Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

[Hammer of Los]

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I really shouldn't be posting in this thread.

Mixing all the religions somehow reminds me too much of masonry...there are no instant solutions to the human tendency to kill and subjugate others. you get the same hierarchies shortly after the "new great idea". The US constitution was imho a good development, but then you have gwbush and co.

There is no mixing, but I know exactly what you mean.

I am often reminded of freemasonry.

I don't think they really understand initiation.

They know but a shadow of the real thing.

Dark and dim hath grown their sight.

True religion concerns the work that is to be done on man himself.

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[hava007]

I agree on the possible state of Masonry, but also quite certain it started with the best progressive goals. possibly.

The title of the thread appears as a trend of pathologizing a religious practice, and could be precursor to wage war against the "civilizations" (buddhist/hindu.). I recently watched an interview with Myanmar ruler, who came crawling to NY, to almost surrender his throne under western dictates. I imagine he had night visitors who came to learn meditation at some buddhist monastery or so . Its not that I have a clear opinion on that, but suggesting to unify religions is ok depends who says it to who.

Since I had my dark night of the soul, I have no judgement on the west-east dilema, it was interesting to compare the situation now with the early days of the west's interest in eastern religions, and all the gurus that emermed back then.

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I really shouldn't be posting in this thread.

Mixing all the religions somehow reminds me too much of masonry...there are no instant solutions to the human tendency to kill and subjugate others. you get the same hierarchies shortly after the "new great idea". The US constitution was imho a good development, but then you have gwbush and co.

There is no mixing, but I know exactly what you mean.

I am often reminded of freemasonry.

I don't think they really understand initiation.

They know but a shadow of the real thing.

Dark and dim hath grown their sight.

True religion concerns the work that is to be done on man himself.

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[Hammer of Los]

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I am not suggesting that terrestrial institutions amalgamate.

We know how corrupt they are, after all.

The counter initiatory current is very worrisome.

Or rather it was.

I am saying that to the keen eye the truth in all philosophy is revealed.

We should teach philosophy properly.

All is Philosophy.

I agree on the possible state of Masonry, but also quite certain it started with the best progressive goals. possibly.

Yes, quite so.

I sure don't want a witch hunt against the illuminati.

I have many poems on this subject.

I like to inculcate my world view(s).

But really what I am trying to do is to encourage the silent, invisible, irresistible revolution from within.

And have a bit of fun while I'm doing it.

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[American Dream]

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8 Westbourne Grove Terrace – Richard Kemp and Christine Bott
August 27, 2011


8 Westbourne Grove Terrace

In 1968 Richard Kemp and Christine Bott met while both studying at Liverpool University and began a relationship. In the autumn of 1968 Kemp was introduced to David Solomon – an early proselytiser of LSD who had moved to the UK in 1967. At a meeting on New Year’s Day 1968 Solomon suggested that Kemp, an inorganic chemist, make LSD. Kemp’s first attempt at making LSD in Liverpool produced a crude form. Later in 1969, Solomon introduced Kemp to Ronald Stark – an international producer of LSD. In January 1970 Kemp dropped out of university, and joined Stark’s laboratory in Paris, where he started to make LSD for shipment to the US. His first batch was a massive 1 kilo, where by chance he hit upon a method of great speeding up the process and improving the yield from original materials. Kemp worked for Stark and Orleans, refining his technique. Later, UK Home Office scientists found that Kemp’s LSD was the purest ever known and his formula for making it unique.

By 1971, Kemp decided to set up production by himself and settled with Christine Bott at 8 Westbourne Grove Terrace where he made LSD with the key source chemical (ergotomine tartrate) supplied by David Solomon. For the long-term, the flat was unsuitable however – a pump in the lab could be heard all over the building – and he shifted production to various flats in London for short run productions.



In 1971, Notting Hill was a vortex of activity in the British acid world: Ronald Stark was visiting and staying in the area from time to time and David Solomon lived a short distance away in Maida Vale. Notting Hill has changed a lot over the last few decades – but psychogeography fans can still wander round and just about capture a sense of how it must have been at the time.


Richard Kemp – legendary LSD chemist

[American Dream]

[American Dream]

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39b Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale – David Solomon
September 3, 2011


39b Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale – home of David Solomon

A short walk from Richard Kemp and Christine Bott’s flat in Westbourne Grove was David Solomon’s flat at 39b Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale.

David Solomon is a fascinating character in the Operation Julie story – a early contact with Timothy Leary in the US who created the connections in the UK that led to the British LSD group. In ‘Politics of Ecstasy’, Leary makes a reference to Solomon being one of the early informal distribution nodes of LSD in the US. At that time Solomon was the editor of ‘Metronome’, a jazz magazine. Solomon put together one of the earliest anthology of writings on LSD in 1964: ‘LSD: the consciousness expanding drug’ – I have a signed copy.

In the early 60s, David Solomon was busy turning on jazz musicians. Clarinetist Perry Robinson remembers:

David Solomon was my guide; he was a progressive leftie, a family friend who did many different things…Dave would always say to me: “You’ve got to take acid! You’re ready for it – and I’m going to turn you on.” Then one day it finally happened; he said: “Okay, come up Friday night. I’m going to have a small party, and the next day you can trip.”

So I went up to Dave’s place. He lived with his wife and two kids way up in the Bronx near a park, a big beautiful park like a forest. That night we talked and I was apprehensive, but he cooled me out. He set me up beautifully by telling me just what to look for; he said “All your fears and emotions and intuitions and senses are heightened to the max. It’s like complete enlightenment, it’s like the first day of life. But it’s going to open you up like a book, and you’re going to go into your personal history. The key is not to let anything that comes up get to you. The worst thing is to fight any of these feelings; just accept them no matter what they are.” That’s a spiritual teaching of life anyway; it’s a great lesson in term of discipline, to just go with whatever is happening….

