You create your own happiness

Humans seem to cope with their shortcomings by jumping from one addiction to the next: anything to avoid admitting their own flaws, and truly attempting to overcome them in order to become the person they want to be but are too afraid to try. Whether it's drugs, relationships, entertainment, or partying, people will do just about anything to avoid confronting their inner demons and overcoming the personality traits which are holding them back from living the life they were truly meant to live. I've seen it in myself, and I've seen it in just about everyone I've come in contact with over the years. Lets stop pretending life HAPPENS to us, and start living as the true creators we all are.

WalMart wants to save us from hunger!!

So I go put some code from a food box in this website to donate money to a local food bank so WalMart can pretend to be giving back to the community, and I see this.

This video really sums it all up. Don't believe blindly, just ask questions.

Not saying everything presented in this video is my opinion, but many of the ideas resonate with me, and I believe most of the content in this video should be questions we need to bring up in society.

Ask questions, keep an open mind, don't believe blindly everything you see (including this video).

The video speaks for itself, check it out, and do some research of your own rather than adopting these beliefs without question, or dismissing them blindly.

What is Utopia anyway

This world could be a utopia. 

Indeed it is, before an individual decides they know what is good for others, more than they do.

People say, wake up, like we live in the Matrix.

Perhaps one's ego is their matrix, and waking up is overcoming their own superiority complex long enough for the right hemisphere of the brain to kick in and remind them we are all consciousness, and couldn't possibly be "better" or "worse" than anything in our existence because we are inseparably part of everything we call reality.

Yet there are individuals out there who would hate me for saying this is possible.
No doubt equally numbered are their opposition, hating them for bringing such negativity into the world.

This is duality, but we need not choose sides. Let us learn instead to love all of creation, simply because we are all part of it. The "good" the "bad" are merely labels used to educate our eternal consciousness.

For the great illusion is not death.
The great illusion is not life.

The great illusion is that we must choose between the two.

I suppose the great question isn't  "why are we here?" or "where did we come from" or even "what are we?". The real question, the unasked question, is would we be ready for the answer if we heard it?

For those of you who enjoy Electronica

 P.S. I'm a composer. :-D

Bass Monsters

When is now?

This is an image, not a post. This is why it does not fit properly in the dimensions of the Blog. Forgive me. :-P

Bringing attention to the Truth behind "truth"

The human ego (the rational, thinking-mind) has led society to believe and maintain the illusion that life is a competition against other people to maintain basic human needs, that materialism and wealth are necessary to our survival, and that personal worth as a human being is a measure of our performance against others (Career achievements, social status, degree of wealth, etc.) Most individuals do not consciously think about these concepts, but unconsciously accept them to be fact, with no further debate.

There is an aspect of each individual that exists, however, outside the ego, as the observer. This observer, when watching these particular beliefs, would know that these thought-patterns are false, and negative in nature. Unfortunately, due to a mis-identification of self, the observer mistakenly forgets they are the observer at all, and instead identifies with their thoughts as if they were the "self". This all happens unconsciously.

Due to this mistaken belief ("I think therefore I am" consciousness), individuals will defend, sometimes violently, their beliefs, as to them, their thoughts are not merely thoughts, but who they ARE at their core.

We can see, directly, the result of this egoic-driven method of experiencing life by observing our disharmony with nature, the suffering of so many on Earth, the invention of currency, and the purporting of the idea (generally by those whom it supports the most) that you require that currency to survive.

This, when coupled with the social instinct of humanity to hold in high value the way others view them, and the aspect of the egoic mind's desire to be "right" at all times, leads some of society to demonize belief structures outside of their own, to the extent of public ridicule.

Then, if an individual who supports a certain belief (even one that is 100% accurate, and true) crosses the threshold into public ridicule, and is slapped with labels such as "pseudoscience", "conspiracy theorist", or other such labels based in opprobrium, the belief itself becomes the target of similar ignominy. Those of society who do not take the time to seriously consider and research the possibility that a particular belief may be true, regardless of the public/mainstream consensus on the matter, simply accept the mainstream consensus as if it were fact, further adding to the percentage of the population which is demonizing or denying the belief.

I used to be of the mindset that "the more people who accept something as true/false, the more likely that view is to be correct."

Now I realize this is fallacious logic, and is completely inaccurate.

I'm sure you've heard of the term "sheeple", I'm sure you've heard many witty comments on people acting similar to sheep, and this is exactly why. Because humanity identifies their sense of self with the egoic-thinking mind, they unconsciously defend any thoughts they have (which as I just pointed out in the above paragraph, these thoughts may not even have originated from their mind, and may be merely an acceptance of a mainstream view as truth, rather than personal research into the matter and a conclusion they genuinely came to of their own accord). This leads to violence, insulting others who don't view the world the way you do, close-minded thinking, and worst of all, the spread of false or inaccurate information as truth.

Let us not forget the world used to be considered flat, and those who said otherwise were ridiculed. Let us not forget the world used to be considered the center of the universe, and those who said otherwise were blasphemers, sometimes violently threatened that if they made their findings public, they would indeed be facing serious accusations. Let us not forget Einstein himself was ridiculed for the discovery of Relativity, which is now accepted as fact only after an experimental model was developed, and tested of course, because today, anything not based in experiment is considered "pseudoscience" and "not worth debating" --which may I remind you is the demonization of language by those defending their beliefs to the extent of ridiculing others.

This is why I never took unexplainable phenomena seriously.
This is why I didn't question the pepper-bombing of Baghdad by our American forces.
This is why I worked minimum wage jobs to pay for things I didn't need.
This is why I felt I needed to become a successful musician to escape the chains of monetary status imposed on me by forces I couldn't discern.

Then I realized I am not my thoughts.
I am not what others think of me.
I am not my social status.
I am not my bank account.
I am not my beliefs.
I am not my actions.

So what am I?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.