I noticed that this little blog still gets the occasional hit. In fact, since I abandoned it in 2010 it's had more than 10,000 pageviews. It's funny, because the very few posts here were written in a period of extreme upheaval in my life. I abandoned "normal life" entirely, and just dove headfirst into... well, the future. I got soaked in conspiracy literature, then got all tangled up and realised I had to change my thoughts, fast. See, it's one thing to say the world is crazy as a shithouse, and another to say that about the future as well.
And then I got into everything I could lay my hands on - hypnosis, affirmations, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Pleiadians, Neil Kramer, wine, whisky, sacred frequencies, binaural beats... the lot.
And it kind of worked. Life brightened. But I still had to form some kind of plan to get out of a world which seemed to want nothing more than to torture itself to death in increasingly complex ways. How to handle living with millions of people that can't even see the chemtrails criss-crossing the skies every single day? I mean, you don't have to get all scared about it, but at least fucking acknowledge they're there, right? This shit is just weird.
So anyway, in short I packed up and moved to Brazil, and now I'm married in Rio de Janeiro with a beautiful 1-year old son.
I still remember when I was on that flight to Rio, taking off from Heathrow. It was like, it's not even relief because it had just taken too long. It was so long overdue that it almost didn't matter. "I'm not coming back for quite a while, quite a while. Little England, with your morose ridiculous days - well, what's the point in taking a breath in the morning for you people?"
Anyway, you get the point. It was a kind of freezing cold flame. I'm just gone, forever. If I die now, it's better than where I was.
So I made some money doing online commerce. And my wife is a doctor and makes bundles.
And now I write about forming little circles and communities and sharing, and network marketing and the nature of wealth. You can see my most recent stuff here at The New Wealth Network. It's not syncronicity or conspiracy talk, and it's not going to talk about my daily surfing habits (probably) but it's what I believe in right now. I think there are real solutions, or rather real paths onward from where we are. I'm walking them right now.
All the very best to you, and thanks for reading.
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
A pictorial journey through the modern age
Welcome to the modern age.
Why not start with the younglings?
Kids have it harder than ever, whilst ostensibly "spoiled" and "priveleged".
Born with a gun in one hand and a flag in the other...
Relentlessly targeted for programming...
... but let's protect them, right, for... Jehovah's sake:
'Cos we've got bogeymen in caves.
Schools are prisons are factories are military academies:
The alarm clock, the school bell, the prison bell, the punchcard, the timesheet are all the same. The same methods of psychological manipulation have been used in these institutions for a long time, and they borrow off each other, and they're getting better all the time.
But really, all of us are in these institutions, whether we're physically present there or not. Because the tentacles are in every part of our lives.
We're hot on the heels of the biggest robberies in history:
But hey, all they took was fiat money, which is going to be worthless in a couple of years anyway.
And the women. Ah, those beautiful creatures.
It's an age where women are either whores...
... or virgins, or dominatrix. You know, the overbearing state looks a whole lot better if it's the shape of a voluptuous, lithe redhead:
Or a ball-breaking career grrl:
Because that's women for you, right? Such bitches. Always walking around, breaking their nails while shooting men for the hell of it. Typical feminine nature. Nothing like this:
Or this:
That's her dead son she's holding.
If a mother's grief for her dead child were an energy, there would be hell to pay. Oh, hang on, it is, and there is.
Time for a fag break.
We've got a world of dead bodies walking...
There's a HAM-let where some of my kin live, that has a nice centrepiece:
The lion and the lamb lie down together. Peace and harmony. The strong protect the weak.
Right?
But why does the lion look at the little one like he's dinner? And why do we get a different picture from behind...
Um, maybe a symbol of masculine energy? But why then is it designed, complete with a soft surrounding ring (draw your own symbolism) to be a plaything for kids?
Hidden in plain sight, always hidden in plain sight:
So generations of programming has made us gluttons for punishment:
Who's doing this, anyway?
'Kay...
The enemy is clearly within:
But inside us, ourselves, not society.
So how do we get out of the nightmare?