The next day we were alone; I was sitting in the living room with artwork and beautiful objects, and when I looked out of the window I could see the huge park. Dave came in with a little tray; it was a beautiful thing, a silver tray with a glass of water and a sugar cube dipped in acid. I put the sugar cube in my mouth and let it dissolve. I was sitting in a chair, and Dave was sitting across from me. I knew I was embarking on something important; I was excited but I was also apprehensive….

Then all of a sudden it was like the lights went on in a strange way. There was an oil painting of Dave’s wife that lit up in the most fascinating colours; I saw the texture and the detail and I went out*. I started looking at the green colour of plants, and the light coming through the window. It was mystical, like the luminescences of the universe were turned on; everything was more intense, more vibrant and alive. I felt the connection between everything, the true one-ness of life. It’s like a whole other perception, you see cobweb lines of energy connecting everything, but it’s so natural. It opened my eyes to seeing things, like what Aldous Huxley wrote about in ‘The Doors of Perception’, how you start seeing minute objects and shapes. Things are alive, things are breathing, and its the true state of being. Condensed light makes physical objects, and on trips you realise that everything is light, and you see the pure undulating energy of the universe.

* out – a common Perry phrase, meaning: out of the ordinary, outstanding, outrageous, outlandish, out of sight, out of the box, out of control, out to lunch.

In 1966, David Solomon moved from the US to Europe, staying first in Palma – before moving to Cambridge and then London. It was in Cambridge that the embryonic British LSD group came together; Richard Kemp as the chemist, and Henry Todd as the distributor.

Richard Kemp first met David Solomon after an introduction by a university colleague in Autumn 1968. On New Years Day 1969, Solomon persuaded Kemp to try making acid. Kemp set up a laboratory in the home of his parents in Liverpool. Early in 1969, a contact of David Solomon’s – Paul Arnaboldi – who he knew from Timothy Leary’s proto-commune in Millbrook upstate New York, sent a small amount of ergotamine tartrate in a hollowed-out magazine to a post-restate address at the American Express office on Haymarket, London. Solomon picked it up. Kemp then processed this into a crude, dark syrupy liquid LSD which Gerry Thomas (another former Millbrook contact of Solomon’s) smuggled into Canada.

When Richard Kemp started producing acid for himself in the early 70s, Solomon’s role was to source the ergotamine tartrate, which he did under the alias of Dr Andressen of Inter-Dominion Associates. He bought it from the Dr Rentschler company in Laupheim, Germany and then drove to Zurich or Geneva where he passed it to Richard Kemp who put it in a safety deposit box. Paul Arnaboldi was also responsible for sourcing small amounts of ergotamine tartrate. As Richard Kemp’s partnership with his distributor -Henry Todd – developed David Solomon was frozen out. He re-entered the scene a bit later when Kemp’s distribution partnership with Henry Todd broke up. In particular, he helped the distribution of Kemp’s acid to Amsterdam and Israel.

A couple of accounts seem to regard David Solomon as a slightly hapless figure – but this is a very ungenerous assessment. Whatever he may have lacked in the way of organisational skills, he was an important catalyst bringing together the key UK figures. He was an enthusiast rather than a professional drug dealer.

There is more on him here http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic- ... d-solomon/ and http://www.thevillager.com/villager_222 ... omjaz.html.

David Solomon was sentenced to 10 years in the Operation Julie trial – which seemed a bit harsh as the police actually had very little evidence of his involvement. He was in the US during much of the time that the UK police investigation was in progress. Solomon moved back to New York on his release from prison and spent his time in a low profile way in Manhattan’s jazz clubs, especially the ‘Sweet Basil’ at 7th Avenue South – a short distance from his home in the Village. Sadly, he passed away in April 2007.


entrance to 39b Randolph Avenue


David Solomon – author, editor, jazz writer and fan, father of two daughters,
and well networked in the world of LSD


Lost to history….Redevelopment of the former Sweet Basil
jazz club in the Village where David Solomon was a regular after his return to the US in the 1980s…


Recommended psychogeography soundtrack:

“I’m Coming Virginia” – Bix Beiderbecke

“Change of the Century” (lp) – Ornette Coleman

“Pray” – Rebel Red

(From Metronome Magazine: ”Back in 1951, Dave was fumbling through Bix’s chorus on I’m Coming Virginia (on his short cornet) from what he thought was a sound-proof aerie: the kitchen of a cold-water walk-up on Thompson Street in the Village. There was a sudden banging on the door, which, when opened, revealed two young men, flashing-eyed and breathless from having bounded up seven flights. With no introduction or explanation, they pushed themselves inside the flat, looked about, then demand-ed: All right, where is he? We suspected all along he never died. Dave reports he has not touched his short cornet since: not a matter of sacreligion, but of quitting while ahead.”)

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2 Eton Road, Hampstead, London NW3 – Ronnie Laing, Ron Stark, Inspector Dick ‘Leapy’ Lee
February 5, 2012


Ronnie Laing meditating on Hampstead Heath
1969

2 Eton Road

In 1974 Ronnie Laing moved from Belsize Park Gardens to a sizeable house in nearby Eton Road. This was a former vicarage attached to All Saints Church, who vicar was a well-known exorcist. The house, with eight rooms on three floors, had the reputation of being haunted. On one occasion a ceiling fell down just as Laing came out of a room. Laing’s consulting room was on the lower ground floor, reached by a separate entrance.


