#61
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Back to Islandmagee with Emma and the girls, and having ice cream
It is a pleasant thing, is it not, to have a place like Islandmagee to go to? We are so lucky. Except they want to put a giant gs containment unit on it. What is wrong with people? Why don't they want to put a giant gas containment unit in Stormont where it would be far more useful? Also there is a production plant there right?
As if there aren't any other places which already exist which are awful and wouldn't be harmed by a monstrosity like that.
I detest the evil in human beings. And I will always stand up to it. And keep standing up to it - forever.
I have continued reading Steiner's lectures on Ahriman. Steiner is very clear about the thumbprint of Ahriman. Adherence only to materialism and denial of the spirit, a literal reading of the gospels and nationalism - or anything which creates division in people where they are using difference to oppress each other. It began 500 years ago and it is only going to get worse he says. We must recognise it or we will leave ourselves open to the deadening effect of Ahriman - in the the last twenty years the destruction of the Earth and extinction of species has gotten worse and worse. The really interesting thing about Ahrimanic powers is that, like Luciferic powers, the only thing it can promise is illusory and hallucinatory - so there is this wish for contentment and ownership and that never happens. There is always an empty hole which can never be filled and it is into this emptiness, this collective emptiness that the lifeforce is disappearing into. But somehow, the pain it brings, we are somehow able to justify it. Look at the Tory ministers. Look at the war in Syria. Look at the rape of the Earth by China. It is as if we are watching people who are possessed, who are zombies, who have no capacity to think for themselves, numb to feeling and the destruction they are causing, continue to act.
It was also interesting reading what Steiner thought about universities and libraries. They are places in which Ahriman pickles people. He turns them into pickle jars where they are preserved and they no longer live. He says, in order to qualify for university you have to read those books that no one ever reads unless they are doing a university degree. It is like the serpent eating its own tail. It is self devouring. It speaks to itself. And if you think of the numerous hours spent doing that instead of actually engaging intelligently with the world, Ahriman has indeed managed to create a machine which swallows those which would otherwise give to society.
Plus he says, what is the point of creating all those thesis - this is a total waste of time. There are more important things to be done. Also, he said, going to university now is about getting a job - and that is the irony. You get a job to eat and really, when you eat, you are consuming the spirit. Unsee the world, recognise the illusion.
Right, I am now going to go for my run. One last thing as well is the criticism which this ego-driven well-being and health movement is undergoing. I don't know why people cannot do anything in moderation? As yoga became more and more about the ansanas and wearing practically nothing to do the yoga in - I call it Soft Porn yoga - people became more and more obsessed with the food they consumed and became uglier and more competitive - it was like the entire population of the developed world has developed an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, social media has only compounded the issue.
The issue, of course, isn't social media but the hollow shallow shells which people occupy. People are so empty, their lives so bereft of meaning that they are more an more dependent of self-worth from others. Of course this admiration from others is really shallow and non existent. When people constantly talk about toxins, what they are not talking about are the literal toxins, but far more deadly are the spiritual ones. Those are the toxins which they are trying to rid themselves of.
Everything in moderation. Hold the balance. Engage with life.
It is a pleasant thing, is it not, to have a place like Islandmagee to go to? We are so lucky. Except they want to put a giant gs containment unit on it. What is wrong with people? Why don't they want to put a giant gas containment unit in Stormont where it would be far more useful? Also there is a production plant there right?
As if there aren't any other places which already exist which are awful and wouldn't be harmed by a monstrosity like that.
I detest the evil in human beings. And I will always stand up to it. And keep standing up to it - forever.
I have continued reading Steiner's lectures on Ahriman. Steiner is very clear about the thumbprint of Ahriman. Adherence only to materialism and denial of the spirit, a literal reading of the gospels and nationalism - or anything which creates division in people where they are using difference to oppress each other. It began 500 years ago and it is only going to get worse he says. We must recognise it or we will leave ourselves open to the deadening effect of Ahriman - in the the last twenty years the destruction of the Earth and extinction of species has gotten worse and worse. The really interesting thing about Ahrimanic powers is that, like Luciferic powers, the only thing it can promise is illusory and hallucinatory - so there is this wish for contentment and ownership and that never happens. There is always an empty hole which can never be filled and it is into this emptiness, this collective emptiness that the lifeforce is disappearing into. But somehow, the pain it brings, we are somehow able to justify it. Look at the Tory ministers. Look at the war in Syria. Look at the rape of the Earth by China. It is as if we are watching people who are possessed, who are zombies, who have no capacity to think for themselves, numb to feeling and the destruction they are causing, continue to act.
It was also interesting reading what Steiner thought about universities and libraries. They are places in which Ahriman pickles people. He turns them into pickle jars where they are preserved and they no longer live. He says, in order to qualify for university you have to read those books that no one ever reads unless they are doing a university degree. It is like the serpent eating its own tail. It is self devouring. It speaks to itself. And if you think of the numerous hours spent doing that instead of actually engaging intelligently with the world, Ahriman has indeed managed to create a machine which swallows those which would otherwise give to society.
Plus he says, what is the point of creating all those thesis - this is a total waste of time. There are more important things to be done. Also, he said, going to university now is about getting a job - and that is the irony. You get a job to eat and really, when you eat, you are consuming the spirit. Unsee the world, recognise the illusion.
Right, I am now going to go for my run. One last thing as well is the criticism which this ego-driven well-being and health movement is undergoing. I don't know why people cannot do anything in moderation? As yoga became more and more about the ansanas and wearing practically nothing to do the yoga in - I call it Soft Porn yoga - people became more and more obsessed with the food they consumed and became uglier and more competitive - it was like the entire population of the developed world has developed an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, social media has only compounded the issue.
The issue, of course, isn't social media but the hollow shallow shells which people occupy. People are so empty, their lives so bereft of meaning that they are more an more dependent of self-worth from others. Of course this admiration from others is really shallow and non existent. When people constantly talk about toxins, what they are not talking about are the literal toxins, but far more deadly are the spiritual ones. Those are the toxins which they are trying to rid themselves of.
Everything in moderation. Hold the balance. Engage with life.
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