The answer is surely love:
But do we even know how to love? We don't even know how to clean our arses, as the Celtic Rebel points out. "I love you" is said these days with a kind of desperation, with none of the serenity and generosity the real thing entails. It's compatibility of programmed lifestyle categories merged with the vague partiality to specific genitalia and secondary sexual characteristics. We're told that love is pain. Love is sacrifice. Worth fighting for. Worth throwing yourself off a building for, if you're passionate, like those crazy Latins and Gauls. It's everything but simple. Never simple, and humble, and harmonious. "It's complicated." Right? How many times have we heard that phrase?
Time to take the rainbow brige to Asgard.
Time to be more childlike, time to deprogram until we get to that point...
... because we are the source, we are the ocean of energy that surrounds us, that we swim in. Time to tap into it, because this is the sea, we are the sea.
Time to think for yourself.
Time to be cheeky.
Monday, 1 November 2010
01/11/10
(Will add photographs when I get the wifi sorted out properly on my laptop)
A pure palindromic date, replete with 1's and 11's, also marks the exact halfway point of my scheduled stay in Rio. Not that I plan to leave, though. The Day of the Dead over, it's now time to Live.
From an admittedly beautiful Autumn...
... to Spring.
I actually arrived in Rio via the hospital where I was born.
I was having lots of syncs to do with death and rebirth. My favourite piece of literature to this day is Frank Miller's Born Again.
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms
Also via some violet lights in terminal 3.
(3's, like 11's, are everywhere) Violet was my colour of the time, the crown chakra.
Took a cab to Ipanema. Knew I was being fleeced for the fare but was too tired to find another way. Dropped off, headed to the bar, met a couple of English guys from Windsor (just down the road from where I grew up), then walked around looking for a hostel. Was directed to a pink place called Bonita - feminine beauty. Apposite.
Met a Canadian who owns a bar in the Canary Islands, but had taken a year out because of Visa issues. A German girl who sold earrings for a living and giggled incessantly, her laughter echoing round the hostel. A Columbian guy who was quite diffident but at times seemed like he had taken some Class A's. A bunch of Chilean students who didn't seem to want to talk to anyone outside their group, apart from the Columbian guy. A couple of Dutch guys who fitted the "shmoke and pancake" stereotype well. Another Canadian who skis for a living and climbs in his spare time. He climbed the Corcovado (Jesus Christ statue hill) while I was there. A Tunisian who now works in tourism in Sao Paolo, and was very funny whilst drunk. A Brazilian kid who had been to Chelsea and spoke English like a cross between Lord Fauntleroy and Dick Van Dyke. And a Brazilian woman, an actual local, a Carioca, a doctor (GP), who kindly allowed me to stay in her apartment for a while (number 704=11). The night we met we stayed out all night and then slept on Ipanema beach, and watched the sun rise together, pink and red and orange. I was cold in shorts and t-shirt, but it was the best kind of cold.
Saw the Black-Eyed Peas play a concert where the carnival is held.
They had Jorge Ben Jor come on stage, who then sang a song which perplexed many of the present Cariocas, because it was very sad: "Rain, rain, forever." True Cariocas, especially women, are wonderful people, chatty, sun-worshipping, generous, without artifice, unselfconscious, confident, uncritical, unpretensious, uniformly beautiful and avoid negativity at all times, instinctively.
That said, Paris Hilton is popular here and pops up as the face of a beer here (Devassa, meaning "hot girl") and various clothing ranges. I do hope the degeneration of the Brazilian woman does not go to the lengths found in the West.
People here are just so diverse. I've been assumed to be Brazilian, and I've got blond hair and fair skin. There's tall, short, pale, dark - the whole range. The Amazonian women (generally from the South) are often very tall, blond and dizzyingly attractive, but the more olive-hued skins which get darker as you go north are just as beautiful.
By the way, the rumours I heard beforehand that Brazilians don't get drunk is not true! Much evidence to the contrary.