2 Eton Road – Chez Ronnie Laing

Laing and LSD – early days

Laing was by now just over the zenith of his fame as a psychoanalyst, with his standing as a semi-guru subsiding – in the UK, at least. Laing had first tried LSD in the very early 60s, at the Hampstead flat of a fellow psychiatrist, Richard Gelfer. He lay immobile and silent for six hours experiencing feelings of ‘…extraordinary familiarity, taking me back to a more primary sort of experience that I had probably been in as a very young baby, a very young child, which I had lost in adjusting to other people’s social reality.’ Laing didn’t take LSD again for around a year, but experimented with mescaline that he obtained from a London hospital laboratory.

Through a suggestion of Allen Ginsberg, he contacted Ralph Metzner – a colleague of Timothy Leary’s, who introduced him to Leary in a visit Laing made to the US in 1964. Leary and Laing met in the kitchen of his then mini-commune at Millbrook. Descriptions of the meeting differ:

Leary:

“We sat at the table, ate a sandwich, drank wine. I told him that medical-therapeutic talk of LSD was a fake. I was interested in only in the mystic aspects of the drug….He said the only doctor that could heal was one who understood the shamanic, witchcraft mystery of medicine…

After a bit he said he knew an interesting game.Did I want to play it….The point of this game is to move your hands an d body without talking….Our hands changed into a dance. Paired sculpturing of air, moulded liquid forms, now moving slowly, now whirling. My eyes were riveted to his eyes. I was gone. Spun out of the kitchen at Millbrook, spun out of time, Stoned high in a sufi ballet. We were two organisms from different planets communicating. I was an eskimo on an ice flow. He was a visiting explorer.. We were sitting on the floor in the lotus position,arms, hands, weaving.”

Laing:

“I’ve got a clear memory of the meeting we had in the kitchen of the house. It was a bit sticky, we hadn’t that much to talk about…Leary had a very enthusiastic belief that everyone was completely crazy, that we were all going to blow ourselves up very, very soon, that we were all on a crash course, that everything had been tried – reason, politics, and wars – but nothing worked. Here was a drug that he thought altered people’s minds, that once you tried it, nothing was the same again. He thought there was something to be said for getting this out and marketing it.”

Shortly after this, Leary’s colleague Richard Alpert (now Baba Ram Dass) visited Laing in London and he learnt more about their plans. Leary and Alpert had thought of a plan to distribute LSD widely in the Bay area and Berkeley. Alpert offered Britain as ‘Laing’s territory’, London in particular. Laing declined.

The Ronald Stark offer

After this initial approach, another attempt was made to persuade Laing to become a headline figure who would act as the guru of LSD. By this time, Timothy Leary was out of the picture having been through prison, a prison escape and return to prison.


Ronald Stark
(photo from Acid Dreams website)

Ronald Stark, the figure who recruited Richard Kemp to work as a chemist in France, approached Laing. Stark seems to have regarded himself as essentially the head of the loose ‘Brotherhood of Eternal Love’. There seems to have been a meeting with Stark, Laing and Laing’s second wife Utta, with Utta taking a small dose of LSD, Stark a larger dose, and Laing a massive dose. Stark made his pitch: if Ronnie Laing agreed to take Leary’s place as spokesperson and advocate of the LSD, the whole operation was under his control – ‘..if he agreed, he was now worth 50 million dollars, and everyone worked for him – including Stark….To cap it all, Stark said “Respectfully, Ronnie – what are your orders?” And Ronnie said to Stark, “Get the fuck out of my house!”, and threw him bodily into the street…”

Somehow, the Operation Julie became aware of Laing’s connection to Stark (Laing himself said he contacted the Home Office to express his worries) – and kept him discretely under observation during the early stages of Operation Julie. There was also some intelligence that Christine Bott had attended a seminar that involved Laing, in her role as a medical practitioner.

After Operation Julie was concluded, Inspector Dick Lee (who had led it) and a couple of colleagues paid an informal visit to Laing’s house to chat about LSD and let Laing know that he had been under observation. It was a strange visit. As was somewhat common with Laing, numerous whiskies were consumed and he became the worse for wear – including being audibly sick in an upstairs bathroom, and having to lie down at one point in the proceedings. Laing argued about the unworkably of the drug laws and poured scorn on the supposed success of Operation Julie. Whether related or not, Lee did in fact become disillusioned with policing (specifically that his recommendation for a permanent national drugs team was not taken up) and did resign from the police.

Recommended psychogeography soundtrack:

“Life before Death” (lp) – R D Laing

(After Laing’s death on 23 August 1989, excerpts from Life before Death were played at his memorial service at St James’s, Piccadilly. http://rdlaing-lifebeforedeath.com/listen/index.html )

[American Dream]

CIA Denial of Coddling Nazis Far From the Truth - Part 2

by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.

In the second part of his investigation, Hank Albarelli peels off another layer of the ongoing Operation Paperclip cover up and unveils one of its darker legacies. Working with Paperclip Nazi scientists and building on the results of their often deadly research, the CIA tested LSD psychoactive drugs on almost 7,000 unwitting U.S. citizens over a 20-year period. Those LSD experiments, and Paperclip itself, were among the first manifestations of what became a guiding principle of the Cold War right to the present day, that the ends justify the means.

