries can, and must, be turned into horizons.

The diatribe of the Disaster Shaman is: go forth and simplify. They do this with courage and gusto, realizing that wisdom begins first with nature, the best of guides; and second with pain, the worst of guides. Disaster shamans subsume cowardice by assuming a heroic posture toward life. They understand that fear is natural. They except fear for what it is, embrace it, and then transform it into courage.

Disaster shamans take it upon themselves to develop what Ivan Illich called “tools of conviviality” by courageously living their destiny as opposed to merely going through the motions of living the destiny handed down to them. They are human catalysts and proactive agents of change. A disaster shaman is a New-oracle come to tell the old-oracles that they have failed.

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used” -(Anonymous).

A disaster shaman realizes the chaos of the modern world. The Hopi have a term for it: Koyanasiquatsi, life out of balance. To this extent disaster shamans are forces of nature first and people second. They understand that we live at a bifurcation point in human history and they work toward regaining balance by teaching – through détournement and social gad-flying– relationship-based love in a materialistic world. They take it upon themselves to create new ways of communing, by polarizing communities and implementing creative alternatives to outdated, unhealthy modes of living.

Disaster shamans are the architects of advanced sustainability, the threshold guardians of a new eco-enriched society of eco-moral people. Disaster shamans do not wait around for the right moment. They adapt to the ebb and flow of life’s ups and downs and overcome vicissitude through imagination, practical will and radicalized action, realizing that the right moment is always now.

A disaster shaman teaches how to become a hero over power, as opposed to simply being a hero with power. Carrying the banner of a New-hero, disaster shamans have perfected the art of hero expiation; what I call Capital Munificence. This is applied commitalism with emphasis on the expiation and redistribution and reciprocity of wealth. Disaster shamans bring the secret to such power to disaster situations and “heal” through teaching the people how to get power over power, and especially how to transform false power into true power.

They have perfected the art of Ideal Foolishness, or Foolish Ideology. Indeed, it is the call to arms of the Disaster Shaman. Their way of hypocritical art bridges the gap between science and spirituality by showing a child-like trust and hope for the human condition, that leaves open the realm of mystery and enchantment, while also explaining the infinite fabric of reality through scientific-mythology.

In order to prevent megalomania from the creative individual becoming too full of his own meanings, disaster shamans turn the tables on creative self-annihilation by the expiation and mockery of their power and a healthy laughter at their illusions. They disclose the world with the purpose of freedom and further disclosure. And by that same action they try to free others from enclosure into disclosure. Disaster shamans find the exigence which is common to all men and women: the will to freedom, the will to power, and the will to conquer both so as to make compassionate action manifest. They are willing to die in order to bring water to the Wasteland.

The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (Providence) is a mask worn by a disaster shaman. It represents rebirth and renewal in the face of death and disease. Thus, as Akoyeh, post-modern heyoka and the world’s first disaster shaman, I have become the Fifth Horseman.

In that capacity I have dedicated myself to spreading the seeds of self-actualized love, open-mindedness, and progressive sustainability. I have devoted myself to planting gardens of heroism in the humus of war, hate, close-mindedness, greed, and anything left behind by the original four horsemen (anybody caught up in any kind of unsustainable, unhealthy, violent, stupid, immoral or mass-destructive social system). And so I will gather the original four horsemen under one banner and teach them that the NEW definition of “right & wrong” is derived from the natural dictation of “healthy & unhealthy” rather than the human opinion of “good & evil.”

I will show them that I have squeezed every last drop of slave’s blood from my mind, body and soul; knowing that, had I not done so, had I not challenged the entire notion of slavery, I would have just become a new prisoner, boss, master or CEO in a violent, exploitative, dog-eat-dog system. But if all the blood is painfully squeezed away, then a free person emerges.

I am Crazy Horse. I am Geronimo. I am Gandhi. I am Christ. And not even death can stop those who are free.

About the Author

Z, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide awake view of the modern world.  His recent works at Waking Times can be seen here, and also found at Z’s Hub.

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