Experienced the Blood Moon while in Lapa, a remarkable place of arches, aquaducts, a masonic lodge, bohemians, old decaying colonial buildings and an amazing festival-like atmosphere on Fridays and Saturdays. They close off the streets and everyone wanders around, eating, dancing and drinking ice cold beers. And they are indeed religious about the beer being ice cold.
That said, in bars they have an odd proclivity to something called a chopp, which is watery lager. Tastes as good as it sounds, and expensive at that. Prounounced "choppy", as they like to avoid ending nouns with a consonant. So you get "hippy hoppy" for instance. Kind of cute.
Been doing some retail selling online to boost my savings, and may sell some of my gold. Had an interview to teach English, and as I write this, she's just found me my first student!
As for the beach, you have me down as being utterly undisappointed. The finest beach culture anywhere I've ever been. Wow.
Must have fallen in love about 5 times while walking the length of Ipanema beach. The girls here are not only stunning, but they play football. Well. Really well. It seems all the hot women here are schooled in beach football volleyball.
It's funny the way Cariocas mope slightly when it's a cloudy day. They really, truly, love the sun.
Only here would the slums look so colourful and be so salubriously situated on hillsides overlooking gorgeous vistas.
Having said that, it's strange how almost all cars here are either black or silver. I had a laugh with G about that. Her name roughly translates as "feminine gratitude", to match my own. My Brazilian angel manifest.
Also, not sure where the stars are. Are they hidden behind smog? I thought this was the Southern hemisphere, so looking into the Milky Way?
I love their music as it is unashamedly happy.
Something you just don't seem to find in the Western tradition, where melancholy is so revered. They purport to like the concept of "saudade", which is a kind of sad longing which is almost untranslatable. But the happiness is what gets me, and its contagious. It's the vibration of the place.
G has been teaching me salsa and Portugese, very patiently I might add. And I've been teaching her to cook, and speak English, although hers is quite good already. And I made my first caiprinha with her! I added mint, as with mojitos, which they don't do here, but I found it to be a welcome addition, and it was pretty damn good.
Cachaca is very cheap over here, and seriously expensive in the UK, so it makes a nice change from vodka. In fact I often have one for breakfast.
Had some pasteis
and caldo de cana (sugar cane juice).
They actually press the sugar cane right there in front of you. And the result is a green liquid that is pure sugar, though doubtless with more nutrients than your average processed sucrose. It is sweet, but perhaps not as sweet as you might imagine, and has a frothy, fermented quality to it.
Green is now my colour. It's my heart that is now being cleansed.
The Marvellous City. The City of God. I'd concur. Thank you for reading.
A pure palindromic date, replete with 1's and 11's, also marks the exact halfway point of my scheduled stay in Rio. Not that I plan to leave, though. The Day of the Dead over, it's now time to Live.
From an admittedly beautiful Autumn...
... to Spring.
I actually arrived in Rio via the hospital where I was born.
I was having lots of syncs to do with death and rebirth. My favourite piece of literature to this day is Frank Miller's Born Again.
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms
Also via some violet lights in terminal 3.
(3's, like 11's, are everywhere) Violet was my colour of the time, the crown chakra.
Took a cab to Ipanema. Knew I was being fleeced for the fare but was too tired to find another way. Dropped off, headed to the bar, met a couple of English guys from Windsor (just down the road from where I grew up), then walked around looking for a hostel. Was directed to a pink place called Bonita - feminine beauty. Apposite.
Met a Canadian who owns a bar in the Canary Islands, but had taken a year out because of Visa issues. A German girl who sold earrings for a living and giggled incessantly, her laughter echoing round the hostel. A Columbian guy who was quite diffident but at times seemed like he had taken some Class A's. A bunch of Chilean students who didn't seem to want to talk to anyone outside their group, apart from the Columbian guy. A couple of Dutch guys who fitted the "shmoke and pancake" stereotype well. Another Canadian who skis for a living and climbs in his spare time. He climbed the Corcovado (Jesus Christ statue hill) while I was there. A Tunisian who now works in tourism in Sao Paolo, and was very funny whilst drunk. A Brazilian kid who had been to Chelsea and spoke English like a cross between Lord Fauntleroy and Dick Van Dyke. And a Brazilian woman, an actual local, a Carioca, a doctor (GP), who kindly allowed me to stay in her apartment for a while (number 704=11). The night we met we stayed out all night and then slept on Ipanema beach, and watched the sun rise together, pink and red and orange. I was cold in shorts and t-shirt, but it was the best kind of cold.