Hidden Facts of Early U.S. LSD Experiments

As revealed in part-one of this article, chief among the former Nazis who worked at the Army’s Edgewood Arsenal and for the CIA was Dr. Friedrich Hoffmann, who was brought to the U.S. in 1947. Hoffmann’s official title at Edgewood was Chief of Agents Research. “Agents” in this case were any drugs that held incapacitating or lethal potential in chemical warfare, including the targeting of small groups or individuals. One of the earliest drugs that drew Hoffmann’s attention was LSD, a compound he had been aware of since before the conclusion of World War II.



As is widely known today, Drs. Arthur Stoll and Albert Hofmann at the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Research Laboratories of Sandoz AG [now Novartis] in Basle, Switzerland first synthesized LSD in 1938. Equally well known is the often-told story of Albert Hofmann’s LSD trip in 1943 that included his riding his bicycle.

Not so well known is that Sandoz’s Hofmann within less than two months of his 1943 experience launched a number of experiments with LSD on unwitting human subjects. Wrote British psychiatrist and LSD researcher, Dr. Ronald Sandison in 1965: “Hofmann then went to the Burgholzli Hospital, where he gave LSD on 20 occasions to 3 male and 3 female schizophrenic patients. The results, as may be expected, were inconclusive.”

In addition to hospital patients, Hoffman experimented with LSD on about 20 university students and laboratory workers, at least one of whom committed suicide by jumping from a high window, an event that was successfully covered up for decades.

Interesting to note is the curious timing of the Sandoz human experiments which coincided with Nazi experiments with mescaline on inmates at the Dachau concentration camp only about two hundred miles away from the Sandoz laboratories. Indeed, in the late 1990s rumors emerged from Europe that the Sandoz company, as well as some of its officials and leading chemists, maintained close ties with Nazi scientists during the war years.


Studies into Switzerland’s wartime role have shed light on the country’s political and economic ties to Nazi Germany. The reports found that the public was largely kept in the dark about the country’s support of the Nazi war machine.

Rumors advanced to facts in 2001 when the findings of an Independent Commission of Experts (ICE), established to probe Switzerland’s wartime past, released its report. The commission concluded that Sandoz, and other Basel-bases companies, including Ciba, took full advantage of their ties to the Third Reich and based their economic planning on their relationships with the Nazis. ICE revealed that Sandoz and Ciba had extensive contacts with the Nazis, and that several Swiss companies employed slave and forced labour at their plants. The commission also reported that Sandoz in the interests of maintaining ties and good will with the Nazis removed a number of their Jewish directors of German subsidiaries and replaced them with Germans loyal to the Nazi party and the party’s “Aryanisation” policies. Additionally, information released by the commission demonstrated Sandoz in many ways acted as part-and-parcel with the IG Farben company, which manufactured the lethal gases used to murder millions of Jews in concentration camps.

In early 1949, former Nazi Friedrich Hoffmann [not to be confused with Sandoz’s Albert Hofmann] consulted with U.S. Army Chemical Corps research director Dr. L. Wilson Greene on the merits of LSD as a chemical warfare agent employed to avoid the traditional bloodshed and violence of war. His contacts with Greene soon led to the Army’s advancement of LSD and other hallucinogenics as possible uses for modern warfare.


In the 1950s and ’60s, the CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation, using drugs, psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes. The CIA was the world’s largest consumer of Sandoz LSD; it worked covertly with the Bureau of Narcotics and other government agencies to covertly give LSD to unwitting persons in "real life settings." Once they were done with unsuspecting individuals, CIA let the LSD genie out of the bottle into the general population.

In 1951, following Hofmann’s 1950 visits to the St. Louis Mental Hospital and to Ionia Mental Hospital in Detroit to review LSD human experiments conducted at each facility, the CIA invited Hoffmann to formally share his voluminous knowledge about hallucinogenic and other mind-altering drugs with agency chemists working for its just forming Chemical Branch within its Technical Services Section (TSS). This arrangement soon led to the formation of the Amazon Natural Drug Company (ANDCO), which Hoffmann directed, along with former U.S. Army Counterintelligence and Bureau of Federal Narcotics official Garland Williams. Hoffmann’s primary task with ANDCO was to oversee the collection of samples of natural drugs worldwide and to transport them back to the CIA’s secret warehouses in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. In his travels for the CIA’s ANDCO, Hoffmann came into frequent contact with Dr. James Moore of the University of Delaware, a covert CIA consultant.

As noted in part one of this article, Hoffmann also rendezvoused with pioneer mycologist Gordon Wasson and James Moore in Mexico. Hoffmann, who was aware that Moore worked surreptitiously for the CIA, would also meet several times with Sandoz Chemical company officials, including Drs. Albert Hofmann, W. A. Stoll, Jr. and Ernst Rothlin. Hoffmann also met on at least two occasions with Dr. Henry K. Beecher, a noted Harvard University professor, who in turn had met often with Sandoz officials Hofmann, Stoll, and Rothlin, as well as with the covert operative who had secretly worked since 1946 for U.S. Army intelligence in the Sandoz laboratories.


Pont St. Esprit 1951: "the bread of death".

Hoffmann, who was knowledgeable about the 1951 covert LSD experiment in Pont St. Esprit, but was excluded from active on-site participation because of his nationality and former work for the Nazis (Hoffmann was born in Offenbach, Germany in 1910.) At about the same time, and later in 1953-1954, Hoffmann participated in covert drug experiments conducted by the Army and CIA in Panama and Haiti. Said one former Army intelligence officer: “The activities that couldn’t be conducted in Maryland at [Fort] Detrick or Edgewood [Arsenal], things nobody could get away with in the United Sates, were done in Panama and Haiti because there were no regulatory or legal obstacles in either country. The only potential problems were of a moral nature and those were always put or pushed aside.”

In 1961, following nearly 15 years employment with the U.S. Army and CIA, Hoffmann left his employment with American government and took an appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Delaware. Aiding him in this career move was CIA consultant Dr. James Moore.

Hank P. Albarelli Jr.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article168573.html

[American Dream]

http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/buddhists.htm

Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists


Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you,
and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you,
and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with
contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

— Whitman, “Stronger Lessons”


In the middle of the Vietnam war Thich Nhat Hanh and a few other Buddhist monks, nuns and laypeople broke with the 2500-year tradition of Buddhist apoliticism and founded the Tiep Hien Order in an effort to relate Buddhist ethical and meditational practice to contemporary social issues. Members of the order organized antiwar demonstrations, underground support for draft resisters, and various relief and social service projects. Though the movement was soon crushed in Vietnam, Nhat Hanh has carried on similar activities from exile in France, and the idea of “socially engaged Buddhism” has spread among Buddhists around the world. One of its main expressions in the West, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, defines its purpose as being “to bring a Buddhist perspective to contemporary peace, environmental, and social action movements” and “to raise peace, environmental, feminist, and social justice concerns among Western Buddhists.”

The emergence of engaged Buddhism is a healthy development. Despite the bullshit that Buddhism shares with all religions (superstition, hierarchy, male chauvinism, complicity with the established order), it has always had a core of genuine insight based on the practice of meditation. It is this vital core, along with its freedom from the enforced dogmas characteristic of Western religions, that has enabled it to catch on so readily even among the most sophisticated milieus in other cultures. People engaged in movements for social change might well benefit from the mindfulness, equanimity and self-discipline fostered by Buddhist practice; and apolitical Buddhists could certainly stand to be confronted with social concerns.

So far, however, the engaged Buddhists’ social awareness has remained extremely limited. If they have begun to recognize certain glaring social realities, they show little understanding of their causes or possible solutions. For some, social engagement simply means doing some sort of volunteer charitable work. Others, taking their cue perhaps from Nhat Hanh’ remarks on arms production or Third World starvation, resolve not to eat meat or not to patronize or work for companies that produce weapons. Such gestures may be personally meaningful to them, but their actual effect on global crises is negligible. If millions of Third World people are allowed to starve, this is not because there is not enough food to go around, but because there are no profits to be made by feeding penniless people. As long as there is big money to be made by producing weapons or ravaging the environment, someone will do it, regardless of moral appeals to people’ good will; if a few conscientious persons refuse, a multitude of others will scramble for the opportunity to do it in their place.

Others, sensing that such individual gestures are not enough, have ventured into more “political” activities. But in so doing they have generally just followed along with the existing peace, ecological and other so-called progressive groups, whose tactics and perspectives are themselves quite limited. With very few exceptions these groups take the present social system for granted and simply jockey within it in favor of their particular issue, often at the expense of other issues. As the situationists put it: “Fragmentary oppositions are like the teeth on cogwheels: they mesh with each other and make the machine go round — the machine of the spectacle, the machine of power.”1

A few of the engaged Buddhists may realize that it is necessary to get beyond the present system; but failing to grasp its entrenched, self-perpetuating nature, they imagine gently and gradually modifying it from within, and then run into continual contradictions. One of the Tiep Hien Precepts says: “Possess nothing that should belong to others. Respect the property of others, but prevent others from enriching themselves from human suffering or the suffering of other beings.”2 How is one to prevent the exploitation of suffering if one “respects” the property that embodies it? And what if the owners of such property fail to relinquish it peacefully?

If the engaged Buddhists have failed to explicitly oppose the socioeconomic system and have limited themselves to trying to alleviate a few of its more appalling effects, this is for two reasons. First, they are not even clear about what it is. Since they are allergic to any analysis that seems “divisive,” they can hardly hope to understand a system based on class divisions and bitter conflicts of interest. Like almost everyone else they have simply swallowed the official version of reality, in which the collapse of the Stalinist state-capitalist regimes in Russia and East Europe supposedly demonstrates the inevitability of the Western form of capitalism.

Secondly, like the peace movement in general they have adopted the notion that “violence” is the one thing that must be avoided at all cost. This attitude is not only simplistic, it is hypocritical: they themselves tacitly rely on all sorts of state violence (armies, police, jails) to protect their loved ones and possessions, and would certainly not passively submit to many of the conditions they reproach others for rebelling against. In practice pacifism usually ends up being more tolerant toward the ruling order than toward its opponents. The same organizers who reject any participant who might spoil the purity of their nonviolent demonstrations often pride themselves on having developed amicable understandings with police. Small wonder that dissidents who have had somewhat different experiences with the police have not been overly impressed with this sort of “Buddhist perspective.”

It is true that many forms of violent struggle, such as terrorism or minority coups, are inconsistent with the sort of open, participatory organization required to create a genuinely liberated global society. An antihierarchical revolution can only be carried out by the people as a whole, not by some group supposedly acting on their behalf; and such an overwhelming majority would have no need for violence except to neutralize any pockets of the ruling minority that may violently try to hold on to their power. But any significant social change inevitably involves some violence. It would seem more sensible to admit this fact, and simply strive to minimize violence as far as possible.