Saw the Black-Eyed Peas play a concert where the carnival is held.
They had Jorge Ben Jor come on stage, who then sang a song which perplexed many of the present Cariocas, because it was very sad: "Rain, rain, forever." True Cariocas, especially women, are wonderful people, chatty, sun-worshipping, generous, without artifice, unselfconscious, confident, uncritical, unpretensious, uniformly beautiful and avoid negativity at all times, instinctively.
That said, Paris Hilton is popular here and pops up as the face of a beer here (Devassa, meaning "hot girl") and various clothing ranges. I do hope the degeneration of the Brazilian woman does not go to the lengths found in the West.
People here are just so diverse. I've been assumed to be Brazilian, and I've got blond hair and fair skin. There's tall, short, pale, dark - the whole range. The Amazonian women (generally from the South) are often very tall, blond and dizzyingly attractive, but the more olive-hued skins which get darker as you go north are just as beautiful.
By the way, the rumours I heard beforehand that Brazilians don't get drunk is not true! Much evidence to the contrary.
Experienced the Blood Moon while in Lapa, a remarkable place of arches, aquaducts, a masonic lodge, bohemians, old decaying colonial buildings and an amazing festival-like atmosphere on Fridays and Saturdays. They close off the streets and everyone wanders around, eating, dancing and drinking ice cold beers. And they are indeed religious about the beer being ice cold.
That said, in bars they have an odd proclivity to something called a chopp, which is watery lager. Tastes as good as it sounds, and expensive at that. Prounounced "choppy", as they like to avoid ending nouns with a consonant. So you get "hippy hoppy" for instance. Kind of cute.
Been doing some retail selling online to boost my savings, and may sell some of my gold. Had an interview to teach English, and as I write this, she's just found me my first student!
As for the beach, you have me down as being utterly undisappointed. The finest beach culture anywhere I've ever been. Wow.
Must have fallen in love about 5 times while walking the length of Ipanema beach. The girls here are not only stunning, but they play football. Well. Really well. It seems all the hot women here are schooled in beach football volleyball.
It's funny the way Cariocas mope slightly when it's a cloudy day. They really, truly, love the sun.
Only here would the slums look so colourful and be so salubriously situated on hillsides overlooking gorgeous vistas.
Having said that, it's strange how almost all cars here are either black or silver. I had a laugh with G about that. Her name roughly translates as "feminine gratitude", to match my own. My Brazilian angel manifest.
Also, not sure where the stars are. Are they hidden behind smog? I thought this was the Southern hemisphere, so looking into the Milky Way?
I love their music as it is unashamedly happy.
Something you just don't seem to find in the Western tradition, where melancholy is so revered. They purport to like the concept of "saudade", which is a kind of sad longing which is almost untranslatable. But the happiness is what gets me, and its contagious. It's the vibration of the place.
G has been teaching me salsa and Portugese, very patiently I might add. And I've been teaching her to cook, and speak English, although hers is quite good already. And I made my first caiprinha with her! I added mint, as with mojitos, which they don't do here, but I found it to be a welcome addition, and it was pretty damn good.
Cachaca is very cheap over here, and seriously expensive in the UK, so it makes a nice change from vodka. In fact I often have one for breakfast.
Had some pasteis
and caldo de cana (sugar cane juice).
They actually press the sugar cane right there in front of you. And the result is a green liquid that is pure sugar, though doubtless with more nutrients than your average processed sucrose. It is sweet, but perhaps not as sweet as you might imagine, and has a frothy, fermented quality to it.
Green is now my colour. It's my heart that is now being cleansed.
The Marvellous City. The City of God. I'd concur. Thank you for reading.
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