This antiviolence dogmatism goes from the dubious to the ludicrous when it also opposes any form of “spiritual violence.” There is, of course, nothing wrong with trying to act “without anger in your heart” and trying to avoid getting caught up in pointless hatred and revenge; but in practice this ideal often just serves as an excuse to repress virtually any incisive analysis or critique by labeling it as “angry” or “intellectually arrogant.” On the basis of their (correct) impression of the bankruptcy of traditional leftism, the engaged Buddhists have concluded that all “confrontational” tactics and “divisive” theories are misguided and irrelevant. Since this attitude amounts to ignoring virtually the entire history of social struggles, many richly suggestive experiences remain a closed book to them (the anarchist experiments in social organization during the 1936 Spanish revolution, for example, or the situationist tactics that provoked the May 1968 revolt in France), and they are left with nothing but to “share” with each other the most innocuous New-Agey platitudes and to try to drum up interest in the most tepid, lowest-common-denominator “actions.”

It is ironic that people capable of appreciating the classic Zen anecdotes fail to see that sharp wakeup tactics may also be appropriate on other terrains. Despite all the obvious differences, there are certain interesting analogies between Zen and situationist methods: both insist on practical realization of their insights, not just passive assent to some doctrine; both use drastic means, including rejecting pointless dialogue and refusing to offer ready-made “positive alternatives,” in order to pull the rug out from under habitual mindsets; both are therefore predictably accused of “negativity.”

One of the old Zen sayings is: If you meet a Buddha, kill him. Have the engaged Buddhists succeeded in “killing” Thich Nhat Hanh in their minds? Or are they still attached to his image, awed by his mystique, passively consuming his works and uncritically accepting his views? Nhat Hanh may be a wonderful person; his writings may be inspiring and illuminating in certain respects; but his social analysis is naïve. If he seems slightly radical this is only in contrast to the even greater political naïveté of most other Buddhists. Many of his admirers will be shocked, perhaps even angered, at the idea that anyone could have the nerve to criticize such a saintly person, and will try to dismiss this leaflet by pigeonholing it as some bizarre sort of “angry leftist ideology” and by assuming (incorrectly) that it was written by someone with no experience of Buddhist meditation.

Others may grant that some of these points are well taken, but will then ask: “Do you have any practical, constructive alternative, or are you just criticizing? What do you suggest that we do?” You don’t need to be a master carpenter to point out that the roof leaks. If a critique stirs even a few people to stop and think, to see through some illusion, perhaps even provokes them to new ventures of their own, this is already a very practical effect. How many “actions” accomplish as much?

As for what you should do: the most important thing is to stop relying on others to tell you what you should do. Better make your own mistakes than follow the most spiritually wise or politically correct leader. It is not only more interesting, it is usually more effective, to pursue your own experiments, however small, than to be a unit in a regiment of units. All hierarchies need to be contested, but the most liberating effect often comes from challenging the ones in which you yourself are most implicated.

One of the May 1968 graffiti was: Be realistic, demand the impossible. “Constructive alternatives” within the context of the present social order are at best limited, temporary, ambiguous; they tend to be coopted and become part of the problem. We may be forced to deal with certain urgent issues such as war or environmental threats, but if we accept the system’s own terms and confine ourselves to merely reacting to each new mess produced by it, we will never overcome it. Ultimately we can solve survival issues only by refusing to be blackmailed by them, by aggressively going beyond them to challenge the whole anachronistic social organization of life. Movements that limit themselves to cringing defensive protests will not even achieve the pitiful survival goals they set for themselves.

BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
October 1993



[FOOTNOTES]

1Situationist International Anthology (Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981), p. 124 [Basic Banalities].

2The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism (Parallax Press, 1988), p. 152.

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Dr. William Deagle is a physician, a prophet, a government insider/whistleblower, and one of the two witnesses described in the Book of Revelation. He knows what really happened at Columbine, the World Trade Center, and Oklahoma City. He could be the ruler of the world, but he has chosen to enlighten the masses instead. Thanks to him, the world may someday be safe from Modified Attack Baboons.

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Search your house for New World Order spy devices ASAP!


spy satellite is watching you

Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched, but you can’t quite put your finger on it? Now is the time for you to trust those paranoid feelings. That creeping sensation that you are secretly being monitored is really your intuition telling you something isn’t right. Listen to it!

That’s what we had to do recently when the evidence that we were under secret surveillance began to mount all around us. It started with the occasional clicking sound on the phone and an intermittent blinking and humming of the TV set, and progressed to that creepy feeling that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you could swear that somebody’s watching you. My suspicions were finally confirmed when I found this little insect-cyborg dead on a windowsill.


worker bee spybot

The only course of action under such circumstances is to do a systematic search of your residence looking for government spy bugs. Alas, these are not rank amateurs we are dealing with here, so in all likelihood you are looking at a pretty large demolition project to rid yourself of these pesky spybots.

From my personal experience I suggest you start by tearing out the drywall along the route of all of your wiring and plumbing. These areas make ideal hiding places since devices can be easily placed behind outlet wall plates and plumbing fixtures.


More at: http://texasbuddha.wordpress.com/2008/1 ... ices-asap/

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Arizona Wilder

For a few years, an American woman known as Arizona Wilder straddled the wavy line between Satanic/Illuminati high priestess and Satanic ritual abuse survivor, giving the impression that if Josef Mengele had not screwed with her head, she would never have presided over hideous blood rituals for the lizard people who govern our planet.


Arizona Wilder (Jennifer Kealey) as she appeared in 1999.

Arizona Wilder's story appeals to a certain strain of New Age folks who no longer subscribe to the notion that Satan and God are locked in battle for our souls, but still want to believe there's a Really Really Bad Guy (someone else) and a Really Really Good Guy (themselves) locked in battle for cosmic order. In the case of Ms. Wilder, the Really Really Bad Guys were holographic, interdimensional lizardpeople from Mars and their half-human spawn.

Today, Wilder goes by her married name, Jennifer Kealey, and contends that the same people who subjected her to mind control programming and ritualistic abuse in her childhood manipulated her into telling stories about lizardpeople. In short, she has retracted just about everything you're about to read.

Wilder was introduced to the world in 1999 by David Icke, the world's foremost expert on holographic interdimensional lizardpeople from Mars (or Reptilians, as he calls them), via a video interview titled Revelations of a Mother Goddess.

Icke has never actually met a Reptilian, but in the '90s, strangers began to approach him with terrifying stories of Reptilian encounters. One woman even watched her boyfriend morph into a lizardman mid-coitus. (1) Though not one authentic photograph or video of a Reptilian has surfaced in the nearly 20 years since Icke first started hearing about them, this hasn't stopped him from turning the Reptilian overlords into the foundation stone of his Temple of Crazy. He has mentioned them at great length in every book he has written since 1998's The Biggest Secret (the big secret, of course, being that we are controlled by lizard-human hybrids who worship Satan, drink human blood, and walk among us as ordinary-looking bank managers).

Icke has never adequately explained the need for all this subterfuge. If these lizards are so badass, I say they should openly declare their ownership of the planet and be done with it.

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Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy: the cult rants of Fracis E. Dec, Esq.
Xeni Jardin





Schizovisionary cult radio ranter conspiracy theorist Francis E. Dec, Esquire (he insisted on the "esquire," even after having been disbarred from practicing law) was recorded by Los Angeles radio host "Doc on the ROQ" of KROQ-FM. The weirdo audio made its way around the world on cassette tape; later, fans digitized them and shared for all Kosher-Bosher mankind.

Continues at: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/13/gangst ... ldwid.html

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Pont St. Esprit 1951:
"the bread of death".

Hoffmann, who was knowledgeable about the 1951 covert LSD experiment in Pont St. Esprit, but was excluded from active on-site participation because of his nationality and former work for the Nazis (Hoffmann was born in Offenbach, Germany in 1910.) At about the same time, and later in 1953-1954, Hoffmann participated in covert drug experiments conducted by the Army and CIA in Panama and Haiti. Said one former Army intelligence officer: “The activities that couldn’t be conducted in Maryland at [Fort] Detrick or Edgewood [Arsenal], things nobody could get away with in the United Sates, were done in Panama and Haiti because there were no regulatory or legal obstacles in either country. The only potential problems were of a moral nature and those were always put or pushed aside.”

http://www.voltairenet.org/article168573.html

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Illuminati Slaves Part I: Cisco Wheeler

The story of Cisco Wheeler is unique not only because of her long-term collaboration with lay minister-cum-bank-robber Fritz Springmeier, but because she and Fritz have given the world step-by-step instructions on how to create virtual zombies with "trauma-based mind control".

Cisco Wheeler is one of several women (and a few men, like Jay Parker) who claim they were subjected to stupefyingly complex mind control programming by agents of the U.S. government as part of an MK-ULTRA sub-program they call the Monarch Project. Generally, these people have no conscious recall of their involvement with the project, and must "recover" their "repressed" memories with the aid of hypnosis, journaling, and/or deprogramming.

Monarch Project women are a whole other post. For now, I'll just say that one of the most disconcerting things about the Monarch women is that, almost without exception, they have male "handlers" who have allegedly deprogrammed them. These men accompany them on speaking tours, co-author their books, sit beside them during interviews, and in some cases even marry them.

Fritz Springmeier served this role for Cisco Wheeler. Springmeier is a Christian conspiranoid, recently released from prison after serving time for bombing a porno shop and robbing a bank (you can learn a bit more about him on a Leaving Alex Jonestown post). You may remember him from the post on John Todd (he vociferously defended Todd long after Todd had been discredited, and used a lot of Todd's make-believe family history in his book The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines).

At the time Cisco met him in the early '90s, Springmeier was a married father running some sort of ministry out of his house.

Building on earlier Monarch Project accounts and Christian Patriot conspiracy tales, Springmeier and Wheeler crafted an Illuminati mythos that has had a tremendous influence on the fringier conspiracy theorists. You can't get very far into the conspiranoia labyrinth without running into their massive self-published tome, The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, first issued in 1996.

Cisco's Story

You'd think The Illuminati Formula, being heavily based on Cisco Wheeler's "memories", would be chock-full of information about her. It isn't. In fact, so little is known of Wheeler's background that we don't even known what her real name is (it's variously given as Linda Johnson or Linda Anderson, though she maintains her maiden name is Wheeler). She was born in the late 1940s, possibly in the Western U.S. Other than that, the woman is a cipher. She rarely gives interviews, and the only available photo of her is a blurry snapshot perhaps taken at a speaking engagement.


Cisco Wheeler, I guess.
Could also be Mickey Roarke.

Her supposed background

Cisco claims her father's uncle was "General Earl Grant Wheeler... a direct descendant of Ulysses Grant... [and] head of the American military in the Vietnam War." (1) There are some problems with this:

General Earle Gilmore Wheeler (d. 1975) was not related to Ulysses S Grant.
So far as I can determine, he did not have any siblings.

Cisco's paternal ancestors were Illuminati members, and Cisco's birth was planned according to Illuminati "rules". Her father married her mother solely because she was a virtuous Christian woman, and part of the Illuminati's New World Order scheme at that time (the late '40s) was to infiltrate and undermine Christian churches (something also described by John Todd, the first supposed Illuminati member to go public). To this end, Mr. Wheeler became an ordained Pentacostal minister. But that was not his only source of income. In the '60s, he and his uncle (General Wheeler) smuggled drugs out of Vietnam in the bodies of dead U.S. soldiers.

It has long been rumoured that heroin smugglers used soldiers' corpses or coffins to hide their shipments during 'Nam, and infamous New York-based dealer Frank Lucas even bragged about leading this so-called "Cadaver Connection". However, there's no evidence that anyone ever actually used the technique. A key member of Lucas's ring, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson, told journalist Ron Chepesiuk the entire notion was a hoax. (2)


Protip: Sometimes, heroin traffickers lie.

The Illuminati according to Herr Springmeier

Springmeier identifies the Illuminati as a Luciferian organization, also known as Moriah or simply the Circle, headed by a Grande Druid Council. In 1996, when The Illuminati Formula first appeared, the Circle supposedly contained millions of members worldwide. Membership is usually conferred by birth, but recruitment takes place on a limited scale. Rigorous obedience to some sort of code of conduct is required of each and every member, and some degree of mind control is de rigeur. Those who do not submit are dispatched in "ritual gladiator type duels". Escape is next to impossible. "Unless God intervenes, people who are born into the Illuminati don’t escape it while alive." (3)

Like all Illuminati members, Cisco's father worshiped Satan and took part in many arcane rituals, including human sacrifice. Cisco was forced to participate in this lifestyle against her will, much as Lauren Stratford claimed to have been. She was trained up to be a Mother of Darkness, or high priestess, within the Illuminati. Just like John Todd, Edna Moses, and Bill Schnoebelen, Cisco ties homicidal Satanism firmly to Catholics (particularly Jesuits), Freemasons, and Wiccans. She claims her father was a 33rd degree Freemason.

The oldest child in her family, she was selected for trauma-based mind control programming before she was even born. In fact, she says she was first traumatized while in utero. The purpose of the abuse was to traumatize Cisco so severely she would dissociate and develop Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. This "trauma-based mind control", according to the Monarch Project survivors, is a combination of every kind of mind control technique known to man. Through the skillful use of torture, hypnosis, drugs, and conditioning, Illuminati programmers create DID in children, then program each alternate personality ("alter") to perform a specific function. For instance, one alter might be a sex slave and another an assassin. Each one would be programmed to emerge at a spoken command, carry out whatever actions a controller wished him/her to do, then disappear with another spoken command. The core personality (Cisco) and the other alters would experience a fugue state and remain completely unaware that anything unusual had occurred. Springmeier tells us the techniques were honed by the Nazis and their collaborators; prior to WWII, the Illuminati used more "primitive" methods of mind control. We are to believe that the programmers' methods were already so sophisticated by the late 1940s that they could ensure no "leakage" or co-consciousness would occur among the alters.

Cisco's programming took place in hospitals and military installations throughout California and Oregon, including China Lake Naval Base. She was also taken to Scotty's Castle in Arizona. Her primary programmers were her own father, who went by the codename "Dr. Black", and a mysterious German known as "Dr. Green". Cisco eventually realized that Dr. Green was Josef Mengele. She believes Mengele was active in every state of the union, plus Canada, and sometimes went by names other than Green ("Fairchild" was another alias). Bizarrely, he continued to wear his German uniform well into the '50s, while working at American military installations and hospitals.

According to Springmeier, Mengele had achieved the rank of Grand Master in the Illuminati, and would go on to achieve the even higher rank of Ipsissimus. ("Ipsissimus" was reportedly the title of a grade within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though that continues to be disputed, and was later adopted by Aleister Crowley for his own magickal system. It is not a term found beyond this extremely small group of occult practitioners.) As Grand Master, Springmeier explains, Mengele was skilled in Kabbalistic magic, abortions, torture, and programming children. We know Mengele was capable of torture, and he could certainly manage an abortion (he performed many back-alley procedures as a fugitive), but I find it extraordinarily unlikely that a Nazi would study Kabbala. We'll get into his alleged specialties later.

Training

In a radio interview, Cisco vividly described being kept in a cage somewhere in the desert, surrounded by other kids as young as four in their own cages. The children were deprived of food and water for hours at a time. Then Mengele would show up with a fistful of daisies and distribute them to the children one at a time, saying "I love you," or "I love you not." Whenever he said, "I love you not", that child was summarily executed just to frighten the others. Each time this happened, Cisco would be filled with gratitude for being spared, and would express love and appreciation for Mengele - classic trauma bonding. Cisco later learned she had nothing to fear at those times, though; the children who died were "expendables", while she was an Illuminati spawn, too precious to be killed. (1)

Cisco was trained as a sex slave from earliest girlhood. One of her first abusers was President Eisenhower. It is this inclusion of well-known personalities that sets Monarch Project accounts apart from the Illuminati stories of the '70s and '80s (see John Todd, Doc Marquis). Todd mentioned that David Crosby and other musicians of his acquaintance made pacts with Satan, but until the Monarch women came along, celebrities and heads of state were not usually implicated as child-molesting Satanists. Now, everyone from Kris Kristofferson to JFK has been named as part of the Illuminati mind control/Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy matrix.

Cisco says she was trained to be a programmer herself, and admits she (unwittingly) programmed other Illuminati children. Surely she would know their identities, but so far as we know she has not reported their abuse to the proper authorities.

In the previously mentioned radio interview, Cisco said she was shown records indicating that about 2 million children were programmed in the late '60s. This contradicts The Illuminati Formula, in which she and Springmeier state that the Illuminati rarely keep written records of anything.

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